Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Another Couple of Years of Daily Aphorisms

 "Letting go is both harder and easier than we can imagine." ~ 2107

"Humankind is more fit to be fated by hate than love." ~ 2108

"An unconsidered life begins at birth." ~ 2109

"Most people believe that freedom of religion means you will eventually come to theirs." ~ 2110

"It is harder to describe how to live in many places than it is to describe how to live in one." ~ 2111

"Dictionaries are meme canons." ~ 2112

"Complaining about the falling of the rain does no good." ~ 2113

"If you can not change your circumstance then try to change your mind." ~ 2114

"We should not confuse as far as we can see with as far as it goes." ~ 2115

"Trolls lurk under bridges to keep us divided from that which we might love." ~ 2116

"Aphorisms are the seeds from which philosophy grew and are the heart of the fruit making minds anew." ~ 2117

"I can not love an other until I have learned to love myself." ~ 2118

"Everyone is a little whacky, but some of us are just plain doodle." ~ 2119

"The Bell curve rules us all, but most of us just don't know it." ~ 2120

"One can learn to rest in peace before they must." ~ 2121 

"No man is my Lord nor master though he may want to be." ~ 2122

"It may be broad and it may be wide, but it ain't so deep where'n we reside." ~ 2123

"It gets hard being one sided, that's why I keep around two." ~ 2124

"Jump for joy; she may run away but you will eventually catch her." ~ 2125

"How much of a memory machine is the soul?" ~ 2126

"We have all forgotten at least one simple truth." ~ 2127

"Old dogs that learn new tricks can still get cookies." ~ 2128

"Its hard to be kind when I'm in a ranting rush." ~ 2129

"Without information filters to trust we all become limited by our own I's." ~ 2130

"Most of the time one person gets credit for a groups efforts." ~ 2131

"When you fall in love with heroes you can expect some heartbreak." ~ 2132

"Causality seems indistinguishable from entropy." ~ 2133

"People who count their blessings tend to be more kind." ~ 2134

"Art is a memory reflected through us." ~ 2135

"Most moments get put their without our knowing." ~ 2136

"Defining crime is always easier than defining justice." ~ 2137

"I see purity up there at the high edge of my imagination and occasionally pretend too have made out a couple of the details." ~ 2138

"Everyone is a loveable moron, so choose the love part or you'll be surround by morons." ~ 2139

"Good fortune is often confused for good judgement." ~ 2140

"Oh cosmic being all that I can sea is shallow to thee." ~ 2141

"When justice becomes a popularity contest it more closely resembles revenge." ~ 2142 

"Tis better to have a heart that bleeds than to have one so hardened we can ignore the suffering of others." ~ 2143

"Sometimes the best and only thing to say is, 'Thank you. I'm sorry. I love you.'; everything else is listening." ~ 2144

"Oh that who are aware could change the world enough to protect the oblivious from harming themselves." 2145

"Should mothers named Molly never coddle about?" ~ 2146

"Accepting my igorance is harder than claiming I have none." ~ 2147

"Our individual joy often leaves no trace, but can." ~ 2148

"Evil is the view we take of things." ~ 2149

"Networks help us succeed without measure." ~ 2150

"The market cares not when an orphan starves." ~ 2151

"Every ass set is a lie ability." ~ 2152

"When your reality and your desire do not match up, one osf them has to change." ~ 2152

"None of us want the same things out of life and mostly we don't get them either." ~ 2153

"Evidence is that one moment will be my last, belief is it will not." ~ 2154

"Failure comes frequently to the fool who thinks compromise never necessary." ~ 2155

"Polishing my snow-globes of truth makes them seem shiny." ~ 2156

"The difference between a civil servant and politician is that one lies on purpose." ~ 2157

"The herenow is the center of our existence, all else imagination." ~ 2158

"In at least as much as the cosmos is from god, the cosmos is god." ~ 2159

"Corporations distance owners from the liability thus enabling some to profit from avoiding the golden rule." ~ 2160

"Honorable acts are those that do not corrupt power." ~ 2161

"When the wolf is at the door, I hope I'm not too busy scolding my son." ~ 2162

"Purity debates never end well." ~ 2163

"The very idea of property enslaves us all." ~ 2164

"Not all ends justify all means, nor must all means be justified by the ends." ~ 2165

"It's all in my head and that's the best place to keep it." ~ 2166

"Everybody is somebody's most ignorant friend." ~ 2167

"The qualia of our experience is special to us, but ancient in its repetition." ~ 2168

"If one is still long enough they can begin to perceive the other candles in the void." ~ 2169

"We each are composed of more bacteria cells than human cells, yet pretend we are the majority." ~ 2170

"Revolutions occur when the voices of division extinguish the flame of unity." ~ 2171

"Leaves having fallen, the squirrels secret homes are laid bare." ~ 2172

"Absolute isolation is a pendulum between fear and transcendence." ~ 2173

"Symmetry takes at least two." ~ 2174

"People who run in one circle, still think they have seen it all." ~ 2175

"You never really learn to argue, until you learn to argue with a dead man and lose." ~ 2176

"If I do not laugh at myself, I will not be laughing with you all." ~ 2177

"The aura of success is the greatest indicator of future success." ~ 2178

"I've learned more practical wisdom from mistakes than from any book." ~ 2179

"Love begins only with the awareness of one's self." ~ 2180

"Something smells fishy when you play with a bass turd." ~ 2181

"Every generation rebels in such a way to be blind to those that will follow." ~ 2182

"When you take an idea out of its focus, it blurs into everything else." ~ 2183

"Not every adventure need be a construction, but every construction is an adventure." ~ 2184

"If at first you don't fail, don't worry, you will." ~ 2185

"Should I ask myself only at funerals what is most precious of this person to keep in the world?" ~ 2186

"That I would edit my own speak makes me my own censor." ~ 2187

"We Europeans were an invasive species." ~ 2188

"Do not try to explain yourself to asses, you are not the buttcrack whisperer." ~ 2189

"Holier-than-thou fights end with all combatants feeling smuggier." ~ 2190

"The utility of a ritual is measured in the manifestation of its meaning." ~ 2191

"Privilege is invisible to those who have it." ~ 2192

"Love is also when our dreams of life align before will." ~ 2193

"Anna's Polly was actually hard nosed and foul." ~ 2194

"I become more than an animal when I feel threatened and by will neither fight nor flee." ~ 2195

"Finite beings can never do enough good or be good enough." ~ 2196

"When playing king-of-the-hill the victor finds only vain glory atop a pile of the dead." ~ 2197

"Perhaps the reason we pay doctors more than teachers is that we fear death more than we embrace life." ~ 2198

"Randomness is the causally unexpected." ~ 2199

"Wedding bells before bedding well is best for the children that may come." ~ 2200

"We are more often poorly used by our unseen vanities." ~ 2201

"The conversation between our many inner selves, ghost unnoticed." ~ 2202

"We best design our habits around the friction to our desire." ~ 2203

"We mostly deny the invisible shackles of slavery slipped silently on our souls." ~ 2204

"Never wound a person, destroy them or do not." ~ 2205

"Everyone always mistakes their abstractions for reality." ~ 2206

"Pundits, like dogs, seem to enjoy eating their own refuse." ~ 2207

"A mourning dove awoke me, how could this be other than a fine day?" ~ 2208

"After years of trying and finally becoming the big cheese, he discovered he was Limburger." ~ 2209

"If the universe if infinte, then are we not meaningless beyond ourselves?" ~ 2210

"Better to swat skeeters than drive to work." ~ 2211

"Run away growth usually dissolves that order which spawned it." ~ 2212

"Glory comes not from the killing of your enemy, but from when you do not have to kill anymore." ~ 2213

"His greatest feet of arms was his hands." ~ 2214

"One becomes a master by degrees." ~ 2215

"Only a fool needs repeatedly tell themselves they are great." ~ 2216

"He dispelled his many miths." ~ 2217

"Just because things got better, does not mean it is all right." ~ 2218

"When does our individual right to be fools get overwhelmed by the danger we pose to society?" ~ 2219

"Our greatest weaknesses often come from our unattended default emotional state." ~ 2220

"I have met few owners who valued their property less than the people who worked it." ~ 2221

"I used think we were all a bunch of bags of testosterone, then I realized some of us are full on estrogen." ~ 2222

"After a couple of generations wealthy societies suffer from bore dumb." ~ 2223

"Love arises from caring rather than the other way around." ~ 2224

"The best fishmerman may know to whip up the wildest whopper, but the gardener knows to masterfully manage manure." ~ 2225

"The deepest lessons from our parents are rarely explicitly taught." ~ 2226

"I can not imagine what I can not perceive as narrative is generated from the received." ~ 2227

"Not understanding the nature of humans, do we expect too much from them?" ~ 2228

"Nascent altruism can pull us together as the gravity of society." ~ 2229

"Perhaps the idea of equality exists only in our imaginations." ~ 2230

"Putting the con in front of the convservative allows the illusion of the moral high ground." ~ 2231

