Fancy That! – Life is Mental

1 – We are Born Brainless Nobodies – To our minds, we come into being as material beings explained as being due to physical stuff such as biology and classical physics. Much time is spent trying to explain how we are something as opposed to nothing or even why there is anything as opposed to […]

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Gary’s Thoughts on the God Issue

This is the first post in a new category “Insights & Understanding” in which I attempt to simplify the incredibly complicated subject of Reality from my point of view. May your God go with you God – The absolute – The Tao – Universal Consciousness – Source – Mind at Large – The One – […]

Feeling Alone in a Crowd

I am probably not alone in spending the majority of my life believing myself ordinary and unexceptional and as such with nothing of interest to say to people on how they may live their lives. Retrospectively I have always had this feeling of never really belonging in groups and a feeling of being the odd […]

Developing Character Strengths in the Gym

If there are two moral attitudes that are needed to counteract the greed and narcissism of our times the attitudes would certainly be self-mastery and compassion. This would entail the ability to read emotions in others and the self-awareness to observe, accept and manage our own emotional world. Turning Barricades Into Bridges To be at […]

F.Y.I. – Fitness in the 1970s

As I remember it! Auto-ethnography – written 2010 Gary Walsh (63) – married to Julie for 39 years – 3 children – 4 grandchildren. Gary – Born 1959 – in Luton, an industrial town, to an Irish father and a Lutonian mother with one older sister. Luton’s main industry was Vauxhall motors and associated businesses […]

A Question About Marriage

The Question – As a married person would you get married again given your time over? PART 1 – Why Marriage is Convenient for Social Control. Selfish Philanthropy. “There is much too much sugar and sorcery in those feelings of ‘for others, of ‘not for me, for one not to have to become doubly distrustful […]

Someday everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears and remember everything happens for a reason.

“The root of human conflict at every level is almost everyone chooses one side and refuses to see the opposite.“ -Gary- The Flexarian Way Why are so many of us so fixed in our opinions and behaviors even when neither our ideas nor actions are serving us or the greater good the way we would […]

is ‘Normal’ A Social Control Weapon?

One of the many reasons and justifications are given for why social control via weapons such as the “norm” is needed is to control individual behaviour, as every person in families and society possess different types of attitude, thinking, ideologies and behaviour patterns.  Therefore, the chances of clashing with others are greater. Weapons of social […]

Living As a Unique Individual (A Maverick)

How Should We Live Our Lives? Most people (maybe us) meander through life in a more or less robotic state. As this is a fate that awaits any of us at any time I will use the term us. Little that is done contributes to a general purpose of existence but instead is done in […]

Make Life Interesting – Read!

Arguably the greatest character strength to develop is the love of learning (wisdom) – Mastering new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one’s own or formally; related to the strength of curiosity but goes beyond it to describe the tendency to add systematically to what one knows progressively. For learning lovers – reading […]

How can I lose weight quickly?

A Flexarian approach to weight loss – with the flexibility to fit any lifestyle – this is the key. It is important for future health that weight loss is achieved in the most sensible way. The long term benefits are worth the effort. Having said that it may(is) also be the quickest way to lose […]

**** Your Best Intentions!

How Our Deep Subconscious Mind Likes To Control Our Thoughts And Actions **** your best intentions! This is my subconscious talking when I think I can too easily make conscious choices over and above its control. This blog features an example of my efforts to gain some control over my life. And my subconscious mind […]