The Microsoft spell check says that that title is misspelled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe it is, but I really don’t care. I think it fits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A lot of what I’ve been working on the past few years is trying to rebuild what i let fall by the wayside for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I do know how to do these things. Maybe they’re not the new hotness(tm), but they do work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I do them because I’ve seen that they do work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were some interesting things that came up in one of my social groups last night. We ended up discussing some of what came up in some of what I wrote about recently from an OD writing prompt. It also plays in to some of what Harry Browne wrote about in How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World.<\/em> There are things that you do that may not bring you any particular joy, but they do help you perform later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those suicide drills<\/a> don’t help you block or tackle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Running them until you puke doesn’t have any immediately-apparent benefit. And, as a player, when you’re dealing with the pain involved with running them, you hate<\/em><\/strong> the person who made you run them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then you finally get to the point when you can play. The hatred is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think in adulthood, one of the troubles is figuring out something you can do to challenge yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the podcasts I routinely consume talked about the mechanics of writing a book. Committing to write 2,000 words per day? Yeah, I can do that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It wasn’t particularly long ago that I would have thought that that was completely impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The big thing is figuring out what you want to be able to do, and the tedious things you’ll need to do to be able to do them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’d told me in 2011 that, in the same week, I’d get an injection on Saturday, then an infusion the following Friday, I would have told you that that you’re nuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *steps away to look at how long this entry is*<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah, getting close to that point, already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s taken me maybe an hour, total, to write that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, yeah, there is something about comes from adherence to something ritualized that helps you progress as a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back on the discussion last night, part of what I’m fascinated by lately, too, is the role of religion in human life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I was young, kind of a Randroid<\/a><\/em>, I was more than a little skeptical of religion. I’ve heard Vin Armani on a few different podcasts recently. *DDGs it* <\/em>I hate linking to Reddit, but this<\/a> is one of the first things that came up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The secularities among various separate religions is fascinating. Even things like the vibrations induced by chanting are virtually identical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So what is that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe there’s something else going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bouncing back to the writing — I need ideas for something longer to write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suggestions wanted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Microsoft spell check says that that title is misspelled. Maybe it is, but I really don’t care. I think it fits. A lot of what I’ve been working on the past few years is trying to rebuild what i let fall by the wayside for several years. But I do know how to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}