"Owners of monopolies will tell you laws busting them are wrong." ~ 2232

"In almost every instance our fear is worse than the threat." ~ 2233

"Is not being able to take a compliment well an act of humility or a lack of self knowledge?" ~ 2234

"A mirror does not see our many truths." ~ 2235

"They bowed down before the golden calf and demanded a king; now their money is changing hands in the temple of liberty." ~ 2236

"We usually don't chase whipperwills to catch them." ~ 2237

"The muse sack is where he keeps the diva's head." ~ 2238

"The low road is well paved and starts witha gentle downward slope." ~ 2239

"The self, the nation, nor the planet are at the center of the cosmos." ~ 2240

"If one thinks they are better than others, there is a high probability they are biased." ~ 2241

"We all want some limits on freedoms, we just don't want the same ones." ~ 2242

"After exploring a thousand eyes, I found that facet behind her blue." ~ 2243

"Without certainty faith is necessary." ~ 2244

"Our awareness had a beginning and thereby an end is demanded." ~ 2245

"Disbelief, ignorance and doubt pale as evils in comparison to false knowledge." ~ 2246

"A categorical vocabulary is in the foundation of every ivory tower." ~ 2247

"Ideology obscures reality with an idealized truth." ~ 2248

"The point of reading is not to finish the book." ~ 2249

"Telling people they are stupid doesn't make them smarter." ~ 2250

"If you think that capitalism is the one, true, and only valid answer to all our problems; I wanna sell you a bridge." ~ 2251

"Not all codes of conduct are honorable, but those with no code have no honor at all." ~ 2252

"Every freedom fighter is another mans terrorist." ~ 2253

"Mostly God wants us to solve our own problems and let the thoughts and prayers be as calls to action for those who need our help right here now." ~ 2254

"Channeling our emotions toward the good is easier learned when young." ~ 2255

"I may be old and foolish, but at least I'm old." ~ 2256

"Marriage means having someone to check your shit." ~ 2257

"Do you really believe that 14 billion years of cause and effect happened so you could have more toys?" ~ 2258

"America has always been composed of millions of opposing narratives." ~ 2259

"Grownuping takes more than the passage of time, it demands being error aware." ~ 2260

"Doctors and librarians are the only people who can check you out with out getting guff for it." ~ 2261

"We are walking biomes, obsessed with our own streams of thought." ~ 2262

"A good sentence impels the reader to think on." ~ 2263

"Even when we are all alone we are in it together." ~ 2264

“Knowing, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in understanding, while the wise do what they can and the fool suffer what they must.” ~ 2265

"Suspension of disbelief entertains us and disbelief can keep us safe, but belief by itself gives us hope." ~ 2266

"The void is rarely empty" ~ 2267

"Too often joy of many is sacrificed for the greed of a few." ~ 2268

"Are we also what we leave behind?" ~ 2269

"Awareness wants to be more than it is, thus refuses to see its own limits." ~ 2270

"It may not be turtles all the way back, but they go a long way." ~ 2271

"The book wants to be understood, while the aphorism wants to be remembered." ~ 2272

"Playing a game only to win it is like watching a movie to only read the credits." ~ 2273

"Boring and busy executives are the best of times." ~ 2274

"We must look under the bed to make the monsters go away." ~ 2275

"When doesn't the golden calf require as sacrifice the suffering of others?" ~ 2276

"One must commit a lot of sins to become wicked smart." ~ 2277

"Modern culture says I must sell the hours of my life in exchange for what was long ago free for the taking; food, water, shelter, and purpose." ~ 2278

"Mother nature has tapped on Scrooge's shoulder whispering 'the market is not queen here'." ~ 2279

"There are very few kinds of things really, it is just easy to be confused by their many interactions." ~ 2280

"Oh but what a glorious moment it is to be now, in all its terrible splendor." ~ 2281

"Working to barely survive enslaves one, removing their pursuit of happiness." ~ 2282

"I would rather be a fattened cow than a starving wolf." ~ 2283

"I am more apt to be hurt by what I don't see than what I do." ~ 2284

"Word salads can contain some protean." ~ 2285

"We live in the moment, so do so." ~ 2286

"Oh please tell me Mister Vat that I am not the brain in thee." ~ 2287

"The minuscule mundane fills the lives of great and small." ~ 2288

"Would you go for the juggler on your own assembly line?" ~ 2289

"Constipation is what happens when you try to put 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag." ~ 2290

"I think I am their for." ~ 2291

"Even apes know they are like us." ~ 2292

"The problem with dodging the first bullet is the feeling of invincibility that follows." ~ 2293

"At least in the material world, we each appear more like an wave in the ocean than a separated pond." ~ 2294

"Eventually it becomes easier to accept a bad answer than admit we have none." ~ 2295

"Is my last hour worth more than my first hour?" ~ 2296

"Laughing at myself allows me to forgive and fix myself faster." ~ 2297

"When does news go from being useful to becoming an obsession?" ~ 2298

"My body has long taught me that my anti-bodies defend me well, but almost always over react." ~ 2299

"Which mamma alive today will have the offspring that becomes the next apex predator?" ~ 2300

"It is all sand castles really, but I was lucky enough to be born when the sand was warm and the tide was low." ~ 2301

"Our attachments to a place can keep us from exploring." ~ 2302

"I suffer from the futile arrogance that others will see my mistakes and not make them." ~ 2303

"Our many nows are neither local nor the same, but they might have symmetry." ~ 2304

"Civilization is an enthropic transfer system which collapses as equilibrium is approached." ~ 2305

"Our individual certainty is always excluded from the common real." ~ 2306

"Facts change fewer minds than stories." ~ 2307

"The first tremor usually passes quickly, but every now and then the whole city collapses around you." ~ 2308

"How many words does it take to implant a love of wisdom in a new human?" ~ 2309

"When everyone is a victim, everyone is to blame." ~ 2310

"You may think she spoils me rotten, but I think she royal's me spot on." ~ 2311

"Most of the time we humans can not tell when our chain is being jerked." ~ 2312

"We are all born into a context not of our own making." ~ 2313

"My dirt likes the morning after a fish bait orgy." ~ 2314

"As government is of the people and for the people, and not of the self and for the self, we make a compact with each other for our common causes and vote representatives to best figure what to do." ~ 2315

"Our visceral experience feels real, while our thoughts are always at least one distance removed." ~ 2316

"Momentous residual foam leaves narry a trace of ever having been here. ~ 2317

"We must first strike our own hearts to muster empathy for the one who assaults our nose." ~ 2318

"Sexuality is how the cosmos convinces us to continue the species." ~ 2319

"Blaming the avalanche on the snow allows us to disregard the mountain." ~ 2320

"When one makes up their mind thier mind becomes made up." ~ 2321

"We in part we have memory as each here now flows at its own rate." ~ 2322

"The golden ratio of memory, where every step is a ritual iteration to transformation." ~ 2323

"Certainty can give permission to ignore our own darkness." ~ 2324

"Would we spend as much time grooming our minds if we had a mirror and a vanity for it?" ~ 2325

"Dogma is the light we stare at as to avoid looking into the abyss." ~ 2326

"A scrubbed tub makes for a happy rub-a-dub." ~ 2327

"With a giggle, Sisyphus shrugged at Atlas and pushed on." ~ 2328

"Some seem to think that life is an imprisonment away from a cosmological oneness of being." ~ 2329

"The succulent fruit of priviledge is scorn." ~ 2330

"As maths are the language of relationships, languages are the maths of meaning. ~ 2331

"The human mind is a rare peak of the cosmos." ~ 2332

"We know our ancient ancestors through our own naive desires." ~ 2333

"Socialism is an insurance policy, the cost a waste, until you need it." ~ 2334

"Are people who are scared easier to manipulate?" ~ 2335

"This tongue piercing was not planned, my stressed out teeth decided otherwise." ~ 2336

"Prayer is not a wishing well." ~ 2337

"The fidelity of memory is not absolute." ~ 2338

"Responsibility comes before freedom or we would free our children at birth." ~ 2339

"If we can not question our traditions, what do they teach us?" ~ 2340

"I am become moth to the candlelight of joy." ~ 2341

"A group without fools has no members." ~ 2342

"If two twenty sided dice have more entropy than two six sided dice, then how many dice does it take to make a cosmos?" ~ 2343

"My wife asked me if I am attempting the broken clock method to brilliance." ~ 2344

"Every gift will grow dark, ours is only to see how bright it can glow." ~ 2345

"Sowing seeds of empathy yields a flowering of possibility." ~ 2346

"Not every one wants to live with Anne of Greengables." ~ 2347

"We think where it is not matter and matter is what we think with." ~ 2348

"Symbol is how the mind transcends life." ~ 2349

"Every breath is unearned, life itself a privlege unowned." ~ 2350

"Like last night's dinner, an aphorism is a evacuation of the soul." ~ 2351

"When does a noble death make for a good life?" ~ 2352

"What mother will not lament their child marching to war?" ~ 2353

"Destroying your own tribe is usually a really bad idea." ~ 2354

"We are the wave upon the water trying to  understand what the water is." ~ 2355

"Some lives have a much higher difficulty setting than others."  ~ 2356

"One makes less waves when they go with the flow." ~ 2357

"All our thunder and storm will be unknown in that school girl a thousand years from now who would rather be outside with her friends than know anything of us." ~ 2358

