Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Rat-a-tat-tat
Landlording
is an education
all its own.
Under the tub,
in between floors,
above high cabinets
that are often ignored,
a creature's remains
were made plain.
It died alone
in the dark
without water
or food.
Where it came from
or how did come in?
It long had been
in such state.
There was no smell,
no sense of immediacy.
Even the shells
of the carrion
that ate here
are long dry.
I too am a tenant.
My being rented it
from my first split
to my faded bones.
Friday, November 4, 2016
Aphorisms to 1000
Here are the next 250 daily meditations in single sentences dreamed up each day, usually with the first cup-o-joe.
"The closer I look, the farther free will recedes." ~ 751
"I am imperfect but may be wrong about that." ~ 752
"I made a tool then it remade me." ~ 753
"A fool and his ideology are not soon parted." ~ 754
"Forgiveness takes more courage than revenge." ~ 755
"A variety of experience enables doubt." ~ 756
"Letting go is required to grow." ~ 757
"Categorically my thoughts are a means to truth's end." ~ 758
"Virtual reality is simply another layer of metaphor." ~ 759
"Obedience is also a virtue of the slave mind." ~ 760
"Every direction is in itself a leap of faith." ~ 761
"Shall we compromise our dogmas or come to blows?" ~ 762
"Revenge is license to visit crime upon the criminal." ~ 763
"Cults of violence come to no good end." ~ 764
"Life and death commence being at the same time." ~ 765
"This moment can only dream of another." ~ 766
"How closely shall I follow any path?" ~ 767
"Where is the line between symbol and idol?" ~ 768
"A process is the shape of being in time." ~ 769
"If there be one demon among them, shall we kill them all?" ~ 770
"I am principally less than my context." ~ 771
"I manage my motion at right angles to my experience of it." ~ 772
"Waiting for heaven is no excuse for not replicating some part of it here." ~ 773
"Oppression is a profitable market." ~ 774
"One confuses kindness with weakness at their own peril." ~ 775
"Should I listen to fools for their occasional truth?" ~ 776
"A lack of self examination permits a self esteem larger than warranted." ~ 777
"We are also ripples in the fabric of space." ~ 778
"Eventually we will find our planet's limits." ~ 779
"The comforts of ritual came late to me." ~ 780
"Our thoughts themselves are at best occasionally chosen." ~ 781
"The destruction of innocence is not victimless." ~ 782
"Faith does not require joining a human institution." ~ 783
"When I judge the idea and not the person, both are more apt to benefit." ~ 784
"Understanding truth requires exploration of the different." ~ 785
"To an infinite cosmos, the self is as void." ~ 786
"Ideology is an answer looking for a problem." ~ 787
"Naming my emotion tends to diminish its influence." ~ 788
"The sediment of the future reveals itself gradually." ~ 789
"The meta culture of cults is not bound by any ideology." ~ 790
"Oh that I could love the unmet stranger with greater ease." ~ 791
"Not causing injustice is insufficient to the pursuit of justice's effect." ~ 792
"With death certain where in each moment shall I place my mind?" ~ 793
"Certainty is truth's neighbor." ~ 794
"Neither commodity nor service is love." ~ 795
"There is no matter or energy which the self can always identify as its own." ~ 796
"Feeling misunderstood is a tragic excuse for doing nothing." ~ 797
"Ideologues idolize ideal ideas." ~ 798
"Shared context enables the compression of meaning." ~ 799
"We rarely ask if the culture we grew in was good." ~ 800
"Our comprehension of God changes with each generation." ~ 801
"An idealized past only appears better than a feared future." ~ 802
"Meaning rarely and briefly transcends self." ~ 803
"Some cultures are not ready for democracy." ~ 804
"My understanding is bound to my sense's limits." ~ 805
"Innocence is lost whenever evil is fought." ~ 806
"There are many infinities between nothing and something." ~ 807
"For most religion is a blanket to hold while falling into oblivion." ~ 808
"Symbol and memory have entropic limits." ~ 809
"What reservoir is filled by long vacant gazes at nature in the raw?" ~ 810
"The problem with being good in a crisis is having more of them find you." ~ 811
"Does the aphorism that does not change me fail?" ~ 812
"Both absolute freedom and its inverse make for brutal lives." ~ 813
"Witness bearers should start every claim with 'My memory of my memory is...'." ~ 814
"Every party has a share of idiots." ~ 815
"I should avert others suffering before seeking self happiness." ~ 816
"Pretended competence creates space for growth." ~ 817
"Tyranny spawns in ignorance and dies in violence." ~ 818
"I am the vanity of the whirl in the wind." ~ 819
"Safety easily forgets the occasional threat." ~ 820
"Intent and awareness are in a codependent relationship." ~ 821
"News has more value than the products it is used to sell." ~ 822
"Morality is a current." ~ 823
"Defeating Hitler required socialism." ~ 824
"As news is always perspective on truth, we all become gossip mongers." ~ 825
"What matters is a limit upon will." ~ 826
"Dogmata are inconcordant beliefs striving for truth." ~ 827
"A state producing more soldiers than students endangers us all." ~ 828
"To shape a waterfall requires time." ~ 829
"If envy is as sinful as murder, it's prevention too is demanded." ~ 830
"The bully rarely thinks themselves so." ~ 831
"The technology of our adolescence follows us till death." ~ 832
"My disdain enabled my continued ignorance." ~ 833
"How can it be that there are wolves behind every tree?" ~ 834
"What is obvious to one is not necessarily so to another." ~ 835
"The less education we have, the less we tend to value it." ~ 836
"Ideologues place rulers on subjects." ~ 837
"Most fears are about the irrational and uncommon." ~ 838
"As hate is decisive to a cycle of violence, love is decisive to a cycle of peace." ~ 839
"No one book has content sufficient to prosper." ~ 840
"Shall I ever be content with my own content?" ~ 841
"When I'm greedy my generosity fails me." ~ 842
"Myths are the harmony we sing with our ancestors." ~ 843
"Threatening violence for non compliance uses terror to gain power." ~ 844
"We all occasionally lose the beauty in the moment." ~ 845
"Our minds trend to crystalize on familiar perspectives." ~ 846
"On some scales of time and space, free will does not appear." ~ 847
"We risk suffering when we even mention the taboo." ~ 848
"No process can demonstrate itself." ~ 849
"Is not custom but habit writ large?" ~ 850
"Even grace can be immoderate." ~ 851
"Fiction is when we acknowledge the delusion." ~ 852
"I am an iteration on almost every scale I am aware." ~ 853
"Liberty permits fools, but is not license to be cruel." ~ 854
"Shall we trust a moral philosopher who is not also a parent?" ~ 855
"There are many ahead of you seeking almost every dream." ~ 856
"Feminism should mean more than 'don't be a dick'." ~ 857
"The more effecient at promoting disorder a system is, the more apt it is to persist and expand." ~ 858
"Is it tragedy or comedy that most atoms will never be part of life?" ~ 859
"An authentic life quests to find the possibility boundary." ~ 860
"Unaware emotions spread as a virus." ~ 861
"I quandary to quantify the quality of quotes beyond quantity." ~ 862
"The vicious circles of imagination have no exit point but death." ~ 863
"The transition from hardass to lardass has taken many calories." ~ 864
"The eye can not see itself, only a pale, mirrored reflection of its past." ~ 865
"How often are we villain in someone else's narrative?" ~ 866
"The intentional channelling of emotion separates us from other animals." ~ 867
"Belief among many is stronger than the sum of its parts." ~ 868
"When I'm on a road to know where, there will still be flowers." ~ 869
"I am humbled to have even this moment." ~ 870
"Kindness promotes content unions." ~ 871
"Listen until the subject's last word with love in your ear." ~ 872
"We will have no morality to speak of without the survival of our species." ~ 873
"May the inertia of my belief remain challenged." ~ 874
"If you do not choose a vanity, one will be thrust upon you." ~ 875
"I am composed of a hundred trillion life forms and amongst even more stars." ~ 876
"Only in old age have I become near half the parent my children needed." ~ 877
"Be it dirt or decisions, there is only so much I can shovel in a day." ~ 878
"The walls of our reality bubbles are mostly mirrors." ~ 879
