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About me. You know how everyone says to be a successful writer you should focus in one or two areas. I continue to prove them correct.
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Some Rooms Are Best Forgotten
In 1989 on the Kola Peninsula of Russia. at the Kola Superdeep Borehole a drill operated by human beings descended to a depth (40, 230 feet, approximately 7.6 miles) that had never been reached before and has not been returned to since. The humans operating the drill did not go to the bottom, the extreme heat 180°C (356°F) made that impossible. In fact, no human being has ever descended underground beyond approximately 2.5 miles. However, some equipment, including a heat hardened video camera containing a 90 minute VHS tape was lowered to the final depth. Reportedly it captured images of rock behaving something like plastic, oozing, twisting, convulsing and turning in and over on itself like the inside of a can of paint when mixed with a drill mixer. The VHS tape containing this purported footage mysteriously disappeared shortly after it was returned to the surface and only the verbal accounts of the two men who watched it survived. Those two men Sergi and Ivan Ivanov, Soviet engineers and brothers were found dead in 1992, apparently of suicide. A handwritten note was found with the bodies which contained a detailed description of the exact method that would be used. Sergi was to shoot Ivan in the head first. Then he was to gather up the various bits and pieces of his brother's skull and brain and bury them, but not his body, in an unmarked grave behind their home. Once that was complete he was to hang himself from the rafters. The police discovered them dead about a month later when their neighbors called authorities complaining of a terrible smell emanating from the Ivanov home.
By Everyday Junglist5 months ago in Fiction
The War of the Americas - One Year Later
Dear Sylvia, I very much hope this letter finds its way to you. Mail service in the Baja peninsula was never very good before the war, and now, well, let’s just say there are very few mailboxes in the jungles of Baja where I have spent the past year leading a guerilla style counter-insurgency campaign against the invading American forces. Fortunately for Mexico, while the United States was busy preparing for World War III, arming itself to the teeth with nuclear weapons and training for massive conventional military conflicts and anti-terrorist actions in the middle east, Mexico focused on preparing for exactly what it now faces. It is ironic that the protective umbrella of the United States military is the very thing that gave us the freedom and space to do that and now America is paying the price for its reckless invasion in blood and treasure because of it. Mexico has also greatly benefited from Americas’ right wing politicians’ ridiculous anti-science agenda. The refusal to allow soldiers deployed to Mexico to be vaccinated against Dengue fever and other mosquito borne viruses has taken a terrible toll on US forces here, as have other diseases Mexicans have long since become immune to or vaccinated against. Cases of Tuberculosis and malaria have surged along with cholera. All these diseases are slowly depleting the morale and overall fighting capability of the American military in Mexico. And of course, it has been greatly accelerated by the total cessation of all mosquito and disease control efforts by Mexican government personnel since the invasion with predictable results. Finally, stories of the terror of screwworm with maggots erupting from soldiers’ skin, have resulted in a reputation for danger in the Baja peninsula which has generated much fear among the American public and US fighting forces. You have no doubt heard stories of mass defections and refusals to deploy from all branches of the US military. Despite the public executions of many mid and senior level military leaders for acting in defiance of the President’s orders those defections have continued. I am sure you must also be aware that many top American research scientists have sought asylum in Mexico seeking protection from persecution at home. This has been a major boon to Mexico’s prominence in the international scientific community. Meanwhile America’s reputation continues its long, slow slide into the gutter. Of course, you know all this, and I am not writing this letter to point fingers or denounce America for what it has done. There are plenty around the world who have and will continue to do that for Mexico.