"Some things purchased are worth more free."  ~ 2359

"It is hard to understand a path you have only walked once." ~ 2360

"We each have only enough time for a million smiles." ~ 2361

"The more we explored the farther it was to the unknown, but now few of us can make it to the edge." ~ 2362

"I used to believe as an article of faith in the golden rule, then I met a masochist and decided it needed some alloys." ~ 2363

"Your inner monologue will feed on you, if you do not feed it." ~ 2364

"Should there ever be a doctrinal right to spread disease?" ~ 2365

"Each of us grows into a world he thinks changeless, yet by our becoming we create it anew." ~ 2366

"Nature, as a rule, does not seem to care a wit for just deserts." ~ 2367

"Legacy is how we describe that ripple of us that exists beyond our breath." ~ 2368

"Our ignorance is invisible to us." ~ 2369

"It can be hard for the farmer to understand an other's famine." ~ 2370

"The market can decide if  you are worth more dead than alive." ~ 2371

"The number of tools is greater than the time to learn to use them all." ~ 2372

"In a tide pool one imagines themselves free, in the current they learn better." ~ 2373

"We do not always fish to catch them." ~ 2374

"Virtue is not dependent on wealth." ~ 2375

"Putting self before planet puts planet at greater risk." ~ 2376

"It is better to walk away from a bully than to be killed by one." ~ 2377

"The darkness has not left us since we lit up the night." ~ 2378

"Music is the vibration of points, lines, surfaces, and solids, the rest is aesthetics." ~ 2379

"Cows are generally happier than foxes." ~ 2380

"One half of us is always dumber than the other half and we can tell who they are because they want to debate it." ~ 2381

"Is it ever a bad time for the quiet whispers of sanity?" ~ 2382

"It takes a plumber AND an electrician if you want the shit to hit the fan." ~ 2383 

"Everyone's inner dialogue by default is a repeat of what they have heard." ~ 2384

"This plateau of human experience seems bigger than it is." ~ 2385

"That we are deaf to the rushing cacophony of our body makes all experience fey." ~ 2386

"If ignorance were truly bliss, ash and dust would be nearer ecstasy than me." ~ 2387

"When every one says 'me first' only one of us can be right." ~ 2388

"Lemmings may be focused on the horizon, but they don't see what comes next." ~ 2389

"People only believe in an eye-for-an-eye when they are the ones doing the poking." ~ 2390

"My good friend has a steel trap for a brain and its damned hard to open it again once sprung." ~ 2391

"Introverted narcissists are usually less dangerous." ~ 2392

"If you don't go looking for beauty it will rarely find you." ~ 2393

"Given sufficient ignorance, some questions really are stupid." ~ 2394

"Meet Mr. Entropy, you can try to be his friend, but he will never be yours." ~ 2395

"Categorizing ethical outcomes is a twisted den, full of yah-buts and hair splittings." ~ 2396

"Doubt will come from the fading of the fear response, a means of letting go of ones currently assumed reality to find another, as the alternative would be to live perpetually in fear." ~ 2397

"Gravity and Mondays constantly reminds us, we are never totally free." ~ 2398

"Veiling our vassalage succumbs to a veneer of self sovereignty." ~ 2399

"None of us have a clue, yet all of us think we do." ~ 2400

"I got to breath today and the rest is gravy." ~ 2401

"Our grandchildren will most often benefit from our children's genius in such a way that it is beyond us." ~ 2402

"Art is a reach for the aesthetic until the critic comes along." ~ 2403

"A philosopher is one who asks if they are using logical fallacies correctly." ~ 2404

"Rumor mongers are businessmen too." ~ 2405

"Customer is the name we use to placate our temporary masters." ~ 2406

"One does not win a propaganda war with facts." ~ 2407

"Free dumb is the first dose of liberty's greed." ~ 2408

"Here now is not the climax for state, species, or planet; nor should it be; but here now is the limit for some of our individual cells and selves." ~ 2409

"I am only half as shallow as I seem." ~ 2410

"Our knowledge of good and evil allows us to suck hard on the root of the tree of life until it shrivels into decay." ~ 2411

"The self is the assumption that what is moving is separate from what it moves in." ~ 2412

"All states of being are finite and permanence an impossible infinite intuition." ~ 2413

"Believing in our own will is an advantage rather than a certainty." ~ 2414

"Most men never learn to stand behind themselves." ~ 2415

"Hup, two, three; memory marches us backward into the future." ~ 2416

"If you want to create a demand that doesn't exist, you use propaganda." ~ 2417

"In a finite life reductionism is necessary for learning." ~ 2418

"I have come to know the sweetness of a short, shallow breath after a serenely dreamed summer nap." ~ 2419

"Go ahead and grab your pitchfork and your torch, venture into the night to seek justice with a mob; and when you are done I will help you to bury the dead and hold you close as you cry in shame for what has been done." ~ 2420

"A gun is nigh useless to sheriffs of the digital frontier." ~ 2421

"Now is that time of year when the friends of Scrooge nod at Timothy Cratchit's well being." ~ 2422

"It's easier to learn forgiveness from a victim than a crook." ~ 2423

"Democracy is where we get to prove that popularity does not define what is best." ~ 2424

"what is meta for? Why many things of course." ~ 2425

"We exist in the fractional space midst one and zero, tween the all and the nothing, where infinity forever expands." ~ 2426

"As youth's flash of fireworks falls in its smoldering trail of smoke, there is grace in the gratitude for each our arcs." ~ 2427

"As she came to see through them, she realized she would never be seen, so she put back on her mask and never took it off again." ~ 2428

"We do not choose our own origin, only the story about it." ~ 2429

"Never trust a man who ignores his context." ~ 2430

"Everyone is an asshole sometimes, today is just not my turn." ~ 2431

"That which lags the speed of causality can achieve awareness of its own entropic doom." ~ 2432

"Reconciliation cannot shine while truth remains in shadow." ~ 2433

"The difficult necessity of admitting misplaced faith is the only way to shatter our nightmares." ~ 2434

"The quest for accumulating power is a derivative adaptation toward disorder." ~ 2435

"The humility to our own ignorance can be hard to maintain, as the wanting to know is not the same as the knowing." ~ 2436

"As long as we can not go beyond the bully's power, we will remain servant to him." ~ 2437

"We can only live together in so far as we share our realities." ~ 2438

"Over adoring victory sanctions the sacrifice of empathy, friend, and awe." ~ 2439

"The whistle on the train may command our attention, but it's blaring does not stop the wheels turning." ~ 2440

"Living a good life is not a marketable skill." ~ 2441

"We are each a society of 30 trillion cells and another 30 trillion bacteria in a bag of mostly water from a chain of reproduction extending back about 30 trillion generations." ~ 2442

"The art of our state is not state of the art." ~ 2443

"More market friction comes from rich men than governments." ~ 2444

"Even all the grains of sand together are not the beach." ~ 2445

"When I am past and you read these words, you will be cannibalizing my mind." ~ 2446

"It is hard to appreciate the scale as one takes each step up the tower of Babel's stairs." ~ 2447

"When should we ask 'what can we get' instead of 'what do we leave behind'?" ~ 2448

"Words are a pallette whose only cost is mind time." ~ 2449

"Only the lucky live long enough to become fuddy-duddies." ~ 2450

"Many traditional values are no more than unquestioned inter-generational habits." ~ 2451

"We are all blind, stumbling around in caves, clinging to the walls for safety, crying out to keep the demons of ignorance at bay." ~ 2452

"Cinema allows us to stalk without being caught, to voyeur without consequence." ~ 2453

"Yelling in a hurricane is just lost noise." ~ 2454

"Wealth has replaced land as that which divides lords from servants." ~ 2455

"This idea of reducing life to money is one of the core problems with the assumption that taxes are theft, as it assumes at its heart that dependency and obligation with other beings does not exist and we have once removed them into an abstraction of quantized value." ~ 2456

"As long as we hide the dead, the train will keep on rolling." ~ 2457

"Your every breath is reality's change." ~ 2458

"Spacetime is not digital, it can not be quantized." ~ 2459

"When all the parents must work to eat, parenting becomes another business." ~ 2460

"Predation predates property" ~ 2461

"I'm still not sure if I want my dreams to be better than my real life or worse." ~ 2462

"Our mythosphere is limited to our lifemind by our spacetime." ~ 2463

"Creating a weaponized controversy blows a hole in truth, where we argue and fight over an empty void where once reality stood." ~ 2464

"I am very Catholic when it comes to worms in my yard; no prophelatics allowed." ~ 2465

"How far from home is that range of consequence that we ought be held accountable for?" ~ 2466

"My species has removed over half the forests that were here when I was born." ~ 2467

