Francis Erich McElroy
Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.
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On Instinct Alone
Which animal would you compare yourself to and why? I’d say I’m a monkey but I know that I’m not. I have two thumbs right here that can do quite a lot. I can pick and shovel to bury my dead and poke letters on a screen to eulogize them. I’d say I’m a cat…
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The Blink of an Eye
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? I woke up one day to find the sun sinks into everywhere I cannot be until it rises again as I am deep in sleep and I actually open my eyes.
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Phoenix AI
AI takes energy. AI takes energy from my being. AI takes energy from my being and leaves me with less drive. AI takes all the drive from good people and gives them nowhere to go. AI has nowhere to go without energy but average people think that drive means to race. AI is not a…
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Meditation
A tree branch is scratching the house. My skin is crawling. I can hear constant pressure flowing inside my head. A continuous wave from a mild storm in August. I scratch my arm. The storm is calmer but the wave won’t break. I can snap the tree branch from here. The storm is stopped. All…
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Perspective Is All Mine
As a younger man, every time I was shown the light serendipitously or deliberately I would push it out of my psyche with chemicals because I was afraid of reality. I altered my reality so there was a cause for being different. I embraced the result not the cause of my madness. The cause could’ve…
