JW Consciousness Stream - 3 December 2025

This entry represents something like my stream of consciousness for Wednesday, 3 December, 2025. This is basically like a journal entry that I work on throughout the day and then don't go back to correct errors.

Originally published to: https://deliverystack.net/2025/12/03/jw-consciousness-stream-2-december-2025-2/

Topics in this post:

• Songs
• AI impersonating Alan Watts
• TV programs from my childhood
• Gurdjieff: Most people have no soul
• I struggle with my own ego

Some songs for today:

• The Cranberries: Dreams
• The Cranberries: Zombie
• Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains: The Foggy Dew
• The Clancy Brothers: Johnson's Motor Car
• The Statler Brothers: Daddy Sang Bass
• Anne Murray: You Needed Me
• Disturbed: The Sound Of Silence: Simon and Garfunkel cover that seems to be a reinterpretation of the lyrics with a result that is better than the original.
• No Doubt: Don't Speak: I saw these guys live once. I could swear that the drummer, who was wearing only whitey tightie undies, tried to throw a stick to me after the show, possibly because he saw me looking at him through binoculars.
• Slayer: Behind The Crooked Cross: I recommend at least the entire South of Heaven album.

I was listening to the following video last night but got upset at about 7:10 when the voice of Alan Watts, who died in 1973 (the year I was born), mentioned texts and then started talking about himself in the third person. It doesn't make the content worthless, but AI pretending to be someone bothers me. Afterwards, I noticed that the voice was rather flat and the audio quality might have been too good to have been recorded during his lifetime. I think I fell asleep after 10:00 last night and got up around 4:00 this morning.

• Why Spiritually Awake People Stay Home - Alan Watts

I published this:

• https://deliverystack.net/2025/12/02/television-programs-from-my-childhood/

It's 5:30. Now I'm having second cup of coffee while working on a piece about Gurdjieff:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff

Wow, my audio-to-text AI really has a hard time with that name! I saw at least these, and very few of them more than once:

• Gurf
• Gurgef
• GeF
• Gorgev
• Gurgev
• Goref
• Gerf
• Gurf
• Gurv
• Gorge

My friend Marta recommended:

• https://balandjalal.com/

I always want more time and energy to read and write.

It's 7:00. I published this:

• https://deliverystack.net/2025/12/02/gurdjieff-most-people-have-no-soul/

It's 10:15. I went to a nearby resort for breakfast and probably had too much Thai coffee. I have a massage scheduled for 12:00. I'll try to do a few small things before then.

I published this:

• https://deliverystack.net/2025/12/02/i-struggle-with-my-own-ego/