My Head on the Ground
On this day in 2009, I suffered one of my top 10 worst air hockey injuries.
I have ancestors who also faced adversity.
One of my 3rd great-grandfathers, Benjamin Franklin Haller, Civil War veteran. Nice work dude.
...
Silly kooks at the grave of their 8th great-grandfather and Revolutionary War veteran, Michael Schneder.
May 26, 2019
...
Dorothea Lange's birthday, born this day in 1897.
"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
...
Newt Gingrich says we should the CBO. Maybe we should just abolish his crap bill that the CBO exposed. I forgot how much of a slimeball that guy is. That must be why they named him after a slimy animal.
...
"North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?"
...
...
In the midst of a pandemic, Trump decided he wants to get to the bottom of the person who he is saying Joe Scarborough murdered. Good thing he doesn't have a more important direction to focus his energy.
From the husband of the woman Trump is accusing Joe Scarborough of having murdered, to Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter:
“I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him—the memory of my dead wife—and perverted it for perceived political gain.”
An article on it began: "There may be a more damning thing that’s been said about an American president, but none immediately comes to mind."
Trump is not yet the nominee. Republicans should run an honorable campaign with Pence, Graham or Nikki Haley.
...
We just drove past the graveyard and Gretel said that if one person dies and then another person dies and then another person dies until there's only one person there will be nobody around to bury them. Pretty good for 4 years old!
...
It crossed my mind that Ron Howard directed Solo, and starred in American Graffiti along with Harrison Ford which was directed by George Lucas. I'm not certain what that means, but I'll bet there's a Father, Son, and Holy Ghost metaphor in there somewhere.
...
Strange, just today I wrote this on my way to work:
Pete Rose said that he played baseball so hard because he was playing for his dad, for himself, and for the love of the game. That sounds a little bit like the father, son, and the holy ghost. The holy Trinity of baseball perhaps.
I'm listening to his autobiography.
...
Oh this dear daughter of mine... I watched the Three Stooges last night with Gretel and she loved it, never heard her laugh so much at a TV show. This morning when she woke up she asked to watch the funny show. I ask her which one and she held up three fingers.
...
I just received a resume with perhaps the worst email address in the history of resumes- mehmeh1299 at something or another.
...
My first competitive racquetball in 4 months didn't end with me going to the hospital, but I did get my goggles knocked off and a gash in my nose.
...
Mitch Hedberg- "This is just between you and me and everybody else you tell."
...
If God wanted me to go down to the basement for this tornado why am I irresistibly drawn to my front porch? Or is the devil drawing me outside? Either way- so long, it's been good to know ya.
...
The doctor just gave me tips on how to break up the scar tissue of my surgery scar, then added, "I assume you don't care about the cosmetic aspect."
John Wayne was born on this day in 1907.
...
Helena Bonham Carter was born on this day in 1966. She was part of the one of the greatest moments in cinema history, the buildings coming down at the end of Fight Club, has The Pixies play.
Ricky Gervais jokes about the Holocaust. Is that emboldening the next Hitler? Of course not, you know where his sympathies lie.
...
"Did you ever notice that somebody else's stuff is shit, and your shit is stuff?" -Carlin
John Stewart broke that down that whole routine.
"A place for my stuff is highly intellectual if you look at the skill level, the brainpower it takes to break that down. That is, you know, I don't know, maybe to some comedians, that's just a observational comedy bit. To me, it's the elevation of the ordinary and the disassembling of the ordinary.
And there's no better example of that than that bit.
In essence, it seems like this light-hearted, superficial analysis of, like, the way people value their own belongings and how they display them and those types of things. But, "My shit is stuff, and your stuff is shit" really is the through-line for the lack of empathy of people. Like, even when you think about cancel culture, things like that, 'My opinion is valid but your opinion is cancel culture and bullshit,' like, 'My thoughts are stuff and your thoughts are shit.' And it's just this little bit that he did on shit you put on your dresser."
...
Someone asked George Carlin if he wants to change the way people think. He said no way, that would be the kiss of death. He wanted to let them know that he's thinking.
...
Carlin again- "Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with a fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked. You're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life, they're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. Here's another question I have. How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it. You know why? Because chickens are decent people. Is a fetus a human being? This seems to be the central question. Well, if a fetus is a human being, how come the census doesn't count them? Just looking for a little consistency here in these anti-abortion arguments.
