Square image, red background, white text. Inspired by the series of WWII propaganda posters from the UK, of which Keep Calm was one. Instead of a crown, an upside down unicursal hexagram. The text is “Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!” from Asana and Pranayama in Aleister Crowley's Eight Lectures On Yoga, quoted more fully and source linked at URL in post
A cartoon illustration of dog lying on a bed thinking deeply. Caption reads "Buster would sometimes spend entire afternoons going over and over the idea of an ever expanding universe with its pulsating cepheid variables in the large Magellanic Cloud and what his role was within it all."
On my walk today, which is getting later and later because I walk at sunrise, I saw a schoolkid with a backpack crammed full of books and I thought to myself "If only you realised how pointless all that shit you are going through really is."
I began skipping school when I was 11. But don't think I hate learning or am uneducated (I am in fact educated to postgraduate degree level). Rather, it is school specifically which is a waste of time.
It is there to produce drones. Worker drones. Expendable drones. Do-as-you-are-told drones. And its mostly boring as fuck which is why I started skipping school.
Had I been dumb enough to have kids, I would never have sent them to school and the best thing you can teach your kid is to think for itself and to disobey.
In fact, now I think about it, the only thing worth doing is NOT doing as you're told.
"Honing your discernment, exercising your brain, wracking your vocabulary to find the right phrase to express your inner world. These are not things that are supposed to be easy."
She wasn't quite sure of the next step, needed to get her bearings.
And as she wasn't the type of person to rush into things without thinking, she took time to, well, think. It was a policy that had always served her well.
She took a walk and carried one thing with her: a book. There were no pockets in her dress to hold a cell phone, and no desire in her heart to spend her free afternoon looking down at a screen.
She wanted to read something of value and significance, something that would challenge her mind and inspire her to deeply think.
But by releasing me from having a take does he not himself have a take? If I had a suspicious nature I might think he doesn't want me to have a take... 🤔😂
Excerpt of writing:
52. You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.
Caption: Marcus Aurelius has alread released you from the obligation to have a take.
Unsolved mysteries are the worst, I have some shows in mind 😁
But it doesn't apply to The Good Place, which is perhaps the best show I've seen in the last decade 🤔
Two panel meme with pictures of Michael from The Good Place TV show, and a bag of rocks.
Caption: When you’re not sure how to solve your own mystery story:
Picture one: Now, I've investigated all of the rocks in the neighbourhood.
Picture two: These 78 are the most suspicious.
From incandescent's dim glow
To halogen's efficient brightness
And now LED's blinding rays
We still cannot see clearly
All that we want in the darkness