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1 History is so much conjecture from so little fact. 20120109 Appearance and Reality Internet Comment: Conjecture from Fact 2 Every thing has infinite names Every name refers to infinite things. Other versions: 20110417 20110726 20111102 20130412 20130823 20160524 20161007 Appearance and Reality Language 3 The scent of sage on the breath of a fresh desert rain 19931000 Happiness I learned in January 1996 the scent was creosote rather than sage, so: The scent of creosote on a fresh desert rain Nah, just doesn't get it as well 4 Thank God I'm an atheist. 20121207 Idea of God 5 ISTMRN (used in many journal entries) It Seems To Me Right Now 20120105 Language ISTMRN 6 I prefer life to its improvement. 20130905 20120714 Acceptance Description Betterment 7 I don't mind dust on the floor, but my scissors are sharp. 20120713 Happiness Acceptance 8 Wolf families that prey together stay together. 20110216 Souls 9 In our zeal to deny the reality of death we deny the reality of life. 20130202 20130130 Acceptance Description Death 10 Veterans should be made more comfortable having fought our wars, but everyone should be made less comfortable having sent them. 20141109 Email to Neil Steinberg: Quote for the Ages War 11 Statins are the latest in a long series of snake-oil elixirs offered by medicine men throughout the ages. Medical Morality 12 Hope is faith in fate. 20121216 Idea of "Other" 13 Love thy neighbor and thy neighbor will love thee. Fear thy neighbor and thy neighbor will fear thee. Hate thy neighbor and thy neighbor will hate thee. 20121214 Morality 14 The whole world is crazy, except me and thee, and sometimes I wonder about thee. One of many witticisms I picked up from my mom, who got it from her mom 20130313 14a You can put a little water on a lot of waste Or a lot of water on a little of waste, But you can't put a lot of water on a lot of waste. Las Vegas Years (fundamental argument in NRC license of Yucca Mountain) |
15 Not Doing (Garfield by Jim Davis) 20120104 20120207 Acceptance Lao Tzu  16 Not Traveling (Garfield by Jim Davis) 20120104 Acceptance  As I was about to embark on a two-month, 16,000 mile road trip with Kim Greeman, a "bucket list" item for both of us 17 Community equals Slavery (Garfield by Jim Davis) Morality  18 Be perfect (Garfield Jim Davis, Pearls before Swine Stephan Pastis) Acceptance Compare Matthew 5:48 "Be ye therefore perfect". This is how to be perfect, lower your standards.   19 God deals with three M's: (Mortality, Morality, and Meaning) 20111227 Idea of God | 20 When we fight: we become a little bit more like our adversaries 20130220 War 21 Knowledge can recognize ignorance but ignorance cannot recognize knowledge 20100400 20120623 Appearance and Reality 22 I can't get rid of suffering until I die. So why suffer about dying? 20141105 20130313 Acceptance 23 Optimists are ever disappointed; Pessimists are always pleasantly surprised. 20150204 Human Nature 24 Jesus and Buddha laid bare our spiritual ignorance. Hume and Nietzsche laid bare our intellectual ignorance. Lao Tzu and Freud laid bare our emotional ignorance. 20160530 Human Nature 25 The "oneness of it all" is just another of God's guises. 20161011 Idea of God 26 Time is an arbitrary contraption of humans that confines the mind to ultimate finality. 19700000 Idea of Time 27 The senses are so untrustworthy they paint a world of paradoxical contradictions. 19700000 Senses 28 Everything is unique and everything is the same at the same time. 19700620 Appearance and Reality Essay on Kierkegaard 29 Tease drawings out of the paper with a feather touch. 20050318 Art as Purpose 30 God provides an anchor for morality. God provides an anchor for meaning. Without God no morality nor meaning is obvious. 20050711 Idea of God 31 What I believe is true because I believe it is true. 20060620 Epistemology 32 God’s greatest joke is that “there is no meaning”. 20060620 Appearance and Reality Idea of God 33 We are innate to a large degree and have free will only to a small degree. 20070614 Epistemology 34 Science doesn’t know truth but paints beautiful pictures of it. 20100727 Epistemology 35 I know so much that I know I know so little. 20101213 Epistemology 36 Politics is the art of using the morality of giving to say "gimme". 20111108 Government 37 Politics is organized selfishness. 20130313 Government | 38 Mathematics minimizes ambiguity among minds. 20111215 Language 39 It’s always easier to change what I want to what is, rather than change what is to what I want. 20120110 Acceptance Epictetus 40 Morality is a tool of people who want to tell other people what to do. 20120304 Morality 41 Unstated premises often build towers of Babel among speakers of the same language. 20130103 Language 42 History is the story of the present in the mind of the historian. 20130130 20130117 Language 43 Dope make lethargy tolerable. 20130127 Morality (marijuana) 44 The fist, gun, tank, jet bomber, atomic bomb are all "Do as I say, or else" devices. 20130130 We Are Right (WAR) 45 Those who claim tolerance as one of their gods should take care not to be intolerant of those that don't worship at the tolerance altar. 20130206 Morality 46 It seems many believe all tolerant people should be intolerant of intolerance. 20130306 Morality Humanism (Internet Link) (nod to Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hermeneutics in Truth and Method 47 Taoist saying "Wu Wie" is like the childhood saying "Whoo-Weee". 20141214 20130305 20110226 Joie de Vivre 48 Invite none to your home but turn away none who knock. 20130820 Acceptance 49 Science and math are but vain attempts to divine the future. 20131109 Epistemology 50 Though an atheist, I often feel I am the only Christian in a room full of Christians. 20150225 Souls 51 If you tell me you are god, I will remind you, you are human. If you tell me you are human, I will remind you, you are God. 20150211 Human Nature Idea of God 52 God is infinite, God is unknowable, God is confusing. 20160514 Idea of God 53 Many curse God for death, rather than thanking her for life. 20161221 Idea of God 54 God-bless and God-damn are the same thing; they both imply Zeus controls the fates. 20180522 Idea of God Souls-Self Description |