What is affirmed when you receive validation is that SOMEONE agrees with what you say So is it about them or is it about you? If you want to them to be happy and ‘right’ and all that — then be happy for them. If you want yourself to be happy WITH YOURSELF — then …
Author: Janus
XXI Century Fear
All fear is ultimately useless for all the fear in the world can still not protect you from the imminent death. Fear can be disregarded altogether for as long as you DON’T DIE. The point of fear was never to stifle you. In fact — the point of fear was to keep you …
Throw Away The Map
Nothing major in your life was ever pre-planned successfully and you do know it, We really only keep planning things and talking and organising out of this desperate need to feel in control. The only tangible is the choice you’re making between the alternatives the fate presented to you Optimise for options; …
Simple Not Simplistic
Simplicity is not generalising Generalising is simplistic, reductionistic Simplicity doesn’t reduce. Doesn’t judge. Doesn’t diminish. Doesn’t label. When you hear — “BE SIMPLE” — it means: be open, be non-judgemental be perceptive see what is don’t see what isn’t, don’t presume what isn’t When you hear — “BE SIMPLE” — it …
That Old, Boring Power
At the end this obsession with power just gets really fucking boring. Power is only exciting for those who don’t have it (and so is everything else you don’t have) Power is the coolest thing in the world for those caught up in their power-games — and the most ordinarily boring to those …
Struggle Sells
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 …
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 …