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As children we play "One of these things is not like the other", "Which of these things are exactly the same?", or "What about these two similar things is different?". Fine games for developing certain skill sets, but not so much for others. As an adult it may be more useful to play how are [...]
The meek shall inherit the Earth. We/they have. The common misconception is that the meek own quiet, reserved intellect, but the meek are not these things. The meek are the brazen, the boastful, the deafeningly loud. The meek are the masses. The meek set the standard; they are the rule they so desperately need and [...]
Truth is the most expensive commodity known, and, at this point, we won’t even know when we hear it. Insignificant fragments of it are a thing to be owned, bought, and sold. Brilliant and arrogant so-and-sos have so delicately toiled to intelligently disguise it; stirred it into a homogeneous, inseparable solution with half-truths, blatant lies, [...]
We are now weathered by the damning knowledge of years; by the shift from blind confidence to grim, pragmatic understanding. Now, we counter the disappointing and inevitable with doomed longing for all outcomes to defy the proof of experience despite our familiarity. In the past, in the blissful ignorance of youth, I always thought I [...]
When most claim to prefer originality; that they enjoy the anarchy of free thought and new ideas, what they really mean is they just have an entirely different set of rules which are just as limiting as any other person’s ideas of what is “good” and what is not. Listen as they explain their preferences [...]
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