Wee Wisdom (9)

aphorisms and short reflections

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when i make a mistake, i take comfort in the fact that at least i'm making something




the abyss is a well, but you have no bucket




history is a song, and we're at the bridge, leading to no chorus or verse




what about church step fathers, church fathers in law, church uncles




love is a sword resting in its sheath




the vast majority of current humanity has no beliefs whatsoever. they barely if at all rise above mere reaction to the environment. natural nihilism one might call it.




if you regard the glass as half empty, you will value the water more




nothing is ever a waste if you know how to compost




i think my soul lives in canterbury fifty years ago




the peer of god is the beginning of wisdom





i wonder if you can just throw cabbage into the dead sea and it will turn into sauerkraut




given the apparent advent of war, trying to decide if prison in west europe is better than war in east europe. tough.




i don't understand why they call it ghosting. no ghost ever left me alone.




my wife and i dared each other to become incarnate after much spirit courting




finishing one chapter unlocks the next. it's like a game or something.




everyone has the potential to become like the buddha (fat and boring).




an aphorism only takes the reader so far. to go beyond that, he must become a friend.




if there's a culture war where are the culture warlords




the only geopolitics i care about is the peaceful coexistence of roots and voles




if you take an idea seriously enough it will laugh at you




the night sky in north korea is probably amazing




rightfully so and so




controverb, a true proverb no longer accepted.




upheaval is redundant, but it just doesn't sound powerful enough without the prefix. no one would care about social heavals.




nature is healing. itself. so many ways to read it. all of them right. i love language.




if you feel low on battery, touch something alive and recharge.




a rock from space would not do as much damage as any single one of the false ideas that dominates the world right now.




a good idea with no possibility of being implemented is a bad idea.




you tell, and it shows




the truth can never be ugly, nor can it be lonely.




i love cities. the bigger the better. it would be horrible for all those people to be scattered, some of them would surely end up near me.




for every nuclear reactor there is a nuclear actor




i have gathered enough evidence now to say for sure the red pill is a suppository




pain is back. maybe that's why it's called back pain.




it's easy to hate ai when it spouts nonsense, but do you have the courage to hate it when it says something accurate




i hate that they are now making creepy androids, but i've seen scarier things around town and no one seems to mind




i will never fully identify with my 'real' name, because the government knows me by it.

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the two current types of western government