Hmmm, Progeny, you ask? Yes.

I am married and I have had several stints in many different forms of gulags....I will be returning to driving taxis next week after a 6 month hiatus due to a driving licence suspension, By far the most gruelling gulag that I had to endure was a stint in a bank as a clerk *shudder*.....the brown-nosing that I witnessed there was truly something to behold.

I am a sworn enemy of the work ethic and the clipboard!

Anway, enough about me. Are there any Luddites, Idlers, loafers, skivers, bludgers, or layabouts that share my disdain for the strivers and careerists that fill the temples of Mammon? *spits on the ground*

At the risk of killing the thread for a second time, all of the erudite verbiage being thrown about is little more than polished bullshit. Something 'is' or it 'isn't'.

Hmmmm, I was diagnosed with ADHD over 10 years ago when i was 41 so I will rest upon that as my defence for not reading all of the posts in their entirety....

Materialism, eh? What is that exactly? I'd always lazily assumed that to be the rapacious quest of those that didn't want to be perceived as 'losers'. The need to be defined by having a nice house in a nice suburb, owning a nice car, wearing designer clothes, and having access to lots of cash etc. Ideally a prestigious job would enhance the aforementioned too *yawn*....

I will depart this mortal coil with even less in my assets ledger than when I first arrived! Materialism is something that has never seduced me, yet I don't despise those that unashamedly embrace it. If that is what brings other people happiness then well and good to them. It doesn't bother me that I might be despised or regarded with suspicion for not being that way inclined. I just 'am'. Nothing more and nothing less. One day I won't 'be', and nothing will alter that, thus it is incidental as to whether or not i have much or if I have little, no?

One of the many ambiguities that have troubled me over the years is the premise that 'man is created in God's image'.

Hmmm, a very interesting discussion! Thanks for triggering some hearty guffaws Bitter Crank! My spirits have lifted! :smile:

I've been married for over 20 years. I vaguely remember what sex feels like....if i didn't need my appendage to urinate i'd happily have the ruddy thing prepared for the guillotine! During my 'teens, twenties, thirties, and even forties it governed like a tyrant, a sworn enemy of reason and good sense. It could have led me to becoming a homicide statistic. It's reign of terror is over!

Erm, yeah, something like that I suppose.... :smile:

G'day Bitter Crank! I'm out in the colonies, a bit further North than Antarctica....

Hmmmm, imagine if you will one of those 'Antifa' parasites scuttling cockroach like across a park in the midst of a small army of similarly attired insects and the aforementioned scuttling cockroach was to trip over one of his undone shoelaces on his rainbow coloured Doc Martins and left to the mercy of the rapidly approaching Constabulary by his cowardly cohorts....as the wailing wretch cowers on the ground he has his mask ripped off! it would come as no surprise to see the visage of the dread Jeremy Corbyn himself! :lol:

Even from where sit here in The Antipodes I know that Jeremy Corbyn is an insipid arsehole, a vacuous populist sycophant that has consistently shown himself to be the atypical politician: a self-serving trough swilling swine that is beholden to his sponsors....

Hmmm, why do people do many things? People are flawed creatures....often self-serving and inherently selfish etc. etc.

I hope that your situation improves....

I have never voted. Those that are elected into office are beholden to their sponsors, not their constituents.

I read somewhere about some graffiti once scrawled on a wall somewhere which makes a good point:'if voting made a difference they'd make it illegal'

Ah, but can we ever really 'know'? My cynicism runs very deep....I'll never lose my sense of wonder about the profundities of The Cosmos, but so much of everyday life is nauseating, no? I'm strong enough mate, i've been going 'against the grain' for as long as I can remember, but raging against the machine is exhausting. I'm tired....i'd sooner just enjoy a cup of tea as i daydream out the window....

This is exactly why ignorance is bliss, no? Those that lack the ability to think for themselves and enjoy the comfort of being one of the woolly headed herd of identical sheeplike sycophants will merely bleat the same bland note as the woolly creature in front of him in order to take the easy way out....

