Author Archives: chrooth

We’ve had the same conversation a thousand times now. We ask for equality and you say we already have it. I tell you about the oppressive systems and you always respond with the same bullshit. “Yeah, well they have a … Continue reading →

I am an odd outlier, in that I never made it back to the religion I grew up with. Some don’t, but so many do.I think about that feeling I get when I recognize a scent from my deep memory, … Continue reading →

I queued into an idea a long time ago, about karma, and the nature of reincarnation. I had really beautiful thought once, that in the machinery of karma, time is irrelevant. This idea meant a lot to me, because it … Continue reading →

Imagine there are three bins, two with an infinite number of $1 bills, and one empty bin with infinite space for $1 bills. From the first bin, almost everyone you know takes one or two out and gives them to … Continue reading →

I remember asking them to teach me about sex. They recoiled and rambled off some bull shit excuse about who else’s responsibility that was, but I was forbidden to ask them yet. But they can’t talk about it, because no … Continue reading →

I have come to the darkest conclusion that we are simply not built for civilization; or rather, that civilization is not built for us. We have done ourselves the gravest disservice of allowing the development of our civilization to dramatically … Continue reading →

We’ve lost focus… Even now I am struggling to remember what I sat down to write. But I left myself a clue; “We’ve lost focus”. We suffer from a cognitive disease that is not observed because it is simply too … Continue reading →

People rely on religion to provide their life with tangible meaning. They also use it to allay their fear of not existing. Not just death. Death is an arbitrary thing when you believe that a piece of you may supersede … Continue reading →

We spend so much time in this perpetual effort to mitigate the things that cause us to suffer. And it is perpetual, never ending, unattainable and hopeless. We are all born into a vehicle with two broken wheels. The first … Continue reading →

When I was a boy, I remember hearing about this concept of world peace.  I may not have understood it entirely, but I knew it was important.  It was important enough to me that it’s always held a place in … Continue reading →