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NOTE: The following is a collection of recovered posts from the now-defunct “Saturn Deer’s Web Center!”, a blog maintained by PoI-1710 (“Saturn Deer”) until 2016. Given PoI-1710’s propensity toward thaumaturgy and their consistent abuse of linguistically encoded cognitohazards and memnohazards, due caution is advised while perusing this archive.
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Life Worth Living
Uploaded 08:36, 8 October, 2012
Buongiorno, my friends, and welcome back to the magnificent world of the Saturn Deer. For those of you returning, you know what to expect, and for those of you who are new, I’m so glad to have you! I won’t waste your time with a tedious introduction like yesterday’s. I have a lot on my mind.
Do you ever wonder if everything you’re holding together is worth it? The evenings where you’re repeating those same rote activities and think, “What would happen if I just gave it up now?” And I’m here to tell you, darlings, that you’re correct. Really take a moment and consider just how worthwhile all those small snares of life in the modern day are. Doesn’t it seem silly how much of our time we spend just repeating things that give us nothing?
So today, I’m telling you to cut. Cut out the things that you only maintain for their own sake. Think about, for example, cleaning. Why waste your precious golden minutes on this sun-drenched rock doing fucking laundry when you could use them to be a beautiful being? You’ve heard me opine about Fate too many times to count, so you know that it’s pointless to fill your life with even more inevitable charted courses.
Now, you probably wonder just how you’d do this. And I’m not telling you to live in ascetic filth. But I am suggesting that when you limit what you have to begin with, you don’t need to worry about a lot of these things. When you gauge those things that are most necessary and leave the rest behind, you unshackle yourself from routine and from the worry of not fulfilling what’s expected of you.
Like I say, most possessions are cheap, but not in the way they tell you. You are better served in keeping the things that spiritually matter to you than keeping the things society commands you to need and want. I’d rather have a book of poems than a dishwasher, because what kind of joy is inspired by the mundane trappings of a basal life?
And there’s a deeper layer to rejecting actions of rigamarole and objects of simplicity: experiences are always better than possessions. Make your life extraordinary, and damn the majority. People, places, memories, even if they fade and fall away, they burned so brilliantly that you’re never truly without them. If you aren’t living a life that makes you wake up with eagerness, then why even try at all?
To close, I’d like to add one more consideration. Not only is it a beautiful and redeeming thing to shed the bindings of mediocrity, but removing worthlessness can mean money, and you can garner some neat funds from both your newly-saved time and the sale of these objects. And what then? You can give those petty pennies to the people who can make the most change with them.
Such as me ;)
All for you, and all of you for me,
SATURN DEER
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Love Worth Loving
Uploaded 14:44, 9 October, 2012
Hello again, sports fans! If you thought you’d had enough Saturn Deer, then sit down and open your eyes, bitch, because there’s nothing more important for you in the whole universe than this!
Now, I don’t like to talk about myself when it’s not necessary. I figure it would be disheartening for you all, still on your self-improvement journeys, to see someone so successful, insightful, and venereal. But this simply cannot wait! As I lay here in my humble dwelling, I can’t disguise the rising of my heart. Not to give too much away, but I’ve come back into contact with a special somebody who I’ve known for going on three centuries now. The thing is, I’d been able to fill those 300 years with literal thousands of others, and it hit me just how fortunate I truly am.
Beloved, your lives are short. Shorter than they ought to be (especially if you’re not following the tips outlined on my twelve-part video series), but you can fill that time with enough beauty to occupy a blissful grave. This is why I tell you honestly to trust yourself and your instincts. Like I say, Fate is your guide and I am her throat. So don’t spend those slaughtered minutes in deliberation or desperation. Spend them in decision!
And if you see them and feel happy to know they’re in the room, or your bad day is banished by a single message or call from them, don’t wait and don’t doubt. Find that person or persons, and do what you know you need to do.
What about the much-smaller percent of you that are already in a relationship of some kind, you ask? The advice is the same. You know in the depths of your mind how to best serve others and yourself. Love is active, love is fierce. It does not tarry, it does not halt, it is not cowed.
Thus, you can be sure of how to live going forth, at least today. To love is to forsake the attachments of the earth for the attachments of the universe. And I know how I’m going to go forth today, assuming they have an open enough schedule.
Oh and also aroace folks or just others who would rather not, I made a separate and more platonic post for you right here, have a blessed day.
SATURN DEER
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Things To Come
Uploaded 10:30, 12 October, 2012
Why, hello again! I hope you’re well, because you’re going to lose your fucking mind in just a couple line breaks! Today, I want to give you more than just life advice. I want to give you actionable insights on when and how you’re going to need to use what I tell you. And you will need to use them. Lies are mycorrhizae; they hold things in balance, but in excess they sap the world of everything. And I’m no fungus.
So get this. We are a planet virtually drowning in war and violence, from the pulpit to the purgament. Bodily safety can never be guaranteed for anyone until we achieve a revolution in universal thought. But more important than this is mental safety. You can’t grasp it, but there are holes bored into your brain that the world is eager to pour its boiling milk of misery into. Guard your heart, as shrewdly as a snake and as cautiously as a doe. Media, corporations, politicians, everybody wants a piece. If you let them make you think it’s hopeless, then it is hopeless.
