“So this is Creation Dawn? Saving people?”
“Yes,” she answered, with a solemn nod. Then she turned towards me. “We’re creating that next day. We’re here to help you fight the battle through your darkest night—your toughest hour, so that you can wake up the next morning and live your life.”
Mon
Feb
15
I don’t think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn’t fun either… Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle.
Mon
Feb
8
After doing shrooms, it feels like the volume’s been turned down on everything.
Mon
Feb
1
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.
Haniel Long
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back.
William Tammeus
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett
Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
G.K. Chesterton
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froud
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
Mark Twain
Sun
Dec
13
What is he trying to escape: the world or the end of it?