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Dogs FTW: Local Spanish Dog Successfully Recreates Every Human Battle Over Territory Ever By Almost Murdering Another Dog Over A Small Rock, Therefore Proving Dogs Are Indeed As Smart As Humans

Dave February 10, 2019 Chunkyism / News alert!!

CUNIT, SPAIN–Proving once and for all that dogs are indeed as intelligent as humans, local Spanish dog Chunky instigated a dogfight Thursday, almost psychotically murdering another dog over a 3cm X 4cm rock that lay on the shore of a local beach. Locals are lauding Chunky for his insane near-canicide of …

Animals don’t care about superficial bullshit… so, should you? – The Philosophy of: Chunky [pt.10] & The Wisdom of Animals

Dave August 24, 2018 Chunkyism / On Wisdom

This is what I come home to every day… Chunky couldn’t give a shit if a lesson I tried to teach bombed today, or that they’ve just completely changed the format of the test I’m preparing students for and it’s super annoying. Animals, and especially pets, couldn’t care less that there …

(A reminder of) The Philosophy of Chunky – It Chunky destroys it, it’s worth nothing.

Dave March 29, 2018 Chunkyism / On the philosophy of... / Stuff it

The point of writing (whether just for yourself or publishing it) is to document what you do, why you did it, and then reflect on it to see how it went. And it’s also to make sense of the mess. Your mind is full of random thoughts, things people said …

The philosophy of: Chunky [pt.9] – Physical appearance doesn’t matter shit

Dave November 16, 2017 Chunkyism / On the philosophy of... / On the Stoicism of...

This was Chunky after rolling around in the sand down the local beach today: But you think he gives a fuck he has sand all over his face and between his eyeball sockets, looking like some bread crumb-covered weirdo? He couldn’t give a fuck. There’s a reason that our eyeball sockets …

The philosophy of: Chunky pt.8 – Though the past has shaped you, the only time that actually matters is this moment right now

Dave October 24, 2017 Chunkyism / On the Present / On time

This is Chunky. And Chunky could give a fuck about the past or the future. All that he gives a shit about is RIGHT NOW. Though his past behaviours, training and experiences have shaped how he behaves, all that shit doesn’t matter now. What matters is how what he’s become …

The philosophy of: Chunky [pt.6] – Don’t look forward to anything

Dave October 6, 2017 Chunkyism / On the philosophy of...

I’m hitting the road for a 20-hour roadtrip today to hang out with my brother in the Victorian high country. And I’m taking my dog Chunky. Now… I’m pumped about it and when playing with Chunky I’ve told him many iterations of how pumped I exactly am about it. You …

Chunky’s school of philosophy #5: If the dog destroys it, stuff it.

Dave June 11, 2017 Chunkyism / Stuff it

Bliss n Eso just came out with a new album (oh, it’s a banger alright) and this is a line from Moments: The only thing we really own is our memories. In the last year, my dog Chunky’s chewed his way through about 10 cushions, a few shirts, a couple footballs, …

Chunky’s school of philosophy – Lesson #4

Dave June 2, 2017 Chunkyism

In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius talks about how to see everything for how important it really is, by taking ‘Plato’s view’. That is, specifically a bird’s eye one. It’s best to take a birds-eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms …

Life lessons taught by my dog Chunky pt.3

Dave May 24, 2017 Chunkyism / Focus

When you’re picking up dog poo in the backyard, it’s important not to look for the poo –it’s to look where you’re stepping. It’s just like life,

It’s just a _____. [The philosophy of: Chunky pt.2]

Dave May 3, 2017 Chunkyism / I don't get it / Why you do it

When some thing of ours breaks or gets destroyed, there’s usually two ways to look at it: The first way’s to look at it solely from our own blinkered point of view, to get fired up and pissed off, blame others and convince ourselves that yes, this is a big deal. The second …