Maidan - winter like I've not felt since the East.  Something in the biting quiet air...

Winter - No one is old who truly rebels to the frigid.  She tests you, you are either of the infinite, or she cuts you down, she has no compromise.

Perhaps life is all about change - it probably isn't cosmically fair but nothing shall be constant - this is why in sitcoms they have wide story arcs - a few intro episodes, but surprisingly quickly making the romantic connections - then a few episodes and there are love triangles - anything constant becomes repetitive.. our brains are hardwired ( Read more... )

Lost in Translation... We only live in one place really - we are just visitors in all others - we are in a dream, in another land we never knew, never left a mark, and never to return.

I don’t know that sex ever becomes less fun (I’m sure it does at some point actually), but it does become less flattering.  And flattery is part of the appeal.

All things, from the structure and health of the spine for example, all the way up to Schwerpunkt and political and spiritual devotions, are greatly benefited by breaking down our understanding at each constituent level of things: Structural, organizational, operational, strategic, philosophical, and world historic.

If you are okay having a great ( Read more... )

Life may seem pointless at times, yes, but isn't death (not being alive) far more pointless, unless there is an afterlife?

• There are personality pathologies that directly impact upon politics - and these are heightened in war.
  
  • The dark empaths, the empathetic narcissists, on the left, are sometimes so self-involved and obsessed over the plight of individuals in this country that they cannot abide any aid (even military aid to allow a country to defend ( Read more... )

I may have said this before, but if our "selves" is really a combination of neurons, and biochemicals, and memories (which itself might just be a combination of the formers), then maybe in the distant future, we can compute all possible combinations of these things, and therefore recreate people, or at least near enough that we would "come back to ( Read more... )

Maybe life isn't so important after all, maybe the passing of people is not the end of the world.  Maybe life is just the Boboli pizza that you made on a Saturday night with your parents.

Kubrick is one of the few who aged without growing truly old.