I think it’s almost impossible to argue that free will exists, but I almost think it doesn’t matter. Let me explain.
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Nihilism is an appealing and seemingly brutally true philosophy. So why not sell it?
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Do you ever get ‘flat days’?
Days where you’re not really anything - you’re not exhausted or fatigued, you just sort of seem zoned out, with no major changes in energy or emotional investment.
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Nearly didn’t upload this one. I edited it and re-edited it about half a dozen times, and by that stage you’re just not sure what’s funny anymore. Thankfully, it seemed to do OK.
With something like this it’s easy to cater to lots of comedy types as you can do mixes of slapstick, bizarre, wordplay etc humour all in one.
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A sketch and some thoughts on content creation
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Lets not forget - reading is pure magic - by looking at some text from a book from thousands of years ago, I am suddenly transported inside the mind of another. It is telepathy. But while reading is the gateway to the mind of others, journaling is the gateway to your own mind.
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Why not apply athletic-training principles to artistic goals?
I make videos and write pieces and I just want them to be better. What I produce is usually far off what I envisioned. Sometimes this is inevitable and you have to move on - it is what it is - but with some ideas, you need a certain level of proficiency in the first place to even have a hope of capturing them.
I want to be a better writer. I want to be a better filmmaker, editor and so on.
So why not train for that?
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What if we made an anime opening but about real life
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Finally writing about a topic of expertise
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Lots of not-to-dos, and some legitimate to-dos
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We’re too productive. This needs to stop. Here’s how.
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This is undeniably the dumbest thing I’ve ever made
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Since my diagnosis of having an Eating Disorder and Exercise Addiction 12 months ago, I’ve made some drastic lifestyle changes. I’ve fixed large parts of my health, and increased my testosterone nearly fivefold. This is how I did it.
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Much like the rest of the world, I hope beyond hope that this moment of focus on #blacklivesmatter and police brutality will be not only a pivotal moment of change in the history of the US, but also globally.
My concern is that it will, like many of the movements of the last decade, soon fade away into the background.
What can be done about this?
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Writing a joke, if you haven’t tried to do it before, can seem like an absurd thing to do. Most people are funny by context and happenstance - to sit down, devoid of immediate social input and command your brain to “write something funny” can lead to an immediate “does not compute” feeling.
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16 year-old me had a lot of questions, and his suspicions were broadly correct
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Time to kick procrastination to the curb and do the impossible
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I’ve tried reading books, listening to audiobooks, white noise machines, meditation, fancy breathing techniques, earplugs, facemasks and many more obscure and arcane things to just reliably fall asleep, none of which worked. I now do this simple practice which does. It might work for you also.
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I don’t precisely recall when, or why, I made this decision, but it stuck with me.
In my early years I promised myself the following:
If I ever said “I love you” to anyone (in a any context - friend, family, all the flavours of love), I would mean it. Fully.
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