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Reincarnation Analogies and Metaphors
I'm working on a few of these (my Doom: Deathmatch analogy went over pretty well years ago). Here's a quick one:
Meaning is accessed through life but not literally contained by it. Just like the meaning of a book is accessed through the book, but not literally contained by it. -
Novel update
My book, The Wrath of Brotherhood, first novel in the Brethren of the Spanish Main series, is now available on Amazon and Scribd. It will soon be available from most other eBook retailers.
Check it out! And if you like it, please give a good review! And remember, obvious friend and family reviews get discarded by Amazon. Definitely need some -
Novel update
Fired BookBaby for the formatting job. After 3 weeks, they were still messing the same things up.
Hired Polgarus Studio in Australia to do it instead. Paid the expedition fee which makes it all come out to about $9.50 more than BookBaby, and way faster. Should be done tonight, it sounds like, and I only hired them Friday. -
The Wrath of Brotherhood
Just sent my eBook to BookBaby for formatting and publication. They will convert it to ePub and mobi, test it out, let me see it, etc, and then it will get sent off to Amazon, Nook, iBook, and all the other sellers. Hopefully will be available on Amazon on November 20th!
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Note to Self: On Giving and Receiving
If you do something in order to get closer to someone else, that is different from doing something to encourage someone else to get closer to you.
One is courageous and requires risk. The other is manipulative and requires control.
And because of that difference, only one of these kinds of "closer" actually closes any distance. -
Transcendence Through Intuitive Thinking
Pretty decent run down of intuitive thinking, speaking of the difference between instinct (emotionalism) and intuition. -
Nothing to read
I used to come on here a lot and talk about spiritual stuff. And I was having a conversation the other day with someone who "gets it," and he was recommending I read some Castaneda, some Bateson, some Whitehead, and some other shit. And he meant well, but it made me realize that I'm mostly disinterested in reading about a bunch of stuff I already ( Read more... ) -
Happy this band is back
I missed these guys, and now they're a local (Minneapolis) band! -
"Bully" is just another word for "Narcissistic" apparently
http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/serial.htm
Great site.
Like this bit:
"...serial bullies are adept at encouraging conflict between people who might otherwise pool negative information about them."