Give me a firm spot on which to stand, a strong enough lever, and I shall move the earth.
Thatâs a fucking promise.
Give me a firm spot on which to stand, a strong enough lever, and I shall move the earth.
Thatâs a fucking promise.
Well
chin up!
boobs out!
butt out!
stand tall!
I think thatâs all the âyou gotta be TOUGH poses shit out of the wayâ & just remember someone has to DO IT!
Randomness:
Liberty is not freedom to do as we please. Liberty is the ability to do as we ought.
Paraphrased from the ever excellent Art Of Manliness.
I wonder if any of these people went home and fell asleep bitterly regretting the internet arguments they missed, all the doomscrolling that they should have fitted in on Facebook, or the the porn they could have wacked it to that afternoon, instead?
âWe make our choices, then our choices make us.â
They simply live their lives, day in and day out with no praise needed.
Love binds. Hate breaks.
Donât forget the lessons youâve already taught.
Become. Or simply waste away. Isnât that what you have intentionally taught?
Wonderful pics
Random factoid:
I was reading a book (âFluent Foreverâ by Gabriel Wyner) which said this:
An American adult listening to a monotonous ârock ⌠rock ⌠rock ⌠rock ⌠lockâ will show a sudden spike in brain activity when âlockâ breaks the monotony, but a Japanese adult wonât show any change whatsoever. A Japanese baby, however, has no trouble whatsoever recognising the two soundsâŚ
So, what weâre taught is normal, surrounded by and immersed in, really can cognitively maim us, and it does so beneath the grasp of conscious thought, and even, subconscious recognition (because a spike in brain activity can occur from a subliminal cue that the conscious mind misses).
Next time you meet an instance of people trying to dumb something down, bear this in mind.
This book helped me with something difficult recently:
There are many excellent bits of text in it, but also large and prominent copyright warnings, so for the purposes of review Iâll just share one that stood out the most:
MIND CONTROL
When people think of the words âmind control,â they
think of people controlling the minds of other
people. Not me.
I think about controlling my own mind.
Sure, we are physical beings, and we must obviously
embrace our physicality.
But we are our minds.
And Iâm not going to go philosophical on what that
means and where the âYOUâ actually isâwhether it is a
soul or your brain or your heart or some other
conjured-up place.
What I do know is this: You, your mind, the thing
that is reading and comprehending these words right
now, that IS YOU.
And you can control it. You are the machine, and you
can control it.
People ask me, âHow do I get tougher?â
BE TOUGHER.
âHow can I wake up early in the morning?â
WAKE UP EARLY.
âHow can I work out consistently every day?â
WORK OUT CONSISTENTLY EVERY DAY.
âHow can I stop eating sugar?â
STOP EATING SUGAR.
You can even control your emotions: âHow can I stop
missing that girl or guy or whoever broke up with
me?â
STOP MISSING THEM.You have control over your mind. You just have to
assert it.
You have to decide that you are going to be in
control, that you are going to do what YOU want to
do.
Weakness doesnât get a vote.
Laziness doesnât get a vote.
Sadness doesnât get a vote.
Frustration doesnât get a vote.
Negativity
DOESNâT GET A VOTE!
Your temper doesnât get a vote.So next time you are feeling weak or lazy or soft or
emotional, tell those feelings they donât get a vote.âŚDonât let your mind control you.
Control your mind. And then you can: SET IT FREE.
Itâs an ebook, and available on Amazon: Amazon.co.uk
Excellent for subjective synthesis of a very specific mindset.
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Meanwhile, for everyone else, hereâs a pretty bridge:
Oooh very nice!
You see the Joker? I think thatâs DalĂ.
Itâs certainly surreal!
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Iâll add one final link to the quest which brought me here, from a post made in 2015, and which I continue to pursue:
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