in a culture where even the doctors are out of touch with reality, who diagnoses the sickness of society?
History: an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
First there was nothing, so the lord gave us light. There was still nothing, but at least you could see it.
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
-Harold R. McAlindon
be aware that the illuminati have infiltrated this archive and outnumbered our sage nonsense with moralistic catch phrases.
I regret to inform you that you have been replaced with a robot. Please proceed to the nearest execution box.
Voting in an election is like Roman galley slaves picking the drummer in that neither has much effect on where the ship will finally sink,
The universe, including the parts occupied by matter, is made almost entirely of empty space. Since nature abhors a vacuum, it would seem evident that the universe is comprised mostly of self loathing.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone renounced violence forever? I could then conquer the whole stupid planet with just a butter knife.
If I asked you to have sex with me, would you answer the same as you would to this question?
when you act like someone is your enemy, they'll soon start playing to the role as they feel threatened.
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.
-Lewis Thomas
The primary difference between the stage magician and the practitioner of the occult is that the magician uses illusion and misdirection to deceive an audience, while the occultist uses illusion and misdirection to deceive himself.
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