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There is much unconscious propaganda.
 

If you must speak the truth, don't use words.
 

We like the chatter of idiocy surround us. We like a confusion of fantasies.
 

Loving a person or two is NOT loving thy neighbor
 

You can make an false idol out of Jesus as well.
 

I share these Christian concerns: unworthiness, gratefulness for being here, meditation on being there, being together, and seeking guidance to know how we can be better.
 

It is interesting that the Internet did not improve on this: we are still afraid of being our true self.
 

The limits of language shows itself in the truths of oxymorons.
 

All religion is in part (especially at first) selfish, including my own view of religion. I believe what I want to believe. Forgive me father for I do not know what I am doing.
 

Your religion is your view of religion.
 

We are addicted to simple fixes. . . including the belief we can fix this.
 

Thinking is accommodating.
 

There is no way. There are many ways.
 

Not only What is algebra good for? but also What is work good for? and What am I good for?
 

Sports is a cruel delusion.
 

In school you learn to do things you don't want to do.
 

My life is a first person thinker.
 

I want my spiritual questions answered with: "I don't know."
 

Church is a place my spirit can breathe.
 

I must attend church without rancor, without worrying about my fellow man, without losing my self in the anger of hypocrisy. I don't need to think about what anyone else here is thinking. Wholeness is to let go of hate.
 

Forgive me for being myself, as I will forgive you for being you.
 

God is an instantiated god; there is not god as much as good.
 

I worship godliness in you.
 

Christianity (like all religions) has a number of metaphors, each with a variety of interpretations. These metaphors can be woven into a beautiful structure, or into an ugly one; they can be made into a weapon, or a mask.
 

Many people are blinded when they turn their eyes from the brilliance of the invisible ideal god to the dim adumbration of the visible existing one.
 

How can I better tolerate the words of religion as they come out of all those different mouths, in all those private understandings and misunderstandings?
 

I would like to have communion with fine wine, good bread, and deep music.
 

Being in a bad relationship is for young people.
 

Watching movies together with your family is not parenting, but is something to do in lieu of parenting.
 

On TV cartoon like "Family Guy" we see emotional zombies — mindless, shambling, with a hunger for trampling on human feelings.
 

Words, nuanced and sophisticated, were around long before dictionaries.
 

Sometimes being incensed or morally outraged is just mindless barking.
 

A Bumper-sticker of Tolerance: Not ALL Christians Are Bad.
 

If silence is the key — not asking and not answering questions — why don't I shut the puff up?
 

Dig yourself another hole.
 

Words may be the problem or the problem of language may be just another distraction from the problem.
 

Wittgenstein's family-resemblance is an active and not only a passive concept. Words swallows up other realms. Words are extensible: they can all too easily and unconsciously be extended in new directions, and into new media. (Just look at word origins.)
 

Even if I were able to understand the world, and describe it well, it would not influence the world. Should I work on trust and acceptance?
 

Why is the Olympian pantheon limited? Why do we not have an endless number of gods?
 

Our actual religion is commerce, or rather, commercial exploitation.
 

Can one be depressed for no reason at all? (Do you always need a reason to be unhappy, or happy?)
 

Depression always arrives in costume.
 

We can accept of all sorts of strange things on the dimension of "culture."
 

The over-the-topness of love songs. Thick lenses to concentrate the world.
 

mentor / de-mentor
 

Knowing the actors in a film is a kind of human recognition — a favored feeling.
 

Film is sensory/cerebral overload.
 

An opposing political party is also a scapegoat.
 

This operation may be a brush with death, but it is even more a brush with the love and care of the people I know.
 

People seldom show their true selves to each other, — or to themselves.
 

We are very family oriented community. We pretend a lot.
 

In the process of recovery, it is foolish to be brave.
 

Not all acts demand judgment, Certainly not by you. (Although some of yours...)
 

Judging is much easier than thinking. It is similar to liking, hating, being boring. This is emotional, but not in the good way.
 

People lie all the time. They say they had a great time when they never had a great time. But going to [a movie ] camping | a concert ] IS having a great time, whether you have a great time or not.
 

What is leadership? What is education? Are among the many questions that should not be answered.
 

What questions should not be answered? How do we treat them?
 

There is a certain kind of knowledge for people who do not like to think. i.e. most people
 

Being polite is what you are to people you don't like.
 

The heart is not the organ of love but of persistence.
 

I don't want to die in part because of other people.
 

You can judge the judgers.
 

A cliché can best be expressed in clichés.
 

I find it sad that there are people who take a person's religion to be the most important fact about them.
 

There is no reason to believe we should always have an answer to the question: Why do you like that? or, What do you like about that? Much of our life is simply remains at the blood pulse level.
 

Those who study history are condemned to participate in it.
 

Human love "safe danger": they seek it out in entertainment, movies, video games, trill rides. Being invulnerable is also a common aspect of our gods.
 

We have many ways to make ourselves "god-like". If we say that "We bow down to no man, only to God.", we are claiming a royal prerogative with our whim.
 

Can one listen to a popular movie or a country song and think it is art? That question can be answered in a number of different ways.
 

A philosophical question is one that can that can and should be answered in a number of different ways.
 

We don't know why we like celebrities. Although they are quite different, it is so easy for us to lump them together. Who cares why we like them? We don't know that.
 

We must have faith in the meaninglessness of all general propositions.
 

We yearn for intensity, but we are timid people, so we settle for video games and anonymous thoughtless comments on Internet articles.
We are phonies. Gaming is laziness disguised.
 

Westerners do physical affection well.
 

Why do actors get the primary credits in movies?
With only some exaggeration this is like giving airline stewardesses primary credit for a transoceanic flight.
 

Intellectual forks in the road: Consider the concept of Product Placement. We can write about why it is stupid and an impediment to true art, or we can write about how to accomplish it.
 

Movies wink at us with their political stance,
but little more.
 

What do you need to understand to understand the world?
(What are the things you might need to understand in order to understand the world.)
 

The quest to understand the world is a seduction.
All answers to that question are seductions as well
 

I want to understand the world with you.
I want to share a common understanding of the world with you.
Or rather I want to share my lack of understanding with you.
 

There are many understanding of the world.
 

We understand the world in terms of people.
That sounds unsurprising, but we are not fully aware of it.
Philosophers think we understand the world in terms of things.
 

Can anyone ever make a list of their favorite music without thinking about how it will look to others?
 

Would I drive any differently if I knew all these people in the cars around me?
There is my daughter, there my cousin, there is an ex-wife, and there is my grandfather, and my best friend from childhood.
 

The conservative Muslim domination of women does not only violate the Western rights of women, but goes directly against the root of Enlightenment value that we use reason to make policies and discriminations based on facts, not on tradition.
 

Big Mistake of the 20th Century:
The history of the whole world leads up to 20th Century. (A century that proved itself to be one of the big clusterfucks of all time.)
 

Big Mistake of the 20th Century:
All these problems are solvable
...in our lifetime
 

Our desire for things gets in the way of our understanding of things.
 

We have a belief that there is always a simple explanation.
This misleads, and is based primarily for our ingrown desire for simplicity, the source of decision.
 

We'll understand almost anything.
 

Our Simplistic History:
The ideal state arose in Western Europe and North America.
Yet Western Europe is one of the more predatory societies we know of.
 

How is it possible to lose oneself in a movie?
Only through some kind of ignorance or sensory limitation.
 

Not every woman dislikes the male gaze.
Some like to attract it.
 

Unless we define the world to be what can be described mathematically, the world is messy and not at all mathematical.
True and false statements cannot be made about value judgments.
 

Attention is part of our limitation and our stupidity — we clear our small channels to deal with things.
 

We complete our world with bullshit and vague inanities.
It is like the fuzzy strokes an oil painter uses to indicate the world far away, a field, a forest.
When you zoom in you get a closeup of the vague effect and there is fuzziness.
 

Is it a bad thing to take care of a dog, a cat, a cockatoo, really well?
But is it good enough?
 

Philosophy is just a way of stumbling over words and creating interesting and confusing ideas.
If you want to be amazed, study philosophy. If you want truth, speak clearly.
 

Philosophy is a constant temptation to oversimplification.
 

We know what to do in a library,
we just don't quite know why we are in a library.
 

People rent movies constantly and I always expect them to understand why.
But people have sex and go out to dinner constantly, without wondering about any meaning.
What is the hunger we are satisfying with the movies?
Is it just to get out of Dodge.
 

Puzzling out the world is figuring out what words to say about the world.
 

When I have emotions from a book or a poem or a movie (sympathetic emotions), are they mine or not?
 

I think academic philosophers should be vetting and critiquing the work of the other members of the faculty for faulty logic, ontological assumptions, clarity and vagueness. There is a lot of that.
(But we know what happens to gadflies, with all that swatting and slapping. It is better to be collegial, and bury the head in the departmental sand box.)
 

We need not only to separating religions from their doctrine,
but also to separate rituals from beliefs.
 

If you take time to avoid making snap judgments, your snap judgments will change.
 

Understanding is a failure to see the complexity.
 

We have no words for our words.
 

Words are meta-data.
 

It may be misleading to speak of the "misuse of language". What we have is an extension of language into an arena where the rules are unclear.
(We do not learn the rules from rules.)
 

And "family resemblance"
is more like "blended family resemblance",
with new people being born every second.
 

I cannot not care.
Caring is not a choice.
 

The world is a fucking confusing place. So was the jungle.
What matters most is not the perspicuous overview,but where to get food and who might eat you.
 

Instead of the Internet making us more aware of complexities, it has created more simplicities, and seen the rise of a snap-judgment society.
 

We live in a snap-judgment society.
Our movies are all about snap judgments as well.
 

A community is enriched by people of the community performing.
 

An old help-help book is a proven failure.
 

With the Internet you don't have to learn from experience, but you do have to learn from the experience of not learning from experience.
 

I say humans don't sit without talking to each other,
But we do
With strangers
Though often we engage in virtual talk with books, television, video games, movies or music.
 

Suppose you only wanted to speak the truth. What would you say?
(There is no one way of being true.)
 

How is life (or politics) NOT like sports?
 

People sitting, wondering what they would say if anyone ever talked to them.
 

We make simplifications about people and situations we make so we can make our move and go for it.
 

Efficiency issues aside,
perhaps there should be no nations.
 

The bottom-line: If the rich were correct about their passionate, complicated explanations for cutting their taxes and freeing them from regulations: there would be no unemployment.
 

We no longer live in a community. We have retreated to the virtual frontier, where we hang with people in television, movies, website, and books. Actual people seems a little dim in comparison, and not all that attractive
 

Talking to someone, no matter how inane, is mostly a sign that the person likes you.
 

Conversing with someone is a form of hospitality
 

Road rage is really about rudeness.
Strangers on the road insulting me . . . ME!
 

What do religions have in common if you ignore their doctrines?
 

You cannot make anyone forgive you.
 

Can you love everyone?
(You cannot be in love with everyone.)
 

It is fun to speak in generalities.
To speak as though this simple picture true.
 

What are you teaching when you teach mathematics?
 

Men like things they're good at —l ike sports
If men were good at women, perhaps sports wouldn't be that important.
 

Why not here?
Why not now?
We humans, as animals, have a built in system for accepting death.
 

I am driving to CDA and on my right is a man shaving himself. Perhaps cars should be like bathrooms, with a shower and a toilet.
We could save valuable minutes here.
 

Why do you want to be a good person?
It may not always be a "good" reason.
 

What if all beggars were just what they said they are?
 

What if we were all on the same side?
The same race, the same religion.
Would that make things any better?
 

We like to hear about the foolishness and callousness of others.
It's a way to feel good by not doing anything.
"At least I'm not. . ."
 

A flower is needy too:
it needs warmth, sunshine
and appropriate pollination.
 

We respond to the animals around us,
some more than others.
(Like the ant.)
 

The sound of a lawnmower is reassuring.
It is just my tribe around
(meaninglessly modifying the environment.)
 

In spite of the fact that modern cell-phones have different rings, I still respond to the alternative rings.
It is not the melody that gets my attention, as much as the unexpected sounds. Like a cry?
 

You can't say anything about your musical taste without projecting something about yourself.
We are liars, and we game the system, even to ourselves.
 

Mostly we live our lives in words
We speak the facts that impress/interest people.
"I got laid" has an impact above and beyond "I got laid."
 

Most of us are judgment ridden.
 

A Snappy Comeback:
.You have a nice day!
 

It turns out that living for the moment
is not all that different from living.
 

What lesson you learn from dying?
 

Is there a lesson to be gained from my heart problem? Perhaps the lesson is that living is not a lesson, a trial, or an experiment.
 

Do we need to expect the rich and famous to be better than us?
Do we expect them to be worthy?
 

In theory we should be able to date all sorts of people while being in a relationship, but in practice we must put the other above all others.
 

F2F - fun to fuck
 

Christians like fake challenges, like not masturbating.
 

We all love to do family.
 

The logic of evolution: the animals have evolved to exist despite you.
 

Would the world be any better if everyone was like me?
 

It's more fun dealing with assholes than solving the world's problems.
The problem is not that we disagree.
 

Is complexity not fitting simplicities? Or are simplicities not fitting complexities?
 

What am I talking about when I talk about the universe?
Precisely nothing
There is no such thing as the universe
Just a catch-all thing.
At least nothing we can understand,
 

We don't have words about it because words are not intended for these large things. When we talk about the world there is no reason to think we are talking about anything more than our radical simplification of our world. In many cases that is fine.
 

Good advice is wasted on those who do not need it.
 

Some say, don't overdo.
I say, don't overdon't!
 

Complexity for Dummies.
 

I am beyond words
 

The world is run by very clever 20-30 year olds under the guidance of mildly psychopathic old people.
Ours is not a world of trust.
 

Mostly hate rich people because of resentment.
 

We think about complexities in simplicities.
 

Re: making hay.
Why bother.
 

The experience of a movie depends on who you talk about it with.
 

The experience of a movie consists of the experiences of thoughts having as you are watching it, and the thoughts you have after you have seen it.
 

Starbucks is a bit of a posarium
Why do you want to drink coffee in public, except to see and be seen?
 

Support our girl scout troops
 

One should be agnostic about your own thoughts.
 

Jargon — sweep everything under the sane rug.
 

We have covered the earth in roads and we don't notice it. But it sure make us get around better.
 

On neediness: I need you. A child needs a parent. A parent needs a child. We all need love.
 

Most young marriages are marriages of convenience
 

Young girls make themselves attractive to all males
To attract a male deeply you need to develop your uniqueness, and find the person who appreciates your uniqueness
 

Philosophical problems take our mind off actual problems.
 

Philosophical questions
We begin to do like we do on an exam — we bullshit.
This works for teacher, for self, for others.
 

A vomit bag collection (from airplanes)
 

Jesus may well love me — but his followers don't.
 

Who will masturbate your dog?
 

I exercise to exorcise.
 

To a Neanderthal
People are just weird Neanderthals.
 

Philosophy is what we say in failing to encompass the complexities of the world
 

The sanctity of divorce: the inalienable right to seek happiness and personal growth when it is blocked by unscalable and stultifying complexities of human relationships. It is the right to seek the sun.
 

Hope is just the delusion that things will turn out just fine.
 

Music is a kind of hypnosis
We sit there quietly, enchanted, and at the end we break out in a kind of applause
 

Age is a risk factor.
 

pruining
 

Rock anthems: we like self-confident young people to lead us into the fray.
 

Now students must take a class on how to take a class.
 

Most people I know do not practice life-long-not-learning.
They are not into learning at all, but lifelong entertainment.
 

The tip of the iceberg is not the iceberg.
 

"TMI! (Too Much Information!)": there is never too much information just "TMBI! (Too Much Boring Information!)".
 

A middle-finger postage stamp
 

How can you humble yourself before god without humbling yourself before men.
 

Snap judgment society — don't make me think.
 

My sense of learning that outstrips my knowledge.
 

Women are like one of those intriguing puzzles without an actual solution.
 

She loved me forever on June 17, 1984
 

Some people raise kids through anger management.
 

Sports and politics are opinions without consequences.
 

How can I entertain you?
 

I cannot not care.
Caring is not a choice.
 

We understand in misunderstanding
Understanding is a failure to see
 

We love the lines we draw in the sands
We love our truisms, our truish-ms.
 

Saintly people underestimate how hard it is for other people to be saintly
and fail to see that people do not want to be saintly.
 

Books are my favorite movie, slow and gently resonant. Books show me fake people who make me like people and the world more and me more comfortable in it.
 

honeycunt
 

relaxed fit | up-tight fit
 

Ugly people may never know they are good in bed.
First step in being good in bed is getting into bed.
Like being good on the dance floor.
 

How many of our precious thoughts are NOT tied up with our ego and our FANATSTIC dreams and fantasies?
 

With all the complexity of the modern world, all we have to decide between democrat and republican.
 

We like to think we have it figured out so we can deal with other (more important) shit.
 

Is post-modernism like existentialism — don't answer that!
Who has the patience of Socrates, or the will-power of Wittgenstein.
 

What is that face you wear regardless of who you are?
 

sometimes I like
to start the day with a few tears.
A good poem can do this.
It clears my soul of selfishness.
 

Postmodernism — I thought that was history.
 

What sentences would count as an understanding of ourselves?
 

What if Picasso was not a famous painter but just a guy who sat in the street-corner and turned out pictures?
 

Adult education
Adult movies and take lessons on how to masturbate.
 

Music is done by people, for people, with all that that involves: attractiveness, age, narratives, disgust at petty conversation.
 

Survivewalk
 

If I had to believe (as opposed to know/prove), what would I believe?
 

Wisdom is temporal, with a "think-before" date.
 

Funshine
 

A book is a movie
 

All our understanding are misunderstandings?
 

We'll understand almost anything.
 

We work through our fears like we check our baggage through security.
 

Later in life, when push no longer comes to shove, how much of being cool is feeling cool?
 

The marriage you get is often not the marriage you want
 

Fixing the world is a chimerical and ridiculous notion.
You can't change anyone.
 

Religion is reconciliation to the state of the world and the power-structure
 

We can only aspire to aspire to perfection.
 

Government, like religion, is something we are all entitled to have an opinion about.
 

The problem with democracy is we are voting for a myth
 

Idea: underwear with pockets
(For old men who like to walk around in their underwear.)
 

The trouble with thinking and talking about religion is that is only talking to oneself.
 

New Acronyms for New Times®:
DHM don't hit me (used instead of a Smiley or LOL)
 

New Acronyms for New Times®:
SIIOYA Sorry if I offended you, asshole!
 

New Acronyms for New Times®:
IWSTTYF(BINT!) I wouldn't say that to your face (because it's not true)
 

Feminism is an outcry of the enlightenment
 

What if I knew all these people in all the cars around me?
There is my daughter, there my cousin, there is an ex-wife, and there is my grandfather, and my best friend from childhood.
 

After a period of unsuccessful dating,
we join the crowd and we too do not love our self.
 

What if the problem is not bad training or certification,
What if the problem is bad teachers.
 

Can anyone ever make a list of their favorite music without thinking about how it will look to others?
 

Let's show some compassion for these people.
It's not their fault
they are assholes.
 

Writing is the illusion of communication.
Singing is the illusion of agreement.
 

It is philosophically important to understand that philosophical understanding is not that important.
 

All philosophies are true in the same way all religion are true
 

How can we have a slow thoughtful conversation over the Internet?
It is like yelling to someone in a crowd when everyone is pushing each other in different directions.
 

Why do actors get the primary credits in movies?
With only some exaggeration it is like giving airline stewardesses primary credit for a transoceanic flight.
 

What do we rail against
when we rail against Christianity?
 

Humans are so easily and completely satisfied with a song.
 

News is shabby and unhappy
 

Westerners do physical affection well.
 

We know just enough about a subject to think we know all about it.
 

When there is no one else to talk to, even the atheist too talks to god.
 

Love tumbles, smiles and pulses.
 

Instead of making us less afraid
religion sometimes justifies and strengthens our anger.
 

I am offended by inoffensive music.
 

Western music is world music.
 

We can best commit to another
only if we have committed to a life as our own.
 

Translate what you cannot stand into something you can bear.
 

We listen very respectfully to experts who agrees with us.
 

Sometimes we need forgiveness for our questions.
 

peace comes
like a loving pet
seeking affection.
 

The days of the beautiful ashtrays are disappearing.
 

The world is my iPod.
 

Won't you join me for
tomorrow?
 

Cultures with no indigenous history.
Just myth story.
 

Taboos: todos and todonts
General advice (be kind) often takes second place to specific advice: don't use these words, don't act like this, don't touch yourself.
 

As writing and reading skills decline, books on writing and reading are getting longer.
 

Sometimes we must be stupid so others can be smart
 

Fundamentalists feel a right to tell others what to do, as opposed to how they would like to be treated.
Strange.
 

One of the drawbacks of democracy is thinking the majority is right.
 

Do not become your own sibyl.
 

Do you love me
even
when I am not lovable?
 

Is assisted living living?
Is assisted thinking?
 

Academics pull the great philosophers apart into little uncohering pieces,
and turn them into problems.
 

Just because you are not an inappropriate teacher, does not mean you are a good teacher.
 

My Big Mistake #17:
My default position for understanding the world is to see everyone else as just like me.
 

Just because you are not saying anything false
does not mean you are saying anything at all.
 

The moral of solipsism is not that others do not exist but that we make them up.
 

Easy listening for Dummies
 

News only gives us a certain small subset of things to mull over
 

Politics is sports.
 

Our little homunculus yearns to be theonculus.
 

Our minds consists largely of Wikipedia stubs.
 

Education: the secular rapture.
 

We talk so constantly, we forget that talk is like birdsong. It's purpose may not be to accomplish much, but to assure us that nothing serious is going on.
 

It's not hard to make bread.
It's a piece of cake.
 

Perhaps over-population will only be seen as a problem when cheap workers are no longer needed in industry and have been replaced be even cheaper automatons.
 

In our society we create a tremendous number of unsatisfying jobs.
 

Pretty young women assume they are being liked for themselves. Sometimes, they are being liked in spite of themselves.
 

the iPod: an aural hoodie
 

The US is bankrupting itself the way the Soviet Union did,
by an arms race
— with nobody
(or with everyone in the world.)
 

Everyone is concerned with the right to bear arms.
I wish they would show an equal enthusiasm for the right to bear brains.
 

How would God himself create world peace among all these humans?
 

Working is a good way of not thinking.
 

A better symbol for the followers of Jesus would be ILU
(the acronym for 'I Love You'), or perhaps simply a heart,
the Open Heart.
 

Aging: a long-term near-death experience.
 

A SIMPLE POLITICAL BUMPERSTICKER:
Reduce our Military
 

People look better photoshopped,
and sound better word-shopped.
 

Sad to say, some Native American students would also be a failures in their traditional society.
 

Sometimes We Wish®:
Someone would throw us a surprise We-Forgive-You Party.
 

Sexual temptation is pleasant and easy to spot.
It is not hard not to give in to it.
The more insidious temptations are those Worst we are not even aware.
Like the temptation to hate, look down upon,
or the temptation not to love.
 

Celebrities: the ones that everyone looks at.
 

