Giving my liver some exercise tonight, see you all when life is beautifully painful again.
These are fractals.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
This is called humanity
This is why I dislike when people are totally “I hate the human race and everyone is evil and the world is going to explode from so much evil in 20 years”. Calm the fuck down. Plenty of people are still cool.
I agree. Too many people, who are for the most part rational, make broad-brushed generalizations about the human race without any evidence. I have committed this fallacy many times in the past, but I think I’ve moved past such views. Hell, has anybody even looked at how inconsistent the social sciences are? This is why I have to admit to myself that I know nothing about humanity (and psychologists don’t know much more).
bohemian slapfight: Look, I'm all for illegal whistle-blowing/violating the Republic to save it
but your giant risk has to ACTUALLY PAN OUT otherwise you’re just an asshole.
Brutus and the conspirators to kill Caesar thought they were saving everyone but like within a day all the Roman people were like “WTF guys, we LIKED that dude. He passed land reforms and shit that…
This makes me so sad. There is so much to explore in the universe and we spend way more blowing up our own little rock.
If you don’t follow Neil on twitter, you should. He is brilliant in every way.
I really wish there was more anger about this.
(via niub)
Let’s be clear: By worrying myself with mental surveys of all the potential problems, I do not make these problems happen. That’s not quite the manner in which this storytelling fixes a certain reality into being. But when one spends so much energy stressing about hypotheticals rather than immersing one’s self in the here-and-now of a current experience, we can be sure that no matter how the circumstantial specifics play out, one will experience the experience of it in the most predictable way possible—as stress about what will happen next.
Did you catch the slippery, almost-too-obvious-to-be-insightful logic of it all? Running through the same story about what could happen essentially guarantees that, at any end-of-the-story, we will always be left in the same spot: worrying about the future. (Not sure I’d want to read that one over and over again.)
Forget about the potential disasters we may have avoided by adopting this tactic. What about the pleasant surprises and enlightening discoveries, which are hardly appreciated in their exquisite wholeness as we are always already angling to protect them from damage or disintegration, since another shoe might drop at any given future moment? Isn’t this what is meant by ‘fear of success’? That should we necessarily triumph in attaining a goal or goodie, the experience of it will be moderated or muted by concern for our ability to preserve it or build upon it?
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Nine Inch Nails - Eraser
The Downward Spiral
Need you
Dream you
Find you
Taste you
Fuck you
Use you
Scar you
Break you
Lose me
Hate me
Smash me
Erase me
Select isotopes and make music from radiation!
nifkin:Sherman Alexie ++;
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