Dave Martin | Sports, stupidity & real-time data analysis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is your life. You have exactly 1.000000000 of them. No one has any more, or any less (let me know if you find anyone who has lived 0.9 or 1.1 lives). So, you can either think consciously about what you’re doing right now, and do exactly what YOU want… OR you can be guilted into doing what others, or…
‘Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.’ – Seneca the Younger Humans may not be around today if we hadn’t been so ambitious to want more. To want to survive the black plague, to expand to different countries, to not want to get eaten by bears. By there’s also the argument that human consciousness and Humanity…
Have you looked around lately? Go on… walk around in town during a busy shopping day… or go out on a Saturday night… tell me if you see any other species in almost even remote abundance as humans (ok bacteria will fuck up my argument) but let’s just leave the micro-biome out of this one). And? What do you think? Head…
If you live your life thinking of what you do, why you do it, and always aiming to better your life and that of others around you, impulses fade and become less and less frequent. Unless you actively think and then change what you want in your life, it won’t (at least not in the way you truly want). It’s…
This is Ricky Gervais and his actual philosophy on Philosophy, if you were a mind in a tank, and why or why not this isn’t a dream. And Karl Pilkington on that we do need the bad to appreciate the good (at 11:30)… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-v3ngHykP4
In this quick interview with The New Philosopher, Ricky Gervais answers questions with his usual Ricky Gervais genius. But it’s his answer to the last that stands out as most significant and perhaps his most thought out and most heavily contemplated. 13. What is the meaning of life? To learn and understand as much about the world as possible. To have…
The point of writing (whether just for yourself or publishing it) is to document what you do, why you did it, and then reflect on it to see how it went. And it’s also to make sense of the mess. Your mind is full of random thoughts, things people said to you 6 minutes ago, 13 years ago, 4 seconds…
If you just chose to not be scared of dying alone, not meeting someone, not having kids, getting ugly, getting old, not finding a job you like, not being remembered one day (any of those), not living alone, and chose to make this your one and only goal ‘to live’ wouldn’t you be content and satisfied for the rest of your…
When Science and Technology advance to the point where people are going to live for 200+ years, the ironic thing is that the one thing that science ensured we drifted away from –being human– is going to be the one thing we eventually need to do most (and the one that we might have forgotten to do (sidenote: more irony…
Everything that is something had to come from nothing. Every relationship you have in your life, at some point, was not there. So if you were fine before it happened, it’s proof you’ll be fine after it’s gone. Which is like life. At some point you didn’t live. And the world worked fine. And at some point you will be dead,…