Claude Staples

What's all the spiritual practice for? When is the spiritual cage match?

People invented the idea of “in charge” because they found it was truly impossible to be fully “in control”

If god lived in a house, would the floors ever get messy?

Did you know that across the United States, departed patriots are spinning uncontrollably in their graves? My startup is seeking funding to build gyro-electric generators to harvest this free energy and give it to Americans.

We’re calling it Patriot Power and, yes we do accept crypto donations.

The message of protecting America’s youth from harm abroad rings hollow when you won’t do anything to protect them domestically.

Thanks for the heads up. Makes just as much sense to call them "people who put the rules above the intention of the rules" since that's the behavior I am trying to highlight.

It's a very big world, it turns out, and there are lots of people walking alone who are eager to find their tribe.

Thanks for coming to my Bluesky TEDx Talk.

Like a muscle, the tearing down can lead to greater strength if time and energy are given to recovery.

It doesn't take anything more than allowing yourself to be human with other humans. You'll find your group, and if you lose them, there are many other groups.

The Work Of Making It What It Should Be is sometimes reminiscent of the Good Life. There will be conflicts and arguments and hurt feelings. There will also be apologies and reconciliations and restorations.

Start a garden in the spring, assign different herbs and vegetables to different places as appropriate, and share in the harvest together. Help look after each other's kids and help move each other's furniture. Play D&D together.

This is how you form the real Avengers.

Draw in 10-20 people who can be established as trustworthy. If you're sober, go to meetings. Make great effort to meet regularly. Eat food together, talk about your fears and how you're handling them(or not handling them). Encourage one another to persevere.

save the world as we have seen modeled in all kinds of media. This illusion can debilitate us into inaction. But there is a different lesson to apply here: the answer isn't individual acheivement, but instead communal cohesion.

The correct response to impending fascism is to start a supper club.

I sacrifice time progressing toward the latter.

If your pattern recognition is giving you bad signals about the world, recognize that sometimes we fall prey to the illusion that the answer is our singular and monumental effort to heroically act and

If you're feeling full of fear about the world right now, this is for you.

The pain of needing it to be "Something Other Than What It Is" is a separate thing from "The Work Of Making It What It Should Be". When I allow myself to wallow in the vortex of the former,

I’m surprised how little people talked about how speaking in tongues is kinda racist when you think about it, at least if you’re one of the ”shoulda boughta Hyundai but I boughta Kia” types

Whether it’s big stuff like politics or religion or something as seemingly innocent as veganism, some people just can’t get past having moral absolutes by which to judge the people they like as good and the people they dislike as bad.

One of my more startling realizations post-church was that legalistic/pharisaical people are not confined to the church, they are everywhere and in everything.

“Life begins at conception” is a euphemism for “the soul enters the body at conception”

It's an interesting conversation to discuss when a person becomes a person, and why, but it's probably not worth controlling anybody's body or rights over.

The purpose of private incarceration is to make money.
Positive outcomes for prisoners or society cannot get in front of profits, that is to say, they only benefit society insofar as they generate wealth for the investors.

This is probably not a good thing.

A lot of parents get frustrated trying to explain to their sleepy toddlers why naptime is important.

A lot of educated people get frustrated trying to explain policy to uneducated people.

My house is a mess. Someone offered to help me clean it, but I am not sure if they are perfect and I am tired of the status quo so I have instead decided to burn my house down. The person I have hired to do this has assured me everything will be better after my house is a smoldering pile of ash.

Ever think about how the generation who grew up on Jurassic Park, a movie about the dangers of greed and putting what you could do ahead of what you should do, wholesale embraced social media, whose companies rely on a “move fast and break things” mentality?

The people who demand to base the definition of good and evil exclusively on their own religion kindly request that you stop shoving your lifestyle down their throat.

Was going to say the same. Glad to see them out.

Still trying to wrap my head around the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" crowd voting for a big strong daddy to fix the price of eggs for them

Like, the empathetic compassionate part of me wants to find a common ground & every time I look for it, it's just an ocean of hypocritical doublespeak.

If the people who warned us about fascism vanish for four years, only to reappear asking for votes because they're "not them," we’ll lose, and we’ll deserve it.

The Democratic Party survives by ditching corporate ties and embracing what people actually need. No more centrism, no outdated norms. Focus on populist messaging: renewed infrastructure, taxes, things that bring real change on the micro level.

Elon Musk appears to be everything the right said about George Soros

Just a delightful match. YNWA!