The Closest To God – 10th May 2026

Inspired by Why did Nietzsche encourage cruelty? by Elyja on medium.com.
The quote in the last line is from Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground.

Are we cruel?
Is it divine?

Will you share this long, tortured road with me?

Gather to enjoy the lopping of heads
– a terrible show not to be missed.

The Gods have never been soft;
yet we see ourselves as more humane,

and search for new entertainments.

Turning the sword inwards,
towards the shadow formed

with nowhere else to go.

A self-manufactured torture chamber.
A slow strangulation of the anxious beast,
made ‘into real positive delight.’


Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Don’t Be Inspired, Be Inspirational

Lost in a gaze of wonderment
How inspired may you be?
Emulate, imitate the virtues
To animate your esprit

No Rest – 9th October 2022

After death, you are put into a room
With a TV and some snacks
You will watch your whole life replayed
Perhaps to reflect on what it lacks
A minute-by-minute repeat
To observe each success and mistake
You may pause at any point
It’s a long time and you’ll need a break
After a lifetime looking back
You will be born to the world again
Taking the wisdom learned
Which the gods tried to explain


The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Today I’m feeling:
Happy and calm
Today I’m grateful for:
The man selling coconut water and pandan smoothies. Damn, they are delicious!
The best thing about today was:
Another long ass bike ride around the area I had discovered a couple of days ago. Google Maps lead me nicely astray again and I’ll have to wash my shoes yet again…

I took this picture because P’ti was squashed up against the window like this at Utopia this morning. So cute.

The Curse – 5th March 2022

My body is a time machine
My brain, it’s brain, it’s enemy
Fighting against itself
Today is another step in time
A footprint in the snow
Disappeared in its melt
Yesterday, or nineteen seventy-nine
A heartbeat never remembered
A breath never recalled
The curse of conscious man


A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A pleasant day with coffee, cats, some weeding, some reading. I was pleasantly surprised to get a couple of hundred dollars from Bandcamp sales and now thinking about what to spend that on!

I talked with Hayden for 45 minutes about this, that and the other. He sounded pretty good, considering he has Covid. Just a little throaty cough.

I finished watching Trailer Park Boys and feel a little disconsolate that there’s no more. It’s easy to like the, somewhat detestable characters because they have a never-give-up attitude and always display their love for each other, through thick and thin. It’s interesting to consider their virtues/values hold them together, whilst others, of a supposed higher morality, often act quite the opposite, despite the words that come out of their mouths.

Amy was happy to be around her friends there today, comparing their positive attitudes with her childhood friends here. She feels much more connected in Australia. Her friends don’t do much to help themselves, in constant struggle and believing in prayers, temples and fortune will arrive if they just do nothing a little harder! We sigh.