The voice of the parent in head
the super-ego
is held in place by
a desire to please.
 

We are Neanderthals — out of it, unaware of what is happening.
At the very least unable to respond to it.
 

I've got a kind of Midas touch — everything I touch turns into gilt.
 

People talk endlessly about politics, religion and sports, and never resolve anything, just so they can talk endlessly.
 

The world may be small,
but you are much much smaller.
 

What?! You haven't heard about my fame?
 

An Idea to Balance the Budget:
Sell the naming rights for the White House, the states, cities, rivers, and the country.
 

Movie give us a way of reading reality.
Omentous.
 

Sometimes
you need to disconnect the dots.
 

Everyone knows where their axes are buried.
 

The value of being well-adjusted depends on what you have adjusted to.
 

Music is a kind of controlled and pleasant screaming.
 

The trouble with being less moody, is that I have to be in the mood for it.
 

The Bible is a big fat book, very useful for hitting people around the head.
 

In too many churches,
all they think about is sex.
 

I don't want to ask god a favor
(in case he does not answer.)
I will just thank him for what I have already received.
 

A person can get killed
trusting someone,
but a person will die if they do not.
 

Celebrities: the ones that everyone looks at.
 

Let's think about how to get through the world without thinking.
 

I used to think history explained something.
Now I am not so sure.
 

Since there are now more people, more books, more movies, shouldn't the Top 10 Lists be expanding to a Top 17 or Top 22?
 

You can't change anyone — all you can do is accept them.
It is the same with your self:
"I know not what I do."
 

All the cars you see have a little homunculus inside.
 

It hardly takes a village,
just a few friends and lovers.
 

What we learn from C-Span [the televised broadcasts of congress]:
They are never there
Can't listen to other
most not thoughtful
 

Trying to get rid of ego is a coping mechanism for ego
 

I have lost faith in myself.
 

The Trouble With Academics #17:
The people who comment on a profound thinker are not profound thinkers.
(Do the numbers.)
 

The trouble with a sentence like 'I should get rid of my ego.' is that it makes this sound possible.
 

Contemporary public discourse does not care about truth, reason or fairness.
It only cares about votes.
 

Divorce Responsibility 101: You are guilty of marrying that person, false promises, gullibility, and ignorance of your self and others.
 

WWBD: What would Buddha do?
WWWS: What would Wittgenstein say.
 

I do not speak in books, in individual movements, in thinkers, or in jargon.
I speak in sentences.
 

The educated man is not making his case
The uneducated man's case is made on television.
 

Life on earth is kind of waiting around.
We watch television
I am sure they have better shows in heaven.
 

The Dilemma of the Young Lovers:
It's hard to know what your partner wants
if your partner doesn't know what they want.
 

Let's go with the theory that most movies don't actually say anything.
That we just like to look at moving pictures.
 

Helping the poor is a big part of Christianity.
There is something good about that.
Thinking about what is good for people is not a big part of Christianity.
 

A Question to Determine Your Spirituality:
Is there television in heaven?
 

We are always looking for ways of not being a fool.
 

Seeking philosophical battles, all I see are indefeasible positions. 'Thinker' ensconced in ivory towers, drinking sherry, while the world roils below them and the people on the plain suffer.
 

One of the major lesson we learn from the Internet — humility.
 

New Theory of Art II:
We like to watch people pretend
We like to hear repetitive words set to rhythmic patterns
 

The word "sinner" covers a lot of territory.
 

Try to understand why we don't understand anything.
 

Intelligent talk about looking at pictures, certain kind of pictures, with a certain kind of education.
 

People like being sinners.
It's a turn on.
 

Everybody is in boxes most of the time.
 

Humans believe that it is good to take an interest in what people say
even if you are not interested in what they are saying.
At least look interested.
 

My NewTheory of Art™: We just like to look at pictures. (That's how simple we are.)
 

We have the gift of giving an understanding the things we don't understand at all.
 

History doesn't change,
but the stories do.
 

What difference would it make if all the many people on the earth, all the immigrants, all the poor, everyone on welfare, were more desirable?
Academic like the rest of us must talk themselves into thinking that what they are doing is important.
 

We substitute the very simple for something very complex.
We call that an understanding.
 

"This is a profound book;
and someday I will read it."
 

Humans lack an intellectual anti-virus program.
 

missense
 

A lot of being old is not having anyone to play young with anymore.
 

Why are most love songs sung by twenty years olds?
Why would not the truest love songs be sung by sixty year olds?
 

We tend to think of people who don't relate to us as being a little defective.
 

"If you don't want to be a sex object, do not dress like a sex object."
"Then what will I wear?!"
 

Everyone is concerned with the right to bear arms.
I wish they would show an equal enthusiasm for the right to bear brains.
 

I am offended by inoffensive music.
 

Western music is world music.
 

We can best commit to another
if we have first committed to a life as our own.
 

We listen very respectfully to experts who agrees with us.
 

Sometimes we need forgiveness for our questions.
 

The days of the beautiful ashtrays are disappearing.
 

The world is my iPod.
 

The pain of life
shows itself in thoughts.
 

We don't tell each other
what we don't want to hear.
We don't tell each other
what we can't tell ourselves.
 

Sometimes we must be stupid so others can be smart
 

I am so wealthy, I have my own private Internet.
 

Do not become your own sibyl.
 

Is assisted living living?
Is assisted thinking?
 

Easy listening for Dummies
 

It's not hard to make bread.
It's a piece of cake.
 

Pretty young girls assume they are being liked for themselves. Sometimes, they are being liked in spite of themselves.
 

One good thing about having a failed marriage is that you are still alive.
 

the iPod: an aural hoodie
 

We know (and love) the bald man ponytail. What about the bald man afro? It is just an afro in the back.
 

Perhaps I should implement a new feature on my blog: That Only took Me 50 Years
 

As the world is getting larger, the world is getting poorer.
 

Ultimately, at a doctor's office at the end of our life, we finally realize we are just dealing with our problems.
 

All history is fake history.
We cannot know what has happened to people, so we create an abstraction and reduce history to a simple scenario, and call that the truth.
 

If I feel OK,
everything is OK.
 

Aging: a long-term near-death experience.
 

A bumpersticker: Reduce our Military
 

People look better photoshopped, and sound better wordshopped.
 

Some alienated minority students would also be a failures in their traditional society.
 

Sometimes We Wish®: people would throw us a surprise We-Forgive-You Party.
 

Sexual temptation is pleasant, easy to spot, .and easy to resist.
The more insidious temptations are the ones we are not even aware of, like the temptation to hate, or the temptation not to love.
 

Celebrities: the ones that everyone looks at.
 

We are Neanderthals.
Unaware of what is happening to us.
Or at least unable to respond to it.
 

I've got a kind of Midas touch — everything I touch turns into gilt.
 

People talk endlessly about politics, religion and sports, and never resolve anything. That is is their function.
 

The world may be small,
but you are much, much smaller.
 

You can't think when you are happy.
All you are thinking when you are happy is: Who needs to think?
 

What?! You haven't heard about my fame?
 

What are the clichés of the future?
 

A plan to balance the budget:
Sell off naming rights for the name of the country, the White House, the states, cities, rivers, etc.
 

They don't love you if they only love the fact you conform to their rules.
 

The lower brains stem does not know how to worry.
 

Sometimes
you need to disconnect the dots.
 

We create the liberals and/or conservatives we love to hate.
It makes us feel reasonable.
 

A little turmoil is healthy. It gives people a chance to exercise their forgiveness.
 

Everyone knows exactly where their axes are buried.
 

In today's world, we need a personal CIA officer: a guardian agent.
 

celebrity detritus: a glove once worn by Marilyn Monroe,
a sock worn by Michael Jackson.
 

Music is a kind of controlled and pleasant screaming.
 

We can grow too old for our dreams.
You are sitting at the hipster disco
but you are now the old man at the disco.
Sitting at the captains table with Diana Dors
you see that she is overweight, in her eighties and missing a tooth
 

You may not have to "serve somebody,"
but you do have to "trust somebody,"
 

The Bible is a big book, useful for hitting people over the head.
 

Is everyone like me?
That is the default position of understating the world.
 

In too many churches,
all they think about is sex.
 

I don't want to ask god a favor, in case he does not answer.
I will just thank him for what I have already received.
 

A person may get killed trusting someone, but a person will die if they do not.
 

No trust, no change
 

I am not my furniture.
 

Since there are now more people, more books, more movies, shouldn't the Top 10 Lists be expanding to a Top 17 or Top 22?
 

It doesn't take a village, a few friends and lovers will do.
 

The Trouble With Academics #17:
The people who comment on a profound thinker are not profound thinkers.
 

The trouble with a sentence like 'I should get rid of my ego.' is that it makes this sound possible.
 

Contemporary public discourse does not appeal to academics or to rational people.
It appeals to the votes of voters.
All is fair in love, war and Fox News commentators.
 

On taking your responsibility in a divorce:
If nothing else, you are guilty of marrying that person
 

WWBD: What would Buddha do?
etc.
 

It's hard to know what your partner wants, if your partner doesn't know what they want.
 

A Question to Determine Your Spirituality:
Is there television in heaven?
 

We are always looking for ways of not to be a fool.
 

Nobody Told me This®:
We never grow up!
 

One lesson we could learn from the Internet is humility.
 

People like thinking of themselves as sinners.
It's a turn on.
 

Everybody is in boxes most of the time.
 

My New Theory of Art™:
We just like to look at pictures.
(That's how simple we are.)
 

We have a gift for understanding things we don't understand at all.
 

History doesn't change,
but the stories do.
 

What if all the the poor, the immigrants and everyone on welfare, were really good looking?
 

Each person must have a rap.
 

A lot of being old is not having anyone to play young with anymore.
 

Why are most love songs sung by people in their twenties?
Why are not the truest love songs be sung by those in their sixties?
 

"If you don't want to be a sex object,don't dress like a sex object."
"Then what will I wear?!"
 

We like to look at people being killed or being harmed — it is existential porn.
 

Worrying about overpopulation is also a kind of snobbism.
 

In a democracy, we can all have opinions. That's usually all we can have — not power, intelligence or nuanced opinions.
 

In the movies even the ugly people are pretty.
 

Why do we take so much care in buying our hardware, checking models and specifications, yet we will watch any old crap on television (without thinking at all)?
 

Self-help books are exhortation books: You can do better. Try again.
 

Waiting to get older is not an education.
 

The top-ten lists we make at the end of year are a kind of reverse new-year resolutions.
 

We are drawn in part to (silly) young women in their twenties is so we won't be attracted to the more experience, interesting and available women of an older age. It makes for a more stable system.
 

New Useless Word: tuba-luba
 

"Believe in me." vs. "Be (live) in me."
 

We enjoy artistic works with a high level of opacity.
We like not fully understanding things. It makes us think someone else does. Or that we someday will.
 

We will undoubtedly watch our demise on television.
 

How can we ever know how to make the world better?
We don't even know why we watch television!
 

Not everyone gets to live out their sexual fantasies.
You must be THIS pretty to play
 

We cannot even explain why philosophy cannot explain.
 

We make so much of so little.
 

In explaining the world, we do not need any more inscrutable sentences.
 

We tend to arm the choir to which we preach.
 

It is not good to keep your options open — forever.
 

It is good to keep up with the news and think about the world, because it is good to think about something over which you obviously have no control.
"They sure messed that one up!"
 

We are humen.
 

Humans are rational in a way they can hardly understand.
 

We live in fear of our opinions of each other.
 

New Commandments: know thy neighbors
 

Just give me the wrong explanation. At least I can understand that one.
 

It is time: I am stepping up from Junior Mints to Senior Mints
 

The clouds today are beautiful and I cannot imagine them being any more beautiful.
You can only be so happy.
 

Happiness is a personal best.
 

Sometimes you just want to talk to people who won't irritate you.
 

Committing to one woman is one more way of keeping the world small.
 

We keep world small by hiding our self from others.
(The trouble with keeping the world small is that it is not small.)
 

If philosophy has taught us anything it has taught us that philosophy cannot teach us anything. There are no answers to life's deepest questions.
 

If you are not careful, you could spend your whole life just being careful.
 

Can there be a poem that only you understand?
Perhaps if it involved experiences of your childhood.
 

There should be a television show that shows us ideal people: But not be the politically correct ideal people. Let artists and poets and thinkers create whatever they think may be an ideal person.
 

In school, you are suppose to learn how to study.
Instead you may learn how to get through school without studying.
 

Misery loves company,
and company loves misery.
Company does not love happiness quite as much.
 

Heaven is here.
(Here we are united with our loved ones.)
 

When we die, we disappear.
That is how God made us.
 

We drive around in armor plating.
 

As a supermodel is a just a kind of model,
posthumous fame is just a kind of fame.
 

It's not hard to write a big book if you have nothing to say.
 

Life couldn't be any better.
But I can.
 

The cutting edge of science will never reach the edge of the world.
 

Is there a shortcut to knowing people?
Or only a shortcut to thinking you are knowing people?
 

A lot of people my age are pre-dead
(watching television
in a waiting room.)
 

You can say we should torture, and that we should keep people locked up without habeas corpus, just, please, don't call us America.
 

The world is a holocaust museum.
 

The strange and irrational beliefs of churches is part of their appeal. I sacrifice my reason and pledge my allegiance to my spiritual community and protector.
 

Can one be a religionist in the same negative sense one is a racist: by thinking that your religion is better than all other religions?
 

If you want to communicate effectively, you should first have something to say.
 

How do we deal with things?
We love them.
We hate them.
 

Better
to let sleeping minds
lie.
 

We like our heads in the sand,
especially if the sand has TV
and perhaps a beverage.
 

Bongs don't smoke dope.
People do.
 

Feelings are our chemical reactions.
 

We walk among strangers as among ghosts.
 

Alone, we are mythical.
En masse we become confused.
 

If you cannot explain a thing it in two pages, I want two pages explaining why you cannot.
 

We think our parents are here for us.
We forget that their parents were there for them.
 

What are people buying when they buy a book?
 

We make small chemical connections with our neighbors.
 

If we make our explanation of life really hard,
we don't have to begin to understand it and
we don't have to begin to understand that we don't understand it.
 

Because you can say almost anything about anything big, you actually can't say anything about anything big.
 

cars that change colors. Chameleon cars
 

The words of wisdom only arrive after the arrival of the wisdom.
 

Distractions often come disguised as understandings.
 

Why do developmentally disabled people smile all the time?
Shouldn't they be scowling?
 

A rock and a stick, and we are happy
 

a combination book and megaphone.
 

a combination book and gun.
 

If I were to become enlightened, would I be enlightened all the time?
 

Texting is one step closer to telepathy.
 

The first step in becoming an adult is pretending to be one.
 

Hi-ho hi-ho.
It's off to life I go.
 

Humans disagree constantly.
Humans are disagreeable animals.
 

Stories are people without bodies.
 

Reason is NOT being sure about the answers.
Reason is permitting yourself to think about things.
 

You don't watch television?
How then do you waste time?
 

Does a book convince you?
Or is it just an offensive weapon of conclusions?
 

We love to talk about things we know nothing about. Since no one else can say you are mistaken.
 

Zeno's paradox:
In order to get somewhere you must first get half the way there.
Then to get somewhere from there, you must first get half the way from there.
And so on.
The story of my life.
 

The main trouble with Christians is that they are not Christian.
(They do not even tryto practice love and forgiveness.
 

A book is a secular prayer: we address to ALL mankind.
 

Perhaps understanding is only achieved a tableful at a time.
 

One illusion of philosophy is that you are engaged with everyone
in a friendly, supportive agon of wisdom.
 

The future arrives in pieces.
Some assembly is required.
 

By their favorite Bible passages shall ye know them.
 

On this Labor Day
let us celebrate the people who labor to make things these days:
the teenage women of SW Asia!
 

New Hobbies for the New Times®: porn scrapbooking.
 

When I was twenty, things could always be better.
today, things may never be this good again.
 

"So you're a Christian?
Does that make you better than a non-Christian?"
 

Atheists can understand the religious by putting a "wrapper" around them. The religious understand atheists by putting a "wrapper" around them.
The key here is to make sure it is a beautiful wrapper.
 

Our celebrity world is based in part on our need to know the vertical story of each person — where they were born, who they married, what they look like...
 

How much of aging is worry about aging?
 

Today a student has many ways to copy and plagiarize information from the Internet. A simple way of determining what a student knows, would be to talk to them.
 

Paying attention is ignoring the rest of the world.
 

News is how we get our understanding of the world. But of the hundred thousand noteworthy things that happen in the course of a day. news gives us fifty. News oversimplifies things for us.
 

We create spurious entities like knowledge, wisdom, meaning, being, communication, etc. in order to get our mind around and by things.
 

We don't have artificial intelligence is because these programs would be very complicated.
This is also the reason we don't have natural intelligence.
 

We suffer from an excess of wisdom and talent.
We fail to notice this because of the many relentless "simplifications" we practice in order to "communicate."
 

Would not God appear to everyone in his own way?
 

We have made the world something that can be run by people of unexceptional intelligence.
There is a down side to that.
 

Most of the time,
our ten foot circle
(the arena in which we can make a personal difference with another)
is empty.
 

No nudes is not new nudes.
 

No one listens to me.
I guess I will have write a book
 

Language is the universal human addiction.
Whenever people are together, people are talking — ALL the time.
Talking is grooming.
 

Black people have to act black.
 

The Ten Foot Circle (in which I live):
Maybe I can take care of what happens there.
 

A religion that tells you that you can master it while you are still in junior high, rules out the importance and fails to appreciate the difficulties of spiritual development.
 

Loud music is my quiet time.
 

There are over six billion ways of not being yourself.
 

Humans form fantasy bonds very easily.
Someone just has to step into our small circle.
This is the first step in forming a real bond.
 

[Academic philosophical joke:]
Fuck the fly in the fly bottle!
It's a fly!!
Now if we had a supermodel
(in a supermodel bottle...)
 

I do not aim to be a "fully realized person."
I aim to be a fully-realized me.
 

Of all the millions of things that happen in the world every day, only 50 become stories on Google News.
We want our fake simplicity.
 

If we could make gasoline from forests, humans would clear-cut the forests just so we could drive around.
 

If life is a journey, we spend a lot of it being lost.
And sitting down.
 

Can we lose our way in paradise?
(There are no maps.)
 

Why do we love to read our text messages?
Is the world is more interesting (and easier to take) as small sentences?
 

Myths are not novel concepts like the corn god, or the anima.
Myths are the concepts we use daily to think about the world: the leader, the wise man, the army, god, religion, self, the nation, the race, me.
 

Democracy depends on getting votes.
Politicians will resort to racism, xenophobia, and hysteria to get those votes.
Therefore, democracy is not a path to progress or enlightenment.
 

Our species has strong sense of individuality. We keep it even in a crowd.
("He is looking at me!")
We do not disappear in the crowd, the teeming team.
 

There is a 'me' in every relationship.
(Everyone has a first person.)
 

Language contain many tricks of understanding.
 

We draw property lines in the sand.
 

If there were no Iran or North Korea, we would have to invent them — and we have!
 

It is impossible to construct an understanding of the world from the concepts traditionally used in philosophy.
They are like a bad scrabble hand.
Even after 2500 years, one can't do much with them.
 

Young women in their twenties are far too inexperienced to be loving women-persons.
Yet they form the image of a desirable women..
 

We should not oversimplify how we oversimplify.
 

Watching the sun set is a quick way to slow down.
 

We don't speak a common language, but we do use common words.
 

It is more fun to parade ourselves and get our attractiveness rating from others, than it to commit to an other in love.
 

How to get a soul mate:
 

What do you say to people who will not stop talking foolishness?
 

One way find a new relationship is to get a cute body.
 

"We're lovers with benefits!" (Twiantya)
 

Support our stormtroopers!
 

We can't even predict the weather.
What makes us think we can know the nature of god?
 

Overheard at Cana:
'Could you make the next batch a Pinot Noir?'
 

All we have are oversimplifications.
 

In order to make the world understandable we have to distort it.
 

Seeking the perfect ass is a strange way to seek a compatible person.
 

Spiritual penance as physical exercise.
You have sinned so you must do an extra workout this week.
 

We are all on welfare. Some of us just work for our welfare.
 

A desire for the End of Days displays contempt for life.
It is the wish for a mass abortion.
 

Being decent may keep you out of hell,
but it will not get you into heaven.
 

Who doesn't have a shallow side?
Only shallow people don't have a shallow side.
 

Do people avoid being interesting so they will never have to face the question if other people want to sleep with them?
 

It is equally true that the unlived life is not worth examining.
 

We want the world to be understood.
 

Analysis never catches up with reality
 

It takes two to get a divorce.
 

With toy animals we have shrunk the animals.
 

It is stupid to ask people why they do anything.
Why would you even ask that?
 

Dealmakers may be more important than dealbreakers.
 

We are drawn to the beautiful ones as lovers.
You need to be at least this good looking to take that ride.
 

Education is a kind of parenting.
 

It is impossible to look at people without sensing a narrative.
Age, gender. attractiveness are all proto-narratives.
 

Why are we attracted to beauty?
Anyone can happen to be beautiful. It means nothing about who they are how they think,
or how they make love.
 

Sex is driving around enjoying the ride.
Love is traveling — often to a place you have never been before.
 

What guides us through life is not self-consciousness.
 

Sex overwhelms us.
Since most people have not had sex with that many people, if someone tells you that you are the greatest lover they have ever known, that would be like a person who has only read ten books say that this is the greatest book he has ever read.
But in fact, such a statement is usually overwhelming.
 

An Idea That Carries No Weight At All™:
the kind of woman you should like.
 

A person's sex life is mostly virtual.
 

When you define yourself, do not leave yourself out of your own definition.
Do not be confused by who you want to be, or who you should want to be.
 

New Useless Word®:
a chimputer
 

It may be useful that most people can't connect.
 

While many people adopt an overly simplistic conceptual systems, elitist are drawn to a confusion so deep we cannot say they are wrong because we do not understand it.
But it sure sounds impressive.
 

A Useful Meaningless Concept™:
PG porn
 

At a yard sale I bought a bag of plastic men. They were all soldiers, policemen and firemen, and tough guys with big muscles.
Where were the book readers, the geeks, the homosexuals, soft poets and the peacemakers?
Can you have one without the other?
 

The major problem facing mankind is to understand mankind.
 

Can you be a loving person and still be uneducated?
 

Idea for a book: A list of people who almost but never made it, who died at the last minute before they achieved something.
 

I not only want to be entertained.
I also want to know why I am being entertained
 

News is also a kind of mass-hysteria.
 

It took me decades to recognize that all around me were millions of people I could never know.
We see each other as someone we could know.
When we actually try to contact people, as in dating, it is not easy at all.
 

Do any intellectuals watch television?
(Are there any intellectuals?)
 

We like to understand things the way they were.
 

We want to pass on knowledge so bad, we are willing to pass on bad knowledge.
 

The early worm gets the dirt.
 

Idea™: Cigarettes and cigars shaped like penises,
with little paper balls.
 

Does life have to be a spiritual quest?
If life not a spiritual quest, is it then a failed spiritual quest?
 

