“I am human, and I think nothing of which is human is alien to me.” Terence A mortal, who wants to be all the time everywhere but don’t want to be connected with one conciousness would want that, a person who can’t imagine infinity but desperately try to out number infinity, would want that. Because […]

Read More REDUX – NPC: HATRED – SADNESS – I FEEL NOTHING – DEADNEN – ANGER

Get rid of all attachments. Not feel fear Nothing that happens to you is permanent, therefore you don’t need to fear anything. The first stage of this is not fearing how others treat you. Let’s start with the worst possible case scenario: Imagine you’re being harassed, maybe even being beaten up by a group of […]

Read More How do I completely and utterly kill and remove all my emotions forever, never to exist again, without losing my mind or intelligence?

“I am human, and I think nothing of which is human is alien to me.” Terence A mortal, who wants to be all the time everywhere but don’t want to be connected with one conciousness would want that, a person who can’t imagine infinity but desperately try to out number infinity, would want that. Because […]

Read More ANGER – FEEL NOTHING ON NPC

Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me. I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason. It’s disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it – you can listen to sad music […]

Read More Adventures in Depression

I have a number of friends who are facing some project, personal and mental-health challenges at the moment, so I thought I’d write a post about the Valley of Shit and the Pit of Despair. The Valley of Shit is something everyone will go through during their PhD.  It’s been blogged about several times here […]

Read More DEPRESSION: The Valley of Shit vs. the Pit of Despair (and why it’s important to know the difference)

Reality Tunnels: Perception as Gamble “Long before quantum mechanics, the German philosopher, Husserl, said that “All perception is gamble.” Every type of bigotry, every type of racism, sexism, prejudice, every dogmatic ideology that allows people to kill other people with a clear conscience, every stupid cult, every superstition, written religion, every kind of ignorance in […]

Read More Reality Tunnels & E-Prime: A Taste of Robert Anton Wilson (AGNOSTICSM AND INACTION)

Heidegger discusses Marx’s famous critique of philosophy: “the philosopher has hitherto interpreted the world. The point is, to change it.” Heidegger argues that this statement is disingenuous, for any notion of “world change” is itself always dependent on a new interpretation of the world. “The philosopher has hitherto interpreted the world. The point is, to […]

Read More HEIDEGGER ON MARX

“For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything – more than tired.” — Friedrich Nietzsche. Don’t know why I traveled hundreds of light years across the galaxy and taking human form just to endure corporeal punishment by living the progression of boredom that culminating in a wasted and devoid of meaning existence […]

Read More REDUX: BOREDOM

So it seems at the moment that humanity is suffering a kind of collective soul sickness, there is a global epidemic of existential distress, the numbers don’t lie, anxiety and depression is being diagnosed at levels we’ve never seen before, the United Nations in fact has said that 800,000 people a year. Now are committing […]

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