My LinkedIn Posts and Comment History

My LinkedIn Posts and Comment History

***//TODO: Explain to Stephen my perspectives on Christianity in the USA being used by those in power to manipulate human minds to support capitalism, which is clearly against the teachings of Christ, such as through the prosperity gospel. ***

    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism)
    * 2025-11-06 13:08:57: Stephen Watson 1/3  
      
    In regard unto "the man", within the seventh proclamation on the second composition, being the hymnal "ร†nima" by the minstrels "Tool", such ditty so-named "Hooker with a Penis", quoth the veritable Maynard:  
      
    Well now I've got some  
    Advice for you, little buddy  
    Before you point the finger  
    You should know that I'm the man  
    I'm the man and you're the man  
    And he's the man as well  
    So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass  
      
    All you know about me is what I've sold ya, dumb fuck  
    I sold out long before you'd ever even heard my name  
    I sold my soul to make a record, dipshit  
    And then you bought one  
      
    I've got some advice for you, little buddy  
    Before you point your finger, you should know that I'm the man  
    If I'm the fuckin' man, then you're the fuckin' man as well  
    So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass  
      
    All you read and wear or see and hear on TV  
    Is a product begging for your fat-ass, dirty dollar  
    Shut up and buy, buy, buy my new record  
    And buy, buy, buy, send more money  
    Fuck you, buddy  
      
    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzrRoDd9CxM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzrRoDd9CxM)
    * 2025-11-06 13:10:35: Stephen Watson 2/3  
      
    Sinegh also this fine young lad about his "shadow", in ye olde rune "Forty Six and 2":  
      
    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIuZUCpm9hc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIuZUCpm9hc)  
      
    [Intro]  
    Join in my--  
    Join in, my child, and listen  
    Digging through  
    My old numb shadow  
      
    [Verse 1]  
    My shadow's shedding skin  
    I've been picking scabs again  
    I'm down, digging through  
    My old muscles, looking for a clue  
      
    [Pre-Chorus 1]  
    I've been crawling on my belly  
    Clearing out what could've been  
    I've been wallowing in my own confused  
    And insecure delusions  
    For a piece to cross me over  
    Or a word to guide me in  
    I wanna feel the changes coming down  
    I wanna know what I've been hiding  
      
    [Chorus 1]  
    In my shadow  
    My shadow  
    Change is coming through  
    My shadow  
    My shadow  
    Shedding skin  
    I've been picking  
    My scabs again  
      
    [Spoken]  
    Join in my--  
    Join in my child  
    My shadow's  
    Closer to meaning
    * 2025-11-06 13:11:17: Stephen Watson 3/3  
      
    [Pre-Chorus 2]  
    I've been crawling on my belly  
    Clearing out what could've been  
    I've been wallowing in my own chaotic  
    Insecure delusions  
    I wanna feel the change consume me  
    Feel the outside turning in  
    I wanna feel the metamorphosis and  
    Cleansing I've endured in  
      
    [Chorus 2]  
    My shadow  
    My shadow  
    Change is coming  
    Now is my time  
    Listen to my muscle memory  
    Contemplate what I've been clinging to  
    Forty-six and two ahead of me  
      
    [Bridge]  
    I choose to live and to grow  
    Take and give and to move  
    Learn and love and to cry  
    Kill and die and to be  
    Paranoid and to lie  
    Hate and fear and to do  
    What it takes to move through  
    I choose to live and to lie  
    Kill and give and to die  
    Learn and love and to do  
    What it takes to step through  
    [Interlude]  
      
    [Outro]  
    See my shadow changing  
    Stretching up and over me  
    Soften this old armor  
    Hoping I can clear the way by  
    Stepping through my shadow  
    Coming out the other side  
    Step into the shadow  
    Forty six and two are just ahead of me
    * 2025-11-06 13:27:06: Stephen Watson  
      
    Zen describes all means and methods for realizing the Tao as "legs on a snake" - utterly irrelevant attachments." -Alan Watts
    * 2025-11-07 02:34:09: Stephen Watson  
      
    I actually have the first two Eminem CDs. And I do like Primus.
    * 2025-11-07 05:50:47: Stephen Watson 1/4  
      
    I have seen aspects of the damage that conditions of worth can cause, but I also have challenges achieving unconditional love. While some negative behaviors are unintentional, there really are sadists in the world, and their life stories do not always justify or even explain their tendencies. It is hard for me to love someone who wants others to suffer, at least by some definition of love.  
      
