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New blog entry at my site about empowerment in the search for truth and meaning: www.andrewgubb.com/drupal/comm…


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One of the ideas I went through when choosing a tagline for my blog was, "Common Sense for a Crazy World". I believe that the world can be saved using common sense alone. I left that tagline, though, because I ended up coming to the conclusion that the world can do just fine without me saving it. I'm just here to write about finding truth.

The core message of this article can be summed up as:

“All real knowledge is common sense.”

I'll explain this a bit better, though.

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Read more: www.andrewgubb.com/drupal/comm…
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Este Journal es también delicioso en español (abajo)

Hi guys,

There are two things. The first and biggest is this:

THE SPIRITUAL VEGAN

...Which is a new vegan recipe blog me and my mate Christian have decided to start up together. It's in Spanish and English, and the recipes combine both of our inspiration and nutty humour with his meticulousness and eye for measures. I dealt with the tecchy parts and do the typing. It might not be obvious, but I'm also working on publicity. The update schedule is "every weekend", which means Friday or Saturday and Sunday if we really couldn't manage before then.

I'm pretty excited about this little project. It's not exactly full-time, but in a year we'll have an entire recipe-book online. And seriously, I think our stuff is among the best. I really do. (Actually in England you have some good food writers but in Spain there's a surprising lack of them. And I don't know any really original vegan chefs).

So here's the link:

www.thespiritualvegan.wordpres…

The other thing is about my old blog.

I started that thing up about a year ago with the idea of eventually going professional and I'm still working at it. With a lot of embarrassing trial and error, and some inner work on my own blocks to expressing myself, I'm proud to say that I've found what looks to be my groove now. Accordingly, I've made myself a regular posting schedule.

You might have heard when I was starting out that I was planning to make it a website on the topic of happiness. Well, thanks to the advice of a really cool person (www.magicalchest.net) I realised that I shouldn't write about what I'm aiming for, but what I already have. This was one of my biggest blocks. I got all authoritative on a topic which I was only really intermediate at, and then got uncomfortable looking at my own writing because I didn't feel authentic.

I finally got past that recently with my recent series of posts, How to find the truth in a world of lies. I ended up realising that I could write an entire book on the topic, not just five posts. I also noticed that my best posts from the past were about the same stuff. So I identified my topic: the energy of Truth. In particular, this is a personal development / spirituality site, but coming from the angle of someone who loves to find truth. I find that's my special approach. When I want to solve a personal issue, I like to do so by deepening my perceptions and understanding my playing field better. For instance, I've spent this year focusing most of all on financial development. I started out by saying "Wait a minute - what is money? Why do I need it? Can I do without it? What is work? Is it good, is it bad? How can I act congruently with respect to work and money?" I felt that if my beliefs about this topic were aligned with reality I could have a good foundation to stand on. I won't go into details, but I'm really happy with this approach so far :)

In fact, my pursuit of spirituality and personal growth started out from my search for truth. At some point I stepped back from all my reading and thought, "What can I apply my mind to that would be worth the challenge?" I came up with happiness -- whatever that would turn out to be. And this is how spirituality and curiosity came together in a spectacularly happy marriage.

I recommend you check out the new series How to find the truth in a world of lies www.andrewgubb.com/drupal/how_… to get a taste for where this thing is going.

Thanks for reading. I hope you're having a beautiful time in University (about half of the people here) or wherever else.......................... what are you up to?

Warm regards

Andrew

ESPAÑOL

Hola todos,

En la versión inglés hay dos cosas. Pero la segunda no os va a interesar, como es en inglés. Pero esto sí:

THE SPIRITUAL VEGAN

...Lo que es un nuevo blog de recetas veganas que yo y mi amigo Christian acabamos de crear juntos. Es en español y inglés, y las recetas vienen de una combinación de nuestra inspiración y humor loco con la atención a la detalle de Christian y su ojo para medidas. Yo hice las cosas informáticas y manejé el teclado. Aunque no es obvio también hago la publicidad. Hacemos nuevas recetas cada "fin de semana", lo que quiere decir Viernes o Sábado, o domingo si realmente hay problemas como por ejemplo una cometa nos destruye el ordinador o una chica guapa nos distrae.

Estoy bastante ilusionado por este proyectito. No es exactamente un trabajo de lunes a viernes, pero dentro de un año podemos tener el equivalente a un libro de recetas entera on-line. Y en serio, creo que lo nuestro es de puta madre. Realmente lo pienso. (Con mucha humildad, ajem). De hecho en inglaterra los escritores de cocina son de calidad, pero los de españa me decepcionan mucho; y de veganos no conozco ninguno muy original.

Pues aquí el enlace:

www.thespiritualvegan.wordpres…

Gracias por leer. Que tengáis un bellisimo dia seas dónde seas.................. y cuéntame algo :)

Saludos cálidos

Andrew
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So, what up.

I haven't messed with devart for a while since I haven't really been struck by the inspiration. I'm spending more time on my blog www.andrewgubb.com now, writing about semi-realistic things which therefore aren't fit for the fantastical world of deviation.

Life is pretty fun right now :) Some updates:

I came to Barcelona,

Started the raw food diet,

Stayed at the university protest,

Fell in love,

Broke up,

Went on a crazy trip to find myself,

Came back,

And am doing miscellaneous stuff right now. It's quite fun!


How you beautiful people doing?
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I hear the lost comic, number pi, is available if you vote for amusing comic on topwebcomics through my website... AMUSING COMIC DOT COM!!! www.amusingcomic.com
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I do seem to get hits on the later ones which suggests people are reading through, but no comments.

It's so frustrating not knowing what people are thinking!

Please speak your mind.
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