Yeah sure resolving inner conflicts is cool, but have you tried deliberately starving yourself to death?
“Something in our soul has a far more violent repugnance for true attention than the flesh has for bodily fatigue. This something is much more closely connected with evil than is the flesh.”
“That is why every time that we really concentrate our attention, we destroy the evil in ourselves.”
When I was 19, at the only rest stop on the 250+ mile Fermont fire road in Canada, I met a trucker showed me pictures of his wife and his prized possession, a chrome blue semi he'd bought just for himself
I learned that when they aren't feeding cities, big rigs can pop wheelies
I think about that guy a lot. He taught me a lot about the joy of work.
The story is true, but I thought to share it today to test if tweets with Canada and Truckers in them are being throttled on timelines. Certainly seems they are.
When someone says something as ludicrous as “I only care about GPD growth” the proper response is not to argue with them, it is to invite them to get some air and touch the grass.
AKA: My biblical justification for prolific use of the block button.
Yes, it means I limit who I give attention to on here, but Twitter gamified mental illness and rage is contagious, and not conducive to creativity or curiosity
I block rather than mute for the same reason I would ask someone to leave a party, or kick them out of a bar (except bar for eviction is much lower… since it costs people nothing to ruin a mentions section)