Just uploaded a brand new video on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and the Tarot to my YouTube channel. It's free and available here: https://t.co/wmrIgHBHs9
Found a tiny tarot card on the floor yesterday and held on to it to gift to someone because I didn’t resonate with it. Within 30 minutes I met a girl at an art show with the tarot card tattooed on her arm !
When we get to study or work overseas, we Singaporeans express gratitude to the country providing us the opportunity.
We don't demand for more or request for better stuff. We are thankful for what is given to us.
This is what other foreign students or workers should learn from instead of being entitled. You know who I am referring to.
holy shit the singaporean guy who delivered food to a girl who went to the same school as him and the girl fell in love and used AI to generate an entire life together like putting all his old pictures and her together and got married and pregnant with him over chatgpt 😭😭😭
If only he had stuck to what he originally stated in this. The Boys would have been so, so much better. It could have been THE best TV series about superhero genre subversions. What a shame.
Eric Kripke just posted... Where it all began: his first pitch for @TheBoysTV eleven years ago.
He says that The Boys isn't supposed to be a superhero parody or a joke but about Reality. About what would really happen if flawed humans score limitless powers and privilege.
@Ofcimcold@TheBoysTV If only he had stuck to what he originally stated in this. The Boys would have been so, so much better. It could have been THE best TV series about superhero genre subversions.
Daniel Craig's daughter won't receive a large inheritance from her dad, as he finds inheritances "distasteful" and does not "want to leave great sums to the next generation." He told Insider, "My philosophy is to get rid of it or give it away before you go."
Unemployed youths in:
1996:
- Wake up
- Have breakfast
- Chill
- Dad finds you a job
2006:
- Meet up with friends
- Binge-watch a movie
- Enjoy sunny weekends
- Friends connect you to a job
2026:
- Apply for 1000+ jobs
- Keep refreshing email
- Get called for 2 interviews
- Go through 7 rounds of interviews
- Get rejected
- Society calls you a failure
- You feel guilty even while resting
- You fall into significant debt
- Friends slowly stop calling you
- Depression hits hard.
Singapore should adopt this too. Let the old minds get educated and give them the very education they have been starved of when they were kids. If only to stop mental decline and let them burn off energy that they waste on being grouchy to their juniors
Thinking again about how China offers free education classes for the elderly so they can continue learning for the rest of their lives. Life is long and you need something to care about and study or you’re not going to make it. The happiest people are lifelong learners.
While some in the West pity the Chinese for not sharing their God, they often overlook how we actually see the world.
While different religions live side by side peacefully in China, we’ve carried one deeper faith in our bones for thousands of years — long before Jesus was even born:
Humans can conquer nature. Our fate is in our own hands.
This belief isn’t abstract philosophy. It’s written into our oldest stories. Here are three ancient Chinese myths that prove it:
🌊 The Great Flood of Gun & Yu
Imagine a flood so devastating it lasted for generations — entire civilizations drowning, people scattered. Around 2200 BCE, the emperor tasked a father and son, Gun and Yu, with saving the realm.
Gun tried building massive dikes to hold the water back. Yu took a bolder path: he chose to channel it, redirect rivers, and drain the floodwaters. They faced not just nature’s fury, but mythical beasts. A dragon carved canals with its body. A giant tortoise hauled away mountains of mud.
Yu became a legend for his obsession. The saying “passed his home three times without entering” (三过家门而不入) still lives today — he was so focused on the mission that he walked right past his own door without stopping, even when his wife gave birth.
They didn’t pray for divine mercy. They fought the heavens themselves — and won.
🌞 Hou Yi Shoots the Ten Suns
One day, all ten suns rose at once and scorched the earth. Rivers boiled. Crops burned. Humanity faced extinction.
The hero Hou Yi stood before the heavens. He warned the suns. He pleaded with them. When they refused to listen, he picked up his bow and shot nine of them down.
Each sun fell and turned into a three-legged raven. Only one was spared after the Sun’s mother and Emperor Yao begged for mercy — so that life could continue.
Think about that: a human being literally negotiating with the gods by force, telling the very source of light in the sky, “You will not destroy us.”
⛰️ The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains
An old man of 90 lived at the foot of two giant mountains that blocked his path. Everyone called him foolish when he declared he would dig them away with nothing but hoes and baskets.
His neighbors laughed: “You’ll never finish this in your lifetime!”
The old man replied calmly:
“I may die, but my children will continue. When they die, their children will continue. Generation after generation, without end. The mountains won’t grow any taller — but our effort never stops. Why can’t we flatten them?”
The gods in heaven, moved by such stubborn willpower, eventually sent spirits to move the mountains for him.
These aren’t just fairy tales. They are the soul of Chinese civilization.
We respect the gods in our traditions. But we have never believed our destiny is written by them.
We believe it is taken — through intelligence, perseverance, and collective effort across generations.
That is our faith.
And it has carried us for 5,000 years.