Michael Holme
The paradox Colin Jellicoe shared
My best friend was Colin Jellicoe. I visited him countless times over an almost 20 year period. Initially, as a customer, because he had...
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Michael Holme
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Amanda Mammana, AGT, and owning the past
I really like the young woman in this America's Got Talent video. She had had a hard time, somewhat linked to her speech impediment, and...
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Michael Holme
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
Amidst depression
Here's a brief suggestion for the more severely depressed. Depression is patently unmotivating, but when you feel like doing nothing, I...
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Michael Holme
- 5 days ago
- 1 min
Being aloof
Automatically, people can be irritated by aloofness. It can easily look like a rejection. People tend to exist between two polls of...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 3
- 2 min
What is the "Dark night of the soul" ?
The follow statement was found high in Google's search results on the subject; "'The Dark Night of the Soul', is one of the most painful,...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 1
- 1 min
Herbie Hancock speaking as if about a life metaphor
A few years ago I bought Herbie's jazz piano lessons on www.masterclass.com. They were, in conclusion, unexpected, because in a sentence,...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 1
- 1 min
The folly of buying a DMR radio that doesn't actually support the DMR digital mode
ICOM's IC-R8600, high-end communications receiver, appears to have settled at firmware v1.35. I listen to mine nearly every night. It's...
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Michael Holme
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
"Gift of the gab"? Gifts don't always match outcomes of work
Did you realise, that people who never seem to stop talking, don't necessarily have some kind of "gift" of the gab, and therefore,...
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Michael Holme
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
"Be kind", really?
Clearly, Jesus and others after him, have been saying "love one another", "peace", and "be kind", etc., for at least two millenia now. If...
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Michael Holme
- Dec 26, 2022
- 1 min
My wisdom in a flash, or the first post I made to my recently formed "exithell" Reddit community
I assert that "Hell" is on Earth, and the "Kingdom of Heaven", or let's say happiness, is within us all. So all the love we need is...
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Michael Holme
- Nov 29, 2022
- 1 min
Isolating-banter
I'm never short of things to say. I've always got hours of ad-hoc conversation for anyone, and more if in some specific subjects....
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Michael Holme
- Nov 26, 2022
- 4 min
A musical exchange, but mainly J.S. Bach 101
Talking to my MSc in computing course leader, on Facebook, about music, esp. J.S. Bach., and 28 years since graduation. * * * MH - The...
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Michael Holme
- Nov 23, 2022
- 1 min
Solitude and the Mr & Mrs TV show
My first significant message that I placed in my literature, was "Embrace your aloneness." You should do so before entering the "world"....
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Michael Holme
- Nov 22, 2022
- 2 min
Know thyself
My own writings, and philosophy in general, hinge on self-knowledge. In truth it's more about the knowledge of what we are not, because I...
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Michael Holme
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
The witness
We need to understand, that we are not the thought, and we are not the feeling. Thoughts colour feelings, and the feelings colour...
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Michael Holme
- Nov 11, 2022
- 1 min
Abnormal psychology and the Matrix Film red pill
The quote at the bottom is so accurate, and exactly what I experienced in my early to mid twenties. Please read on though. You might read...
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Michael Holme
- Nov 10, 2022
- 1 min
Thoughts around paranoia
This brief piece is based on personal experiences. It won't cover the entirety of such a complex problem, but it fits with some other...
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Michael Holme
- Nov 6, 2022
- 2 min
Subjective Objective
When the same message is repeated across separate cultures, religions, and other groups, a confidence ought to increase or precipitate....
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Michael Holme
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Afterthoughts
I discovered some of Sri Ramana Maharshi's work recently. It turns out that he wrote a brief book with a title like my own first...
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