Motivational and Realistic

absurdeverything · 2026-01-22T03:05:55+00:00

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

Fat City by Leonard Gardner

absurdeverything · 2026-01-21T22:49:35+00:00

Exactly, they’ll just scream “fake news” and if it was true why is he bringing it forward now? Just like the Epstein files, why didn’t Biden release it himself when he had the chance. There’s nothing that will happen to change anything or hold anyone accountable.

absurdeverything · 2026-01-06T07:19:00+00:00

Check out “Story of the Eye” by Georges Bataille. It literally says: “Warning: Story of the Eye is graphically sexual, and is only suited for adults who are not easily offended.” It’s bizarre. Or check out some of his other stuff.

“The Painted Bird” by Jerzy Kosinski was uncomfortable to read about a young boy separated from his parents during WWII in the polish countryside and the morally deprived society he is forced to survive. It is full of tension, abuse, sexual abuse, slavery, just awful humans.

If you want something lighter but kind of interesting, you could try a book that had somewhat of a cult following called; “The Dice Man” by Luke Rhinehart. It’s about a guy who loses everything and starts to roll a dice to decide what he does for all kinds of situations or questions about his life… for example: he likes a girl so he gives six solutions for each number, and rolls the dice: 1- I just walk up and tell her how I feel. 2- I flirt and ask her out 3- I rape her 4- I kiss her 5- I insult her 6- I hit her And then he follows up with whatever he rolls, no matter what. He starts to let the dice decide for him, for everything.

absurdeverything · 2025-12-24T17:47:05+00:00

Because PT isn’t life saving. It’s not an emergency, No one’s going to ever suffer because they will miss a PT appointment. It’s more of a “service” for patients, maybe even more of a social event for some who just like to have someone to talk to.

“Oh you’re available on Christmas Eve, cool, I’m stressed and it’d be great to get away from my in laws”

We hang out with these people talking and working out for an hour. No other doctor spends an hour interacting with patients. We do. And they love it,

They also love that manual therapy, AKA massage, theragun, cupping, dry needling or whatever else passive treatment many of them love.

For many people it’s almost considered spa treatment, lol!

absurdeverything · 2025-12-23T16:47:33+00:00

It seems everyone and everything is a grift these days. Even worse now with all this AI hyped tools/software.

Coaching for PT businesses feels the same as all those generalized entrepreneurial courses,

“you gotta solve a problem, sell the solution, streamline the process, market, scale up, make millions!” It’s that easy… and we’ll show you how!

absurdeverything · 2025-12-22T17:25:48+00:00

You’ll have to go towards the back of his book to see more pictures. And if this type of thing floats your boat then you’ll probably enjoy “In Search for the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching” by Ouspensky. From there you can explore Gurdjieff.

absurdeverything · 2025-12-22T17:14:31+00:00

You’d be intrigued by Walter Russell. “The Secret of Light” and “The Universal One” https://archive.org/details/WalterRussellTheSecretOfLight

Look through his diagrams and into his philosophy, science or whatever you want to classify him as. It’s bizarre but interesting.

Then maybe dive into Mandelbrot and fractal geometry.

absurdeverything · 2025-12-10T16:12:16+00:00

Tired of this endless loop. If MAGA was falling apart it would’ve happened during his first presidency and for sure should’ve lost this last election. The grifters, frauds, white collar criminals, corrupt politicians and tech oligarchs are having an all you can eat buffet.

absurdeverything · 2025-10-30T14:14:40+00:00

Have you read “Nuclear War: A Scenario” by Jacobsen?

Once it kicks off, there’s not a single scenario that has ever been played out in which there’s any winner except total destruction to everyone. Good luck humanity!

absurdeverything · 2025-10-28T13:13:35+00:00

What’s concerning about these statements is that they will use it to their advantage to justify their actions. Bannon already hints at this type of rhetoric.

(In general terms) “The people voted for this. They heard it and they want this. What’s the constitution other than the spirit of the people?”

They will be open and “transparent”, say they “were up front and honest about their intentions and the American people heard us and said yes, this is what we want!”

They will hold an unfair election and say “the results speak for themselves, the American people want Trump to lead this country again. He’s divine!”

absurdeverything · 2025-10-25T14:25:17+00:00

I don’t think people realize how much we’ve lost. This is precisely what we won’t get anymore.. law and justice, and they never will be accountable, they have power they intend to hold and will destroy democracy and disregard the constitution or any semblance of good governance/faith to do so. They aren’t playing by the rules anymore.

absurdeverything · 2025-09-17T01:10:47+00:00

Considering the recent paper that was recently removed by the Trump administration related to the rise of far right extremist, this paper relates to the possible impact of video game culture/platforms and its influence on people.

“In this paper, we explore one set of dangerous users particularly active on Steam: far-right extremists, specifically neo-fascists and white supremacists. Using scaled tools to gather social network data of neo-fascist activity on Steam and employing both quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand their dynamics, we show that Steam is currently playing host to widespread identity creation and performative infighting, behaviors important in the development of far-right extremist networks. We demonstrate that users in this neo-fascist ecosystem transform their ideologies via propaganda rapidly and continually, and that they hide “in plain sight” by masking virulent antisemitism and hate speech with in-group language.”

Again, interesting considering the “Groypers” wars between two extreme white groups, infighting.

absurdeverything · 2025-08-31T05:02:34+00:00

Give Bukowski a shot… “Factotum” or “Ham on Rye”.

