#44) To reiterate something I've said before . . . There is only one reason why people lie. They lie to manipulate you. They lie to get you to do what they want you to do because they know you wouldn't do what they want if they told you the truth.

#45) Trying, In my small attempt to get certain people out of the conservative echo chamber they get ( Read more... )

#40) Society is intrinsically unfair. It's just built that way. There will always be people who are given privileges and advantages that other people will never get. And some people who are subject to disadvantages that others are not. The concept of "all things being equal" cannot be applied to people's lives. It just cannot.

#41) There are over 7 ( Read more... )

#37) I used to think that rush-hour was the stupidest innovation of civilization. However technology has advanced and civilization has evolved. I've come to believe that rush-hour is only the second stupidest aspect of civilization.

These days huge office buildings where people are required to gather daily, at the same time and same place each day ( Read more... )

#35) touch is the most fundamental of the senses. it is the first one to develop. the one sense that can not be turned off. the sense that centers in us rather than externally ( Read more... )

#33) If a person grows up feeling unsafe, then later in life finds a place or circumstance wherein they do feel safe, that place will take on for them a significance far outstripping almost anything else in their life ( Read more... )

#31) If you are telling someone a problem you are having and that person interrupts the story in the middle and tells you something along the lines of what the simple solution to your problem might be. That person is very clearly telling you that they don't care about what you are saying. That it is trivial or unimportant to them. Don’t share your ( Read more... )

#27) Never explain your jokes or pop-culture references to strangers. It makes you both look stupid ( Read more... )

half a century of life, laid out for your edification. laid out in lessons learned. you might wish it a bit more positive . . . but, hey, its my life ( Read more... )