Expressions of my Perspective

This blog contains the plethora of things and ideas that interest me. From the core of my being.

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Moon Photo from two years ago. Very happy I was able to stabilize this without a tripod.

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Autumn Piano. Taken by Big Piney River near Houston, MO. I took this with a Motorola Droid Maxx two years ago.

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Samson. My right hand man and best friend. He brings truth to the statement that dogs are man’s best friend.

[astranemus]

This particular mechanism [of escape] is the solution that the majority of normal individuals find in modern society. To put it briefly, the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be. The discrepancy between “I” and the world disappears and with it the conscious fear of aloneness and powerlessness. This mechanism can be compared with the protective coloring some animals assume. They look so similar to their surroundings that they are hardly distinguishable from them. The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

[astranemus]

This particular mechanism [of escape] is the solution that the majority of normal individuals find in modern society. To put it briefly, the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be. The discrepancy between “I” and the world disappears and with it the conscious fear of aloneness and powerlessness. This mechanism can be compared with the protective coloring some animals assume. They look so similar to their surroundings that they are hardly distinguishable from them. The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

[astranemus]

Ask yourself this. Ask yourself whether the skills associated with growing your own food will become more useful or less useful between now and 2030. Would you rather get good at this while it is fun to learn, or when you’re in a knife fight with a local gang while fishing expired crab meat from a dumpster to feed your child? None of us know what is going to happen between now and 2030 but you are on some fine intoxicants if you think it is going to be smooth sailing.

Gordon White, Benign Sedition: Aeonography Part 3 (via astranemus)

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Groups of men, large or small, whose members are bound each to the other in the furtherance of some special interest, struggle endlessly to destroy their enemies. Such enmity may arise from commercial, political, racial, or religious grounds. At times one may discover such crazed power-struggles even within a single association. Humans the world over always seem to project their own prejudices onto their environment. Thus, man foists his own obsession with status and power onto nature, wherein he swiftly discovers a wild struggle for existence; he convinces himself that he must have been in the right if he alone survived this struggle for existence; and he paints the world in the guise of a great machine, where the pistons only give off the steam that must turn the wheels, in orde that “energy” - one does not see to what end - will be transferred, and he accompanies all of this with a bit of idle chatter about the so-called “philosophy of monism,” which utterly falsifies the billion-fold life of nature in order to reduce the universe to the level of the human ego.

Ludwig Klages, Man and Earth in The Biocentric Worldview

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Psychedelic caves man...

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Sleepy Hollow.

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Corgi In The Woods.

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I can't look at Sam the same after making this. Lol kinda creeps me out in a since

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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

Siegfried Sassoon (via wordsnquotes)

[thequotejournals]

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”

Stephen King, It  (via wordsnquotes)

[letheane-deactivated20200121]

All my human relationships have to do with a mask of me, and I must perpetually be the victim of living a completely hidden life.

Friedrich Nietzsche, from ‘Selected Letters’  (via hyperborisches-maedchen)

[barbellsandfortitude]

Create Something That’s Non-Negotiable

“People generally move by one of two forces, inspiration or desperation. It’s way better to get in on it early on the inspiration tip and wait for desperation to cause change like ‘oh i had a heart attack that’s why i changed my diet’ or ‘oh I’m going to die, so now it’s time’.  So if you can move to inspiration you’ll be way better off. But there’s something else too which is the Ethos, all warrior cultures developed this, the Samurai had the Bushido, the Spartans had their Ethos and it’s something where you just decide something that there’s no room for negotiation anymore. This is not a negotiable item. you don’t need inspiration you don’t need desperation because it’s no longer on the table for negotiation.  And that’s part of peoples ability to choose something and create something, you’re own ethos. Maybe your Ethos is i don’t smoke cigarettes anymore and that is my ethos, it is non-negotiable, that is part of my code in developing something that’s so strong that it’s not even on the table for negotiation. It’s important to use all of those different facets, for the Spartans it was ‘never retreat’, for the samurai  it was always ‘keep on’ and all of those things, there were just these things that wouldn’t break. So when it came time to take the sword  to protect your honour into your own gut, like do you know how hard that is, i can’t even cut my own finger, so can you imagine sticking a sword into yourself. it was just non-negotiable. It was so deeply engrained and so i think all of us should spend time creating our own Ethos. Create something that’s non-negotiable.”

- Aubrey Marcus 

[doomsdaily]

“Heaven is when you leave your body and you can look back on your life and say God damnit I did a good job. I did the best I fucking could. Yeah I fucked up sometimes, but I lived a good life and treated people well and the Earth and the people in it were better for my existence.”

Aubrey Marcus on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast (via doomsdaily)

[aggravatedhooliganism]

This world can be a heaven or a hell, and it depends a lot less on circumstances than most people believe. I have seen happier people in slums in Kenya/Uganda, than penthouses in manhattan. The key is mastering your thoughts, and if you master your thoughts, you have come most of the way to mastering the game of life.

warrior poet. Aubrey Marcus (via aggravatedhooliganism)

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