A year of Liam Taken out of context:
Each one of these is a text I sent in the last 365 days, minimal editing was involved (mostly Name Redaction) hence the spelling and grammar errors. I also don’t know how to use punctuation properly.
The sub-headers do not indicate when the text was sent, they just looked cool.
All texts were placed in random order, to take out context.
Enjoy.
WINTER:
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“Lol ok I have an idea”
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“Thats me just replace the girl with Burt Reynolds.”
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“Then I ate too much and got lazy and forgot to call you back lol, my apologies. I’ll be around later today though if you want”
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“And this is why we die younger lol.
A man loses his job, his wife and kids leave, the rest of his family doesn’t talk to him or are deceased.
*Goes to a weekly poker game with the boys
Friend: Sorry to hear about your wife and kids leaving man.
Man: Eh she was a bitch, hey what’s the score of the Yankee game rn?
*As he cries himself to sleep every night in despair and loneliness.
Men, physical strong, emotionally weak lol”
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“To be honest, I saw this text soon after you sent it and I’ve spent my breaks from meetings trying to think of an answer. I mean there’s definitely some books that have really cool ideas like Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre, there’s also books with really cool stories about people living lives true to themselves that are kinda inspiring like On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, there’s also plenty of good spiritual works, like The bible, Quran, or Diamond sutra.
I mean all those books are cool, but the more I think about it honestly, no book ever helped me on the way to be a “better” person, as much as I have a ton in mind that are really cool. I don’t think a book can ever make someone better.
I definitely tried to pull wisdom out of these books. And it definitely helps, but it’s a trap. I mean I can read all about Buddhism, and I did, it didn’t make me any happier, any more chill lol.
I can read all about Jesus, it makes me want to be charitable, but it doesn’t make me. If I give someone money because I think I should, because it’s the right thing to do, is that charity? Or is that just paying my taxes to God in a way?
I think that’s why I found Alan watts, Ram Das, and other older mystic writers so fascinating yet at the same time frustrating too lol.
Like they spend all their time telling me how there’s nothing to worry about, how life is absolute beauty, how wonderful it is to be one with the divine.
But they never tell me how to get there lolol. Like there’s no how too lol. There’s no step by step guide on how to get there, most don’t even really give a solid direction to head in lol.
It took me a while to get why they do that, because there is nothing they can tell you that’s gonna make you a better person lol.
Suzuki compared enlightenment to his master’s being like:
“Yeah, just walk through the door.”
Suzuki: “What door? I don’t see a door?”
Master: “That one” (Not making any gestures)
S: “What door?!? There is no door here!!!!”
Then after 10-15 years of that, a door just popped up in front of Suzuki. He walked through and he was enlightened.
Now his students ask him what to do. He says: Just Walk through the door. Lol.
How do I make myself better?
Who is the I that is going to work on this wayward me.
How is the marble supposed to carve itself into the Adonis?
The question the broke Ulrich Tolle into Eckhart Tolle was a similar one. According to his words, he was extremely depressed and despite his comfortable life, said “I am going to kill myself” and due to his fascination with language, I believe he was going for a master’s or PhD in linguistics at the time that statement broke him. Who is the I that’s going to kill the me?
I mean I have plenty of cool books to recommend, but I don’t think they will ever help anyone be better.
All the world’s libraries won’t give you one tenth of a percent of what one rock bottom will do.
That’s not to say don’t try to be better, but that when you eventually do end up better remember it had nothing to do with you trying to be lol”
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“I fucking hate loud exhaust cars, you don’t need to tell the whole neighborhood you got a tiny dick at 6am. We know.”
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“Basically 50 shades of grey but the guy ain’t rich and kinky he’s just a carnie with a drug problem”
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“I think the most useful definition for love, romantic, platonic, etc. Is. “To be loved is to be seen.”
At the end of the day, all humans want to be seen. To be heard. Imo that’s the base psychological desire.
We just want to feel like we matter. We want people to miss us when we are gone.
We want to exist. “
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“Our brains only care about what’s gonna happen next if it it’ll kill us or we can fuck it”
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“Also if you encountered a yeti after your UAP experience, you should probably get some help. That’s a level 3 AN according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Level 5 includes spontaneous human combustion, so yeah anything beyond AN 1 is not good. Level 2 includes lasting poltergeist activity.”
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“What’s that old bukowski quote… “Love breaks my bones, and I laugh” “
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“By far sexiest president imo, young FDR.”
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“Pain is part of life, an essential part. It serves an incredibly useful function. Both biologically and spiritually. If my foot hurts all of the sudden, what do I do? I look at it. Did I sprain my ankle? Do I need to lay off it for a minute? Did I step on glass? Do I need a bandage?
Modern medicine doesn’t necessarily focus on that approach for emotional or existential pain. But the same applies, we need to feel the pain because it points to the injury and only there we can heal.
