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I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to share this digitally, on here. After some time and processing… I felt that if I don’t then it would bring dishonor. It deserves its own recognition.

Quiet people go silent when they're hurt. It's not a coping mechanism, it's a way to protect their peace. They can lash out. Get angry. Argue & fight. But they know it's not worth it. So they simply withdraw, go silent and process their emotions in private. But you won't get it.

Marcus Aurelius wrote this 2,000 years ago:

J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, on why he built the entire world of Middle-earth before writing a single story in it: In a rare interview, Tolkien is asked why he spent 14 years building the world of The Lord of the Rings. His answer reveals a philosophy of creation rooted in something deeper than storytelling. When pressed on whether the hobbits and their world emerged from his unconscious, Tolkien pushes back. He describes himself as a "meticulous sort of bloke" who spent those years "finding time schemes and getting everything right." The appendices, the languages, the social customs, the histories, all of it existed before the story did. In fact, the world came first. The Hobbit itself was almost an accident: "It existed in posy and in large scale plan before The Hobbit was written. The Hobbit was intact originally an attempt to write something outside it and drew into it." The interviewer, stunned, asks why. Why invent an entire world before writing a single story in it? Tolkien's response gets to the heart of his creative philosophy: "Because being made by a creator, one of our natural factors is wishing to create. But since we aren't creators, we have to subcreate. Let's say we have to rearrange the primary material in some particular form which pleases us, which may it isn't necessarily a moral pleasing. It's partly aesthetic pleasing." This idea of subcreation is the key. Humans cannot make something from nothing, but we can rearrange what exists into forms that please us aesthetically, not just morally. When the interviewer suggests that moral concerns must outweigh aesthetic ones, Tolkien disagrees. He argues that an "aesthetic facet is as strongly to be predicated as a moral one in this world." On the question of good and evil in his world, Tolkien clarifies that the Dark Lord was not always dark. He fell, "several stages down of Lucifer." The one ring, he notes, represents "a power so enormous that even if a good man were to use it against a bad it would corrupt the good man." He emphasises this insight predates the atomic bomb. He was building these stories as an undergraduate, long before modern allegories could apply. Asked finally whether he would rather be remembered as a man who said something or a man who made something, Tolkien refuses the distinction: "I don't think you can distinguish. The made things unless it says something won't be remembered."

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” —Plato

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." -Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)

the only unconditional love a man will ever receive is from his mother

High intelligence often comes with heightened pattern recognition. You start noticing social masks, forced conversations, performative friendships, hidden motives, emotional immaturity, and energy that feels draining instead of nourishing. Many highly intelligent people also have more active nervous systems, deeper inner worlds, and lower tolerance for superficial stimulation, so solitude can feel safer than constantly shrinking themselves to fit environments that don’t feel aligned.

God's blessing does not look like a blessing it looks like a breaking you cannot explain. you will be called to something, and the call will take more than you have. you will pray for easier work and get harder work, and then you will pray for strength and get even harder work, because God does not answer by removing the weight, he answers by thickening your bones

People are cold. They really are, and the sooner you accept that, the better you will treat yourself. Most people are not thinking about you. The warmth you remember from them was mostly situational, it lasted as long as you were useful, available, or entertaining. People leave without explanation. People watch you struggle and say nothing. Stop being shocked by it. Not everyone deserves your openness, your energy, or your time. The cold world does not reward the naive. It rewards those who see it clearly and move accordingly.

sometimes you gotta admit you got distracted and ask God to place you back on course

Bro... Just dissappear. Go to war with the man in the mirror. Don't come back until you've won.

Your character is who you are when nobody is looking.

Starting to realize that genuine people — really aren't liked by many.

The key to a successful marriage is brainwashing your wife before her toxic friends or social media do

"Forgiveness is a virtue; forgetting can be a weakness."

Anduril

A knight is legendary not because he feels no fear, but because he walks despite it.