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Scrambled cities: If you're not gonna do the work(on your soul), then you might as well work til you die

 There are two tiers in normal life. Those who are survive and those who thrive.  But nothing is a mistake in life: Nothing comes by chance. You have to prepare for it.  If you thought life was about making money and beating out the Jones's, you've lost already.  Life is: Desire for connection. All unhealthy competition is isolating. We live in an isolated-enough world already. This connection comes from a surprising place: Self-acceptance. A lot of us need to go back to the classroom. A lot of us need to take a silent breather and check in with what we need. This takes serious work. It's the real work. It relies on respect for others and self-respect.  A lot of people in the self-help community try to push the self aside: Manning up is the only side of it they see. But there are certain non-negotiables in this life. Certain things we can't cheat ourselves out of. We are not a piece of meat being acted on.    However, this is where God comes in. Some o...
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 The ice chest was full of beers that night. The beers were not for answers, they just dumbed the people down enough to think that answers were easily available. When the bright labels were there in the gloomy light, there seemed to flow new ways of seeing the world. The swells of "whoop whoop" and "hoorah" and other screams of delight pierced the thinker and the night sky and all that seemed holy like paroxysms of panic.

A soul like tissue paper cannot balance itself in these surroundings. Always there was the feeling of being caught off-guard by people whose  job it was to rattle up their victims. The chemical burns of madness that showed on his face were strange to them. He knew it must be some physical phenomenon that drove them away.

They were not built to understand the abstract. Scars that were raddled and held to the harsh UV light of peoples' radioactive person. That was what made him more eager to show a decay and brokenness that was alien to them. 

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