The painful moments in our lives are the intersections on our journeys. The pain is your flashlight in the dark. Never forget that. “
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“Yo contact lenses are wild.”
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“We were pricks lol…but he was a cocky douche too”
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“It’s a lot harder to leave someone when they actually care about you. We think when we are young that when we finally fall in love it will be amazing. And it is, but there is a moment when you realize that this person cares about you, like for no objective reason (they aren’t related, they haven’t known you for years, you don’t owe them anything). We like to imagine being loved is wonderful, and it is, but because it is, it is terrifying. To have someone acknowledge in us the beauty that we were never told we had from others, and we always denied in ourselves.
Life is much easier when you think you’re a piece of shit sinner.
When you find someone who doesn’t see you that way, no matter how hard you try to make them. You are faced with a dilemma.
Do I push them away since they are just an infatuated sexual encounter. Or do I have to really deal with the fact, that maybe I’m not a piece of shit.
But if I’m not a piece of shit, If I’m not a fuck up, why have I always felt that way?
Why only now do I actually feel love and why is real love so uncomfortable?
We push people away not because we are a piece of shit… But because we aren’t and it’s much less painful to go through life pretending like we are.”
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“Lol sadly due to time constraints we had to just get chicken nuggets from the Macdonald’s shaped like a UFO”
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“Take that vegans. “
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“When Gorbulak escaped it had eggs. It’s only a matter of time before the entire east end is overrun by 6ft+ long giant predatory spiders. God be with us all”
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“That’s the key, people are quick to put aside their differences once they decide to take up arms against a common enemy. Iroquois and Algonquin got along much better after the Europeans came. Frank’s and Goths made friends as soon as the Arabs got Spain. North Umbria and Wessex became buddy buddy after the Northmen showed up on their shores. A lesson that is very applicable in business, making friends, and dating. People bond far better over shared hatred, than shared likes.”
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“^how it looks to birds”
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“I once went up to talk to this cute girl at superica a while back, she turned around 100% a deer with a wig. We got a problem out there”
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“I’m telling you guys the mullet is making a comeback”
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SPRING:
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“Yeah, it’s kinda like a mental Tokyo Drift”
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“Me doing 100 in the Prius lol”
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“When you start to analyze things with pure logic, common sense and societal convention falls apart completely”
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“Oh okay you want me to believe that the illuminati caused the Cuban missle crisis? Why? Is it cause the illuminati was founded by the dwarfish kings of Trionee in 1286? You Frankis people and your hate for the dwarves where does it stop? And you know what maybe you are right, the dwarves may have played a role in the insurrection of King Gustav the Third in 1328 but that still does not justify the bloodbath at hidershire. “
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“You know what they say, for every man in Florida there are two touchdowns for the Lakers.”
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“They pretty much just keep going. The travel at the speed of light and given the the radio really gained popularity in the 20s our signals have probably traveled 100 light-years at this point. Which good news isn’t really a lot we’ve probably only reached no more than 10 other star systems. Space is fucking big man lol”
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“How many 1910 Chicago cubs world series winning players had moles on the lower half of their body? Over under”
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“Sure Venmo me 500 rn, then we can talk about specifics lol”
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“Guys mercury is out of retrograde, we are safe again 🙏”
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“Be well my friend. Keep your eye out for the star in the east. You’ll know it when you see it. It has a message for you.”
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“Sorry the number you have reached has been disconnected”
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“^proof that the world is falling under the control of the birdmen”
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“I now take requests every Sunday for audio to be obnoxiou-ified”
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“I also think we haven’t dropped the bombs yet because of the literal cost benefit analysis, the Russians and Americans were both countries ruled by a powerful elite. And you can’t make any money if all the poor/middle class are dead lol. I think that’s what’s scary about Putin not only does he have more nukes than the Americans (not by a lot, but the official records state Russia had more than us) but it’s pretty clear at this point he’s not really motivated by the money “
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“Lol the fundamental flaw of technology. “The more information people have the better society will be!” How wrong we were lol”
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“A good way to tell if you are seeing the true nature of something is to see if you understand it as binary. Anything binary is conjecture, it is simplified. It exists in thought forms, not in the real world. It is not real, it is artificial. If you see only two answers to the question, you don’t understand it.”
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“I have a minimum of 4 complete online personalities at any given time. “
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“There was a study a while ago that found corn also had a primitive language as well. But as far as I know now Osyter mushrooms are the most linguistically intelligent non animal species. I knew it couldn’t have been corn lol.”
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“No headaches when you’re dead”
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“Astrology is really interesting, I’m not a believer of whether it’s 100% valid. But with the introduction of high powered computing/data processing and public record datasets there are some interesting findings. There was a study that took 100 years of public records from multiple countries in the northern hemisphere, stripped everything from the data except date of birth/Location at birth and profession at age 30+. According to conventional thinking date of birth and profession should be statistically insignificant, possibly with the exception of social class birth times. Rich people married in fall babies born in spring idk? But either way granular dates should be statistically insignificant.
