The Big Exit

Hi Dear Readers!

I'm initiating a HUGELY POSITIVE AND BENEFICIAL wellness challenge soon and I am humbly encouraging you to join me. It's a big one and thus I am calling it the BIG EXIT CHALLENGE.

It's a two-month wellness challenge and it has two parts: 1. From Monday November 2, 2026 through Monday January 4, 2027, I am disconnecting from the Attention Economy completely. Largely, this means no social or mainstream media (SMSM) consumption, including news curation/analysis podcasts. 2. During that time, I will instead engage in self care and wellness activities, incuding - but not limited to - reading several of the many books in my Libby cue, cooking vegan food, exercising daily, playing analog board/card games, going on dates with Deborah, practicing music, performing music, traveling to visit friends and possibly family, walking/playing with the dogs, and other positive activities I cannot think of right now.

I am aware that my disconnection from SMSM may cause me to miss important information that could impact my life. But nothing on SMSM has significantly impacted my life in a negative way, to date, though its use alone has...loss of time and productivity; a likely dip in emotional and intellectual intelligence.

The time frame was selected to coincide with the most dangerous time in America, between the Midterm Elections and the inauguration of the new US Congress at the start of the New Year. I want NO PART in any of that toxic vitriol and chaos. And you probably don't either. But you will be a part of it is you use SMSM during that time. You know the old saying about domestic abusers...the most dangerous time is when you decide to leave.

Join me in this challenge! Or, if not, at least support and encourage my participation and participate vicariously.

3 Things

Hi Dear Readers!

It's time for a wellness challenge fortnight.

Every night for the next two weeks (a fortnight), before you go to bed, write down 3 GOOD THINGS THAT HAPPENED TODAY.

Here's mine for today:

1. Completed a lengthy bike ride.

2. Got a wart burned off at the doctor's office.

3. Hit my dietary goal/quota.

A few other good things happened too. I had a vegan vanilla latte at Starbucks. I survived three brutal couples therapy sessions. I finalized a November road trip with Deborah to visit a friend and his wife.

Mt life is good. And if you participate in this challenge, yours will be too. At least for a couple weeks!

Fin.

Still Forsaking

It would appear that I have become somewhat addicted to forsaking Humanity, effectively replacing one addiction (Humanity) with another (abstinence from Humanity).

I have noticed that disenfranchising Humanity from my emotional headspace feels quite good. It has allowed me to reclaim my mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.

Do I feel bad that Humanity is off continuing to create Hell on Earth without me? Not really. My participation was not having a significant return on investment (ROI) toward creating Heaven on Earth. Humanity's exponential growth in toxic grievance, negativity, drama, vitriol, xenophobia, and bigotry was too overwhelming. So, I decided to compartmentalize and sequester Humanity away from me, in order to focus on manifesting my own positivity, joy, happiness, kindness, compassion, empathy, altruism, self care, and other good things like that.

It's been great. The main insight I have gained is that the antidote to Humanity's inevitable slide toward secular Hell is NOT to try to prevent it (that is like trying to stop a truck from rolling down a hill with your bare hands), but rather to rise above it (akin to getting TF out of the way of the truck and walking back up the hill on your own...slower, but moving in the right direction, at least). Much of Humanity is DRIVING THE TRUCK and most of the remainder are futily trying to prevent the truck from barreling down the hill too fast. The latter are somewhat successful at slowing the runaway truck. But all they can hope to do is slow its inevitable descent, not stop/reverse it. Unless most of Humanity choose to get off the truck and start pushing it back up the hill, via the aforementioned positive intentions, the descent into secular Hell is inevitable. Some could argue the truck is almost there already! But the truck pushers could still choose to stop pushing.

Eventually, the truck will crash and explode, the fireball consuming everything, including me. So, I decided to let go of the truck and radically accept its demise, so that I can focus on milking as much joy and happiness out of my remaining time as possible. I'm creating a small oasis of Heaven on Earth in my small patch of Cosmic Geography.

If anyone reading this wants to get off/out of the way of the truck too and join me, most of the forsaking can be manifested by complete abstinence from social and mainstream media (SMSM), where most of the intrusion of Humanity into your life currently happens, in this modern age. The rest is manifested by living as ethically as possible and practicing positivity, kindness, gratitude, self care, altruism, compassion, and s**t like that, without your efforts being poisoned by SMSM's toxic and negative messaging.

I also encourage directing positivity inward, as well as outward. Treat your mind, body, and soul as kindly and compassionately as possible. YOU MATTER! There are many ways to do this, but two universals are: 1. Daily aerobic exercise (typically 30+ minutes) and 2. Adhering to a whole food, plant based diet.

Fin.