Missing the Point – Dave Martin

Qlamqtar 2022 FIFA World Cup | Profile | IRAQ: Invented the wheel, agriculture, medical diagnosis and prescription, mathematics, astronomy, cursive script, the 24-hour day and basically civilization (not to mention reaching a World Cup and winning our continent’s top soccer championship). What’s your crappy country ever done?

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Missing the point? + A Deep Dive into: Time [pt.2] – Schopenhauer’s idea that the past, future NOR the present can be enjoyed assumes that the past, present and future are actually things.

Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value. Just because my dog Chunky gets excited […]

Missing the point #6 & [Am I full of shit? #2]: Why am I getting a tattoo of Snufkin today?* (Especially since he’s maybe the last person who’d see the point in getting one) *Actually,2 of him and 2 of what he says.

What’s the point of tattoos? I don’t know and it might be different for every person, but today I’m getting this done on one arm: […]

Missing the point #5: Our understanding of death – what are we on about? We’ve got no idea. (+ Neil Strauss on statues and commerative days)

Humans understand a bunch of shit. We can split the atom, build the Large Hadron Collider and launch and then land a rocket back on Earth. But there’s […]

Missing the point: Statues pt.2: More stupid statues – Why does this one of Henry David Thoreau exist? (And actually… hang on, wait. Look at it. He’s actually asking the same question.)

(The following is from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, and the part is almost in its entirety because a) it kicks ass and b) could be my […]

Missing the point: Statues – Why does this one of Marcus Aurelius even exist?

Of Fame. Take a look at the minds of her suitors, their ambitions and their aversions. Furthermore, reflect how speedily in this life the things […]