Archive for May 2024
No-Pill #65 Two Types of Romantic-Love Relationships
Forge Your Path in Love: The Power of Individuality in Relationships No-Pill #64 Three Segments of Romantic Love No-Pill #66 Individual Uniqueness and Personal Worth “Uncover the keys to a successful relationship and personal growth through individuality. Learn how to harness your personal agency, develop your unique path, and share the journey with your partner…...
The Mug Shot Heard Round The World
My Hot Take On The Trump Conviction It’s very early morning here in the Land of Smiles, and I got up to finish off another post. Suddenly, I see all this noise about former President Donald J. Trump being convicted on 34 counts of—what is it—fudging something in his business books or whatever that doesn’t…
Read MoreMy Answers To A Critic
Methods To Madness and The Virtue of Binging About 10 days ago, I published a post and did an accompanying video. In a nutshell, it’s about spring-cleaning…ending up with every essential thing you need and nothing inessential—because you don’t need inessentials cluttering up your life. It was driven by my decision to just stop with…
Read MoreThe Occam’s Razor Covid Conspiracy That’s True
All The Elements Were All Around Us The Whole Time and Now They Come Together Never you mind. I’m on a roll. I’m just enjoying setting aside so much trouble and effort so I can simply get down to what I do best: getting aggravated or ah-ha’ed and writing about it quickly. I was going…
Read MoreWhat Does America Deserve?
Making It Great Ever Again Is Going To Take A Lot More Than Electing The Same Person Who Got Duped The Last Time Yea, I know. It’s supposed to be my day off, right? So was yesterday…and the day before that, when I published [a day late] my 3rd and final installment on the intersection…
Read MoreExpanding The Definition of Consciousness: Purposeful Communication
A Wild and Revolutionary Thesis That Questions Premises In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. genesis 1:1-2 [This is Part 3. Parts 1 and 2 are here and here.] Introduction Well, here we are with the third and final…
Read MoreTeaching 5th Graders About Hang-Gliding
Theory To Practice Here we are. I know what’s due tonight—the third installment of my miniseries on AI and consciousness, human consciousness, and the potential for digital consciousness. What is consciousness, anyway? That’s what this third installment is supposed to focus on. The second part mostly dealt with big brains, and the first installment was…
Read MoreAnxiety in the Face of the AI Revolution
From Fire to Silicon: Getting Used to Radical Advancement “As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be.” lorenzo snow [This is Part 2. Parts 1 and 3 are here and here.] The quote is from 1840. Snow was the 5th president of the LDS Church, the Mormons. It popped…
Read MoreMan Created God In His Own Image
The Next Evolution of “God;” and Installing Escalators and Elevators in the Tower of Babel So man created God in his own image, in the image of man created he Him;only one true God created he Him. Neo-Genesis 1:27 [This is Part 1. Parts 2 and 3 are here and here.] Introduction Brace yourselves. What…
Read MoreEverything You Need and Nothing You Don’t
An Essentials Story This post is a continuation of this one. How much of your life is spent seeking to gain and keep inessential things? We all do it, there’s no denying it. And in a good sense, isn’t that what prosperity, happiness, and higher states of well-being are all about or at least partly…
Read MoreJust The Basic Facts — Changes to Site & Newsletter
RelaxI’ll need some information firstJust the basic factsCan you show me where it hurts? (Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb; The Wall, 1979) Tomorrow, I’ll publish the whole soul-searching story in prose and video. For now, just the raw details because some changes have already taken place, some are happening as soon and this is published, and…
Read MoreWhat Would “Freedom of Business” Look Like?
Significant restructuring is in place as concerns FreeTheAnimal and The Swagger (newsletter). I’ll update with details in a few days time. In the meantime… In an email piece “The Spear in AI’s Back,” at The Daily Reckoning by Charles Hugh Smith (not online yet) puts it succinctly: The spear in AI’s back is the American…
Read MoreSeeing Assumptions As Assumptions Reveals The Truth
The Swagger #26 — Tuesday Truth With Low-Carb Opening Acts Good morning from a rainy day in Pattaya. It’s about time. Stuff needed cooling down, plus a steam cleaning and rinse. And so it begins. The first real rain in months leading to what’s unimaginatively called the rainy season…though in these particular parts, it’s not…
Read MoreNo-Pill #64 Three Segments of Romantic Love
The Triad of Romance: Foundations, Dynamics, and Potential – The Unseen Power of Philosophical Alignment No-Pill #63 Romantic-Love Standards No-Pill #65 Two Types of Romantic-Love Relationships “Delve into the core mechanics of a romantic relationship. Learn about the essential role of shared fundamental values, understanding man-woman dynamics, and envisioning a shared future. Discover how philosophical…...
The Swagger #25 — Sunday Random and Fun (mostly) Edition
That kinda mood day Greetings from the Land of Smiles, and I have one. I’ll get to that. I had a bunch of choices to cover today with the typical many tabs open in my browser. Then I just decided to put it all on hold and do a random stream of consciousness about various…
Read MoreEww Gut Bugs Chapter 5 — Our Microbiome Evolution Through the Last 12,000 Years
Chapter 4 Chapter 6 [11,000 words, 91 footnotes] SUMMARY As we journey through the annals of human history in this chapter, we unravel how our gut microbiome has evolved—or devolved—over the course of 12,000 years. From the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers adapting to post-Ice Age life to modern-day humans grappling with technology’s double-edged sword, each era sheds…...
No-Pill #63 Romantic-Love Standards
The Unapologetic Pursuit of Self-Defined Love: Defying Societal Standards for a Passionate Partnership No-Pill #62 Romantic Love, Freedom, and the DTC Technique No-Pill #64 Three Segments of Romantic Love Unchain yourself from societal expectations and find profound love rooted in mutual growth. Discover how discipline, thought, and control can guide you towards a thriving romantic…...
Current Political Events in the Western Civilization Clown-Car World
The Swagger #24 — Thursday Rage Against, and a Wake-up Call Just Doin’ Yer Job Isn’t Enough Western Civilization is in shambles and continues to crumble. Its people are in chains of their own making…of complacency and distraction. Contrary to obvious appearances, your governments are anything but inept. They’re not fools. They’re cowardly pragmatists looking…
Read MoreThe Story of My Passion for Frequent Gym Training
A Special The Swagger #23 — Wednesday Hey Because Amazing Story Time It dawned on me in the pool today. Yesterday, I published here at FreeTheAnimal and at The Swagger that I’d revamped my stab at a workout manual all my own, now Full-Body High-Frequency For-Life and whereas I got almost zero interest on the…
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