Why do so many big countries have sidekicks?
UK - Ireland
Germany - Austria
Spain - Portugal
Russia - Ukraine
Australia - New Zealand
China - Korea/Japan
India - Sri Lanka
Iran - Iraq
Thailand - Cambodia
UK - Ireland
Germany - Austria
Spain - Portugal
Russia - Ukraine
Australia - New Zealand
China - Korea/Japan
India - Sri Lanka
Iran - Iraq
Thailand - Cambodia
February 1, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Why do so many big countries have sidekicks?
UK - Ireland
Germany - Austria
Spain - Portugal
Russia - Ukraine
Australia - New Zealand
China - Korea/Japan
India - Sri Lanka
Iran - Iraq
Thailand - Cambodia
UK - Ireland
Germany - Austria
Spain - Portugal
Russia - Ukraine
Australia - New Zealand
China - Korea/Japan
India - Sri Lanka
Iran - Iraq
Thailand - Cambodia
Why do we treat ritual, except in a few narrow contexts (church/temple/mosque) as unsophisticated, strange, uncultured, or even pathological? Because it doesn’t produce anything of economic value? Matthew 16:26
January 30, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Why do we treat ritual, except in a few narrow contexts (church/temple/mosque) as unsophisticated, strange, uncultured, or even pathological? Because it doesn’t produce anything of economic value? Matthew 16:26
Why do we at best discount and at worst denigrate the elderly? Why do we only see the negative things that we might not like anymore?
January 30, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Why do we at best discount and at worst denigrate the elderly? Why do we only see the negative things that we might not like anymore?
When’s the last time you felt really *seen*, as a whole being, and not some subset of external traits… it’s been a long time for me
January 30, 2026 at 8:33 PM
When’s the last time you felt really *seen*, as a whole being, and not some subset of external traits… it’s been a long time for me
I wish I lived in a tribal community
This modern western lack of stable community - everyone always coming and going, bound only by relationships of production and ever changing interests, rather than something deeper and fundamental
This modern western lack of stable community - everyone always coming and going, bound only by relationships of production and ever changing interests, rather than something deeper and fundamental
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
I wish I lived in a tribal community
This modern western lack of stable community - everyone always coming and going, bound only by relationships of production and ever changing interests, rather than something deeper and fundamental
This modern western lack of stable community - everyone always coming and going, bound only by relationships of production and ever changing interests, rather than something deeper and fundamental
What am I wanting when nothing needs to be done
January 28, 2026 at 11:08 PM
What am I wanting when nothing needs to be done
All I do 24/7 is mourn the human condition
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 AM
All I do 24/7 is mourn the human condition
Climbing up, climbing in, one giving his whole life’s work to one night, no olives on the whim of god
January 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Climbing up, climbing in, one giving his whole life’s work to one night, no olives on the whim of god
One kicked, one loved, one gone through
January 28, 2026 at 1:32 AM
One kicked, one loved, one gone through
One watched, one done, one sliced through, one been
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 AM
One watched, one done, one sliced through, one been
What is meaning? Experience trying to experience experience
January 28, 2026 at 12:37 AM
What is meaning? Experience trying to experience experience
Everything that’s created a manifestation of what it means
January 28, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Everything that’s created a manifestation of what it means
Being abused as a kid, I sought safety by going toward people who would bully me, while disparaging and mentally separating myself others who were more similar to me because I didn’t want to be reminded of the traits that made me a target
January 27, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Being abused as a kid, I sought safety by going toward people who would bully me, while disparaging and mentally separating myself others who were more similar to me because I didn’t want to be reminded of the traits that made me a target
Western post-industrialized institutions almost exclusively support material comfort and technological development while ignoring the fundamental person
I can hardly relay the ways in which being forced into a hypersocial school environment molded me in harmful ways that I am now facing.
I can hardly relay the ways in which being forced into a hypersocial school environment molded me in harmful ways that I am now facing.
January 27, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Western post-industrialized institutions almost exclusively support material comfort and technological development while ignoring the fundamental person
I can hardly relay the ways in which being forced into a hypersocial school environment molded me in harmful ways that I am now facing.
I can hardly relay the ways in which being forced into a hypersocial school environment molded me in harmful ways that I am now facing.
My energy is all yielding, all small, I need to work on more issuing, more expansion
January 27, 2026 at 6:27 PM
My energy is all yielding, all small, I need to work on more issuing, more expansion
Shed every self after a few weeks
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Shed every self after a few weeks
The great circle of California
Soft California - the outside rim of relatively carved and green coastal hills, sea meets land, temperate climate, running unbroken and then capping off the Central Valley near Redding
Soft California - the outside rim of relatively carved and green coastal hills, sea meets land, temperate climate, running unbroken and then capping off the Central Valley near Redding
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
The great circle of California
Soft California - the outside rim of relatively carved and green coastal hills, sea meets land, temperate climate, running unbroken and then capping off the Central Valley near Redding
Soft California - the outside rim of relatively carved and green coastal hills, sea meets land, temperate climate, running unbroken and then capping off the Central Valley near Redding
The whole world a residue of a faraway process
I am nothing more than residual heat and light of an unresponsive sun
Which sunbeam originally made me? Which photon started me on this path?
I am nothing more than residual heat and light of an unresponsive sun
Which sunbeam originally made me? Which photon started me on this path?
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
The whole world a residue of a faraway process
I am nothing more than residual heat and light of an unresponsive sun
Which sunbeam originally made me? Which photon started me on this path?
I am nothing more than residual heat and light of an unresponsive sun
Which sunbeam originally made me? Which photon started me on this path?
The tripoint of sea, mountain, and sky … unstoppable force meets immovable object meets undefined BAM
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 AM
The tripoint of sea, mountain, and sky … unstoppable force meets immovable object meets undefined BAM
The drama going on outside, and the drama inside each of us
December 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The drama going on outside, and the drama inside each of us
Look not outside yourself - you already have it
December 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Look not outside yourself - you already have it
You are the carrot, you are the stick, and you are the rabbit
December 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
You are the carrot, you are the stick, and you are the rabbit
The things of the mind
December 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The things of the mind
When you go crazy, where do you go?
December 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
When you go crazy, where do you go?
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