Wee Wisdom (11)

aphorisms and short reflections

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below a certain basic level of intelligence (however we may want to measure it or not measure it), a person cannot feel empathy, cannot put himself in other's shoes, and thus cannot act morally, for only he and he alone is felt to exist, and only in the present moment. christians love to ignore this basic reality - it conflicts with the ingrained ideology they mistake for christianity. the dogmatic denial of pre-existence of the spirit and what it implies about what one is born into this world with (or without) is, i think, responsible for this blindspot. yet this very need to have authority (whatever it might be) confirm what is obvious from experience in order to be able to recognize it is another indication of innate differences.



here's a simple trick: if you feel attacked by a devil (bad feelings, bad urges, etc), close your right eye, and give it a moment.



whenever i sharpen my knives and then use them, i am always astounded at how dull they were but i did not notice. it's like perception.



i don't trust election results, whether they reflect the actual votes or not. perhaps especially if they do, if i am forced to choose.



it makes a lot of difference whether you believe the God made the rules or he mastered them



i only believe in eating carrots with a little dirt on them



to understand what's going on, you need to know the truth, and also the lie most think is the truth



great strawman theory of history




'i believe in goddess' just doesn't sound right. with 'god' it does. habituation to nonsense breeds tolerance, just like with everything else.



cannot imagine the level of psychic defeat and spiritual bankrupcy one must be in to ask ai a question



the need for etymosophy, rather than mere etymology, is revealed when one contemplates the profoundly retarded etymological scholarship around the words god, deus and theos.



nothing makes me more pessimistic about the current state of things than the optimism regarding it



my wife and i made each other more radical, both in the etymological sense of having roots and the other, more common sense



no death and no heaven can dissolve a real marriage



the fall of rome was every year when they harvested the olives.



my goal is to write in a way that an intelligent child will understand.



Nietzsche was one of the few people to understand what Jesus is all about, ironically enough, and is in fact very close to St. Paul. of course barely anyone understands St. Paul



i'm not a neo-luddite. that is slander. i'm an old school follower of Ned Ludd.



the people have spoken, and i wish they would have remained silent.



the reason i consider Jesus to be the highest god is that he was the one who dared to come lowest.



you can shift that overton window all you like, but if you don't open the blinders the sun still won't come in.



the superior is meant to raise the inferior. and it can't do this if it belittles either the other or itself. as usual Jesus is a perfect example of this



you can bodybuild but the soul must be grown



the only thing a woman's lips should be filled with is kisses



the plurality of voices in my head may have something to do with peculiar way i write dialogue



i'm an elitist, and thus i object to the way the vast majority of people use the word elite.



i have too much respect for questions to ask one of a machine

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