Unikonics

By Tippy Gnu

Unikonics is derived from the word unique. It’s a philosophy about life and change, and how the most unique changes can help us to get the most life out of life. Unikonics teaches the meaning of life, redefines life, and also redefines death. And it illuminates escape routes away from death.

It may only take you a few hours to consume this short book. And in that time, you’ll learn the four guiding principles of Unikonics, with each principle helping you to understand the Unikonics concept from a different perspective. This understanding can help you find ways to get the most life out of life.

Excerpt from Unikonics:

Life is change, and change brings pleasure. I know that some change seems to bring pain, but I’ll be getting into that later. For now, please try to set any mental protesting aside, and bear with me on the idea that change brings pleasure.

In fact let’s take it further and say that change and pleasure are the exact same thing. The more change you experience, the more pleasure you experience. Therefore, change is pleasure. Now, since change is pleasure, and since change is also life, then life, change, and pleasure are all the same thing. This can be written mathematically as follows:

Life=change=pleasure.

You can use logic and play with the above mathematical equation. If life=change=pleasure, then life=pleasure.

If life=pleasure, then that means that life is automatically enjoyed.

Therefore, it is impossible not to enjoy life.

“What?!” you say.

Now it may be getting almost impossible for you to set aside your protests. Because while this may seem logical on paper, you know the practical reality. There are times when you have not enjoyed life. And there are changes that have occurred that you haven’t particularly found any pleasure with. In fact, some changes may have seemed downright miserable to you.

Indeed, change can be very painful at times. But this is covered under the second guiding principle of Unikonics, where you will see how change can sometimes lead to a decrease in your pleasure. I will be explaining that in more detail, in the next chapter.

For now, let’s remain focused on the kind of change that brings an increase in pleasure. It is this sort of change and life that is automatically enjoyed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tippy Gnu
• Release date: Apr 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005515720

Tippy Gnu

My last name is pronounced Guh-NEW, and rhymes with canoe.I began writing when I was five years old. About all I could handle back then were a few scribbled letters that were hardly legible. But eventually I expanded my works to include the full alphabet.I wrote my very first short story when I was in the third grade. And it won an award. The award came from Mrs. Gypsum, my third grade teacher, and was actually just a letter grade. I think it was an A, but it could have been a B. Or a C. Would you believe, D?Hell, I can’t remember what grade I got. But it turned me on to writing so much, that in the 11th grade I wrote another short story. I was in a high school creative writing class and my teacher, Mrs. Nutt, insisted that I write a short story. Damn her! So I scrawled one out, and it got a few laughs from the other students.A few laughs is all it takes to encourage me. I can’t remember my grade, but I do remember the scowl on Mrs. Nutt’s face. So it was probably an F. But it was fun to write a story that my fellow students liked, but my teacher hated. So I kept up the good work, and somehow I passed the class.I had so much fun that a few years later, in college, I signed up for another creative writing class. I intended to sail through without doing much work, by simply submitting all my old high school short stories, to fulfill assignments.I found it very easy to get Professor Mushroom’s goat, and this encouraged me to chuck all my high school work, and come up with new material, specially tailored for her. That got my creative juices flowing. And somehow, I passed the course. She gave me a B, for Bitch. But I think I deserved an A. For Asshole.Out in the real world, I realized how hard it would be to make a living from my rogue writing, so I got real jobs and pursued real careers. I was a disc jockey for a few years, but that didn’t pay much. Greedy, lazy bastard that I am, I decided that I needed a government job. So I managed to get hired by the U.S. Postal Service, and started throwing letters into mailboxes for a living.But in a sense, I really was writing for a living. Management tried their best to fire my lazy ass, so I became a union steward and got good at writing grievances. This was how I got my start in non-fiction (although some claimed it was fiction). It was a lot of hard work, writing contentions and organizing exhibits and such. But I had to work this hard in order to keep my cushy job.I’m now retired from writing, er, the Postal Service, and can spend all day lazing about on my ass, while drawing a fat pension check. Ah, this is paradise. And yet, I’m still writing. What the fuck is wrong with me? Writing is grueling mental labor.The ghosts of my lazy past haunt me. I can’t sleep unless I write and give back to this world. I have to atone for all my past laziness. I will admit that I’ve tried selling my books, but usually nobody wants to buy them. So my fucking karma is forcing me to give away some of my books for free.I hope you enjoy the free reading. Consider it compensation for all those postage stamps you’ve bought. And thanks for helping me clear my conscience.

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Unikonics

A Unique Guide to Getting the Most Life Out of Life.

Tippy Gnu

Unikonics. A Unique Guide to Getting the Most Life Out of Life.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Four Guiding Principles of Unikonics

Chapter 1: The First Guiding Principle of Unikonics

Chapter 2: The Second Guiding Principle of Unikonics

Chapter 3: The Third Guiding Principle of Unikonics

Chapter 4: The Fourth Guiding Principle of Unikonics

Conclusion: Etymology of Unikonics & Unicorniks

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INTRODUCTION: The Four Guiding Principles of Unikonics

UNIKONICS is a guide; a pointer to a path that leads to pleasure and away from pain. It’s a formula for happiness and a dissolver of unhappiness. It teaches the meaning of life. It even redefines life. It redefines death also. And it illuminates escape routes away from death.

Unikonics is derived from the word unique. A detailed etymology can be found in the conclusion of this book.

There are four guiding principles of Unikonics. Each principle helps you to understand this concept from a different perspective. Learn each principle; and then, when you shine your light upon this path to getting the most life out of life, you’ll have four different ways to recognize it.

The four guiding principles of Unikonics are as follows:

1. Pleasure is caused by focusing on uniqueness.

2. Pain is caused by excessive focus.

3. Pleasure is possible when uniqueness is discovered.

4. Pain can be avoided when excessive focus can be avoided.

Each of these four guiding principles is presented separately in this book, and examined in detail, beginning with chapter one.

Chapter 1: The First Guiding Principle of Unikonics

THE FIRST GUIDING PRINCIPLE of Unikonics states that pleasure is caused by focusing on uniqueness.

LIFE IS CHANGE

Life is change. This change can be measured. You measure change by its degree of uniqueness. The more unique an experience is to you, the more change you have experienced. And therefore, the more life you have experienced.

Life is change because nothing in life is permanent. Everything in this universe is constantly changing. Nothing stays the same. The weather changes. The seasons change. The earth beneath your feet is in a constant, though very subtle, state of flux. Populations change. New people are born and old people die. Politics change. Fashions change. Social trends change.

You even change. Your values, your knowledge, your circumstances in life. Your age. Your health. Your mood. They constantly change.

Nothing but nothing ever remains the same. Except change. Change is life, and life is change. And that is the only thing that will always be.

But change is a good thing. Change makes us feel pleasure. Pleasure makes us seek change. There’s a cycle of life going on here. We experience change, and that make us feel pleasure. We associate pleasure with change, so we seek more change in order to feel more pleasure.

This is important for survival. Change is life, so when pleasure motivates us to seek change, we are actually seeking life.

If we were motivated to try to keep things the same, then we would seek death, not life. Imagine if everything stayed the same. The world would be frozen. Nothing would happen. Everything would be like stone, fixed solidly in place.

And that is why change brings pleasure. You like to feel good, don’t you? No one likes to sit around feeling bored all the time. Boredom occurs when life isn’t changing much. There’s no action. There’s nothing going on to interest you. It leaves you wanting more out of life. It leaves you wanting change, and the pleasure you derive from it.

The amount of change you experience is directly proportional to the amount of uniqueness in the change. For instance, if you focus on the second hand going round and round on