Olive989's definitions
An asthmatic baby dragon that wheezes small puffs of fire. Just wants to make friends, but ends up accidently burning stuff down, when he forgets his inhaler. The last time was at a furniture store. His friend was really looking forward to that sofa set. It was so soft before it was crispy.
Puff the magic dragon is seriously over having asthma.
Puff the magic dragon wishes he got his name listening to Bob Marley and smoking a bowl instead. He thinks that sounds nice.
Puff the magic dragon wishes he got his name listening to Bob Marley and smoking a bowl instead. He thinks that sounds nice.
by Olive989 March 1, 2023
Get the Puff the Magic Dragonmug. (1.) The pursuit we owe to ourselves and the world.
Everyone is a prisoner of something. Current physical circumstances. Past trauma. A limit of belief or imagination. An insecurity. A lie we believe. A truth we ignore. A fear of failure. A voice in our heads that dictates what we can and cannot do. Expectations of family or society. Disability. Chronic Illness. Addiction. Grief. Shame. A general world weariness or exhaustion. A locked idea that the world we've known is the only world there is, or ever could be.
We praise the P.O.W. who escapes an enemy/internment camp. We praise the addict who escapes their addiction and chooses sobriety. But in so many other contexts escape is considered juvenile, a product of weakness or immaturity. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
(2.) To imagine something better for yourself or the world in a fictional setting, until you have the courage or ability to make it real.
No P.O.W. escapes an internment camp without imagining a vision of freedom powerful enough it spits in the face of their current tortured and starved reality. Equally so, an addict who imagines a reality in which they are sober, is often imagining something they think is impossible.
Escape gives us permission to think limitlessly, even when we think everything in our life limits us. Because it doesn't ask what's likely or possible, or what the odds are. It just asks, "What would your reality look like if you had it your Way?"
Everyone is a prisoner of something. Current physical circumstances. Past trauma. A limit of belief or imagination. An insecurity. A lie we believe. A truth we ignore. A fear of failure. A voice in our heads that dictates what we can and cannot do. Expectations of family or society. Disability. Chronic Illness. Addiction. Grief. Shame. A general world weariness or exhaustion. A locked idea that the world we've known is the only world there is, or ever could be.
We praise the P.O.W. who escapes an enemy/internment camp. We praise the addict who escapes their addiction and chooses sobriety. But in so many other contexts escape is considered juvenile, a product of weakness or immaturity. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
(2.) To imagine something better for yourself or the world in a fictional setting, until you have the courage or ability to make it real.
No P.O.W. escapes an internment camp without imagining a vision of freedom powerful enough it spits in the face of their current tortured and starved reality. Equally so, an addict who imagines a reality in which they are sober, is often imagining something they think is impossible.
Escape gives us permission to think limitlessly, even when we think everything in our life limits us. Because it doesn't ask what's likely or possible, or what the odds are. It just asks, "What would your reality look like if you had it your Way?"
Nobody who ever dared to dream the impossible, and made it real, started off thinking it could happen.
Escape is the birthplace of the things we dare to dream.
Escape is the birthplace of the things we dare to dream.
by Olive989 March 9, 2023
Get the Escapemug. The burden of human consciousness.
Thoughts come in a whole universe of flavors. But most of the words that categorize thought end in either"tion" or "sion".
Some tion/sion examples:
Rumination, premeditation, hesitation, deliberation, consideration, obsession, contemplation, compulsion, conception, introspection, repression, categorization, recognition, reconfiguration, Memorization,
Other: Fantasize, daydream, equating, misconstrue,
Thoughts come in a whole universe of flavors. But most of the words that categorize thought end in either"tion" or "sion".
Some tion/sion examples:
Rumination, premeditation, hesitation, deliberation, consideration, obsession, contemplation, compulsion, conception, introspection, repression, categorization, recognition, reconfiguration, Memorization,
Other: Fantasize, daydream, equating, misconstrue,
Thought can be enjoyable if you've got something to do. Other times I wish I could shut the whole process off.
by Olive989 March 13, 2023
Get the Thoughtmug. A term for what motivates a keyboard warrior (or moral grandstanding in general.)
Morality or ethics isn't the point. Genuine concern for the issue they're talking about, isn't the point. And social status/clout, doesn't quite cover their motivations either. Because this is a very specific kind of affirmation seeking.