Thinking is mostly worrying.
 

Women have a well-deserved reputation for being difficult.
 

I find it easier to look at people with a loud song in my ear. Why?
 

Who has given us freedom (in my lifetime)?
Who has given us stuff we want?
Well, Google.
Not the US government
which seems to strangle freedom with regulations, surveillance, a lack of vision and sheer stupidity.
 

You can lead a teacher to a classroom but you can't make them teach.
 

A Modern Metaphor in Search of a Meaning™:
I've lost my cursor!
 

What if pet lovers were to take all the love they give their pet and give it to their significant other?
 

Since most high schoolers are afraid of gay people, a good name for a high school sports team that would put fear into the hearts of the opposing team, would be The Gayrods.
 

In the World of the Future™ you will be able to flirt with the robotic check-out machine.
 

You seldom have to walk the walk.
 

Pornography is often called inappropriate. When is porn appropriate?
 

Instead of walking around in wonder at all the things we do not know, almost everyone walks around thinking we have a good sense of it all.
(We always have.)
 

One cannot learn to be a man or a woman in just a decade or two.
 

At time, people just want to listen to silence.
 

Why is there is perennial fascination with spells and incantations
when there are no such things?
 

The war on drugs is (in part) a war on happiness.
 

Dissatisfaction (and worry) are fundamental processes of our life.
 

A secret is something you are afraid to tell someone.
 

It is a mistake to think you know what turns you on.
 

What makes a pretty chimpanzee?
Can we tell?
 

Many people get mad if you disagree with them.
What does this tell us about truth?
 

Idea: a national Pretend I'm a Plant Day.
People can look at you, touch you, and smell you.
 

Idea: A Shut-the-Fuck-Up Day, where you go about your business without talking at all.
 

Video games make adults obsolete.
 

How much of your philosophy of life is pain management?
 

Your life depends on the fact your life depends on it.
 

Love is in part a mental confusion that lets other changes take place.
And your incessant babbling about your new love, makes others leave you alone.
 

I get so tired of not getting tired of looking at pictures of beautiful people and celebrities.
 

Much of what we call love is actually partnering.
 

Not only am I special,
I believe I am special in a special way.
 

I'll tell you what is wrong with teachers,
they are always trying to teach you something.
 

How can you know who you are without becoming it?
 

A modern form of intelligence could be called Clicktelligence.
 

a perpetual hour glass (like the perpetual waterfall devices)
 

New words for new times®:
the pontifuckator
 

The best mirror in the world is a beautiful woman who worships you.
 

One function of dating is to get you ready to stop dating.
 

The Enlightenment does not lead to enlightenment, but to dissatisfaction.
 

Weather is the closest we get to communal sex.
 

I do not have a stable sense of reality.
What I have is my steadfast beliefs in my delusions, illusions, excitements and depressions.
 

To get to reality you must fight your way through the concomitant hallucinations.
 

New words for new times®: penistrate
 

Always 'lullaby',
never 'lullahi.'
 

Always 'Too good to be true.'
Never 'Too bad to be true.'
 

Do not be frightened by the thought that reality may be a delusion.
Reality does that to people.
 

We explain our non-existent truths in no uncertain terms.
 

Academic philosophy is erudite ignorance.
 

When we see an shrine, like a home for small beings we cannot see, we are thrown into uncertainty. It is all so pointedly pointless.
 

What is paraphrasing software for poetry? Another poem?
 

Every book should be outlined on Wikipedia. (This can be done using the still-to-be-created paraphrasing software.)
 

The greatest aphrodisiac is love
 

Spring is the great acid trip. It twist us into unfamiliar shapes.
It covers the world in green fur.
 

Why is getting excited and being disappointed more painful than never getting excited at all?
 

A beautiful woman is a symbol of a woman.
 

What an act is, depends upon what it will be.
 

Impress intellectual ladies by referencing your Nobel Prize wiener.
 

A good opening line:
So, how are we doing so far?
 

Did anyone know about the [late 2008] world economic meltdown?
Either answer is frightening.
 

We think emotions have the answer. In fact emotions mostly stop the thinking.
 

Theory only works in theory.
 

We think our ideas have improved. In reality, we have just become better at defending our opinions.
 

Nearly everyone has an opinion on how we we restructure American financial system.
How is that even possible? Most of these people still cannot program their television set to record a show.
 

It is easier to expound Plato than to say how reality is.
 

A common sleep disorder is to worry about your sleep.
 

Rich People Singin' the Blues:
I make a million dollars a year,
a million dollars a year,
and I'm still not happy,
still not happy.
 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
but the eyes of the beholders are usually on the beauties.
 

Instead of an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, I seem to have a discussion group.
And I can't make out what everyone is saying.
 

Philosophy kits:
(Also known as human lives.)
 

I searched for enlightenment
and just wound up getting old.
(The participation prize.)
 

It is hard to do justice to the fuzziness of it all.
 

Living in ambiguities, we think in simplicities.
 

Our economic system is not designed to make us happy.
It is designed to make us want.
 

Mostly what we have are hints of understanding.
(Like this one.)
 

New Words for New Times®:
shitistics
 

It is impossible to think your way through the world.
 

Concept for a New Restaurant: if you are dining alone, you could get a gifted conversationalist to sit with you. (Poor people would have to bring their own.)
 

Talk less, mean more. (Conversational Positivism)
 

Reality has a tendency to get boring.
(This is where the poets come in.)
 

All these big egos upset my ego.
 

The thing with reality is that it can't be put into words.
 

Cell phones can increase communication but they can also increase the lack of communication as the provide one more tunneling capabilities for you to stay connected mostly to those people you already know.
 

In The World of the Future™:
Television will move from small LCD screens to the walls. Sports will be playing on walls as large as or larger than the humans in the room.
 

Genetically induced behaviors evince themselves through persistent tendencies.
 

I'd like to meet a girl I'd like to meet.
 

I need better placebos.
 

Why isn't it morally offensive to root for own team? Isn't that like rooting for one's race, or one's gender?
 

A Less than Useful Phrase (LTUPs):
You call that a shit!
 

Oh shit!
I've got a lot of livin' left to do.
 

I prefer the company of people who don't know me.
They have not rejected me, and more importantly, I have not rejected them.
 

Reason I hate TV #6:
TV does not show us better humans.
 

The present isn't what it used to be.
 

With the collapse of the business plan of newspapers, maybe what we need is National Public Newspapers (NPN).
 

I seek youtopia.
 

Life is — tragically — happens far too quickly for us to figure it out.
 

People don't like to think they don't like to think.
 

Science tries to explain everything.
Religion tries to explain everything.
What is this "explaining" we need so badly.
 

The pigeon hole had been loving carved to fit every feather, and every line of every feather, of the pigeon.
 

Our self-help books help us see there are no answers.
 

I don't have the time to be normal.
I am way too busy to be normal.
 

The point is not to construct an indefeasible rap (but to open yourself to the world.)
 

Some people spend a lot of time avoiding temptations.
Others spend a lot of time convincing themselves to yield.
 

Alienation may be necessary in order to pack us all in together on this crowded planet.
We need our virtual worlds.
 

Cellphone Insight #1:
I had no idea there was so much chattiness in the world!
 

Why do we still have groundhog day?
The science is completely bogus.
 

I will never be as good as I think I am.
 

Why would we ever think that dreams are meaningful, when dreams are so foolish?
 

We should take the iPod to the ultimate level:
We will the have not only ear buds, but also eye-buds, nose-buds, mouth buds (taste-buds) and touch buds. (You could program the feel of a gentle woman caressing you.) We won't have to talk to each other at all! Finally we'll be god!
 

Someone is killing off all of the World's Oldest Persons! Within a year or so of being so designated, they're dead. A word to the wise.
 

Being simple is very, very complicated.
 

Isn't "cliché" a rather overused word for cliché?
 

There is the selfish calculation and there is the right calculation.
 

What would a beautiful road look like? (A road that was as beautiful in its own way, as nature?)
 

The flag: shift on a stick.
 

I guess I must use my seventh sense
 

One of main features of the world is that it can't be understood
 

I got my pheromones working
but they sure don't work on you.
 

"Be careful." is a human watchword.
I doubt it would be the watchword for lions.
 

Even if we were to find The Perfect Philosophy Book we would not stop reading books. Books with radically differing points of view are fun.
There is no 'end' in 'enlightenment'.
 

I mention my latest Holiday Idea™ to Tom: to stick a colorful Christmas bow on your jacket. Tom suggests I just stick it on my forehead, or around the neck — as a bow tie!
 

We use mental simplifications though not in a simple way.
Nothing we do is simple.
 

The iceberg is just the tip of the iceberg.
 

All I have to do is to do it.
 

There's no accounting for reason.
 

I do not ask for whom the belles troll. They do not troll for me.
 

Do The Numbers: In your lifetime you can meet and get to know at most one thousand people. This means you meet one person in six billion (1/6,000,000) or 0.000017% (rounded up), or essentially zero.
So you have no chance of meeting almost any person on the planet.
 

Everyone of the six billion people on the planet has a personality and a reason to live. A remarkable achievement.
 

Think of ideas as celebrities. ("I saw that idea in a book by Plato.")
 

Music sings to me.
 

Does every civilization think it is decadent?
The end of the world is always near, Well, your world anyway.
 

Mona Lisa is a celebrity, famous for being famous.
She obtains a privileged place in the neurons of our mind.
 

Grow-up?
And stop growing?
 

I do not aim to write you difficult ambiguous poem. I do not want to awe you with mysteries and demonstrate my impenetrable depth.
I want to take you by the hand and walk you over to that place over there.
Bend down. There. No. There. (I point) Do you see it?
Isn't it wonderful?
 

New Word for New Times™: pontiphorisms
 

Since people will often click around for the best weather report, a local news station could advertise that: We provide the least scary weather report. We will speak to you as an adult.
 

A cool-ish name: Proliffany
 

I sit inside myself and watch what I do and try to figure out why I do it.
 

Competition is all we know, the beating of our fellow man in force, women, money, wisdom, beauty, entertainment.
If we ever were to start seeking 'Peace on Earth and Goodwill towards Men' we would soon be competing about this.
If we were to begin to be humble, we would soon have a humility competition.
 

We do not want peace and goodwill, we just want to think we do. (It makes people less suspicious of us.)
It is like handshake before the fight and the beer afterward; it is the hand up from the carpet.
 

A Christmas tree is a poem (or perhaps, many poems)
To bring a a tree inside merges the inside the outside Christmas lights as fire Christmas lights as fruits. Christmas lights as stars. Christmas lights as a patterns of lights.
A way of signaling that people are here.
Christmas light bring light to the darkness. We live in lights.
This merges the light and the dark. Christmas lights as stars in the tree
(the gods as a way of signaling)
This merges the canopy with the floor,
the open and the closed.
There are presents under the tree.
We approach the tree.
The tree provides. We must bow down to receive our gifts. A tree is protection
String, big and sheltering. A tree indicates water. A tree is fire and warmth.
Without burning a fire
which is burning a tree
humans could not survive the cold climates of Christmas.
(Hence the mythical Yule Log). (We love wood.
Paneling and flooring can be any pattern at all
but we like the pattern of wood grains.) The midwinter solstice is more important and more frightening in the higher latitudes, because it is so cold and the nights are long. The cold and dark brings us closer to our death. We huddle down.
We celebrate at the nadir, the perigee. A tree is evergreen
We honor the one that holds fast to
and still flies the greens of summer. A fir tree has less personality than a deciduous
It is interchangeable. Like people, the firs and pines grows in thick stands that changes the livability of a region. An evergreen does not open an umbrella to catch the light.
It is a slim rise to the top, through the canopy, to the stars.
We don't have to believe the tree is a god.
We say the tree is a god because the symbolism of it all:
it is subconsciously obvious.
 

My Holiday advice: Marry Christmas.
 

Idea for a hip Christmas tree:
a totally black tree, with black lights.
 

Idea: a sweater with a glowing pulsing pattern, especially one that can focus over the heart.
Control this and you can be like the chameleon, displaying your moods in changing colors.
 

Religion is too important to be left to religions.
 

Though they are often mistaken, we need the weather shamans.
They give us a big common straw to grasp.
 

You can only think you think are no better than other people if you think there are no assholes in the world.
 

It's Christmas!
Keep the foolishness going!
 

Compare: paper dolls, paper profit, paperwork
 

I am good at what I do but I am not good at knowing what I do.
 

When there are too many administrators they become their own world. They no longer need to impress those to whom they administer, but can impress themselves. They soon become a posing party.
 

Oh we are so all that!
 

Shouldn't "American Indians" really be called: "Americans"?
 

About the word "beheading,": shouldn't it be "deheading"?
 

God speaks with a thousand voices.
 

If I want to lose respect for a culture, watch its TV.
 

The trailer for Christmas was excellent, but the actual release proved to be a disappointment.
 

A parenting class on how to avoid having your child become just like you.
 

A true gentleman will letch after all the ladies present.
 

We hide reality from ourselves &,dash; really well.
It makes life easier.
 

Video games are often a kind of racism.
 

Our interest in celebrity is obvious.
We fail to see it because we refuse to believe we can be so stupid.
 

I am not racist, but I am race-aware.
 

The aphorism is where the poet and the thinker meet to pass a secret message.
 

You must occasionally allow people to be tired and sick of you so they can love you again.
 

New Words for New Times™: "No can fuck..."
 

I want to change my appearance but all I have control over is my shirt.
 

In a delicious way, a poem does not make sense.
 

To a gamer, time is also something to kill.
 

One way to have a good relationship is not to expect too much from it.
 

Among the delightful twinkling illusions of Christmas:
 

Looking at street names, I realize the English and the French have taged New Orleans with their names.
 

We need to think calmly about How to Organize a Post-Apocalyptic world.
We can't let this to be sketched out only by first-person shooter video games.
 

Can you "be here now" on a cell phone?
 

There are many ways to navigate the intellectual landscape of our society:
See my book: Eye-Rolling: A Beginner's Guide.
 

While the concept of people is a good one, the execution leaves something to be desired.
 

Watching TV I gather my thoughts about the kind of cable channels that I would like in my personal universe:
 

Part of enjoyment of modern jazz is to wonder how you are suppose to enjoy it.
 

What if all you favorite musicians, poets, novelists and movies were known only to you and never seen by anyone else?
What then would you communicate by talking about them?
 

Fun for the whole family — isn't.
 

A book for the Philosophy Section: Teach Yourself Cynicism.
 

The enemy of enlightenment is NOT difficulty but remembering.
 

One sign that you have attained a state of spiritual illumination is that you find yourself blathering inanities.
 

The best argument for gay marriage is: What if you were gay?
 

People — are a treat.
 

The eternal feminine keeps us in shape.
 

We may not be providing a good education but we certainly provide good-looking educational statistics.
 

A country no longer has a culture; a culture has a culture.
Maybe a culture shouldn't have a country.
Or, maybe a culture shouldn't have an army.
 

Research has shown that you will sound much more authoritative if you begin your sentence with "research has shown."
 

I can't imagine there is such a thing as reality.
 

People have feelings about emotions.
 

I go through the world seeking approval from myself.
 

I can tell you from personal experience it's not always fun being me.
 

I don't want to be me all the time.
 

Seek complexity and mistrust it.
 

Life is not a first-person shooter.
 

People are the fountain of youth.
 

I seek the perfect placebo.
 

nubile /oldbile
 

Idea: a toaster that will toast your picture on your toast.
 

Aging isn't wisdom.
 

"What are you watching when you watch a film?"
"What are you seeing when you see the world?"
 

Fail-your / fail-mine
 

Idea: a phone you can eat.
 

The world is frequently too big for words.
 

I'm into the myth of abandoning myth.
 

We know too much to believe in myths but not enough to fill the needs they serve.
 

Do you want to help us, or do you want to sell us self-help books?
 

Cool music is a way of impressing others: Look! I am a good hunter and gatherer.
 

I am not sure I actually exits. I am an a-me-ist.
 

Without my self-confidence, who am I?
 

Domino pizza cars have a plastic sign magnetically stuck to the top of their cars.
What about having one of those to advertise yourself, with says the word "philosophy"?
 

He died without ever finding the fountain of youth.
 

Reality frightens me.
But the thoughts of reality attract me.
 

Perhaps humans learned to love by loving animals first. Only later did they learn to love other people.
 

We are the animal that thinks it is all animals. We are the animal that thinks it is an animal that thinks it is not an animal at all.
 

Women masquerading as answers to my mythological cravings are such a distraction.
 

I'm not now.
I am mostly then.
 

We're alive.
Let's dance.
 

An experiment in multiculturalism: Live with someone. Do what they do. Follow their daily practices. Read what they read. Watch what they watch. (for example, live like a Republican.)
 

Woe is me.
I am unhappy in my life and I have no wife to leave!
 

It would be cool if a few Christians actually attempted to follow the teachings of Christ, rather than retreat to the black and white simplicities of the Old Testament?
If they practiced the do's instead of the don'ts?
 

There are ways of speaking where no one can say you are wrong, but that is not to say you are right.
 

If we did not have our books, magazines, cell phones and iPods, life would be a lot more difficult: we would have to talk to each other.
 

If A loves B and C loves B, why does not A love C?
 

Another Event in the Olympics of Multitasking™: carry on two cell phone conversations simultaneous on two cell-phones, lucidly and gracefully.
 

If future does not have to be like the past, why is the future like the past?
 

We dance with dreams.
 

Why is not work a sport, the sport of work?
 

I am less No Child Left Behind and more No Child Held Back.
 

Computer Idea: a file manager (like Windows Explorer) with tabs.
 

Computer Idea:
a combination word processor, web browser, and reader — It simply turns a web page into a word document, and vice-versa.
 

These days our bodies are largely for entertainment purposes, like sex and sports.
 

With all the millions of people around me, why am I still stuck inside myself?
 

We are such simplistic animals. We are not even willing to figure out when we are being unduly simplistic.
 

Part of the function of news is to hide news from us by providing the illusion we know what is going on.
 

The lord is my shepherd.
I shall not won't.
 

The lord is my shepherd.
I shall not WHAT!!!
 

the emperor's new clue
 

Design idea: a big sweatshirt with hi! written on it.
 

I can't stand sitting here.
 

How can I believe in people if I don't believe in fantasy?
 

Idea for a book: How to think with a computer.
 

Who am I?
Don't ask me.
 

One of the perks of being alive is being surrounded by pretty women.
 

Perhaps our clothes, our music an even our ideas are primarily a signaling device — to ourselves.
 

We could also speak of: leaps of reason
 

There is no "sex" in "ex".
 

Idea: a pin-on crest for your jackets.
 

I'm texting myself (to let me know what I am doing).
 

"You are now free to move about your straightjacket."
 

idea:
spiritual advice bloopers
 

Idea for a book: Things To Do While Waiting In Line
 

Idea: a misspelling program which takes fancy polysyllabic text and misspells it. (to be one with the people.)
 

HTML browsers should have a reading mode.
 

The world is a Petri ball.
 

People are meataphors.
 

There is never enough time to be me.
 

It is fall.
The lengths of the names of the months are getting longer.
 

People are constantly re-enacting the Civil War.
Why recreate war? Why not re-enact the great parties of the past?
 

I always put things off until the last minute.
During sex I get my orgasm off at the very last minute.
 

We do not live in a meritocracy, but a cerificatocracy.
 

Among our many cerebral programs are the programs we call "myself."
 

As we get older we begin to fight with the phantom horns.
 

I have a question: what is a question?
 

There are over six and a half billion of us we will never meet.
 

I think so I don't have to think.
 

A book is the original laptop.
 

It is not wrong that there is athletics in the school.
What is wrong is that schools think they are important.
 

If I were to write a novel about how I really was,
I would of course have to decide how I really was.
 

As long as you don't go out in the field all day to work
you can still pretend
you can go out in the field and work all day.
 

Getting mad at people who are richer than you is no better than getting mad that the landscape is going to outlast you.
 

You would think that Adam and Eve should have been expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating from a Tree of Ignorance.
 

Aaaaaarrrrrr(gggggghhhhh)tttttttt!
 

Wrong Ways to Think (#17):
I am able to understand him therefore I do understand him.
I am capable of appreciating his symphony
therefore I do appreciate his symphony.
 

Academics are the new scholastics.
 

Priorities: we don't want our words to get in the way of our fucking.
 

We have to parade the package, so why not dress it up?
 

The Internet has been hard on trivia buffs.
It has had little effect on wisdom buffs.
 

Idea for an obnoxious hipster: loud classical music on his boom-box or his ride, the kind that no one likes: Bartok, Schoenberg, atonal, minimalist...
 

A good name for a philosophy book:
It's Not That Simple
 

When they validate our skin, we feel validated to the bone.
 

Being admired for your mind is no different than being admired for your tits.
 

We tend to think that people around us are like us.
This makes us feel better.
 

What goes on in a conversation that you do not talk about in the conversation?
 

New adjectives for new times®:
...looking sort of milfy
 

There are more kings in stories than there are kings in the world.
 

Idea: a cell-phone service would be to send you periodically a pre-recorded call that would guide you through a cell-phone conversation that would make you interesting to the people around you.
"No honey, don't marry the Italian soccer star!"
Other scenarios might include:
 

I am Scheherazade with 30,001 Nights.
 

Idea:
a camera that makes a fart sound when you snap a picture.
 

There are a lot more Venus of Willendorfers walking around today.
 

Art get created.
Art get appreciated.
And no one is the wiser.
 

Perhaps it is best not to have sex with people we know.
Ignorance is a powerful aphrodisiac.
 

For most of the higher species of animals, there are more pictures of the animals than there are actual animals.
 

Idea: a little thing you have in your car so when you come out of a store a little device points to where your car is.
 

One argument against using drugs is like the argument against using cell-phones in airplanes.
Sooner or later you will be uncomfortably trapped by mindless meaningless chatter.
 

Think of it This Way™: People have kids and pets because they want to act like they can only act with kids and pets.
 

Many aspects of traditional scholarship are simply obsessive-compulsive behavior.
 

When I read on my laptop I lose the signaling of a book cover.
We need book covers for the back of the laptop to signal who we are (or want to be).
 

Life is like the hidden treasures in a video game.
You don't know where they are.
You have to bounce your head against the bricks.
 

I see a book called Plato in 90 Minutes.
What about:
Willy Mays in 90 Minutes.
John Updike in 90 Minutes.
Beethoven in 90 Minutes.
The Lord of the Rings in 90 Minutes.
College in 90 Minutes.
Anna Nicole Smith in 90 minutes.
 

Wisdom, cheap as wine.
 

Song of the Laundromat:
Two socks are better than one.
 

Contests of the Future™: The Like-off
 

Secondary literature on Kant, Hume, Pound, Frye or Baudrillard is seldom illuminating, because the writers are not Kant, Hume, Pound, Frye or Baudrillard.
 

Philosophers: free range scholars.
 

Conversations are like sing-alongs; they are think-alongs.
 

Human satisfactions with life are based on small group interactions.
We have no conception of what large group interactions might be, such as saving the world or living in peace.
 

Conversation Battles: contests between couple or small groups
to see who can have the best conversation.
Also Rules for Conversation Battles: a contest to see who can come up with the best way of judging who has the best conversation.
 