"When markets rule the unfit are condemned to lives of suffering." ~ 880
"Disruption is a tool for those who perceive to owe others nothing." ~ 881
"Desire is the is that seeks the ought." ~ 882
"Giving myself away engenders more joy than the alternative." ~ 883
"Focus requires ignoring." ~ 884
"I would refuse an eternity as I am." ~ 885
"War almost always starts short and ends long." ~ 886
"Meaning's manifestation morphs both." ~ 887
"I fear human brains far more than any metal tube with powder." ~ 888
"Inaction is often the most competent act." ~ 889
"Who among us would demand freedom only for those they agree with?" ~ 890
"We kill our enemies until they become human to us again." ~ 891
"I too suffer from the vanity of claiming my sins lesser." ~ 892
"We have not forgotten how to train slave minds, only our labels have changed." ~ 893
"Carpe diem? No. In die me." ~ "Seize the day? No. The day seized me." ~ 894
"We are what we listen to." ~ 895
"We all even measure the quality of quality differently." ~ 896
"Demagogues arise when the business of states is micromanaged by pundits." ~ 897
"We are in every respect an iteration of previous form." ~ 898
"If it is all vanity then what is time to be but wasted?" ~ 899
"Awareness appears to be derived from tensor sensors." ~ 900
"Symbols enable my mind to exist where my body can never be." ~ 901
"Did the man who rolled the world's largest ball of twine die more content than I? ~ 902
"Where is the line where my interest has more meaning than the states?" ~ 903
"We mostly pretend will for success and blame fate for failure." ~ 904
"Our boot straps and shirt sleeves only go so high." ~ 905
"In full bloom every flower thinks it's a perennial." ~ 906
"All antiheroes are cloaked in myth." ~ 907
"Our bigotry is revealed in its blindness to the suffering of the other." ~ 908
"We fail our own morality too often at the border of empathy and sympathy." ~ 909
"Knowing no other, we are all pleased with our own senses." ~ 910
"I should make no claim to the commonality of the lesson here learned." ~ 911
"Comment before coffee breaks contentment." ~ 912
"On our little lifeboat amongst the uncaring waves shall we eye each other as meat or combine our efforts to fish?" ~ 913
"Relying only on self for responsibility ends up being moral masturbation." ~ 914
"Math is another way to compress information." ~ 915
"If you are not prepared to kill them all, at some point peace must be made." ~ 916
"Fear is a stone on evil's path, tread not there." ~ 917
"Science asks our senses what is, thereby avoiding the unknowable." ~ 918
"As I expend my energy, I begin to matter." ~ 919
"Knowing no other, vanity thinks its culture and heritage superior." ~ 920
"Being the best me I can be is never the best being that is." ~ 921
"Democracy finds the average at best and the lowest common denominator at worst." ~ 922
"The fear of death and the desire for property are more often proportional in us." ~ 923
"The familiar is simultaneously my comfort and blindness." ~ 924
"Meaning is found in the moment and lost just as quickly." ~ 925
"All our leaders have become spinning cartoon balloons." ~ 926
"Unchosen bias exists unaware." ~ 927
"Novelty keeps the abyss at bay." ~ 928
"Unregulated capitalism slowly corrupts us all." ~ 929
"Working smart and hard is insufficient to gain wealth." ~ 930
"Service is a privledge earned, not a right granted." ~ 931
"Although the way is new to me, a path looks well worn." ~ 932
"Love undone is mere feelings." ~ 933
"Ideology cannot fail; it can only be failed." ~ 934
"Both planet and species have more meaning than you." ~ 935
"Being calm is all about the e-motion in your head." ~ 936
"Manners are a cultural bond bound upon self will." ~ 937
"Occam's razor cuts truth to size." ~ 938
"The odds are that all fame is a distraction." ~ 939
"Would that no one could profit from hate." ~ 940
"Aesthetics is a category which is likely to blind as enlighten." ~ 941
"Accountability contains censorship." ~ 942
"If we are lucky we slowly fade away every day." ~ 943
"Shared useful compromise is always possible and ever preferable to war." ~ 944
"The blind love of others form the walls of my contently perceived dwelling." ~ 945
"Teammates help each other become better so others may fail." ~ 946
"Did God have the qualia of dying but once?" ~ 947
"Knowing no other way, one clings to love." ~ 948
"Manifesting myths moreoft makes mayhem." ~ 949
"Oh to be for only a moment on all scales at once, from cell to person, through planet and cosmos." ~ 950
"Follow your dreams if you are able, lucky, moral, opportune, and timely; otherwise repeat." ~ 951
"Our categories are our caves." ~ 952
"I am unable to care about everyone when I empathize with someone." ~ 953
"Religion reveals commoditizing wisdom has utility." ~ 954
"Victors illuminated declare they are the light." ~ 955
"The physical precedes the fiscal." ~ 956
"Assuming the worst in others allows me to ignore the golden rule." ~ 957 <-- Fan Favorite
"The only place where I can make change happen is now." ~ 958
"The profane erupts when I ignore the sacred." ~ 959
"I built upon an entropic mountain of cards, each limiting my options to escape chaotic collapse." ~ 960
"Battles are ultimately won in the mind field." ~ 961
"Once I become a stranger in any land I am visitor to all lands." ~ 962
"Truth for one is never truth for all." ~ 963
"Of the two trillion thoughts we have in a life time few are unique." ~ 964
"It has become apostasy to criticize the wholly profits." ~ 965
"Most humans alive during wars did not participate." ~ 966
"Unless I invented the words and the way they are thought, I am not free." ~ 967
"Claiming being beyond the herenow is illocated pretense." ~ 968
"Belief based on desire is blind to evidence." ~ 969
"Teachers are learning's reverse engineers." ~ 970
"Externalizing thought reduces our memories." ~ 971
"Humility in failure heals me." ~ 972
"Children sweat as poor parents rarely learn wealth accumulation." ~ 973
"Tis better to be lazy in knowledge than to expend effort in ignorance." ~ 974
"Kindness cost little, while meanness can cost all." ~ 975
"There is no market for wisdom." ~ 976
"The love from a child is more fakery than the love of a grandparent." ~ 977
"Extremism in the defense of liberty destroys that which it attempts to protect." ~ 978
"I too easily take for granted what is locally common." ~ 979
"Beating the crap out of my own assumptions is still a violent vanity." ~ 980
"I can never know the full results of my own cause." ~ 981
"On occasion ritual and custom need violation." ~ 982
"There but for humility walk I." ~ 983
"If you are never unsure you are doing it wrong." ~ 984
"The hateful heart can not see itself much less another." ~ 985
"An avalanche that thinks it is the mountain falls twice." ~ 986
"The unperceived will of the other is more oft our fate." ~ 987
"Who does not engage love court's hate." ~ 988
"I was taught that to put others needs before my own is love." ~ 989
"Sparkle vainly into the void." ~ 990
"Making habit of de golden rule ain't easy or we'd all be do'in it." ~ 991
"Pursuit of fortune only delivered me into servitude." ~ 992
"If I am wrong on the existential question, then I hope you are right." ~ 993
"In as much that civilization enabled my existence, I am born with a debt to it." ~ 994
"I desire that truth eventually wins out over loyalty." ~ 995
"How does one steal a thought?" ~ 996
"Mind the gap between desire and truth." ~ 997
"Loving my neighbor as myself is not socialism." ~ 998
"Masking fault is easier than mending it." ~ 999
"The best use of breath I have ever found is to love another." ~ 1000
"The closer I look, the farther free will recedes." ~ 751
"I am imperfect but may be wrong about that." ~ 752
"I made a tool then it remade me." ~ 753
"A fool and his ideology are not soon parted." ~ 754
"Forgiveness takes more courage than revenge." ~ 755
"A variety of experience enables doubt." ~ 756
"Letting go is required to grow." ~ 757
"Categorically my thoughts are a means to truth's end." ~ 758
"Virtual reality is simply another layer of metaphor." ~ 759
"Obedience is also a virtue of the slave mind." ~ 760
"Every direction is in itself a leap of faith." ~ 761
"Shall we compromise our dogmas or come to blows?" ~ 762
"Revenge is license to visit crime upon the criminal." ~ 763
"Cults of violence come to no good end." ~ 764
"Life and death commence being at the same time." ~ 765
"This moment can only dream of another." ~ 766
"How closely shall I follow any path?" ~ 767
