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  1. Working on Digital Minimalism - Post #2 - Productivity

    I didn't think I would have people actually read my post. Thanks for the feedback and @Madman asked about if doing this detox makes me more productive. I gave a short response, but wanted to elaborate on the topic. In short, yes. It has made me MORE productive. I no longer do dishes and wonder 'did Y write me back?' or 'I gotta finish these quick so I can make sure I didn't miss anything happening online.' Sure, we all have these thoughts, but I think less and less about the internet when...
  2. Working on Digital Minimalism - Post #1

    I don't know when I really began this journey to cut down on my internet time, but I know I have come a long way. Now, something I am trying to do is make my internet 'smaller'. So, instead of all the sites in the world at my fingertips, I have picked the top 5. 1. Email. 2. This site 3. Youtube 4. Reddit and I am trying to keep only to Dark Souls, Notebook, and Chocolate content. (r/chocolate is a treat!) 5. Can't think of this one right now, but it's an open slot, I guess. The key I...
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  3. My Review of Things Fall Apart

    “We’re the ones who fuckin’ gave all y’all the freedom that you got!” ~ A white woman yelling at a group of African American protesters after the police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Missouri. I’m sorry to begin my review with such an ugly quote, but that’s where we’re at now. Chinua Achebe’s masterful and hard-hitting novel, Things Fall Apart, takes us back to an earlier chapter, to life in the nine self-governing villages of Umuofia, Nigeria, before the arrival of the...
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  4. The Cost of Intergalactic Nutrition

    "Luckily up here we only have to stop the vortex machine and introduce a disinfecting agent. I am told they have to divert the flow downstairs during this process and all of our production is for non resale only. For a full 24 hours, he bars that are designated ‘for charity only’; Even then we rarely have enough for local distribution. Regardless of the regulation put down from the top, word always gets out some how. Many of the lower level personnel are from the local slums, some of...
  5. Best Laid Plans

    Spoke to my psychiatrist a few days ago about wanting to study English. She recommended me not to at this stage, which I understand. But I still find it a bit sad. When I first got sick, they told me that the university would still be there when I got better. That was about eight years ago. Now it feels like a distant dream or something that may never happen again. I loved the university days that I attended. To explore English with like-minded enthusiasts was exhilarating. I was good at...
  6. An Idea for Dealing with Crime and Gangsters

    Hit them over the head with an electrified morning star (a type of modernized medieval weapon) and conscript them into an auxiliary armed service. Gangsters in Sweden, I believe, are resourceful haters of normality. They seek the life they do, not necessarily because of poverty, but because they want to live on the edge. They want to feel powerful and relevant. In our big society, feeling relevant can be a difficult achievement. There are millions of people who all seek their way in life....
  7. How we did it Back in the Day (writing and editing stories before word processors)

    Classic Story Patchups 01 by Darkmatters, on Flickr Here's a pile of stories from my Tony & Kurt folder. Marvel at the variety of different kinds of paper, with very different left edges in particular. Some on typing paper or binder paper, which has a nice straight factory-cut edge on it, and some torn violently from notebooks, with all that nasty ragged fringe left behind. Also note a few on lined binder paper, but typed. Yeah, we used what we had on hand or could afford, and I was a kid...
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  8. The Synthesizing Imagination—Working Out my own Understanding of Coleridge's Concepts

    In which Xoic the Mighty attempts to disambiguate and disseminate Coleridge's ideas concerning the Fancy and the Imagination (two different kinds).
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  9. First jokes

    This took me roughly 45 mins to write these jokes. This is my first attempt at writing basically anything. Let me know what you think and how you think I could make them better. Do you give a shit what happens to your body after you die? Fuck that I don’t. Bury me, cremate me, cook me and feed me to the neighbors, I don’t care. Shove a stick up my ass and wield me around like a puppet for a goof at Halloween time I like how enough people have choked themselves to death while jerking off...
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