By Everyday Junglist5 months ago in Fiction
White House Doctor's Confirm Donald Trump Dying of Evil
White House Doctors confirmed today what many have long suspected, President of the United States Donald Trump is dying of evil. The disease is terminal, and there are no treatments and no cure. At a press conference surrounded by global media, white house chief medical officer Dr. Timothy Stephens, read a prepared statement saying. “It is with great sadness that we are prepared to announce today we have finally converged on a diagnosis for the mysterious illness that has plagued President Trump for much of his life, but recently turned much more serious. We had initially suspected frontotemporal dementia as the most likely cause based on his symptology which appeared to align closely with the seven stages of that disease. As a reminder that disease begins with mild cognitive changes followed by changes in behavior and difficulty with language. At that point the patient begins to see a greater impact on quality of life and personality changes. In the final stages we see significant memory loss followed by severe cognitive decline. President Trump’s early symptoms such as chronic incontinence requiring him to wear a urinary catheter and urine collecting bag running down the side of his leg at all times while in public, along with his strangely stilted manner of standing and walking, and ever more frequent non sensical incoherent ramblings all supported the hypothesis of frontotemporal dementia as the disease from which he has suffered for so long now.
By Everyday Junglist6 months ago in Humor
Nihilist Rejects Nihilism
In what many are calling the apotheosis of nihilism, for the first time ever a nihilist has rejected nihilism itself. Nihilism is a philosophical belief system which traditionally holds that life is without meaning. It encompasses various perspectives, but often includes the rejection of traditional values and objective morality. In its most extreme form it rejects all systems of beliefs and values, including all philosophies but for one, nihilism itself. That changed on Friday this past week when radical nihilist Ted Stephens reportedly rejected nihilism calling it “completely unfounded, meaningless, and indifferent” in a series of posts to various social media and web publishing platforms. The posts included a number of black and white images of a rail thin, pasty white, visibly despairing Mr. Stephens dressed in black t-shirt and black pants and wearing a black French beret staring sadly out a window. His head was enveloped in wispy tendrils of white haze emanating from a still burning, half smoked Marlboro red cigarette in an ashtray perched upon the only piece of furniture in the cold and dreary apartment Mr. Stephens calls home. Tears could be seen just beginning to form in each eye as he contemplated the meaninglessness of a life without even a philosophy of meaninglessness to describe the desperate sadness and hopelessness of it. Wondering what to make of a of universe about which we can have no certain knowledge and now empty of even a philosophy man could use to convey the true depths of its emptiness. If he were not a nihilist Mr. Stephens would have described it as very existential. Fortunately, having rejected nihilism he was now free to embrace existentialism which he reportedly has done with gusto. In his final post he said “rejecting nihilism as meaningless has allowed me the individual freedom and given me the responsibility to create meaning for myself while still allowing me to grapple with the great questions of meaning and existence. Most importantly it has allowed me to remaining depressed and sun averse. Moreover, its practitioners embrace cigarette smoking and the wearing of all black clothes and french berets with almost as much enthusiasm as the nihilists once did before I rejected them and their philosophy so completely and thoroughly.”
By Everyday Junglist6 months ago in Humor
There is No Cancer
In yet another blow to the credibility of the world's scientists and medical professionals another so called disease, cancer, has been shown to not exist. It is thought that world governments conspired with the scientific and medical community to prop up the cancer myth in order to gain control over regular people's lifestyles including diet and physical activity. By linking obesity and a huge range of chemicals and consumer products to cancer they conspired to force the global population to exercise and eat “healthier” foods like vegetables even though these foods are disgusting in flavor and texture. Exercise is also well known to be difficult and painful and shown to provide little to no benefit despite the effort required. The cancer myth has been linked to the vegetable conspiracy in which medical doctors and agriculture lobbyists conspired to increase vegetable consumption in exchange for lavish gifts and other favors. Cancer is the second major disease to be shown to not exist shortly after the COVID-19 hoax was uncovered. That fake pandemic was suppossedly caused by a virus, SARS-CoV-2, which we now know does not exist. The ridiculous sounding name should have been a dead give a way but the doctors and scientists promoting the hoax sounded very convincing with their lab coats and fancy degrees giving instant credibility among the gullible public. Since that time we have also learned that there is no such thing as viruses and all so called viral diseases are actually caused by unknown disease causing agents that are definitely not viruses. Regular people around the world reacted with dismay and suspicion increased that other major diseases of humans may also be fake or a hoak. Many are speculating that heart disease will be next. Some regular people have begun to question if death itself may also be a myth. They believe we all live forever in a disease free, pain free, state of laziness and happiness from which scientists and doctors have conspired to deprive us out of jealousy or greed. One thing we know for certain. Scientists are bad.
