George Ochsenfeld
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Secret agent inciting spiritual revolution. Interests: spiritual awakening, mindfulness meditation, Jung, Tolle, 12 Steps, psychedelics, radical simplicity, ecological sanity. Retired addictions counselor, university faculty.
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Chicago Man Claims He Does Not Like Sports
By Jimmy Olson for Shooting Stars Daily CHICAGO — A gaggle of reporters gathered around Frank Feral, a Chicago man who recently became the target of outrage over secretly recorded comments he made at Billy Goat Tavern.
By George Ochsenfeld3 years ago in Fiction
Ukraine and Nuclear War: A Brief Essay on Preventing Armageddon
Give Peace a Chance Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has been largely beaten back. Now is the time to negotiate a settlement. Continued escalation means more death, maiming, trauma, dislocation, and destruction. And the ever-increasing likelihood that hostilities will spiral out of control into a nuclear apocalypse. We will never know if negotiations can succeed unless they are tried.
By George Ochsenfeld3 years ago in Humans
Radical Simplicity: Gandhi’s Cure For Industrial Civilization
I do not believe that multiplication of wants and machinery contrived to supply them is taking the world a single step nearer its goal… I whole-heartedly detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time, to increase animal appetites and go to the ends of the earth in search of their satisfaction. If modern civilization stands for all this, and I have understood it to do so, I call it Satanic.
By George Ochsenfeld4 years ago in Humans
I'm Worried About Nuclear War With Russia
In grammar school in the 1950s, we faced the ever-present threat of nuclear war with Russia. In preparation for annihilation, we had drills every Tuesday morning at 10:30, when the air-raid sirens were tested. The good nuns instructed us to get underneath our desks and put our heads between our knees. They didn’t tell us that the only possible useful purpose of this maneuver would be to kiss our asses goodbye.
By George Ochsenfeld4 years ago in The Swamp
