Struggle sells Appeal to hardship and struggle and it should be relatable and plausible (to the masses anyway) Struggle sells and you buy a conveniently convincing image of this conflicted, tough world — with struggle passing up as purpose and grand philosophy — really only concealing the escapism and consternation about the utter …
Author: Janus
What’s Clever
You think what someone said is clever and some book is clever and some theory is clever It’s not. It’s probably nonsense. It’s probably useless. You will probably become stupid by abiding by it, cease thinking. Do you know what is clever? Taking your own action. Making your own mistakes. And learning …
“Perfect Mind”
Perfect mind is an EVER-CHANGING, ANTIFRAGILE WHOLE — detached from it’s infinite expandable, fragile parts. Weak, fragile mind is one relying on the survival of it’s content. The more you believe something the more you attach yourself, you attach your mind — then DEPENDENT on it. The entire identity crushes with it’s foundation …
Criticism Is Easy
Criticism is easy. Take basic rhetorics, add some cynicism, attack the straw man a few times — you have now posed some compelling criticism! Compelling to morons, anyway. Most criticism is useless. Empty thesis, empty antitheses. Entire conversation is void. What’s the point of criticism without providing alternatives, anyway? If the critic doesn’t …
Do It Genuinely Or Do Nothing
When you don’t feel like, don’t want to do something — the question is not whether you should do it or not, The question is: -Why you feel the way you feel? -Why you were to do it? -Why do you not want to do it? -Why? What-You-Do is irrelevant. But self-knowledge is …
Your experiences don’t magically turn to gold, or stay with you after you diebut with every single experience you do learn that: -YOU ARE ALIVE-LIFE IS EXPERIENCING-KNOWING IS EXPERIENCING those are some powerful truths to abide by, in the world of dreamers and speculators. — Janus (@JanusFaustus) May 5, 2019
We Label Each Other
The only way to threat someone badly is by deliberately hurting them. You can’t be held accountable for not helping someone. Most can’t be helped. “Good treatment”, “rules of conduct”, “good behaviour” — all these are constructs. It’s subjective “good”, agreed “good”, and not objective. We have a habit of labelling things. This habit makes …
Social Media Chicanery
By approaching this social media and personal branding business with this trickster, slippery attitude — you are basically admitting that what you have to offer to this world cannot survive without you stepping over others with your disingenuous little tricks. Is this follow-4-follow business beneficial for the social media? Buying likes? Undiscriminating spamming? …
NEVER Be Afraid To Be Disliked
You DO want to be liked. You said you didn’t but you do. You were said: be kind be friendly be polite be useful! be grateful be pleasant be agreeable be helpful …or people won’t LIKE YOU and you were said: be cool be pretty be funny be successful be respectable be rich be …
Caught Between: EXPLORATION vs REPUTATION
Life is exploration. World is exploration. Progress is exploration. Discovery is exploration. Exploration comes before discovery. Before result. Before achievement. Before benefits. Before reputation Exploration is salient philosophically, spiritually. Results are subjective. Their relevance is merely relative. Exploration is a way of living, a lifestyle, a life’s philosophy. Fixation with result ruins …