His daughter commented:
"No one is ever more himself than at that moment when he laughs because it's very Zen-like, that moment. You are completely yourself when the message hits that brain and you understand it and then the laugh begins. If a new idea slips into that moment, it gets in and has a place to start to grow a little. At the same time, you've had to surrender yourself to that moment, and it's a perfect union. It's a genuine, momentary communion. They wouldn't have experienced it without you, and you wouldn't have experienced it without them. Maybe it's one of the things that you seek by following this path is to have some power like that. To be able to say, "Stop in your tracks and consider me."
Back to Carlin again:
"I'm speaking to my friends, the Catholics, when John Cardinal O'Connor of New York and some of these other cardinals and bishops have experienced their first pregnancies and their first labor pains and they've raised a couple of children on minimum wage, then I'll be glad to hear what they have to say about abortion. I'm sure it'll be interesting. Enlightening, too. But but in the meantime, what they ought to be doing is telling these priests who took a vow of chastity to keep their hands off the altar boys. When Jesus said, 'Suffer the little children, come unto me,' that's not what He was talking about."
Great recap!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-mad-men-waterloo-moon-landing-20140525-story.html#page=2
May 26, 2014
...
IFLScience- Health Check: Four Reasons To Have Another Cup Of Coffee
1. Life Expectancy
2. Decreased risk for liver cancer, prostate cancer, type 2 diabetes, lung cancer
3. Blood Pressure
4. Pregnancy
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/health-check-four-reasons-have-another-cup-coffee
Zero more reasons would have been enough.
May 26, 2015
...
Mashable- Why 'Mad Men' was the greatest history lesson ever
This article nails it.
http://mashable.com/2015/05/15/mad-men-greatest-history-lesson/
May 26, 2015
...
The Hill- Trump’s misspelling of Biden’s name trends on Twitter
For such a nothing story, it encompasses so much... the irony of an idiot proving he's an idiot while calling someone else an idiot... the rushed, stupid, petty, mean-spirited way this loser deals with everything... his support for and chumminess with brutal dictators over domestic rivals... his refusal or inability to recognize his abject failure with North Korea... all of this while in Japan getting ready to play golf for Memorial Day
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/445569-trumps-misspelling-of-bidens-name-trends-on-twitter
May 26, 2019
...
538- Silver Bulletpoints: Are More Moderate Democrats More Electable?
So are they??? Nate's answer... he doesn't know.
(Btw, if I had to put money on the 2020 election I'd put it on Trump. I don't think the Democrats will nominate the most electable candidate, whoever that is, and Trump does have a preternatural ability to vilify his opponents, mostly due to his complete lack of a moral compass.)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/maybe-the-moderate-democrats-running-are-more-popular-with-swing-voters/
May 26, 2019
...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opinion/trump-pelosi-impeachment.html
"The point of impeachment is not to remove Trump before the 2020 election. It is to make clear, in the starkest possible way, why Democrats believe he should be removed. The remainder of his term should be consumed by a formal, televised presentation of all the ways he’s disgraced his office. It’s true that were Trump to be re-elected after such a reckoning, he might be even further unleashed. But were Trump to be re-elected in the absence of impeachment, it would still be seen as a vindication for him, and would leave Democrats humiliated by their excess of caution."
Updated May 26, 2019, 11:13 AM
May 26, 2019, 11:13 AM
...
The Atlantic- Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President
Excellent psychological profile. Is Trump honorable or courageous? Does he respect women? Does he accept responsibility and look out for the team? Is he obsessed with his physical appearance, and does he whine constantly? Excellent examples are cited. It's good to take a step back from Trump in all of his trumpiness every once in awhile, and take a look at the actual person. Even if someone thinks he's a great president, would they want him to be their boss? Would they buy a used car from him? Would they want him to date their sister, or their daughter? If he said he worked out the kinks of Trump University, would they tell their friend they should enroll? Would they go into business with him? These hypotheticals can tell somebody what they really think about him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/donald-trump-the-most-unmanly-president/612031/
...
The Hill- Trump insists family of Scarborough staffer wants to ‘get to the bottom’ of her death
Good thing he doesn't have a more important direction to focus his energy.
http://hill.cm/k5Ys3yo
May 26, 2020
...
The Atlantic- The Malignant Cruelty of Donald Trump
From the husband of the woman Trump is accusing Joe Scarborough of having murdered, to Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter:
“I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him—the memory of my dead wife—and perverted it for perceived political gain.”
This article begins: "There may be a more damning thing that’s been said about an American president, but none immediately comes to mind."
Trump is not yet the nominee. Republicans should run an honorable campaign with Pence, Graham or Nikki Haley.
http://on.theatln.tc/ECgEwgf
May 26, 2020, 9:48 PM
...
