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Category: Joss Sheldon

For real men serve their country with random acts of kindness, not vicious acts of violence. And real soldiers have one duty, and one duty only; they have a duty to mutiny!

anti-war, jesus, mutiny, soldiers, war

Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.

addiction, comfort, comfortable, depression, drugs, intoxication, kill, nirvana, suicidal-thoughts, suicide

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.

convincing, creature, imaginary-friends, imaginary-voices, mental-disorder, mental-illness, psychology, psychology-of-self, suggested

My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren’t prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.

acknowledgement, good-parents, individual-needs, parenting, parents, psychology, respectable, special-needs

I learned how to argue. They called it ‘Debate’. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.But I didn’t learn anything practical, like how to purify water, build a home, start a fire, grow food, or survive without the help of corporations.

education, educational-philosophy, indoctrination, indoctrination-quotes, university

No thanky-you; you can’t overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.

conscientious-objector, defence, quote, tribunal, ww1

Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.

addiction, comfort, comfortable, depression, drugs, intoxication, kill, nirvana, suicidal-thoughts, suicide

My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren’t prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.

acknowledgement, good-parents, individual-needs, parenting, parents, psychology, respectable, special-needs

The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.

convincing, creature, imaginary-friends, imaginary-voices, mental-disorder, mental-illness, psychology, psychology-of-self, suggested

No thanky-you; you can’t overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.

conscientious-objector, defence, quote, tribunal, ww1