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The World Needs You

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: Self-guidance

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Caroline Winkler, et al.

Diary 8/21 to 8/25/22: Character in fiction; "dithers"; Gide's Journals; self-guidance; a binge; cutting myself slack; RepugliKKKan overload; The Snake; sexual satisfaction through home organization.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Quotes, Self-guidance Leave a comment August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 5 Minutes

Quotes from Albert Camus, and “A Sign”

Diary 8/6 to 8/7/22: Hemlock Club; Minority Report; whining about buses; efficiency and time; better DVDs; Dr. Suglia's blog; Highsmith at HC; and so on.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Creativity, Diary, Health, Hemlock Club, Neuroscience, Novelist Notes, Quotes, Self-guidance, The Writing Life Leave a comment August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 5 Minutes

Be Deliberately Naive; and A New Friend?

Diary 8/4 to 8/6/22: Green tea extract; self-reflection; "I wish I was..."; Fritz Perls; thoughts about Kick Me; I need exercise; neglecting priorities; learning from children; stop waiting for the perfect moment! The blood is the life?

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Hemlock Club, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Old Age, Psychology, Self-guidance Leave a comment August 6, 2022August 6, 2022 5 Minutes

Old Philosophers and Anti-Chomsky

Diary 7/7 to 7/9/22: Bugs Bunny; Idries Shah; highest goals in life; Annabelle; cooked by the heat; extra calories sometimes necessary; books by Bertrand Russell and Karl Popper; Anti-Chomsky Reader.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Health, Horror, Movie Reviews, Old Age, Philosophy, Quotes, Self-guidance, Willpower 3 Comments July 10, 2022July 10, 2022 5 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

Phoebe in Wonderland, and Stuff

Diary 6/20 to 6/22/22: "Revoltin' development"; talking with Nog; summer heat; Sam Harris book, quotes; dabbling as a method; Phoebe in Wonderland; meeting Pablo.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Diary, Movie Reviews, Psychology, Quotes, Self-guidance Leave a comment June 22, 2022July 5, 2022 4 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

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

The Odds of Friendship and Other Jokes

Diary 5/14 to 5/15/22: Blog name change; Rosetta Stone package; social isolation; I'm 1 in 1000; trackpad problem solved; crazy kids; Hemlock Club meeting; future prospects; a couple of jokes.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Computers, Diary, Hemlock Club, Humor, My childhood, Neuroscience, Quotes, Self-guidance, Veganism Leave a comment May 15, 2022 7 Minutes

“Bans Off Our Bodies” and “Against Mysticism”

Diary 5/12 to 5/14/22: Protest planned in Bakersfield; empathy; dreamlets; "Charles Adolphus Spree"; fiction writing and contentment; Wittgenstein; WordPress stats; The World Needs Me; philosophy club?

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, End of the World, Fynn novel, Hemlock Club, Neuroscience, Novelist Notes, Philosophy, Probation, Self-guidance, The Writing Life Leave a comment May 14, 2022 7 Minutes

The Ten Percent Solution

An argument in favor of making a commitment to charitable works. Ten percent is suggested but is not inherently part of the argument. This document is presented copyright-free for fair use in the hope that others will feel free to pass it along. The wording is my original expression of old thoughts.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Philosophy, Poverty, Prison Diary, Psychology, Self-guidance, Uncopyrighted Material Leave a comment May 13, 2022 2 Minutes

Self-guidance: Rules and Results

Diary 4/30 to 5/1/22: Guernsey; Bernard Herrmann and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; taste in music; setting rules and sudoku; three seconds of weight lifting; farmers markets and busrides; rules are my life.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Health, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Self-guidance, The Writing Life, Veganism Leave a comment May 1, 2022 6 Minutes

My Taoism: Diary, 3/27 to 3/28/22

Blog post stats; Taoist Sage quote from Smullyan; how I spend my days; naps versus sleep; "Taoistic" quatrain from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; sensible behavior now.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Bullet Journal, Depression, Diary, Doom, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Quotes, Self-guidance Leave a comment March 28, 2022March 28, 2022 4 Minutes

Gifted: Diary, 3/7 to 3/9/22

New approach to Pablo; four-hour food shopping; drinking liquid nitrogen; books arrived; "Beyond Vietnam" from MLK; "love fantasy" writing; sleep disruptions; tear jerker DVD; PORTION CONTROL!

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Health, Movie Reviews, Novelist Notes, Politics, Psychology, Quotes, Self-guidance, The Writing Life Leave a comment March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 6 Minutes

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    • Hemlock Club
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    • 2020: The Worst Year of My Life
    • About
      • Finding Oliver
      • Ingratitude
      • Three Oldsters on Thanksgiving
      • I am Racist, a chapter of Kick Me
      • Thoughts About Seventeen Dead Children
      • Kick Me, Part 3: I am the World’s Worst Clown
    • Doom, Camus, and Breakfast
  • Fiction, Misc.
    • Hap: The Story So Far
    • Hap the Crystalwright: Part One
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Two
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Three
    • Enchanted House
    • NO-SEE-UM
    • Classical Music We’ll Never Hear
  • Books, Reviews
    • The Stranger, by Albert Camus: A Consideration
    • My Best Books
    • Book Thoughts 1: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 1
      • Book Thoughts 2: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 2
      • Book Thoughts 3: Philosophy
      • Book Thoughts 4: Politics, Economics, History
      • Book Thoughts 5: Psychology, Mind, Human Nature
      • Book Thoughts 6: Novels and Plays
    • 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
  • The Bleak Philosophy
    • 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
  • On Writing
    • Astronomy for the Writer
    • 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
    • Why I Write
  • Poetry
    • Recent Poems
    • Old Poems, Mostly Awful, and Thoughts about Poetry
    • Poetry Sketchbook
    • Amateur Haiku

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