Most people don't pay much attention to reason.
Philosophers do, but who listens to them?
 

Idea for the future:
glasses, using real-time computer graphics, that let you see everyone as young and hot.
 

In the feminist era, the role of woman was a new frontier.
 

Don't think you can think.
 

Traditional religion is to spirituality what representational painting is to painting.
 

People surround themselves in fake certainties,
lies disguised as indubitabilities:
I don't think and therefore I am the way I am.
 

With their cell-phones, people are now living in phone booths.
 

When people are upset at people for taking drugs
they are upset at people for feeling and reacting,
appreciating and being emotional.
 

We look as good as we can.
 

This year (like last) hot people are the hot accessory
 

Perhaps in a relationship all we are just looking for someone to be with, to talk with, fight with and to fuck with.
Perhaps we a looking for a pet with benefits.
 

The battle cry of the philosophers:
"WE ARE ATHENS!!!"
 

Everyone knows it is seven years bad luck to break a mirror.
Everyone knows this is not true.
No one breaks a mirror.
(Do you have a better plan?)
 

The cost of a divorce is that you have to numb and erase many tender experiences of love that you have had in your life. Perhaps this is the only way to deaden the painful ones.
 

Fight or flight?
Fight or flight or love.
 

God is my imaginary cell-phone call.
 

Good Idea: a computer screen that also functions as a tanning lamp.
 

I'm perfecting my less-than-perfectness.
 

Understanding a myth is also a myth
 

In reading a book of wisdom we are drawn into a myth that someone has the answers.
We had people with answers long before we had answers.
All societies have them. We have them now.
 

Is it difficult for us to notice the constancy of our interest in status and sex because all we do is sex and status.
 

Someone should invent a virtual mirror: one that would reflect everything but replace yourself with a better looking self, one you would feel good about.
 

"All right, let's fuck it!"
 

workless / worthless.
 

Who played Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye?
 

Unfrightened people are the good cholesterol.
 

You can't buy happiness. You can only buy status.
 

You cannot Google the answers to Pictionary.
 

Why does not all the creativity, ingenuity and rightness of a good film translate into politics? In politics we usually find the stupidity of a football-coach, unreflective and limited..
 

exploratalking
 

If the world is so small, why don't you fucking walk home?
 

Life is good, if you can afford it.
 

What is the proper feminine form of "lout"?
Loutessa? Loutette? Lady Lout?
 

Traditional culture has been replaced by poverty.
 

dinglebat
 

The world isn't small.
Your world is small!
 

Self-esteem is a feeling.
Like all feelings it comes and goes.
 

Inappropriate uses of the word inappropriate:
inappropriately real
inappropriately genuine
inappropriately kind
inappropriately insightful
inappropriately appropriate
 

Why is poker an ESPN "sport"?
Why not a world series of intelligence?
I do not mean the usual tests of memory or trivia. How about:
 

One pleasant part of aging is feeling sorry for yourself.
 

Idea: large magnetic cross-over plastic bandages for cars.
 

What is the opposite of whatever?
Something?
 

Aphorisms: a-tomes of understanding.
 

A cool car is like eyeliner — It enhances your inner coolness.
 

If all you can say bobbely-boo, the happy, good-looking people would be laughing at their "bobbely-boo," raise their eyebrows and wind up in bed.
Other would say "bobbely-boo" to someone but there would be no magic in their "bobbely-boo."
If they had a more words at their disposal they might well think: We don't have much in common.
 

The love of knowledge is the love of a particular subject of knowledge, as the love of people is the love of a particular person.
 

I know the right advice.
I just don't know how to follow that advice.
 

Studying is cheating.
Anyone can know the answers if you study.
 

We should send some of the food we import from China to feed the starving people in China.
 

People talk about the weather because it is important.
 

Another new name: Persiffany
 

You can judge a book cover by the book's cover.
 

We can't handle the truth: there is too much of it.
 

Aphorisms, someone has said, are thoughts that fly under the radar of our intellectual defenses.
So who or what is patrolling the world for hostile thoughts. Are we at war with something? Are we afraid?
 

Why are we so interesting to ourselves?
 

Sex is for kids.
 

"We live in a culture of old white men."
Wow. You have achieved the trifecta of ageism, racism and sexism, all in one sentence.
And since you see nothing wrong with this, this makes you a bigot as well.
 

What is the smallest unit of philosophical understanding?
The "tome?"
 

I may not be changing my personality, but i am changing my description of my personality.
 

Mercury's wings bicycle helmet
 

"I'm sixty but I am not really old." is just something old people say.
 

It may be all about sex,
but sex is never simply about sex.
 

Let's keep the "I" in "happiness."
 

Questions for the Modern Booty Woman™: Do these pants make my ass look big enough?
 

I don't need to be loved for who I am.
I need to be loved in spite of who I am.
 

It is hard to admit your feelings, but harder still to admit the trivial things that engender them.
 

Making aphorisms is making intellectual jewelry, drawing attention to your lovely mind.
 

Lines for Leaving Work™:
"I wish I could stay here a lot longer,
but I am lying
so I am going to go home now."
 

a store selling fertilizer-free food
 

I do not believe in wisdom of the ancestors, at least if the ancestors were anything like my relatives.
 

News is not about you; it's about the team you root for (or against).
 

We talk endlessly about God and the nature of reality to take our mind off the difficult questions.
 

Lines for Coming to Work™: I can smell the synergy.
 

Item number three on my to-do list is to follow my to-do list.
(Now where did I put that to-do list?)
 

Let's declare philosophical understanding and go home.
 

Punk music makes intense anger melodic, or at least listenable.
 

Sadly, there comes a time in every man's life when "getting laid" no longer seems like a great answer to your problems.
Luckily this feeling soon goes passes.
 

It's not fair! Why do only the pretty girls get sexual harassment in the workplace?
 

Locals are annoying.
They think it is their place.
 

New Ideas in Educational Reform™: you start off being taught by hot teachers. As you fall behind, and fail to turn in assignments, you go to the old and ugly ones.
 

You've got the trademark, Seattle's Best Coffee™, but that doesn't mean you actually serve Seattle's best coffee.
You are in the Department of Philosophy, but that doesn't mean you actually do philosophy.
 

Talking is not a sentence by sentence project.
 

I impatiate.
 

We dream to let us know we are asleep.
 

Let a homeless man live in a museum as a work of art.
 

Art that can really make you uncomfortable:
 

No one came to America to wipe out native Americans. It was collateral damage.
 

One part of the male gaze is awe and admiration.
 

Frames that go around corners.
 

I am among my people: people.
 

I am skipping grown-up and going straight into post-adult.
 

Fake Book Covers™:
 

Say it don't pray it.
 

How many people would you let die so you could live?
How many people would you let die in Iraq so you can feel more safe?
 

If Buddhism is a religion of serenity,
Christianity is a religion of the trauma,
of a painful and unjust death by a crucifixion.
 

The male gaze has a counterpart in the female intuition (or insight),
 

It is remarkable how easy it is to make us believe in magic stones and magic spells.
All you have to do is tell us a story.
 

It is not what the artist meant, but what the art means.
 

Humans are easier to take in small doses of email and text.
 

Are you crying?
No. I just got something in my mind.
 

It's not that I don't want women to dress so sexy.
It's that I don't want women to dress so sexy and ignore me.
 

Do not argue.
Instead let people decant the wine of their excogitations.
 

Perhaps we need a war on war.
(Those work so well.)
 

The bridge you want to cross,
the mountain you want to climb,
are the metaphorical ones. Otherwise it would be an easy task.
 

For the 18th century gentleman, the ideal landscape is one with peasants.
 

Gay sex is safe sex:
there is no chance of having kids.
And, it does not involve women.
 

You would think that semesters in modern colleges would be longer:
Aren't things intellectually more complicated now?
 

We have such high expectation of life.
How can we know there's more to life than this?
 

Something inside me feels I have to fight every man i meet
and sleep with every women I meet.
The fact this never happens barely diminishes my belief.
 

New words for new times®: nonsensitivity
 

There is nothing wrong with being an ape!
Primate pride!
 

Is it permissible to hate a gender?
 

What is another name for Jennifer?
 

The price of happiness — is unhappiness.
 

Who is god's god?
 

Rent to Own is good.
Steal to Own is less expensive.
 

A new term for counselors and therapists: soul coach
 

If there was a world where everything was cheap,
it would be a world of creativity.
 

New words for new times:
"You look very bling."
 

I want a dog that picks up my shit.
 

Academic Philosophy: the field of dropped balls.
 

Exit line at work: Do we have a date then?
I'll meet you here in the morning.
 

Entrance line at work: I have a sense of déjà vu
As though I have been here before.
 

I am finally putting 1.263982 + 2.736018 together.
 

How is life treating me?
You mean, how am I treating life?
 

Part of an argument against Intelligent Design is that the Bible is not very intelligent.
There is no math, no physics, no theory of the perfect relationship. There is no mention of the New World.
 

For a refreshing change, why not try
The Pollyanna Porn Festival
 

Should politicians and CEOs be tested to be sure they are not psychopaths?
 

Idea for a Website: a website that shows how people will look as they age, based on their height, weight, and gender.
 

If I get hit by a car, I hope it will be driven by a beautiful woman.
 

A lot of what is called news is fear and irritation porn.
 

We actually don't know how to think about the world except to have humans be the most important species.
 

The polite form of WTF! is W!
 

In spite of the vastness of the world, smallness is where we live.
 

My obsessions are not rational —; they are passional!
 

A first date is a sex interview: "I am looking for a woman to fill a position (a missionary position)."
 

To love is to learn.
School me.
 

What can philosophers tell us? is a part of the larger question, What can anyone tell us?
 

A real-estate shingle in my front yard with my own sayings.
It could just say "Hi!"
 

Sitting is for young people.
Sleeping is for young people.
Dying, however, now that is for old people!
 

It is amazing how we all don't-think alike.
 

We keep our world small.
I go through a town full of people and I do not talk to anyone. I find this perfectly normal.
 

How did the mathematical description of bodies with mass, come to be the paradigmatic description of the universe? Is it because that is something we can agree on?
 

How can I be loved for things I don't love about myself?
 

You get the princess and you live happily for a little while.
 

A new CD is a fresh dress of feelings.
 

I expected better from all the really smart people in the world.
 

Life is like the Internet writ large.
We click along, click along, distracted by this, obsessed by that.
Suddenly it is twenty years later.
 

We are all supported by our own silent majorities.
 

New Holidays™: An Eff-Off Day
(and the even more popular Eff-On Day)
 

We may not be intelligent enough to realize that we are not intelligent enough.
 

It's a good time to be human:
there are lots of us alive.
We have the other animals on the run.
"Go Humes!"
 

I expect my understanding of the world to be more than just my understanding of the world.
 

I am hep to my own jive.
 

Reasonable also means comfortable.
 

In the face if death our sense of reality often flickers.
 

Sex is often foreplay for conversation.
 

We need hand, we need visible hand.
 

Understanding life does not give life meaning.
 

Exit Line (#4 in a series):
"I have to leave now.
I'm out of excellence."
 

Time is the Häagen-Dazs of dimensions.
 

Does poetry describe the poetic mystical absurd nature of reality or does poetry create the poetic mystical absurd nature of reality?
 

Without hill and colony, a termite (like a human) is just a snack.
 

It's spring — avoid the mirrors.
 

Design idea: a 6' diameter 45 rpm record as a design on a wall
 

The world does not fit neatly into categories, unless you include the category of "Other," or "None of The Above."
 

I live among the post-civilized people.
 

Got delusions?
 

We say we want the truth, but we take refuge in mysteries.
 

We could divide the world into zones, each one dedicated to a different culture with different morés. people could be free to move between them.
We could certainly do this. Why do we not?
 

In spite of being like a grain of sand on a beach, we cannot be the beach—we can only be and remain an individual.
 

Timid animals are thoughtful animals.
 

Just because I intellectually realize the stuff on the news is a sham, does not mean I do not respond to it.
But just because I viscerally respond to this stuff does not mean it is not a sham.
 

J. Alfred Prufrock Remixed: Do I dare to shave my pubes?
 

In the future television screens will be more real than reality.
 

compare: paper tiger - paper work
 

A book is a path that leads us towards the truth, but they lead us in so many different directions.
 

Most people need god to feel extra special.
 

Like all celebrities, K.D. Lang can now run a nice side-business just being K.D. Lang.
 

I prefer my own reality, thank you.
 

We like to drive the car of reason into the deep deep lake.
 

"I loved your bread.
It was underdone, but I really like my bread underdone."
 

Maybe dogs and children and enjoying life is not something to think too hard about.
Maybe love is.
 

Can there be a music of ideas? Could there be a coalitional activity of philosophy or religion? Or is knowledge something that can't be reset to zero in order to play it again?
 

Singing demonstrates coalitional skill.
The parts of music are after all the parts of different people.
The power of music is the power of The Many.
 

Geek joke:
When you are out of TTL it's TTD.
 

High school sexuality is so salmonoidal.
 

Why do heaven and hell seem to be just a continuation of earthly life?
 

With the iPod we have added a new input to the ear. Next we might add an extra eye, by inventing a small television in our glasses. Then an extra nose.
I myself await extra genitalia.
 

Art (and porn and sex) are an international language.
 

Don't bother us with facts.
We have worked ourselves into a lather and we're not going to calm down now.
 

News is an alternative narrative that distracts us from our personal narratives.
 

Because we are so interested in people we tend to think that people themselves are interesting.
 

What interest us most is not the most important.
 

A beautiful women seems smarter because people want to agree with her.
 

Reason has proven that reason proves little.
 

Life is more fun with magic and irrational thinking.
 

History tells us that people are always wrong. Consequently we are wrong today.
This is a lesson no one can master.
 

Weather is emotion in the forms of matter.
 

Why do we need to think we can get along?
Why do we think we can?
 

A law is also a desire for you to obey me. (It is treated by everyone as being that.)
 

Why can't we just accept another person's beliefs?
"What the hell. I'll just adopt your beliefs."
 

Everyone thinks they are doing their part in an ideal society.
Yet the parts of the idea society have long since been replaced by a dysfunctional bureaucracy.
This is because all the parts are played by primates.
 

There is no clear path to wisdom, but you can read books of wisdom to pass the time as you stumble along the way.
 

Instinct has its own reasons.
 

The wind beneath my wings is coffee.
 

We are borne along on the litter of our culture.
 

The unexamined question is not worth answering.
 

We may not like the news, but we like to look at the broadcasters.
 

I want to watch a news-program where the commentators are crying as they read the news.
 

People can believe almost anything. Why is that?
 

Porn is sex as a sport.
 

We are drawn to our own Armageddon.
Our destruction is only fair.
 

Cars shaped like human heads
as they drive around town.
 

Philosophy is a mind-field.
 

Employee appreciation is being appreciated for not being yourself.
 

Tune it out, turn it off, come on in.
 

Happy endings are a myth.
 

There are some questions not worth answering.
Answers to those question are often philosophy books.
 

We like searching for knowledge more than we like knowledge.
We find knowledge sort of unsatisfying.
So we search for better knowledge.
 

What would an animal much better than us be like?
 

Our color sits on top of very thin skins.
 

Are we into education or are we into attendance?
 

Hell is a round earth.
 

We are always assessing each other.
(And we always keep the ass in assess.)
 

Life is largely a thoughtless activity, like playing with a baby, or a kitten.
 

Delusions are people-movers.
 

Torture is not not-torture just because you do not classify it as torture.
 

We like to support our irrational emotions with reasons.
 

Most of the things we seek in life, complete happiness, true love and eternal life, do not actually exist.
Still, it is nice to have a goal.
 

The watchword in academics should not be "publish or perish."
It should be "publish crap and perish."
 

Never let your facial expressions be more interesting than what you are saying.
 

Men hold open the door to let women go first in order to bring up the rear, and to protect them.
and perhaps to look at their asses.
 

It is not moral to influence people using fear, or sex in politics or in advertising.
Humans are overly sensitive to and easily confused by such things.
 

Even if you know why you play the game
you still have to play the game.
It is the existential game.
 

Is it easier to understand Heidegger (or Wittgenstein) or to understand the world?
 

We like the future to stay in the future.
 

There's history and there's mythstory.
 

Here comes the future that you always said you knew would be here.
"Yes but I always thought it would be here in the future.
Only in the future will I be able to handle the future."
 

Academic philosophers: people of the fly-bottle.
 

New near-edgy insult:
You dinglehead!!
 

We do not know what will make us go nuts.
We may have Berserker programs pre-programmed in our selves.
 

We dance to the songs of the chromosomes.
 

The problem of leisure, as it used to be called, was solved by creating more bureaucracy.
Paperwork is a form of busy-work leisure.
 

Only a philosopher thinks the world is waiting for a philosophy book.
 

Driving in a winter wonder(if-I'll-die)land.
 

The Holocaust: The Musical
The Killing Fields: The Musical
Waterboarding:: The Musical
A Cry for Help: The Musical
 

A snappy comeback:
Let's examine your zipper!
 

Do you want your philosophy with or without proof?
 

Not only do we fear that gas and food can be taken away, we also fear that our knowledge can be taken away.
 

A thought experiment: What would be an animal be like that is as superior to humans as humans are superior to beef cattle?
(Would it too raise beef people?)
 

The ego is not about us. Our ego (and our concern with our status) testify to how deeply we are attuned to the judgments of other people.
 

Is Heaven where you get to see all the answers?
 

Philosophy is a Supreme Court that hears the case but never issues a decision.
 

On the electoral process:
Just because you impress a bunch of voters does not mean you are a good leader.
 

It may have been said before,
but is it understood today?
 

I am scared to death of dying.
 

The golden ages, the golden sages.
 

Postmodern theory is not itself postmodern.
 

Handwriting skills may be down, but the calligraphic skills of tagging are up.
 

How do you fit the brilliant people into one narrative?
How do you mash up Heidegger and Wittgenstein?
(How do you mash up the early Wittgenstein and the later Wittgenstein?)
 

I buy my own arguments because, in part they are my arguments, the arguments I use to defend and present the conclusions I like.
It follows that if I really want to re-think my views, I need to come up with better conclusions.
 

There is a Pope Innocent.
Shouldn't there also be a Pope Culpable?.
 

idea: a dress made out of money.
 

Money can't buy you happiness
but it can take your mind off the fact that money can't buy you happiness.
 

We all chose a narrative we can live with.
 

Animals are fairy tales.
 

Political correctness is universally scorned, but in spite of being unsubstantial, hypocritical and ineffective, it is universally practiced.
 

mindipulation
 

Conversation is a kind of capital,
sometimes a kind of venture capital.
 

I want get high so bad I will do it without drugs if I have to.
 

Insight is not a science.
 

Older civilizations (the Greeks, Chinese, Mesoamerican, and Renaissance) did not stop answering questions because they did not know all that much about the world. They never said: "We're gonna stop shooting our mouth off until we learn more about science, history, human behavior, physics, etc."
or, "We're still pretty ignorant but..."
Neither do we.
This perennial intellectual self-over-confidence could be caused as much by our animality as by our reason.
 

The never-ending demand for experts and consultants (in education, in relationships) is a sign that we don't know what we are doing.
The fact it is never-ending is a sign the experts don't know what they are doing either.
 

We're the lemmings, we're the chickens, we're the pigs.
(We talk in animal.)
 

We are stranded here, on Gilligan's Planet.
 

Why are here?
We are here to party.
 

What is the meaning of life?
To sit around waiting for the Apocalypse?
 

Life is bearable in many ways.
 

symptomania
 

Expecting Academic Philosophy to provide us with a philosophy is like expecting Dance Dance Revolution to give us a revolution.
 

Of course climate change is bad:
Human beings are the product of climate change.
 

Christmas: it's MessiahTime!
 

"Aren't you a little old to believe in Jesus?"
 

Are homosexuals also grossed out by heterosexuals?
 

Before you tell me what is wrong about a philosopher, tell me what is right about that philosopher.
 

They say (with mystic overtones) the Eskimo has ten words for snow.
They forget that we have ten words for digital camera memory.
 

Once again we clutch the terrible straws.
 

The socialist view that no one should be happy until everyone is happy is reflected inversely by our government's view that we will not let everyone be happy because some people can't handle it.
 

Can democracy work if most people are ignorant assholes? Perhaps all that matters is that people thinks it works.
 

Our very understanding of history, and of who we are, is distorted by the idea we are children of a god with a precious soul.
 

We all tend to think we are special, one in six billion.

We know we can't possibly be that important, but that's just our reason talking to us.
 

How do we separate the reasonable from that which only seems reasonable?
 

Exit Lines #3:
"It's not that I don't feel a lot of love around here. But I have to leave because frankly I'm not worthy."
 

Is it ok to be racist in your choice of sexual partners?
 

What does it mean to be "a child of god" if there is no god?
 

Women are my lower power.
 

Idea of a Conversational Interest Tree: Everyone has a controller linked to a computer or a computer controlled "conversation pet.". As someone is talking, people can make the pet thrive and jump about if they indicate they are interested.
 

If gasoline become ever more expensive we will all have to commute. But with whom?
A web-based company could link up commuters not only on their destination but on their personal and intellectual interests as well.
 

Animals were an early television set. As was fire.
 

"I would never say that to your face... because it isn't true."
 

The animal side of books (like the animal side of songs) is the mental animal.
 

We need a personal narrative like an actor need motivation: what is my motivation here?
 

Listening to a love song on the radio is listening to a woman pouring out her feelings to you.
 

We often read a book for validation: other people have said this as well. It's not just me. I am in a band of people like me. I am in-group.
 

Everyone is judgmental at some point. We live in a world filled with our own reactions, judgments and put-downs.
It is easy to trigger the judgmental part of us.
 

I am my co-pilot.
 

Small talk may be good in a negative way.
We fear strangers (who speak a different language) and we fear the crazy.
Small talk establishes their language and their ability to follow conventions.
 

People desperately want to be rational. They are willing to offer and accept the most ridiculous arguments in order to sound rational.
 

The aim of a philosophy book is to make you think you understand something profound.
 

My mind has a mind of its own.
 

Why would academic philosophers not try to get on the same page?
 

English aristocrats are one of the glories of civilization.
American wealth has not resulted in anything similar.
 

The difference between the people who went and those who resisted the War in Vietnam has never been resolved. We might start by thinking that it took courage to go to Vietnam and it took courage NOT to go to Vietnam.
 

We are so fucking stupid we don't even know how fucking stupid we are.
 

That we live on the world is a fact.
The we live in the world is a metaphor.
 

Humans are an invasive, non-native species.
 

History is often uncomfortable.
In addition to anything else we do to remedy a past situation, we must also wait it out, until the day comes that only extremists and weirdos will care about past historical injustices.
 

We humans are caring and careless at the same time.
We save lives while we overpopulate our planet and wage incessant war.
We know this while we do nothing about it.
 

Philosophers turn men into straw men.
 

You cannot take the "lie" out of "believe."
 

Reading academic philosophy makes me less philosophical.
 

