"Ah, push it, push it real good."-Salt-N-Pepa. "Push It" I despise push notifications on my phone, to the point where I go through the process of personalizing settings to avoid receiving them no matter the app. Of course, I will admit that I have missed a few important things here and there. I am not … Continue reading Pushing push notifications as credible clickbait
Category: Thought
“La la la”: Exploring the beloved lyric
"I don't know what to say, oh, not another word, just la-la-la-la-la, it goes around the world."-A Touch of Class, "Around the World (La La La La La)" Back in 2022, I had the privlege to see John Harvie open for a major rock tour. I enjoyed his music, so I purchased his debut album, … Continue reading “La la la”: Exploring the beloved lyric
Everything
Everything is a trade-off. Everything is relative, however, as is an equal exaggeration among what individuals believe represents "everything." Therefore, everything is connected to everything, and we can find everything within everything, even the smallest sample. This includes small examples of trade-offs in safety. LED headlights are now seemingly standard in newer vehicles. They illuminate … Continue reading Everything
Love & Hate
I hate when you use the word hate in conversation, and someone replies, "You shouldn't say 'hate,' it's such a strong word." The respondee is trying to be dryly clever, attempting to boast kindness in a minuscule way, but the issue in that response is that it actually strengthens the meaning of hate and devalues … Continue reading Love & Hate
Perfection
Does universal perfection exist? In a strange way, it could be our imperfections that make up universal perfection, for if life is balanced, anything that exists must have an opposite that exists, or a counterbalance. Perfection is freedom from all flaws and defects. Yet, all humans, being of the same species, are flawed. We are … Continue reading Perfection
Human Existence
To further on the intention post... It is a truth versus trust, fact versus belief, conundrum, teetering on the possibility of dualism, but never fully disconnecting body and mind. If all acts, which occur in the physical world and are objective and proven, derive from a subjective decision in the non-physical world, then would that … Continue reading Human Existence
Intention
Existence is objective. An objection is a fact. A fact is proven to be true. Trust is a belief. Trust does not equal proof and, therefore, does not equal fact. Intention cannot be proven, only trusted. Acts happen in the physical world (body) while intent happens in the non-physical world (mind). As the old expression … Continue reading Intention
Derek Raymond’s Revolutionary Factory Series went too far, and that’s Exactly What was Needed
“It seems that all that was good has died, And is decaying in me.”-Disturbed, “Down with the Sickness” Hardboiled crime is a special genre. Derek Raymond, the founder of British Noir, took it to a whole new level with his Factory series. Nothing was like it before, and nothing has been like it since. It … Continue reading Derek Raymond’s Revolutionary Factory Series went too far, and that’s Exactly What was Needed


