January 2012
12 posts
“Being human ought to get you human dignity”
How to destroy the earth →
This filled me with nerdy joy
“Gaia is crying again. What a faggot.”
“You make me feel like a love song.”
…let’s say it’s an average day, and you get up in the morning, go to your challenging job, and you work hard for nine or ten hours, and at the end of the day you’re tired, and you’re stressed out, and all you want is to go home and have a good supper and maybe unwind for a couple of hours and then hit the rack early because you have to get up the next day and do...
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and...”
Show me one man
who has gotten
power, fame
and money through
incredible talent
effortless genius
carefully cultivated network
and I’ll show you
ten fools who
got the same
in spite of
themselves
Show me one business
that has achieved
dominance in its
industry through
good decisions
careful planning
unrelenting diligence
and I’ll show you
one hundred
who have thrived through...
“I go too far.
But it’s ok to want.
Right?”
December 2011
9 posts
The whole art world has become a sort of pyramid scheme. We all know that. It’s merely an adjunct of the financial sector, void of content, void of meaning, apolitical, amoral. It’s probably always been a tax shelter for the rich, and conservative and elitist at its core, but like every other hypercapitalist-driven institution of the contemporary era, it’s gotten exponentially worse. Just as...
“The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil”
– The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, usually referred to simply as First Timothy and often written 1 Timothy, is one of three letters in the New Testament of the Bible often grouped together as the Pastoral Epistles
For example, Norman Perrin analyzed the Greek used by the author or authors of the Pastoral Epistles, finding that over 1/3 of their vocabulary is not used anywhere else in the Pauline epistles; more than 1/5 is not used anywhere else in the New Testament, while 2/3 of the non-Pauline vocabulary are used by 2nd century Christian writers. Richard Heard, in 1950, had this to say: “The evidence...
What do people gain from all their labours at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the...
November 2011
13 posts
I want to write about it, but I no longer know how.
“Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do...”
– Mark Twain
“I never drrreeeeaaaamed we’d own a Monnnnnndrian.”
“My heads all filled up with catchin’ frogs, and tits, and how I’m...”
“You were once shoved headfirst through someone’s vagina. Why are you...”
When did we forget our dreams?
The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I’m sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a few paths laid out ahead of us. We see the same things each day, respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, every...
“Well, I saw straightaway
that the lay was steep,
but I fell for you, honey,...”
“Grow a pair. Here’s the thing: The world is not kind to us; it never...”
– Advice for gay youth from Scott Thompson (Kids In The Hall)
October 2011
11 posts
“Though it was at my heart’s bidding that I chose the universe wherein I...”
“Nothing is: things are only seen as.”
“You are in a strange world: be a stranger to your world. You are trapped in an...”
“…and I wonder if you would tell it to me if I asked you. All the things I...”
“Contained-ent-ment-aution”
“I’m not the man I used to be.
These lunging arms,
groping.
Blithely...”
September 2011
11 posts
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
“Every page they see, every link they follow, every click they make, every ad...”
– http://cdespinosa.posterous.com/fire
“They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad,
They may not mean to but they do.
They...”