"Where is the line between symbol and idol?" ~ 768
"A process is the shape of being in time." ~ 769
"If there be one demon among them, shall we kill them all?" ~ 770
"I am principally less than my context." ~ 771
"I manage my motion at right angles to my experience of it." ~ 772
"Waiting for heaven is no excuse for not replicating some part of it here." ~ 773
"Oppression is a profitable market." ~ 774
"One confuses kindness with weakness at their own peril." ~ 775
"Should I listen to fools for their occasional truth?" ~ 776
"A lack of self examination permits a self esteem larger than warranted." ~ 777
"We are also ripples in the fabric of space." ~ 778
"Eventually we will find our planet's limits." ~ 779
"The comforts of ritual came late to me." ~ 780
"Our thoughts themselves are at best occasionally chosen." ~ 781
"The destruction of innocence is not victimless." ~ 782
"Faith does not require joining a human institution." ~ 783
"When I judge the idea and not the person, both are more apt to benefit." ~ 784
"Understanding truth requires exploration of the different." ~ 785
"To an infinite cosmos, the self is as void." ~ 786
"Ideology is an answer looking for a problem." ~ 787
"Naming my emotion tends to diminish its influence." ~ 788
"The sediment of the future reveals itself gradually." ~ 789
"The meta culture of cults is not bound by any ideology." ~ 790
"Oh that I could love the unmet stranger with greater ease." ~ 791
"Not causing injustice is insufficient to the pursuit of justice's effect." ~ 792
"With death certain where in each moment shall I place my mind?" ~ 793
"Certainty is truth's neighbor." ~ 794
"Neither commodity nor service is love." ~ 795
"There is no matter or energy which the self can always identify as its own." ~ 796
"Feeling misunderstood is a tragic excuse for doing nothing." ~ 797
"Ideologues idolize ideal ideas." ~ 798
"Shared context enables the compression of meaning." ~ 799
"We rarely ask if the culture we grew in was good." ~ 800
"Our comprehension of God changes with each generation." ~ 801
"An idealized past only appears better than a feared future." ~ 802
"Meaning rarely and briefly transcends self." ~ 803
"Some cultures are not ready for democracy." ~ 804
"My understanding is bound to my sense's limits." ~ 805
"Innocence is lost whenever evil is fought." ~ 806
"There are many infinities between nothing and something." ~ 807
"For most religion is a blanket to hold while falling into oblivion." ~ 808
"Symbol and memory have entropic limits." ~ 809
"What reservoir is filled by long vacant gazes at nature in the raw?" ~ 810
"The problem with being good in a crisis is having more of them find you." ~ 811
"Does the aphorism that does not change me fail?" ~ 812
"Both absolute freedom and its inverse make for brutal lives." ~ 813
"Witness bearers should start every claim with 'My memory of my memory is...'." ~ 814
"Every party has a share of idiots." ~ 815
"I should avert others suffering before seeking self happiness." ~ 816
"Pretended competence creates space for growth." ~ 817
"Tyranny spawns in ignorance and dies in violence." ~ 818
"I am the vanity of the whirl in the wind." ~ 819
"Safety easily forgets the occasional threat." ~ 820
"Intent and awareness are in a codependent relationship." ~ 821
"News has more value than the products it is used to sell." ~ 822
"Morality is a current." ~ 823
"Defeating Hitler required socialism." ~ 824
"As news is always perspective on truth, we all become gossip mongers." ~ 825
"What matters is a limit upon will." ~ 826
"Dogmata are inconcordant beliefs striving for truth." ~ 827
"A state producing more soldiers than students endangers us all." ~ 828
"To shape a waterfall requires time." ~ 829
"If envy is as sinful as murder, it's prevention too is demanded." ~ 830
"The bully rarely thinks themselves so." ~ 831
"The technology of our adolescence follows us till death." ~ 832
"My disdain enabled my continued ignorance." ~ 833
"How can it be that there are wolves behind every tree?" ~ 834
"What is obvious to one is not necessarily so to another." ~ 835
"The less education we have, the less we tend to value it." ~ 836
"Ideologues place rulers on subjects." ~ 837
"Most fears are about the irrational and uncommon." ~ 838
"As hate is decisive to a cycle of violence, love is decisive to a cycle of peace." ~ 839
"No one book has content sufficient to prosper." ~ 840
"Shall I ever be content with my own content?" ~ 841
"When I'm greedy my generosity fails me." ~ 842
"Myths are the harmony we sing with our ancestors." ~ 843
"Threatening violence for non compliance uses terror to gain power." ~ 844
"We all occasionally lose the beauty in the moment." ~ 845
"Our minds trend to crystalize on familiar perspectives." ~ 846
"On some scales of time and space, free will does not appear." ~ 847
"We risk suffering when we even mention the taboo." ~ 848
"No process can demonstrate itself." ~ 849
"Is not custom but habit writ large?" ~ 850
"Even grace can be immoderate." ~ 851
"Fiction is when we acknowledge the delusion." ~ 852
"I am an iteration on almost every scale I am aware." ~ 853
"Liberty permits fools, but is not license to be cruel." ~ 854
"Shall we trust a moral philosopher who is not also a parent?" ~ 855
"There are many ahead of you seeking almost every dream." ~ 856
"Feminism should mean more than 'don't be a dick'." ~ 857
"The more effecient at promoting disorder a system is, the more apt it is to persist and expand." ~ 858
"Is it tragedy or comedy that most atoms will never be part of life?" ~ 859
"An authentic life quests to find the possibility boundary." ~ 860
"Unaware emotions spread as a virus." ~ 861
"I quandary to quantify the quality of quotes beyond quantity." ~ 862
"The vicious circles of imagination have no exit point but death." ~ 863
"The transition from hardass to lardass has taken many calories." ~ 864
"The eye can not see itself, only a pale, mirrored reflection of its past." ~ 865
"How often are we villain in someone else's narrative?" ~ 866
"The intentional channelling of emotion separates us from other animals." ~ 867
"Belief among many is stronger than the sum of its parts." ~ 868
"When I'm on a road to know where, there will still be flowers." ~ 869
"I am humbled to have even this moment." ~ 870
"Kindness promotes content unions." ~ 871
"Listen until the subject's last word with love in your ear." ~ 872
"We will have no morality to speak of without the survival of our species." ~ 873
"May the inertia of my belief remain challenged." ~ 874
"If you do not choose a vanity, one will be thrust upon you." ~ 875
"I am composed of a hundred trillion life forms and amongst even more stars." ~ 876
"Only in old age have I become near half the parent my children needed." ~ 877
"Be it dirt or decisions, there is only so much I can shovel in a day." ~ 878
"The walls of our reality bubbles are mostly mirrors." ~ 879
"When markets rule the unfit are condemned to lives of suffering." ~ 880
"Disruption is a tool for those who perceive to owe others nothing." ~ 881
"Desire is the is that seeks the ought." ~ 882
"Giving myself away engenders more joy than the alternative." ~ 883
"Focus requires ignoring." ~ 884
"I would refuse an eternity as I am." ~ 885
"War almost always starts short and ends long." ~ 886
"Meaning's manifestation morphs both." ~ 887
"I fear human brains far more than any metal tube with powder." ~ 888
"Inaction is often the most competent act." ~ 889
"Who among us would demand freedom only for those they agree with?" ~ 890
"We kill our enemies until they become human to us again." ~ 891
"I too suffer from the vanity of claiming my sins lesser." ~ 892
"We have not forgotten how to train slave minds, only our labels have changed." ~ 893
"Carpe diem? No. In die me." ~ "Seize the day? No. The day seized me." ~ 894
"We are what we listen to." ~ 895
"We all even measure the quality of quality differently." ~ 896
"Demagogues arise when the business of states is micromanaged by pundits." ~ 897
"We are in every respect an iteration of previous form." ~ 898
"If it is all vanity then what is time to be but wasted?" ~ 899
"Awareness appears to be derived from tensor sensors." ~ 900
"Symbols enable my mind to exist where my body can never be." ~ 901
"Did the man who rolled the world's largest ball of twine die more content than I? ~ 902
"Where is the line where my interest has more meaning than the states?" ~ 903
"We mostly pretend will for success and blame fate for failure." ~ 904
