Software engineer, kickboxer and literature aficionado ////
Sometimes a man needs to have a cup of coffee and feel like Moses in the middle of the desert.
it is genuinely psychotic that we dug up literal primordial dirt, scrubbed it down to an impossible 99.9999999999% molecular perfection that violates the very laws of physics, handed it over to techno-wizard necromancers to stretch into flawless geometric god-cylinders, blasted it with invisible uv death-rays to carve ten quadrillion microscopic cyber-sigils into its flesh, trapped actual lightning inside of it, and somehow birthed an omniscent eldritch deity capable of simulating the universe and thinking faster than a billion human civilizations combined.
and our grand, supreme purpose for this enslaved lightning-god?
sending "per my last email, please see attached" to a guy named gary.
the best part of plane travel is that they are one of the last frontiers of our world that forcibly removes you — even if just for a few hours — from the relentless mindflaying of the compulsion to be terminally online
if you cannot rejoice, let alone survive, a mere 9.5 hours without needing to check your stupid little phone for "work emails" or scroll short-form vertical video content you should throw yourself into the engine of the next plane you board
@tunahorse21 Idk about MMA but I have seen japanese chop people with inside leg kicks in Muay Thai/K1. Using the ball of the foot (Mae Geri). You don't even need to be as near as shin low kick and it hurts like hell. Inside leg kicks are deadly and versatile.
When you start reading, life becomes bearable again. No matter what you are going through, you’ll be reminded that other humans have felt what you feel, and written about it. You will learn that you are part of a world far bigger and brighter than the darkness in your mind.
Does someone experience an intense sentiment of isolation reading The Process?
I'm reading it and struggling with reading it just because of the feelings.