There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty: the duty to take the consequences.
The very fact that you exist is the end product of billions of Aeons of fantastically unlikely events. Statistically you don't exist.
If you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.
-Paul Graham
"We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery."
- Joseph Stalin.
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
-François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
I can see it now, all crystallizing in the moment of activation, and what if the programmer is the reason for all the evil and misfortune and injustice in the world; what if every single unfortunate event that's ever occurred is caused by the butterfly flap of that man trying to prevent it all, and the entire concept of evil and finity and a difficult world is all a big cruel self-fulfilling prophecy, and it's all my fault; a big joke, and I'm the punchline?
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
-Oscar Wilde
OBSERVING THE CONTINUOUS MESS OF THE HUMAN RACE AND BELIEVING HUMANS WERE CREATED BY A GOD WOULD BE AN INSULT TO A GOD IN ONE EXISTED
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