But that’s not what they found. Many days throughout the year had a statistically significant effect (higher than the p average required for scientific study) on profession at age 30+.
The most prominent were doctors. Doctors across all locations and times are much likely to be born when Mars is in a certain celestial position for the location of birth.
It’s not an accurate science but I wouldn’t write it off as a complete psuedoscience without further in depth reseach.”
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“You’re not wrong. I’m just waiting for the overdue solar flare to hit and throw us all back to the pre industrial stage lol”
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“The key to saving money I was taught, is to think of every purchase as an asset or an investment.
Rarely spend good money on assets or low return investments. They do nothing.
If it is an investment what is the ratio of cost to return.
Cafe bustelo – Investment high ratio of return (Cheap/Enhances productivity significantly)
Tecate – Asset (no return other than enjoyment) low cost to minimize loss ✅
Bougie IPA – Asset, high cost ❌
BMW/Mercedes- Investment, i can drive to work (low ratio of return due to high cost ❌)
Toyota Camry – Investment, I can drive to work (High ratio of return ✅) due to low cost and mechanical performance.
And obviously allocate at minimum 4% of yearly income to charity. “
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“Sorry was lost in the desert”
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“Yo goodwill is legit. I got a suit for a wedding from there for like 70 bucks (Pants included)”
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“Only a dumb person, thinks they are not dumb. Nobody knows shit, we just try to figure it out along the way. And usually fail*”
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If you said you had a video of Zuckerberg taking off his human skin before a shower, my response wouldn’t be:
“lol you fucking moron.”
It’d be:
“Pics or it didn’t happen”
That says something”
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“Side note decided to watch Pet Cemetery for the first time tonight after [REDACTED] went to bed. I was like ah it’s an 1980s horror movie, how bad could it be? Lol. Holy shit I was not prepared for this lol”
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“First man to down a full bottle of vodka in space.”
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“For all you DiY folks out there you can make your own faraday bag with Reynolds wrap! Reynolds wrap, great for baking cookies, preventing malicious cyber attacks, and saving your devices in the scenario of an EMP or Geomagnetic storm!”
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“You know covids over when they bring back peak fares on the LIRR 😠”
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“Which I think is fucked. Obviously for some professions you should probably be required to get a degree (Law/Medicine/aerospace engineering/specialized fields) but I hate to say it but you can basically get a 200k liberal arts education, with a bit of self discipline and a library card lol.”
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“Sorry for my crankiness I’ve just had nothing to eat except goldfish today lol”
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“Fair point Rickolas, but in my hypothetical the benefit of an expanded rail system is not for consumer products. But rather for raw goods and shipments from ports. You have a fair point about many small factories in America. But i would suggest that most of our imported goods come from only several places in the us. LA/NYC/SF/Boston/Ports outside Seattle. These goods could be cheaper shipped to major centers of distribution. From which goods would be shipped out by truck to smaller retailers. And if you consider speed in the argument, it wouldn’t be too much slower, and it wouldn’t really matter too much either as priority goods are usually shipped via cargo plane anyway.”
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“I appreciate you sharing the TikTok links [REDACTED]. However could I petition thou to include a description beneath as well.
I refuse to click on a TikTok link, i don’t want to affect my social credit score with the CCP.”
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“Humanity rn is like a group of chimpanzees who were just gifted fully loaded Ak-47s. We are smart enough to know how to use it, but too dumb to comprehend the consequences.”
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“‘There are two mistakes in thinking of conspiracy theories, believing all of them…and believing none of them’”
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“NFTs are a joke”
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SUMMER
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“Theres a metaphor for wisdom in there somewhere lol”
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“What kinda wood chipper? I personally prefer the TFX-867. High quality chipper, finest snake meat I’ve ever had. I got one parked out in the back. She’s a beaut. Mostly just use it for making rat bone milk, but also creates a pretty good roach puree too. I’d like to expand my operation however the biodeversity in Brooklyn is pretty limited.”
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“Ehh crisis over, left hippo mode and back to Elf”
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“Now that’s a good name for a gay bar or a brothel”
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“20 years before the Holocaust Carl Jung laid down a dire warning. That with increased technology we must recognize the Shadow, the fact that every single person no matter how good they think they are, is capable of terrible evil. And that we must all be aware that everyone of us is only a couple steps away from being Himmler, or the next Columbine shooter. Our only hope as individuals of not doing evil is acknowledging that we are totally capable of doing it, only by knowing it’s a threat can we prepare for it. We must not fear the Shadow or disregard it, we leave it be but always keep an eye on it, watch it, learn it’s weakness, so when it comes over us we at least have a chance of defending ourselves.”
