Fallen angel, answering my own questions
Tuesday, March 15 2022. 50 Minutes past 5:00 After several months of not writing here, I feel the need to contribute to this story due to several preoccupations. The most pressing, even if it's self-indulgent, is saying goodbye to Natasha. And then there is the lesson of the value of honesty to romantic relationships The last [...]
A quick meditation on the dangers of misused, out of context quotes. the Devil’s favourite quote.
Since I'm on the topic of happiness, I want to share old motivational blurbs I found while going through old material. The first one resides in the Love's Dialogue Facebook group, and the second one in a personal post. Both reflect times when my mortal form needed to rediscover happiness and mindfulness. Rediscovering happiness Sunday [...]
On my daily worries about social issues, I happened upon the idea of generational conflict and happiness and how it affects the acceptance of misinformation, and therefore, social well-being. And while the current generation lacks accountability for their shortcomings, much of their failure is on their parents. What would Hitchens say about all the nonsense [...]
As the Devil, I choose to live up to my mission statement of opposition and dissidence. There is no topic taboo enough and nothing is beyond reproach. And the failures of positive psychology are no sacred cow. And while the fundamental intentions of this movement are, as its name implies -- positive -- their more [...]
On the Need for Love and Desire Saturday, April 11th of 2015. 11 minutes after 3:00 pm I see most emotions as hindrances to logically productive lives. Even within the vice of subjectivity, all we need to thrive as a society are what I used to call (and may get into the habit again) the [...]
"What need is there to weep over parts of life, the whole of it calls for tears." -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca Today I have been reminded that anger and frustration are irrational responses to betrayed expectations. With any luck, your lives will be free from suffering and the "bad" things that occur naturally in this [...]
My human form, a man some of you have come to know as Peyton Dracco or other names depending on where you met him, is a bit of a problem. He tends to follow troublesome avenues and to manufacture experiences that appear like fantasies to the ordinary mind. Being featured in books, especially one titled A Fantastic Sex [...]
While some humans argue that it's not even a word, the term Positivity attracts considerable attention in the English-speaking world and other planes of existence. It is however an essential part of the pursuit of happiness. People swear by it. They invoke its power whenever the topics of personal-development and mental health come up in conversation. [...]
Let's play a little game involving secret codes. This one is simple, and intended to show you how important these games are to the development of better thinking and problem solving skills. Our game results from a lovely conversation with some of my friends in the underworld. People who have spent their lives understanding secrecy [...]