Good morning. When we’re young, we define ourselves as much by the culture we disdain as by the culture we love. A pleasure of adulthood is letting some of that go.
"I've found that pragmatic factual reality is little consolation to most people seeking advice."
--Me
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself." ~ Immanuel Kant
Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
Almost all the moral as well as natural evils of human life arise from idleness; and were our species, by the original constitution of their frame, exempt from this vice or infirmity...men at once may fully reach that state of society which is so imperfectly attained by the best-regulated government.
--David Hume
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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When I die, if my liver is in proper working order, you'll know I wasted too many opportunities to enjoy myself.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
I get it now.
Good morning. When we’re young, we define ourselves as much by the culture we disdain as by the culture we love. A pleasure of adulthood is letting some of that go.
--Melissa Kirsch
^ hard to know how to treat abusive people to good effect while avoiding being a door mat or abusive yourself.
People with more aggressive and psychopathic tendencies adopt hostile behaviors quickly, but they find it difficult to abandon these behaviors when they are no longer adaptive or practical.
https://neurosciencenews.com/psychopathy-behavior-aggression-23739/
“Everyone is an a s s hole sometimes, including me!” Advice to a youth group I led a long time ago, trying to teach them the intricacies of Life!
"I've found that pragmatic factual reality is little consolation to most people seeking advice."
--Me
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
If you don't know Schmidtocrates, you don't know schmidt.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
"If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself." ~ Immanuel Kant
Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
David Hume
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
-Oscar Wilde
"Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue"
― Ambrose Bierce
I'm not the only one subscribed to 1440?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
"Did not see that coming" ~also Ray Charles.
Nope lol
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
It is easy enough to offend the imbeciles with intolerance too.
In either case what is involved is a judgemental attitude.
Since my cancer diagnosis, my new motto is, “Any day you’re looking down at the grass is a good day.”
Almost all the moral as well as natural evils of human life arise from idleness; and were our species, by the original constitution of their frame, exempt from this vice or infirmity...men at once may fully reach that state of society which is so imperfectly attained by the best-regulated government.
--David Hume
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” —Albert Einstein
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Wish I knew this when I was an adolescent...
"What you think about me is none of my business."
“Shît, I had fun knocking the shït out of people” - Díck Butkus