"Our boot straps and shirt sleeves only go so high." ~ 905
"In full bloom every flower thinks it's a perennial." ~ 906
"All antiheroes are cloaked in myth." ~ 907
"Our bigotry is revealed in its blindness to the suffering of the other." ~ 908
"We fail our own morality too often at the border of empathy and sympathy." ~ 909
"Knowing no other, we are all pleased with our own senses." ~ 910
"I should make no claim to the commonality of the lesson here learned." ~ 911
"Comment before coffee breaks contentment." ~ 912
"On our little lifeboat amongst the uncaring waves shall we eye each other as meat or combine our efforts to fish?" ~ 913
"Relying only on self for responsibility ends up being moral masturbation." ~ 914
"Math is another way to compress information." ~ 915
"If you are not prepared to kill them all, at some point peace must be made." ~ 916
"Fear is a stone on evil's path, tread not there." ~ 917
"Science asks our senses what is, thereby avoiding the unknowable." ~ 918
"As I expend my energy, I begin to matter." ~ 919
"Knowing no other, vanity thinks its culture and heritage superior." ~ 920
"Being the best me I can be is never the best being that is." ~ 921
"Democracy finds the average at best and the lowest common denominator at worst." ~ 922
"The fear of death and the desire for property are more often proportional in us." ~ 923
"The familiar is simultaneously my comfort and blindness." ~ 924
"Meaning is found in the moment and lost just as quickly." ~ 925
"All our leaders have become spinning cartoon balloons." ~ 926
"Unchosen bias exists unaware." ~ 927
"Novelty keeps the abyss at bay." ~ 928
"Unregulated capitalism slowly corrupts us all." ~ 929
"Working smart and hard is insufficient to gain wealth." ~ 930
"Service is a privledge earned, not a right granted." ~ 931
"Although the way is new to me, a path looks well worn." ~ 932
"Love undone is mere feelings." ~ 933
"Ideology cannot fail; it can only be failed." ~ 934
"Both planet and species have more meaning than you." ~ 935
"Being calm is all about the e-motion in your head." ~ 936
"Manners are a cultural bond bound upon self will." ~ 937
"Occam's razor cuts truth to size." ~ 938
"The odds are that all fame is a distraction." ~ 939
"Would that no one could profit from hate." ~ 940
"Aesthetics is a category which is likely to blind as enlighten." ~ 941
"Accountability contains censorship." ~ 942
"If we are lucky we slowly fade away every day." ~ 943
"Shared useful compromise is always possible and ever preferable to war." ~ 944
"The blind love of others form the walls of my contently perceived dwelling." ~ 945
"Teammates help each other become better so others may fail." ~ 946
"Did God have the qualia of dying but once?" ~ 947
"Knowing no other way, one clings to love." ~ 948
"Manifesting myths moreoft makes mayhem." ~ 949
"Oh to be for only a moment on all scales at once, from cell to person, through planet and cosmos." ~ 950
"Follow your dreams if you are able, lucky, moral, opportune, and timely; otherwise repeat." ~ 951
"Our categories are our caves." ~ 952
"I am unable to care about everyone when I empathize with someone." ~ 953
"Religion reveals commoditizing wisdom has utility." ~ 954
"Victors illuminated declare they are the light." ~ 955
"The physical precedes the fiscal." ~ 956
"Assuming the worst in others allows me to ignore the golden rule." ~ 957 <-- Fan Favorite
"The only place where I can make change happen is now." ~ 958
"The profane erupts when I ignore the sacred." ~ 959
"I built upon an entropic mountain of cards, each limiting my options to escape chaotic collapse." ~ 960
"Battles are ultimately won in the mind field." ~ 961
"Once I become a stranger in any land I am visitor to all lands." ~ 962
"Truth for one is never truth for all." ~ 963
"Of the two trillion thoughts we have in a life time few are unique." ~ 964
"It has become apostasy to criticize the wholly profits." ~ 965
"Most humans alive during wars did not participate." ~ 966
"Unless I invented the words and the way they are thought, I am not free." ~ 967
"Claiming being beyond the herenow is illocated pretense." ~ 968
"Belief based on desire is blind to evidence." ~ 969
"Teachers are learning's reverse engineers." ~ 970
"Externalizing thought reduces our memories." ~ 971
"Humility in failure heals me." ~ 972
"Children sweat as poor parents rarely learn wealth accumulation." ~ 973
"Tis better to be lazy in knowledge than to expend effort in ignorance." ~ 974
"Kindness cost little, while meanness can cost all." ~ 975
"There is no market for wisdom." ~ 976
"The love from a child is more fakery than the love of a grandparent." ~ 977
"Extremism in the defense of liberty destroys that which it attempts to protect." ~ 978
"I too easily take for granted what is locally common." ~ 979
"Beating the crap out of my own assumptions is still a violent vanity." ~ 980
"I can never know the full results of my own cause." ~ 981
"On occasion ritual and custom need violation." ~ 982
"There but for humility walk I." ~ 983
"If you are never unsure you are doing it wrong." ~ 984
"The hateful heart can not see itself much less another." ~ 985
"An avalanche that thinks it is the mountain falls twice." ~ 986
"The unperceived will of the other is more oft our fate." ~ 987
"Who does not engage love court's hate." ~ 988
"I was taught that to put others needs before my own is love." ~ 989
"Sparkle vainly into the void." ~ 990
"Making habit of de golden rule ain't easy or we'd all be do'in it." ~ 991
"Pursuit of fortune only delivered me into servitude." ~ 992
"If I am wrong on the existential question, then I hope you are right." ~ 993
"In as much that civilization enabled my existence, I am born with a debt to it." ~ 994
"I desire that truth eventually wins out over loyalty." ~ 995
"How does one steal a thought?" ~ 996
"Mind the gap between desire and truth." ~ 997
"Loving my neighbor as myself is not socialism." ~ 998
"Masking fault is easier than mending it." ~ 999
"The best use of breath I have ever found is to love another." ~ 1000
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Media Socialized
Media socialized.
Present's wild, wild west.
Ids' trigger fingers,
Poised over reply.
Myth believers hearded,
Love their cowboy.
Words slung, Crap flung.
Good life fertilizer?
Or just a pile a dung?
Our Myth? Forthwith.
On sheriff should we rely?
or patricians 'tainted maid?
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Dasane
Friday, July 15, 2016
BB Dust
I got a BB gun.
Upon reaching adolescence.
First chance I got,
I went "hunting".
After a day of trying,
I finally shot a robin.
Upon reaching adolescence.
First chance I got,
I went "hunting".
After a day of trying,
I finally shot a robin.
Holding the robin in my hand,
I realized it would never sing again,
That robin could not care for its babys anymore,
I could only drop it on the ground
Watch it turn to dust.
I realized it would never sing again,
That robin could not care for its babys anymore,
I could only drop it on the ground
Watch it turn to dust.
At 18 I became a soldier.
I learned dozens of ways
To kill man and beast.
I stared through a scope
Across a fence
At another man.
I had no hate
But I was from Seattle
And he Vladivostok.
If only he moved wrong
Or too fast.
I would have killed him
Taken away his unborn babies
Made his mother touch his dust.
I learned dozens of ways
To kill man and beast.
I stared through a scope
Across a fence
At another man.
I had no hate
But I was from Seattle
And he Vladivostok.
If only he moved wrong
Or too fast.
I would have killed him
Taken away his unborn babies
Made his mother touch his dust.
My friend Jack was shot,
By a drug dealer he had crossed.
A tent revival meeting
Had given salvation.
But this found morality
Did not sit well
With co-conspirators.
Jack was found floating
Face down in the river,
Like my robin.
He had no babies.
He became dust,
In a far away land.
By a drug dealer he had crossed.
A tent revival meeting
Had given salvation.
But this found morality
Did not sit well
With co-conspirators.
Jack was found floating
Face down in the river,
Like my robin.
He had no babies.
He became dust,
In a far away land.
I raised my own
Chickens and rabbits.
I killed them each
With an axe.
Every bit used.
They still died.
They still had no more babies.
They still turned to dust
after eating them
and pooping them into the ground.
The power of death brings
An awesome responsibility.
Most people never mature
To be allowed such power.