A hero!
https://youtube.com/shorts/SwRkb657oyo
May 26, 2021
Dorothea Lange's birthday, born this day in 1897.
"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see."
...
Newt Gingrich says we should the CBO. Maybe we should just abolish his crap bill that the CBO exposed. I forgot how much of a slimeball that guy is. That must be why they named him after a slimy animal.
May 26, 2017
...
Trump tweet:
"North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?"
May 26, 2019
...
For such a nothing story in the Hill, it encompasses so much... the irony of an idiot proving he's an idiot while calling someone else an idiot... the rushed, stupid, petty, mean-spirited way this loser deals with everything... his support for and chumminess with brutal dictators over domestic rivals... his refusal or inability to recognize his abject failure with North Korea... all of this while in Japan getting ready to play golf for Memorial Day.
For such a nothing story in the Hill, it encompasses so much... the irony of an idiot proving he's an idiot while calling someone else an idiot... the rushed, stupid, petty, mean-spirited way this loser deals with everything... his support for and chumminess with brutal dictators over domestic rivals... his refusal or inability to recognize his abject failure with North Korea... all of this while in Japan getting ready to play golf for Memorial Day.
...
...
Excellent psychological profile in The Atlantic- Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President, by Tom Nichols.
Is Trump honorable or courageous? Does he respect women? Does he accept responsibility and look out for the team? Is he obsessed with his physical appearance, and does he whine constantly? Excellent examples are cited. It's good to take a step back from Trump in all of his trumpiness every once in awhile, and take a look at the actual person. Even if someone thinks he's a great president, would they want him to be their boss? Would they buy a used car from him? Would they want him to date their sister, or their daughter? If he said he worked out the kinks of Trump University, would they tell their friend they should enroll? Would they go into business with him? These hypotheticals can tell somebody what they really think about him.
Excellent psychological profile in The Atlantic- Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President, by Tom Nichols.
Is Trump honorable or courageous? Does he respect women? Does he accept responsibility and look out for the team? Is he obsessed with his physical appearance, and does he whine constantly? Excellent examples are cited. It's good to take a step back from Trump in all of his trumpiness every once in awhile, and take a look at the actual person. Even if someone thinks he's a great president, would they want him to be their boss? Would they buy a used car from him? Would they want him to date their sister, or their daughter? If he said he worked out the kinks of Trump University, would they tell their friend they should enroll? Would they go into business with him? These hypotheticals can tell somebody what they really think about him.
May 26, 2020
...
In the midst of a pandemic, Trump decided he wants to get to the bottom of the person who he is saying Joe Scarborough murdered. Good thing he doesn't have a more important direction to focus his energy.
From the husband of the woman Trump is accusing Joe Scarborough of having murdered, to Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter:
“I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him—the memory of my dead wife—and perverted it for perceived political gain.”
An article on it began: "There may be a more damning thing that’s been said about an American president, but none immediately comes to mind."
Trump is not yet the nominee. Republicans should run an honorable campaign with Pence, Graham or Nikki Haley.
May 26, 2020
...
We just drove past the graveyard and Gretel said that if one person dies and then another person dies and then another person dies until there's only one person there will be nobody around to bury them. Pretty good for 4 years old!
May 26, 2018
...
It crossed my mind that Ron Howard directed Solo, and starred in American Graffiti along with Harrison Ford which was directed by George Lucas. I'm not certain what that means, but I'll bet there's a Father, Son, and Holy Ghost metaphor in there somewhere.
May 26, 2018
...
John Cleese- "When you are very, very stupid, how can you possibly realize that you're very, very stupid."
...
Strange, just today I wrote this on my way to work:
Pete Rose said that he played baseball so hard because he was playing for his dad, for himself, and for the love of the game. That sounds a little bit like the father, son, and the holy ghost. The holy Trinity of baseball perhaps.
I'm listening to his autobiography.
...
Oh this dear daughter of mine... I watched the Three Stooges last night with Gretel and she loved it, never heard her laugh so much at a TV show. This morning when she woke up she asked to watch the funny show. I ask her which one and she held up three fingers.
May 26, 2017
...
I just received a resume with perhaps the worst email address in the history of resumes- mehmeh1299 at something or another.
May 26, 2014
...
My first competitive racquetball in 4 months didn't end with me going to the hospital, but I did get my goggles knocked off and a gash in my nose.
May 26, 2011
...
Mitch Hedberg- "This is just between you and me and everybody else you tell."
...
If God wanted me to go down to the basement for this tornado why am I irresistibly drawn to my front porch? Or is the devil drawing me outside? Either way- so long, it's been good to know ya.
