All utopias are fucked from the beginning. That doesn't mean we should give up trying though.
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
-Walter Richard Sickert
If you are pissed off, frustrated, annoyed and confused, congratulations. You are about to learn something.
Never judge a man till you have walked a mile in his shoes, 'cuz by then, he's a mile away, you've got his shoes, and you can say whatever the hell you want to.
normal men have killed perpaps 100,000,000 of their fellow men in the last 50 years.
- Ronald D. Laing [1967]
what makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there is nothing to compare it with.
"Ahem," said the king, "tomorrow you will all be dead, so make sure to pack your things tonight; i told you yesterday and look what happened."
if albert einstein stood in front of 50 monkeys for a 1000 years explaining the theory of relativity after a 1000 years they would still just be monkeys
Don't count on it
It is certain
It is decidedly so
Most likely
My reply is no
My sources say no
Outlook good
Outlook not so good
Reply hazy, try again
Signs point to yes
Very doubtful
Without a doubt
Yes
Yes - definitely
You may rely on it
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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends on the furniture.
Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.
YOU MIGHT BE A DISCORDIAN IF... YOU'VE BEEN CHARGED WITH MALICIOUS MISCHIEF AT LEAST 5 TIMES AND YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE JUDGE DOESN'T FIND IT FUNNY TOO.
When you look for happiness outside yourself, it is like sand in the hands, when you have it, it slips away. When you find happiness from within, you become the sand.
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
-George Bernard Shaw
In the Church, some men put on priestly robes to devote themselves to spreading the message of Christ just as other men do so at the prospect of sexually exploiting vulnerable children; likewise with the state. Some men and women become police officers in the hope of protecting the innocent and upholding the law while others do so to hit people with sticks and extort drugs or sexual favours from the victims of the state.
Liberty was that thing you lost when you had the opportunity to protest the bullshit Patriot Acts, the warrantless wiretapping, and the fact you know your neighbor's sister's boyfriend has been in trouble with the law only because his name is "Abdul."
Here stands the Great Machine! Its eyes are gold and silver, and its name is Urizen. Ever does it turn, marching forward into eternity, turning the blood of men into history. Caught in its terrible gears, the world wails. Turning, turning, ever turning: The end is marked by a wheel
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then what is the definition of practice?
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