Too many fools
will kill because they can,
Never understanding
that singing and babies
Turn to dust with a flick of their finger.
Monday, January 25, 2016
250 More Ritual Aphorisms
"We know not what part of reality comes only from within." ~ 501
"Fatigue closes the mind." ~ 502
"Pandering to ignorance destroys democracy." ~ 503
"Admitting error builds trust." ~ 504
"Complexity alone is an insufficient cause for life or mind." ~ 505
"Every memory is reimagined with every recollection." ~ 506
"Simple answers require less effort and ability." ~ 507
"If it is possible to choose our emotions are we not obliged to do so?" ~ 508
"Innocence is blindness." ~ 509
"Bureaucracy tends to be risk adverse." ~ 510
"Gentle words pave understanding's path." ~ 511
"The past is an imaginary space." ~ 512
"Does the web diminish my capacity for solitude?" ~ 513
"Our technology requires we think globally." ~ 514
"Ought we expect a higher morality from priest and scientist?" ~ 515
"We are free to be foolish, but should not exercise the right." ~ 516
"All but for a single day, we choose to avoid paying the ferryman." ~ 517
"What does it say of us, that violence was not required, yet we used it anyway?" ~ 518
"We make more of life than it is and do less with it than we can." ~ 519
"I am at my beginning and end a sensory island." ~ 520
"We project meaning from within onto what is." ~ 521
"The more urgent the need to pee, the less certain I am of free will." ~ 522|
"Discreteness is a scaling issue of perspective." ~ 523
"Hard times attract spite." ~ 524
"Ignoring evil never protects us from it." ~ 525
"All of us avoid the discomfort of fact with the comfort of opinion." ~ 526
"If no one watched would ugliness exist?" ~ 527
"Any person who claims to know the mind of God lies first to themselves." ~ 528
"Capitalism provides what we want, not what what we need or ought." ~ 529
"Facebook is a modern tower of babble." ~ 530
"In our myths torture is reserved for the evil or desperate." ~ 531
"Free will is often a wee frill." ~ 532
"In the first place, none of us choose to exist." ~ 533
"My hate for <blank> is so great that any compassion shown to it threatens me." ~ 534
"It is easier to throw stones than build a house with them." ~ 535
"Every day walk outside, look up, and notice the sky is not falling." ~ 536
"As no one is perfect, is it better to be too generous, or not generous enough?" ~ 537
"All the people who have ever lived have had less impact on the universe than the sun in a few of it's moments." ~ 538
"Our mental construct of ownership is a means of extending our finite space." ~ 539
"Untested beliefs are mostly just habits." ~ 540
"The joy of seeking truth is often better than the agony of its discovery." ~ 541
"Markets know not morality." ~ 542
"The sword once again tried to conquer the pen and failed." ~ 543
"Realizing I could never become the laughing Buddha, I resolved to become a laughing curmudgeon." ~ 544
"If you wash your hands, you believe in science." ~ 545
"Does order emerge from the constraint of the finite?" ~ 546
"Bigotry is a hydra which feeds on hate and breeds on ignorance." ~ 547
"Poetry is an artifice that gives license to use metaphorical falsity in pursuit of truth." ~ 548
"It is all metaphor, but we pretend some of it is less so." ~ 549
"Wizdumb is when you pee on an electric fence." ~ 550
"We too easily miss the commonality of life by focusing on the shape of the snowflake." ~ 551
"The continuous chain of being, from small to large, is in its own existence a finite self." ~ 552
"Empathy grows with familiarity." ~ 553
"The desire to be normal is the wanting to camouflage the self." ~534
"Giddiness can be as blind as anger." ~ 535
"Are we not innately born with some morality?" ~ 536
"Liberty is not a game of King of the Mountain." ~ 537
"Moving from illiterate to alliterate requires focused repetition." ~ 538
"Perhaps there is no hole in the whole?" ~ 539
"We limit our gods by our imagination." ~ 540
"Without correlation can their be causation?" ~ 541
"Less sheltered children learn to protect themselves." ~ 542
"Aphorisms need not fact nor use." ~ 543
"Self analysis is more often a hall of mirrors." ~ 544
"We exist in the thin film of a tiny ball." ~ 545
"Demagogues primarily attract the ignorant with fear." ~ 546
"Is being an illusion of perspective?" ~ 547
"Joy impairs less than anger leading to lingering, lifted lives." ~ 548
"The Pentateuch is to Christianity as Sharia is to Islam." ~ 549
"As finite beings we grasp for truth, but will never hold it." ~ 550
"Tis better to die of being too kind than its alternatives." ~ 551
"When one thinks they had a bold, new, original idea; it usually means they have not read enough. " ~ 552
"The security of absolute knowledge is a vanity." ~ 553
"When holders of ideology admits not its error, they soon suffer from the perception of persecution." ~ 554
"In so far as truth and beauty align, we strive to seek the divine." ~ 555
"God's love does not require the muttering of words." ~ 556
"A change of opinion requires a change in identity." ~ 557
"If the study of science doesn't lead you to philosophy, you're doing it wrong." ~ 558
"Language becomes us as we become our language." ~ 559
"Although we think of our self as constant, at each moment we change; we are not static beings." ~ 560
"Separation dissolves with distance." ~ 561
"We ought be uncertain, for there are only probabilities." ~ 562
"Self sufficiency is insufficient for a strong society." ~ 563
"No matter how much of our own pain we warn our children about, they will succeed in finding their own." ~ 564
"Highly educated people can make more dangerous mistakes." ~ 565
"The scientific method is letting data speak as teacher while we remain as students." ~ 566
"I cannot know what I cannot sense, however occasionally I may imagine it." ~ 567
"Brevity can permit one to think long and wit deep." ~ 568
"If a cod piece is your master piece, something smells fishy." ~ 569
"The difference between an educator and a debater is means not ends." ~ 570
"When a books cover causes a passionate review of its unread pages we prove ourselves ignorant." ~ 571
"Justice does not require brutality." ~ 572
"Our perspective implies our limits." ~ 573
"My delusion begins where external transforms to internal." ~ 574
"Tradition places a limit upon the future.~ 575
"When we value freedom over wisdom pain is sure to follow." ~ 576
"When everyone wins, winning can lose its meaning." ~ 577
"Creativity is a merging of what already is." ~ 578
"Even Planck sized bytes never nosh the whole Pi." ~ 579
"Projecting our own intent upon another is a vanity of judgement." ~580
"We rarely choose what we think." ~ 581
"we are each a single sample of the 100,000,000,000 humans that have ever existed." ~ 582
"Knowing the dying is opportunity to cherish joy." ~ 583
"Reality is the pin which eventually pops propaganda bubbles." ~ 584
"Constant chuckling catalyzes contentment." ~ 585
"Self grows from language." ~ 586
"Our awareness of reality is limited to our focus." ~ 587
"I have met enough old people now to know that wisdom may never find me." ~ 588
"Each moment we recreate the myth of who we were." ~589
"Today is a single datapoint; a mere fraction of the set." ~590
"It is vainglorious to assume we are the pinnacle of evolution." ~ 591
"Are words the DNA of reason?" ~ 592
"Categorizing the other permits us to dehumanize them." ~ 593
"Did Columbus's mother bemoan his lack of attention in her dotage?" ~ 594
"Would an evil genius know intelligence does not require wisdom?" ~ 595
"Unexamined love or hate often leads to misfortune." ~ 596
"Is climbing Maslow's ladder the good life?" ~ 597
"While we fear the unknown, our ignorance of our ignorance holds the greater danger." ~ 598
"Metaphors are as real as space and time." ~ 599
"Fighting ideology with weapons is at best a temporary solution." ~ 600
"Culture on the whole is unexamined historical habit." ~ 601
"We are mostly made of four kinds of atoms; it is the arrangement of them that matter." ~ 602
"Abandoning the foolish to their mistakes limits everyone's future possibility." ~ 603
"Humans are less selfish when they must act in public view." ~ 604
"The good old days are certainly old." ~ 605
"Tragedy is an opportunity to develop compassion." ~ 606
"Emotion precedes thought." ~ 607
"The definition of justice depends first upon the definition of self." ~ 608
"All human religious thought is opinion." ~ 609