May 26, 2011
...
The doctor just gave me tips on how to break up the scar tissue of my surgery scar, then added, "I assume you don't care about the cosmetic aspect."
May 26, 2011
...
How insane does someone have to be for this to happen?
A friend called me this morning and he was really confused when I answered.
Me- Hello.
Him- ......dude, that's so weird.
Me- What?
Him- That's so weird.
Me- What???
Him- I thought I was emailing you.
May 26, 2010, 12:14 PM
...
John Wayne was born on this day in 1907.
Here he is as a baby. Bizarre, that looks just exactly like him.
..
16 Cognitive Distortions, Positive Psychology, by Courtney Ackerman
5. Jumping to Conclusions – Mind Reading
This “Jumping to Conclusions” distortion manifests as the inaccurate belief that we know what another person is thinking. Of course, it is possible to have an idea of what other people are thinking, but this distortion refers to the negative interpretations that we jump to.
Seeing a stranger with an unpleasant expression and jumping to the conclusion that they are thinking something negative about you is an example of this distortion.
...
Helena Bonham Carter was born on this day in 1966. She was part of the one of the greatest moments in cinema history, the buildings coming down at the end of Fight Club, has The Pixies play.
...
Dracula was first published on this day in 1897.
...
Michael Barrett was the last person publicly hung in Britain on this day in 1868.
...
On the same day, the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ended with his acquittal by one vote.
...
Sgt Pepper was released on this day in 1967.
...
The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia on this day in 1998.
...
Protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd erupted in Minneapolis–Saint Paul on this day in 2020, before becoming widespread across the United States and around the world.
...
Other notable birthdays- Peter Cushing (1913), Jack Kevorkian (1928), Hank Williams Jr. (1949), Lenny Kravitz (1962)
...
Other notable deathdays- Jimmie Rodgers (1933), Martin Heidegger (1976), Robert Kraft (2015)
...
Ricky Gervais jokes about the Holocaust. Is that emboldening the next Hitler? Of course not, you know where his sympathies lie.
...
"Did you ever notice that somebody else's stuff is shit, and your shit is stuff?" -Carlin
John Stewart broke that down that whole routine.
"A place for my stuff is highly intellectual if you look at the skill level, the brainpower it takes to break that down. That is, you know, I don't know, maybe to some comedians, that's just a observational comedy bit. To me, it's the elevation of the ordinary and the disassembling of the ordinary.
And there's no better example of that than that bit.
In essence, it seems like this light-hearted, superficial analysis of, like, the way people value their own belongings and how they display them and those types of things. But, "My shit is stuff, and your stuff is shit" really is the through-line for the lack of empathy of people. Like, even when you think about cancel culture, things like that, 'My opinion is valid but your opinion is cancel culture and bullshit,' like, 'My thoughts are stuff and your thoughts are shit.' And it's just this little bit that he did on shit you put on your dresser."
...
Someone asked George Carlin if he wants to change the way people think. He said no way, that would be the kiss of death. He wanted to let them know that he's thinking.
...
Carlin again- "Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with a fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked. You're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life, they're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. Here's another question I have. How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it. You know why? Because chickens are decent people. Is a fetus a human being? This seems to be the central question. Well, if a fetus is a human being, how come the census doesn't count them? Just looking for a little consistency here in these anti-abortion arguments.
His daughter commented:
"No one is ever more himself than at that moment when he laughs because it's very Zen-like, that moment. You are completely yourself when the message hits that brain and you understand it and then the laugh begins. If a new idea slips into that moment, it gets in and has a place to start to grow a little. At the same time, you've had to surrender yourself to that moment, and it's a perfect union. It's a genuine, momentary communion. They wouldn't have experienced it without you, and you wouldn't have experienced it without them. Maybe it's one of the things that you seek by following this path is to have some power like that. To be able to say, "Stop in your tracks and consider me."
Back to Carlin again:
"I'm speaking to my friends, the Catholics, when John Cardinal O'Connor of New York and some of these other cardinals and bishops have experienced their first pregnancies and their first labor pains and they've raised a couple of children on minimum wage, then I'll be glad to hear what they have to say about abortion. I'm sure it'll be interesting. Enlightening, too. But but in the meantime, what they ought to be doing is telling these priests who took a vow of chastity to keep their hands off the altar boys. When Jesus said, 'Suffer the little children, come unto me,' that's not what He was talking about."
...
LA Times- ‘Mad Men’ recap: ‘The moon belongs to everyone’
Great recap!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-mad-men-waterloo-moon-landing-20140525-story.html#page=2
May 26, 2014
...