"The culture of my moment has taken the forsaken journey from we to me." ~ 2468

"The less you have, the more precious it can become, but does not necessarily need to." ~ 2469

"Nature does not care if we pull together or tear asunder." ~ 2470

"When I admit I am wrong, I am wrong less often." ~ 2471

"Of all the wise people that have ever lived, most of them are dead and their wisdom machine has gone from us." ~ 2472

"The state is a tool in our species survival kit." ~ 2473

"The educated forget the ignorant at their own peril." ~ 2474

"I'd rather be building bridges than building walls." ~ 2475

"Human minds are a way the cosmos processes memories of itself." ~ 2476

"How often should we ask ourselves if this is our best possible use of our lives?" ~ 2477

"The general idea behind survival is to avoid violence, not embrace it." ~ 2478

"Language innovation begins at the edge of grammar." ~ 2479

"Most assholes forget they eat with the other end of that tube." ~ 2480

"Instead we made a temple of the money changers house." ~ 2481

"If one holds vanity close enough it becomes a meaning that blots out the abyss." ~ 2482

"The learner of maths has subtracted from their ignorance to multiply their potential sum." ~ 2483

"You do not make the world go round, but you can go round the world." ~ 2484

"Sometimes it takes a lot more effort to ask how can we love our fellow broken humans." ~ 2485

"Is mind a property of matter or matter a property of mind?" ~ 2486

"The authors of fake news wants to be a super duper pooper scoopers." ~ 2487

"We can only imagine and we will not imagine far enough." ~ 2488

"There is more than one way to attempt wisdom." ~ 2489

"If hate could not talk, it would die." ~ 2490

"Our childish day-dreaming play is a fuzzy chronoscope of what may come." ~ 2491

"Like a last first kiss, everything human will have a beginning of the end." ~ 2492

"Biased, dogmatic, and intolerant heads are all subject to the guillotine of empathy." ~ 2493

"Growth rots where we worship the past." ~ 2494

"We mostly put things in boxes to ignore them for a while." ~ 2495

"Every idea is made manifest by its record, but only alive in its knowing." ~ 2496

"We can only measure some of the parts so can never know the sum of the parts." ~ 2497

"The slave owner's history book will paint their values as good, right, and true." ~ 2498

"Until along comes a virus to make it transparent we are as one in something stupendously vaster than any body." ~ 2499

"Only now can we be joined here." ~ 2500


Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Heroic Love

 No one wants to hear

Their heroes are evil,
Even if it is true,
Because then we
Just might be
Called to evil too.
No, we cry,
don't let MY
love die!
Tainted love,
Blind love,
Love for the unreal,
Is as true a love,
In as how it feels.

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Cutting Rocks

So imagine you are an every-day, run-of-the-mill stone mason. You cut rocks, someone else hauls them off to Pharaoh's monument. Your daddy cut rocks. Your grand daddy cut rocks. It is who you are. A rock cutter.

Now along comes this new guy with a stick who demands the slaves be freed. You kinda like the idea of freeing the slave people, because it means you will have more work. Maybe we can add on that second bedroom finally? Or even upgrade to a new house one of them leaves behind!

Put NO! Your Pharaoh tells those slave folks to stay put and be quiet. So you figure law and order is OK and keep cutting stone.

Then comes this terrible plague where the whole river turns to blood. You can still cut stone, but damn you are thirsty. Then suddenly there are frogs everywhere. Getting in the stone tools and pooping on the floor and in the well. And locusts and lice and people are getting sick! You even miss a few days of work, just to be sure not to get sick.

Next thing you know, some strange people come by painting blood on door frames and sneaking away. That's kind a weird, but maybe tomorrow you'll start on that new block of stone. It will be an interesting challenge because it has odd cracks in it.

Only in the morning you find out your oldest kid is dead. And the slaves are gone. He was only 8 years old. That child had only begun to learn to cut stone. And now he won't learn anything every again.

What the heck, man?

Now, you are really pissed off.
Mad at the Pharaoh.
Mad at the slaves.
Really mad at that guy with the stick.

So when the Pharaoh says, "Put on your shields, boys, we are gonna get revenge!", you suit up and march right along. After a couple of days chasing the runaway slaves, they finally get cornered on the coast. The Generals get you all lined up and ready to charge...

The end. Well, the end of that stone mason anyway.

Friday, February 21, 2020

When is a Group a Cult?

What is a Cult?

Cults come in many forms including religious, financial, and political.  Cults exploit their members by convincing them they are doing the right thing by belonging to the cult while taking advantage of them sexually, emotionally, and/or financially.

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Groups that have many of the following features are classified as cults.  
  • Authoritarian
  • Unquestionable doctrine
  • No meaningful financial disclosure
  • Fear of the outside world
  • Leaving the group is bad
  • Exploitation of members
  • Followers feel they can never be "good enough".
  • Leader is always right.
  • Leader has exclusive access to truth

Recruiting Cult Members


A person's who becomes part of a cult group has their identity slowly linked to the cult.  Indoctrination is a slow and friendly process.  There are no obvious threats to those being recruited into the cult.  

A common recruitment feature of a cult is to have in-group/out-group messaging: "we are good and they are bad".  People are triggered to be in the group so they think they are better than those outside the group.

Once a person has become involved in a cult, their self identity has become tightly linked to the group and therefore the group is seen as a part of who they are.

Cult members are being exploited.  No one wants to believe they are being exploited.  

Cult members behave as if their minds are infected. A sort of mental immune system will resist any change to the cult beliefs and behaviors.

Cult members will strongly emotionally react to anyone who says "That might be a cult". Intense emotional denial is one clear defining feature of individuals who have become entrapped by a cult. 

Examples of Cults


Examples of cult (and their leaders) include:

  • Al Qaida "The Foundation" (Osama Bin Laden)
  • Amway/American Way (Richard DeVos, Jay Andel)
  • Branch Davidians (Victor Houteff, David Koresh)
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Joseph Smith)
  • Democratic Workers Party (Lyndon LaRouche, Marlene Dixon )
  • Hare Krishnas (Swami Prabhupada)
  • Mary Kay (May Kay Ash)
  • Jehovah's Witnesses (Charles Russell, Nathan Knorr)
  • International Churches of Christ (Baron Stone, Alexander Campbell)
  • NXIVM (Keith Raniere, Nancy Salzman)
  • Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard, Greta Van Susteren)
  • Shaklee (Forrest Shaklee)
  • Shining Path (Abimael Guzmán)
  • The Collective (Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan)
  • Unification Church (Sun Myong Moon)
  • Worker's Revolutionary Party (Gerry Healy, Vanessa Redgrave)


Note that the above list is a small sampling of those organizations that have been legally (by law) identified as cults  in France, Germany, Japan, England, Australia, and/or the United States.

How Can You Help Cult Members?


The best prevention for cults is education.
The best cure for cult members is empathy.
You may have to leave the cult member's life.

Cults are a form of mental illness, a social and cultural infestation that requires diagnosis and treatment.  

Like drug addicts, alcoholics and gambling addicts, cult members can destroy families, communities, and cultures.
Image result for alcohol leaving the systemDeprogramming, the kidnapping and hold cult members against their will in order to un-indoctrinate them, does not work.  It may make the family member and friends feel better, after all they have "done something", but will most likely neither cure nor heal the cult members mind.  


The natural impulse is to confront your friend or loved one immediately, but the cults are ready for that. If it’s a cult then they will have planted a number of mental “booby traps” into the minds of their members. These booby traps are designed to be triggered by a number of common reactions to discovery of involvement in their group.

A cult knows it will be identified as a cult, and so they preempt that event by telling their new recruit that anyone who says they are in a cult is Satan (or some such enemy). Telling a cult member they are in a cult does not work.

Love the cult member. Treating them with empathy, understanding, and respect (the Golden Rule) works best for friends and family.  The cult will have portrayed you as an enemy and therefore you must constantly demonstrate you are not the cult members enemy.

Most of us are not equipped mentally or emotionally to help cult members leave their cults. Professional help is usually required.  Often long term counselling is need to help the cult member leave and recover from their cult.

Unless you know what you are doing, you may have to consider removing that cult member from your life.  Often those closest to cult members will be identified by the cult as being a problem.  Once this occurs, anything you do or say will be seen as "wrong" and exiting their day-to-day life becomes the best option for everyone involved.


Monday, October 21, 2019

Human Specious

What is the price 
of a human's existence 
compared to the price 
of the species?

Both planet 

and species 
have more meaning 
than you.

Ought I value 

my species 
more than 
my cells?

Am I born 

indebted 
to my species?

We will have no morality 

to speak of 
without the survival 
of our species.

By technology 

our species has come 
to a moment of great potential 
and greater danger.

Without some control of birth rates 

any species 
will consume itself 
into extinction.

How many wars will it take 

before our species realizes 
that us and us is always better 
than us and them?

The self fades toward oblivion 

from the brilliance of a hundred billion 
narcissistic copies 
of the species human.