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“That’s fucking savage lol. Not right man… Books are sacred.”
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“Ran to catch the subway, fell down the stairs, got up made it to the turnstile, turns out I had insufficient fare.
#ClassicMackey”
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“The oath a man makes with the sea cannot be desecrated, lest the sirens of the deep swarm upon him and latch upon his liver like flies to a carcass. They shall lay they eggs upon it and from them thou shall sprout many a succubus that shall drain thy fellow seamen and beget the curse. But if thou obey thy lord the sea thou shall be blessed with fair maidens with light hair and large eyes and dark ale in barrels as large as forty cubits. A sailor must keep his oath to the sea on land and in it’s domain. If thou obeys the sea will provide, if thou departs from the way the sea shall have her revenge. With hardship comes ease my son, just obey your lord the sea. “
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“”And he will raise you up on Sting Ray wings….””
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“Women love a man with mystery”
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“We are human for only one reason.
To fight the eternal war against the crab people who inhabit the world beneath the crust.
In 3600BC we drove them underground, but they have been returning wearing the skin bags of our greatest leaders. They will launch their full scale crab invasion on September 9th 2022.
Prepare your guns and your old bay, crab season is coming…..”
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“Ahhh Wreck, the family black sheep. Cue “Shrek 8: The prodigal son returns”. It’s all about how Wreck comes back tweaking and says he needs money for his coin addiction. It’s a moving take on the effect “Big Coin” (a Purdue pharma subsidiary) has on the less fortunate in happily ever after land. A huge expose of the rampant corruption in the Farquad government.”
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“”If I were not Alexander I would wish to be Diogenes” – Alexander the great after conquering half the known world
“If I were not Diogenes, I would wish to be Diogenes” – Diogenes eating a piece of stale bread, sitting next to Alexander in an old wine barrel…that he lives in.
“Is not a thing I can do for you Diogenes? Anything in the world. Ask and it shall be yours” – Alexander.
“Yeah you get the fuck outta the way your blocking my sunlight!” – Diogenes.
Actual conversation that was documented in ancient Greece.”
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“Hey hopefully we can be roomies in the insane asylum lol”
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“Gonna read this to my kids just as they start to get good at reading to put them back in their place lol”
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“*The philosopher this generation needs, pounded a Budweiser tall boy, ate too many mashed potatoes and just now woke up from a nap on the couch.
Truly a great mind lolol “
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“When asked what’s his favorite novel he says “Dark side of the Moon” by Lynyrd Skynyrd”
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“Ngl everybody underestimates the Finns. They are the badasses of Europe that no one remembers. They fought off the soviet Union and demolished them not once but twice. Not to mention they had Simo Häyhä aka the White Death. Sniper with the most kills in history 500+ confirmed kills.”
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“There is a lesser known English word – sonder – which means “The eerie feeling we have when we look out on the street and realize that behind every face we see is a life with just as many (if not more) thoughts, memories, opinions, emotions as us”
We may not know the truth and we may never.
But every religion preaches two things at their core – Love your God and Love your neighbor –
That’s how I live my life, idk if it’s right but I only have to answer to myself and God at the end of the day and that’s enough for me.”
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“Yeah except he’s sweating in every scene, and refuses to take off his Serbian flag bandana. Is he Serbian? Nope. He ever mention Serbia? Nope. But you don’t ask further cause you heard the last guy who pressed him in on it lost his eye in unexplainable tilt a whirl accident.”
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“Our final year of the Mayan apocalypse grace period. (The gods give you ten years to change your ways)”
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“”Carried away,
Last Sunday,
The machine elves,
Come in swells,
I begin to break,
My mind is at stake,
Paranoia sets in,
Bugs in my skin,
Ego death,
Dragons breath,
Applesauce,
Dentists floss,
Sulphur smell,
The elves do tell,
The secret,
They share,
A white egret,
In the air,
I know now,
It speaks to me,
I say wow,
Never again will i take DMT”
Bad trip – Liam Mackey”
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“I like to think of Diogenes as a wise Frank Reynolds from it’s always sunny lol”
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“What middle aged prude doesn’t fantasize about running away with a trashy carnie. Like the guy who operates the gravitron still even though he drinking on the job and has two negligence deaths, and civil suit from a guy who lost a leg… But goddamn if Trevor Keiran ain’t a looker”
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“He always seems to have less than 3 cigarettes in his pack, even though you see him smoke every 20 mins.
He gets his coffee from blood drives though he never gives blood. Just grabs a cup and says “I’ll be back jus gotta hit the John and flip a flapjack first” you think that’s a weird phrase get out the paper work but you never see him again.
He always asks the diner staff “It cool if I smahke in heah?” To which they say “No!” Then he says “Wicked” and lights up in front of him.
