| #37: | People choose a WORSE diet when a healthy option is offered. NY Times (4/6): http://bit.ly/9VQBs - An interesting human perception defect. |
| #57: | I used to think the platypus was my favorite monotreme until I met the echidna. So hard to choose! (and the hurt feelings if I do) |
| #132: | There is no security in freedom. You have to choose one or the other. |
| #152: | Given the choice of freedom or slavery, most will choose slavery, but they call it by other names. |
| #167: | We are all aliens here. One morning we woke up on this strange planet, in a body we didn't choose, living with a really bizarre family. - #existentialism |
| #202: | Report from the air: The whole Northern Hemisphere is socked in. For best results, choose another hemisphere. |
| #207: | Your choice: Buy "Duty Free" merchandise at a foreign airport and haul it home, or buy the same product for less at Costco. |
| #228: | I have revised the mission statement in my "Homeless by Choice" blog: http://freesleeping.blogspot.com - I'm just a dude.... |
| #236: | The most disgusting thing on the planet (my opinion): lipstick-stained cigarette butts. Choose one or the other, lady! |
| #260: | A buffet is the most existential form of dining. Even if you eat together, you must choose alone. |
| #285: | If you are committed beyond your resources and fail to reduce your obligations on your own, catastrophe will make the choices for you. |
| #291: | Given the choice, lonely is better than suffocated. |
| #292: | The choice of a romantic partner should never be made out of sympathy. |
| #307: | Existentialism is seen as a very lonely philosophy. There's no father looking after you, just you and your own choices. |
| #309: | Existentialism is big on CHOICE. That's all you have. You can choose wisely or poorly, but you are always responsible for what happens. |
| #316: | Under existentialism, no matter what circumstances you're in, you are going to look for choice. How can you improve things or limit damage? |
| #318: | So where did life come from? Did God make it? I don't know, but it's irrelevant. All that matters is what you do, what you choose. - #existentialism |
| #350: | To protect the delusion that we made all the right choices, we suppress any other alternatives. |
| #366: | It is fine to choose for the short term - days, months - but once you start choosing for decades, your choice inevitably becomes a prison. |
| #472: | Intelligence is not a gift but a choice. |
| #497: | The world gives you two artistic choices: Either you do things well or you do them to make money. There is no middle ground. |
| #498: | Religion is not real morality but a fake substitute. It means you don't have the courage to make your own moral choices. |
| #577: | Death is inevitable, but "old" is a choice. |
| #599: | Police can always find more or less crime by adjusting their tolerance. "Speeding" can start at 5 mph above the limit or 15. They choose. |
| #745: | Money is poison to truth. In every field, you eventually have to choose between one or the other. |
| #767: | I have just released a new Homeless by Choice blog entry on DISPOSABLE CLOTHING. http://bit.ly/jtdld - Buy it, use it, throw it away! |
| #866: | The "reasons" people cite for their choices are usually false. They are invented after the decision has already been made. |
| #882: | I have just released a new "Homeless by Choice" blog entry, THE SCOURGE OF HUMIDITY: http://bit.ly/3wn7s8 - Life is easier in the dry! |
| #914: | No human can obey every law and government regulation. It's impossible! You must choose what to comply with and why. |
| #1032: | People usually choose their life based on how it looks in the brochure, not on how they actually experience it. - #existentialism |
| #1090: | Intelligence is not a talent but a choice. |
| #1134: | My Facebook FAN page is used only for: 1) Announcement of new content; 2) Anything (relevant) my fans choose to post. http://bit.ly/1jBsF6 |
| #1221: | "Free will" is discovering that you have a choice when your biology and society say you have none. - #existentialism |
| #1237: | "Free will" is discovering that you have a choice where you thought you had none. - #existentialism |
| #1334: | Glenn has released a new Homeless by Choice blog entry: http://bit.ly/THEPo - "Free Luggage Storage at the Airport" |
| #1342: | There are some who choose to run whatever race is presented to them, and there are others who digress and find easier paths. |
| #1349: | Selling luxury products to people who cannot afford them is like selling them heroin. There is no honor in helping people make bad choices. |
| #1354: | There will always be people making bad choices. You free yourself of responsibility by not facilitating them. |
| #1523: | Young people often mistake "imprisonment" for "commitment". Commitment is a free-will choice, not enforced by outside chains. |
| #1547: | Most adults are a minefield of poor choices and conflicting emotions. You must carefully watch your words to avoid destabilizing them. |
| #1571: | Most people's lives are a minefield of poor choices and conflicting emotions propped up by delusion and wishful thinking. |
| #1583: | "convenient belief" - something you believe because it happens to support your own choices, although you'll probably invent other reasons. |
| #1674: | New Homeless by Choice blog entry: "The Supercenter Camping Method" http://bit.ly/1emner - More clever solutions from the Acme Corporation. |