#'s 697, 715, 873, 935, 1464, 1656, 1929, 2087, 2100

Sunday, September 15, 2019

Aphorism to Sept 2019

"Refreshing sleep requires letting go of thinking." ~ 1557
"Occasionally, for a moment, a few of us can transcend desire." ~ 1558
"Asking 'what do we know for sure' challenges every myth." ~ 1559
"If kindness were easy there would be more of it." ~ 1560
"Remember when Jesus said 'The lazy don`t get no loaves-n-fishes'? ~ 1561
"Spice is a paltry varietal." ~ 1562
"It takes courage to overcome the fear of change." ~ 1563
"I would rather die than kill another wrongly." ~ 1564
"There are only so many words and so many ways they can be put together." ~ 1565
"Watch for those who constantly admit error as they are incrementally improving." ~ 1566
"Any experts can become arrogant when they think they know enough." ~ 1567
"Greed ignores the suffering of others for our own vacuous glories." ~ 1568
"Some say the thing is a projection while others say the projection is the thing." ~ 1569
"Who is not a lost fritter of time?" ~ 1570
"When we place religion before love or profit before kindness we encourage suffering." ~ 1571
"A bad guy is more apt to want a gun than a good guy is." ~ 1572
"Pick 'em up and put 'em down, always smile and never frown." ~ 1573
"I am the eye who looks and looks within." ~ 1574
"Not all truths are equal." ~ 1575
"Worry's shackles compassion with desire." ~ 1576
"Variety has shown me what else I can be." ~ 1577
"Information may exist outside the physical, communication may not require matter." ~ 1578
"People of a certain kind are not." ~ 1579
"We create our reason to be or we do not." ~ 1580
"We are more apt to count calories than knowledge." ~ 1581
"When we die, the light of the sun from our moment of birth is no longer visible to the naked eye." ~ 1582
"If greatness comes from suffering, I would rather be mediocre." ~ 1583
"Is good enough the beginning of metaphor?" ~ 1584
"You don't measure an inch with a mile long ruler." ~ 1585
"Effect need be neither immediate or visible to cause." ~ 1586
"The enlightenment also started a steep heat gradient climb." ~ 1587
"Misfortune often has anger as symptom." ~ 1588
"Truth comes to me more gently when I am content." ~ 1589
"The right sleeps the whitewashed past, while the left dreams of a freakish utopian future." ~ 1590
"Criticism is usually more about the critic than the author." ~ 1591
"The unexamined assumption is sometimes worth having." ~ 1592
"Mass production makes us faceless." ~ 1593
"Oh please tell me who I am, but do not let that be the limit of me." ~ 1594
"A shiny new sewage plant still smells offal." ~ 1595
"You have launched me onto a cloud from which I've never had to climb back down." ~ 1596
"Is it hubris to think we are only the only scale of self awareness?" ~ 1597
"The last conversation of a loved one's passing mostly echo longest." ~ 1598
"Those with no share are slaves to those with." ~ 1599
"Ought free will sway our evolution?" ~ 1600
"I am agape at the richness of the culture that spawned me." ~ 1601
"Standards sets a permissible boundary of self." ~ 1602
"Competition is not an universal cure all." ~ 1603
"In a small town you share your dream, in a big town you live someone elses." ~ 1604
"Being interesting to others requires a layer of abstraction." ~ 1605
"Do we make better breeding decisions when love comes before sex?" ~ 1606
"Greed makes education a punch ticket." ~ 1607
"In death there is nothing to be afraid of." ~ 1608
"I become foolish when I do not recognize my own dangerous secret." ~ 1609
"Our senile fears scare more deeply than our youthful nightmares scar." ~ 1610
"What self is not bound by surface tension?" ~ 1611
"Lynchings can be legislated away, but not the emotional drive that causes them." ~ 1612
"Unforeseen consequence is in every decision." ~ 1613
"Most of humanity sleep walks in dreams handed them." ~ 1614
"We all begin by borrowing from the dead." ~ 1615
"Nationalism is fertilized by claiming one land grows better men than another." ~ 1616
"More mistakes reside on the edge of the known." ~ 1617
"We too easily miss love as it stands beyond good and evil." ~ 1618
"Without life there is no dream; without dreams life is only process." ~ 1619
"If I would not teach math with a beat stick, then why would I teach love so?" ~ 1620
"Long wars are always bad wars." ~ 1621
"Contentment is a sunshine to evaporate hate." ~ 1622
"Neither crime nor war is excuse for slavery." ~ 1623
"History is in the eye of the beholder." ~ 1624
"Not all that can be thought can be written." ~ 1625
"Only fools do not doubt their own wisdom." ~ 1626
"The overuse of a freedom ends in its destruction." ~ 1627
"The familiar dissipates if we seek the novelty of adventure." ~ 1628
"Who among us can change culture alone?" ~ 1629
"If I knew the count of our kisses before the first one, would have I have treasured them all the more?" ~ 1630
"The climate cares not what I believe." ~ 1631
"Plain speaking is not an excuse to be cruel." ~ 1632
"People of love have common cause." ~ 1633
"Ought leaders own the groups they gather?" ~ 1634
"What is knowledge beyond a believed set of aphorisms?" ~ 1635
"Learning theatrics can destroy the illusions of drama." ~ 1636
"Slow moving problems are easily passed by." ~ 1637
"Desire blinds me to the pain I cause others." ~ 1638
"A narcissist remains an unexamined self." ~ 1639
"Cooperative parasites become inseparable." ~ 1640
"We are more apt to shoot a person than a dog." ~ 1641
"Striking evil is like feeding a tiger, it's OK until you stop." ~ 1642
"May I never tolerate cruelty in any form." ~ 1643
"After years of faking it, I finally made sincerity." ~ 1644
"Kissing a bigot on the lips is an appropriate act of violence." ~ 1645
"I'd love to play poker with a man who has his heart on his sleeve, but no chip on his shoulder." ~ 1646
"Self is one quantification of being." ~ 1647
"We may bark at each other a lot, but we  have to sleep in the same doghouse." ~ 1648
"Any group that self selects itself as superior has been blinded by its own mirror." ~ 1649
"Function is form in time." ~ 1650
"If I thought as much of my character as my tongue would I be a saint?" ~ 1651
"When your safety net is all prickly, sometimes it is better to hit the ground." ~ 1652
"Falling to our fear is the heart of cowardice." ~ 1653
"Whining, at best, has a slippery grip on power." ~ 1654
"Lovers of tools too easily become soldiers." ~ 1655
"What is the price of a human's existence compared to the price of the species?" ~ 1656
"Every breath is unique." ~ 1657
"The unshaven man's experience hangs from his chin." ~ 1658
"Each moment is a line between naughts." ~ 1659
"When I care too much for another, sometimes the other stops caring for themselves." ~ 1670
"Dreams are destroyed at their fulfillment." ~ 1671
"Libertarians are Calvanists sans morality." ~ 1672
"Fear spins at the speed of emotion." ~ 1673
"Most things I would collect last far beyond me." ~ 1674
"I'd thought to take a bite of life, only to find teeth marks on me." ~ 1675
"When I reduce another to a single act, I lose grace." ~ 1676
"Muscle is stronger than mind only in the moment." ~ 1677
"The mold was broken while they were pooring me." ~ 1678
"Emergent being is more complex than I can imagine." ~ 1679
"Dialects make language babel." ~ 1680
"Leading with love is not a weakness." ~ 1681
"When I am at war with my own thoughts, they always win." ~ 1682
"There are more truths than there are breaths." ~ 1683
"We mostly remain willfully blind to our own chemistry." ~ 1684
"How shall we leave the world a better place?" ~ 1685
"Self righteousness is the devil's fiddle." ~ 1686
"If I cannot see the choice, I cannot exercise will." ~ 1687
"Mass media made mass lying more efficient, universal mass media made lying endemic." ~ 1688
"Uniformity is more efficient while variety more robust." ~ 1689
"We all seek beyond the veil, but are lost in the clouds." ~ 1690
"Doom may be inevitable, but gloom is not." ~ 1691
"Maybe monarchy was the kettle that kept entropic global heat release contained." ~ 1692
"Whiz dumb is when you pee on an electric fence, wisdom is when you do not do that again." ~ 1693
"Are there not more version of what than versions of how?" ~ 1694
"Empathy is more than self interest, it is the beginning of love." ~ 1695
"Each now is the increase in distributed complexity" ~ 1696
"The more diverse your experiences the more apt truth will find you." ~ 1697
"The amount of death that evolution requires is unbelievable." ~ 1698
"Abusive sergeants use corporal punishment." ~ 1699
"Neither the haves and have nots seem to ever learn that unchained desire leads to no good end." ~ 1700
"My opinion overcomes the actual only in my mind." ~ 1701
"Monarchy; when it reigns, it poors." ~ 1702
"Science attempts to build a jigsaw puzzle knowing it has no picture and some of the pieces are missing." ~ 1703
"There is no recipe which has not the ingredient of love." ~ 1704
"Cream may rise on top, but that does not mean it is good for us." ~ 1705
"Will the echos of a baby boom's dreams ripple more strongly than their descendant generations?" ~ 1706
"We are more apt to vote our fears than our aspirations." ~ 1707
"Is there less truth in a translated holy book?" ~ 1708
"You may not disprove that; somewhere in the infinite multi-verses, exists a sentient pineapple, having fallen from an integral tree to a slow torus orbit around a lonely orphaned centaur, sadly sensing it's now toothless mastication, which, having been placed there by a rainbow farting unicorn as a futile act of maniacal monarch hate for the faye faery king's harsh declaration forbidding her intense unrequited desire to rewrite Romeo and Juliet in reverse order as if it were epileptic apocalyptic apostasy, thought the apple of pine was a sweet revenge that would never rotten, because this sentence, written by a misanthropic master aphorist, claims it is so." ~ 1709