Always talks about how he fought the Japs in the Pacific. Even though he looks no older than 35. You dig into it, turns out he took hit a PCP in a bar in Tokyo, then a bunch of cosplay anime characters came out. He thought they were witches so he threw bottles of liquor at em and chased em around the bar with his Zippo.
He calls his Zippo Amber Lynn, on it is engraved “Long Live Pope John Paul II” but its in Italian, which he can’t read, and insists it says “Free the people” in Spanish and that it’s not the pope but Che Guevara even though he constantly wears the che Guevara t shirt which he also says is che Guevara.
He clearly has a Boston accent, but is adamant he has never even been to Massachusetts and grew up “On the streets of tiajuana raised by a pack of stray camels”
But goddamn do the ladies love em”
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“At this stage in the game I’m just waiting for Frenris Wolf to start eating the sun.”
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“I’m not saying it was the aliens… But it was the aliens”
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“I used to love him,i think the first of his I read was the sickness until death? Then fear and trembling.
He laid the ground work for existentialism. I later found though in his writing he focused a bit too much on the “unbearable-ness of existence”. Which eventually was focused on by the later existentialists. The issue I had with most existentialists after reading a bit more of other schools of thought, is the tendency to see the bad in life. The suffering and pain. And they are right, life is for most of us inherently unpleasant more than inherently pleasant. I used to think that that was the human condition, that life is drudgery. That’s really what Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Camus and many Western post enlightenment philosophers really get at.
I was always impressed by haikus for that reason. They are very beautiful, but the best of them don’t really portray something we would consider a blessing. Right?
The best of the haikus aren’t about the birth of your child, a glorious victory, or even really a nice sunny day.
The best imo, tend to focus on displaying extraordinarily mundane things with tremendous beauty.
Some say the reason for reincarnation, is not that we have our allotted time or that we need to pay our karmic debts every now and again. But because when you look at a candle at age 28 it’s just a candle, but to a baby it’s a wild crazy new awesome experience.
We forget how truly beautiful life is, not just the love and the successes and the pleasant moments.
But there is an unimaginable beauty in the lint that gets stuck to your jacket, in the patterns of the mud dragged into your house, in the weird sounds your fridge makes during meetings. Even in the weird rhythmic pattern your mouth hurts when you have a toothache. You could make a nice EDM beat from rhythm of your throbbing cavity and vibe out to it. Right it might not be pleasant but it could be enjoyable. Most people don’t think there’s a difference between those two things.
It’s not easy to see the beauty in the mundane, let alone the unpleasant, but if you search for it you’ll find it.
But the beauty in life is not in the good and the pain is not in the bad it’s in how you chose to see it.
“The last of any god given human freedoms is a man’s ability to choose his own way” – Viktor Frankl (The existentialist who spent 4 years in Dachau (One of the Nazi death camps))
I said once in an argument while drunk.
“If you can’t see God in a pile of dog shit, you won’t see him in Notre Dame”
I stand by the fact that’s one of my greatest drunk quotes lol”
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“Side note this pigeon book is absolutely fascinating”
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“It’s revamped, got more of a dystopian cyberpunk vibe to it. You got:
Igor the street lure: his life went down the drain after his emotional instability led him to drug use.
Tigger the fixer: he works as a hit man for the vampire mafia by the year 2051.
Cyber pig: piglet grew up and got robotic implants and now works as a Robocop hunting down all the remaining animals with out Tesla Chips.
Owltron: Joined the resistance and is starting a movement to bomb the Audbon society for their centuries long mistreatment of birds.
Rabbit the Rabbi: Converted to judaism after the shit he saw in the Russo-Chinese war.
Kristopher: who reunited with his German heritage and is now a cyborg neonazi.
And of course Winnie the Pooh also know as Maharaji after he gained enlightenment and be came the 15th Bodisatvah and is narrating the story from the other world.”
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“Dude I love it. It gives me either Happy All is good scene from Stranger Things vibes, or 8th grade laser disc science class video telling me about the solar system lol”
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“Vallvärt – God of consumerism for the poor
Típhàníz – God of consumerism for the Rich
Tzlåh – God of transport for the wealthy
Toí øta Kämmree – God of transport for the poor
Mác Dónal – God of fine meals for the poor
Öl Phoodz – God of meals for the Rich
Vüd Viezër – God of drink for the poor
Shåmm Payné – God of drink for the Rich
The capitalist pantheon”
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“That’s one fancy bug zapper”
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“The point of non clinging in the Buddhist sense, is that it is not non striving. The Bhagavad Gita lists three types of people: The Rajas – who engage in society and motivated activities for material purposes (They work for money, power, sex) these are most people, in the Gita they reincarnate into humans. Then you have the Tamas – These people are what you just talked about above, they don’t engage in society, for political, personal, religious reasons, these people are reincarnate into lower life forms, they become animals, low level spirits, not good. The reason they are the worst is they read the book but didn’t get the most important piece. Which leads us to the last kind of person, the satva – this person gets it that it doesn’t matter, that worldly ambitions only bring suffering, that it’s honestly all pointless…but they still play the game. Not because they want to get anything out of it (they understand that all clinging and striving is a trap) but because it is the duty of a person to play the game even if they know it’s pointless, it’s simply good sportsmanship.”
