Tag: Thoughts

Being able to manage “screwups” by recognizing their potential and relegating them to an area where they can do no harm and still produce benefits is an invaluable skill.  It’s actually one that I use on myself. Because I know in certain contexts, I can function with confidence, and in others, I had best step…

I used to be addicted to video games, until I started exploring the wider possibilities of life, both with my body and my mind.  It’s unbelievable—the heights of pain and pleasure, glory and triumph, humanity and brutality…the unchecked potential contained within 7 billion+ laughably fragile flesh-forms who live atop a spinning blue marble in the…

If nothing matters over a sufficiently long span of time, then I might as well figure out what is functional, pair it with what I deem to be ethical, and do those things. The other stuff just doesn’t seem as interesting or relevant.

When people continue to make the same kind of mistakes over and over, I treat them as if they have no free will.  I put controls in place to make sure they don’t cause harm, but I don’t condemn them as being blatantly disrespectful, and I try to be kind to them.  Why? Because I…

From what I understand, knowledge can come from the vile and the holy, from the ugly and the beautiful.  Even if it’s “evil,” it can be used defensively, as a shield against those with malicious intentions. Another way to say it would be:  I’m pretty sure that knowledge doesn’t have cooties.

When I feel resonance in my writing, it isn’t because I’ve simply written what I believe to be true, or what I believe to be exciting.  It’s because I’ve gone to war with every misconception within my own mind that I’m capable of perceiving, and done my best to address them at the moment I…

I find it very empowering to accept the pain and suffering that go hand in hand with being alive, and actively finding ways to make the “bad stuff” enjoyable (or better yet, finding ways to use it to my advantage). The other way, trying to always view life through rose-colored lenses and ignoring the existence…

When I lie down in bed or I’m relaxing with friends, I find it useful to remember that hierarchies of values become utterly meaningless over the span of eternity, and also in the face of cosmic annihilation. But I find it imperative to impose them while I’m engaged in activity, so that I have solid…

I’ve tried fleeing from evidence time and again.  Even though it felt good in the short term, it chipped away at my perception little by little, and diminished my capability to the point where I had no idea which way was up, and everything I attempted produced a discordant result. Yeah, I’d rather just suck…

I felt so much freer when I started to realize how much of my behavior is completely predictable.  I began to examine my tendencies and address them with adequate controls, rather than blindly forging ahead and pretending I was exempt from their influence.