Miscellaneous

A few thoughts I’ve gleaned from the Gospel of Thomas that may be worth elaborating on: – Poverty is not measured by external wealth, but by how well one knows one’s self. – Know what is before your face, and what is hidden from thee shall be revealed to you. We are responsible for figuring…

I slept outdoors in a hammock last night. Woke at 0130, just as the mosquitoes fell asleep. Wolves howled in the distance, all sounds and lights from the human world fell away, and shooting stars shimmered across the studded sky. Fireflies and bats flew around where I hung between two trees, swaying slightly, my skin…

Have forgotten where I’ve read this, but it’s stuck with me (and on my cracked Pixel 4) for a few months. “Cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t care about.” It’s easy to stop paying for things you don’t like. It’s easy to say (and mean) to never pay for what you don’t care…

In several recent conversations, I brought up the current framework through which I make decisions. Here’s what it looks like. Start from the top and go down, filtering thoughts and actions through each level until the last one…where you go back up again, an endless cycle that purifies and clarifies as it moves forward in…

The original title for this post was “On Masturbation”. Nothing sexually explict; but do proceed at your discretion.  I have been thinking about pornography and masturbation the past few months, and the many forms they could take on different levels of a person’s being–all of which lead to antitheses of life. I’ve heard it said…

Remember dat speeling test u tok in graid skool? You do? You probably didn’t pass it the first time then, if the above sentence actually made sense to you. But that’s beside the point. About that test—oh yes. It wasn’t real. Nor are all other manmade ones. Each test that’s known, explained, or prepared for…

One thing that’s always fascinated me is the difference between the traditional and simplified Chinese characters for “Love”. Here’s what they look like. The four red strokes in the character on the left represent the word “heart” in Chinese. It’s replaced by a single stroke in the simplified character. In traditional Chinese, the heart is…

The graveyard’s both the most expensive real estate on the face of this earth, and the only place you’d find people without troubles. “Only the dead have no problems.” Three things about that statement: My shrewd Christian readers would note that it’s not theologically sound; if one dies without Christ, one spends their after-death existence…