The Bucket Of Epiphanies

of varying value

By making an us there's a them. By being in there's an out. By asking a question, you are lesser. By giving an answer, I make you greater. Knowledge is power, and secrecy is withholding that power. A group that holds a secret holds power over the outsiders. Even if there is no secret. And therefore the secret and the covenant IS the power.

I am not a burden anyone should bear - Misheard TOOL lyric.

Every descriptor applies in some way to Humanity and to God.

How awful it must be to be a hero. To believe in something, and pursue it at all costs. Explanation: if there wasn't a happy ending for the hero, he or she might be considered an obsessive psychopath.

I'm convinced life is just one of those recurring dreams. This one just won't end.

Fashion - An expression of creativity but also self and selfishness. What is expression? It allows us to recognize similar spirits and those from our tribe. Culture. Who is my tribe?

Just another guy writing his dreams out with sidewalk chalk, admiring the drunken stumbles of his frantic mind.

On the internet, a cute video of a cat is as important as an actual fucking country on fire. Is there any wonder why we don't care?

Where does fairness come from? Society tries to make things more fair when life is inherently unfair. Someone has to lose, someone has to be on top.

Energy, money, systems, be intentional with what systems and wolves you feed. Every dollar is a vote.

Teeth, nail clippings. Human debris.

People are like a bouquet of totally different flowers.

I have a really bad relationship with my body. I see it as something separate from me, the case for my mind. It has needs that I fail to take care of. Call it neglect, but I forget to treat it right and prevent things from falling apart. I don't really mind falling apart because I always have cushions.
Walking and taking some time with yourself to be bored is actually very indulgent... fulfilling I guess. Trails, personally, are less "wow trees are cool" and more "wow, this tree doesn't want shit from me and wont stab me in the back like a nasty greedy human." Relaxin to get away from it all

Heat is a hug from God. Rain is also a gift from God. Life is a gift

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life"

Dying is the most dramatic thing you can do. Die to prove a point, die to make it interesting, die metaphorically, make someone else die, and so on.

Whenever I get scared of fiction, I remind myself that humans are far more terrifying and threatening. There is no predicting what they will do. They invented evil, and bring it farther every day. Theoretically there can always be more, but we have quite a lot. I'm satisfied with the evils we've already invented. Aren't you?

Busy not getting anywhere

Tragedies have to happen to somebody. If you're stupid the odds are much higher

If you don't like the results change the method.

I wait for happiness.

I love capitalism. I am against Consumerism.

If you work for inflation-dollars by the hour, your life is valued in a depreciating currency. We're in a recession, and it hurts, and it could go to where hundred dollar bills are tissue paper. Just check the national debt.

Carbon Offsets is Christian Indulgences aka paid Sin Forgiveness.

Budgeting just cuts the apple smaller, it doesn't make the apple bigger.

Doing more than we were meant for is the human spirit. Something from nothing.

This page is like an abusive mother writing fortune cookies.

I've got a head for a heart and a heart for a head.

Iron sharpens iron.

Gen Z: first generation raised with Internet and Memes. Don't know why that was astounding to me.

I love that books are organized as Fiction and Non-fiction, with fantasy placed first.

Sometimes a sage, always a fool.

Money can't buy happiness? Fridge brownies is happiness-on-demand.

Secondhand social media is optimal.

All interaction should be voluntary.

We all have the same amount of time. One second, over and over. We are fooled into thinking we have more time. Cherish every moment you have.

You deserve better from yourself.
Noone else can give you what you want.

You have the same 24 hours in a day as everyone else. Why aren't you "succeeding"?

Emotions are like bulls. They are very real, very dangerous, and often unreasonable. Go get 'em, Matador.

I am conflicted because on one hand I am moody and egotistical, and on the other I am trying to tell myself to cut the shit and kill my ego. I am constantly fighting myself. Both parts are equally "me" though. All my stupidity is "me."

Quotes

"Never give in. Not even in the face of Armageddon." - Rorschach, from The Watchmen

Oberon: It's a fool's errand to say what others dare not speak.
Puck: I dare
- Paraphrasingish? The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Litany of Fear, from Dune, by Frank Herbert

"I like the Bible like I like the Cat in the Hat" - Marilyn Manson.

Bible Quotes (KJV)

Matthew 6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Luke 12:22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

Luke 14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Luke 16:12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? 13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 5:34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Matthew 18:15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. 16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.