If there’s one thing that I hate about large supermarket chains — and there isn’t, but let’s just narrow it down to one for the sake of simplicity — it’s that despite all their efforts to persuade us of the contrary, they just can’t help but act dishonestly.
Fagin working on this week's Price Knockdowns
One whole zilch!
Given that the illusion of continuity is key to the emergence of Self, what can be done with this knowledge? Does it provide us with any useful insight at all, or simply demoralise us with the knowledge that we are not a single Self, but an amalgamation of selves that rise and fall on a daily timeframe?
Carrying a Zen-like awareness of the illusion of Self, while practicing the expected social activities of a human.
Ever since I saw the movie adaptation of The Watchman, I’ve felt renewed love for Dylan’s whiny 1960s anthem about the social and political upheaval that was centered around that decade. There are moments in our history which simply cannot be repeated; moments that could only be made possible my a multitude of events conspiring to occur at exactly that precise period in time.
Brendan Francis Behan (9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964)
Jean-Louis “Jack” Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969)
James Douglas “Jim” Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971)
Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973)
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995)
J. S. Allen (27 May 1978 – TBA)