    While it should be possible to forgive any behavior, and hence love anyone unconditionally, a person that misbehaves should face consequences or they will not learn and change. It is also possible to love an abuser too much, which can prevent warranted separation, and there are conditions such as Stockholm syndrome that indicate weaknesses in the human mind that others can exploit.
    * 2025-11-07 05:51:13: Stephen Watson 2/4  
      
    In general, it's dangerous for one person's happiness to depend on the presence or actions of another. The judgments of me by others, or their limitations that prevent them from loving me completely and unconditionally, should not matter to me as long as my love for myself is sufficient. I don't understand people whose ethics depend on the existence of an external vengeful god. There seems to be a very delicate line, as too much self-love can appear indulgent or result in a sort of self-centered arrogance, or even worse, narcissism, but too little self-worth can result in weak character traits.
    * 2025-11-07 05:51:29: Stephen Watson 3.4  
      
    I'm still trying to understand it, but there is a concept in Buddhism of walking the center path - not being or doing good or bad, which basically seems to mean doing nothing. Often I find that, when I try to help someone, which I think should be doing good, I am actually trying to boost my own ego, and not necessarily having the positive impact on the other that I had intended. I can even feel a sense of resentment due to a lack of appreciation for my efforts, especially when there are further requests for assistance, but I try to see these conditions as a result of the person's circumstances. Below some level of security, one can only consider their immediate needs and those of their direct relations.  
      
    So, for optimum results, I guess that one must love oneself unconditionally, but also be deserving of that love. I believe that children need and deserve unconditional love from at least one outside party in order to develop a sense of security and their own aptitude for loving themselves and others. It should also be possible to outgrow that need.
    * 2025-11-07 05:51:38: Stephen Watson 4/4  
      
    > I think therefore I am?  
      
    I can explore this as a thought exercise, but my thoughts do not prove to me that I am, and your thoughts do not prove to me that you are. Your thoughts are, and my thoughts are, but that does not mean that you are, or that I am. And anyway, you are what? Your thoughts?  
      
    > Are you not both already?  
      
    Nobody else is listening to my thoughts, which is probably why I write, although increasingly I find that the writing is just a more formalized mode of thinking, and it doesn't really matter to me whether someone else reads or responds, which is really about ego.
    * 2025-11-07 05:57:07: Stephen Watson  
      
    > I wonder what the opposite of that argument would look like.  
      
    Opposite of hooker with a penis could be a celibate eunuch? Oh my gosh, search suggestions from my spelling guesses just taught me that there's a South Korean/Chinese boy band named Uniq. Makes some sense I guess.
    * 2025-11-07 06:13:22: Stephen Watson  
      
    > Things only take shape when something observes them  
      
    Unless consciousness somehow emerged from nothingness, or things can exist without shape or form, this appears to be an argument that an observer has always existed in the universe.  
      
    I agree to neither agree nor disagree.  
      
    As a disembodied spirit I am dead and yet unborn." -Rush  
      
    Being a disembodied spirit would actually be my goal in life.
    * 2025-11-07 06:16:18: > Consciousness is then the experience of infinite awareness explaining the story to a part of itself that it holds with unconditional love  
      
    If this is an argument in favor of free will, then I agree. I choose to try to love unconditionally. External conditions would appear to trigger the opposite outcome.  
      
    I will choose free will." - also Rush.