Some people like sudoku, others like early modern philosophy. It too can be outpuzzled,
 

Why don't academic philosophers agree with each other? They all claim to be adherents to reason?
This tells us something about reason, academic philosophers, and about academic philosopher's understanding of reason.
 

If they don't understand your argument, you haven't made your argument.
 

Studying is a kind of intelligent listening.
 

A person should be at least as interesting as their haircut.
 

Prohibitive academic book prices and copyright laws hide away many of the ideas of the last eighty years.
 

Forgive us our lack of communication as we forgive those who don't communicate with us.
 

A man's self is his castle. (with ramparts.)
 

The boredom of a philosophy book is its own refutation.
 

A small university is a puniversity.
 

If there were no sacred form of prostitution we would have to invent it.
 

The hopes and dream we carry slip through our hands like sand in an hourglass.
We dream of our life not-yet lived, until time pulls them away from us.
 

My two kids deeply satisfy my kid addiction.
 

We hate not knowing who the killer is.
 

In movies we spend hours and hours to find an occasional profundity embedded in a limbic stew of sex, violence, mystery, fear, desire and death.
 

I take a prurient interest in reality.
 

The attractions of youth for youth is not only about beauty
It is also about the potentiality of having kids together and growing old together.
 

Humans are a highly successful timid frightened animal
 

Supernatural beings are the beings that you talk to when no one is there.
 

In theory we can change, but not in practice.
 

We are nothing if not grown up.
 

Any true philosopher must be able to explain why no one is interested in philosophy.
 

People accept you even when you are not doing anything much at all.
I should do the same.
 

Most of the time most of the people in the world sit and talk. (Look around you.)
But not with just anyone.
 

Government did not originate for our best interests.
 

New Words for New Times™: intimidatia
 

Most of us don't really work. Cutting and stacking a cord of wood is work.
What most of us do is more like detention: fill out this paperwork 100 times.
 

I seek philosophers but all I see are beautiful women.
 

People should be sent to Interesting School.
(What is the curriculum in Interesting School?)
 

Celebrities are the new version of Elders ("Youngers").
We look to them for guidance on how to dress and how to act (so we too will be desired by everyone.)
 

Become non-judgmental
 

Looking at a recent photographs of myself I realize that unless I am careful I will look like that someday
 

We have sportscasters speaking constantly for sports.
We should have artcasters speaking loudly from our paintings. Art can be just as annoying as sports.
 

Let's keep the penis in happiness.
 

In 1960, whoever thought that in the world of the future, men would wear baseball hats?
 

Why not design the modern barrio:
simple shelters with the bare amenities for a safe and simple life.
 

Watching the news is like checking for changes in a mole.
 

Our cars are an end disguised as a means.
A car is a comfy chair with music and a rolling landscape.
 

But what does reason know?
 

Criminal news has a moral:
here is what happen when you swim outside the school of conformity.
 

The more we study the more we (should) learn how stupid we are.
 

We listen to astrology because we are unknown to ourselves.
 

Life sucks the life out of life.
We are encouraged to stay in mediocre relationships and in jobs that are boring.
We give ourselves scriptures to diminish our sexuality.
 

Life sucks the life out of life.
 

Maybe it's age-inappropriate even being alive at sixty.
 

How come "atom" or "car" doesn't get to be a cliché?
 

No one needs to understand the love you have for other people, as much as you yourself do.
 

In theory, people are such a good idea.
 

Humans prefer myths to reality, the world the way we want it to be over the way it is.
Our "understanding" of the world is created as much by the former as by the latter.
 

It is not that reason is wrong — it is that reason is not strong.
 

All we have are perspectives.
 

If young people are disengaged, look at what they disengage from.
 

Things go better with sexual attractions.
 

Is there age-inappropriate music?
 

References to Gödel or quantum physics seldom adds anything to a layman's discussion of the universe.
And academic obscurantism is like the ink of the squid.
 

How can you take something as interesting as life and turn it into something as boring as everyday ordinary life?
 

The young radiate an appealing message of innocence and raw sex.
 

I too want decency in our culture: I want intellectual decency.
 

A Not-all-that Useful Phrase:
Habitart for Humanity
 

Art works in the je ne sais quoi part of our brain.
 

Evolution is too slow to fix our problems, as is continental drift.
 

All men are created equal but not all men are created equally interesting.
 

dressed for sex-excess
 

Human beings may be the smartest being to appear on the planet
but that does not mean human beings are all that smart.
 

The world is a Rorschach test.
 

The eyes of the mind are bigger than the stomach of understanding.
 

The question is not only why did the chicken cross the road?
We should also ask, why do chickens cross the road?
 

Here is the true mind/body problem:
We are an animal but we think we are a mind/self/individual/ accidentally trapped in a body.
 

We are caught between the bull and the bullshit
 

The Boomers are The Greatest Generation.
Look at our achievements:
 

Isn't the trope of "Onward Christian Soldiers" much like one of "Onward Christian Pedophiles"?
 

In The World of the Future:
people will embed a mechanism whereby we can have fizzy urine,
or to surprise and delight the ladies, carbonated sperm.
 

I'm an Atheist: I believe in not believing in God.
 

Every wife is a trophy of sorts,
more so now that we give trophies for simply participating.
 

The most important thing to remember is that there is no most important thing.
 

A wise man a god in sheep's fiber clothing.
 

Do I have a right to have a sexual fantasy about anyone I want?
 

Here are some politically (though not actually) inappropriate team names:
 

There is no plan B for normalcy.
That is part of its illusion.
 

We will fight and kill to retain our normality.
 

The goal of aging is to be able to smile at people.
 

Eventually (for security reasons) they will ban fire.
 

Whatever made you think education should be entertaining?
 

Religion is never wrong.
 

"Beware God's eternal taser."
 

We have outsourced being interesting to our television.
 

It is the distractions from life that make life worth living.
 

I carve loving complex custom-made pigeon holes.
 

You can double my salary and I would not be twice as happy.
 

Simplicities stops the pains of learning.
 

Our idea of Heaven is deliberately vague.
That way we cannot disagree with it.
 

If you made it so your kids would really miss you when you died, have you screwed up your parenting by bringing unnecessary unhappiness into their lives?
 

If sex were a drug, the government would have banned it by now.
 

We don't cry in front of other people, we don't run in front of other people, and we don't get real, and show who we really are in front of other people.
(People can hurt you.)
 

Going to school is like: how many fingers am I holding up?
I hold them up fast.
Or, how many fingers am I holding up expressed in binary?
 

Seriously, why are so many people down on gays anyway? It seems so trivial.
 

Our not-understanding of the wise man.
A part of our definition of a wise man (a sage, a philosopher, a mystic or a religious leader) is that we do not understand him.
 

The perennial question: what is baby and what is bathwater?
 

Flinch not.
 

Books are a form of plastic brain surgery.
 

Occasionally people give you a look that says: I like you because you are a child of god.
I prefer the look that says: I like you because you are not like the others.
 

They have the strangely popular "For Dummies" series of books.
What about: "For Bigots"or "For Poseurs"?
Or, how about,
___________ for People Who Can't be Bothered, as in:
PostModernism for People Who Can't Be Bothered With Post-Modernisms?
Or, ___________ for People Who Want to Continue to Hate ____________
or, Islam for People who Already Hate Islam
or, Trigonometry for People Who Will Never Understand Trigonometry in a Million Years.
 

Why are people (at the airport) reading crap?
Crap is interesting.
 

Understanding the world, having a coherent sophisticated culturally sensitive understanding of the world is strictly optional.
 

What if people could watch each other on the web all the time?
 

"... as angry as Jesus."
 

The standards for a successful human conversation are remarkably low.
 

The news constantly tells us when a tropical depression is formed.
What about telling us when a temperate high forms:
Expect to be happy, 15 deaths will be averted.
 

What about a car built like a motorcycle, flamboyant and colorful, pipes and chrome everywhere, with the engine and exhausts draped around the chassis?
 

What if Christ will not return for seven million years?
Would that change anything?
 

Let evolution fix our passing problems.
I'm sure that in five million years everything will be just fine.
 

As we age, an insouciance towards death may be the only card remaining in our deck.
We are suicide boomers.
 

Simplicity is a drug, much like ecstasy.
 

What about opening a restaurant and you decorate it with pretty people just to sit there?
Perhaps, for a fee, the customer could talk to them.
 

Do not confuse communication with truth.
People rarely communicate with truth.
 

We like mysteries, the genre and the actuality.
 

Complicated non-answers to simple questions:
"How are you?"
"Oh-boy!"
 

Complicated answers to simple questions:
"How are you?"
"It's hard to put into words. Let me do an interpretive dance. It will last a day. At the end of the performance you will see how I am doing."
 

We live in a world of untested ideas.
 

Part of a poet's job is to be a poet, to uphold up the idea that one can feel things profoundly and create a transcendent moment.
 

We need to stop thinking we're making sense all the time.
We're not.
 

Understanding does not make you happier, just intellectually sophisticated and closer to the truth.
If being intellectually sophisticated and closer to the truth makes you happy, so be it.
 

Part of wisdom is knowing when it doesn't get any better than this:
Knowing that this! is your chance.
 

You don't actually need any insight about the nature of the universe.
You can pretty much say and think whatever the fuck you want about it
unless you are doing science.
 

It seemed like a good day.
I wanted to have a good day.
I was proud of having a good day.
But what I really had was a good moment.
 

We like to go be in the city and do that city-thing, but don't destroy nature, the land of our ancestors.
 

Nature is our ancestral home.
 

"You wear food well.
Food looks good on you."
 

Believing in God is a common error.
It's easy to see how people can make that mistake.
 

If you think your dog is your best friend,
what is your definition of friend?
 

I got zero-tolerance for zero-tolerance.
 

People go nuts on a moments notice.
 

myth-illogical beings
 

When we speak about the virtuality of the world and the disappearance of "the real,"
this too is a kind of end-of-the-world thinking.
 

Only the majority would vote for something as overly-simplistic as that.
 

Attitude trumps hottitude
 

Everything I do I meta-do.
 

"My individual learning style is not to study."
 

"Tell me about your day."
"It's boring."
"Oh, that is so interesting."
 

What is the perennial appeal of the blues?
Are we all doing time in a personal Folsom?
 

We have a cerebral zoom lens in our vision.
 

"Hi honey! I'm here at the symphony. It's a great performance. Can you hear it? There sure are lot of people here. How's your mom doing?"
 

Can you take a picture of the universe, a picture of everything that is?
 

The male's dynamo of self-esteem must turn inside the coils a beautiful woman.
 

Our ideas of heaven are cartoons.
 

New fun phrase: abso-fuckin'-silly
 

Books decorate and protect the wall.
The put virtual worlds between you and your boundary.
 

Books would not seem as important if books had no mass but floated around as balloons, or existed as tiny plastic balls.
 

Salmon do not fight their way upstream to feed your fat face.
 

I just want...
(I don't know what it is I just want.)
 

I can't remember what it feels like to be me.
 

God should require a college degree to get into heaven.
His followers are fairly ignorant,
especially about evolution.
 

What if you had to pass your school exams in order to get laid?
Or get good grades in science?
Things would change.
But the requirements for sex are not of these kinds.
No exam is required, either before the act, or after.
 

The bureaucracy is angry: "We made a rule and you're not following it!"
 

Socratease
 

You're damned if you know and you're damned if you don't know.
 

Sometimes I worry that my mind has a small penis.
 

Where do we evolve from here?
 

What if men (and women) suddenly and inexplicably lost all interest in looking at women?
Suddenly (and inexplicably) tight shirts, low-cut jeans, cleavage, high-heels and long legs never got a second look.
How would women dress then?
 

Idea: clothing that lets the wind blow on our bodies without showing the body to the world.
 

We all want to be fucked.
 

Happiness happens.
 

Most of the time we weigh nothing.
 

When I am feeling optimistic, I think that it is inexpedient for politicians to be intelligent.
 

Here is a better idea for a guided tour of a museum:
Send ten sensitive articulate people through the museum and have them record their thoughts (adding comments and music). Let the visitor headphones contain all ten tours and let the "museum-goer" pick among them.
You could even have a cynical person.
And a trivial fact person for the fact-people.
 

Most museum talks about art are irrelevant.
It is like seeing a moving, passionate dance performance, and then talking about where the dancer is born, or where they buy their shoes or underwear, or the name of their cats. All such talk draw you away from the performance.
 

Novelty is losing its novelty for me.
 

The snapshot of my feelings is a sentence.
 

The key to a good vacation is the keys — hold on to the keys!
 

When we pay lip-service to life long learning we usually confuse learning with experience.
 

I watch TV. Who are these people pretending to be people?
 

The mind will make sense of anything.
 

My bells toll only for me.
 

Each university should have a Department of Gadflies.
Those should be the people with tenure.
 

I see hope in your disguise.
(I hope to see you in one.)
 

Our images of ourselves stand in the way of seeing our selves.
 

I see two men walking down the street holding hands: here is a sign of a gentle and forgiving town.
 

One can't help being flattered that the devil is taking a special interest in you.
 

We have more tools of communication than ever before in the history of mankind, but we still can not communicate.
 

The failure of our schools (a continuing list):
 

Everything is everything all the time.
 

Cigarettes are an acceptable way of doing nothing.
 

The ancients though there were four elements.
I have a simpler theory: there is one element: people.
 

The ancient Greeks though the basic elements were earth, water, air and fire.
That is to say: land, sea, sky and warmth.
 

We waste our love on pets and gods.
 

I used to think the future would be here by now.
 

I myself a great nostalgia for the present.
People like to read about vacation while on vacation.
I too like to read about life while I am living.
 

I love kittens, but not people's love of kittens (and not a purse made out of a kitten).
 

In life I am constantly carried along and helped by the kindness of strangers.
 

It would be one thing if the rich made the world more interesting, or beautiful, but they don't.
 

I keep forgetting that the point of vacation is to have no thoughts.
 

Never give up.
Keep throwing the I Ching until you get the answer you want.
 

Park fear.
 

What do people like when they like nature?
Why can't they answer this simple question? Perhaps in seeking nature, they seek to get away from such difficult questions.
 

A man purse like a large scrotum. (It could even have a little hair on it.)
 

Life is as easy as falling off a cliff.
 

Sometimes it's good to play dumb.
Sometimes it's good to play smart.
 

A man cannot live on kudos alone.
 

During the next lull in your conversation, ask:
"Do I smell too good?
Is that bothering anyone?"
 

Better living through PhotoShop.
 

Governments like to think your freedom is a privilege, not a right.
 

a Gay Pride baseball cap
 

Men will talk to pretty women about anything, so they can look at them more and up-close.
 

An art work of nature: a river going one-way and fifty yards up the road a river going in the opposite direction.
 

We broadcast, but don't receive, very well.
 

idea: a baseball cap with "LOVE" written on it in red letters
 

Not only is telekinesis and telepathy nearly non-existent, so is telephilia and telefellow-feeling.
 

Not only is there no God,
there is no Enlightenment.
 

We are perennially capable of the feeling we are hot shit.
 

Nature is so clean I could eat it.
 

It is difficult to believe that nature was not created, at least in part, for beauty.
 

There is a side to being in nature where you are not worried about being embarrassed by people.
 

It's fun to do stuff, but just as much fun talking about it later.
 

When I was a kid, if you were to tell someone that they would soon be picking up the dog-shit after their dog, the would go like "Right, that's gonna happen."
 

All sex is kinky
(when you are not getting any.)
 

How much of the linguistic spectrum is reserved for hitting on each other?
 

a deodorant that looks like an iPod
 

Though even now the hunters are in the woods, the deer enjoy the autumn grass.
 

Why is this not one of the commandments: Think!
 

Is it wrong to hum while having sex?
 

Life is Heaven.
 

News is not really the way to think about what is going on in the world.
 

Never stop trying to think that eventually all your problems will go away.
 

a cell-phone ring-tone that sounds like a fart.
 

I am not sure I like the way I look when I am happy.
 

We read something deeply meaningful — and then we read something else.
 

A lot of people hang around other people for the sex.
 

The closest we get to happiness is the illusion of happiness.
 

Idea: a diet food pack of the greatest 1400 calories ever
 

What is the world's greatest porn film?
What would be the criteria for deciding something like that?
 

Maybe you should not drink and drive, but maybe you should drink and think.
 

Do animals ever feel unloved?
 

It is impossible to imagine other people not being like us.
 

I want to live in mytopia.
 

deep-fried sushi
 

I can be a really bad normal person, or I can be a very interesting me.
 

Why would our government ban ecstasy, a drug that makes us love people?
How then are we to increase the amount of love in the world?
 

Most modern jobs can be done by morons.
But not everyone can be a moron for eight hours five days a week.
 

Idea: a door chime that plays MP3 files.
 

The erect penis is a magic wand that makes a man momentarily invulnerable.
 

A good sense of self is like a swelling penis.
 

Another bad thing about aging is that you have to have sex with old people!
 

Humans not only run in bands of people but also of ideas.
We hunt in thought packs.
 

The Internet is a better waste of time than television.
 

Since we have decaf coffee and non-alcoholic beer,
perhaps the time is ripe for non-THC marijuana?
For those times you want to enjoy the taste and the experience of a nice doob without all those wacky mind-alterations.
 

It is fantasy that floats our boats.
 

Freedom is not free.
It requires large donations to a variety of politicians.
 

carefreedom
 

Why does society tolerate religious arrogance, and the religious know-it-all attitude?
 

I am stuck in my lifestile.
 

The unselfconscious life is living.
 

My drug is time. I can't quit it. Time is the monkey on my back.
It's gonna' kill me someday.
 

I am burning my candle at seven ends. (My candle cannot be represented in three dimensions.)
 

I see Gen-Y and I will probably see Gen-Z,
but I am sorry I will not get to see Gen-AA and Gen-AB, let alone Gen-EE.
 

Why do we fear rejection?
Why do we reject?.
 

Always remember:
Weapons of mass destruction don't kill people, people kill people.
 

Songs are one way to react to the world.
 

The 4th of July is an the sound in the wilderness that says, We've got gunpowder. We've got the guns.
 

Worry. Be happy.
 

Avoid taboos.
 

We soon realize we could really use some magic powers.
 

A New Hipper than Hip™ term: He's "rockin' a onesie"
 

Idea for a conversational T-Shirt (in big print): I Talk Good
 

People are ultimately unsatisfying: There is no real ending. The plot drifts. We get way lost in trivial sub-plots that go nowhere. The characters are weak.
 

I like life best in songs.
 

We dress to attract yet we behave to avoid.
 

I won't listen to the truth from just anybody.
 

If we have nice breasts, big biceps, a nice ass, or strong legs, we show them off.
We know our portfolio. We just don't know it's value.
 

We live in a world where it is inappropriate and stressful to talk to each other, yet we nearly all dress with an over-the-top sexuality.
We don't know what to say to each other but we know how to attract each other's attention.
 

A man needs his delusions.
 

The scary part of talking with strangers is how little we have to say to each other.
The other scary part of talking with strangers is how boring we are.
 

I can't discover who I think I am.
 

Just look at us.
We are not built for understanding, peace, and insight.
We are built for sex and children and physical activity.
 

Perhaps I just want my philosophy to be sexually attractive.
 

Oh Lord, give me what I want so I can see that this too is not what I really want.
 

What would be the signs of a sophisticated monkey?
One who arranges the banana skins in patterns?
One who gestures that he really wants another banana when in fact he is full.
One who wraps leaves around his penis?
 

"Here is where God agrees with me.."
 

I like the quick glance we give each other: the short and lovely pre-rejection phase.
 

Actual humans have been superseded by a kind of humanistic robot:
entertainers, books, plays, art, music, beauties, wars...
 

We don't live up to our myths.
 

It is obvious that people don't interest us all that much anymore.
We are a disappointment to each other. We don't live up to our hype.
 

a practical joke airplane: a plane that tales off backwards
 

Your imagination gets in the way of reality.
 

Our reality is no longer very real.
 

It's time to discover a new continent, a New America.
It's time to create a New New Jersey.
 

Political signs along the roads shout out names:
(Vote for) Dennis Hession
Dennis Hession
Dennis Hession
Al French
Al French
Dennis Hession
Al French
Al French
...
Could there be less information?
 

What is the appropriate word for people who have too many kids?
 

When I was younger I liked to think my peculiarities were entirely rational.
 

People should not justify their metaphysical beliefs.
They should simply say: "I feel a lot better believing..."
 

We used to think the problem was to see how we could evolve from monkeys.
The problem turns out to be: how can we not see that we are monkeys?
 

Beware! When you insult America, you insult my delusions.
 

I like my Wish List on Amazon.
I wish I could have a Wish List for my government.
I wish I could have a Wish List in my relationships.
 

Sleep giveth and sleep taketh away.
 

If life were like the movies, I could get a phone call from a beautiful stranger that starts a sequence of events that would transform my life and put me on a course with danger and destiny.
But instead I will stay the lack of a course.
 

a three-dimensional mirror
 

The West appreciates the world's cultures through sexuality.
 

You think you overthink things?
Don't flatter yourself.
 

Bureaucracies like to co-opt an edgy worldliness: they speak of having symposiums, fests, parties, missions, beliefs.
Taking this a step further, should we now speak of a corporate brothel, gang-bang, ecstasy or binge?
 

Movie stars show us that the same person can transform themselves into a number of different personalities This gives us hope.
Maybe I can transform myself into a movie star.
 

Human beings are weapons of mass destruction.
 

There was a time we before we knew are monkeys.
We thought we were "men," created and ruled by a "god."Un-fucking-believable!
 

When we are fucked-up we are not not ourselves. Who then are we when we are fucked-up?
 

I'm worried I'm not going to have enough time to live my life.
 

Reading the credits in a movie is like reading about the fonts in a book.
 

an explosion of understanding: a grokatoa.
 

How do you build a rational and healthy society out of assholes?
 

The plot of my life is a little weak.
There are no characters I can really identify with.
 

Edgy street art idea: Paint numerous chalk outlines of a horrible accident involving a school-bus of young girls, or a large family in a mini-van.
All the bodies are in different positions and done in different colored hot-pastel chalks.
 

Books are my kind of people.
 

You may drink at college, but not as much as you will if you don't go to college.
 

Facts! You can't handle the facts.
 

For many people, speech is a dead language.
Speech are just the sounds you make while you enjoy being with someone (and with a dog you don't even need the sounds.)
 

One version of Hell: to say interesting things and have people show no interest whatsoever.
 

Enlightenment?
You can't handle enlightenment!
 

Thinking about reality is just a pastime for us.
It is too difficult and nothing hinges on it.
 

In our schools, we value attendance over education.
 

Often religious morality comes down to sexual rules.
"We will start with covering the nipples, and eventually work our way up to universal compassion."
Compassion is hard to count, but nipples are highly accountable.
 

A clip-on cellphone in the shape of a pencil behind ear.
 

Liking dogs and cats helps people like each other.
 

A woman stands between a man's desire and her body.
 

The chorus, in music, is the monkey band.
 

Not normal?
I'm normal.
I am a super-set of normal.
 

Having sympathy is usually less important than expressing sympathy.
 

You might think that we could appreciate and love each other much better when we are alive than after we have died, but when we are alive our personalities always get in the way.
 

