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Reality

You know reality only to the extent that you attend what is larger (and smaller) than the human.

Negligence

Negligence is the most underreported crime.

On habit

Habit is addiction to pattern.

Life

Life is arbitrary, not random.

On beauty

Beauty is always a collaboration.

The worst

Loss is the worst.

Only listening

If your thoughts align perfectly in all matters with the prevailing opinion, you are probably only listening, not thinking.

Everything we do

As physical beings in a physical world, everything we do is erosive. Therefore we must exist either as creatures of ignorance or as creatures of regret and guilt.

So wrong

If we are wrong about so much (and we are), what authority can we ever have?

Theology

Every god is a caricature of self;
every devil, a distortion of other.

On defeat

Defeat defines more than victory, as running into a wall is more impactful than running.

50-50

Nothing makes one feel as unlucky
as a 50-50 chance.

A sheet of glass

A sheet of glass feels as strong the moment before it shatters as it did when first you touched it.

?

Is comfort inertia or reward?

Everything

Everything is less than infinite.

Banana pudding from scratch

The shocking secret

The shocking secret is that no secret is shocking to the one who is knowledgeable or cynical enough.

Until

Live until you are full of dead people.

The worst thing

The worst thing
is to witness the end of things.