Matty

If it's good enough for Oscar Wilde it's good enough for me.

I feel like what I was trying to get in touch with in the Church is present in anarchism - a belief in tenderness, beauty, and order.

The article was published in April 1923, the last year of her life, in Josei Kaizô, a feminist journal, and was titled "Jiko o Ikasu koto no Kôfuku" - Raddeker translated it "The Happiness of Revivifying the Ego" but another source suggests "The Happiness of Self-Realization" or "The Happiness of Making the Most of Oneself"

If it's good enough for Oscar Wilde it's good enough for me.

had a hospital stay which caused me to miss an entire week of work. Money's going to be tight for a while, anything helps: Venmo - Matt-Thomas-316 Cashapp - $MattyTWV Paypal - MattyTWV

Got two notifications in a row from people *requesting* money on CashApp. Please be careful of that if you're trying to send.

There are similarities between Stirnerian egoism, Epicureanism, and Buddhism in that all three advocate self-enjoyment and a kind of detachment, ataraxia or "middle way" between indulgence and self-denial. The ataraxic dimension of egoism is often overlooked, I think because of Stirner's often provocative or melodramatic tone. But Stirner recommended avoiding fanaticism, monomania, or letting one's passions and appetites get the better of them. Tsuji Jun notably combined Buddhist, Epicurean, and Stirnerian influences, though his frequent overindulgence in sex and alcohol show that he didn't entirely take Epicurus's advice to heart.

“The only innocent feature in babies is the weakness of their frames; the minds of infants are far from innocent. I have watched and experienced for myself the jealousy of a small child: he could not even speak, yet he glared with livid fury at his fellow-nursling.” - Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

First boy I ever slept with - I was 17, he was 25 - tried to rape me one night while we were spending the night together. I ended up having to physically pick him up and throw him on the floor, and after that he never tried anything like that again. We were always perfectly cordial after that - he apologized to me and I thought, well, we all go a little mad sometimes, but now when I'm thinking about that I'm wondering if that shouldn't have been a bigger deal to me.

He's got severe, apparently untreated, schizophrenia and usually when I hear from him now it's to complain about his gangstalkers or the surveillance devices that have been implanted into his body.