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“Ok so outta curiosity I looked up gabagool, cause I was like I’ve never heard of that lol.
It’s just capocollo, and the reason it’s called gabagool in the sapranos is that the first wave of Italian immigrants spoke mostly Neopolitan (a Southern Italian language) and in Neopolitan, it’s pronounced capacuoll, which sounds pretty similar to gabagool.
In NYC it is or was known as gabagool, every Italian community elsewhere it’s capocollo, curado, or Bondiloa (south American Italians)”
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“You miss mama, but father Vodyanoy inside you take your right full place as his heir to the fly farm. He insisted the weight of the entire village of Slavostoj rested on your dirty unkempt shoulders….
You longed to be human, you dreamt of the big city of New York. The lights of time square, all the flies they would attract, and the young fertile American women with their courtesan ways.
You decided at once you would leave Yugoslavia, board a Ryanair flight to the big Apple and start life a new.
Now 5 years later, as you come home from your 12 janitorial shift at Chilli’s, you wonder… Maybe pápa Vodyanoy was right this hole time. If you just stayed Slavostoj you could have had a good life, hard and filled with it’s own troubles in a way, but better than this.
You start crying and slowly sing yourself to sleep the old Slavic folk song. Don’t go chasing waterfalls. Don’t go chasing waterfalls.
As your consciousness begins to fade, you realise the gravity of the mistake you made.
You went chasing waterfalls.”
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FALL
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“Lol wise old sage? Or nosferatu like creature of the night? Lol”
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“There’s something about frogs that just speaks to the human soul”
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“I haven’t been able to eat an Oreo without thinking of the True World Order since 2011”
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“That is not for me to know. And why does it matter, if the rich grow in power yet do not use it for the benefit of others, it is their loss. “Would though forsake eternal life for the life of this earth?””
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“Ahh see that idea that people who do not work will just sit on their ass all day is a key Capitalist agenda but your right it is still a valid argument. Now let’s say you didn’t have a TV, or Internet? Would you still sit on your ass all day? Do you think someone who has enough money to get by or does a job that gives them enough with little time, would sit on their ass all day if they weren’t sedated by media?
Productivity is not a means which an individual should measure ones value or success. Even though most people will tell you that productivity equates worth but that is simply untrue, especially in a non agrarian economy.
However to your point enjoyment is a goal life, in addition to charity and divine awe.
If you enjoy your job, (that doesn’t mean you wake up every day saying “Oh boy I can’t wait to go do labor!”, But if you don’t feel your soul getting sucked out of your body every workweek and you get satisfaction, or simply just like hanging out with your coworkers) than you should definitely continue to do it, for as long as you enjoy it.
I myself wouldn’t consider my job work, i mean yeah I get paid but I keep working not because I really want the salary they pay me, I think the salaries they pay senior engineers is stupid lol, we give almost no value to society and most of us are actively destroying it. But because it’s challenging in an enjoyable way most of the time, I’m doing charity, and I like most of the people I work with. I wouldn’t consider my job work, it’s just something that’s mostly fun and it’s nice to have a chance to test my skills. Also it’s free I don’t have to pay anything to do it! I get to play with servers worth 50 dollars an hour for negative free, they pay me lol.
I guess that was my main point, not necessarily that one should avoid labor, but that if one makes enough to pay the bills, one should try to find something they enjoy doing OR is charitable.
It is far better to find something you enjoy doing, even if it doesn’t pay big bucks, because nobody says on their “Oh God I wish I made more money” lol.
Humans are creatures of habit, that is true, they lean towards routine and structure. The difference with looking for routine in labor is that you don’t get to pick your habits or structure (in most scenarios). You either have to make a choice, ideally by a very young age, of how you want to live, what you want your habits to be, you have to define yourself otherwise someone else will.
The labor isn’t the problem it’s the confusion of productivity with worth. A hedge fund manager works 80 hrs a week, and makes 5k an hour, a local farmer grows tomatoes and sells em at the farmers market, he works 4 hrs a day and pulls in 50 dollars on a good day. Who is worth more? Remember there is a great difference between money and wealth.”
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“We’ll come with me into the woods at night, through a process of sleep deprivation, strobe lights, much higher than safe doses of wormwood, lobelia, and skullcap, i can take you to my world 👼. The key here is that I live in tarabythia, but the bridge is not a bridge, it’s drugs.”