Why are you normal? It seems so stupid.
Oh I forget! Being normal means you don't have to answer that question.
 

"Oh you're special.
And you deserve a very special education."
 

There is a reason that Gen-Z people expect praise when they do what is expected of them: they have a lot of friends who can't.
 

An Eskimo may have twenty seven words for snow, but a teenager has that one word for everything.
 

Should European ever feel proud that their ancestors conquered much of the world, defeating all other cultures?
They were warriors and instilled fear into all other tribes.
Should anyone ever feel proud of the military prowess of their ancestors?
 

Stupid things to be embarrassed about: being a morning person instead of being a night person
 

Why haven't the media taken on the post-modern viewpoint? Why does it still pretended it is simply reporting on reality?
 

Normal isn't all that deep, but frankly, we don't know what else the fuck to do.
 

Existentialists tell us: life is a predicament.
If that is true, what kind of fucked up animal are we?
 

People who believe in religion, usually don't believe enough to change their life or to follow its precepts.
They believe just enough to stop thinking about it.
 

Why don't all thoughtful people think like me?
 

Someone, sometwo (somany)
 

I am in the Zone — I am cerebriated
 

We can imagine a being that is more intelligent than us.
Can we imagine a being more sexually attractive than us?
 

We can't even admit we think about the things we think about.
 

Comedy is sharing inappropriate opinions in a deferential way with massive smile gestures and laughing sounds to indicate that we are non-threatening.
 

Why should God care who sleeps with whom?
 

"How are you?"
We ask that (in part) because If you am in a good mood, my interaction with you will probably be more fun for me.
 

If God is so smart why is there nothing about diet and exercise in the Bible?
 

A lot of news is office politics, government office politics.
 

The real curse of the homeless is they are not actually homeless: they have to carry their home with them in a dirty backpack or a set of plastic bags.
 

Why do I put up with your disrespect? It's because you are assholes.
 

Is it permissible to feel yucky about gay sex?
 

I am definitely running around with a better class of imaginary people.
 

stupid words for stupid times™:
inturdesting
 

High school students do not care about lifelong learning.
They care much more about daylong not-learning.
 

laugh-out-loud intelligent
 

What is this "real life" which yours is not?
 

The world has so many lovely places in which you can sit, and fail to understand it all.
 

I am not comfortable with beggars.
They put it right in front of you, how cheap you are.
 

The bear, the bird, the wasp and the frog, all have an inherent dignity.
Why not the human?
 

Unclench the mind.
 

So we have to lie and dissimulate for the morale of the troops?
That couldn't be good for morale.
 

If life is a disappointment, what are we comparing it to?
 

Surely we must agree on some things!?
Perhaps, but not on our idea of the ultimate reality.
It's just not that important.
 

Rejected inspirational phrase for the teaching profession:
Touch the kids!
 

Pretty woman are the wallpaper of my world.
 

They've set the bar for being normal way too low.
It seems nearly everyone can qualify!
 

Today's teenagers can no longer be shocked, unless we were to take away their shocking amusements.
 

Schools have adopted the peculiar notion that it is the act of reading that is important, and not the understanding, knowledge and experiences you get while reading that is important.
 

Libraries should have neo-scriptoriums, places where people could be writing books and also talking about it to others
 

a large plastic oversized book to be used as a purse or a carrying container.
 

I don't actually want to sleep with anyone else, I just want to be invited to sleep with someone new:
I want to feel fuckiffic.
 

I keep forgetting what I know.
 

Guys dress to look tough as a defensive, not an offensive, maneuver.
 

If everyone now dresses and poses like a bistro dwelling intellectual, how then should a bistro dwelling intellectual dress and pose?
 

Art decants the mind.
 

The never-ending dawn of the Enlightenment.
 

I love the routine of novelty.
I love novelty every now and then.
 

Most of us are more theme than variation.
Actually most of us are sing-alongs.
 

You're never too old to pretend you're still young.
 

Reason seems so . . . . reasonable!
 

Why can we can only be ourselves in front of some people?
 

Movies recreate the world with pretty people.
 

Dude, where's my delusion?
 

In spite of the fact that no one knows the future, we think it completely self-evident that education should prepare us for success in the future.
 

Why does everyone still act like we are fundamentally rational?
 

Is religion fiction or non-fiction?
Or science-fiction?
 

"Old people will wave to you, smile and talk to you.
That's because they're old.
That is why they are so nice.
They are really desperate."
 

We do this and we do that because it is "good for your health."
What is our health good for?
 

Beauty is not truth. Quite the opposite.
 

The bubble in which we live in the city, is largely constructed of eye avoidance.
 

The recent return of religious fundamentalism forces intelligent people to re-think these issues, in order to have a coherent position.
Occasionally this is interesting, but most of us laid this issue to rest in junior high school.
I hope we won't now have to argue why sports isn't very important.
 

New phrases for new times™:
"...but I triviate."
 

Everyone won't agree with me on this, but people are genetically programmed not to all believe the same thing.
We are genetic contrarians, nay-sayers.
 

We are bunny rabbits in the woods:
we pay attention to all noises and to all sudden movements.
We are timid little bunny rabbits in the woods — with machine guns.
 

Not a Terribly Useful Phrase™
"You look old, but in a good way."
 

The ideal of retirement is to improve your self,
Not having to do anything in particular is the empty canvas for that task.
 

Not knowing who you are keeps you young.
 

Compare: "Reading is good" vs.
"Looking is good."
 

More police, more security: more and more people are needed just to monitor us.
 

Aging men are grumpy because not only are they invisible, their opinions are invisible too.
 

New phrases for new times™: "I am as happy as Hell."
 

The unexamined life may not be worth living,
but that sure doesn't stop us from trying.
 

If we ever find the place where Jesus died, we should memorialize it:
we should put up a cross.
 

At basketball games spectators wave their foam sticks behind the backboard as players form the opposing team take their foul shots.
This does no good at all!
They're like ... voting!
 

We're all out of context.
 

Why don't all museums have a conversation pit?
 

Art is not at all about the artist
but we sure make it about the artist.
 

Originally Mayan and Greek art was painted. In museums, it is unpainted and lovely.
What if we took all the color from the objects in our world: the cars, the clothes, the ads. Perhaps we too would look more museum worthy.
 

We have no more control over world and the way it's going then we have over the fact we are going to die.
 

the "look at me" exhibit:
people (models, gallery goers) stand or sit very still while other gallery goers can look at them close up and in detail as though they are works of art
 

explicit pornographic images carved in fine Carrera marble.
 

Do we like the wood grain pattern in our furnishings because it demonstrates our mastery over the powerful wood?
 

the unsound bite.
 

Rembrandt shared his insights into humanity four hundred years ago.
Why are we still fucking with this shit?
 

The fact that we fear strangers makes life a little more exciting.
 

house curtains made out of slips
 

Imaginary sport team names
Pleasanton: home of the Fighting' Wal-Mart Greeters
Pleasanton: home of the Angry Hospitality Workers
Sinton: home of the Cocksuckers
 

People told you you were made by a god.
Why would you ever believe that?
 

A conversation topic:
what things have you seen that you did not photograph and wish you did?
 

What is life without fantasy?
How would I know?
 

Painful self-consciousness is not actually thinking.
 

An idea for a hip district for people who email, IM, text and talk:
Inside-Out:
Everyone is in huge rooms where the walls are computer screens.
As they email, IM etc.
Their computer screens, phone texting screens and even their audio are projected onto the walls as a huge collage where everyone can see them.
 

Why not have each culture write up their own politically correct history: Europeans, Native American and Mexicans.
What would that look like?
They would not be identical.
 

You can't buy happiness.
You have to make it yourself, out of things you find along the way.
 

Stop thinking!
It's such a turn off.
 

"No we humans are just fine.
We're one of god's bright ideas!"
 

You can't be happy all the time.
At least you can't laugh all the time.
 

A good name for a future exhibition/book/movie: "Oh Please God No!"
 

Why does it seem strange to me that high school dropouts would go to an art museum and enjoy it?
 

Humans have various myths about themselves:
They come up to the world through a hole.
They are created out of mud.
When they die they go up from earth to a heaven.
It's like we don't really belong here on the earth on which we have always been.
The human race is a patient with complete amnesia about where it comes from.
 

Faith isn't knowledge even if you have faith that faith is knowledge.
 

The number in my bank account are my small numbers; they mean a hell of a lot to me.
 

As you age, your sense of the normal drifts
but your sense of your sense of the normal doesn't usually drift the same way.
 

In the Vietnam Era, the US was a super-power and could only lose one foreign war at a time.
Now we are a "hyper-power." Now we can lose two foreign wars at a time.
 

The battle for hearts and minds is never an easy one.
People defend their hearts and minds.
 

People should be seen not heard.
 

Tradition gives answers without needing explanations.
 

Everything he said about his art was irrelevant to what I liked about his art.
 

Party Question ™:
  • Divide the room into "The Young People" and "The Old People" based on age.
    Gather in groups and brainstorm.
    Come up with say five answers:
  • The Old People brainstorm on: Things we Didn't Know When We Were 26
  • The Young People brainstorm on: Things Old People Don't Seem to Realize
or
  • The Old People brainstorm on: Things we envy about young people, and why.
  • The Young People brainstorm on: Things we envy about old people, and why.
or
  • The Old People brainstorm on: Things for which I feel sorry for young people.
  • The Young People brainstorm on: Things for which I feel sorry for old people.
Afterward everyone gets together and share.
 

The oddest people clothe themselves in normalcy.
I suppose that is one function of normalcy.
 

Don't fuck with me! I am a good friend of God.
 

People should wear little buttons to indicate their current level of boredom.
a little fire might blaze up when they are enjoying the conversation, or die down when they are bored.
(This could be controlled biometrically, or by hand.)
 

Idle Chatter of the Great Administrators:"Believe the bullshit!"
[ Joni: "No!" she responds, "Live the bullshit!"
 

As I age I float away from who I happen to be.
 

Love those around you.
Do not wish they were someone else.
 

It was not so long ago that the homeless would go out in the woods and build themselves a home.
 

The Have a Nicest Day contest™
have a contest in the office to see who has the nicest day.
Afterward, the winner gets to hug the losers
 

It's a little sad:
Our kids will grow up to be just like us.
 

It's spring! and time to grow again.
 

What is the opposite of the peace symbol? A flag?
 

Our life is like water winding its way slowly to the sea, settling for long times in lakes and weaving through quiet pastures.
 

Why do religions spend SO MUCH time on sexual morality?
Is it because deep down are we are always thinking about fucking each other?
 

News of nations and politics: Tales of the Great Bureaucracies
 

We hold on to the way we think things are.
 

When are human beings telling the truth?
Often they themselves don't know.
 

I enter the urban silence, an uncannily real simulacrum of reality, performed by gifted mimes playing themselves.
 

I am not clueless.
I am cluefull.
 

If the students aren't learning anything, are you really teaching?
Or are you only making teaching gestures.
 

Being alive is so much fun.
 

Sex is the subtext of life.
It is what we sub-see on television.
 

A minor mixed benefit of being old: people ignore you a little more.
 

People treasure their diversity.
They like to separate themselves from other people.
It's too scary to not.
 

I am a neo-presocratic.
 

About the wisdom of our time: Do we now understand Shakespeare (or Hemingway, or Woolf) any better than we did in 1965?
 

"Don't give me a soft time."
 

For the sake of our sanity, we go about the world constantly rejecting each other.
 

One of our beliefs is that our culture is formed by our beliefs.
 

Sure I can be normal,
unless you make normal just too fucking stupid!
 

It's easy being a porn star.
Any young person can do it.
 

Hmmm on the range
 

We have lost our grip on the concept of "civilization."
 

Does living in the moment mean that cannot think?
 

In the modern world we value life too much and too little at the same time.
 

Is it morally important what country we a citizen of?
Isn't it like the bank we are affiliated with: The Bank of America.
 

Just as authors are usually disappointment to their readers, readers are usually a disappointment to their authors.
 

We want to be high on life.
We want to be high without using drugs.
How can we do that if we don't have drugs to show us what we are aiming for?
 

Why do religions place so many restrictions on sexuality?
Is it because free sex is the prerogative of the alpha male? Giving up sex is a clear signal you are not in charge.
 

My animal life is so cow-in-the-field.
 

a coffee heat sink.
a fork with a hundred long tines you put into a cup of coffee to cool it down enough so you can drink it
 

In school, the kids are actually learning a lot about educational bureaucracy.
 

It's Valentines Day: unwrap your heart!
 

When we're all on the same page, it is usually the front page of the National Enquirer.
 

Sadly, the feeling of oneness with the Universe wears off.
 

True political leadership would be political suicide.
 

I am on a pilgrimage to a distant shrine that doesn't exist.
 

Only when we accessorize, do we make ourselves us.
 

The Seventy Plus cable channel: showing nothing but people seventy years old and over, especially the wise, interesting and intellectually alive.
This is not for the ones whose main appeal is that they don't look seventy
 

I use clip thoughts as I use clip art..
 

Normal people think: "Oooohh, we're normal.
We're better than you."
Normal people also think: "You can't criticize us.
We're normal."
 

Do you remember the film Groundhog Day?
I think of it daily.
 

It is usually disappointing when you meet the author of a book that you love.
I, for example, am always disappointed when I meet the author of my aphorisms.
 

You dress to fit in.
I dress to fit out.
 

Our motives are usually opaque to us, but we are clever creatures and we can easily make up lots of stories.
 

Christianity hasn't worked out in nearly twenty centuries.
How much longer are we going to give this?
 

Is common sense becoming more uncommon, or less sensible?
 

One day someone will invent a filter that filters out all talk that isn't very meaningful.
What a quiet world that would be!
 

New Phrases for the New Man™: "I'm not going to worry my pretty little dick about it."
 

We have normal conversations to keep us from saying anything.
 

When women say that men treat them as sex objects, one might reply:
"If you would say something interesting, I wouldn't get distracted by your breasts."
(Yes, I am sure that would work.)
 

God doesn't model humility (or respectful self-doubt) very well.
 

Who is this "me"?
 

Everyone wants to be an intellectual, but nobody wants to think.
 

I am on a revision quest.
 

I love myself best when I delude myself about myself.
 

Perhaps the naturally environment is only aesthetically pleasing when you no longer have to survive in it.
 

The world is a set of post-Socratic fragments.
 

Prayer works, but, sadly, prayer is its own reward.
 

answerstors
 

Instead of using the word "senior citizen", as I never define myself as a "citizen", how about using:
  • senior commandante (senior commander) or
  • senior party officials
  • old boys
 

It's another day to pretend to be me.
 

A book is a father.
 

Most people gave up communicating in words a long time ago.
 

Must I accept the world as it is?
Must I accept the world as I see it?
 

Behind every family lies the myth of the family:
 

Most people have made their peace with war.
 

What will I think tomorrow?
 

I have a major case of My Way.
 

Students, like the rest of us, hide their disabilities.
 

The Sad Math™: If only one-percent of people are interesting to me, then only one-percent of women are interesting to me, and only one percent of beautiful women are interesting to me.
 

People are abandoning the real world as a place to find excitement.
It just didn't worked out.
 

The fact that their conversation is not interesting to you
is not that interesting to them.
 

Usually it's not now now.
 

We build our self-confidence out of whatever materials that are at hand.
 

Not only do we confuse sex with love, we confuse sex with intelligence.
 

It's a happier world if I don't listen to the news; it has one less irritated person in it.
 

I'm a snob.
Bore me.
 

We want there to be wise men because we want there to be answers.
 

I can talk and I can think.
I give good head.
 

Why cannot books supply all the human contact we need?
 

high-bandwish
 

Computer is a silly name for a computer.
It is like calling a car a combuster.
A "communicator" would be a better term.
 

It is built into the male mind that at times it will think it is standing next to the most beautiful woman in the world.
 

We dress up in the regalia of our culture: the new and shiny car, the shiny shoes, shiny hair and the right initials on our purse.
 

You can, maybe be high all the time, but you can't feel high all the time.
 

Everything is confusing, if you think about it hard enough.
 

God and religion can explain everything.
That is precisely what is wrong with them.
 

The opposite of The Dark Side? The Sunny Side
 

Believing in a good god solves nothing but it often stops the mind from worrying.
 

I am always thinking up new straws to grasp at.
 

A big part of thinking is dealing with the clever illusions and elaborate delusions of very intelligent and thoughtful people.
 

I am an atheist; please don't make me call upon my mystic powers.
 

Fake or real, people love significance.
 

When you think about it, thinking is something that happens when you are not thinking.
 

Christmas: the Superbowl of gift-giving.
 

"Have you lost weight?
You penis is so nice and slim."
 

After the illusion comes the disillusion.
 

Humans are always scamming for the best habitat.
We want that habitat for humanity!
 

What you learn when you grow up is that you never actually grow up.
 

On stopping war:
We are not battling a meteor coming at us.
We are battling ourselves.
 

Remarkably, the only power strong enough to counterbalance our ever-encroaching laws, are religious taboos.
 

The mind is a well-endowed sex organ.
 

taking the balls by the horn.
 

Inflatable/deflatable breast implants!
Breast implants can be heavy and this can lead to back problems. Why not have a way to reduce them (or inflate them) as conditions dictate?
"This crowd is too old; I think I'll deflate my breasts."
 

You might understand the world through reason but you don't understand it by expecting it to be reasonable, or just or fair.
 

We bring children to be photographed with Santa.
How about alternative picture opportunities for the tourists: picture yourself with a homeless person, a toothless person, a hooker or a Goth.
 

A movie idea: Put a small portable video recorder on a person and record eight actual hours in their day.
Do this to ten people.
Then refilm the actual events, minute by minute, in Hollywood quality movie.
 

I don't know about the long-term safety of milk.
I have been drinking milk for sixty years.
Now I look like an old man.
 

a carrying case for books and computers and things in the shape of a big book
 

Perhaps I'm not being me as much as I'm not being you.
 

Why is it not possible to invent a new part of speech?
 

Here are some expressions of affection from you kids, performed by members of the Hartford Drama Club.
 

Can you believe two religions at once?
If religion is not a matter of reason, you should be able to.
 

My feelings about my feelings are as fleeting as my feelings.
 

Overt time we have so many disappointing experiences meeting people, it's amazing our imaginations hold up.
The imagination holds up better than our leathery, overstuffed body.
 

The smile I sometimes wear in public is just another mask.
(All facial expressions are masks if they are not a response.)
 

Time can not tell what time can not tell.
Time will only tell what time will tell.
 

As I age I deal with the fact I am myself only some of the time.
 

We're all driving on black ice.
 

I have no time to live my life
 

Idea for an Art Exhibit: Go Ahead and Touch Me:
People of all kinds stand in a big room. People may come up and touch them, gently, anywhere.
The people being touched look at the people touching them, but they do not say anything.
A variant of the above: People may touch or they may volunteer to be the ones being touched.
 

It may help us in navigating ourselves through the world not to understand our emotions.
 

By living on the same land and experiencing the same weather, Native Americans are my ancestors as well:
they are my foredwellers.
 

Why do all cultures have myths and fairy tales when not a single one of them is true?
 

We think in monsters and we think in gods.
 

We take our little solo.
It lasts but a lifetime.
(You're on.)
 

Reality is like a really well photographed movie, although the plot is weak.
The special effects are great; it feels like you are right there!
 

We wear the baseball hat but we can't face a curveball.
We wear the mortarboard, but we don't have a clue.
 

We communicate best in our imagination.
 

We should not use the word "mankind."
Instead we should use the word "manunkind."
 

Another thing good about Spokane:
it is not too difficult to be different.
 

To be normal, it is not enough to act normal.
You have to take the arbitrary rituals of normality seriously.
 

Life is interesting because no one understand it.
It has so many undiscovered aspects.
 

Beautiful people are symbols for the people we are drawn to in our lives.
 

Local news in too hysterical.
What about having the morning news as three or four people sitting around a table, with coffee, tired, reading the AP bulletins to us.
They are making intelligent, sometimes tentative, comments.
 

Higher education is a cult: it is part of the Diffi-Cult.
 

A movie that lasts say 8 hours, on "real time," about someones life for 8 hours, yet it's an exciting 8 hours.
 

Our dreams are not usually our dreams.
 

New Curse-word: fuckadoodle!
 

In pre-modern Japan and other cultures we can see people made mad by grief; they do, feel and say strange things.
In today's world we give special credence to the words and feelings of those who have been addled by grief.
We cannot see they have gone mad.
 

In certain situations panic just feels like the right response.
 

To break off a relationship you have to be a asshole, or be very very boring.
It's easier to be an asshole.
 

The only way I can hold on to the conceit that I am not old is by adopting the view that there are no old men.
 

Having people like you is more pleasant and much easier than liking yourself.
 

amusement drugs
 

People may have an addiction not to the drugs, but to a need for alternative consciousnesses.
 

Poverty seems natural, though it is not a part of nature at all.
 

Why aren't rich people more sympathetic to poor people?
 

a noise generator that is built into a public bathroom.
it would play noises to cover up any bodily noises you are making in the bathroom.
it could contain loud flushing, or water sounds.
for fun it could play a really big fart noise to cover your own farts
 

"To gay or not to gay."
 

self-tuning, self-synchronizing guitars, and pianos!
 

The ultimate sport team mascot names: the Men,
and of course, the Lady Men.
 

Is this holiness, or assholiness?
 

a chalk outline rug
 

Humans are constituted so as to believe in monsters and beasts.
To test this, just go out into the woods at night by yourself and see what you believe.
 

audio ear-buds styled as earrings
 

In a group of 50 people, pick out the person who most like you.
How would you choose?
 

Your jokes are laughable!
 

After a certain point, things do not get any more simple.
 

In a bad relationship you become the flaw.
 

It's one thing to help students who want to be helped, it's another thing to help students who don't want to be helped.
 

When Jesus turned water into wine, did Jesus turn water into really good wine?
 

Why do I worry less about my own failings than about the failings of George Bush?
 

Religion turns morality into rules.
 

Always be inappropriate in an appropriate manner (or they will lock you up.)
 

Writing is guitar playing of our culture.
 

How much of being is human is over-riding human behavior?
 

I am no longer rattling the bars of my cage, but playing little songs on them.
 

"We're bending over and we're talking it like men."
 

I live locally but I listen globally.
 

Emails to my congressmen are like prayer flags.
They are prayer mails.
 

There is never enough time to enjoy the moment.
 

In the future one form of privacy would make it so you not understand language any more.
 

Maybe the sign that the world is at peace is when ALL the news is about Brad and Angelina and the baby..
 

People agree enthusiastically with each others vague statements.
 

Our forefathers were mostly stupid, ignorant bigots.
Which is what our descendants will think of us.
 

a new orifices: your nuthole
 

faith-based violence | faith based intolerance | faith-based terrorism
 

The ability to work depends on The Will to Drive (to work).
 

Are we all special?
We all readily feel special.
 

The voice of the dollar: Vox pecuniae, vox populi.
 

Religion does honor important moral concepts, but does so almost accidentally, because religion honors trivial taboos in exactly the same way.
 

I am becoming who I am.
I'd rather be sinking into who I'd like to be.
 

