Following on from clarity.
When we have a clear understanding of something, is this called wisdom? So the wise person is the person who sees things clearly? Perhaps. In think wisdom is more intuitive and wide ranging than the clarity I have been writing about, although I may be over estimating the role of education and [...]
I recently realised that one of the big goals in my life is the pursuit of clarity. Clarity in all things, in my understanding of myself, my relationships and those around me. Clarity in an intellectual sense; that I have clear justified opinions crafted out of deep and sound knowledge. Clarity in an emotional sense, that I am [...]
Recently I came across the idea of the competent man, which partly sums up the direction in which I am currently heading. In the wikipedia article the author Robert Heinlein summarises the idea as follows:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance [...]
Well, I’ve been away from the site for a long time, but now I am back. I don’t really have any notion of where I want to take TheSimulacra now, so I’m hoping that things will evolve naturally and eventually I will discover some sort of new direction, but I have no idea how long that will [...]
I’m going to take a break from the blog for the next few months. I don’t feel in the right place for writing at the moment, and I know the coming months are going to be really hectic, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to take a break and think about what I [...]
I love the power of the cold on my face. All my thoughts can’t bring me warmth, all my barriers to the outside fail when confronted with the needs of my body.
I don’t handle the cold well, my frame isn’t designed for extremes. In fact, both my flesh and my mind are always less resilient than I imagine. I [...]
I’m growing into the idea that a good death is not so much a death where I have chosen the time and place, but where I have some level of control over the event. I used to believe the best way to die was in the setting of my making, my choosing; not necessarily suicide, [...]