Enrolled in the Earth School
Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2011
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“In the afterlife, we’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead.”
- Samuel Beckett
"The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life." 🍄
- Wendell Berry
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“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
-Wendell Berry
Angels these days are relying on airplanes to get around, and parachutes for emergency landings. Angels have forgotten they have wings, opting instead for the latest innovations in aerial products.
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never has a film been so praised, & so derided; for that reason alone, "The Odyssey" is a cultural phenomenon & worth seeing. not to be simplistic but it is an "epic" of sorts meaning episodic, some episodes much more inspired than others. everyone seems to love/hate parts of it & all have impassioned reasons. basically, the film seems to have stirred delusions of possession: who "owns" an ancient Greek epic poem? who has the right to make a movie of it? cast his own actors? etc. over all quite wonderful that in 2026 so much more akin to the final tottering days of the Roman Empire than to the Bronze Age, so many should care so much about a classic text.
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I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the principal source of success in life.
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"Journalists love to get Korea wrong. Some are paid to share explosive takes that feed into the subsconscoius orientalist views of the wider world; others just do it for the social media clout. And you only realize how wrong they are when you get off the internet and spend an afternoon in Sokcho, Daegu, or Chuncheon," Korea Times columnist David A. Tizzard writes.
koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/202…
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Lyn Alden: "The best product Coca-Cola ever sold was their bonds, not their Coke."
Coca-Cola borrows at 2-3% while the money supply grows at 7%. They then use that cheap debt to buy scarcer assets.
Governments do it. Corporations do it. Wealthy individuals do it. Everyone is shorting the currency...
Except the people at the bottom.
They can't access cheap debt and "are getting the full damage of the inflation" on their wages and savings.
FT @LynAldenContact @PeterMcCormack.
Why do people feel poorer even when nothing dramatic has happened?
Michael Saylor explains the invisible tax crushing everyone who doesn't own assets.
"The currency supply measured in dollars is continuing to expand, probably expanding 7% a year. It's been expanding about 7% a year for 100 years."
People that don't own assets are paying for it without even realizing it.
FT @Saylor @PeterMcCormack @mccormack_show.
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Carl Jung once said that one of the most destructive forces a person can carry is unused creative energy. if you have something in you that wants to be made and you keep refusing to make it, that energy does not just go away. it turns inward and starts working against you.
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Yuor prntaer sholud be the one prseon who mkeas yuor weirdest obsesoins feel like sared msoisn.
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This was the most profound experience of my life. I am stunned beyond comprehension. This molecule is without peer.
The 27mg dose opened up what felt like pure consciousness and intelligence. A majestic reveal of existence itself. In all its incomprehensible glory and majesty. It is impossible to explain with words. Whatever you imagine, multiply it by 1,000 and then add infinite width and depth and dimensions.
But entrance was not granted without prerequisite. Existence demanded that I submit. That I say yes; without attachment and without condition. Yes to existence; yes to the dissolution of self; yes to release control; yes, to all.
My ego registered the ask and panicked. It wanted control. It was desperate for control. It pleaded to escape from the torrent of light and essence that threatened to rip my sanity into chards. The urge to eject was overwhelming. Terror thundered throughout my mind and body.
It took everything within me to release. I overcame and was treated with bliss that defies imagination. A euphoria colored with perfect harmony of all things. An orchestra of essence washed over me and swept me up in dance. It was home. The highest aspiration of intelligent life. For some reason, stored and tucked away as the ultimate prize.
A single concept emerged in omnipresence: we cannot grok the preciousness of our existence. Yet it is everything we’ve ever wanted and more. The state we long for without knowing it exists. This caused me great pain and heartache.
A swell of loyalty and devotion emerged inside me, pledging allegiance to existence. To become a warrior and caretaker of life on earth. To protect at any cost the candle of consciousness that has miraculously emerged in this part of the galaxy.
What awaits will wipe all your tears, soothe all your sorrows, and infinitely exceed your wants.
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“Dark City (1998) by Alex Proyas is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like Metropolis (1927) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)" - Roger Ebert
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This year, I wish you less — less information, less food, less entertainment, less communication, less stimulation. You already have too much of all that, and it stands in the way of your serenity, health, sleep, and creativity. Merry Christmas! ☦️