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“My coordinates are 45° north and 85° west”
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“The folk trick to staying safe is always having playing cards on the ship, almost all sea gods, Neptune, Njorth, Tiamat, Manannán mac lir, etc. Have a fondness for wealth and gambling. If it starts to get real bleak out there rumor is if you throw your deck of cards in the ocean, the gods just might let you live. And if you don’t, you might have a second chance to gamble for your soul. “
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“An old buddhist saying:
When I was a beginner Mountains were mountains and rivers were rivers.
When I thought I understood, mountains were no longer mountains and rivers were no longer rivers.
When I understood mountains were once again mountains and rivers were once again rivers. “
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“That’s good, as they say: Muddy water is cleared best by leaving it alone.”
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“Humor is by far one of the best traits or humanity, and imo a person can have.
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I find it the most profound advice on living a good life.
“90% of life is Knowing when to laugh, and how to breathe” “
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“There is just as much beauty in decay as there is in growth. Not saying it’s gonna be pleasant, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be beautiful. Everyday is a good day, even the day asteroid hits. As long as we breathe we must stay grateful. You gotta be like that old story.
The cops show up to a guy’s house after it’s burned to a crisp and he’s smiling. So they ask, Why are you smiling? His response is, I don’t have a toothache!
Everyday is a good day, if you choose to see it that way. “
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“You look you just walked of a 1986 Sony walkman commerical right there lol”
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“I don’t think you can kill wendigos, the current approach is if you see one you take all your clothes off and avoid looking at it at all costs. It usually leaves you alone if you don’t look at it.”
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“I’m flattered in all honesty though my profundity is not from wisdom, I just yap a lot lol. Prue statistical probability baby 😎 👍 lol “
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“Ehh life is meant to be enjoyed my friend. You deserve a cigar every now and then. What’s the point of living till 100 if you never had any fun 😊”
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“What good is a life with money or power or pleasure, if one is not content with his own soul.”
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“You ever wonder why in English, (in a surprising amount of languages actually) we call it “falling” in love? Think about it we say “Rising” to success, “Climbing” to victory, “Fighting” our way to glory. There is an interesting premise there, most of verbs that describe getting something valuable in English are something that the subject (person) DOES, love is unique because the verb is fall, which is not something you DO but something that Happens to you. Fall is a very appropriate choice of word too, because it implies that you have to jump first. If we spend out time thinking about all the things that could go wrong, nobody would do anything. When we take in all the variables beyond our control…we can’t cause they are infinite. Things can always go wrong, but they key is they can go wrong even if you don’t risk anything, but they can only go right if you do. “
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“Is that why it keeps deer away? Do deer really like margaritas?”
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“Reality doesn’t have to be boring 🙄this generation man… Escaping into der fantasy novales and videor games, complainin reality ain’t interestin no more. Go take 20 tabs of pure LSD and lock yourself self in the county morgue. Everyday be interesting when you think the government is ruled by underground lizard people and the NSA has been sending you messages in every Third Tuesday’s new York post headline, trying recruit you to join the special ops team fighting the bigfoot wars out in “California”.
Reality is only boring to people who haven’t lost their minds yet. “
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“And if you are wondering, yes inside the glass there are little pieces of cut up shrimp. Which you are supposed to just slam. Dude swears by it.”
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“Life is nothing without beauty. In china there is a saying, if you have two pennies left by a loaf of bread with one a rose with the other. The bread keeps you alive, the rose gives you a reason to stay alive.”
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“As neitzsche said: If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.
What he didn’t elaborate on is the opposite is also true: If we look towards the light, the light shines back into us.
It does not to do well to dwell on dark. Just like plants we grow by accepting the dark but living for the light.
Stay positive my friend, what is a good life but just a good state of mind 😉 “
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“To love or to have loved, there is no brighter pearl in the sea of life.”
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“You gotta live for the little things man. Cause when you are very near to the end you realize the little things were actually the big things”
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“Also I will say my 5G signal strength has gotten much better after getting the vaccine 🤔”
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“Ehh that’s not crazy, just perverted. Now if you thought that every woman around you was actually a man wearing fake skin and tucking their dick’s in and that women actually don’t exist and are government operatives trying to steal your collection of invisible moths. That would be crazy.”
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“I had a phone background a long time ago that said. “keep calm & carry water” nobody understood it but it comes from an old Rinzai (the guy who founded Zen in Japan) quote which is. “What did I do before enlightenment? Chop wood and carry water. What did I do after enlightenment? Chop wood and carry water!” I liked it cause it showed that just cause you’re working towards a higher consciousness, doesn’t mean life changes at all. Suzuki (another famous zen master) said “What’s enlightenment like? Same as everyday life. Just two inches off the ground”
I always liked the idea that Joe Schmo paving the asphalt on the expressway might know truths about the universe profound Beyond measure, he just keeps em to himself, works his 9-5, kisses his wife and kids, and goes to karaoke on Thursdays. Cause why would he tell anyone? Who the fuck is gonna take life changing advice from Joe the guy who holds the slow down sign lol. Joe’s just gonna enjoy life and let the world take care of itself, cause he knows it always does 😉”
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“Everyone knows the the appropriate sleep range is between 2-4hrs and 10+ hours. Anything else leads to corporate slavery and the abolishment of free will by the man.”
