Long time no blog. I've had been doing a lot of thinking. About good and evil. Not in a religious sense but in a truly secular, physical way. All of us that blog tend to spend a larger percentage online than the average person. So, we know that there are things on the net that are not just gross or weird but truly disturbing and atrocious. There has always been the basest of humanity in some aspect of society but never, I believe, so pervasive and ubiquitous. Many people believe that y...
This seems important. Wait, strike that, this is actually completely irrelivent and pointless, so I promise I will embelish to make it at least interesting. I was on the couch, absolutely perfectly comfortable. Then, I had to lean forward for the remote on the coffee table. When I settled back, it just didn't feel right. I had lost my comfort. All was lost. But what was I to do. Without the remote I would have had to watch the shopping network. Intellectual stagnation. I could have ...
I lost my hat today. I like my hat. Most material things aren't that important to me, but I like my hat. I make it a point to have some attachment to at least one or two material things. I fear that if I completely accept my mind and my soul for the perfection that they can be than I may achieve enlightenment. And i've got a lot of stuff to do so enlightenment would just screw up my whole schedule. Honestly, you never heard about Buddha getting a lot done. Enlightenment is like that so...
We are taking ourselves far to seriously these days. The problem with instantaneous global communication is that everyone on the planet now has an outlet for all of their hang ups. An outlet is good, lest you go into work someday with an automatic rifle because of some pent up aggression. But dont let the vent become the new pathway. It's like going to AA meetings for 20 years. You've just traded one thing for another to be addicted to. I don't want people to misconstrue my meaning. I...