an adventure in apotheosis
Hailey’s comet orbits our sun once every 75 years or so. It’s infrequent (though regularly scheduled) visit to our solar system is what makes its appearance so special. That’s the basic rule of economics folks: Scarcity = value. I’m dying. That’s been happening for a while now. The difference these days is that I actually […]
Continue ReadingThe most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe. Albert Einstein Once upon a time there was a huge explosion and then… everything happened. The universe is fucking magic. Just let that sink in for a second, The Big Bang occurred and instead of destroying shit […]
Continue ReadingThere is really only one serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Albert Camus So this is rock bottom (so far)… Hi I’m Loren and I’m in trouble. To keep things interesting let’s start in media res: THE LIST: How did it all come to this? Thanks for asking. Welcome to my very own hero’s […]
Continue Reading“Perfect is the enemy of good”~Voltaire What the fuck am I doing here? We all wonder this from time to time and we receive a cacophony of answers from various sources: wait for heaven, god will sort it all out; or save the whales (and maybe even the bees); or annex a neighbouring civilisation etc. […]
Continue ReadingImagine living most of your life half asleep. This is mainly a defence mechanism designed to protect you from facing up to the “harsh realities” of this crazy human existence. Well, I don’t need to imagine at all, because I’ve lived it. Yes that’s right ladies and gents and whatever else you identify as, this […]
Continue ReadingMy latest bold declaration is that I’m never going to make another bold declaration ever again. I’m tired of bullshitiing myself. Tired of a lot of things really. But this is me. Here I am. Accepting myself, fully. Hurray! Part and parcel of this package (me) is that I am an everchanging (hopefully) ever evolving […]
Continue ReadingI asked the cards should I become a wildly successful artist. The Star appears. Flow from a pure source she says. Ok 🙂
Continue ReadingI don’t like trying. It reminds of all my imagined failures. But there comes a time in every young, er, um, middle aged man’s life where he needs to make a decision. Any decision (for the love of god, please!) And thankfully this could be at any moment, or even not at all. Sure my […]
Continue ReadingStop me if you’ve heard this one before… Because of a somewhat arbitrary change in the calendar year, I will now perform my greatest trick: I will become a totally different person. Stranger things have happened sure, but still the probability of this change falls squarely in the category of highly fucking unlikely. Why change […]
Continue ReadingEnergy cannot be created or destroyed it can only be transformed. So why is there anything in the first place? As Alan Watts put it “nothing would have been easier.” Isn’t existence a violation of the kind of conservational principle that the universe is built on? Yes! Hmm actually I don’t really know. That’s why […]
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