Small Talk (44)
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* i'm incautiously pessimistic. life's too short. take some risks. a God we can fully understand is not the true God. just like every other person. your heart is broken. you fix it. now it doesn't move. i get it because i also give it. the woman is meant to harden the man. and man to soften the woman. not the other way around. the ancient of days is married to the maiden of nights there are a number of passages in the bible where God changes his mind, often convinced by humans to do so. and this is funny because those theologians who assert that God cannot change his mind seem to be incapable of that kind of flexibility. writers make plans, the stories do not care. i'd rather be creative than smart sometimes my wife is at the opposite end of the house, i go meet her and she tells me she was 'calling' to me. and vice versa. happens way too often to be only a coincidence. man is born free, and almost everywhere he gets even cheaper the salt has lost its savor, and the savor is not really worth its salt evil is the abscess of good when the student is ready the teacher will complain to the parents if you break a rearviewmirror the seven years of bad luck will appear farther than they are politics is a show, and one full of bad actors
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That's an interesting idea about men and women. I think I thought something similar. I saw my wife as someone who with me could be soft in the right ways, and without me would either get rolled over or become hard and brittle to survive. As for the other half, it was much harder to stand up for myself against women than it ever was against other men, in the sense that I didn't automatically fight as hard to keep who I was and not be subordinated.