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MLK - Where do we go from here (on Love)
The latest in my personal development series, informally described as: “how to speak like the people you admire.” Alternatively, “reading out loud is good for grown-ups too!”
If you wanna read about this ongoing project, see this link:
bit.ly/3uTlJPT
That original video has a neat 82K views now (vs 20K from before).
Backstory here is that for the past few years I’ve written a lot about love as the highest truth. It’s been woven into a lot of my commentary and self-reflection. It was the final conclusion after a lot of soul-searching, and while I knew it in my heart, it still felt shaky when I went to plant the flag down, and essentially ask people to rally around it with me.
We don’t have enough words for love in English, so unfortunately it’s a word that is often misunderstood. It often sounds weak. It doesn’t quite catch when there’s serious shit going down in the world.
I will not define all the variances here, but I will instead offer this excerpt of Martin Luther King’s “Where Do We Go From Here” speech, read by myself.
If you scan through the history books there is an absolute gauntlet of badass men and women, battle-tested peacemakers and spiritualists who are not afraid to fight, yet nonetheless all triangulate on this common conclusion of love.
This is not MLK‘s only expansion on the concept, but just a brief one I wanted to share. His imagery is incisive and beautiful. I had first encountered these quotes exploring MLK promenade in San Diego, and it felt reassuring to feel the man’s words reverberate in my head and throughout my body.
Put simply, for me: LOVE is question, and LOVE is also the answer.
I’m no orator (duh), and it feels wrong to neuter MLK’s unique and fiery style with my own attempt. But alas, that is the point of this whole thing, yeah? To revive, renew, and make personal the past, and to be within yourself, a solid bridge to the future. To be a connecting soul for our human family…and to be a persistent echo for long after we have left this home on Earth 🙏🏼
If you wanna read about this ongoing project, see this link:
bit.ly/3uTlJPT
That original video has a neat 82K views now (vs 20K from before).
Backstory here is that for the past few years I’ve written a lot about love as the highest truth. It’s been woven into a lot of my commentary and self-reflection. It was the final conclusion after a lot of soul-searching, and while I knew it in my heart, it still felt shaky when I went to plant the flag down, and essentially ask people to rally around it with me.
We don’t have enough words for love in English, so unfortunately it’s a word that is often misunderstood. It often sounds weak. It doesn’t quite catch when there’s serious shit going down in the world.
I will not define all the variances here, but I will instead offer this excerpt of Martin Luther King’s “Where Do We Go From Here” speech, read by myself.
If you scan through the history books there is an absolute gauntlet of badass men and women, battle-tested peacemakers and spiritualists who are not afraid to fight, yet nonetheless all triangulate on this common conclusion of love.
This is not MLK‘s only expansion on the concept, but just a brief one I wanted to share. His imagery is incisive and beautiful. I had first encountered these quotes exploring MLK promenade in San Diego, and it felt reassuring to feel the man’s words reverberate in my head and throughout my body.
Put simply, for me: LOVE is question, and LOVE is also the answer.
I’m no orator (duh), and it feels wrong to neuter MLK’s unique and fiery style with my own attempt. But alas, that is the point of this whole thing, yeah? To revive, renew, and make personal the past, and to be within yourself, a solid bridge to the future. To be a connecting soul for our human family…and to be a persistent echo for long after we have left this home on Earth 🙏🏼
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Practicing my diction by reading out loud written content I admire. One shot recording, no pre-read. Transcript here: www.lettersofnote.com/2016/07/your-type-is-dime-dozen.html If you wanna read about this ongoing personal project, see this link: bit.ly/3uTlJPT
Just call an FBI agent to read you something an American wrote
thanks, buddy.
Thank you very much for creating/posting this. ☮
One of my favourite thing’s I’ve heard from Hunter
This guy reminds me of a combination of B.D. Cooper and Travis from the movie Taxi Driver.
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Thompson's purpose was murder and pedophilia. Making snuff films. Shooting meth and adrenochrome...
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The link to the original letter is gone
you suck
Thinking about it that's why people stay in this bubble of reality they have made for themselves they refuse to wander away from it and expose themselves to new experiences that would change their perspective of their life. The sad part is people are aware of this fundamental truth and make a decision to never change or evolve their perception. To be or not to be that is literally the question.
Don't be afraid to change your life. I have never been afraid of changes in my life, I have always been very afraid of their absence. I was afraid that I would be forever stuck in a life that did not please me. I strive with all my might for my love, for my happiness!!! For me happiness is love. And I don't care that people around me don't understand. I always make my own decisions about how to live, because this is my life. The only one and I'm not going to sacrifice it to public opinion. Don't be afraid of change!!! Sometimes there are changes that can be called a real miracle!!!