"We seem to be in infinitely receding realities; the horizon always remaining beyond our grasp." ~ 610
"The examination of life is where meaning is assigned." ~ 611
"A servant with this clause makes language divine." ~ 612
"I am that pattern which exists here now." ~ 613
"At what point does truth become necessary for art?" ~ 614
"I am that which allows neurons to know of each other." ~ 615
"Exploring is more productive than conflict." ~ 616
"Riots and revolutions do not spontaneously erupt without cause." ~ 617
"It is hard to listen the stranger who hears past our own deafness." ~ 618
"It is easier to be angry than solve the problem." ~ 619
"Peace retreats for one who suffers injustice." ~ 620
"Our blinds spots are more often visible to others." ~ 621
"Empowered fear is a most destructive force." ~ 622
"Does genius require meaning?" ~ 623
"Is the devil in the detail of our doctrinal differences?" ~ 624
"In every direction I look deeply, I find doubt." ~ 625
"Our perception and our reality will differ." ~ 626
"A few bad apples ought not be excuse to throw away the basket unexamined." ~ 627
"Our lives are finite possibilities." ~ 628
"Say what you mean, but do not expect to be right." ~ 629
"At least some of our morality is a construct." ~ 630
"Our dreams are a superset of our reality." ~ 631
"Confessions can create calm conditions." ~ 632
"We are at a minimum local patterns on the surface of the all." ~ 633
"Those who live in a fantasy of our past often expect us to bend our future to their dream." ~ 634
"This is not the aphorism you seek." ~ 635
"The fortunate find marriage sweeter than reproduction." ~ 636
"Belief systems based on the paranormal have a reality problem." ~ 637
"If school does not change our minds, have we learned anything?" ~ 638
"That entropy could give rise to form and function is a wonder." ~ 639
"Words are meaning codified." ~ 640
"From my vantage my bias is confirmed." ~ 641
"In a cosmos of probability certainty forever retreats." ~ 642
"Tools enable shifts in perspective." ~ 643
"Quantifying quality diminishes zen." ~ 644
"Common corruption escapes notice." ~ 645
"Conquering pride is better than pride in conquest." ~ 646
"Belief is created when we put bounds on the infinite." ~ 647
"One must venture in to the unknown to become lost." ~ 648
"Even service can be a vanity." ~ 649
"The world did not stay as I understood it upon leaving adolescence." ~ 650
"A skeptic ought first start with themselves." ~ 651
"Satire often is the propaganda of the powerless." ~ 652
"Success is not in and of itself moral." ~ 653
"Is an unexamined ritual worth performing?" ~ 654
"Pushing the decimal point toward truth should not be confused with finding it." ~ 655
"Is not death the final exam worth 100% of our grade?" ~ 656
"Every generation claims the vanity of 'the end is nigh'." ~ 657
"Ought lazy mind's comforts rule us?" ~ 658
"The cosmos has become a puzzle box for itself." ~ 659
"Fatherhood is more about helping learn from mistakes than preventing them." ~ 660
"Have philosophers become the clergy of the enlightenment?" ~ 661
"Rationalization is often impenetrable." ~ 662
"When mammon rules do we not all become slaves?" ~ 663
"Gloating is not among the better angels of our nature." ~ 664
"Perhaps we are not so as important as we might think or desire?" ~ 665
"Unattended emotion unleashes the beast within us all." ~ 666
"She was to the manners born and welcomed all the days of her life." ~ 667
"Words have unique meaning in each usage." ~ 668
"In our separateness we remain incomplete." ~ 669
"An obligor's rigor and vigor should not determine belief." ~ 670
"Between mirrors of past and future my mind stands." ~ 671
"Are not grace and humility interdependent?" ~ 672
"Exclusion is a form of judgement." ~ 673
"In the moment of toe stubbing, agony hinders the analysis of a new furniture layout." ~ 674
"Do protestors who ride in the front of the bus have a moral authority over those that block the bus moving forward?" ~ 675
"Is it good that I can nag myself better than any else?" ~ 676
"Worry about the improbable is easier than accessing risk." ~ 677
"Each of us have some opinions at the fringe of our society's beliefs." ~ 678
"A mule and his funny are soon parted." ~ 679
"Awakening is a plateau of acceptance." ~ 680
"Dense sensing opens complex contemplations." ~ 681
"Tolerance allows no definitions, while intolerance demands it absolute." ~ 682
"We more often speak from our identity than from truth." ~ 683
"I am most content when the moment is art." ~ 684
"We place every object we desire and can grasp into our realm." ~ 685
"Law is common while faith is and may ever be diverse." ~ 686
"Would that we could know certain death was not an infinity." ~ 687
"My speech, as my bowels, is best when neither too hard nor too soft." ~ 688
"Am I predetermined to be on the mindfulness path?" ~ 689
"Leisure time opened mind to create its sensory environment." ~ 690
"Dogma closes openness to novelty." ~ 691
"Empathy begins to fail at the boundary of our experience." ~ 692
"Law is a limit on liberty." ~ 693
"Who among us dare claim perfection?" ~ 694
"The duration of our existence places a limit on how much we can learn." ~ 695
"All advertising is myth making in pursuit of power." ~ 696
"By technology our species has come to a moment of great potential and greater danger." ~ 697
"Our scale is so large we are unable to easily see that each place has a unique time." ~ 698
"Memory is required to move from awareness to consciousness." ~ 699
"<insert personal bias here as truth/>" ~ 700
"Accipit amator sapientiae maledictionem; The lover of wisdom accepts its curse. " ~ 701
"Is my being more than the momentum of my moment?" ~ 702
"The cost of inaction is often higher than the price of virtue. " ~ 703
"I can not shake the desire to live long enough to discover all the ways to pray." ~ 704
"When I must choose between truth and love I define my character." ~ 705
"Knowing is a feeling I get when I stop seeking truth." ~ 706
"I tend to follow the chain of causes until reaching my bias." ~ 707
"The past whispers ever softly, while the future is mute." ~ 708
"Does the Golden Rule end when I am afraid?" ~ 709
"Entropy is trendy." ~ 710
"We sell our moments to another and call it progress." ~ 711
"Inherited giggletude provides competitive advantage toward contentment." ~ 712
"Never trust an unstained cookbook." ~ 713
"Habits tend to ignore novelty." ~ 714
"Am I born indebted to my species?" ~ 715
"My foe's plans hurts me less often than my own mistakes." ~ 716
"Allowing my friends to edit me, honors them, and improves us both." ~ 717
"War knows no law, while peace demands it." ~ 718
"Everyone occasionally suffers from undue clarity." ~ 719
"The beauty of a moment can not be captured." ~ 720
"With every day I better my record on existence." ~ 721
"Belief prefers consistency in value." ~ 722
"Love requires allies to prevail." ~ 723
"After a long search for meaning, I now co-exist with absurdity." ~ 724
"Philosophy and religion can be excuses for not dealing with the here and now." ~ 725
"Emotion trumps reason when unused." ~ 726
"My legend grows when I proclaim the power of mine enemy." ~ 727
"Options are usually more successful than plans." ~ 728
"Democracy enables us to gang up on the weird kid." ~ 729
"Self righteous indignation is easier than empathy but rarely as useful." ~ 730
"In a finite lifespan, how closely shall we examine ourselves?" ~ 731
"Allowing ideology to overwhelm familial love is at our descendents peril." ~ 732
"Parenting demands selfless devotion thus fertilizing love." ~ 733
"When should I sacrifice the now for the future?" ~ 734
"Wisdom is a fertilizer than can only be spread so thick." ~ 735
"I remain unable to resolve my thinking from others forbearance." ~ 736
"Both the insane and the successful stand up after every blow to the head." ~ 737
"When I do not strive to be kind, I am more apt to be mean." ~ 738
"Science illiteracy is an unaffordable luxury." ~ 739
"Trust remains mostly unmeasured by money." ~ 740
"Every moment has beauty unapprehended." ~ 741
"Where we choose to place our awareness matters." ~ 742
"Anger prevents the courage required for self change." ~ 743
"Authentic being is at least in part a self construct." ~ 744
"On what scale does mind exist?" ~ 745
"Be wary the merchants of fear." ~ 746
"A relativist claims opinion as arbitrator of truth." ~ 747
"If all our holy books were only one page long, how different could they be?" ~ 748
