Authenticity Confessions, Protected Confessions
Protected: On judging people
Media Confessions, Middle East Confessions
‘If we dehumanize others, we dehumanize ourselves.’A tribute to Ori Goldberg.
I know you know this picture. All adult people who’ve carried some of the pain of this world for others do. The inspiring story of Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Peter Norman.
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions
The person I was before a 5 year old girl was shot by an Israeli tank, with her last words going: ‘I don’t want to wipe my blood on my sleeve, because I don’t want to trouble my mum with washing it.’
Why do some people keep trying to make you accept the horror of Gaza?
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions
Wear an I love Slovakia sweater if you need to renew your Slovak ID at the foreign police Bratislava
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions
The stuff I learn via my 7 year old’s YouTube preferences is equal parts exasperating, inspiring, perplexing, motivating and identity crisis inducing.
Moral Economy, The predator system
The 143 year old Belfort of Limoges has just collapsed.Waves of violence in France. Why are there suddenly so many violent student protests?
Middle East Confessions, Psychology Confessions, Psychotherapy
Why do zionists go online to excuse the horrible deaths of children?
Mid October 2023. ‘It’s snowing in Gaza!!’ Anti-war story set in Gaza. Humanizing the victims of the genocide.
Salon Bratislava. First night: zero people came. Second night: two people came. Third night: six people came.
What is the universe trying to teach us?
Authenticity Confessions, Notes From The Mountain Fortress
How to deal with friends dying young?
What does a 2,000 pound American made Mk 84 bomb actually do to a child playing inside an apartment building in Gaza?
Bomb Seeks Arab. The reality TV show to make you appreciate your warm, cosy home extra hard this fall. The excitement really goes through the roof in this one.
Video :: Reflecting on our parents’ relationship to discover how we operate in a omantic relationship
The opportunity to deal Israel a harder blow in the wake of October 7th is similar to the battle of Gettysburg.
Media Confessions, Middle East Confessions
A school gets bombed. The media report on it when it happens, but then the event vanishes from all headlines. Local crime reports dominate. With sinister details and clickbait titles.
Musing in the morning with Joe, Notes From The Mountain Fortress
I haven’t felt at home in my own life in years. There’s stuff I do to try and counter that. Like inviting 19 people to my home on a Monday night. The number that showed up is crazy low.
Why I call Gaza the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for western civilization
All FOREIGN doctors with experience in Gaza say the same thing: Israelis target children.
Operation Yachin :: When the king of Morocco and Israel did some very questionable human trafficking and later made it look like a humanitarian solution.
History Confessions, Middle East Confessions
A nightmare for western powers :: The rise of a United Levant
Psychology Confessions, Psychotherapy
What is really making you sick?
This is how you create a young male ready to torture a toddler. Israeli soldiers torture children. You and I could never do that. Why is it so easy for them?
Notes From The Mountain Fortress
Invited 5 Slovaks, 1 Ukrainian to come over yesterday for food, drinks, boardgames, banter, ‘vibes’ etc. None came. Then an overworked Lebanese cardiologist in training on 3 hours of sleep a day, while moving house, video called me for an hour. In a war zone.
When Your Mind Won’t Quiet: Understanding the Connection Between Substance Use and Anxiety
Video :: Elegant system to RADICALLY change how quickly you read people’s attitude towards themselves and others
Video :: Are you happy? The six human needs and how to satisfy them.
Middle East Confessions, Political Confessions
Video: Why can Israel get away with the most devastating siege of the century?
Video: What’s life in Slovakia really like? The good, the bad and the ugly. Oh, and a bit of wonderful stuff too.
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions, mental health
Video: My grandfather and my father killed themselves. Does that mean I am next?
Cinema Confessions, Notes From The Mountain Fortress
Goose bumps. The Sea Beast is a children’s movie with the most complex, most necessary message in these genocidal times.
Cinema Confessions, Notes From The Mountain Fortress
Play. Something. Heavy.Metal Lords. I don’t write movie reviews, but when something hits me, I can share.
Authentic Confessions, Authenticity Confessions, Notes From The Mountain Fortress
How does a lonely Sunday pass without it feeling like a lost day? And another question: How do you look in Mongol warrior attire?
Culture, Restaurants, Exploration
Three new Bratislava events: Bratislava Boardgame Club, Bratislava Deep Talk Salon, Bratislava English Book Club
What Actually Happens in the Gap Between Treatment Steps (And Why It’s Riskier Than People Think)
Why Physical Movement Matters More Than You Think in Mental Health Recovery
Belgium is always seductively surreal. Ambushed by Greenpeace with depressing info on deep sea mining while on holiday in land of milk and honey and culture
It’s not just you. The ten most dominant worries in young people today. And how insecurities drive consumption
Aced the Slovak certificate exam
Middle East Confessions, Political Confessions
Debunking the 6 most boring, most unoriginal, most regurgitated excuses for Israeli violence
Layan, a little girl in Gaza, needed 10,000 balloons to lift her family home to safety. She got to only 29, but she sent off her best friend’s dream house.
Why loud, but blatantly incompetent politicians find it so easy to gather supporters. ‘Tell me am allowed to hate, tell me my hate makes me great, and I will follow you’
The devil is in the details. One closer look at one street in Belgium can tell you more than any wiki page or AI summary on Belgium. It starts with Ondineke at the Kapellekesbaan
When you’re Belgian you have to be an expat for ten years to start appreciating your own country
Trump gets Balogun’s red card overturned only to show the US can wipe its bottom with ALL rules in any field.
Inside the mind of an American liberal. When one’s opinions are really just adopted scripts
Authenticity Confessions, Belgium, Travel
