#2401: | The ultimate test of morality is what really works. |
#2402: | If God had intended us to have more than 140 characters, He would have given us Google Buzz. |
#2403: | "When food is used for purposes other than sustenance, it has truly lost its value." @conformer |
#2404: | The greatest tragedy of society is that having children is perceived to be a right no matter how ill-equipped you are to raise them. |
#2405: | "A friend is one before whom you may think aloud." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
#2406: | There is no food item or consumer product that isn't tainted by some form of animal or human abuse. You just have to look deep enough. |
#2407: | Most moral decisions in life are not a matter of choosing the "best" alternative but the "least worst" one. |
#2408: | Oxymoron Alert: If the envelope came by bulk rate mail ("PRSRT STD") and it says, "Important Account Information Enclosed", it's a lie! |
#2409: | The essence of old age is saving old knick-knacks because no matter how close to death you may be you never know when you might need them. |
#2410: | Of all the enablers of dysfunction, the most destructive is success. |
#2411: | Bottom line: You have this tool at your disposal, this life, and you can either do the most you can with it or not. Totally up to you. |
#2412: | While it is sometimes wise to break the rules, it is not usually smart to broadcast that you are breaking them. |
#2413: | @MacXVX Winning isn't the only thing, but neither is losing. Both are irrelevant. All that matters is doing the most with what you have. |
#2414: | People see barriers where none exist because then they don't have to accept responsibility for their own predicament. |
#2415: | Existentialism is illustrated in Monty Python's Philosophers' Football Match, when Archimedes shouts "Eureka" and HITS THE DAMN BALL! |
#2416: | The gray area between rules and enforcement is where most of life is lived. |
#2417: | New photos added to album: "Times Square" http://bit.ly/cCCec4 - Through the eye of a fish! |
#2418: | No moping, tweeters! If you have a problem, solve it. Don't expect affirmation from us for your drinking, career problems, lack of sex, etc. |
#2419: | Tweeting something funny about how badly your life is going is just a crutch and a delaying mechanism. Get off your ass and do something! |
#2420: | There is nothing sadder than a lifetime wasted in the maintenance and protection of one possessions. |
#2421: | It is human nature to obsess over minor risks while the big ones sneak up and get you from behind. |
#2422: | The economy hasn't been the same since the bottom fell out of the sell-any-shit-to-anybody-no-need-to-pay-now-you-can-pay-later market. |
#2423: | Virtually everyone involved in music performance is already hearing damaged, so they have to turn the volume up even more to compensate! |
#2424: | The law is not a precision instrument, like a scalpel. It is more like a sledgehammer, a crude tool insensitive to the circumstances. |
#2425: | Oxymoron Alert: "Adult entertainment" |
#2426: | Just by virtue of our being born, wheels are set in motion that we cannot stop. The noblest thing we can do is master those wheels. |
#2427: | What is the meaning of life? Reality gives you problems, and you do your best to solve them. You need no more meaning than that. |
#2428: | How did higher education get hijacked by football? Football is the antithesis of learning. It's like churches sponsoring whorehouses. |
#2429: | The law is not morality. It is a crude caricature of morality for those who have none. |
#2430: | Kilroy Café #64: "The Meaning of Life Explained at Last" http://bit.ly/9bOn6m - It ain't all that complicated! |
#2431: | Physical maturity takes 20 years, mental maturity 20 more. By the time you figure everything out, you'll be dead! |
#2432: | Rude is bad, but being excessively polite is more annoying. "After you!" "No, after you!" Better to know what you want and take the lead. |
#2433: | I'm afraid of heights. Also guns, knives, vicious animals, auto accidents, cancer, heart disease, stroke - you know, stuff that can kill me. |
#2434: | Sex is another religion. People want absolutes, and sex seems universal. Faith works until the urge fades and they panic. Viagra! |
#2435: | Love is like the question Captain Kirk asks the evil robot to make the robot blow all its circuits. You'll go mad if you're too logical. |
#2436: | When you want your senses dulled and escape from responsibility for your current problems, religion is there for you. |
#2437: | Religion is the alcohol of the heavens. |
#2438: | America's largest lodging chain! Low rates. Free meals. #1 in customer dissatisfaction. Enjoy your stay with the Department of Corrections! |
#2439: | The benefit of experience is not just more knowledge, but more compact - fitting in a smaller space because you know the underlying rules. |
#2440: | Doesn't it seem a little presumptuous to pray to God and ask him to do stuff? Shouldn't He know the right thing to do without our advice? |
#2441: | The behavior of the economy would be simple to calculate if not for the burden of debt. Same applies to people - on many different levels. |
#2442: | Who knew you could get so much wholesome deep-fried goodness in one little box—without deep frying! The secret: The grease is in the batter! |
#2443: | Balls? BALLS? Those aren't balls! You haven't had balls til you've had Tennessee Sausage Balls! Photo: http://bit.ly/cDyJc8 |
#2444: | The forecast for tomorrow looks good! There's a 99% chance there will be one. |
#2445: | Fame, marketing and packaging almost always beat quality in the race for first impressions. Quality's only consolation is that it lasts. |
#2446: | The benefit of a contract is that you know what to expect in the future. The cost is that you can't adapt to the unexpected. |
#2447: | Life works in cycles: boom & bust, love & divorce. People are caught off guard when they haven't lived long enough yet to see a full cycle. |
#2448: | Republicans include America's biggest assholes. Democrats make up for it with naïve idealism that could get us into even deeper shit. |