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good job! if you’re interested in a thought on the reading. i’d just remark that i appreciate the narration and got the feeling of ‘a pedestrian sanctity or candidness.’ As it treats the subject with the appropriate dignity without coming across as holier than thou. Bumping the speed up 25 points was magic for me and felt a bit more purposeful though. Solid narration, like a pair of loose- but tight-fitted (pvc-fitted) blue jeans in a room of suits.
Didn't he shoot himself in the skull while taunting his sons wife on the telephone?
Memorize this in case it’s ever lost is my advice.
hey i have being and nothingness in my shelf! might have to give it another look. i havent been reading enough lately, but Kingdon of Fear has reignited my interest
Crazy man. That's why I enjoy him a lot.
Hunter filmed snuff films …. Allegedly.
Thx for the kick in the ass. This message hit me right when it needed too. Thx again
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Hunter S. Thompson was a pedophile.
Too bad drugs and alcohol destroyed him. He could have been so much greater.
Wow, just Wow! Thank you for posting! ☮️
Simon Bolivar speechs are great works for diction work
Hunter was a man ahead of his time. He was a man who was a victim of his time.
The current generation needs to know this and the books written by HST (as well as the other gens). I, as a part of this generation, have learned so much in life and the perspectives of different people about it and the world. I'm not better, but still trying to uphold righteousness and guides. His works, esp his letters, will be living literature for those who needs it.
I love his arriving at the grave quote.
learn to read
Sheets to the wind. Let the wind take you to where you must be for that wind is the divine breath of God putting you on a course that he has planned for you. Do nothing and trust in god.God. let got take the wheel.
Yeah lets glorify the words of a man who killed himself when football ended.
Life advice from HST should come with a warning label.
Gotta work on your voice
rich coming from a man who blew how own brains out with his son in the next room be careful where you get your life-advice, folks. this is coming from a man who would happily read his books still though I know his example is NOT to be followed
Beautiful- thank you. love this man. Hells Angels is one of my favorite books!
Jordan Peterson would agree i think, whatever gives you meaning in life and become something rather than nothing.
Looking at CZcams in my recommendations: How to be successful from a mob boss.. How to be happy from a man who committed suicide..
Great reading, thank you. I needed to hear this now, truly.
Always thought that all those so-called "life coaches", people that appear fron nowhere and give advice to people left and right are actually doing more damage than good. Even Stoic wisdom is to never give advice becasue you will never be in other people shoes....The best piece of advice you can give or receive is "be happy" as simpel as it is, figuring out how to get there is your job.
okay fine ill get my life together rn time to graduate
I guess. Dude was into snuff films and human hunting parties. On par with Crowley, do what thou wilt. Pure evil
I wish I could have had the chance to meet meet HUNTER S THOMPSON he was a amazing author of a lot of amazing books although he was loaded on drugs and alcohol all of his life well I may have done alot of drugs and alcohol to in my life but unfortunately got in a car accident because I was just drunk tho no more hard core drugs anymore and partying everywhere day I found out the hard way but I'm a walking talking miracle I may still smoke cigarettes marrlb reds and just drink beers only on the weekends because my partying days are over THANK GOD IM DONE AND HOME NOW ( A_C
These reads are a really good idea ! Keep it up
Here I am 22 years old, as was Hunter when he wrote this letter, trying to understand what could have made him so wise. The thoughts spoken are so simple yet hold the same weight as proverbs. It's something we have all known deep down inside yet hearing the conformation from someone else is settling. In this Hunter doesn't tell us what the meaning to life IS. Just simply how to find your own meaning and live comfortably. Maybe it would be brash for someone to say that there was meaning to this life. We're all compounds of science that so happened to become conscious and now we are all pondering on things of which we have no control. The meaning of your life isn't written in stone from conception, it is something that you create for yourself.
Soz dude, just because the photo was taken in his early 20’s doesn’t mean that he wrote it then, keep in mind he was in the military for most of his 20’s and didn’t start writing until his 30’s/40’s I think
HUNTER SHOT HIMSELF THOMPSON COMMITTED SUICIDE DO YOU REALLY WANT HIS ADVICE‽ HUNTER SHOTGUNNED HIS OWN HEAD WHAT ON EARTH MAKES HIM WISE THEN‽ YOU ARE A FOOL TO TAKE HIS ADVICE
He did alright
The quote by Shakespeare was said by a madman...it's supposed to be absurd, not deep...lol.
That's the kind of stuff they should be teaching kids in school.
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