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To Fix the World

Posted on September 15, 2021 by bakatsundoku

This is going to be one of those posts that I’m going to look back on, and think “that was a pretty good post”.  And then I’m going to regret it utterly. Today, I had a bad experience at work.  My team has just been merged with another team, and

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Personal broken, death, depression, entropy, frustration Leave a comment

Bushido: There Are No Answers

Posted on August 30, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I think this is going to be another long post on the level of the series of posts I wrote on transactional love, earlier. So buckle up, here we go. I have mentioned before that I was raised in a religious cult. This gave me a lot of perspectives that

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Uncategorized answers, bushido, death, God, Japan, philosophy, questions Leave a comment

When Celebrities Die

Posted on August 22, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I’m not just a fan of Japanese media. Of late, I’ve also become a fan of British panel shows, such as “Would I Lie to You”, “Taskmaster”, “8 out of Ten Cats”, “QI”, and pretty much everything else where Jimmy Carr’s distinctive laugh has been present in one for or

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Uncategorized Christianity, death, life, Sean Lock Leave a comment

Ants

Posted on June 27, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I have a bit of an ant problem in my house. Dunno where they came from but I started finding them everywhere. Little blighters that get into everything in search for that next bit of food. Harmless but annoying. So I got some Terro. It is a sweet liquid that

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Uncategorized ants. terro, death, popularity Leave a comment

Requiem for a Narcissist

Posted on April 11, 2021 by bakatsundoku

Last night, I got the news that my father died two days ago. From what I understand, he had a stroke a few weeks ago, and didn’t make it. He was 77. Typically, in these kinds of posts, people would post good memories they had with their father, and end

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Uncategorized abuse, death, father, narcissism Leave a comment

Speaking Ill of the Dead

Posted on February 18, 2021 by bakatsundoku

Today, a broadcasting great, Rush Limbaugh, has died at 70 of Lung cancer. Plenty will have been said of Mr. Limbaugh’s accomplishments, and they are many. Whether or not you agree with them, it’s impossible to overstate his achievements in the shaping of conservative thought over forty years. I agreed

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Uncategorized death, hatred, left, liberals, Rush Limbaugh, woke 2 Comments

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