Sunday, May 16, 2021
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
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