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In a world with so much suffering, in a world where few are happy and many are troubled, how can I be so concerned about myself? The world needs you, needs your love and sympathy and generosity. This site formerly called "The End is Near." While I still believe that, the new title is a response to that belief. This site is monitored by the federal government.

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Category: Politics

Timmyted, Whining, and Self-Destructive Weirdness

Diary 8/27 to 8/29/22: Caitlin Johnstone; insomnia; Wittgenstein's Notebooks; Caroline Winkler; dead Sequoias; bacteria and suicide? Feeling needy; current reading (maybe).

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Doom, Environmental, Hemlock Club, Internet links, Neuroscience, Old Age, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes Leave a comment August 29, 2022 5 Minutes

Nothing “Given”: Struggling with Sellars

Diary 8/15 to 8/16/22: American insanity; notebook helps avoid work? Irony dammit; perceptible causation? philosophical mumbling, literary meandering; Angel Has Fallen DVD; Paladin dream; neighbor noises.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Bullet Journal, Diary, Doom, Dreams, Movie Reviews, Novelist Notes, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes Leave a comment August 16, 2022 5 Minutes

Getting “In-Shape,” and MSM Letting Us Down Bigtime

Diary 8/12 to 8/14/22: Cognitive fatigue; sex education; Hunter Killer DVD; dreams; Hemlock Club; Camus; Chris Hedges and the collapse of civilization; signing up for tour of a gym.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Doom, Dreams, End of the World, Environmental, Health, Hemlock Club, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Politics, Quotes Leave a comment August 14, 2022 4 Minutes

Camus on His Novels, and “Ma”

Diary 7/12 to 7/17/22: Working on "Bleak Philosophy"; censorship on Instagram and Facebook; Host, The Taste of Tea on DVD; a dream; wanting to give up; drum beats and weeping.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Dreams, Horror, Movie Reviews, My childhood, Politics, Quotes, The Writing Life Leave a comment July 17, 2022July 17, 2022 5 Minutes

Bartlett’s, The Conjuring, and “Qua”

Diary 7/10 to 7/12/22: Torey Hayden books; Zirin article from The Nation; Bartlett's Quotations; Truthout on "abortion activists"; The Conjuring Universe; a dream of the Hemlock Club.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Dreams, Hemlock Club, Horror, Movie Reviews, Novelist Notes, Politics, Quotes, The Writing Life Leave a comment July 12, 2022July 12, 2022 6 Minutes

DVDs, Skepticism, and Politics

Diary 7/5 to 7/6/22: Movies on DVD; why I'm a skeptic; getting a little preachy; unable to "find the penguin"; shredding by hand; Democrats; no Dr. Strange DVD at Walmart.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Book Reviews, Diary, Horror, Movie Reviews, Philosophy, Politics, Pretty girls/women, Psychology, Quotes Leave a comment July 6, 2022July 7, 2022 6 Minutes

Interrupted Dreams and Political Crapola

Diary 7/4 to 7/5/22: "Mr. Compromise"; Christian fascism; translator's choice; Bill Bryson; too many books; imminent mass extinction and Moby-Dick; blogging for ego; Chinese characters; Cinepassion.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Blogging, Book Reviews, Diary, Doom, Dreams, Internet links, Literature, Music, Politics, The Writing Life Leave a comment July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 5 Minutes

Sundry Weighty Matters and Jellyfish

Diary 7/2 to 7/3/22: Mumblecore; Johnstone on Ukraine etc.; Hemlock Club meeting; General Semantics; Frank Harris: My Life and Loves; cyclic reality and Nietzsche; reasons for religious belief; grumpy moods.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Doom, General Semantics, Hemlock Club, Literature, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Quotes, Science Leave a comment July 3, 2022July 3, 2022 5 Minutes

Taoism, Sex, and Media Taboos

Diary 6/30 to 7/2/22: Typos; Nietzsche quote; testicle experiment; specializing journalists; Matt Taibbi quoted; Black Panthers; bingeing; blood pressure and nausea; the end of Highsmith diaries; Sharper Image; a day of labors; a dream.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Erectile dysfunction, Mature Adults Only, Politics, Quotes, Sex, The Writing Life Leave a comment July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 6 Minutes

Vibrating Testes and Other Insults

Diary 6/28 to 6/30/22: gun laws passed; odd notes; Johnstone on abortion; scam avoided; Highsmith again; Judy Blume; shopping at Wal-Mart; a vibrator from Sharper Image.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Diary, Dreams, Erectile dysfunction, Health, Novelist Notes, Old Age, Politics, Sex, The Writing Life Leave a comment June 29, 2022June 29, 2022 4 Minutes

Christian Fascism, Taoism, and a Resolution

Diary 6/26/22: Ellen Forney's Marbles; a resolution about writing; orgasms without sildenafil; Hedges and the coming Christian fascism; Alan Watts and Taoism and my mission statement.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Doom, Erectile dysfunction, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Self-guidance, The Writing Life Leave a comment June 26, 2022June 26, 2022 5 Minutes

R.I.P. Roe v Wade, and Lesser Items

Diary 6/24/22: Roe v Wade; Republicans; unnecessary suffering; Rachel Maddow; girls in the US; a difficult day; macros for word processing.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Computers, Diary, Old Age, Politics, Visual Basic Leave a comment June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 5 Minutes

RexMD Ripoff!