I haven't bothered to look too closely at the conspiracy stuff, the other factors are enough to persuade me that there is a horde of cowardly grunting rock chucking goat molesting bomb making bearded lunatics that may seek to liberate my bonce from my torso! That it might be a small mercy and put me out of my misery isn't the point :lol: .....if certain savages choose to observe the teachings of a demented paedophile from the 6th Century, that is their prerogative, but they ought to keep their primitive nonsense to themselves. It isn't unreasonable to expect them to observe the same laws as the rest of us. I don't like materialism, but I'm not going to go on a crusade against those that do worship at the temple of Mammon...

Of course ignorance is bliss! We waste so much of our time wringing our hands, gnashing our teeth, and giving ourselves migraines as we ruminate on the tsunami of insensibilities that washes over us every wretched day.....

a little light relief, enjoy! Oh well, don't enjoy! I can't paste a song from this Mac :lol: If curious it was going to be 'I saw a UFO but nobody believed me by Sneaky Sound System....

Forgive me, I haven't read any of the preceding posts, this is like an impulsive 'drive by posting':

I find Trump amusing. I love the way that he can so casually offend people. His North Korean counterpart too gives the impression of being a parody of sorts. That this summit has created such a 'stir' is hilarious, no? A bit of mummery and some filthy lucre changing hands in the shadows and everybody lives happily after, eh? Life as we know it...

Nanu Nanu,
Now that we have both aged ourselves Welcome to The Philosophy Forum!
You are not by chance a blogger from Australia are you?
Cheers — ArguingWAristotleTiff

Nay Sir,

I'm too lazy and disorganised to be a 'blogger'. I'll confess to having never ever read a blog! I do live in Australia and I am a 51 year old that has made a career out of avoiding ever having a career! I have certainly served my penance in countless gulags being exploited in many different ways, and it grieveth my weary soul that I am expected to 'work' *sobs*.....I drive a taxi for a job. A despised occupation that enables me to dangle precariously near the bottom of the economic food chain.

Whilst ensconced in the confessional I'll get a few more dirty secrets off my chest...

*whispers warily* I have never been ambitious. I'd suggest that heretics from the Middle Ages would have endured less hostility than your correspondent on occasions when I've been unable to resist the temptation to infuriate a stentorian mob!

I have never comprehended rapacious materialism. I chose to reject all of that pointless striving and status seeking bullshit decades ago. Anything more than enough is too much, no?

I don't take anything too seriously, especially myself.

For a little while I studied ancient greek philosophy. I got bored. I went on a blitzkrieg through the nightclubs for a few years as I embraced hedonism and nihilism. That too became boring.

I ended up marrying an 'exotic dancer'. After 21 tumultuous years and 4 children we are still tenuously married.

I studied Religion and Philosophy for a couple of semesters before the boredom derailed me again....

I am a restless and mischievous child trapped in the expanding body of a 51 year old fool.

The more knowledge that i acquire the more i realise how little I know....

I hope that i haven't bored anybody into a coma....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :)

Hmmm, being both deluded and miserable could be another option....

Nanu Nanu,

Greetings from an intractable cynic and habitual sceptic that can be found wringing hands and clenching teeth in The Antipodes....I do not apologise in advance to those that will invariably take umbrage at any of my ruminations, for it seems to be a basic human right to take offence, no? I have the right to be as offended as anybody else, and let it be noted that what i am offended by is as irrelevant as what anybody else might be offended by.

I have been raging against the machine for so long now it bores me *yawn*....

In no particular order i am a chronic underachiever, shameless procrastinator, husband, daydreamer, misfit, father, work shirker, and a sworn enemy of ennui. For the record i no longer do drugs, i have placed a lifetime alcohol ban on myself, and I have been emancipated from the yoke of nicotine addiction. If I was respectable i could almost be considered something of a Puritan...

The absurdities of life fascinate me. People generally bore or horrify me...anyway, that is enough for now.

Have I disclosed too much?

Allan Wallace.