"If responsibility did not come before liberty, we would not parent our children." ~ 1710
"Then and there are always in context of here and now." ~ 1711
"He who would be quick to violence soon finds its slow end." ~ 1712
"There is no a counting for the infinite." ~ 1713
"When I see the fault in myself I find wrong; when I see the fault in others, I am still wrong." ~ 1714
"I feel you death, there on the edge, where I never look, but am always aware." ~ 1715
"Self is a drop in the ocean temporarily removed." ~ 1716
"Separating one's feelings from the task at hand is more difficult than it might appear." ~ 1717
"The journey to truth is one we take alone." ~ 1718
"Even dastardly bombast is protected speech." ~ 1719
"If you live long enough, you will understand Algernon's viewpoint." ~ 1720
"We easily edit our children's minds, but fear to edit their bodies." ~ 1721
"Nest building requires discovery." ~ 1722
"Dry erase markers are no longer remarkable." ~ 1723
"Instead of hiring professionals, we regularly vote in amateurs." ~ 1724
"A meme's ions are the body atomic." ~ 1725
"Sauron pales before the collision of neutron stars that was the forging of the gold in my ring." ~ 1726
"The best test of truth is as is." ~ 1727
"A slave who thinks he is free keeps himself in chains." ~ 1728
"War often begins from when the have nots want what the haves have." ~ 1729
"If all I ever had was this one moment with you, it would be enough." ~ 1730
"Our fears are rarely proportionate to the threat." ~ 1731
"The art is in what you do with your imperfections." ~ 1732
"Listening to the truth of others, enriches us both." ~ 1733
"It's not my fault the chicken crossed the road just as I drove by." ~ 1734
"The ruthless are more apt to win, but who wants to live in the land of the ruthless?" ~ 1735
"My hate is easily misdirected, my love rarely." ~ 1736
"What, pray tell, did the horse I rode in on do to you, sir?" ~ 1737
"No insurance or investment lasts forever." ~ 1738
"Where is that line where the raindrop becomes the river?" ~ 1739
"Every word I write is a soul, my soul is too bemused to be anything other than a writing." ~ 1740
"Is there no minimum value to human life?" ~ 1741
"I only know my own mind and not even that very well." ~ 1742
"Blind loyalty is not senseless, but it cannot see itself." ~ 1743
"We tore from the earth to make ourselves strong forcing all others to tear too." ~ 1744
"Casting blame on a group for the actions of few speaks to the character of the blamer." ~ 1745
"How can I be bored when bewilderment exists at all?" ~ 1746
"I would say that people do not listen well, but fear the hypocrisy." ~ 1747
"Free will requires I be an uncaused cause." ~ 1748
"A fool is his own mule." ~ 1749
"No matter how much nothing surrounds me, my view is eventually blocked by something." ~ 1750
"When I see a any flag, I also see a golden calf." ~ 1751
"Cymbollically, the conductor demanded our attention to his muse." ~ 1752
"Self identity is too often glued together with superstition." ~ 1753
"This indian summer lasted so long it became a pilgrim." ~ 1754
"The luckiest among us sparkle from the light of love." ~ 1755
"All your thirty trillion DNA are imprisoned in a cell of their own making." ~ 1756
"Happily ever afters eventually end in death." ~ 1757
"Grasping at the stone on the brim will not keep you from your fall." ~ 1758
"I am also a ripple of my ancestors desire." ~ 1759
"What difference between us does not depend upon perspectives of symmetry?" ~ 1760
"Broadcast top 40 was adolescent audio faux gras." ~ 1761
"Homophones demand equal writes." ~ 1762
"We have just enough moments to forget how few they are." ~ 1763
"If you cannot lead with love, follow someone who does." ~ 1764
"Manifesting our dreams is an illusory achievement." ~ 1765
"I don't have the stones to gather moss." ~ 1766
"Most of what is in my bucket was never on any list I made." ~ 1767
"Most dumbs are bores and those who listen suffer bore dumb." ~ 1768
"On the skin of a dot we abide, endure, and aspire." ~ 1769
"A fool never see's he has been manipulated." ~ 1770
"Did all the king's men use the horses for glue?" ~ 1771
"The themes we share are stronger than the weirdnesses we do not." ~ 1772
"An ecosystem is a self in me." ~ 1775
"Scrooge's nephew Donald had only a two dimensional character." ~ 1774
"You must swallow the whole world to become it." ~ 1775
"The capital of our capital was built on vice; for we are a merchant kingdom and could be no other." ~ 1776
"If Columbus's explorations had been televised, would we remain so enamored?" ~ 1777
"Morality is not a plateau of being." ~ 1778
"If every cell contains a soul, then how more glorious a tree than me." ~ 1779
"Original thought is far rarer than we believe." ~ 1780
"When I admit I am imagining, I do it better." ~ 1781
"The philosophical method also sand blasts truth with competing biases." ~ 1782
"What do we with the man who reads the encyclopedia and remains a fool?" ~ 1783
"The alone life is much harder than the together one." ~ 1784
"Words can only put beauty in a bottle." ~ 1785
"On the human horizon is a brain in a box better than our own." ~ 1786
"I do not need to cut myself to share your pain." ~ 1787
"Some metaphors need pruning and others cutting down; but those there needs pulling from the ground." ~ 1788
"Equations to reality are at best a short form." ~ 1789
"Vengeance is the womb where evil breeds." ~ 1790
"Talent does not grant more rights, rather it demands greater duty." ~ 1791
"All the other kids got taught twisted truth but me?" ~ 1792
"Which of the million cells I shed each day was worth saving?" ~ 1793
"Only occasionally do I later recognize the unaware choice I made." ~ 1794
"So why is being this way compared to all the possible others?" ~ 1795
"I will that my heart keeps beating even if my will does not beat it." ~ 1796
"Too often when I leave things they catch my behind." ~ 1797
"Our nest becomes their nest so that we can make our own." ~ 1798
"Fate is a slippery slope." ~ 1799
"Once you turn away from the abyss, there is nothing but joy." ~ 1800
"Monopoly loves a market." ~ 1801
"We count an infinity of the rare, yet every location in time is unique." ~ 1802
"Diversity, over ages, will out compete uniformity." ~ 1803
"Can one stop seeking meaning in any self aware moment?" ~ 1804
"With external energy order spontaneously appears and self-tunes to persist for awhile." ~ 1805
"Living in the past gives up on the future." ~ 1806
"Monopolies vastly more often buy out than are upended by brilliant ideas." ~ 1807
"Suffer me no pity, for I live the charmed sweetness of adaged others darling." ~ 1808
"Ecologies are patterns stacked on patterns up to a score layers high." ~ 1809
"There is a direct lineage from campfire, to writing, to social media." ~ 1810
"Familiarity slowly blinds us to evil." ~ 1811
"Fame asks you give your dreams to a fae mask." ~ 1812
"The vineyard of the whiners eventually runs red." ~ 1813
"Shall we count all the death we each have wrought?" ~ 1814
"Worry and fears makes for fury and tears." ~ 1817
"As ideas are constructed from perceptions, all history is myth." ~ 1816
"Most who fancy themselves ubermench are underwhelming." ~ 1817
"Are you aware of how you store your own memory?" ~ 1818
"Commerce tends to make us all the same." ~ 1819
"Picture alphabets are vouchers for what was, while sound alphabets are vouchers of vouchers." ~ 1820
"Ideology ought not be quicksand to decency." ~ 1821
"Most precious stones are never held by a beautiful setting." ~ 1822
"We reject those symbols which do not reflect reality and call the remainder math." ~ 1823
"We are more afraid of the shadow of a single black swan than a hungry flock of circling geese." ~ 1824
"Corporations are defined first by their limits placed upon inclusion." ~ 1825
"The best story tellers write from other people's viewpoints." ~ 1826
"We should strive to be educated and not despise those who do." ~ 1827
"Our focus pulsates faster than awareness can perceive." ~ 1828
"Unbeheld does beauty vanish?" ~ 1829
"Sharing kindness breeds it." ~ 1830
"Unconsidered being must be worth living because it has been done trillions of times before." ~ 1831
"Self-esteem grows from accomplishment against obstacles." ~ 1832
"I can stare into the abyss as long as the candle warms my back." ~ 1833
"Oh spirit, every thought of every person in every moment is unique." ~ 1834
"Is not a close fit often still unfit for the purpose?" ~ 1835
"Bashing's a habit once soon acquired, you get the point where you cannot retire." ~ 1836
"Fifty million years ago generations of dinosaurs were proud of their nests too." ~ 1837
"I want a world that is more apt to advance from erudite autodidacts than from sickles and hammers." ~ 1838
"There is no greater license for the abuse of power than believing you are on the side of good." ~ 1839
"One way to become well respected is to pick very few friends." ~ 1840
"The lack of association between between value and information will eventually collapse." ~ 1841
"He got his get out of free jail card." ~ 1842
"The relativity of every human judgement is total." ~ 1843
"A reformed nazi is better than a dead one." ~ 1844
"The infinitely complex can arise from the singularly simple." ~ 1845
"It would appear our collective best may not be enough to ensure our survival." ~ 1846
"If we normally walk down the normal path, we arrive at the normal destination." ~ 1847
"No matter the bee in my hind, I am always behind." ~ 1848
"Meaning derived in the moment seems closer to joy." ~ 1849
"A universal aesthetic is an unknown to itself." ~ 1850
"His masterpiece was to master peace." ~ 1851
"People of simple ideas are had by them." ~ 1852
"By mass I am mostly human, by count I am not." ~ 1853
"Everyone at all times engages in group think, some just have bigger groups." ~ 1854
