I read everything you write but, I seldom comment on any even though I can relate to most of them. The need to identify or put an identity on one selfs when all we are is human is what I was trying to tell the dude who claimed to be a white a supremacist in your livestream that night. He criticize your music and tried to attach
Right. If he stayed on that line of conversation he would have been banned. I made this publication to find common ground as a group of working class people, period. We don't need their divide and conquer. You rock Niki
I wonder how you have the time to write so much!? Did you have a lot of this pre-written and you’re able to unspool it post by post? Or do you really sit at a desk and write ten hours a day nonstop? Just curious. Keep up the good work. (Meanwhile, I literally offered CASH to readers to respond to my posts and notes, and I didn’t get a single reply regardless. It’s a sign that this site has basically shadowbanned me, I think. Who passes up free cash?)
haha this is hard to answer, bcus a lot of it involves unpacking my history and anecdotal experiences, making deductions and then using classical media research approach to verify/narrow the focus towards the more accurate deduction.
so it feels like I'm kinda grabbing at a full bowl of content that is my life. and it's been slowing down a lot since i'm shadow banned too lol, but I'm fortunate enough to currently barely make enough from substack alone to live with my family and pay all my bills
I was 11 when my dad died in a bizarre accident. I had two ministers in my church that I talked to over the phone sitting on the edge of a bed in a Holiday Inn hotel room in a backwater town in Alabama. One of them told me it was all part of God’s plan. Thankful that wasn’t the only voice I heard that day. Because what a fucking shitty thing to say to an 11 year-old who just lost their dad. What kind of fucking plan is that? The other minister Told me, Life is a gift, a miracle. That bad things happen to good people, for no reason at all and that is not a “plan” that’s just life. But all of it - the joy, the sadness - everything in life that we get to experience is a gift. That actually saved me and has informed my “meaning.” I didn’t realize it then, and your post made me remember, we decide what the meaning is. We are complete as we exist, and we can choose what everything else means to us.
Lovely post. Some years ago, I realized that, for me at least, the entire purpose of religion was to find or create meaning out of everything we experience during our lives.
I've been thinking about writing an article for a few days now. I held off because of the internal debate over whether I should publish it or not; controversy and I seem to go hand-in-hand. Your article here could be a preface for mine, so you've given me a prompt to write and publish that which made me hesitate. I'll send it to you DM first, so we can talk about it if you'd like.
I want to share the most beautiful prayer I've ever heard, the meaning of which made me cry the first time I heard it, it's landing was truly epic in my world.
It's called The Four Immeasurables in the Tibetan Buddhist canon.
The following has two changes I've added to update it. If you want to know the original, it should be an easy search request.
May all beings have happiness and the cause(s) of happiness.
May all beings be free of suffering and the cause(s) of suffering.
May all beings give rise and remain within the joy that is sorrowless,
And may all dwell in equanimity, free of addiction and hatred toward all those near and far.
Great piece! I appreciate your thoughts on this. The one thing I would add is that we are the only species on the planet that has to pay to live here and in my humble opinion, I believe that this is really the root of our problems… I don’t understand how we can be our authentic selves, and experience our true identities, with that hanging over us from the very beginning. It is as if we are doomed to live lives influenced by things that would appear to be completely out of our control.
On various platforms and in conversations I've responded to the ubiquitous, "tell us about yourself" by saying I'm a carbon-based being living on a planet I know of as Earth. People think I'm trying to be clever but I've found it strips away the assumptions that get attached to me if I say "woman" or "California" or "queer" or "married" or any of the other labels. Sometimes when I feel distressed I remind myself that by having a temperature-controlled home, good food, clean water, friends, and a loving mate, I've already won the mammal game. Anything else is for my entertainment or society's requirements, which often feel capricious and cruel to me.
Promoting rebel attack to the system will break the people, instead, come join us who chose to create the parallel society without the war mindedness (I know they do deserve a bashing BUT... they've been at this planning thing for centuries and somehow through acquiescence caught us all off-guard)...
We aim to develop a bottom up - contribute what you innately have as gifts that support and uplift the community and provide the means to support an off-grid lifestyle.
We need to join our energies towards this together, it's free and all can join if you align with the Seven Virtues and the way to move away from the 7 Deadly Sins practiced on society.
I read everything you write but, I seldom comment on any even though I can relate to most of them. The need to identify or put an identity on one selfs when all we are is human is what I was trying to tell the dude who claimed to be a white a supremacist in your livestream that night. He criticize your music and tried to attach
Tried to attach it to distinct race of people using a racist slur.
