Bob's blog - the realm of threalm

Truth v Justice, Justice v Freedom, Freedom v Truth Whilst idly threalming recently, I have mulled over a possible new paradigm for navigating our chaotic civilization (as one does). Many wayfaring pirates on today's threalmic seas have found themselves with crappy compasses and confusing charts, as most of the truths, traditions and teachings that have guided us in the past, are increasingly losing credibility and coherence under the serial scrutiny they are subjected to by the sway of spin from seductive sellers of serious style and specious substance. So I posit here a possible navigational aid to help marooned piratic souls find direction again through this increasingly befuddling fog. How can a modern pirate find bearings in the vast tumultuous sea of isms: alarmism, antidisestablishmentarianism, Buddhism, capitalism, c ephlapodism, christianism , conservatism, communism, empiricism, environmentalism, fatalism, feminism, fundamentalism, futurism, Gaiaism, hedonism, humanis...

Welcome to the world of threalming. " Threalming " is the conscious crafting of your life. The verb " to threalm " means to consciously craft your life. The noun " threalm " is a thread of thought or action created and used for threalming, by " threalmers" . Blogging is clearly a species of threalming; hence these first tentative steps. Some people prefer to threalm by jogging, others by snogging, grogging, opposing logging or just sitting, staring and remote hogging. Threalming itself is neither good nor bad, though each of us do form views about good, bad or neutral threalms. But to be a true threalm, a thread has to be a self-consciously chosen course of action or thought, that is understood by the threalmer, when carried out, to be a life crafting event or process. This word can't just be conveniently appropriated and foisted on to your existing habits or modes of thinking, unless there has been an actual conscious affirmation by the thre...