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The Death of Trust

trust is dead your media failed you your authorities failed you your “science” failed you your politicians failed you even your perception failed you (nothing is what it seems!)   once one would lack information, lived in ignorance, never presuming to know what he didn’t know then he would get information. the information started flowing …

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Spirituality

You’re Not a Bad Person

You’re not perfect — but you probably are NOT a “bad person” Bear with me   We humans are sometimes too binary (and sometimes not binary enough) When things really matter — things like life and death — we learn to be decisive, we learn to be binary Things like good and bad We learn …

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Broken

I want you to realize that most men are broken   Most men are broken in some way Deep within It’s hardly obvious A hidden bug in a program, or minor hardware damage — not a bad metaphor   Some way most men break in some point Usually many points One does continue to function …

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To Change Is To Be A Traitor

To change is to be a traitor To change is to betray   To change is to abandon the former and embrace the new To change is thus to betray the former   The word betrayal implies the negative But what negative? Whose negative? What’s negative? The traitor? The betrayed? The idea? The ideology? The …

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Forgive But Don’t Forget

Forgive but don’t forget   Obviously don’t forget: you don’t want to make the same mistake twice But do forgive   Why do you forgive? Because life is short This day is beautiful Do you want to spoil this beauty with that petty ugliness? Do you want to spoil this short, precious life — harbouring …

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About Different Humans

There are similarities and dissimilarities. Similarities are similar, identical — and that’s that. Dissimilarities are different, dissimilar. There are infinitely many ways in which two things can be different — and only one way in which two things can be similar.   Dissimilarity is an innately contentious issue for humans — because we are ambitious, …

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Hostility is Violence

Hostility is violence To want to see someone “get what he deserves”, “get punished”, “be taken down a peg”, is to be violent. To insult someone, to mock someone, to deride someone, is to be violent. To not want the best for your fellow human beings, for your brothers, for your enemies, is to be …

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Discordant Hierarchies

From a perspective distant enough we’re equal and identical . From up close we’re all different and unequal Are we thus equal or unequal?   We’re not objectively equal nor unequal — our equality or inequality depends on the situation. In one situation you are better suited to make decisions In other situation I am …

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