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- Ianbolton-3
I have David Whyte's book Consolations which is beautiful
- MrT3
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
— Oscar Wilde
- mort_1
“What’s all this? Looks like Darth Vader’s bathroom.”
— Michael Knight, the first time he sat down in the Knight Industries Two-Thousand (KITT)
- never realised theres running water inisde the car ...neverscared
- mort_3
Don’t you have a famine to go die in?
You lot are a bunch of prideful inbred leprechauns who have ZERO global influence and ZERO white privilege. The rest of the world's white folk don't want to associate with you lot at all and it's because you are barbarians.
I’m happiest knowing the Irish are quarantined on an isle so they can continue to inbreed and keep their defective genes away from humanity.
- Azealia Banks
- Krassy3
Desiderata
GO PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
By Max Ehrmann © 1927
Original text- it was so good until the last paragraph, where he shits the bed completely with nonsense about a mythic cunt of epic proportionsmonospaced
- It refers to a higher power ("God, whatever you conceive Him to be") and not to a mythic entity. It could be as abstract as a belief in a better tomorrow.Krassy
- Nice. I always get caught up with the God word too, especially referring to a “Him”.mort_
- The capital "Him" takes it from "higher power" and locks it in specifically as a mythic being, specifically a male one who feels he needs a title. Sorry.monospaced
- If we're talking about a power here, what is it? So far there is no evidence. If we're talking about the universe, there's no reason to say "God" or "Him."monospaced
- Regardless, this was one of my grandparents' favorite pieces, and I'm quite familiar with it. Good stuff, but again tainted by this unnecessary stuff at the endmonospaced
- neverscared0
If only I could steal enough to become an honest man!
Aldo Vanucci
- sarahfailin1
This snippet from The Gay Science literally changed my life when I read it when I was 19. Read with care.
The greatest weight.—
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence – even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!”-Nietszche
- ok_not_ok4
"Fashion is what you're told, but style is what you tell yourself"
- Quentin Crisp
- bliznutty-1
"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain."
Winston Churchill
- https://winstonchurc…fadein11
- It seems a daft statement to make, unless you're an astute conservativeIanbolton
- I should have known something as insipid as this didn't come from Winston Churchill.CyBrainX
- bliznutty-5
“Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors
to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.”― Mahatma Gandhi
- Wordsworth3
"They mostly come out at night, mostly".
- Newt
- i_was-2
"He said it was a dream to remake that movie. Should be good!"
Bennn speaking about Villeneuve's Dune
- _niko2
“covid is 15x less likely to kill you than cars crash. go vive in fear on your own private island mono.”
So there have been 600,000 covid deaths in the US and 9 million traffic deaths last year?
Woah.- The only reason car deaths are this low is because of the insane amount of money and energy that goes into regulating the industry top to bottom.monospaced
- are we sure about that 9 millsted
- While Americans drove less in 2020 due to the pandemic, NHTSA’s early estimates show that an estimated 38,680 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes—the lsted
- argest projected number of fatalities since 2007. This represents an increase of about 7.2 percent as compared to the 36,096 fatalities reported in 2019sted
- https://www.nhtsa.go…sted
- Vehicle safety standards. Safety laws against driving under the influence. Driving tests and licensing. Traffic laws. Seatbelts and airbags. Severe penalties.monospaced
- Get this, the lamestream media claims only 38,000 traffic deaths. I’m taking off my seatbelt and steering with my dick I refuse to live in fear!_niko
- And despite all this, thousands and thousands and thousands of people die unnecessary from car related accidents. Not acceptable unless you’re morally fucked.monospaced
- This all on top of the fact that his actual numbers and math are flat out wrong. Clearly.monospaced
- you need more? what is the United States Department of Transportation?
oh and where the fuck did you got that 9 mill
traffic deaths in the first place.sted - i bet those numbers include everything happened on a road, just to make it look better.sted
- Covid is 134000% less likely to kill you than a piano falling on your head. And yet you still play the piano. Maybe even own one. Fucked.nb
- No one is even talking about this. CNN won’t even mention itnb
- blessed to get my facts from qbn! thank you!uan
- Keep crunching those numbers, boys.
The world is counting on you.palimpsest - Lol those are pr2s stats and absurd numbers and ridiculous reasoning._niko
- Big idea: don't even bother engaging pr2 because he thinks Joe Rogan and the Weinstein brothers are qualified voices on COVID.garbage
- And has a history of slinking off whenever presented with actual data because he can't understand them. Same for all of the bobos here.garbage
- Take your face mask and wrap it around your eyes while driving...Do not to live in your life in fear!utopian
- Don't trust the status quo.
Do you own research.palimpsest - GTFO with this "Do your own research" bs. Same as "make the logo bigger". Everyone is an expert on everything.inteliboy
- Yup every time I need to know something I can either a) leave it to the experts or b) enrol in a masters program and do my own research and get a PhD_niko
- Yup every time I need to know something I can either a) leave it to the experts or b) enrol in a masters program and do my own research and get a PhD_niko
- So by my account, since I’m a very curious person, I’ll need to spend millions of dollars over several lifetimes to research all the shit that interests me_niko
- Or I can leave it to the thousands of experts in thousands of different fields while I do more exciting things like spend my free time with cunts on qbn :)_niko
- big difference on educating yourself generally on topics versus thinking you know everything about everything *cough* pr2 *cough*inteliboy
- Jeezus.palimpsest
- suffering from the Dunning–Kruger effect evidently. poor pr2neverscared
- did any of the dummies above bother pointing out that LIKELIHOOD has nothing to do with the final numbers?pr2
- my cat licking her asshole uses more brain power than some of you.pr2
- What if pr2 is right and we’re all being _slightly_ more hygienic than we need to be?
Can you even imagine that nightmare world?scarabin
- rzu-rzu2
"That bad people make good art is a cause for hope. To be human is to transgress, of that we can be sure, yet we all have the opportunity for redemption, to rise above the more lamentable parts of our nature, to do good in spite of ourselves, to make beauty from the unbeautiful, and to have the courage to present our better selves to the world."
- Nick Cave
- Wordsworth1
"Eddie Barzoon, Eddie Barzoon. Hah! Oh, I nursed him through two divorces, a cocaine rehab, and a pregnant receptionist. Heh. God's creature, right? God's special creature? Hah! And I've warned him Kevin, I've warned him every step of the way. Watching him bounce around like a fucking game, like a windup toy! Like 250 pounds of self serving greed on wheels. The next thousand years is right around the corner, Kevin, and Eddie Barzoon-take a good look, because he's the poster child for the next millennium! These people, it's no mystery where they come from. You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire, you build egos the size of cathedrals, fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse, grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold plated fantasies until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own god, and where can you go from there? And as we're scrambling from one deal to the next, who's got his eye on the planet? As the air thickens, the water sours, and even the bees honey takes on the metallic taste of radioactivity. And it just keeps coming, faster and faster. There's no chance to think, to prepare. It's buy futures, sell futures, when there is no future! We got a runaway train boy, we got a billion Eddie Barzoons all jogging into the future. Every one of 'em getting ready to fist-fuck god's ex-planet, lick their fingers clean as they reach out toward their pristine, cybernetic keyboards to total up their billable hours. And then it hits home! You gotta pay your own way, Eddie. It's a little late in the game to buy out now! Your belly's too full, your dick is sore, your eyes are bloodshot, and you're screaming for someone to help! But guess what? There's no one there! You're all alone, Eddie. You're god's special little creature. Maybe it's true, maybe god threw the dice once too often. Maybe he let us all down."
