"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic." W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
"Who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching. The most that any one of us can seem to do is fashion something--an object or ourselves--and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force."
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Someone Once Told Me...

The world is full of assholes, it's unequivocal. About one in three people is an asshole. Now that being said, you really have to stop and think. When we're born we're not given a manual on how to “be”. We don't know how to go through this thing called life. The thing about humans is we know we're gonna die; don't know when or how but we know that life will come to an end, so we're all just trying to figure out how to get through life. So, the next time your talking with three people, one of whom is an asshole, and you've probably already decide which one, ask yourself this: Is he an asshole due to genetic reasons, which is completely possible, or is it just that this is the only way he knows how to get through life? And do you really know how to get through it any better than anyone else? No, you say, but at least I'm not an asshole. But consider this, each of those three people you're talking to is also talking to three people and each has decided which is the asshole, so chances are good at least one of those three people you're talking to thinks you're an asshole.

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