December 2010
25 posts
Gossip is so tedious. I’m not easily offended, and gossip surely doesn’t offend me in the least bit, it just… bores me. I don’t like speaking about the affairs of others because honestly they just aren’t that interesting. His or her latest escapade into the world of hedonism and debauchery does not pique my interest. It doesn’t affect me in any way, significant...
“Love is a serious mental disease”
– Plato
I deleted facebook today, or rather, deactivated it. I couldn’t commit to losing it just yet, but eventually I will. It just seems irrelevant. I need to stop and think, and hearing everyone else’s voice does nothing to help. I’m going to take a while to just write and read and figure everything out, try to figure out what I’m doing, and what I want to do with my life....
Lock and Key
I know you’ve heard the analogy before;
“A key that opens many locks is a master key, a lock that can be opened by many keys is a shitty lock”
Many people seem to use it as a justification to slut shame women while simultaneously applauding “typical male behavior” i.e. sleeping around with whom ever they please. Women have tried to defer the logic of the argument by...
“I’m certainly not a world-class writer, but I think I’m quite good, and I see that. I know that other people are studying quantum mechanics or building baby incubators for third-world countries or refining microchips or whatever the hell it is my friends do in their awesomeness, and while I recognize that their intelligence is greater than mine in those fields, I chose to study...
“You spend all of this time building these walls, making them as strong as...”
I know I’m supposed to be all of these things, but I can’t. That would mean at any given time, I’d have to be hiding who I am and if I do that, then what’s the point? I’m no longer me and you’re meeting a stranger.
"I will not fall in love with anything but the...
The greatest men and women are those that can captivate the hearts of others with their words. Show that they are intelligent and kind, and of substance instead of shallow and unaffected.
Words are everything and anything. They can give and take anything they’d like, and are one of the only things in this world that once given, last forever. A word or a phrase, once spoken, can never be...
Subtle Differences.
Definition of AMBITION
1. a : an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power
b : desire to achieve a particular end
Ambition is a means to an end. It means going after a goal with such single mindedness, that you allow nothing to get in your way. All that matters is the goal.
Ambition is a dangerous thing, and it has seldom done the world any good. To be ambitious is to be selfish....
Questioner: What if you are wrong?
Dawkins: Then I still win, I led a life devoted to valuing evidence based truth and being good for goodness sakes. Most of the more enlightened gods would probably be cool with that.
Questioner: But God says in the Bible that he's a jealous god and not to worship other gods.
Dawkins: But I didn't worship other gods. You're the one that picked a side.
Questioner: This is a really shitty answer.
Dawkins: It was a shitty question.
There is no system. There is no organization. There is no underlying or overlooming structure to any of it. There’s just people. People who barely link together in little chain links all the traffic of information, systems, money, communications, law, all of it. And if you can see the links you can unlink the right ones, with the right people skills, and pretty much get anywhere.
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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– ~Roald Dahl
““When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it...”
– Quote - Goodmorning & Goodnight
Lately,
I’ve been thinking… Perhaps I should be nicer. More “vulnerable”, whatever that means.
And then I stop myself, and realize, that changing that would ruin all the fun. It’s all about the chase. Cat and mouse. It keeps things interesting, just the way I like them.