Archive for the ‘Illusions’ Category

The Domino Effect

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it [...]

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Why Do You Desire?

“It is chiefly the psychologists of the school of Freud (who have pointed out that many of man’s thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which has been obliged to suppress. A thing may be desired not for its intrinsic worth or usefulness, but because he has unconsciously come to see in it a [...]

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Can You Comprehend This?

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything…” ~Alan Watts
The Beautiful Planet Earth

Simplicity

Baboushcka In Love With The Forest

We Are Earth: Do You [...]

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The Humans Project

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~Douglas Adams (from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
The Humans Project

Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead

When [...]

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Who Made You?

“Who made who, who made you?
Who made who, ain’t nobody told you?
Who made who, who made you?
If you made them and they made you
Who picked up the bill, and who made who?
Who made who, who turned the screw?”
~Who Made Who by AC/DC
The Policeman Inside All Our Heads A

The Policeman Inside All [...]

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In Pursuit of Happiness

“slave screams he spends his life learning conformity. slave screams he claims he has his own identity. slave screams he’s going to cause the system to fall. slave screams but he’s glad to be chained to that wall.
“don’t open your eyes you won’t like what you see. the blind have been blessed with security. don’t [...]

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Out of the Ruins of Civilization

Some responses to the collapse of civilization.
FREEGANISM
Freegans and Freeganism

Freegan Kitchen, Episode One

REWILDING
Urban Scout Rant: Emerging Rewilding Culture

Urban Scout: The Process of Undoing Domestication (lecture)

FORAGING
Savage in the Wild

Urban Foraging

VAGABONDING
Rolf Potts, A Life [...]

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The Invisible Mindscape

Have you ever wondered that if Life were a simulation, would we be more pleased if the simulation were changed? And if the simulation were changed to a more suitable one, would we  still be aware that Life was a simulation?  In other words, would Life as a simulation only be noticeable because the current [...]

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Is Your Mind Intact

Without a collective All providing thoughts, the individual deviates from the collective and becomes surrounded by persons who have no sense of autonomy beyond that provided by the collective, leaving it susceptible to any outside force strong enough to control it. The individual stands alone before the collective…
You Must Conform!

I Am [...]

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One Mind Fits All

New World Order Being Taught In Schools

Easy Rider on Freedom

Domestication

Another Brick In The Wall

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