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Paraphrasing Freddy:

I hate who steals my solitude without,

in exchange,

offering me good company.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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If it's true there are as many minds as there are heads.

Then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

--Leo Tolstoy

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The story of villains

is much more entertaining

than the story of heroes,

because monsters are not born,

they are made.

--Mary Shelley

It would seem we are living a very interesting story.

Today's Quote

There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself.

--Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Death Throes

"This toxic patriarchal energy we're experiencing right now - this is an age coming to an end. And what we're seeing is that energy clinging and clawing for survival, cuz it knows it's dying. We're headed towards something very beautiful, and we just have to go through some dark shit for us to get there. So love everybody around you, don't accept anything other than that - and fuck shit up."

                                        --Strugill Simpson 11-24-2024

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Faith is often the boast of a man

who is too lazy to investigate. 

-- FM Knowles

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(paraphrasing Wm Faulkner)

Don't be afraid to raise your voice in favor of honesty, and truth, and compassion - and against injustice, and lying, and greed.

If people everywhere did this, it would change the world.

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Almost straight outa The Daddy State Awareness Guide.

This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.

With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

Hannah Arendt

14 OCT 1906 - 04 DEC 1975

German historian and philosopher

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Knowing your own darkness

is the best method for dealing

with the darkness of others.

--Carl Jung

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"It doesn't take 60 thousand bucks to bury a fucking Mexican."  --Donald Trump

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No one is more arrogant toward women - more aggressive or scornful - than the man who is anxious about his virility.

--Simone de Beauvoir

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So long as men are not trained to withhold judgement in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

                                                                                  --Bertrand Russell

Trump Quotes

20 quotes from DonOLD Trump.

My current favorite:

"A second brand new coal mine, where they're going to take out clean coal - meaning they're going to take out the coal, they're going to clean it..."

Paraphrasing Mr Clemens

I'm an old man now. I have known many troubles, and I have feared many more that never happened.

Worrying about such things is like paying a debt that you never owed.

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Assuming there's someone around to write that history...

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

We'll go down in history

as the first society

that wouldn't save itself

because it wasn't

cost-effective.

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Keep your imaginary friends

out of my government

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Find the enemy that wants to end this American experiment in democracy and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

--Gen Jim Mattis, USMC

Today's Religion Stuff

• Hindus have been waiting for Kalki for 3,700 years
• Buddhists have been waiting for Maitreya for 2,600 years
• The Jews have been waiting for the Messiah for 2,500 years
• Christians have been waiting for Jesus for 2,000 years
• Sunnah waits for Prophet Issa for 1,400 years
• Muslims have been waiting for a messiah from the line of Muhammad for 1,300 years
• Shiites have been waiting for Imam Mahdi for 1,080 years
• Druze have been waiting for Hamza ibn Ali for 1,000 years

Most religions adopt the idea of a “savior” and state that the world will remain filled with evil until this savior comes and fills it with goodness and righteousness.

Maybe our problem on this planet is that people expect someone else to come solve their problems instead of doing it themselves.

The first thing you do is get up off your fuckin' knees. And then, if you're paying attention, The Evil will show you what's next.

“Speak up, speak out,

get in the way.

Get in good trouble,

necessary trouble,

and help redeem the soul of America.”

--John Lewis

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Sez

I'm alive in the universe,

but I feel small.

No.

The universe is alive within you,

and you should feel large.