"We honor those who serve when hearing them." ~ 749
"Only if infinity is real are all things possible." ~ 750
"Fatigue closes the mind." ~ 502
"Pandering to ignorance destroys democracy." ~ 503
"Admitting error builds trust." ~ 504
"Complexity alone is an insufficient cause for life or mind." ~ 505
"Every memory is reimagined with every recollection." ~ 506
"Simple answers require less effort and ability." ~ 507
"If it is possible to choose our emotions are we not obliged to do so?" ~ 508
"Innocence is blindness." ~ 509
"Bureaucracy tends to be risk adverse." ~ 510
"Gentle words pave understanding's path." ~ 511
"The past is an imaginary space." ~ 512
"Does the web diminish my capacity for solitude?" ~ 513
"Our technology requires we think globally." ~ 514
"Ought we expect a higher morality from priest and scientist?" ~ 515
"We are free to be foolish, but should not exercise the right." ~ 516
"All but for a single day, we choose to avoid paying the ferryman." ~ 517
"What does it say of us, that violence was not required, yet we used it anyway?" ~ 518
"We make more of life than it is and do less with it than we can." ~ 519
"I am at my beginning and end a sensory island." ~ 520
"We project meaning from within onto what is." ~ 521
"The more urgent the need to pee, the less certain I am of free will." ~ 522|
"Discreteness is a scaling issue of perspective." ~ 523
"Hard times attract spite." ~ 524
"Ignoring evil never protects us from it." ~ 525
"All of us avoid the discomfort of fact with the comfort of opinion." ~ 526
"If no one watched would ugliness exist?" ~ 527
"Any person who claims to know the mind of God lies first to themselves." ~ 528
"Capitalism provides what we want, not what what we need or ought." ~ 529
"Facebook is a modern tower of babble." ~ 530
"In our myths torture is reserved for the evil or desperate." ~ 531
"Free will is often a wee frill." ~ 532
"In the first place, none of us choose to exist." ~ 533
"My hate for <blank> is so great that any compassion shown to it threatens me." ~ 534
"It is easier to throw stones than build a house with them." ~ 535
"Every day walk outside, look up, and notice the sky is not falling." ~ 536
"As no one is perfect, is it better to be too generous, or not generous enough?" ~ 537
"All the people who have ever lived have had less impact on the universe than the sun in a few of it's moments." ~ 538
"Our mental construct of ownership is a means of extending our finite space." ~ 539
"Untested beliefs are mostly just habits." ~ 540
"The joy of seeking truth is often better than the agony of its discovery." ~ 541
"Markets know not morality." ~ 542
"The sword once again tried to conquer the pen and failed." ~ 543
"Realizing I could never become the laughing Buddha, I resolved to become a laughing curmudgeon." ~ 544
"If you wash your hands, you believe in science." ~ 545
"Does order emerge from the constraint of the finite?" ~ 546
"Bigotry is a hydra which feeds on hate and breeds on ignorance." ~ 547
"Poetry is an artifice that gives license to use metaphorical falsity in pursuit of truth." ~ 548
"It is all metaphor, but we pretend some of it is less so." ~ 549
"Wizdumb is when you pee on an electric fence." ~ 550
"We too easily miss the commonality of life by focusing on the shape of the snowflake." ~ 551
"The continuous chain of being, from small to large, is in its own existence a finite self." ~ 552
"Empathy grows with familiarity." ~ 553
"The desire to be normal is the wanting to camouflage the self." ~534
"Giddiness can be as blind as anger." ~ 535
"Are we not innately born with some morality?" ~ 536
"Liberty is not a game of King of the Mountain." ~ 537
"Moving from illiterate to alliterate requires focused repetition." ~ 538
"Perhaps there is no hole in the whole?" ~ 539
"We limit our gods by our imagination." ~ 540
"Without correlation can their be causation?" ~ 541
"Less sheltered children learn to protect themselves." ~ 542
"Aphorisms need not fact nor use." ~ 543
"Self analysis is more often a hall of mirrors." ~ 544
"We exist in the thin film of a tiny ball." ~ 545
"Demagogues primarily attract the ignorant with fear." ~ 546
"Is being an illusion of perspective?" ~ 547
"Joy impairs less than anger leading to lingering, lifted lives." ~ 548
"The Pentateuch is to Christianity as Sharia is to Islam." ~ 549
"As finite beings we grasp for truth, but will never hold it." ~ 550
"Tis better to die of being too kind than its alternatives." ~ 551
"When one thinks they had a bold, new, original idea; it usually means they have not read enough. " ~ 552
"The security of absolute knowledge is a vanity." ~ 553
"When holders of ideology admits not its error, they soon suffer from the perception of persecution." ~ 554
"In so far as truth and beauty align, we strive to seek the divine." ~ 555
"God's love does not require the muttering of words." ~ 556
"A change of opinion requires a change in identity." ~ 557
"If the study of science doesn't lead you to philosophy, you're doing it wrong." ~ 558
"Language becomes us as we become our language." ~ 559
"Although we think of our self as constant, at each moment we change; we are not static beings." ~ 560
"Separation dissolves with distance." ~ 561
"We ought be uncertain, for there are only probabilities." ~ 562
"Self sufficiency is insufficient for a strong society." ~ 563
"No matter how much of our own pain we warn our children about, they will succeed in finding their own." ~ 564
"Highly educated people can make more dangerous mistakes." ~ 565
"The scientific method is letting data speak as teacher while we remain as students." ~ 566
"I cannot know what I cannot sense, however occasionally I may imagine it." ~ 567
"Brevity can permit one to think long and wit deep." ~ 568
"If a cod piece is your master piece, something smells fishy." ~ 569
"The difference between an educator and a debater is means not ends." ~ 570
"When a books cover causes a passionate review of its unread pages we prove ourselves ignorant." ~ 571
"Justice does not require brutality." ~ 572
"Our perspective implies our limits." ~ 573
"My delusion begins where external transforms to internal." ~ 574
"Tradition places a limit upon the future.~ 575
"When we value freedom over wisdom pain is sure to follow." ~ 576
"When everyone wins, winning can lose its meaning." ~ 577
"Creativity is a merging of what already is." ~ 578
"Even Planck sized bytes never nosh the whole Pi." ~ 579
"Projecting our own intent upon another is a vanity of judgement." ~580
"We rarely choose what we think." ~ 581
"we are each a single sample of the 100,000,000,000 humans that have ever existed." ~ 582
"Knowing the dying is opportunity to cherish joy." ~ 583
"Reality is the pin which eventually pops propaganda bubbles." ~ 584
"Constant chuckling catalyzes contentment." ~ 585
"Self grows from language." ~ 586
"Our awareness of reality is limited to our focus." ~ 587
"I have met enough old people now to know that wisdom may never find me." ~ 588
"Each moment we recreate the myth of who we were." ~589
"Today is a single datapoint; a mere fraction of the set." ~590
"It is vainglorious to assume we are the pinnacle of evolution." ~ 591
"Are words the DNA of reason?" ~ 592
"Categorizing the other permits us to dehumanize them." ~ 593
"Did Columbus's mother bemoan his lack of attention in her dotage?" ~ 594
"Would an evil genius know intelligence does not require wisdom?" ~ 595
"Unexamined love or hate often leads to misfortune." ~ 596
"Is climbing Maslow's ladder the good life?" ~ 597
"While we fear the unknown, our ignorance of our ignorance holds the greater danger." ~ 598
"Metaphors are as real as space and time." ~ 599
"Fighting ideology with weapons is at best a temporary solution." ~ 600
"Culture on the whole is unexamined historical habit." ~ 601
"We are mostly made of four kinds of atoms; it is the arrangement of them that matter." ~ 602
"Abandoning the foolish to their mistakes limits everyone's future possibility." ~ 603
"Humans are less selfish when they must act in public view." ~ 604
"The good old days are certainly old." ~ 605
"Tragedy is an opportunity to develop compassion." ~ 606
"Emotion precedes thought." ~ 607
"The definition of justice depends first upon the definition of self." ~ 608
"All human religious thought is opinion." ~ 609
"We seem to be in infinitely receding realities; the horizon always remaining beyond our grasp." ~ 610
"The examination of life is where meaning is assigned." ~ 611