IFLScience- Health Check: Four Reasons To Have Another Cup Of Coffee
1. Life Expectancy
2. Decreased risk for liver cancer, prostate cancer, type 2 diabetes, lung cancer
3. Blood Pressure
4. Pregnancy
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/health-check-four-reasons-have-another-cup-coffee
Zero more reasons would have been enough.
May 26, 2015
...
Mashable- Why 'Mad Men' was the greatest history lesson ever
This article nails it.
http://mashable.com/2015/05/15/mad-men-greatest-history-lesson/
May 26, 2015
...
The Hill- Trump’s misspelling of Biden’s name trends on Twitter
For such a nothing story, it encompasses so much... the irony of an idiot proving he's an idiot while calling someone else an idiot... the rushed, stupid, petty, mean-spirited way this loser deals with everything... his support for and chumminess with brutal dictators over domestic rivals... his refusal or inability to recognize his abject failure with North Korea... all of this while in Japan getting ready to play golf for Memorial Day
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/445569-trumps-misspelling-of-bidens-name-trends-on-twitter
May 26, 2019
...
538- Silver Bulletpoints: Are More Moderate Democrats More Electable?
So are they??? Nate's answer... he doesn't know.
(Btw, if I had to put money on the 2020 election I'd put it on Trump. I don't think the Democrats will nominate the most electable candidate, whoever that is, and Trump does have a preternatural ability to vilify his opponents, mostly due to his complete lack of a moral compass.)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/maybe-the-moderate-democrats-running-are-more-popular-with-swing-voters/
May 26, 2019
...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opinion/trump-pelosi-impeachment.html
"The point of impeachment is not to remove Trump before the 2020 election. It is to make clear, in the starkest possible way, why Democrats believe he should be removed. The remainder of his term should be consumed by a formal, televised presentation of all the ways he’s disgraced his office. It’s true that were Trump to be re-elected after such a reckoning, he might be even further unleashed. But were Trump to be re-elected in the absence of impeachment, it would still be seen as a vindication for him, and would leave Democrats humiliated by their excess of caution."
Updated May 26, 2019, 11:13 AM
May 26, 2019, 11:13 AM
...
The Atlantic- Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President
Excellent psychological profile. Is Trump honorable or courageous? Does he respect women? Does he accept responsibility and look out for the team? Is he obsessed with his physical appearance, and does he whine constantly? Excellent examples are cited. It's good to take a step back from Trump in all of his trumpiness every once in awhile, and take a look at the actual person. Even if someone thinks he's a great president, would they want him to be their boss? Would they buy a used car from him? Would they want him to date their sister, or their daughter? If he said he worked out the kinks of Trump University, would they tell their friend they should enroll? Would they go into business with him? These hypotheticals can tell somebody what they really think about him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/donald-trump-the-most-unmanly-president/612031/
May 26, 2020
...
The Hill- Trump insists family of Scarborough staffer wants to ‘get to the bottom’ of her death
Good thing he doesn't have a more important direction to focus his energy.
http://hill.cm/k5Ys3yo
May 26, 2020
...
The Atlantic- The Malignant Cruelty of Donald Trump
From the husband of the woman Trump is accusing Joe Scarborough of having murdered, to Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter:
“I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him—the memory of my dead wife—and perverted it for perceived political gain.”
This article begins: "There may be a more damning thing that’s been said about an American president, but none immediately comes to mind."
Trump is not yet the nominee. Republicans should run an honorable campaign with Pence, Graham or Nikki Haley.
http://on.theatln.tc/ECgEwgf
May 26, 2020, 9:48 PM
...
A hero!
https://youtube.com/shorts/SwRkb657oyo
May 26, 2021
...
...
Werner Herzog- “I’m trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn’t illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself, and you see something sublime.”
...
My dear,
A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
For the world has given up on beauty. It doesn’t believe in fairytales anymore, or happy endings.
So a soul that sees beauty is a soul thought to be insane by the majority. They call it stuck up, delusional, and abnormal – all because it sees something better that it can hold out for.
But, if my words mean anything – hold out for that beauty. Walk alone until you grab it. The pain of walking alone against the stream is worth it.
Falsely yours
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...
Gibbon- "Religion was regarded by the common people as true, by the philosophers as false, and by the rulers as useful."
...
Aldous Huxley- "The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled."
...
Henry David Thoreau- "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
...
Emerson-"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
...
Dylan:
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
...
Albert Einstein- "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
...
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy- "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
Comments
Post a Comment