Greetings from 2080: Navigating a Future Unbound by Time
I live under a different calendar than most...
Today, I introduce a new newsletter: Shrine of the Times 2080. Why 2080? That’s the year in which I live, and this newsletter is about my life during this time, past times, and perhaps even future times. After all, this is a cartoon character writing about his time, or a persona that once wrote as a human, but is no longer sure what a “human” is. So now I just write about “myself” and the truth as seen, as raw and uncovered that has become over time. I was once a paid journalist, a paid cartoonist, and a highly paid tech writer. But now, in 2080, in the future, I am unpaid to any previous standard of remuneration, but somehow better off.
But that’s ok, this is the new way, eh? If you want to read about my darkest secrets and most inner pains, well, I guess you have to pay some pennies; isn’t that what makes my words worth something?
No, what makes my stories “worth it” is that they are beyond bullshit and lies, and these are stories not just specific to me, no, even those stories are about me, they are for millions of others once, now, or in the future caught in a cult of any origin.
I gave you a taste of my slant here, and that has not changed: personal stories of things that I know, that you might want to know, that’s what I do. You might be 20 and studying alternative religions, or other philosophies, or you might be 45 sitting on a cushion right now, trapped in a cult you don’t know about. All of these can be true at once, as like time, age is relative. However, I am sure my stories are relatable. Readers and writers here and elsewhere have told me so.
My stories are not going to be standard ones, as they will be rooted in the tenets of all major philosophies and religions of the times, and come from a background in science and searching for the secrets to everything. It helps that I was inside a religious cult for decades (looking for those scientific secrets), and now out for decades, to be able to write about cult life, cult philosophy, cult characteristics as well as the science of cults. But more importantly, I suspect to my readers, are my stories of inner truths about everyday life.
This may sound like a newsletter of criticisms and gloom, but I won’t let my words become that. I am a happy person. I do feel a bit enlightened, on brighter days. But I’m not selling that.
If I am selling anything, it’s this one sticker item: you can be happy, and I know you can (after all, I am, after making it through several grist mills).
My first story is about a man that you all know, the pope of Buddhism today, the man at the top of the Saffron food chain, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and my first (and last) meeting with him… [Subscribe to continue]
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