Define a question
Gather information and resources (observe)
Form an explanatory hypothesis
Test the hypothesis by performing an experiment and collecting data in a reproducible manner
Analyze the data
Interpret the data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for a new hypothesis
Publish results
Form a consensus with your pedantic, pretentious peers. Proudly proclaim to the world, “Scientists have figured out everything.” Then join the new religion called Scientific Fundamentalism which bans non-graduates of elitist universities from participating in science thus dichotomizing priestly caste and dogmatist believers in materialistic nihilistic world religion. With a decade of diligent brainwashing at university, you finally have a tribe who gives your ego the validation it deserves after being picked on all those years, right nerd? Becoming a scientist has made you a real boy. Put thumb in rectum. Swirl. Burn diploma. Rinse and repeat. Scientifically proven to relieve pretension caused by graduation from elitist university. Science is humble. Scientists are arrogant pricks. Science is a great tool for discerning reality. Scientists know nothing.
Philology of Babble
No one knows the actual root of any word. Some other language existed before Sanskrit and Sumerian. I’m interested in things that all people shared before they ever knew the other existed: the “Dog Star,” for instance, and all the so-called divine beings said to die for 3 days to be reborn, or the fact that every mother across the world says “Shhhh” to calm her baby, or the bizarrely similar symptoms of sleep paralysis across cultures and ages, or the “Erm” or “Um” people say when they can’t think of what to say next, and how similar “Um” is to “Amen” (Aum-men) and what’s said to be the primordial sound, “AUM”:
“Aaauuuu-Ooooooooo-Mmmmmmmm” (Um, I mean, um, rather, amen.)
Wisdom Doesn’t Preach, Only Sings
Apples and oranges both bring joy and nutritional value. Dogs and cats and The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are nonexclusively lovely and lovable. 21st Century society attempts to cater to each individual’s very particular preferences, successfully stunting the evolution of nearly everyone living within it. The only way to break out of this brainwashing mechanism is to stop identifying with one part of a binary whole. The food you eat, the medication you take, the movies you watch, the news you receive, the podcasts and videos and music which are recommended to you —the whole system which currently governs your life - there IS an intention initiating your every action, and that intention is to keep you in a state of willful ignorance, to keep you clicking, to keep you buying, to keep you thinking that you’re choosing to live this life by your own free will. The reality is you’re becoming trapped in a world of likes and dislikes, favorites and least favorites, thumbs up and thumbs down, shares, follows and subscribes.
Clues Human Life Shouldn't Be Taken Seriously
PD
You’re telling me that new life on earth came out between the pee hole and the shit hole?
STEVE
I know it sounds like a joke, but that’s really how it was down there. Solid waste came out one hole, liquid waste another hole, and then a new human would pop out somewhere in the middle.
PD
How bizarre.
STEVE
And everything down there on earth had to kill other things and grind them up with our face holes.
Another Divergence From Form Into Formlessness
These be words of intention. Ye read thee summersaulting unto linguistic tapestry? In music, there are happy accidents. In writing, there are no accidents. I use my human attitude, my frustration, irreverence and hatred of inauthenticity in a way to which the universe instructs me from within - to snag the wild ire which burns in the hearts of men and women across the world. I bleed authenticity and then I let go of it. Whomever finds it, finds it. Whomever doesn’t doesn’t. But in the moment of creativity, I Am bleeding the question, What do they need to hear and read to see what I see and feel what I feel? Do they need more “properly-written” scholarly essays, or do they need to be inspired?
Of Mice and Menace & The World Speaks
The thought certainly crossed my mind, “When I catch you little mouse fucker, I’m gonna kill you!” Seeing mice turds all over the countertop where I no longer leave my clean dishes, I fantasized killing them. But when seen up close, all I want to do is ogle their adorable little cartoon characteristics, grey fur with little tufts of white, tiny pink noses, curly whiskers, disproportionately large ears and eyes staring up at me, begging for mercy.
I Accept Your Plateau
Your profession of putting people in boxes has so repressed the authentic Self within you that you aren’t here at all. It’s so engrained in you, you have no awareness of the fact that every expression of you is from a place of identification, and your analysis of every individual in your presence is an extended expression of your limitations. ‘You’re the type of person who…’ fill in the blank. ‘I’m the type of person who…’ fill in the blank. You’re not even aware that you’re not in the moment when you’re talking about how to be in the moment. You’re not even aware that you sit in judgement as you speak of no judgement. Everything is judgement in a taxonomic breakdown of identity. Your plateau has rewarded you for your hierarchical classification ‘skills’, and so you believe it to be a strength, but there’s only one of us here. I’m arguing with a textbook and then getting frustrated when all that comes back is analytic data.
ALTAMIRA CAVE & An Introduction to the Poem, "THE SCIENTISTS TURNED SCIENCE INTO ANOTHER DUMB RELIGION"
The headline is, “Materialistic scientists from a materialistic society study the material universe, conclude the universe is entirely material.” The problem with this is it's not true, and its a highly destructive worldview which is killing off all the cool people, and I’m left mucking about with you emotionless, unimaginative, dogmatic rationalists and religious nuts, as though those are the only two options.