no problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from. - Linus [in 'Peanuts']
I think all any of us really wants is connection, and I think as a culture we've somehow fooled ourselves into thinking there's exactly one person in the world who can give it to us.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers" Pynchon
Idealists have a hard time understanding that the universe doesn't give a fuck what they believe in.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
-Mary Kay Ash
If nothing can exist independently of anything else, then wouldn't that mean that there exists exactly one thing (particularly, a 'nothing') that actually exists in a way that is entirely independent of every other thing?
(sidenote: 'every other thing' includes more things than 'everything,' because 'everything' is only one 'thing,' and 'every other thing' must be at least 3 'things.')
Liberty was that thing you lost when you "forgot" to vote because you took the wrong turn off the interstate and couldn't be arsed to turn around and go back, thirty seconds out of your way.
"You wish to fight the darkness? You want to try to eradicate the very thing that comes after light? The being that never leaves? The essence that hides all evil? Are you stupid?"
- Foxius
I want to die like my father, quietly, in his sleep—not screaming and terrified like his passengers. — Bob Monkhouse
You used to split your time between your mother's ovaries and your father's testicles? ME TOO!
For some, it's the left-hand path, for some, it's the right-hand path; for me, it's the psycho-path, RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE THROUGH THE MALL WITH A BULLDOZER!
Corporations are money obsessed sociopathic Voltrons that eat freedom and want you to be their tiger fists.
A quick guide to politics in one easy step!
1. Is this necessary?
Yes: Think about it more.
No: Drop the issue.
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