I am rarely disappointed. Here's one randomly-selected post and quote from it:
"I believe we are meaning-seeking creatures, and these feelings of meaning, relational and connective, are almost always located within kindness. Kindness is the force that draws us together, and this, Beau, is what I think I am trying to say â that despite our collective state of loss, and our potential for evil, there exists a great network of goodness, knitted together by countless everyday human kindnesses.
These often small, seemingly inconsequential acts of kindness, that Soviet writer Vasily Grossman calls âpetty, thoughtless kindnessâ, or âunwitnessed kindnessâ bind together to create a subterranean and vanquishing Good that counterbalances the forces of evil and prevents suffering from overwhelming the world. We reach out and find each other in the common darkness. By doing so we triumph over our collective and personal loss. Through kindness we slant, shockingly and miraculously, toward meaning. We discover, in that smallest gesture of goodwill laid at the feet of our mutual and monumental loss, âthe pointâ.
Love, Nick"
Please never give up hope in humanity! The "unwitnessed kindnesses" that Nick refers to not only demonstrate care, but also manifest a kind of love within us that is bigger than religion. When I think about "God," I think about our capacity for that love. That to me IS God. â¤ď¸
Mar 24, 2025
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ephemeral. liquid, even. an infinite thread. (i know thatâs three words/phrases sorry). but to me this idea is present as a unifying force in fleeting moments
iâve always had the freedom growing up to explore religion on my own terms, and i always felt like there was some uniting force in the makeup of our souls, even if it didnât mirror the masculinized, christian God.
i feel connected to this force whenever i learn about people in history and realize they werent much different than us in the modern day. we just had different cultural contexts.
every time the season changes.
when youâre with someone you really care about and even silence suffices.
in the same vein, making friends. like that feeling when you meet someone and connect and know you want them to be in your lives for a while. fate is God to me. as is chance encounters.
when i take walks in nature and i can hear the river and the trees and the birds calling all at once.
even when youâre in line at a store and you make brief small talk or have a connection with a stranger. especially when you get a little laugh or smile out of it.
overall, when i feel really connected with humanity and the earth as a whole. i feel like all organized and not-so-organized religion stems from the same place in our hearts and souls (despite these messages sometimes becoming warped and misused).
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hereâs are some of my favourite quotes from media that align in my mind
âBut loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isnât everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?â from before sunrise is so true but i also think that so much of what we do in our lives is to be seen or really heard
âFirst we only want to be seen, but once weâre seen, thatâs not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.â
from one of my favourite books station eleven and i also really agree cause humans want to be remembered so badly, from the things they create like art to the work they do for others, whether thatâs a selfish goal to want to be remembered for what you do for others rather than doing it out of desire to help other people i donât know but itâs interesting
âAnd anyway, we're talkin' about niceness. Not what's his name. My mammy, she was nice. I remember her. And my daddy, he was nice. I remember him. And my sister, she's nice. I'll remember her. Forever I'll remember her.â
this whole interaction from the banshees of inisherin is amazing and so beautiful. i can understand both sides i guess but niceness really is so important!!! after this Colm counters PĂĄdraic by asking him who else will remember his sisterâs and his niceness but it doesnt matter so much WHO remembers your niceness because that memory and the mark you make yourself through it will be remembered through your impact on the world
the earth will remember our ânicenessâ to one another and the beauty of the things we create like art and music and the things that are made for others to see and hear us, whether it physically lasts or even in the memories of other people, the world will remember your impact.
Mar 21, 2025
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I believe strongly that it is oneâs intentions that dictate whether or not they are âgoodâ/âbadâ. It is not actions we should base our judgement, nor achievement, but intention. A person could be completely kind and selfless with impure intention, changing the nature of their actions completely. So while I donât think itâs possible to have good intentions all the time (to be wholly altruistic), I firmly believe that it is a way in which we can judge a persons goodness. It is also a way in which i find forgiveness easy, knowing one had good intentions with bad execution is often means to just live and let die.Â
âKindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.â
-Emanuel Swedenborg
(also curiousity, a friendship dies when you stop wanting to know more about the other person, a good person offers their curiosity unwaveringly)
Mar 1, 2025
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesnât violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I canât wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! â¤ď¸
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âSongs Of a Lost Worldâ coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 đ¤
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I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
âUnwound is the best band of the â90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesnât say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasnât stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the â90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.â
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really canât say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. đ¤
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