Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby Welcome back, my friends, to the land of remedial introspection. At this point we’ve covered Gluttony and Avarice, two of the three Deadly Sins that I’ve come to …
I want the world // I want the whole world // Don’t care how // I want it now Veruca Salt, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Greetings friends, and welcome to week two of my wonderfully uplifting delve into sin’s grip on the world and what we can do in our own lives to …
Don’t ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product! Jay, Red Letter Media Well, here we are. After spending entirely too long choosing a title (One I’m still not overjoyed with, but deadlines are deadlines) and the order in which I’d be covering the subjects, the day is upon me. But …
No, I don’t need no help // I can sabotage me by myself // I don’t need no one else // I can sabotage me by myself. – Paramore, Caught in the Middle Pictured above: Me. Ohai there, everybody. Turns out yes, I’m still alive. No, I haven’t succumbed to whatever flavor-of-the-month terrible thing is …
Before you were born, you were nothing more than an indistinguishable lump of unformed matter. After death, you simply will return to that nebulous state… And yet, people sacrifice pleasure on earth in the hope that pain will be avoided in an after-life. The fools don’t realize that, after death, pain and pleasure cannot exist: …
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Plato, The Republic Kind of a lot going on in the world these days, huh? Seems everywhere we turn, there’s another crisis brewing or already in full effect, each thing demanding your attention and – ultimately – …
Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. G.K. Chesterton, A Chesterton calendar Happy 2022, everybody. Hope it’s started off well for you. Last year was, well… it was something. I think it was simultaneously the longest …
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more! Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Well, hello there. I made a bit of an unceremonious decision last week to skip an article. I’ll be skipping next week’s …
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. Jordan Belfort I was recently in Las Vegas to celebrate a good friend’s wedding. It was a fun, busy time and really good to catch up with the guy in person …
They constantly try to escape // From the darkness outside and within // By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. // But the man that is will shadow // The man that pretends to be. T.S. Eliot, The Rock Mankind is full of idealists. We look around at …
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