Diary 6/23/22: "Kayfabe" again; dream email; inspirational quotes; Weltschmerz; happy pills; the end; suspicious charge; happy ending.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Depression, Diary, Doom, Dreams, End of the World, Politics Leave a comment June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 6 Minutes

Struggling with Myself

Diary 6/17 to 6/20/22: CodePink and critical media literacy; Noam Chomsky; who can you trust? Democracy Now; Walter Truett Anderson on Reality and postmodernism; bullet journal; junk TV.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Bullet Journal, Depression, Diary, Dreams, Novelist Notes, Politics, Psychology, Self-guidance Leave a comment June 20, 2022June 20, 2022 5 Minutes

Consider the Source, etc.

Diary 6/13/22: Second day of hearings; Jonathon Green gets attention here; Chris Hedges quoted; Visual Basic obscurity; anti-war on Pirate TV; change of emphasis in today's entry.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Blogging, Computers, Diary, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Recipes, Veganism, Visual Basic Leave a comment June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 6 Minutes

Conversations, Hemlock, and Sherlock

Diary 6/10 to 6/12/22: Two-year-olds; dementia; Hemlock Club and Jan 6th; talking with Nog; BBC's Sherlock; Hedges on the Committee; diary clutter; A Dangerous Method.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Hemlock Club, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology Leave a comment June 12, 2022June 12, 2022 5 Minutes

Observations on the Public Hearing

Diary 6/8 to 6/10/22: Ignoring my optometrist; self-guidance; House Hearings and Tucker Carlson; Caitlin Johnstone quoted; world oil reserves; popcorn way to health; Taibbi, FAIR, and other sources.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Health, Hemlock Club, Nonfiction Book in Progress, Politics, Psychology, Quotes, Self-guidance Leave a comment June 10, 2022June 10, 2022 5 Minutes

Jan. 6 Committe Meetings on TV

Diary 6/5 to 6/7/22: Shocking not shocking; Russell Brand; Matt Taibbi and Russiagate; adults with ADHD; Chris Hedges on our "evil souls"; Spectrum Wi-Fi; Troilus and Cressida; popcorn; hot-air popper; bizarre Nature; food recalls; Beirut disaster.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Diary, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Quotes, Shakespeare Leave a comment June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 6 Minutes

Shakespeare and “Spirituality”

Diary 6/3 to 6/5/22: Ninja Fit; gut and brain link; Truthout articles; Karl Popper; my lame fiction; more wasted food; Johnstone quote; Jesse Ventura; Poor Peoples Campaign; a dream; Aussie movie; pushy Pablo.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Depression, Diary, Hemlock Club, Literature, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes Leave a comment June 5, 2022June 5, 2022 5 Minutes

An Optical Illusion and the Usual

Diary 6/2 to 6/3/22: Only in America; a dream (with pun) and a nightmare; Highsmith quotes; boys with guns; bad movie; writing dismay; masturbation in men; new optical illusion.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Politics, Quotes Leave a comment June 3, 2022June 3, 2022 4 Minutes

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    • Four Books: Prison Diary
      • A Stack of Books: Prison Diary Excerpt
      • More Book Thoughts from My Prison Diary
      • Prison Diary: Books and More Books
      • Prison Diary: A Potpourri of Books
    • Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes and the Value of Literature: Prison Diary
    • Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth (Prison Diary)
    • Dobyns on Metaphor, and Henry James. Prison Diary Extract
    • A Discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird
    • On Reading Charles Bukowski
    • Prison Diary: Hemingway’s “Macomber” Story
    • Email to a Classics Book Discussion Group
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    • The Ten Percent Solution
    • Getting Started in Philosophy
    • A Cog in the Machine
    • Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
    • Epistemology: Models & Mysteries
    • Know Thyself: A Personal Essay
    • What is it Like to be Me?
    • Knowledge and “Christopher Columbus”
    • Religion, Morality, and the Meaning of Life: Prison Diary
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    • Notes of a Novelist
    • Expressing Thoughts in Fiction
    • Metaphor Examples
    • “You Need an Angle”
    • The Subjective Microscope
    • “She was angry.”
    • Good Mornings
    • Character Names, Expanded
    • Tasty Words
      • Tasty Words: Other
      • Tasty Words: Verbs
      • Tasty Words: Nouns
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