"The longer I live, the more mythic happy endings appear." ~ 1855
"We idolize the symbol for its correspondence." ~ 1856
"There are thousands time more atoms in a single bacteria than there are humans on the planet." ~ 1857
"Excuse me ma'am, how do I get to truth? Practice. Practice. Practice." ~ 1858
"Minds are as much vessels for language as language is a vessel for mind." ~ 1859
"We seek happiness as if it is were a place." ~ 1860
"Justice is neither always common or sensible." ~ 1861
"All differences fade with distance." ~ 1862
"Identity politics pollutes its body by putting desire before truth." ~ 1863
"Splendor is a many loved thing." ~ 1864
"Any fool can complain, wise men try to make it better." ~ 1865
"Time is the capital we squander on money." ~ 1866
"Choice is made before its awareness." ~ 1867
"Everyone sometimes creates chaos so they can be seen to overcome it." ~ 1868
"Borders are not necessarily the line of safety." ~ 1869
"When I found humility, hope began to open." ~ 1870
"The unforgiven sin of another upon me festers only by my own choice." ~ 1871
"Justice is defined in the moment of its application." ~ 1872
"When I mess things up again, I am a further mucker." ~ 1873
"The difference in my love or hate can be seen in my choosing to teach or punish." ~ 1874
"When I remove a straw from a camel, it adds meaning for us both." ~ 1875
"I've never been sure if it is better to be ignorant or a fool, so I practiced both." ~ 1876
"I need no gift but to be near the ones I love." ~ 1877
"Everything tends to become disordered by causality." ~ 1878
"Every self is a single bubble in a sea of foam."~ 1879
"It is difficult to separate the probable from the necessary." ~ 1880
"Had Jack waited for the water to run down hill he could have filled his pail, avoided the tumble, kept his crown, but most of all ensured Jill's safety." ~ 1881
"The mercy of letting her go must always remain an unspoken pain." ~ 1882
"Marriage is where we use our liberty to share our lives in the pursuit of happiness." ~ 1883
"Too often peace and love disappear into the imaginary structures we make by belief." ~ 1884
"The best gift comes when I am present." ~ 1885
"Great power requires the realizing of many desires." ~ 1886
"A fire pit is a 'safe space' for a fire." ~ 1887
"Some Mondays are more mondayish than others." ~ 1888
"Revolutions occur when the expectations of a better life rise but perception of it falls." ~ 1889
"Regret? I never had a 'Gret', so why would I do it again'?" ~ 1890
"Generations generated many words between parlor and parliament." ~ 1891
"One needs but murder a single soldier to keep their army a trembling." ~ 1892
"The worst screams need no sound." ~ 1893
"Stars twinkle from their own harmonic being." ~ 1894
"Some seem to think that markets give them the freedom to ignore the golden rule." ~ 1895
"Well will will will well." ~ 1895
"The harder the heart the more long lasting the scratch to it." ~ 1896
"Music as thought is a set of fourier transforms." ~ 1897
"E Pluribus Unum? Non multi sine uno." "From many one? No many without one." ~ 1898
"When we stop moving our perspective, we push the bias of a single view." ~ 1899
"The greatest threat to democracy is the ignorance of its citizens." ~ 1900
"'Reciprocity' is the golden rule in a single word." ~ 1901
"I want to define me but can not own my own description." ~ 1902
"She came to wash their feet but left wanting to wash her hands." ~ 1903
"People who live in bubbles are usually not bubbly." ~ 1904
"Nonfiction books make better alarm clocks." ~ 1905
"The further afield you venture, the more drama will find you." ~ 1906
"Money allows us to ignore that value is always a measure of life spent." ~ 1907
"I don't think I'm foolish when I don't pay attention to myself." ~ 1908
"A content mind is my first choice." ~ 1909
"Liberty rings when struck with injustice." ~ 1910
"It is the animal within us that mistakes peace for weakness." ~ 1911
"If one talks too much, they should at least be interesting." ~ 1912
"A liars intent is to secrete truth." ~ 1913
"Burning witches is a grave sin." ~ 1914
"Ought we not hold responsibilities as self evident before rights?" ~ 1915
"When we all agree it's harder to see when we are all wrong." ~ 1916
"Shallow thinkers swim in slimy tide pools." ~ 1917
"Better poor wisdom than a rich fool." ~ 1918
"Our lives are spent in the slight wisp edge of a rotating ball." ~ 1919
"What exactly was she riding that required a red hood?" ~ 1920
"Every feedback loop reflects on it's past." ~ 1921
"Every breath is a privilege granted rather than a right demanded." ~ 1922
"Dromedary is when you cry over spilt milk." ~ 1923
"Do not trust those who walk too loudly with a big stick." ~ 1924
"Without a dark age how could we know we lived in an enlightened one?" ~ 1925
"It is easier to defecate a lie than vomit it back up once swallowed." ~ 1926
"Burying ourselves in fantasy suggest a problem with our reality." ~ 1927
"The right to speak does not make one right." ~ 1928
"Ought I value my species more than my cells?" ~ 1929
"Rue the day when your meaning is defined by a weapon." ~ 1930
"A clan of fools can too easily be controlled." ~ 1931
"Quick draw artists mostly practice with their tongues." ~ 1932
"The weirdness of the cosmos is a reflection of our own limits." ~ 1933
"The brisk tumble toward nothing is easier when holding another's hand." ~ 1934
"Until mass media, religion was most often the branding of the soul." ~ 1935
"When certainty becomes identity we can no longer search for truth." ~ 1936
"Drama disables growth." ~ 1937
"We exist inside the limit of the probable." ~ 1938
"Turning evil to good is e'er so much better than killing it." ~ 1939
"How much love have I missed by not paying attention to the opportunities?" ~ 1940
"To do well one does not have to be well to do, nor do you have to become well to do if you do well." ~ 1941
"Perhaps there is a threshold of reflections where the self can become aware." ~ 1942
"How do we choose whose life is worth my freedom?" ~ 1943
"Talent without luck can still fail." ~ 1944
"My life has been followed by a dark grey swan." ~ 1945
"Beware who tells stories around your fire." ~ 1946
"The simple act of inclusion gives each of us a social safety net." ~ 1947
"Each time I suck air in, I push it out again; until that fateful last, when all my breaths are past." ~ 1948
"The scale we view our environment radically effects our politics." ~ 1949
"The fear a violence does not necessarily create less of it." ~ 1950
"Even when I practice wrong I get better." ~ 1951
"The reality we each experience is generated inside because of what is outside." ~ 1952
"Even scaling is a categorical assumption." ~ 1953
"The bubble who thinks it is the sea does not know what it is full of." ~ 1954
"The more one hates, the more others will desire the hated." ~ 1955
"Does the quanta emerge from the uneven distribution of qualia?" ~ 1956
"Politics is the whore of the mind." ~ 1957
"I took a dead man's mind as my enemy and vanquished him in my day dreams." ~ 1958
"Expecting a reward for virtue is not love of it." ~1959
"As author I have no authority once written." ~ 1960
"If I do not know how to keep liberty alive without a weapon, I will lose it." ~ 1961
"It is always on mark to miss the target." ~ 1962
"You know your getting self knowledge when it stings." ~ 1963
"All the trees maybe the same, but here is only so much sun." ~ 1964
"Absolute freedom permits the selfish to do what they will and the selfless to suffer what they must." ~ 1965
"Art finds its place in the moment." ~ 1966
"Of the possibilities that there is only one of me, many copies of me, or an infinity of me's, I'm not sure which is more disturbing." ~ 1967
"Our bigotry is also unveiled in what we will not forgive." ~ 1968
"Of 38 million minutes in a lifetime how many have I wasted worrying over those I can not change?" ~ 1969
"Cooperation among parts is required for a self to exist at all." ~ 1970
"It is easy to confuse attention with a detached self." ~ 1971
"we have inherited treasures beyond counting, yet insist in doing so." ~ 1972
"Some states of being can have no market." ~ 1973
"If we despise those who admit they are wrong, they never will." ~ 1974
"I am that state of matter which is inbetween being worm food." ~ 1975
"Take away my white male privilege and be done with it; for I breathe today and the rest of it is a joy." ~ 1976
"What I think about becomes who I am." ~ 1977
"The divider of labor is the first tyrant to enslave us." ~ 1978
"I find truth more in the silence than the cacophony." ~ 1979
"The search for meaning often begins with the discovery of one's mortality." ~ 1980
"Awareness is a reflection of the past in the moment." ~ 1981
"Even humans are epigenetically feral." ~ 1982
"Without forgiveness what meaning has justice?" ~ 1983
"Punish mint was her just dessert." ~ 1984
"Eventually our planet will be managed by us or destroyed by us." ~ 1985
"Wave after wave of fear mongering can wear down even the most courageous heart." ~ 1986
"If you stand next to a lightning rod, you will have a shocking experience." ~ 1987
"Every life as lived has a different viscosity." ~ 1988
"Metaphors are reductions in scale." ~ 1989
"We do not exist in the now we see." ~ 1990
"I am a reflection of all my mistakes." ~ 1991
"Causality puts us in a story of someone else's telling." ~ 1992
"Should we even try to measure the value of a moment?" ~ 1993
"How entitled ought our champions be?" ~ 1994
"There is enough random pain in the world to have any reason to add more." ~ 1995
"We can only imagine to see beyond the bounds of our own limits." ~ 1996
"If I can not see how my own mind works, I can barely make out others." ~ 1997
"When I'm full of anger it is hard to love any other." ~ 1998
"Fortune's favored claim right to spurn those who paved their narrow paths." ~ 1999