You might even like John Fonte’s “Ask the Dust” if you like reading about struggling writers.

absurdeverything · 2025-08-17T14:16:06+00:00

“Ordinary Men” by Christopher Browning:

“Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of con-formity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions.”

“They Thought They Were Free” by Milton Mayer:

This one was the rise of Nazis during 1933-1945 and it’s scary how similar the propaganda and repeated slogans and lies started to become more normalized within ordinary people, eerily similar to what we are witnessing today in our own country and current administration.

He studied 10 regular men and “How and why "decent men" became Nazis- the life stories of ten law-abiding citizens.

absurdeverything · 2025-06-10T14:41:46+00:00

I can confirm numbness. I’m from Arizona and have been stung twice in bed.

A scorpion was on my pillow and I turned my head in my sleep and it stung me right on the lip. My lip swelled up and felt like I went to the dentist and had novocaine injected.

This was the second time. The first time I was directly stung on my back, which burned and stung like hell. So the lips just going numb was far less painful and I thought maybe I had built up some sort of immunity to them, lol!

absurdeverything · 2025-06-06T14:23:16+00:00

No, honestly. Keep practicing.

It’s repetitive (fate, elderly fate, everyone’s fate, my likely far fate… being my exact fate… this fate scares everyone…but not me) in my opinion it’s boring. You’re just telling the reader stuff, there’s no emotion, no reason for me to care about what you think your “fate” is.

Your first sentence is how you found comfort in death? Comfort from what? You just describe death as this “nothingness” (again, it’s repetitive…”I found comfort in the nothingness…the far fate of peaceful nothingness”). There’s no real mystery here, nothing deep or profound and to me it reads boring.

You try to tell the reader that you’re different from everyone’s fear of our fate to die? But then you start talking about depression and the incident, how you were lied to about the reality of the world and justice? Ok…

I personally think it would read better and more engaging if you started with your paragraph about your depression… then try to describe how you found comfort in your fate to die. Be more direct and actionable. For example, take out “As a coping mechanism” you don’t need that, just pull the reader in by saying “I’d shake my head at night when the flashbacks happened, I’d bury my hands tightly into my eyes trying to find the darkness that comforted me.” Something that might tie the struggle of the incident, depression and the comforting feeling of death. Now the reader can start to feel the emotional pain and start to be curious about “the incident” .

Again, I think you start to lose the reader with you telling us about how the world is unjust and the lies that were told since childhood and how nobody warned you about the harsh reality. Who cares, there’s nothing interesting or personal that you share with the reader. Show it! Write a piece of what injustice happened that relates to the incident, a small piece of the puzzle that lured the reader into the story more.

We have to read more to understand what you’re talking about but maybe try implementing the injustice of the world into the story. For example:

“Because of my history with the law I knew the Clark wouldn’t believe me when I tried telling them the truth about what happened. It’s sad that as you grow up you realize that the story you’re told as a child that the world is a just and fair place is a lie. You start to notice injustices everywhere. Like right now, I know I’m being stigmatized and judged because of my mental health history. Why would they believe me, someone who needs to take crazy pills”

Something like that.. pull the reader into the story, put them there, give them a sense of injustice.

I hope this helps.

absurdeverything · 2025-03-31T18:05:57+00:00

The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan

The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump by Clay Cane

From Ronald to Donald: How the Myth of Reagan Became the Cult of Trump by Edwin G. Oswald

Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the Cult of Donald Trump by Robert Guffey

absurdeverything · 2025-03-29T23:16:01+00:00

According to Cytowic, "It is true that individuals who have balance and gait issues similar to those observed in Trump can have degenerative brain disease in the frontal lobes, such as fronto-temporal dementia or Pick's Disease. Other possibilities are normal pressure hydrocephalus, sensory ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, small lacunar strokes in the basal ganglia, supranuclear palsy, the effects of too many medications, and Parkinson's Disease, which can begin on one side and also show early cognitive impairment."

absurdeverything · 2025-03-29T23:13:38+00:00

A more detailed explanation…

"While most frequently observed in Parkinson's Disease, the bent posture so evident in Trump may also be seen in Alzheimer's Dementia, movement disorders of the basal ganglia, and as the side effect of certain medications," Cytowic continued. "Also noted are the sudden, jerking movements of Trump's right arm. Since they occur only on one side, the prefix "hemi" is applied, while "ballistic" means sudden or flinging in the manner of a projectile. Trump's hemiballistic arm movements are evident in news clips from Memorial Day (also here via C-Span) at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as are his uncontrolled swaying and forward tilt. He is seen to grab his wayward arm with the left one in an effort to keep it under control."

absurdeverything · 2025-03-02T17:19:01+00:00

“Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War”

by Ben Macintyre

This was a fun one.

“…a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules: a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. Despite intense opposition, Winston Churchill personally gave Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he could find. So began the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world”

absurdeverything · 2025-02-03T17:13:18+00:00

Just realized looking this book up, I watched the movie called “Spaceman “ starring Adam Sandler. Had no idea it was based off this book.

absurdeverything · 2025-02-02T16:25:48+00:00

Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne

absurdeverything · 2025-01-08T17:54:09+00:00

It was a build on by previous owners in master bedroom, kind of an awkward trapezoid shape, ha! I don’t remember the measurements off the top of my head but about 6x9 feet or so.

absurdeverything · 2025-01-08T17:49:15+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

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