We are living in an era of thoughtless overreaction.
 

Why does insomnia always have to happen at night?
It would be better if I were wide awake and couldn't sleep say at two in the afternoon.
 

Being a Christian involves learning how to take any statement in the Bible, no matter how ridiculous, and justify it.
 

We don't think much and we have little to say.
We are walking pieces of elevator music.
 

People frighten you into acting old.
 

Having an interest in sports is not bad, but having an interest only in sports is.
 

the wonderbounce™: a bra that simulates the bounce of a young girl not wearing a bra.
 

In hindsight the Cold War was the Cool War: the posers war, all nerves and strategy.
 

How did cowboys get to be so conservative? Shouldn't they be open, fearless and liberal?
 

I want to see if I can pretend to grow up.
 

My task is to add and subtract and change the slender silly set of routines I call myself.
 

What was the pre-computer word for multitasking?
 

To discourage common cheating in schools: someone should invent software that you can't copy or paste into, or even open pages not created in that particular software.
you would however be able to copy and edit inside the document
 

Do I dare to eat a genetically modified peach?
 

slowly blinking light bulbs for your home, which blinks stately every several minutes or so
 

Life involves going into a box and staying there a lot.
 

Who gets to make the politically correct terms? Shouldn't this should be a job for our Poet Laureate?
 

The trouble with political correctness is that "weight challenged" really means "fat."
 

The new color for fashionable timid people: hot beige!
 

Who is the world's richest blues singer?
 

a new hallmark card: get real soon
 

My body wants to be comfortable and warm.
It's my body's life ambition.
 

Our understanding reaches an aesthetic compromise with the world.
 

"You can't stay high all the time."
The world experienced in understanding is nor the permanent state of being in the world.
The permanent state is not one of being experienced.
 

For all their fancy words and balanced compound sentences, the sages of the past still couldn't figure out they couldn't figure things out.
 

I struck out and I struck out.
 

When we meet people, we never say "Hey I find you attractive!" even though that is a common experience.
 

Attractiveness is a kind of self-esteem.
 

Wisdom is metadata: Attachments between experiences existing in ones own experience, using our own cryptic tags.
 

How hard is life suppose to be anyway?
 

Much of growing up is just pretending that all the other people aren't there.
 

Many people lack a working awareness of the arbitrariness of it all.
 

I dare you to talk to me.
 

the bongomobile: a car with a drum-pad built in all along the roofline for your fingers to tap a rhythm along with your favorite song.
the drum could come out on the speakers, blended with the music
 

Government security is first of all security for the government.
 

a cable channel of Civilized People®: There could be alternative versions of this concept.
Alternative mind-styles.
Alternative models of being normal.
You could simply show groups of like-minded friends who had been hanging out together over time, interviewing them, picking their brains.
Let us see them us.
 

Honesty is not always the nicest policy.
 

On Israel's right to exist:
If a tribe of well-armed Native Americans with a legitimate historical claim (like the Lenni Lenapes) had taken over New Jersey in 1947, would the US have forgotten and forgiven this by now?
 

When I am traveling by myself there are no assholes, except, of course, the invisible one.
 

These days my idealism is expressed in a great sadness and the occasional tear.
 

Regrettably, the box I think outside of is Pandora's.
 

How do you know what Jesus would do?
 

People of color are humans.
Angry humans.
 

Sometimes you don't realize what an asshole you are until you actually talk to someone.
 

We are raised in the small picture.
 

Clearly God does not find human life sacred.
 

Where are the "right to life" people on the killing of civilians in the Middle East?
They should be horrified!
 

Do we have a moral duty to be lovable?
Do we have a moral duty to be tolerable?
 

Life isn't hard
but it is hard for me
not to make it so.
 

For most of history, the proper answer to the question say of why the sun rises is "I don't know."
 

What makes us think that love is the answer?
Our heart.
 

to enhance the drive-around-town-with-the-windows-open-listening-to-music experience:
put a fat (child-safe) bass string in the roof line, just above the driver's door.
the driver can then strum along with the music as she or he drives.
chords could be changed by using buttons on the back of the steering wheel.
an automobass!
 

Why don't primitive people remember that long ago they came into a new valley and overcame the adverse elements?
Why do they speak of gods?
Do they think in gods?
 

By the time we can afford the fantasy (the big car, travel, the cute clothes) we no longer fit the fantasy.
(Why am I traveling with these old farts? This was not what I wanted)
 

What are the limits to what we can legitimately be offended by?
 

We use words and behavior as normative checks: ways of seeing if you are normal and "if you are one of us."
There are many kinds of normative behaviors: ways to dress, ways to talk, tone of voice, greetings, gestures, distances to stay apart, eye contact, etc.
We can do whatever we want as long as it does not harm others or unless it triggers a normative check.
 

Life in general, and parties in particular, are not long enough.
 

Books are beer for the mind.
 

ring tones for cars: a unique tone and volume for when you lock your car with the remote control
 

You know what is good? Diet soda with sugar!!
 

References to books in conversation are seldom more incisive than references to a movie.
"Did you read ______________.?
Wasn't that a great book!"
 

Death Vader
 

What did you discover from experimenting with drugs?
 

Are you just who you happen to be?
 

Just because you can no longer climb Mt. Hood is no reason to grow up!
 

Compared to humans, pets simplify the criteria for being a successful caretaker.
 

With extra bandwidth available in the future, we could make a movie (say of a train-ride) where the viewer can focus in more on the part of the film scene they want to look at!
This could be done using a joystick or a device that tracks eye movement.
 

I am but the tip of my iceberg.
 

Spiritual insight is a momentary delight.
 

eworlding.
 

Books are my community.
 

An aging person lives more desperately on the shrinking ice flow of the present.
 

Oh the things I think without thinking...
 

Does the salmon wonder what he is doing as he battles waterfalls up a cold surging river?
If he could speak, would he find agreement among the other salmon?
 

Family pictures, the trophies and certificates of a successful life.
 

Why would women dress up in a way that would attract any male in the world?
 

When did "inappropriate" become "sinful" or "morally wrong"?
We might suggest that something may not be appropriate, and fit in to the situation.
But this makes it gauche, not immoral.
Who can say that something is never appropriate?
(Another way we are slouching towards secular fundamentalism.)
 

Reason has its own Bible.
 

We only learn in old age what happened to us in our youth.
 

There are fashions of understanding,
 

On vacation nothing happens in a much more stimulating way.
 

I thought that with modern communications, everyone would think like me.
Why didn't that happen?
 

Time does not slow down on vacation.
It just tumbles down a different course.
 

As we age, we will need new dreams.
My new dream is to have a kick-ass Estate Sale.
 

the fantasy of the moment — the Zeit-mirage.
 

You are Alain de Bottom, the famous writer I admire?
Yes.
Well now I have been granted an opportunity to seem like a nearly incoherent twit.
 

Dot NOT overunderstand!
 

All understanding is tentative.
 

This is not my ideal life at all.
This is the life I live my life around.
 

How many times will you need to read about Western Europe's cruelty and racism?
Until you actually understand it.
 

Interneat!
 

One part of life is to pretend that everything is OK.
 

A little addiction takes your mind off the pain.
 

There are stories about monsters in all civilizations.
Why is that? After all there are no monsters.
 

What is a non-pejorative, value free word for pornography?
What about VTSN: visual taboos of a sexual nature?
 

Drugs and diet are chemical prayers.
 

Would you rather have the feeling of profundity than be profound but unable to appreciate it?
 

Life is very high-resolution.
 

Today used to be so tomorrow.
Today it seems to be a lot like yesterday.
 

Are you fighting with her so she will hate you?
 

Rain is dripping through the ceiling of the Rocket Bakery.
I look at it.
I realize if I keep looking at it, people will think I am foolish, feeble or drugged.
I wish the drips were an artwork in a museum (rain dripping through the fluorescent lights).
Then I could look as long as I wanted to.
 

I am old.
I own a hundred pens.
 

Strangers are mostly made of fantasy.
 

There is a good chance it has all been said already.
But will I ever understand it?
 

Another benefit of aging: more young people, less old people.
 

Been there done that.
Am there; doing that.
Will be there; will do that.
Will have been there; will have done that.
(Should have been there; should have done that.)
 

I have been condemned to death by aging.
 

Spring lifts your heart because it happens everywhere all-at-once.
It happens in me as well.
 

(After driving behind a car traveling 55 miles per hour:) There ought to be a law against people who follow the law.
 

Art idea: People carrying various strange things down a street
 

Since T-shirts are always popular, so how about T-shorts and T-pants?
 

designer fire detectors
 

The "Three R's" are actually one R, one W and one A.
 

American't
 

The future will judge us on what happens in the future.
 

Enjoying life is like getting high on life.
It is avoiding reality.
 

Prejudice is most offensive when it lingers into postjudice.
 

I could place every book I buy inside a dark translucent plastic box with a snap hinge.
on the spine and on the cover I would write down what I think this book will do for me.
I call this boox.
 

On my love of novelty.
Do I want to have nothing but a first impression?
 

The physical world is not the best metaphor for the world.
 

The tao is down twenty-six points.
 

Modern art is all about nothing.
 

Leather pants: I am an animal.
Vinyl pants: I am a doll
 

I am at the art museum.
What are we supposed to think here?
 

When I see a Rembrandt I do not simply see a painting: I also see a Rembrandt.
 

Academic philosophy is big ideas considered by proxy.
 

Why would a 19th century home need a clock in their home?
It's not that they would miss their favorite TV show.
 

Usually the choice is between having an awkward conversation or having no conversation at all.
 

PUSH read backwards through a glass door is PULL.
 

Museum talk can be so irrelevant.
It is like looking at a beautiful and mysterious women, and someone tells you she is wearing Channel No 5, has a dress of rayon woven in state-of-the-art factories in China and featured in the spring 2004 Gap collection.
 

Of course cupid is a baby!
 

Life is not like things that happen in a novel.
 

I am of the age that if I wear a shirt that says "Please Talk to Me.
I am Interesting", no one would give it a second, let alone a first, look.
 

Can I help you sir?
No I'm just thinking.
 

Surprise is a part of being in the world, no matter how much you know.
 

Wisdom and happiness are free, yet we spend so much money on them.
 

What is the modern equivalent of the idealized oil painting portraits of the rich people? What if they make a movie of themselves, or at least a trailer?
 

In conversations we toss frail ropes awkwardly across the abyss.
 

Books distract us from thinking.
 

In Roman sculpture, the gods are the really pretty ones.
 

an idealized 3D portrait
 

We suck the teats we find.
 

I'm at the beach.
(What does this remind me of?)
 

What if we gave free wet t-shirt contests, NASCAR races, loud rock concerts and nobody came?
 

Rich people still have their retinue.
Today it consists of Mexican builders, Latin housekeepers and their Asian gardeners.
 

"Freedom is not free" is not a tautology but a pun.
It is like saying "bravery is not brave" or "helpfulness is not helpful."
 

There is nothing like irritation at the world to take my mind off my real problems.
 

North Amiracle
 

What's classified is the information about how weak the classified information is.
 

Doing things that no one sees is another part of being humans.
 

There were no passwords when I was growing up, except for "open sesame."
 

That is so old age.
 

My shadow has not aged.
 

A generic protest sign: "Fuck you! Fuck you!"
 

Why aren't men as they age more happy?
They should be going around with twinkling eyes, not with a fallen mask of disappointment.
I should be nicer to men my age.
They could use a little appreciation.
 

Surely our aim in life is not to sit here satisfied with ourselves?
 

I can now see that writing song lyrics is one more thing I'm no good at.
At the end of my life, I will see that I'll be no good for anything.
 

Humans are incorrigible.
 

I get through the world with cynicism and thoughts of sex.
 

Not "growing up," but "growing on."
 

I should not be mad at older people who wear baseball hats.
It is, after all, a clear signal we have nothing in common.
 

When being introduced to someone for the first time ask them:
"What do you wish I really wanted to talk about?
(What things do you wish I would take a deep interest in?")
This is something I also need to answer for myself.
 

I seek novelty — what else is new?
 

We are animals of understanding.
 

I am not thinking locally, but personally.
 

Philosophy does not want to change the world.
(But I do.)
 

What is there to figure out?
 

I thought narrow minded religious fundamentalists were a temporary, fading phenomenon, soon to be wiped off the map by a nuanced education.
It turned out that it was nuanced education that was wiped off the map.
 

Movies — the quintessential shared experience.
You have to be there, and for $9.00 you can.
Well, $18.00 for two.
 

The future is not necessarily in your interest.
 

bureaucrazy:
 

You learn more by watching the way the world than by understanding the world.
What it is always trumps what you think it is.
 

She is cute.
People will tell her the secrets of the universe just so to be next to her.
 

My mind is constantly digging drainage canals of thought.
 

I sleep well and I wake up happy.
Luckily I do not realize that this feeling too will pass.
 

Periodically we need to flash our sex-appeal.
We need to see if it still is legal tender.
We need to see if the data is still readable from the disc.
 

I self-medicate my depression with my favorite delusions.
 

Arguing with religion is like shooting immortal fish in a barrel.
 

I watch the world as it twists in the wind.
 

I want a mate.
I don't want a checkmate.
 

Happeness
 

I don't think I do but I do think I think I should.
 

Non-Dummies for Dummies
and it's companion volume,
Things a Dummy Will Never Know for Dummies
 

One good cure is the hide of the dog that bit you.
 

What is the risk of being too risk averse?
 

Best new line in a relationship fight: "No, I'm not a total asshole.
I just seem like one today."
 

Am I the only one here pretending to think?
 

Hypate and Lucy are discussing "men."
"Look," I tell Fred, "they sure seem to be experts on men,"
"Yes," he replies, "they think of men as incomplete versions of themselves."
 

One of the sins of religion is that it makes a heaven seem boring.
 

suggestures
 

In the city, I travel around in schools (of cars).
I turn when they turn.
I stop when they stop.
 

Everything is cheap if you have money.
 

God would not want you to believe that he exists on the silly inadequate evidence at our disposal.
 

Without fear I love because I frame people in love.
 

Life gets scary when you think about it.
 

Self-pity is one of life's guilty pleasures.
 

We go to movies and pay to see pretty people.
 

The meaning of life is a direction.
 

We each have our own private war on terror.
We can never win that one either.
 

Can religion be rational? Yes.
But religion cannot be rational and traditional.
 

How am I doing? Stress me out a bit and I'll show you.
 

I constantly construct a narrative for my feelings.
 

A whore's shoe is good luck.
 

A gorgeous view from a living room won't save a relationships.
 

I don't admire people who have been married for 25 years.
I admire people who have been in love for 25 years.
 

a conversational cafe (eat and meet) where you go to have discussions with random strangers.
you could sign up on a computer who would tell you what other topics people want to discuss and, possibly, the age of the conversationalist
 

a new computer program: Virtual Church: have a service, meet your fellow worshipers, whose stories, a little more real and interesting that people's real-life stories, are based on real people, people from all over the world. The software makes any song sound like a congregation in church that is singing along with you
 

So I can simply change myself? Well, fuck!
That changes everything.
 

We should not care about the Nazi Holocaust because the victims were Jews.
We should care about the Nazi Holocaust because the victims were human.
 

We let young people raise the babies because (frankly) it's about all they're good for.
(They do have the energy.)
 

Which is more depressing? That no one out there thinks like you? Or that many people out there do think like you but it makes no difference?
 

Generally speaking I don't believe in people who agree with me.
 

If others are to think like you, you must first think.
 

The airplane liftoff is a gentle brush with the end of your life.
 

a plot machine as a computer game.
you could play all sides, result could be a novel.
takes place () the present () year _______.
at certain places you could add a powerful quote.
at the end, the novel is played back as a video, complete with dialog, or produced as a written book, which you could edit, or as a screen play
 

Democracy, some people think, gives you the right to think whatever the fuck you want.
regardless of it being sensible, true, silly or frivolous.
 

We don't feed the starving poor, because we would be jealous of poor people if they were to get some money for free.
 

My happiness is off-putting.
"Don't speak to him.
He is happy for no visible reason"
 

How can I make happiness seem hip and cynical?
 

Being human is a vague and ambiguous concept.
 

someone should make well designed, professional looking faux book covers for your non-existent novel
 

MOFO: Museum of Fine Objects
 

When do we open the gates?
When do we build ramparts?
 

I am having a bad age day.
 

malapriapism
 

Be happy, be very, very happy.
 

Reality will never have the no-downside side of my fantasies.
 

The accumulated writings of all mankind are the books of my Bible.
 

What will people think
next?
 

I am a 709 month old fetus.
 

I think I think so I don't have to think.
(I think therefore I think not.)
 

Sometimes I am granted a book that thinks for me.
 

Philosophical truth is a song I sing, the song that makes most sense.
It is what I want to sing now, the lovely chords that resonate and harmonize \on the strings in my life.
 

Sex is the existential game.
 

Of all the women I can't have, I separate out the ones I want from the ones I don't.
 

mindfelt words
 

For our protection, we should launch a huge statue of Jesus and place it in a synchronous orbit over the USA.
 

I populate my world with people from fiction.
 

Change happens
 

Spare changes?
 

another car design: a copper car! perhaps nicely riveted.
 

It does not take much to float my boat.
I am lifted by pretty shallow shit.
 

I realize I am being subtly rejected by, and rejecting, males as well.
This has been hidden because I don't desire men.
Ah well.
Beauty is a game I do not play well.
 

How do you tolerate the intolerant?
 

People like their prejudices presented rationally.
 

a possible band name: Acoustic Nerve Damage
 

Males not only want to surround themselves with pretty woman, but also with attractive guys, in whose posse we would be honored to ride.
It doesn't matter so much what they say to each other.
 

The search for happiness is itself a kind of happiness.
 

When I tell people I am writing a philosophy book, it's like telling them I am now laying my own eggs.
 

We may not be living in a safe world, buy we live in a world with ready availability of safety.
 

magnetic scrabble tiles
 

Human beings lie.
They hesitate, think and lie to you.
 

Alone at the beach at night, I am scared of beings coming silently out of the surf.
I know in a way that alien ocean monsters don't exist.
I realize that most of the time I have spent in the dark by the ocean have taken place in horror movies.
 

I enter the airplane tube, our civilization's current device for space travel.
 

Sinéad O'Connor : Skinhéad O'Connor
 

Feelings are but momentary truths.
 

The quick and constant bobbing dance of heads and eyes as people pass each other by.
 

Attractiveness between the sexes is a social cement between generations and classes and cultures.
 

You fear that if you let go and be who you are, you'll be something weird.
 

Is hope a kind of faux memory?
 

Emotions are chemical reactions.
 

"Am I the only one here pretending to work?"
 

If Shakespeare had been paid what he was worth, he wouldn't have written so many plays.
 

Pretty women speak in a whining, cutting voices to assure themselves of attention.
The fact they are chattering away all the time doesn't hurt either.
 

It's not that we have visions of who we are, each deep and pure.
It's more like we have a feeling about what is in reality a partially decorated house.
 

If I want to know about say fossils, or strength of materials, I test them.
If I want to know about people, I cannot trust what they tell me.
 

What is a nature hike without a little fear?
 

Slutty teen dressing has now been taken up by the young moms and the thirty-year olds.
They too are now slutworthy.
 

After the hike, you sit down.
You sweat your sweat Slowly the beauty and dignity of nature comes into focus.
 

It is beautiful here, and I am absolutely comfortable.
I can stay here until I get bored of it.
 

Walking in the woods I thought I saw a cigarette butt, but it was a bleached twig.
So many of my thoughts in nature are stupid.
 

The times demand the imprimatur of appropriateness
 

Sometimes it is a matter of politeness to not understand the world.
 

We need to search for the truth randomly, as we would search for a magic key, or a hidden door.
We don't really know what we are looking for.
 

Everybody loves a sacrifice.
 

Movies are not an education.
Movies are an experience.
 

Feelings are not true or false, but always changing.
Describing feelings is like describing clouds.
There are several obvious types of clouds, but often we see a skyscape of various intermediary kinds.
When we look a little later, things have changed.
 

a car whose surface is a mirror.
a car that is all chrome
 

If you must speak the truth, write fiction.
 

We should change the phrase..."If we can put a man on the moon..." to "If we can't put a man on the moon...", as in "If we can't put a man on the moon, we certainly can't provide health care for our citizens.", or "If we can't put a shuttle into space, we certainly can't provide food for the homeless."
 

The world is an unsettling place.
 

The meaning of life is that there is no meaning of life.
There are however meanings of lives.
 

"For god's sake man, where is your sense of denial."
 

In theory I would like to sleep with her.
In practice it is a different story.
 

a new kind if dance club: everyone is wearing headphones, all broadcasting the same dance music.
each person is free to control they're own volume, or even take the headphones off.
with a suitable device, people could communicate intelligently with each other while dancing, avoiding the hopelessly loud shouting that goes on in the current venues
 

Oh that? That was just something my brain thought.
 

Going out in the world, I am an open interface, a corporeal GUI.
 

capitalism: covetism.
 

Ask not for whom the laughter peals...
 

Fantasy is my favorite part of reality.
 

Happiness has no memory.
When we are not happy we barely remember it and we cannot imagine what it could possibly feel like.
 

a new cottage industry: publishing cute small blank books with your own provocative spine and cover
 

Humans communicate by using sounds emanating from their heads.
Why we're just like dolphins!
 

When someone sneezes we say "Bless you." or "Gesundheit." Yet when people fart there is an awkward silence.
I think we should extend the "God bless you" to those times when someone farts or burps.
 

There are two sides to every face
 

Riding a bicycle is like riding a bicycle: once you've learned it you never forget it.
 

There are no stupid questions?
In 20 Questions there are.
 

Having seen great truth, we write it down and we move on.
It's not like we're the first ones to see it.
 

If we can export jobs to where workers get pain a dollar a day why don't we export whole companies to where the CEO's would work for $22.50 a day? That would save a lot of money.
 

Talking to strangers is always hitting on strangers.
 

Scientists are our elders.
 

I leave no footprints behind in Australia, just dollars.
 

I feel so intellectually alive.
This is one of my favorite illusion.
 

Music is the most egalitarian art.
I can afford the same quality music as the richest man in the world.
The rich listen to Frank Sinatra.
I listen to Frank Sinatra.
(The rich do not have their own artists.)
 

Cities look the same all over the world.
This is in part because of their monochromatic fluorescent lights and tan furniture.
If buildings used more colored lights and they would be more festive.
 

In all cities there are tall massive towers, run by cadres of intelligent unformed people, dedicated to getting your money from you, and accumulating it.
 

Should you pray that there is a god? or should you pray that there is not a god?
 

If religion is a delusion, then puzzling out the role of religion in life is the meaning of life
 

With religion, life is becomes an obstacle course, a golf course with difficult pin placement.
 

Could the multinationals and banks buy up everything and just rent it back to us?
 

When you are young, you think you will never be unhappy with each other.
Later in your life you only hope that the periods of unhappiness will end sooner rather than later.
 

I am just coming to terms with the fact that most people enjoy talking at length about the perfect way to boil a sausage because they enjoy talking at length about the perfect way to boil a sausage.
I have been assuming that if people were talking about their recipes, kids or pets, it was because they were unable to do what they really wanted to do, which was talk about something interesting.
 

