If you see a concrete block of 1000 kg you don’t try to lift it up. It would be silly or even dangerous to try.
Who knows their mental equivalent of that 1000 kg concrete block?
The good life
Quotes
You have to thicken your words to hold them in place
Writing
We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Uncategorized
Corporate Social Responsibility also means: to manufacture the kind of desires in your customers that don’t lead to the degradation of the ecosystem.
Activism
“What is the purpose of life?”
“Mainly gloating over the misfortunes of others”
“And you say evil comes from religion, huh?”
“…And then there’s irony.”
Christopher Hitchens
The good life
It’s not about what you do. It’s about what you don’t do because of it.
Philosophy
whatever can be explained by inertia shouldn’t be explained by a conspiracy
Philosophy
In the end, we are all big-brained monkeys with a limited capacity.
The good life
Is literary writing the art of making cultivated loneliness feel like engaging conversation?
Philosophy
“A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful form; they resemble each other and there is nothing easier than to mistake one for the other.”
From: The Joke by Milan Kundera
Philosophy
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
The good life
There are more things between foreplay and orgasm, fellatio, than dreamt of in your philosophies.
Laughs
OMG! If only there was enough mind to boggle!
The good life
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw
The good life
we observe the armistice
between our shadows
today,
we live in a world
of small things
Poetry
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. – G. K. Chesterton
The good life
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. – C.S. Lewis
The good life
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. – H. P. Lovecraft
The good life
All that energy that could be used to work together to improve the human condition, goes to competing for hungry eyeballs.
Activism
Yes! I want the whole world to know
I delight more in the kiss you throw
than in {Kim Kardashian’s} fellatio
Poetry
Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing,
How love that passes is enough.
Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead and how
In the grave all love shall sleep
Love is aweary now
– James Joyce
Poetry
Was an effort made to create this? Was an effort made to overcome this? Is good art the capitulation of the artist?
The good life
Don’t underestimate the power of pretty scientific models! On the catwalk of the universe they are all we have.
Activism
the I is a by-light
a grievance by a wild fire
the grammar of layered time
Philosophy