I'm feeling ugly. I want to be alone.

It's not that other people will scorn me necessarily ... no ... no ... it's that they'll see me ( Read more... )

I am told that wisdom is the reward of age and I am told that it makes it all worthwhile.
But hell no ... I would rather not make that trade!
I consider it a huge ripoff.
But there is so little choice afterall ...
I mean if the universe was a grocery store - it could sure use a larger selection if you ask meAnd I try with all my bargaining ( Read more... )

Desirablity - is The (one) ability to win friends and influence people.

Desirability - is the ability to win love and perhaps comfort (comfort in this cold and harsh world - could it exist?!).  Is perhaps the only power worth having.

Why are women so picky?  Because women have only a few eggs you see and men have many sperm and thus ....

Yes, yes, ( Read more... )

Parent: and what if all your friends jumped off a 10 story building would you jump off it too?

Kid:  hmm .... no ....  I guess not ....

Kid: But .... what if .... what if .... the teacher jumped off a 10 story building?  Should I jump off it too?

Parent: of course.

Luckily it has stopped raining. Before that it rained so much day after day that the ground was soaked to capacity and would absorb no more rain and it ran off. And the air was saturated with moisture and it would take back no more rain and it came right back down. And my mind too was utterly drenched and resisted absorbing the forecast of ( Read more... )

Geez, but I mean FUCK!!!  Must everything be compared to 9-11?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/30/tsunami.missing.ap/index.html

(Link comparing tsunami to 9-11)

But I mean a death toll of 116,000 and counting really compares to a death toll of 2000+ (what's a few hundred thousand here and there, right?).

Yes, I know - life is perceived ( Read more... )

a: "I'm looking for work"
b: "Well that's funny because I'm looking for unemployment. Want to trade?"

I'm one of those who write in my books. I fill them with my arguments and tangents and underlines. (It's wasteful as it means I can't borrow books or resell them.)

I'm sure you've heard it said that the experience of books depends on what the reader brings to them. Yes of course, but this implicit truth is only made explicit by ... writing in

"For evolution so loved the world that it gave countless thousands with less apt mutations to die of maladaptation, epidemics, etc., so that if I am lucky I can have my brief bittersweet 4 score and ten ... in the modern world."
me 10: 20

(P.S. Forget "fish-with-legs" bumper stickers. "Serpent-with-legs" bumper stickers say it so much better.)

Some people feel sorry for cows and how we eat them and mistreat them. And some people feel sorry for the concept of cows. Breed for stupidity and reduced sensory perception (reduced sense-ability ... reduced senses and sensibility ... I digress ...). Without the basic animal intellegence and senses to survive in the wild, these sad living ( Read more... )