"Locusts care not the impact their behind leaves." ~ 2000
"We can never see all we are, much less all we could be." ~ 2001
"The dead whisper'speak to the unborn'." ~ 2002
"Faith shepards blindness while skepticism hazards hope." ~ 2003
"Empathy with your enemy is an advantage." ~ 2004
"Even using the shortest possible estimate I'm in at least generation 240." ~ 2005
"Big fish in little ponds have trouble recognizing whales." ~ 2006
"The problem is more often in the wanting than the getting." ~ 2007
"The uninformed are too often the difference that makes a difference." ~ 2008
"May you live long enough to see new fangled kids stuff become antique." ~ 2009
"Our awareness flickers slower than film, its constancy only illusion." ~ 2010
"Hopefully our suffering of the ill mannered will teach us why manners are important." ~ 2011
"There is no bulk discount rate on undie unbunching." ~ 2012
"Conventional wisdom is too often not the shortest distance from thought to truth." ~ 2013
"An eager mind is an information magnet." ~ 2014
"Retirement is always and only supported by others effort now." ~ 2015
"I am too mental to judge much." ~ 2016
"The solar system is humanity's imminent domain." ~ 2017
"Stopping the remembrance can calm the soul." ~ 2018
"If I have not made three mistakes before breakfast, I'm not going to learn much that day." ~ 2019
"Paradoxes are discoveries waiting to happen." ~ 2020
"All experience a paltry awareness of the vast." ~ 2021
"Not all efficiencies are morally neutral." ~ 2022
"Even the best stories do not last beyond their telling." ~ 2023
"It takes more courage to remain non-violent than to strike in vengeance." ~ 2024
"When punny is not funny it moreoft needs be pro found." ~ 2025
"I wanted to become an excellent cook and now look like I have." ~ 2026
"Slogans enable us to talk past one another." ~ 2027
"What separates 'we' from 'them' is responsibility to one another." ~ 2028
"With each friend that makes me a better person comes the desire to reflect it back." ~ 2029
"To serve those children unyet born, one must learn to love beyond their own." ~ 2030
"I am not the wheel, but the spinning." ~ 2031
"The cosmos expands as we add information to it." ~ 2032
"The gift we give is rarely the one we choose." ~ 2033
"We often lean left or right from the weight of the chip on our shoulder." ~ 2034
"Wealth comes from realizing what you do not need." ~ 2035
"A good manager gives a destination, a bad one tells you when to turn." ~ 2036
"I asked what was the point of me; then realized it was upon my head." ~ 2037
"Faust also mastered the art of the deal." ~ 2038
"Clarity comes easy to the empty headed." ~ 2039
"Curiosity is a blind ambition." ~ 2040
"The shameless are a poison in a free society." ~ 2041
"There are no end to the awakenings but darkness." ~ 2042
"Entropic foolishness dissipates our many meanings." ~ 2043
"When a billion monkeys are typing, one can only hope to be better than some of them." ~ 2044
"What is the I that does the seeing?" ~ 2045
"Bacteria have built the edifice of us." ~ 2046
"The problem with democracy is morons." ~ 2047
"Lies are in the ear of the behearder." ~ 2048
"Coexistence starts at home." ~ 2049
"Grammarians are not reality's authority." ~ 2050
"One must find the prism of kindness inside for it to sparkle forth." ~ 2051
"Of all the bad days that have ever been, at least you are breathing in this one." ~ 2052
"The best we can see is the reflection of all our souls." ~ 2053
"Human mating rituals include cleverness only in imagination." ~ 2054
"There is too much their there and not enough hear here." ~ 2055
"Logic rarely climbs over the wall of a false initial assumption." ~ 2056
"Old people get weird because their bored." ~ 2057
"Its difficult to grind an ax while trying to gently row your boat." ~ 2058
"I've become a better man by watching my wife be a mother." ~ 2059
"The one in a billion is far to the left and all the others are just zeros." ~ 2060
"If this is all our tomorrows, I've had an abundance."~ 2061
"As the locusts lept to the field they cried 'jobs today for tomorrow we die'. ~ 2062
"Create a ritual and practice until it becomes you." ~ 2063
"Courage is a head with a chicken cut off." ~ 2064
"Reality taint puttin' limits on me!" ~ 2065
"Memory makes our awareness a peer larger." ~ 2066
"The self with a scythe seeks to out the tallest blade." ~ 2067
"The more children you have the more practice you get." ~ 2068
"Alexander may have been great, but i shall have thrice the moments of he." ~ 2069
"Can not nobility arise from the abandonment of the savage?" ~ 2070
"Awareness also is a memory of the recent past." ~ 2071
"A bad actor does not do drama well." ~ 2072
"When everyone thinks 'the other guy' is the problem, most probably the problem is all of us." ~ 2073
"Can we lose someone who was never really there?" ~ 2074
"People who point fingers are often the ones you should trust the least." ~ 2075
"One can not bridge the river of fear alone." ~ 2076
"If you listen close, you can here your own rhythm." ~ 2077
"She was too true to be good." ~ 2078
"Our soul also resides in the choice we make before we become aware of it." ~ 2079
"For most of the existence of the cosmos I've done nothing." ~ 2080
"The fuel of inequality fires the engine of rebellion." ~ 2081
"When I am not earning trust, I am using it up." ~ 2082
"To that point of sweetness just before the rot, she spoils me." ~ 2083
"What value should we place on being ignored?" ~ 2084
"My last breath will not be my last vanity." ~ 2085
"Justice does not require brutality, but vengeance does." ~ 2086
"How many wars will it take before our species realizes that us and us is always better than us and them?" ~ 2087
"Inside the drop of rain that is life we choose where to focus." ~ 2088
"Not knowing ought motivate rather than stop us." ~ 2089
"In passing only memory remains, so seek for beauty in your tearstains." ~ 2090
"The knowledge of our specie's has grown faster than our ability to handle it." ~ 2091
"Ozymandias wailed for Algernon outside Plato's Cave." ~ 2092
"Reputation is first an others reality." ~ 2093
"What is memory beyond the knowing, the past expressed in the now?" ~ 2094
"Being fully immersed and aware in the moment requires the abandonment of judgement." ~ 2095
"The gardener who doesn't smell the roses is wasting his time." ~ 2096
"The beauty of kindness is revealed by our own suffering." ~ 2097
"Healing is better than heeling in almost all cases." ~ 2098
"News is that addictive daily dose of hate and fear for which it claims itself the cure and I say damn the pusher man." ~ 2099
"The self fades toward oblivion from the brilliance of a hundred billion narcissistic copies of the species human." ~ 2100
"He ain't heavy, rather I'm a wholly holy holey ass." ~ 2101
"Prophets come from an imbalance of values." ~ 2102
"One does not plan to become good at starting over, but perhaps one should." ~ 2103
"Most of us have to learn the hard way that suffering makes for better art." ~ 2104
"Dread tends to promote more retreats than death." ~ 2105
"I used to believe in free will, but now am only hoping for free won't." ~ 2106