Is the problem of life to minimize pain or to maximize pleasure? Which is most noble: the pursuit of happiness or the search for truth? … and is it better to seek ignorance or disillusionment? Does misery qualify as pain or is it merely the absence of pleasure?
Long after the human race has invented an exothermic power source, fragmented, and destroyed itself with genotype-targeted bioweapons, Russian spambots will continue their unending mission to disseminate pharmaceutical advertisements and links to malicious software throughout the electronic mailboxes which populate the remaining nodes of the once-proud Intarweb. Long after the Russian spambots have been silenced [...]
I hear whispering… odd. Channel: Soc. Med.Sender:Amor CavanSubject: true love comes only once in a lifetime…Triage Eval: SpamPrerog: Immed. Reply hi, how are u? is it true …smokers are more fun? what’s your favorite brands? candy cigs? …lol ,,,don’t you know, those can cause type2 diabetes?! I’ve been asking everyone, the best place to get [...]
Smoke:MeetOutsideKillEveryone – Grand Boohbah XVI First I distract myself by intentionally thinking about something else. Secondly, and here comes the irony, my mind starts an unconscious monitoring process to check if I’m still thinking about the thing I’m not supposed to be thinking about – you know, to check if the conscious process is working [...]
The regions of the brain that become active during mind wandering belong to two important networks. One is known as the executive control system. Located mainly in the front of the brain, these regions exert a top-down influence on our conscious and unconscious thought, directing the brain’s activity toward important goals. – Stop Paying Attention: [...]
You double-back on the perversity of existence – the prisoner’s game of solitaire, always hedging your bets against your own misfortune with the knowledge that the last day of your life isn’t going to be the best (are you really trying to bargain your way out of the penurious melancholy of upkeep with some thrill [...]
Anything seen may observe reciprocallyand then there are the stars
It is a summary pain, that which wraps up one’s existence as one swaddled in downy blankets, a hand-worn, grime-caked steel instrument in oily canvas, or anything biological in a thin layer of translucent painter’s polyethene dropcloth – a chrysalis for a nascent gift to the world which wishes never to be unwrapped.
Of course there’s a measure of beast’s blood in anyone who aspires to maintain a place in the world, anyone who lacks that ultimate decency to remove themselves from the herd either by violence to themselves or total capitulation to their dread. It’s simply a matter of degree. – Thomas Ligotti in My Work Is [...]
Organized stacks of paper which have accumulated over the last five months, sipping from a fifth of whiskey left over from the metal show and wandering recidivist neighborhoods last night. (What were those undercovers doing with walkie-talkies, redirecting foot traffic? Is that how it goes down?) Still have to face Monday at work, still have [...]
