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“The end is nigh. In fact, the nighness of the end is really quite undeniable.” – JL Jones
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“I once almost choked to death while eating food. I did my own research and discovered that I am not alone. Thousands of people choke every year while eating, and hundreds of those people die. That’s why I don’t feed my kids. Its dangerous. Now plenty of people will point out that food supposedly “prevents starvation,” and that might be true, but Its not fair to completely ignore all the dangers food poses, like choking, allergies, gingivitis, and garlic breath. I’m just saying, do your own research and decide what you think is best for your kids. If you choose to give your kids potentially deadly food, that’s your problem, but as a parent, I don’t think the government has any right to tell me that I need to feed my kids.” – Gordon Scott
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“Remember, if you’re ever feeling down, free will means you can just eat a whole block of cheese anytime you want.”
A stray thought.
I feel like most people believe very strange things about sleeping surfaces. I sleep on the actual floor – the hard floor, with just a blanket under me – and I have no issues with it. It works fine. Humans didn’t evolve to sleep on mattresses. ‘Big Mattress’ has everyone hoodwinked. Is this a conspiracy theory?
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“By saying mostly insane nonsense, I can imbue the few meaningful nuggets that I utter with more significance.”
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“The kids might still do yoga and say namaste, and they still think there’s a universal consciousness that’s ultimately identical with their own self—but they’re no longer interested in renouncing desire or achieving union with the divine. They don’t want to escape the material world. They don’t want enlightenment. They are driving their bodies like cars, and they have no interest in getting out.” – Sam Kriss
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“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” – Issac Asimov
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“Si Luigi Mangione mató a ese CEO, imaginense de lo que Waluigi Mangione sería capaz.” – Sergio
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“어째서 사람이 이 모양인가” – South Korean Conference of Catholic Priests, in response to the recent failed auto-golpe by president Yoon [“How can a person be like this”]
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“Craig, Alaska: Where everything is a little bit half-assed!” – G. Klein, a local booster in my town.
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“I wouldn’t be so hard on you if you were stupid.” – Jeff Hawkins (my stepson), speaking to his son.
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“we’re all on our own journeys and as you read these words you bring your unique self and have unique thoughts and feelings, really these words do little, what you’re experiencing is mostly a performance, a show that your brain puts on, just once, just for you, I hope you’re paying attention.” – blogger who goes by “dynomite”
Banalities.
We’re having a very traditional day-after-Thanksgiving, here at Juli and Keith’s. Keith is watching football. Juli and Karen are making pies. Wayne is … being Wayne. Watching videos on his iPad. Though he and I took a walk down to the river this morning. We saw some salmon. Wayne wished he had his fishing gear with him.
Blackberry pie:
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“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.” – Samuel Adams
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“The history we were taught could not have produced the present we were living in.” – Eric Foner
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“Here’s a proposition: It all depends on language. Society, civilization, democracy, the entire collective project depends on the quality of our thought and expression, our ability to put words to the reality of a thing.” – Ben Fountain
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“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to go unbuild walls.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – HL Mencken
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“And just like that, the voting machines are totally fine.” – Alex Cole
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“Cumulative cultural evolution requires both the conservative impulse to imitate and the progressive impulse to tinker. These two processes — imitation and innovation — make up the ratcheting effect by which complex cultural products (e.g., institutions, practices, technologies, etc.) evolve over time.” – Brett Andersen
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“There is significant overlap between the smartest bear and the dumbest human.” – a US park ranger, on the issue of trying to bear-proof trash cans in national parks.
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“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” – Margaret Atwood
“The purpose of a system is what it does.” – Stafford Beer
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“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.” ~ Terry Pratchett
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“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” – John Stuart Mill
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“How many words would a wordcheck check, if a wordcheck could check words?”
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“The great trouble with religion – any religion – is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason – but one cannot have both.” – Robert A. Heinlein
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“World War II is closer in time to the US Civil War than it is to the present day.”
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“Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee.” – Willie Nelson
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“Desire is, by nature, childlike and chary of government. The day we begin to qualify it by the righteousness of its political content is the day we begin to prescribe some desires and prohibit others. That way lies moralism only.” – Andrea Long Chu
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“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one’s bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one’s head under the cover, giving one’s self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind…” – Marcel Proust
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“Twitter is a charnel ground, to be sure, and this is for now and among other landscapes, where I choose to practice.” – Roshi Joan Halifax
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“My love grows stronger as my stomach grows emptier.” – any dog, anywhere.
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“While the secret knowledge is only available to some members of the society, there is an ideology, an ethics, and a phenomenology of ignorance that is shared, to some degree, by all.” – Jonathan Mair
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“American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale” – Herman Melville (in Moby Dick)
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“Immigrants are just the kids on the lawn – the old man wants the damn kids to get off his lawn. The old man is a jerk.”
