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[ipout]

There are many people I've come in contact with at this school who should thank their lucky stars I'm not psychopathic. Yesterday I spent too much time with an arrogant bastard who dresses like he might be trying to impersonate a beatnik. For hours he boasted about his skills at poker and yet, when I played him, he accidentally beat me without

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[chookfunkle]

Sure, we're very insignificant, little, carbon-based organisms. But seeing as our entire history as a race has no impact whatsoever on the overall course of the universe, should we just throw in the towel and commit massive cluster suicide? We are nothing without our imagination. Were we not self-important, our highly evolved brains would go to waste and we'd succumb to the more naturally adept species (which is every species). Wait, why do we have highly evolved brains? Delusion! It's (and I mean this with no religious connotation) the greatest blessing humanity has

[ipout]

you're right, as always. besides, there's no eloquence in my cynicism. i'm embarrassed to read all of that, weeks later. there was no point.

ummm religiously, i'm not really anything. i don't do organized religion, not a fan of dogma, but i don't like to be "atheist" or "agnostic" either, because that involves too much explanation. i'm a delicate potpourri of zen and "god in the hands of an angry bernard." whatever that means.

maybe you do already, but you really ought to listen to bob dylan.