The Polythróna with Hadrian Archo

Originally written: 6/20/2016 Side note: At the time, I was doing my first reading of “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius. To preserve the original text in my notebook. I will include it in this transcription of the original text. Book 11; 18, X, On behavior And one more thing from Apollo, That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It’s to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant – the act of a tyrant. Why bother making anything on your own if you can just buy it? A question asked of me today, and as a response: I say, why not? Crafting something in this day and age is now uncommon in a society that thrives on consumption. To consume is easy, to build is hard. To walk to the store, pick up your item, and then hand money over to pay for it takes minutes. To think, design, build, fail, build again, and succeed takes time and effort that simply can’t be done by shopping. Even without the spiel

Southwest has been in the news lately for a series of unfortunate events that they have been through, and they are going through a self-inflicted PR nightmare because they seem to have an issue with being honest with people. Story 1: 1000+ Flights Cancelled, it was bad weather guys! First, there was the recent sick out/vacation out or whatever you want to call it [1, 2]. The point is that Southwest’s official reasoning as to why they had approximately 1800 flights delayed or cancelled was because of weather issues [3]. However, this is completely fabricated based on a couple of points of evidence.  The FAA’s Flight Delay information – Air Traffic Control System Command Center Screencaps from the Internet Archive’s Wayback machine show that on neither October 10th, or October 11th were delays noted in Texas or Florida. See the images below:   The National Weather Service Data The National Weather Service provides hourly data that is able to be stored for up to 2 days prior to the curren

  Originally Written: 4/12/2016 Is it possible that a lot of the mental health problems seen today are a result of the increasing complexity of the self? To make it clearer, do people feel or become less in touch with themselves simply because psychology and the culture of self-help has made the self harder to be in touch with by adding a gross amount of unnecessary complexity? Think about it, if simplifying problems make them easier to solve, then simplifying oneself should make it easier to fix oneself. It should support both the point of the blissful idiot who knows nothing and the sage who has devoted his life to a single frame of thought and self-characterization. 2021 Additions: It seems that I was on to something back then when I first started journaling. I think this random thought finds more support as we continue in the American narrative. For example, we can easily understand that at least 2 major points of the self used to be given the moment someone was born. The first was

  Introduction As the push for vaccination attempts to accelerate in the United States due a recent onslaught of mandates from the Biden Administration, many around the web are struggling to find advice for how to approach mandates at their place of work, and more importantly, how to get around it using exemptions.  Be reminded that approximately 40% of the U.S. population remains unvaccinated as of the time of this writing [1]. Therefore, I have a written document in the links below that some of you may find helpful.  I also have a list of links gathered by myself and by a Brazilian collaborator containing various information we have found helpful. My hope is that someone finds some real utility in this post. Disclaimer: I am not a legal scholar. Take all advice at your own risk, but know that I stand by everything that I have written in the document below. I also had a difficulty finding information that is relevant for non-Christians in the US. If you have information for non-Christ