#2449: | People become entrapped in their own artificial expectations of life. The fundamental test of character is overcoming that internal block. |
#2450: | When the emperor has no clothes, there is great danger in stating the obvious. |
#2451: | What actor just had liposuction? Whose celebrity marriage is on the rocks? Who is dating whom? Honestly, it's none of our business! |
#2452: | "This is why Superman works alone." - Batman |
#2453: | No TV. No radio. No newspapers. All the news I get from the outside world comes through Twitter. How do I block those tweets? |
#2454: | A key element of style in any medium is "limited self-reference". What you think and feel is private, shared only through universal truths. |
#2455: | If you're on a budget and want to see the world, hostels are the way to go. Most of them are here: http://hostelworld.com |
#2456: | If you are wealthy, you should pretend to be poor. You are spending your future and may live to regret what you waste today. |
#2457: | On my bucket list: Install a personal weather station behind my home and spend the rest of my life meticulously collecting readings from it. |
#2458: | On my bucket list: Become a drag queen and own a nightclub where other drag queens hang out and take advantage of me horribly. |
#2459: | On my bucket list: Start and maintain a stamp collection, because that's much more interesting than visiting actual countries. |
#2460: | On my bucket list: Spend five years building an airplane in my basement then try to figure out how to get it out. |
#2461: | On my bucket list: Become a personal injury lawyer and portray myself on billboards and TV ads as a 30-foot giant protecting the little guy. |
#2462: | On my bucket list: Buy an expensive RV, make one trip across the country then store it in my backyard for the next 10 years. |
#2463: | "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." —Kant. Wrong! Your situation is unique, not universal. |
#2464: | Just discovered an exciting new food source: "Buffet by the Pound" http://bit.ly/cijHEH (Homeless by Choice Blog) |
#2465: | "EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids" http://bit.ly/9y2F7Q |
#2466: | picayune — adj. obsessed with trivial minutia while overlooking what's important. i.e. most people. |
#2467: | Young people say "I can change later; I got plenty of time." Old people say, "I can't change; it's too late for me." So when do we change? |
#2468: | The more resources you have at your disposal, the more "necessities" you think you need. |
#2469: | Kant, the philosopher, gave us "Can't", the philosophy — where you get so tied up in a rigid theory of life that no actions are possible. |
#2470: | "Humor is the most engaging cowardice." —Robert Frost |
#2471: | New photo album: Abandoned Schoolhouse on the Big Island of Hawaii: http://bit.ly/bn4X52 |
#2472: | Kant's fallacy: "Act like everyone was doing the same as you." Well, everyone won't, and it's an impossibly high standard destined to fail. |
#2473: | Why can't Kant recant? |
#2474: | Youth is a period of joyously going about getting yourself trapped. |
#2475: | There may be some romance associated with "the common man", but you still want to limit your contact with him. Turns out he's an idiot! |
#2476: | Kilroy Cafe #65: "Taking Control" http://bit.ly/c6p9A9 - The key to solving your problems is usually in your mind. |
#2477: | You may have chosen the wrong hotel when the front desk is festooned with signs all of which end with "No Exceptions!" |
#2478: | Pity the king and queen dying alone in their castle, subjects of all they possess, imprisoned by the same stone walls that protect them. |
#2479: | If you borrow money from Emperor Ming you should pay it back as soon as possible because Wyoming. |
#2480: | Your mind is where you knit together possible outputs from impossible inputs. |
#2481: | Your mind is like the deliberation room of a jury: a place to hash out complex decisions free from outside interference. |
#2482: | "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Kierkegaard. WRONG! We experience reality by solving life's problems. |
#2483: | Life is the process of solving the problems reality presents to you. |
#2484: | Photo: "Jesus and the 12 Disciples" http://bit.ly/9NhSKd - Taken today along Interstate 80 in Wyoming. |
#2485: | Anything they teach you in college you can more quickly and easily teach yourself if you are motivated. |
#2486: | Education can teach the form and procedures of things but not the inner purpose and meaning of them. |
#2487: | If you are learning from a textbook, why do you need a teacher? Can't you just read the book yourself and cut out the middle man? |
#2488: | "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." |
#2489: | It is amazing how college students will blindly accept instruction from someone who has had no substantial experience in the outside world. |
#2490: | I credit formal education with less than 1% of my knowledge. The rest I taught myself or was imposed on me by real experience. |
#2491: | Students graduate from college much smarter and wiser than when they went in. The reason is simple: age. |
#2492: | Education helped me learn to read and do basic math, and for this I will always be grateful. From then on, education became a burden. |
#2493: | Education is the most inefficient form of learning. |
#2494: | An autodidact is one who decides to teach himself. |
#2495: | If a certain career track requires special educational credentials to let you in, it's probably boring as hell anyway. |
#2496: | If you're single, you can go anywhere, do anything, with minimal maintenance needs. Once you become obligated, that's when you get trapped. |
#2497: | Experience is the best teacher. When it slaps you hard across the face, you never forget the lesson. |
#2498: | If you fully control your own life, you can live on very little. If you give up control to outside forces, no income is ever enough. |
#2499: | New photo album: "Denver Flophouse" http://bit.ly/a1ONxe - Here's a place to stay in downtown Denver for only $16/night! |
#2500: | Once you decide self-learning is possible and actually get off your ass to do it, education only gets in the way. |