The me I like is the illusion of me.
 

I can only be myself for so long.
 

You say tomorrow, and I say tomorrow.
(Let's call the whole thing off.)
 

Uptight is the question to which cigarettes are the answer.
 

What I like about the world is puzzling it out.
Life is sometimes a beach, bit life is also a library of oceanography.
 

Peaceful coexistence, or the even deeper peaceful non-existence?
 

Uh-oh is me.
 

The actual world, your world, is a strange and wondrous one, and among its strangest aspects is that it appears ordinary and mundane.
 

Kiss me! I'm foolish.
 

You've got a point there (of no return).
 

I don't have faith.
On a good day I have hope and enthusiasm.
 

On pissing into a urinal trough: I don't mind showing everyone my dick, but I feel bad about not being able to piss well in front of them.
 

Which is worse: listening to the news and being upset over things you can do nothing about, or, listening to the news and not being upset?
 

My body: I'm riding this baby down to the bitter end.
 

Look into my thighs.
The thighs are the windows to the soul.
(Thigh.)
 

Church is also a place to recognize deep feelings.
 

I read.
I live serial lives — in serial worlds.
 

I struggle for the illusions of clarity
 

Ideas do not change, fashion in ideas does.
 

Those not able to repeat the past, are condemned to remember it.
 

Most public discussions are only public rationalization.
 

Is finding happiness too easy? Or too hard?
 

"It's a different world after 9-11."
No it isn't.
It's the same fucking world.
Same fucking dreams.
 

As we age, at some point, out of sheer curiosity, we reacquaint ourselves with our former selves.
 

Cowardice is no longer cowardly.
Today it's good to confess and to be cowardly — if that's who you are.
 

Admiration is not what posterity wants; posterity wants to be amused.
 

"Don't love me for my music," said Mozart, "Love me for myself."
 

I think therefore it is.
 

Understanding the world with your mind is a hell of a way to have to navigate through the world.
 

Asking "How are you today?" is like asking "How many fingers am I holding up?"
 

Not only does the weather constantly change, the weather forecasts constantly change as well.
 

Heaven or Hell?: You are sitting sit on a couch with grandma, while dad talks about his golf scores.
Everyone is watching TV.
 

What I want is just a click away.
It's just a click away
Click away, click away..
 

Spring — and the tractors are out poisoning the fields.
 

Love thy neighbor as much as you can.
 

My higher powers is my higher power.
 

The rain cleanses the world
—of frisbee-playing yahoos.
 

In my future you could wear a bright red button that would say something like "Talk To Me." It would then be permissible for strangers to speak to you.
The button might have a transmitter that shows others what you want to talk about.
 

If animals are representations of consciousness, beautiful women are representations of truth.
 

I am looking for treasures in trash because I don't know where the treasure is.
I am dumpster diving in life.
 

Please stuff me in the right pigeon-hole, the one with enough room to change.
 

Who understands me?
I would like it to be a beautiful young woman.
 

It's Yahweh or the highway.
 

I am not meeting my analyst's expectations,
 

Coincidence is the closest I can come to miracles .
Coincidences are miracles without the fantastic machinery.
 

"Here is where God agrees with me."
 

I remain so paradigm shiftless.
 

I'm under a lot of illusions.
 

Today I cannot buy happiness; today I can only buy tomorrow's happiness.
 

You may not loiter, but you may shop forever.
 

We are interested in the sex life of Hegel (or any famous person), not because we are interested in Hegel, but because we are interested in sex.
 

It should be spelled: freeeedom!
 

I must find my fifteen minutes of enlightenment.
 

Perhaps all I can do in this world is to change myself, and see who comes out to play.
 

Good books have been written on everything and yet nothing changes.
No one wants to think what they don't want to think.
The book I want to write probably already exists, as does its opposite, the anti(dote)-book.
 

People are boring &mdash all of us.
We know it.
We want to be loved in spite of being so boring.
We want others to find our boringness interesting.
 

You aim to be creative but you are just interesting. That's actually enough.
 

a book of deathbed readings
 

I will never be a saint.
Perhaps I could be a patron saint, the patron saint of those who will never be a saint.
Or the patron saint of those who will never be a patron saint.
 

To be up-to-date, you would think souvenir shops would begin to sell not only souvenir shot-glasses, but also souvenir bongs and souvenir hypodermic needles.
 

The question is not only what Jesus would do, but how would Jesus think about this.
 

Of course I read books.
I need help.
 

If God explained how he made the world, with DNA and growth over time, a priest in the 6th Century BC, could not have understood it.
How could he? If God were to explain the universe to us, would we? We can't even understand electricity!
 

There is the pleasant illusion of getting answers, and the pleasant illusion of providing answers
 

Human(un)kind
 

I am getting older
Who haven't I been?
 

Abstract art: We tend to see abstraction as an invention of the 20th century, but there is much abstraction in the past, and there is a vast amount of abstraction in nature.
 

To the educated person, a historical museums tumble down an avalanche of historical memories.
 

Clichés and aphorisms hijack my thought process.
 

I don't even have a theory of me!
 

I do not like to lose my luggage.
My clothes are the nesting material of my me-ness.
 

What is the exact opposite of flying the American flag?
 

God - our greatest imaginary friend.
 

Instead of a get-well card, how about a get-over-it card, or a get-over-yourself card? for more extreme conditions we could use a here's-hoping-there's-an-afterlife card
 

Anyone can be an expert on religion.
You don't need a high school degree.
You only have to be think you are an expert on religion.
It is the same way I am an expert on religious experts.
 

I like a good relationship fight as much as the next man.
 

In the cities, finding a great parking spaces is a sign of cosmic affection.
 

I can't get over myself.
Nor can I get over the fact I can't get over myself.
 

Some days I'm hot shit; other day's I'm just regular, room-temperature shit.
 

You see what you feel.
 

I've got to go-go outside my box.
 

What is the proper amount of guilt to carry around with us in this world?
 

In the city it is hard to meet people, because people are normally in a mode of contact avoidance.
 

People are getting stoned in order to "weed it all out."
 

a business opportunity for our time: fake senior ids (to get the senior discounts)
 

We know about "senior moments." What about "junior moments?"
 

Some of us are involved in a collective enterprise called what-the-fuck-is-this-shit.
 

If a typo is "an error (as of spelling) in typed or typeset material," then an error in speech would be a speako, and an error of thought a thinko.
 

Today I have a feeling called: spring-is-coming
 

Put your mouth into it.
 

All's well that ends swell
 

Guess who owned the least slaves, Thomas Jefferson or George Washington?
Jefferson!! ("The American Voltaire")
Yea!
In 1774, Jefferson owned a total of 187 slaves on 7 holdings.
In 1786, Washington owned 216 slaves on 6 holdings.
 

A new musical genre :Punk gospel.
"Read the fucking Bible!
Read the fucking Bible!
Read the fucking Bible!
Asshole!"
 

You can lead a man to the Internet, but you can't make him think.
 

A candle: a wee bit of danger.
 

Reading an intelligent book is just like thinking.
 

What was I (not) thinking!?
 

The opposite of The Enlightenment is The Obscurement, or The Darkening.
 

I am depressed.
I have lost my faith in beautiful women,
 

Why do people not think (like I do?)
 

I think therefore I am.
You respond and therefore you are.
 

A candle is the minimal pet.
 

Facts come interpreted.
 

Radical tolerance would be to see how those who disagree with you could be right.
 

Just because something is sung repeatedly by a chorus, doesn't make it true.
 

What? You're saying that I can't feel good if I don't esteem myself?
 

Without women, the world is just a big set of Cartesian coordinates.
 

With the Internet everywhere, why are we not smarter?
 

Christmas is the time of the year when you hide away from those you love so you can give them something to show how much you love them.
 

speed friendships (like speed dating)
 

Instead of naming sports teams after Vandals, Vikings and Savages or after vicious animals, why not bring the name in line with more contemporary terrors? I suggest
The Spokane Junkies
The WSU Lady Crack Whores
The North Idaho Mujahadeen
The Eastern Oregon Insurgents
The Missoula Suicide Bombers
The Alabama Used Car Salesmen
The Louisiana State Liberals
 

My obsessions are beginning to get in the way of my obsessions.
 

The Internet is a huge dialog of equals.
How exasperating!
 

Religions disagree by killing each other.
 

Our conduits to others are small and ephemeral — we are dial-up.
 

Pillows are cats for people who can't handle cats.
 

food for anxiety.
 

I don't know what prejudice to adopt with respect to the recent election in the nation of Ukraine.
Am I losing my touch for holding snap opinions on matters I know nothing about?
 

and off we fuck
 

Is spiritual insight most like:
getting high or having an orgasm?
reading a really good book?
getting a math problem correct?
riding a bicycle?
 

Isn't it a moral duty to get fucked-up on the holidays?
 

what is the opposite of Thanksgiving?
Mockgiving?
Hategiving?
Sarcasticcommentgiving?
Takeitforgrantedgiving?
Whatevergiving?
Don'tgiveashitgiving?
Takeingseriouslythanksgiving?
 

I hate mankind from the inside, the way I hate myself at times.
 

A believer and an atheist are, after all, looking at and living in the same universe.
 

People don't want to think what they don't want to think.
 

Worrying about gay marriage is like worrying about who was voted off Survivors.
 

novel bloopers
 

God is (obviously) not the solution to most of our problems.
 

Why is it not acceptable for us as strangers to play with each others hands?
 

Not only can a man stand up and pee without taking down his pants, he can also sit down and pee without taking down his pants.
 

If everyone thought I was beautiful, would I be beautiful?
 

We have all been given one magic power — life.
 

Whatever it is that keeps us from screaming in anguish at the pain and suffering that is always all around us - I want that.
I need that.
(Oops, I have that.)
 

Driving in our cars we have the right of weight.
 

I love eye-contact with women.
It is a bridge where we meet to negotiate without coming to any conclusions.
 

We beat against the world with our little thoughts.
 

I have another me in sex.
 

Am I not shallow enough?
 

The narrow streets of the old town make me feel human, which is to say, larger than life.
 

People do not pay much attention to what they are thinking.
 

Most of us aren't heart-warming stories.
 

the Harley-Davidson walker
 

What would it be like to go through this world without venom?
 

Hip districts must have cute girls.
 

Why didn't the communists have better architecture?
Oh yes, they killed the architects.
 

A landscape cannot be seen from a train, anymore than wine can be appreciated in the bottle.
A landscape must breathe.
 

Without music a cathedral is just an empty tomb.
 

Size matters (in art).
 

Idea: a picture in a museum that takes your photograph
 

We travel to visit the tombstones of the rich and famous.
 

If there were a drug to get rid of our fear, the drug would be outlawed.
Fear is what is what keeps us appropriate.
 

Without stirring of sexual interest, traveling on a train would be like traveling on a cattle car.
 

How come the Europeans didn't invent summer wear or casual wear?
 

Museums are the restrooms of the mind.
 

Who needs alcohol to make bad choices?
 

Here in the chapel of the castle, we are in the feelgood part of the oppressors domain.
 

Creationism is monkey science.
 

Cell-phones are the parasols of our time: they let women be looked at while they keep women from being bothered by being looked at, and they let women hold their heads at a cute angle while they show off their voice.
 

Being normal - how hard can it be? Most people do it.
(How hard can it to swim underwater? Fish can do it.)
 

To what extent am I responsible for crimes of my gender?
 

Religion says, and does not argue.
 

Arggh! Plot.
The sign of desperation.
 

Wasting time brings the future faster.
 

Shopping, like planning a vacation, is a kind of preparation for life.
A lot of our life is preparation for life.
 

Having a girlfriend gives you less time for sexual moments, but more actual sex.
 

In the past you had adventures.
Today you have vacations.
 

Don't tell me about your reality, and I won't tell you what an asshole you are.
 

a tattoo made with pigments you can turn on and off
 

Parenting is the only job where you start out at the top, as God, and work your way down to janitor.
 

After you have made love, what is the right amount of time to wait until you start thinking of other things?
 

Birdsongs are lovely because they indicate that it's a safe world.
 

My body is my private Titanic.
 

Is the division between deep and shallow, deep or shallow?
 

A top-10 list manages the world by simplification.
 

Most people are assholes, and the ones that aren't assholes act like assholes most of the time.
 

A little of me goes a long way.
 

Starbucks does not sell coffee — it sells urban peace.
 

In the cities we gaze upwards,
the peaceful, relaxing, unspoiled place where there are no people.
 

Museums are my churches.
 

the New England rocking toilet
 

the Lazy-Boy reclining toilet
 

The therapist pulls the monsters out from under my bed.
 

The ideas we have of people is complicated and enriched by their extensions in novels.
Novels however are also fantasies of the real.
 

Masturbation is clean.
But the thoughts we have while we masturbate are not clean.
(The thoughts we have during sex are not all that clean either.)
 

Part of aging gracefully is to fight against aging gracefully.
 

I need to fly under my own radar
 

The problem is not people remember through photographs, but that they remember only the photographs.
 

Couldn't (shouldn't) we teach people to be interesting?
 

for the ladies, a combination phone, vibrator and stun gun
 

Today is not yesterday.
It never is.
 

A thing of which i was afraid that i now realize was out of proportion to its actual impact on my life: quicksand.
 

It is easiest to forgive the past if you don't know very much about it.
 

Books are shoes for the mind.
 

Seeing gets in the way of thinking.
 

No matter how bad you look in a photograph, a few years down the road, you will think you looked pretty damn good.
 

A good name for a Native American sports team would be the Treaty Breakers.
 

a dress made entirely out of dress labels.
 

Annoying Safety Tip—\: the edges of all paper should be coated with plastic, so you don't get paper cuts.
 

We talk about the weather.
It puts us in the same world.
It's a kind of sex.
 

Lemmings aren't lemmings; lepers aren't lepers, chickens aren't always chicken.
 

Everything is fuck-shit.
 

Isn't that why we are put here one earth, to write novels?
 

At my age, deciding is a luxury.
I don't need to do it.
At 30s, it's what you do.
I'm just ornamenting my life with activities.
 

Some people believe that most slang comes from young, inner city kids.
Not always.
Tonight [January 26, 2004] I invent the phrase:
this is so fuck.
 

Style is when you spend money to replace perfectly usable clothes.
 

In the simplifications of age, everything is reduced to a few simple things.
As daylight fades all becomes a dark forest.
 

new school punctuation
Old School punctuation, sometimes called "proper" or "correct" grammar, likes its punctuation nested.
For example: "I ate my lunch (and it was delicious)" said John.
New School grammar, or "hip" or "experimental" grammar, wants to write things like : "I ate my lunch (and it was delicious" said) John.
We can expand communication by adopting an atonal grammar, a nu skhool grammar.
These are not false notes but differently enabled notes for a new kind of communication.
We might explore the possibilities of:
Random ap'ostrophes.
Punctuation in the !middle of a sen.tence
Bob ,he said .I love your.
ca'r.
A period inside a long pronounce.itation.
&em;em-dashes every.where&em;
 

If you can't believe in cynicism, what can you believe in?
 

Happiness does not always come from doing what you want to do.
Happiness also comes from doing what you should be doing.
 

couldn't someone make a cute Plimsoll line to stick on the side of the tub so you would know how high to fill it for a nice full submersible bath?
 

something had gone terribly right
 

To become a hipster it helps to like what others really do not.
 

a service to provide food packages from countries you have visited.
For example, Gwen and I visited Guadeloupe.
We would like a package of common Guadeloupean food: sugar, paté, matches, etc.
 

Please — tell me a satori.
 

I seek the truffles of truth.
 

after having had three wives, I am finally "spousebroken."
 

I'm tired of the future being the same as the past.
 

Looked at another way the existence of Creole culture and the mulatto is a testament to interracial love.
 

Here's a good idea - the seven day weekend
 

Books flow over your pigeonholes and fixed ideas,
like people do.
 

The take-off is the orgasm of plane rides
 

When you dress in the latest hip style, you are wearing modernity clothes.
 

A mid-life crisis is at bottom a life-crisis.
 

The word modern dates from 1585.
What is a more modern word for modern?
 

Perhaps I would like it more if it were called the Department of Motherland Security
 

Spokane - no hip people to annoy you.
 

the Germans have a word for it: "pig-dog!"
 

the Freeway River, or the New Plastic River
 

Some students cannot be taught.
They can only be subjected to teaching.
 

A flashlight doesn't flash! A strobe light flashes.
A flashlight should be called a steadylight.
 

With today's technology, why are cars still painted in monochromatic colors?
what about cars: painted like an appaloosa, mottled with spots? or painted like a beagle, with a black top, a brown front, and a white underbelly? painted like a python fish, a Gila monster, a neon tetra, or an angel fish?
 

Isn't it unsafe to put the safety warning on medicine bottles in print so small that no one can read it?
 

The American flag does not belong exclusively to conservative bigots.
Whenever I see someone displaying the flag, I now assume they are secret socialists and lovers of peace. The flag can stand for gay pride, pride in the gay American soldier, socialized medicine, universal tolerance.
The flag stands that for the hope that one day conservative selfish assholes will not rule the government.
 

deodorant for dogs, put it on his balls and refresh his breath as well
 

Stupid Safety Tips™: label every rock in every park as something you might trip over.
 

a turn signal for cars that turns itself off automatically after say sixty seconds
 

I am at the lake.
Between the heat of the sun and the calming chill of the water, I become all sensation.
 

One of the defining characteristics of a good summer day — you have no thoughts.
 

Perhaps we would crush a child between two school buses as the beginning of the school year to insure school route safety.
We are after all willing to sacrifice Iraqi children to insure safety from terrorism, or ruin the lives of drug-users to appease the gods of retribution and uncertainty.
 

Road rapture: the opposite of road rage.
 

Annoying Safety Tip©: All passwords must contain at least 2 Chinese characters
 

Annoying Safety Tip©: The world is a hard-hat area, with hard-gloves and hard underwear
 

Annoying Safety Tip©: really big lights on all stoplights.
 

artificial fire-flies for your house, flying in patterns, to light it - for ambiance
 

Annoying Safety Tip©: always drive with your horn on, so other drivers will always be aware that you are coming.
 

I piss on your farts
 

Sometimes you cannot see because the car ahead of you is swirling up dust on the dirt road.
The dust then becomes your guidepost.
 

Sex cuts into my masturbating.
 

Marriage is often a way of not dealing with the relationship.
 

A prayer to fate: Oh please don't let this decade too, in hindsight seem like a golden age.
 

A philosopher is just anyone who makes a lot of sense.
 

Fun idea: soda pop that opens violently no matter what you do.
 

My depths are trompe l'oeil.
 

The examined life is difficult to live — it's been examined to death.
 

A good book is an alternate reality that enriches the one in which I live.
It is the wine of understanding that goes well with life.
 

The omen came and the omen went.
 

Where the fuck are we?
Here the fuck are we!
 

Who is the patron saint of sex?
 

Everyone is wearing falsies.
 

programmable shoes that squeak, make farting noises, beings and other sounds while you are walking.
 

It's not exciting being normal — but that's normal.
 

Platonic sex
 

a pin-on heart for my sleeve
 

When people connect they open up a broadband connection between each other for all the good things.
When things go bad in a relationship, the same conduit is still there for all the bad things to come through.
We are undefended.
 

In your clit of clits
 

Napping, the most gentle exercise
 

United we stand?
No, united we usually lie down.
 

Why the fuck should God bless America? Anyone?
 

bad breath mints - that make your breath smell bad (useful for getting rid of a bad blind date)
 

a franchise of stores selling colored socks and colorful yet stylish men's clothing.
it could be called The Gay Store, or, zu-zu suggests, HOMO.
 

Everything points to nothing.
 

Exercise recklessness.
 

Is good food is just a matter of taste?
 

Divorce is often about fighting over who will get stuff that nobody actually wants.
 

Whatever you say about the moon, looking at the moon trumps it.
Unless it's a really crappy moon.
 

I am going to say the word fuck until it loses all shock valued: fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck...[oh never mind]
 

I love the name Shakespeare.
Maybe I should call myself Wavegun.
 

a miniature Stonehenge for your yard
 

Facts are like noisy children the mind can drag almost anywhere it want.
 

Maybe people would like winter more if we changed the name of snow to syes.
 

You can't go home once.
 

Life is an awkward dress up party.
 

We all have a blind date with the future.
 

Canned food: crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside.
 

One of life's guilty pleasures is taking delight in one's job.
 

It is not your fault,
but it is your problem.
 

How is it that so few people read history, but love to visit historical sites when they go on vacation?
 

Why do we take sides in history?
 

Another thing I hate about God: he does not exist.
 

Men's fashions are like uniforms: sports, rock bands, skateboards and DJs.
 

Most men want to have sex with most women.
Most women may not want to have sex with most men, but they want most men to want to have sex with them.
 

I've got growing (old) pains.
 

"that's just the mind talking"
 

Actors are enjoyable to watch, even just sitting around. They are charismatic and likable.
I am neither. I can't even play myself very well.
 

What is the test for watching a movie correctly?
 

The clouds of heaven are just transportation device.
It is like going to Europe and thinking that Europe is a cabin of your 747.
 

Hello Kitty is my rod and my staff
 

Well constructed sentences, free of superfluous and meaningless words, are still the best way of communicating.
 

I do not identify with the romantic view of the cowboy in American mass culture.
They were, after all, food-handlers!
 

When it comes to religion, why is it so hard to say "But that's only my opinion..."?
 

A useful word: exuxoriphobia.
 

People do a lot more than reason.
 

If there were not any four-letter words, people would have to invent them.
 

The solidity of the past is in a large measure the solidity of books.
 

The baseball hat is another stupid national costume, like the fez.
 

Sitting is for young people.
 

paraphrase software.
 

I hear that in nature lemming DO NOT commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs. (The scenes in the Disney documentary were staged.)
Populations do go up and down, but it is due to the scarcity of food than any instinct to commit suicide.
Yet this fact has been built into our conventional wisdom.
We are all such lemmings!
 

Not only TV psychics, but all the religions, should put at the bottom of their appeal: "For entertainment purposes only."
 

There are two mirrors: one is what others see, the other is what I see when I look in the mirror.
 

The thought occurs to me: how few thoughts I have.
 

As I age I must learn to absorb the punishment of my reaction to other people's impressions of me.
 

Isn't all ed, special ed?
 

Am I half-aware? or half-unaware?
 

I am always pretending to be me.
Usually I get away with it.
 

The opposite of thank you is fuck you.
 

Let us not reinvent the square wheel.
 

We are caught up in the wisdom of the moment.
 

A third eye for a third eye.
 

If you're tired of the Internet you're tired of life.
 

We remain overstimulated and unilluminated.
 

I'm living my life away.
 

Don't believe everything you think.
 

An insight is not a realization of how the world is.
An insight is a way of looking at the world that makes sense of the world for you.
 

People have people smarts.
 

If I could write down just five thoughts a day.
Hey! This is one!
 

We need a Viagra for the mind.
Rush blood to that organ.
 

Coffee doesn't make you smarter.
But it does make you arrive at the wrong answer more quickly.