kingtycoon | "Training For Life"

Alright?

So the opening thing here - where there's a woman, who is in the Guinness book for some unstated achievement - that just seems a non-sequitur. Now she has to raise her special needs child and oh boy is that really hard. I mean, compared to what? I don't know. My child has regular(ish) needs and it's not exactly easy to raise her. Well, except it is, it's easy to raise children because of love. I guess some people love running in marathons - and so that shit is easy for them.

This thing is all silly - I mean, it's got all these popped out quotes, secondary themes - it's a formatting nightmare with all kinds of extraneous distraction - which I find to be a shame - here in particular because this is really interesting conceptually in a spiritual sense.

So the thesis that I have concerning matters of this sort may be relevant? There's an assumption that there is or is not a soul - there are binary assumptions - people will say without question that there is such a thing as a soul or that there is not - and in either case there is only one default position - if there are souls then people have them. If there are no souls then people cannot have them.

My experience and, what I suppose could be called my ideology, say that people generally do not have souls, that there is probably no such thing - but that non-existent things can achieve existence by effort. So: 1) People probably don't have souls. 2) Souls are an idea about identity & consciousness existing outside of physiology. 3) Other ideas have been made into real things. 4) I will make myself a soul.

So... Yes, if you are curious about my... I guess magical praxis? The idea is to fashion a soul - at least a part of it is that. A significant part. Anyhow - these kinds of efforts are in fact effortful & do demand attention & interest, it's necessary to labor with authentic intensity and a final goal in mind - running just to run is silly. Boxing air is a waste of time.

I do like that this is Paul's letter to Corinth - that these messages about Running and Wrestling - that they'd go over well with people accustomed to Olympics - that's interesting. The contemporary pastor with baseball metaphors & so on.

Anyhow - sure, the effortful pursuit of aims is a nice thing to consider from day to day right? Fine.

What happened otherwise is this - I was riding somewhere with my mother last night - after we had dinner together - and she always listens to the Xtian radio - it's pretty fucking crazy! Like- Super Crazy the shit that is said. After a while I had to turn it off in disgust and she was hurt - but I had to say something because there were these dudes who posed as scholars - like - they were giving off all their accolades & telling of their educations - they had the nerve to pretend to be PhDs and so on and then they talked about exactly the thing I looked at the day before - this bit about the perpetuity of the kingdom of David. I got all mad and was super angry that these charlatans are basically running this medicine show on the radio to trick my poor old mother into giving them money. She promised that she wouldn't - but Fuck. It's really hard to see just how wicked the practitioners of American Protestantism are. They're like villainous caricatures.