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“You know I was really drunk last time I watched final destination and I had a profound thought. That we are in all in final destination. Like you never know one of us could be dead tomorrow? I might have an aneurysm in the next 30 mins? Like what are they so worried about? Like were they under the assumption they weren’t gonna die? They just thought they’d keep on living? Like it’s gonna get yah, like with 100% certainty. in every human life that existed it got yah. I’m like just suck it up kids and take your L. I’m telling yah if it was a group of 75 year olds on that airplane far less entertaining movie, they probably wouldn’t even get off cause they’d be like sweet Jesus and end to my arthritis.”
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“We are just repeating what happened with Atlantis 12,000 years ago all over again”
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“Beware the sheep. They suck you in with their fluffy beauty then sell your soul to the horned god and you will spend eternity in the pit of endless wool (it’s very itchy)”
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“Bamboo is a great plant. In China they say “Be not like the pine tree that is big and sturdy, for when the storm comes it is stiff and breaks under the weight of the heavy snow. Be like bamboo, who has no need to big and strong for no matter heavy the snow, wind, or rain…. The bamboo bends and therefore never breaks” that bamboo in your room is a reminder to go with the flow.
And the waves outside your should remind you that you are never alone no matter how much you ever may feel that way. A wave is not separate from ocean and ocean is not separate from the waves. You can’t have one without the other. You are inseparable from all us. You are an appeature for the universe to view itself. How can one who is at his essence many ever feel he is just one.
I like that idea of staying on till February. That’s a valuable opportunity to grow, and not just your finances 😉”
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“That’s good, you have a wonderful opportunity to take some time and breathe. A word of advice, in my experience thinking is well and good but don’t forget to square some time away to feel. Sometimes what feel down inside and what we really need to know, the diamond we really need to find, is to complex to be reduced to words. I can’t give you advice on how to do that it defeats the point that kind of knowledge can’t be transferred through words. But remember to feel when you look out at the vast sea, and I guarantee you the answers you’re looking for will come to you with ease.”
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“The wisest words I’ve heard are “People who believe money can’t buy happiness, have never not had money…and people who can believe money CAN buy happiness have never had a large excess of money” that’s the paradox, both are right and both are wrong, happiness is a fleeting emotion, when you’re starving to death and you get a job and now have enough money for a steak dinner you’re damn right I’m happy, happiest fucking man alive, if I now have a good career and can get steak almost anytime I want, after a couple months the happiness of knawing on that T-bone starts to fade to just plain blandness, there’s nothing you can do about it. So yes both of those statements are right because happiness isn’t in your control despite what your yoga teacher says lol. What is in your control is living with purpose and it doesn’t matter if I’m starving or my wife leaves, let’s be real I’m gonna be having a bad time, but the only thing that’s keeping me from drowning in that bottle is I lost those things while pursuing my north star, so although life ain’t fucking pleasant rn, I’m doing what I know in my heart what I am supposed to do, and let’s say I die of starvation on the street, I did not die happy, but, I did die with purpose. At least I’ll always have that. In the words of the Existentialism philosopher, clinical psychiatrist, and Auschwitz+Dacau survivor “The last of any given human freedoms, is a man’s ability to choose his own way”. Live with purpose and accountability, fuck happiness lol”
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“Guys? QUADRANT 3!!! That’s like the 2nd best of the 19 quadrants! Y’all are missing out. Y’all gon be living in a post apocalyptic world, while imma be sipping on squid juice on the best beach in the first 7 quadrants smdh.”
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“The Sauce was the secret to their empire. They started putting in too much salt around 300AD and that’s what led to the Barbarian invasion. Turns out their sauerkraut was getting pretty powerful”
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“Well said sir, a man must be something and it is by knowing what he is not that he shapes what he is.”
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“There was once a contest, to see who would be the sixth patriarch of a prominent school of Buddhism. To determine the successor they held a poetry contest.
The second place winner wrote that the mind is like a mirror, it has to be polished, polished, polished every day. To keep the mind pure.
But the winner of the contest wrote that there is no mirror, nothing to polish, that you are inherently empty no matter how it feels, behind those eyes no self is there.
The problem is not that we think too lowly of ourselves, or too highly of ourselves, but that we think only of ourselves.”
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“I KNOW NOTHING!!!!!! lol “
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“They already had all this, you’re right what more does France have to offer lol.”
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“I heard some wise words from someone once that said “You’ll never know what life is worth unless you risk it every now and again” bold words but insightful”
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“To understand everything is to forgive everything 🙂”