David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

30 SATAN’S LEATHERY WING

The city was considering tearing down a building the processed horses. The city council thought making this into a museum for animal cruelty would be harsh. There was a great Facebook post yesterday on the power of reusing old buildings.
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Pigs are smarter then dogs, but they are not omniscient. We saw things at the factor. A lake. A swimming pig. All very odd.
28 ABANDON ALL HOPE

Flipping off a BMW in a church parking lot after reading Dante’s Inferno. That is funny.
27 A GOOD REASON

“You don’t get older during the time spent in church,” he told us. He pushed a shopping cart with a few rags and a bottle of Windex in it. We gave him a dollar.
54. Body and Mind are Symptoms of Ignorance

Happiness is incidental. Compassion is but another word for the refusal to suffer for imaginary reasons
Actual Play Storm King’s Thunder–D&D Encounters S23 S18
53. Desires Fulfilled, Breed More Desires

But there is no remedy — except one — the search for remedies must cease. Externalisation is the first step to liberation. It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.
What did you learn from your Guru and what practice did you follow?

M: Of the two what would you prefer, to love or to be loved? Q: I would rather have both! Love is will, the will to share your happiness with all. Being happy — making happy — this is the rhythm of love.
51. Be Indifferent to Pain and Pleasure

His reasoning capacity is so great, that he will reason himself out of all reason! His selfassertiveness is due to his reliance on logic. Set your intellect aside. Don’t use it in these matters. Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your self-realisation. In nature nothing…
Mining Fifty

Heal your mind and it will cease to project distorted, ugly pictures.