People who are righteous indignation junkies today, are basically like a modern representation of the Salem Witch Trial crew...They've just exchanged their pitch forks for keyboards, and stake kindle for declarations of hardline"wokeness".
Just as some hivemind Salem dipshits, got a dopamine/neuroepinephrine rush, burning people at the stake back in the day (because they thought their actions were on the side of the angels)...Today's righteous indignation junkies are motivated by a similar chemical cocktail.
It's just that torture and public executions aren't a common pastime anymore, so that thirst for blood had to get a post-modern rebranding. That's what today's insincere moral outrage essentially is. Blood thirstiness channelled into a more socially acceptable package.
Morality or ethics isn't the point. Genuine concern for the issue they're talking about, isn't the point. And social status/clout, doesn't quite cover their motivations either. Because this is a very specific kind of affirmation seeking.
People who are righteous indignation junkies today, are basically like a modern representation of the Salem Witch Trial crew...They've just exchanged their pitch forks for keyboards, and stake kindle for declarations of hardline"wokeness".
Just as some hivemind Salem dipshits, got a dopamine/neuroepinephrine rush, burning people at the stake back in the day (because they thought their actions were on the side of the angels)...Today's righteous indignation junkies are motivated by a similar chemical cocktail.
It's just that torture and public executions aren't a common pastime anymore, so that thirst for blood had to get a post-modern rebranding. That's what today's insincere moral outrage essentially is. Blood thirstiness channelled into a more socially acceptable package.
Have you ever come across someone who appears to constantly jump on the bandwagon of angry editorial headlines, without really knowing or caring about the topic at hand? Do all their posts have a tone of righteous indignation? Do they never talk about things that might improve a social issue (or things that are currently being done)? Does it appear like critical thinking is a foreign country in their brain? And everything they say is motivated by wanting to feel righteously indignant?
That's a righteous indignation junkie.
That's a righteous indignation junkie.
by Olive989 March 25, 2023
Get the Righteous Indignation Junkiemug. by Olive989 January 14, 2021
Get the Davemug. I think it's interesting we chose popcorn as our food of entertainment, when it's the only food we've got that purposefully explodes over and over again. Especially when it's made old fashioned style, on a stove with a clear lid....It's like watching corn fireworks.
by Olive989 March 8, 2023
Get the Corn Fireworksmug. (1.) A path previously laid out by someone else, to arrive at a destination or goal.
(Can be either physical or existential, literal or metaphorical).
(2.) A metaphor for the journey of the life, death, or existence in general.
(3.) A point of access, connection or intersection, in a larger system. (Can refer to the structure of actual roadways, or anything that resembles that structure…(like veins/arteries in the human body, or the branches/roots of a tree).
(4.) A particular method or approach, to learning or doing something.
(Can be either physical or existential, literal or metaphorical).
(2.) A metaphor for the journey of the life, death, or existence in general.
(3.) A point of access, connection or intersection, in a larger system. (Can refer to the structure of actual roadways, or anything that resembles that structure…(like veins/arteries in the human body, or the branches/roots of a tree).
(4.) A particular method or approach, to learning or doing something.
(1.) If you take the strictest definition of road vs. street…A street is supposed to imply buildings and addresses, either public or private. And a road is supposed to emphasize a means of travel.
(This gets kind of confusing and weird when you consider people live on both streets and roads. However, you’ll notice a highway is never called a street. It’s always a road.)
(2.) The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
(3.) Veins are like the local roads of the human body. Arteries are like major highways. And blood vessels are like small residential streets.
(4.) (A.) The road to Michael’s heart, is his stomach. Better work on that Lasagna.
(B.) The road to learning, isn’t the same for anybody. The most effective teachers tap into their students’ individual motivations and learning styles.
(This gets kind of confusing and weird when you consider people live on both streets and roads. However, you’ll notice a highway is never called a street. It’s always a road.)
(2.) The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
(3.) Veins are like the local roads of the human body. Arteries are like major highways. And blood vessels are like small residential streets.
(4.) (A.) The road to Michael’s heart, is his stomach. Better work on that Lasagna.
(B.) The road to learning, isn’t the same for anybody. The most effective teachers tap into their students’ individual motivations and learning styles.
by Olive989 April 1, 2023
Get the Roadmug.