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Free Advice about Life, Universe and Other Stuff from Lawrence R. Spencer
WISHES
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A wish is a hope or desire for a thing or person to appear, for an immaterial thing to become real, for a condition to change, or any of an unlimited number of desires for change. Traditionally, a wish is request from a supernatural being to cause something to be changed or created. A template for fictional wishes could be The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, specifically the tale of Aladdin, although in the tale of Aladdin the actual wishes were only part of the tale. Classically the wish provider is often a spirit, Genie or similar entity, bound or constrained within an object, like Aladdin’s oil lamp for example.
In the case of the Magic Lamp, there are several steps to getting your wish fulfilled:
- The first step in wishing is to assume or discover that a “supernatural being” exists!
- The next step is to assume that the alleged Supernatural Being is LISTENING to your request.
- Then, the magical Supernatural Being must have the ABILITY to make the wish become reality.
- Finally, the Supernatural Being must actually WANT to make your wish happen for you.
What are the odds that all of these circumstances will ever exist? You do the math….
However, there are other forms of “wishing” or asking for something from a supernatural being. The most common kind of “wishing” is prayer. Another kind of wishing is daydreaming, or imagination or meditation. Another kind of wishing is figuring out how to make something happen and working hard, and persisting long enough to MAKE it happen!
This is almost always the most reliable way of making a wish come true. And, YOU are a Supernatural Being that can make YOUR wishes come true.
— Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013.
DOG LOVE
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HOW TO WRITE
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One contemporary writer who inspired me to write books is Neil Gaiman. I’ve never had the honor of meeting him personally. However, I’ve read many of his books. To that degree I feel as though I can perceive and share the essence of who he is, as a spiritual being. His books, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Neverwhere and The Graveyard Book are among my favorites. His books are marvels of mythological wit and wisdom.
Likewise, I never met Mark Twain personally. However, I’ve read nearly all of his books, including the 1,496 page Autobiography of Mark Twain. Through his words he purveys his personal passion and pain; convictions about life, joy and empathetic anguish. Through his words, I discovered the tragedy of his realization, late in his life, that human existence is an ironic comedy of cruelty, stupidity and despair. Laugh or cry: it’s all the same.
I have been asked by several people: “How do you write books?”.
My advise is simple:
1) Live your life and be true to your own observations.
2) Write about what you know and believe in your soul.
3) Read the minds of Great Thinkers through their books.
The two profound and prolific writers I site above are exemplary (as well as hundreds of other literary masters too numerous to name individually), to wit:
4) Think and communicate your thoughts one word at a time in writing. Continue until you die.
May you survive in perpetuity through your words!
SAINTS AND SINNERS
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Few people in history are better examples of the insane idea that people are either “saints” or “sinners”. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Posthumously, he is acknowledged as one of the principle writers in the “Golden Age of English Literature”.
READ ABOUT THE LIFE AND WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
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