By Everyday Junglist7 months ago in Poets
The War of the Americas - Rescue & Loss
Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction. While I do use some people from the real world as characters including the current president of the United States of America Donald Trump and the current president of Mexico Claudia Scheinbaum, what is said by them and/or about them is totally fictional and is in no way meant to suggest that is how they are in real life or what they believe in real life. The actions they do or do not take in the story are also of course totally made up. I have no idea how either would respond if this situation were to arise and my knowledge of the specifics of the politics of Mexico is very limited. My knowledge of the structure of their military, etc. is based on what is publicly available and may be less than accurate or completely wrong. I know exactly as much about the Mexican military as Wikipedia knows. Anything else I made up. I know nothing as to the existence or not of a Mexican intelligence apparatus let alone the level of sophistication if may or may not possess if it does in fact exist. Hopefully it is also obvious that I have no idea what the CIA’s assessment of the mental fitness of any world leader is, nor do I even know if they produce such an assessment. I also have no special knowledge of the CIA, its operations, policies, procedures, or history. In that way I am like 99.999% of all people on the planet. I also have no special knowledge of the Mexican cartels, their structure, leadership or political leanings outside of the little I have read in researching this story. Further, while the two main characters, Dominic and Sylvia Platt are (very) loosely based on my wife and myself there are more differences than similarities. To be clear my wife is not now, nor has she ever been an agent of the CIA or any other American or foreign intelligence agency. In fact, she has never been employed by any government agency, state or federal. While I have worked for the federal government very briefly (~1 year) as a fellow with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention I am also not currently employed by any government agency, foreign or domestic.
By Everyday Junglist7 months ago in Chapters
It is Time to Call a Truce in the War Against Parts of Ourselves. Top Story - July 2025.
One of the most irritating aspects of many religions and spiritual systems is their overuse of terms and concepts associated with war and warfighting in their philosophical musings about the self. It also happens to be highly hypocritical in many cases, since many of these same religions and systems of spirituality teach that war and fighting are evils to be avoided at all costs. Essentially they tell us that war is bad, unless it is a war against ourselves, or parts of ourselves. In that case, war is noble and a thing to be valued. Eastern religions overdo this tendency in spades with Buddhism leading the way.
By Everyday Junglist8 months ago in Humans
Is a Life Free of Regrets Really What We Should Be Striving For?
The idea that the ideal life lived is one free of regrets is a philosophical position that most of us have been exposed to consistently and regularly from a very early age. It was preached as gospel in books, movies, television, and every other form of mass media by friends, peers, colleagues, presidents, kings, queens, prime ministers, and everyday Joes and Janes. The deathbed speech in which the dying person says “I have no regrets” with a smile on their face, as they take their last breath is a classic and highly cliched example. Basically the idea goes that when we die if we can honestly say that we have no regrets that means we had a good life. That does not imply that we had a perfect life or never made mistakes or only made good decisions. It only means that we recognize that even if some of our choices were less than ideal, we still accept them as a part of life and understand that sometimes what seem like bad choices may lead to good outcomes in unexpected ways. Essentially, that life is unpredictable and that we are fallible beings who don’t always do the right things. We do not regret the bad decisions we made, we accept them as a normal part of life and of being human. Importantly and most critically, if we could go back in time we would not change anything with respect to the decisions we made because ultimately it was the sum total of all those decisions and choices, both good and bad, that led us to where we are today, dying in our deathbeds thankful that we can honestly say we have no regrets.
By Everyday Junglist8 months ago in Psyche
