#DiaryOfRoundSparrow #Bloomsday2025

#AttractionToFiction It is still hard for me to face what I've experienced in my life. The attraction people have to fiction, sports, war, murder, violence. I traveled and lived in many places and I still felt it was all a misunderstanding. But lately I really struggle with how motivated people are to create world wars and dictatorships.

We do not get to live in history books, it's just information. But it never seemed attractive. Being Bloomsday even louder is James Joyce's expressions of "History is a Nightmare"... why would people spend so much effort justifying war and not cry on cameras about it being a mistake.

Russia isn't gaining anything from the war on Ukraine. The power to motivate people, but for what, how is it enjoyable? Given all the information available in the world, all the choices available, how can people be motivated by such desires.

The clergy disappoints me the most. They are so concerned with rewards in the afterlife they don't seem to want to piss off their audience and actually promote goodness. The ones who do confront their audience seem to want to motivate badness itself.

There was a time period in my life, the 1970's and 1980's that people I met actually did discuss world peace and need for solving hate and wars. But it's been a change,, and the change in the 1990's was not just in the USA my home nation, I experienced it too in Africa and Middle East while living there. And studying the pandemic world wide.

Why are people so avoidant of Dr. Martin Luther King's teachings about world peace and ending hate. It is a common problem, world wide. People sincerely seem more concerned with sports teams and sports stars than world peace and sustainable future for children.

We have created so much fiction horror and weapons ideas, I think we are heading towards realizing it. The pandemic was real, and there seems no good lessons learned. Falsehoods about medical are just as popular now (if not more so) in 2025 than they were in 2019. There is no progress in goodness itself in terms of attraction people have to accurate and sincere information (vs fiction, falsehoods).

Blah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QByjAkv4q4M

Happy Bloomsday from Ireland. 🇮🇪

Hope you take the time to read a book today, as the historic day for authors proceeds in Ireland.

If not, checkout my author site at https://authormulhall.com

Will be drafting some blogs for the schedule this afternoon... 🤗

#bloomsday2025 #Reading #readingcommunity #WritingCommunity

Me. And me now.
Stuck, the flies buzzed.

That first line from the Lestrygonians is devastating, four simple words encapsulating - or suggesting - so much, in a novel filled with Bloom's thoughts about identity, time, memory, what he had aspired to be, what we see that day that he had become.

Happy Bloomsday.

#Bloomsday ##Bloomsday2025 #JamesJoyce

Pel #Bloomsday2025 avui investigo (a partir de l'esment del pare #Vilaplana a la novel·la 'Ulisses' de James Joyce) la petita comunitat de monjos de #Montserrat establerta a #Gibraltar el primer terç del segle XX 👇

https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/el-desconegut-monjo-de-montserrat-que-james-joyce-va-fer-universal/