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Understanding human nature by observing people, is like studying bananas by watching monkey poop.

Depression, PTSD...there is a cure for most of the psychological ailments that cripple our society. Force the sufferer to laugh...a lot. Force them to be held...every day. It sounds simplistic, but is more effective (and ridiculously cheaper) than a shrink.

Integrity is measured by scorn, not admiration.

WIDOW: (n.) A person who got very tired of being a wife.

The aforementioned laughter/touch therapy will do nothing to address the root causes of depression...but neither will conventional therapy. The only thing that possibly could is a one-way ticket to Alpha Centauri.

I know that physics doesn't have a sense of humor...yet why, when i sleep, do my top blanket, middle blanket, and sheet each drift in an entirely different direction?

The second-hardest challenge of the spirit path is separating intuition from projection.

Studies reveal that that the average adult operates at the mental level of a sixteen year-old. The truly frightening part of that, as carlin would say, is that half the people are dealing with this world on a LESS than sixteen year-old level.

Belief in god prevents us from seeing the world as it is, which is a staggering obstacle in fixing our problems. Faith encourages the thought that things happen for a reason, and that good and evil are real. This encourages the idea that positivity and negativity are balanced...which is where the believer spins off the tracks, for there is no such balance (inherent or otherwise). Currently, worldly positivity is getting its ass kicked by a stunningly wide margin, and if we prevent ourselves from SEEING that, we will never feel the proper urgency over what we are doing to others, to ourselves, and all life.

Being non-racist is a luxury only white people can afford.

These DVD special features are amazing! I just got the new release of MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, and it includes the long-lost 1928 silent version.