A day’s coming soon, and I know you can probably see it too on some level, when truth is a liability and none of you are needed. The folks in charge are better than a monopoly, they’re a cartel, and they have everything they could want already inside their oligarchical orgy to bother with the beggars and boors. What to do? The only thing that can be done: find the people that can make the greatest change, find the ideals and places and things that are worth the most, and give of your own accord. If you give everything to the right cause, then there’s nothing for the wicked of the world to take.
This is your onus, I think. The judgement and patience required to weather the inevitable storm is yours alone to muster. Fate is a bitch, and sometimes it just feels like you’re up a creek with no paddle. So let me provide the paddle you crave. Allow me to be the proxy for your actions and impulses, and you fuel a cycle in opposition to the cruelties of this universe. Wisdom begetting resistance begetting new enlightenment begetting greater change.
In this way, we make the world and ourselves extraordinary. And if I can be the conduit for the change you work toward, then I can rest easy.
Aching to answer,
SATURN DEER
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In Confidence
Uploaded 03:56, 15 October, 2012
I’ve gotten a lot of comments and questions over the years about why I almost always post these so late/early (considering this blog is primarily read in the GMT-3 to GMT-8 zone and that’s where I am as well). Let me level with you. It’s usually because I’m so busy keeping track of all the pies I’ve got a thumb in. But tonight, as I let the cool, salty breeze wash over me, and watch somnolent Luna drift to her circadian slumber, I must confess that I simply wanted to evade sleep as much as possible, so that this day is never taken away from me.
Maybe it’s exhaustion from both the hour and the draining activities I’ve been up to (which only got draining around hour three). Maybe it’s the revelatory mood that only comes about after your life has experienced an emotional upheaval. Maybe it’s an oncoming vision or divine inspiration. But no matter why I feel this way, I feel gloriously human. And I want to tell you some things.
You don’t see the good you do, and you may never see it in your lifetime. But I can. Sometimes people don’t believe that I truly reincarnate, at least in the traditional sense. “You wouldn’t be the same,” they point out, “everyone reincarnates anyway, and you wouldn’t remember everything.” Well, you’re right, but mine is a charmed life indeed. Reincarnation is a bit of a deficient term. I would call it “regeneration”, honestly. Not to say too much (who knows who could be listening), but I don’t do my new lives the way you might imagine. In death, I don’t restart. I resume, from a new body of the same age of the same mind. Only natural death sets me back to infancy, and even then, all my memories return as I age. This is what’s allowed me to exist in such a wide range of lives and times, and it’s what’s created my philosophy.
So someday, when you and every meager thing you’ve built or bred on this earth is dead and forgotten, I will still be there, a witness to all the wonders that your little actions here and now have achieved. And that’s without even factoring in, you know, the visions of the future that I’m constantly giving you already.
And that’s all to say, you won’t have to concern yourself with what the things you do end up achieving later down the line. Your hard work and the fact that you have the best cause in mind is what matters. When you can muster the courage to not obsess over being control, you know you’re getting somewhere.
But I’ve somewhere to get myself (they’re probably gonna want to co-write a poem to commemorate this moment :P), so meditate on these words. And keep in mind that even though the T-shirts are fully sold out, everything for sale in the merch store is just as buyable as ever! You can buy it, you can buy it, you can buy it, you probably can’t since you’re about to be laid off, you can buy it, you can buy it, and so can >60% of you too!
In the meantime, I’ll remain the same, unending and adoring. And so will you.
Stay hydrated,
SATURN DEER
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Regrets and Remissions
Uploaded 20:02, 17 October, 2012
I’d like to apologize for not providing this at the usual time where it could serve as morning reading material, but also I don’t want to burden you with a heavy topic so early, so maybe you should shut up and understand that “inconveniences” are often just necessities for something to work that you don’t want to comprehend the full scope of.
And “full scope” is very important to what I want to tell you today, beloved. I look to the future, and I’ll tell you right away that doing so is the more important direction to point your life. Of course, I can’t understate the value of the past, though the fact that I’ve lived through it probably gives me something of a bias. Anyway, if you’re not like me, you probably lie awake for hours, wallowing in the lagoon of your own failures, both in action and in identity.
It’s okay to accept that these shortcomings exist. In fact, it’s very important to recognized that you are flawed and have acted in ways that you wouldn’t now. But it’s not okay to accept them and do nothing about them. The past cannot be changed. Sometimes you do things you can’t make up for.
Sometimes you do things that you aren’t forgiven for.
Sometimes you think that you don’t deserve to be forgiven for them.
And sometimes you’re right.
But that doesn’t matter! Because the only thing you can do when you’re in this situation is to make up for your infractions equally in the present. The only good you can do is now. For much of my time, I’ve believed in certain things regarding repentance. Some people are irredeemable, I think, but only because what they would need to do to make up for their transgressions couldn’t reasonably ever be completed. And yet, there’s even a way to make up for this. By giving others the tools they need to carry out the greatest possible good.
That’s really all there is to it. You can’t change what you’ve done, you can’t guarantee that you can grow from it, but you can do the most good possible and refine yourself in the process. And if you don’t believe it’s enough, then pass that good on to the best person to continue it.
Ring any bells?
In sickness and in health,
SATURN DEER
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