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Sex is kind, when you ignore your mind. Sex is a pain, when you listen to your brain.

An archaeologist thousands of years from now might learn that America was the fattest country in the history of the world, and that american women led the world in negative feelings about their bodies. That archaeologist might think they had discovered a one-to-one causality. The reality is enormously (pardon the pun) more complicated...and of just those two elements, is it even clear which causes which? Archaeology is surgery in mittens with a blindfold.

People who believe in god are afraid of three things - death, meaninglessness, or accountability. It doesn't mean they're wrong, it just means that that's what they're afraid of.

There are two kinds of people in this world - those who decide what the worst thing they ever did was, and those who have that decision made for them.

Little-known fact: most musicians like it when you bring a kazoo to a concert, and play along.

Suicide has increased 60% in the last 45 years, and is the 23rd leading cause of death worldwide. At that rate, it should crack the top ten within a generation or two.

What is the #1 relationship pitfall in this society? Investing too much of your happiness and self-worth into just one person.

If you don't want to be a pervert, you have to be a deviant.

Any meat eater who has a pet they would passionately protect from harm, is so steeped in rationalization that there is no point in even trying to explain vegetarian ethics to them.

99% of the great romances or friendships you've experienced, read about, or watched, were simply the magical-feeling alignment of two selfishnesses.

Booty-in-perpetooty: what one hopes from from a lover who gives you a social disease.