Robert Williger

he/him

Writer

Florida

I'm currently streamlining and updating my presence on the internet. I'll primarily be updating on these two domains:

robwilliger.com where I'll share thoughts, observations, and what I've learned about the human condition along with updates on my creative and dramatic projects.
robertwilliger.com will be the home of my persuasive messaging and marketing strategy services, which are focused on small businesses and professionals.

My goal is to put most of my content on sites under my control. I'd like to move more of my internet tools towards open source, independent, or bootstrapped type entities.

Social Media

I'm no longer active on social media. I still have accounts and profiles on many of the sites but only go there when there's a specific reason that it's the best forum to share or learn more about something.

The reality is that if you want to get a message to a large group of people that you don't have direct connections to social media is the most efficient way. There are the clubs and groups that only post their information on social media channels.

I use it in the way that works for me. Not how the experts say you should use it.

I do try to post updates to my statuslog which also posts to my Mastodon. I do see using Mastodon again, but I'll quickly abandon if it's a threat to my mental health.

While I don't like the interaction that's taken over social media, I like being able to share short thoughts and updates and the statuslog is good for that.

You can email me at [email protected]
My other omg.lol sitesite religion.omg.lol will rarely if ever be updated. I still agree with the ideas but focused on sharing those ideas via my dramatic projects.

My current status is:

Projects

Working on a full-length play, working title Why Isn't The Universe Convinced? That explores ideas of religion, purpose, and how we treat our fellow creatures. After that have plans for a play inspired by my experience in Afghanistan.

Completed by first short play, A Very High Price, that was part of a reading by Theatre for Veterans in collaboration with American Lives Theatre.
My dramatic works will be available on New Play Exchange once completed.

Doing an update to Copywriting for Non-Marketers.
Memoir of Army experience is on back burner at this time but I do intend to write that. I'm prioritizing my dramatic writing over other creative efforts. Once those projects are completed I'll return to some of my other ideas.

If you want the occasional update on these projects, please enter your email address below.

Here are some of my essays:

My more recent writing is on my Substack, Catch Yourself Thinking

Interviews I've Done

Some Favorite Quotes

"It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." —Albert Camus - "There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.” —J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man - “No man has a right to be respected for any other possessions, but those of virtue and talents. Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley - “I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” —John Keats - "It is a time in which rock stupidity outsteps the 5th Column as the sole enemy in America" —Gregory Corso
"I believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy. " —Thomas Paine
"I start from the natural rights of the individual, which are co-extensive with his desires and power, and from the fact that no one is bound to live as another pleases but is the guardian of his own liberty and that they best retain this right and secure safety to their state by allowing every man to think what he likes, and say what he thinks."
—Baruch Spinoza
"The men who declare that woman is the intellectual inferior of man, do not, and cannot, by offering themselves in evidence, substantiate their declaration." —Robert G. Ingersoll
"Let us persuade men to be just, beneficent, moderate, sociable; not because the gods demand such conduct, but, because it is pleasant to men" — Baron d' Paul Henri Thiry Holbach
"If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it." —Albert Camus, Homage to an Exile from Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
“I think you have to follow the basic karmic rule, that any action taken in anxiety creates more anxiety. Any action taken in anger spreads anger. Any action taken in violence spreads violence. Any action taken in calm spreads calm. Any action taken in equanimity spreads equanimity. Any action taken gently spreads gentility…” —Allen Ginsberg

If you are experiencing mental health issues and need help, you can contact the 988 Lifeline by dialing 988.

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