Right. If he stayed on that line of conversation he would have been banned. I made this publication to find common ground as a group of working class people, period. We don't need their divide and conquer. You rock Niki
I wonder how you have the time to write so much!? Did you have a lot of this pre-written and you’re able to unspool it post by post? Or do you really sit at a desk and write ten hours a day nonstop? Just curious. Keep up the good work. (Meanwhile, I literally offered CASH to readers to respond to my posts and notes, and I didn’t get a single reply regardless. It’s a sign that this site has basically shadowbanned me, I think. Who passes up free cash?)
haha this is hard to answer, bcus a lot of it involves unpacking my history and anecdotal experiences, making deductions and then using classical media research approach to verify/narrow the focus towards the more accurate deduction.
so it feels like I'm kinda grabbing at a full bowl of content that is my life. and it's been slowing down a lot since i'm shadow banned too lol, but I'm fortunate enough to currently barely make enough from substack alone to live with my family and pay all my bills
Is this Ethan Faulkner?
I chose to listen to it rather than read it as I’ve been off Substack
Yaaaas
It's great stuff. Keep up the good work!
thank you!
oh and I use my custom AI to help me write
I was 11 when my dad died in a bizarre accident. I had two ministers in my church that I talked to over the phone sitting on the edge of a bed in a Holiday Inn hotel room in a backwater town in Alabama. One of them told me it was all part of God’s plan. Thankful that wasn’t the only voice I heard that day. Because what a fucking shitty thing to say to an 11 year-old who just lost their dad. What kind of fucking plan is that? The other minister Told me, Life is a gift, a miracle. That bad things happen to good people, for no reason at all and that is not a “plan” that’s just life. But all of it - the joy, the sadness - everything in life that we get to experience is a gift. That actually saved me and has informed my “meaning.” I didn’t realize it then, and your post made me remember, we decide what the meaning is. We are complete as we exist, and we can choose what everything else means to us.
Lovely post. Some years ago, I realized that, for me at least, the entire purpose of religion was to find or create meaning out of everything we experience during our lives.
Thank you! Hating on someone else simply due to the color of their skin, gender,or gender preference is toxic to one's self and to society in a whole.
I've been thinking about writing an article for a few days now. I held off because of the internal debate over whether I should publish it or not; controversy and I seem to go hand-in-hand. Your article here could be a preface for mine, so you've given me a prompt to write and publish that which made me hesitate. I'll send it to you DM first, so we can talk about it if you'd like.
I would love to hear what you have to say☆
I want to share the most beautiful prayer I've ever heard, the meaning of which made me cry the first time I heard it, it's landing was truly epic in my world.
It's called The Four Immeasurables in the Tibetan Buddhist canon.
The following has two changes I've added to update it. If you want to know the original, it should be an easy search request.
May all beings have happiness and the cause(s) of happiness.
May all beings be free of suffering and the cause(s) of suffering.
May all beings give rise and remain within the joy that is sorrowless,
And may all dwell in equanimity, free of addiction and hatred toward all those near and far.
I feel this deeply. TY.
Great piece! I appreciate your thoughts on this. The one thing I would add is that we are the only species on the planet that has to pay to live here and in my humble opinion, I believe that this is really the root of our problems… I don’t understand how we can be our authentic selves, and experience our true identities, with that hanging over us from the very beginning. It is as if we are doomed to live lives influenced by things that would appear to be completely out of our control.
On various platforms and in conversations I've responded to the ubiquitous, "tell us about yourself" by saying I'm a carbon-based being living on a planet I know of as Earth. People think I'm trying to be clever but I've found it strips away the assumptions that get attached to me if I say "woman" or "California" or "queer" or "married" or any of the other labels. Sometimes when I feel distressed I remind myself that by having a temperature-controlled home, good food, clean water, friends, and a loving mate, I've already won the mammal game. Anything else is for my entertainment or society's requirements, which often feel capricious and cruel to me.
Promoting rebel attack to the system will break the people, instead, come join us who chose to create the parallel society without the war mindedness (I know they do deserve a bashing BUT... they've been at this planning thing for centuries and somehow through acquiescence caught us all off-guard)...
We aim to develop a bottom up - contribute what you innately have as gifts that support and uplift the community and provide the means to support an off-grid lifestyle.
We need to join our energies towards this together, it's free and all can join if you align with the Seven Virtues and the way to move away from the 7 Deadly Sins practiced on society.
https://sirmj.substack.com/p/revoking-implied?r=1b895l&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer