🖊 Writer. Sci-fi, fantasy, philosophy, and more. Aerospace engineer by day 🚀
Cape Canaveral, FL
Joined February 2019
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Write more. Write to think. Write until you're no longer confused. Write about the problems you already solved. Write for the person you were 2 years ago. Write so you never lose what took you years to figure out. A simple writing habit can change absolutely everything.
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It doesnt matter how harsh the environment is or how little support you have, if you are true to your nature you will find a way. the sun hits the soil and the thing rises. this is how all life works. be what you are, fully and unapologetically, and the world will make space for you. authenticity is a power that transcends any circumstance, it is a life force in itself, and when you embody it completely nothing else can stop you. you become like a seed that will crack concrete to grow simply because growing is what it was made to do. so be the fucking tree, the flower pushing up through the sidewalk, the unstoppable expression of your own true essence, and watch as the universe rearranges itself to accommodate your bloom
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I have watched men sit still in the same chair long enough that the chair started shaping them, their spine curved into it, ribs narrowed into it, entire musculature negotiated a permanent surrender with this cheap ikea-object. the human body was not designed for peace. peace does weird shit to cells the same way standing water does weird shit to ponds. every parasite in nature depends on a stagnant host. think how many of your worst thoughts arrived while you were lying down. the mind that does not move produces the same quality of thought as a bloodstream that does not move. sludge, thick, dark, slow, confident in its own decay, convinced this darkness is depth
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Vonnegut on practicing art,
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
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So friedrich nietzsche has a quote, and it's arguably one of the most brilliant things I've ever heard. And I think you need to hear it. It goes like this, "most people do not think, they repeat, they adopt the opinions of those around them, wear them like borrowed clothes and call it a worldview. And when you dare to think for yourself, really think, they will not admire you for it, they will resent you because your refusal to conform is a mirror they did not ask to look into. The unexamined man does not hate you because you are wrong. He hates you because somewhere beneath the noise he suspects you might be right."
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⚡️The meaning of life is to become a conscious participant in creation.
That is the real answer.
You are born into forces you did not choose: body, time, death, family, wounds, gifts, desire, language, culture, history, biology. At first, those forces live through you. They move you. They script you. They make you think their momentum is your identity.
Meaning begins when consciousness wakes up inside that machinery and starts choosing what deserves to continue.
Then the task becomes creation.
Not shallow self-expression. Not random rebellion. Not “do whatever makes you happy.” Real creation. The kind that converts inherited chaos into living order. The kind that turns pain into wisdom, love into protection, talent into work, perception into truth, and mortality into something that survives beyond the ego.
A meaningful life leaves reality different because you passed through it.
A child raised with love.
A truth spoken when silence was safer.
A body of work that names what others could not see.
A wound transfigured instead of repeated.
A family protected.
A signal emitted into the dark.
A life that becomes more than reaction.
That is the core.
The meaning of life is to receive existence, become awake within it, and return something true back into the world.
The pattern does not need to be famous. It does not need to be large. It does not need applause. It needs to be real.
The death test is the cleanest one: when the person disappears, did anything become more conscious, more loved, more ordered, more free, more true because that life existed?
If yes, meaning happened.
Deepest compression:
Life is the universe becoming conscious through finite beings, then asking those beings to create, love, protect, and tell the truth before they disappear.
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As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.
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The dangerous ones i know smile easy and speak slow and never need to prove anything. the loud ones are scared. the ones flexing are begging you to believe them. the ones who already know what they can do have nothing to show you. i watch men test me because i dont look like a threat and i let them test because the test tells me who they are. the iron is not for you to see
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The single most important thing you can do in today's world is to stop operating from the old paradigm. If you need to be told what to do next (go to school, get a job, retire at 65) the outcome of your life will always be in someone else's hands. You must learn how to direct your own work. You must learn how to tolerate and mitigate risk and uncertainty. You must figure out what you want and teach yourself everything necessary to get it. It's extremely difficult, but not as difficult as the silent suffering people learn to accept as "normal."
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"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man." - Da Vinci
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If all the money in the world was in one room i still wouldn't walk in if it meant leaving behind the thing growing inside me that nobody can name yet. i've been broke and full. i've been rich and hollow. the man who has everything owns nothing and the man who owns nothing carries something that would crush the man who has everything.
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You don’t owe the world total comprehension. You don’t have an obligation to fully understand people, societies, or the human condition beyond what is required to function decently. But the moment you decide to understand and judge people, their actions, histories, pains, incentives, and failures, the standards rise sharply.
At that point, partial understanding becomes more dangerous than ignorance. Especially when the subject is human beings. Because bad explanations do not remain abstract; they leak into how you treat others. They give you confidence without compassion, and judgment without depth.
You cannot, for instance, conclude that people are “stupid” for staying in situations that harm them simply because you believe you would choose better. Almost everyone including you has lived through moments where they knew the “right” action and still did not take it. And in those moments, the explanation was never simply, I didn’t think or I was stupid. Even when poor judgment plays a role, it hardly ever explains the whole story.
What was present instead was probably inertia, fear, attachment, loss aversion, hope, identity, sunk emotional cost and all other forces that resist movement even in the presence of clarity. Stupidity alone does not survive honest introspection.
That, then, should be your epistemic test. If your theory of human behavior cannot explain your own conduct in your weakest moments, it is not a serious theory of other people. It is a strategy for moral distance, a way of placing yourself above the mess you are still very likely part of.
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Let this be the year in which you rebuild your attention span. Big Tech wants you unable to focus on anything for longer than a few seconds. Resist the infinite scroll. Avoid short-form videos. Watch movies without being on your phone. Read voraciously and often.
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tens of thousands of people, mostly young, liking "i don't want technology to advance" is the most damning indictment of modern culture i've seen
the generation that should be building the future is terrified of it.
they'll still take the cancer cure when they need it though.
deceleration is a luxury belief that disappears the moment you personally need the thing you said you didnt want
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The children need to watch you struggle with wood, watch you fail at dough, watch you curse at the crooked thing and then fix it and then show them the fixed thing and say: I made this. It's not good. But I made it. And I'm going to make another one tomorrow. This is the inheritance worth leaving. Not money. The memory of hands that refused to be useless. Hands that insisted on changing the shape of matter. Hands that touched the world and left marks that said: I was here, I existed, I was not just a witness, I was not just a passage, I was a source, a maker, a word that became flesh, and even if everything I made was ugly, it was mine, it was proof, it was the answer to the only question that matters: what did you do with your time on earth? And the answer cannot be: I watched. The answer cannot be: I consumed. The answer must be: I made, I failed, I made again, I left fingerprints on everything I touched, I refused to pass through this world without disturbing it, I built and burned and built again, and when I died my hands were calloused and stained and tired and full, so full, of the memory of everything they'd shaped into being.