"A servant with this clause makes language divine." ~ 612
"I am that pattern which exists here now." ~ 613
"At what point does truth become necessary for art?" ~ 614
"I am that which allows neurons to know of each other." ~ 615
"Exploring is more productive than conflict." ~ 616
"Riots and revolutions do not spontaneously erupt without cause." ~ 617
"It is hard to listen the stranger who hears past our own deafness." ~ 618
"It is easier to be angry than solve the problem." ~ 619
"Peace retreats for one who suffers injustice." ~ 620
"Our blinds spots are more often visible to others." ~ 621
"Empowered fear is a most destructive force." ~ 622
"Does genius require meaning?" ~ 623
"Is the devil in the detail of our doctrinal differences?" ~ 624
"In every direction I look deeply, I find doubt." ~ 625
"Our perception and our reality will differ." ~ 626
"A few bad apples ought not be excuse to throw away the basket unexamined." ~ 627
"Our lives are finite possibilities." ~ 628
"Say what you mean, but do not expect to be right." ~ 629
"At least some of our morality is a construct." ~ 630
"Our dreams are a superset of our reality." ~ 631
"Confessions can create calm conditions." ~ 632
"We are at a minimum local patterns on the surface of the all." ~ 633
"Those who live in a fantasy of our past often expect us to bend our future to their dream." ~ 634
"This is not the aphorism you seek." ~ 635
"The fortunate find marriage sweeter than reproduction." ~ 636
"Belief systems based on the paranormal have a reality problem." ~ 637
"If school does not change our minds, have we learned anything?" ~ 638
"That entropy could give rise to form and function is a wonder." ~ 639
"Words are meaning codified." ~ 640
"From my vantage my bias is confirmed." ~ 641
"In a cosmos of probability certainty forever retreats." ~ 642
"Tools enable shifts in perspective." ~ 643
"Quantifying quality diminishes zen." ~ 644
"Common corruption escapes notice." ~ 645
"Conquering pride is better than pride in conquest." ~ 646
"Belief is created when we put bounds on the infinite." ~ 647
"One must venture in to the unknown to become lost." ~ 648
"Even service can be a vanity." ~ 649
"The world did not stay as I understood it upon leaving adolescence." ~ 650
"A skeptic ought first start with themselves." ~ 651
"Satire often is the propaganda of the powerless." ~ 652
"Success is not in and of itself moral." ~ 653
"Is an unexamined ritual worth performing?" ~ 654
"Pushing the decimal point toward truth should not be confused with finding it." ~ 655
"Is not death the final exam worth 100% of our grade?" ~ 656
"Every generation claims the vanity of 'the end is nigh'." ~ 657
"Ought lazy mind's comforts rule us?" ~ 658
"The cosmos has become a puzzle box for itself." ~ 659
"Fatherhood is more about helping learn from mistakes than preventing them." ~ 660
"Have philosophers become the clergy of the enlightenment?" ~ 661
"Rationalization is often impenetrable." ~ 662
"When mammon rules do we not all become slaves?" ~ 663
"Gloating is not among the better angels of our nature." ~ 664
"Perhaps we are not so as important as we might think or desire?" ~ 665
"Unattended emotion unleashes the beast within us all." ~ 666
"She was to the manners born and welcomed all the days of her life." ~ 667
"Words have unique meaning in each usage." ~ 668
"In our separateness we remain incomplete." ~ 669
"An obligor's rigor and vigor should not determine belief." ~ 670
"Between mirrors of past and future my mind stands." ~ 671
"Are not grace and humility interdependent?" ~ 672
"Exclusion is a form of judgement." ~ 673
"In the moment of toe stubbing, agony hinders the analysis of a new furniture layout." ~ 674
"Do protestors who ride in the front of the bus have a moral authority over those that block the bus moving forward?" ~ 675
"Is it good that I can nag myself better than any else?" ~ 676
"Worry about the improbable is easier than accessing risk." ~ 677
"Each of us have some opinions at the fringe of our society's beliefs." ~ 678
"A mule and his funny are soon parted." ~ 679
"Awakening is a plateau of acceptance." ~ 680
"Dense sensing opens complex contemplations." ~ 681
"Tolerance allows no definitions, while intolerance demands it absolute." ~ 682
"We more often speak from our identity than from truth." ~ 683
"I am most content when the moment is art." ~ 684
"We place every object we desire and can grasp into our realm." ~ 685
"Law is common while faith is and may ever be diverse." ~ 686
"Would that we could know certain death was not an infinity." ~ 687
"My speech, as my bowels, is best when neither too hard nor too soft." ~ 688
"Am I predetermined to be on the mindfulness path?" ~ 689
"Leisure time opened mind to create its sensory environment." ~ 690
"Dogma closes openness to novelty." ~ 691
"Empathy begins to fail at the boundary of our experience." ~ 692
"Law is a limit on liberty." ~ 693
"Who among us dare claim perfection?" ~ 694
"The duration of our existence places a limit on how much we can learn." ~ 695
"All advertising is myth making in pursuit of power." ~ 696
"By technology our species has come to a moment of great potential and greater danger." ~ 697
"Our scale is so large we are unable to easily see that each place has a unique time." ~ 698
"Memory is required to move from awareness to consciousness." ~ 699
"<insert personal bias here as truth/>" ~ 700
"Accipit amator sapientiae maledictionem; The lover of wisdom accepts its curse. " ~ 701
"Is my being more than the momentum of my moment?" ~ 702
"The cost of inaction is often higher than the price of virtue. " ~ 703
"I can not shake the desire to live long enough to discover all the ways to pray." ~ 704
"When I must choose between truth and love I define my character." ~ 705
"Knowing is a feeling I get when I stop seeking truth." ~ 706
"I tend to follow the chain of causes until reaching my bias." ~ 707
"The past whispers ever softly, while the future is mute." ~ 708
"Does the Golden Rule end when I am afraid?" ~ 709
"Entropy is trendy." ~ 710
"We sell our moments to another and call it progress." ~ 711
"Inherited giggletude provides competitive advantage toward contentment." ~ 712
"Never trust an unstained cookbook." ~ 713
"Habits tend to ignore novelty." ~ 714
"Am I born indebted to my species?" ~ 715
"My foe's plans hurts me less often than my own mistakes." ~ 716
"Allowing my friends to edit me, honors them, and improves us both." ~ 717
"War knows no law, while peace demands it." ~ 718
"Everyone occasionally suffers from undue clarity." ~ 719
"The beauty of a moment can not be captured." ~ 720
"With every day I better my record on existence." ~ 721
"Belief prefers consistency in value." ~ 722
"Love requires allies to prevail." ~ 723
"After a long search for meaning, I now co-exist with absurdity." ~ 724
"Philosophy and religion can be excuses for not dealing with the here and now." ~ 725
"Emotion trumps reason when unused." ~ 726
"My legend grows when I proclaim the power of mine enemy." ~ 727
"Options are usually more successful than plans." ~ 728
"Democracy enables us to gang up on the weird kid." ~ 729
"Self righteous indignation is easier than empathy but rarely as useful." ~ 730
"In a finite lifespan, how closely shall we examine ourselves?" ~ 731
"Allowing ideology to overwhelm familial love is at our descendents peril." ~ 732
"Parenting demands selfless devotion thus fertilizing love." ~ 733
"When should I sacrifice the now for the future?" ~ 734
"Wisdom is a fertilizer than can only be spread so thick." ~ 735
"I remain unable to resolve my thinking from others forbearance." ~ 736
"Both the insane and the successful stand up after every blow to the head." ~ 737
"When I do not strive to be kind, I am more apt to be mean." ~ 738
"Science illiteracy is an unaffordable luxury." ~ 739
"Trust remains mostly unmeasured by money." ~ 740
"Every moment has beauty unapprehended." ~ 741
"Where we choose to place our awareness matters." ~ 742
"Anger prevents the courage required for self change." ~ 743
"Authentic being is at least in part a self construct." ~ 744
"On what scale does mind exist?" ~ 745
"Be wary the merchants of fear." ~ 746
"A relativist claims opinion as arbitrator of truth." ~ 747
"If all our holy books were only one page long, how different could they be?" ~ 748
"We honor those who serve when hearing them." ~ 749
"Only if infinity is real are all things possible." ~ 750
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