| #1677: | New Homeless by Choice blog entry: "Case Study: Campsite Selection in Reno" http://bit.ly/3aykRS - Using Google Maps to find privacy. |
| #1708: | After someone announces a big decision - marriage, baby, etc - you can only offer congratulations. The wisdom of the choice is moot. |
| #1796: | Of course you made the right choice!... if you block out news of every other choice. That's commitment. And censorship. |
| #1808: | Of course you made the right choice... if you block out news of every other choice! That's the essence of commitment. And censorship. |
| #1815: | "Threshhold of intervention" is the point at which you choose to use your resources to address someone else's problems. It must be high! |
| #1878: | It is not your civic duty to vote if you don't know the candidates and can't make an informed choice. |
| #1888: | My new philosophy essay: "The Burden of Choice: More Options Aren't Necessarily a Good Thing." http://bit.ly/8DTu3e (Kilroy Cafe #60) |
| #1895: | My new Homeless by Choice blog entry: "How to Keep Warm" http://bit.ly/5LtnKD - Brrrrr! |
| #1897: | A fallacy: "If my parents hadn't made the lifestyle choices they did I wouldn't be here today, so those choices are right for me, too." |
| #2040: | A prison can be a cell you are thrown into against your will — or a construction of your own free choice that sneaks up on you slowly. |
| #2122: | My new Homeless by Choice blog entry: "Money" http://bit.ly/dqXEPQ - Let's sit down and talk about the birds and the bees. |
| #2137: | Life is like a great buffet of every food you crave. Will you make the the right nutritional choices or simply pig out? |
| #2202: | My new Homeless by Choice blog entry: "The Psychology of Keeping Warm" http://bit.ly/cCRvxl |
| #2281: | New Homeless by Choice blog entry: "What You Don't Need for Sleep" http://bit.ly/acQGyO |
| #2351: | Free will dies the moment you say "forever". From that point on, love is a contract, not a choice. |
| #2537: | Reason in humans is an illusion. Human behavior is dictated by ego, with reason backfilled only later to support the choice already made. |
| #2720: | It is an accident of fate that you were born in this body under these circumstances, but it is your choice what to make of them. |
| #2760: | Intelligence is not a talent but a choice. |
| #2786: | People don't necessarily choose the "best" romantic partner. They choose the one who is the least threat to their ego. |
| #2794: | The fundamental human conflict is between fatalism and taking control. Problems are solved by moving from "I have no choice" to "I do." |
| #2824: | Those who soak up heath care resources are not so much innocent children but smokers and obese adults who had a choice about their health. |
| #2825: | Good health, to a large extent, is a personal choice. There will always be diseases and accidents you have no control over but most you do. |
| #2917: | Thoreau, like the Bible, can be quoted to support just about any position you choose to take. |
| #3007: | Given the choice between solving your own problems and expecting someone to rescue you, rescue seems easier but is more costly in the end. |
| #3064: | Choose your parents wisely, and if you can't do that just grin and bear it. |
| #3066: | It takes a special breed of human to choose a pit bull as a pet: M - O - R - O - N. (They like guns, too, but luckily they can't spell.) |
| #3085: | Macintoshism — a religion that contends you can change the world merely by choice of computers. Believers willing to endure great hardship. |
| #3164: | People usually choose their lifestyle based on how it looks in the brochure, not on how they actually experience it. |
| #3217: | The lady inside the GPS is my kind of girl, firm in her opinion about where I should go yet willing to recalculate when I choose to differ. |
| #3453: | The most fundamental human right is the ability to discreetly withhold information from others and release it only as you choose. |
| #3470: | Curiosity is dangerous to most adults because it runs the risk of revealing that they made the wrong choices. Best to stick to known paths. |
| #3497: | Marriage means loss of personal control and negotiating power. Suddenly, love isn't a choice but an obligation. |
| #3624: | There's a difference between freely believing something and believing it because you have set up your life so you now have no choice. |
| #3656: | If you declare yourself an "ian" or an "ist", then you've stopped making true moral choices and decided to paint by the numbers instead. |
| #3674: | RT @TheEconomist: Safer than Canada: If you choose your route well, travel in Mexico is very safe http://econ.st/9rJQVX #economist #trav ... |
| #3724: | You can't "choose life" without also choosing death and suffering. |
| #3761: | People praise freedom in principle but usually choose prison in fact. |
| #3816: | Frustration happens, but anger is a choice. It proves your narcissism and lack of control and rarely gains you what you hope it will. |
| #3825: | RT @BadDalaiLama: Given the choice between freedom and slavery, most will choose slavery, but they call it by other names. |
| #3832: | RT @BadDalaiLama: People usually choose their lifestyle based on how it looks in the brochure, not on how they actually experience it. |
| #3852: | RT @BadDalaiLama: To journey wisely, you do not need perfect knowledge of every road. You only need to choose your next step. |