There are certain people in this world that I absolutely loath. They are those that would limit the freedom of human beings and promote censorship of human expression and communication, especially the ones that make excuses or do it out of pure ignorance. Some of those excuses are "for morality", or "for the family/children", or "for safety", or "becasue I wouldn't", or "becasue I think it's evil/against my particular religion". One of the hardest things to do in this world is maintian our freedoms because with each new generation is a whole new batch of folks who want to control how we live and what we see/hear/do according to their own ideals. Fuck 'em all and don't give into apathy when each new moral/safety/religious crusader moves into their place to dictate your life, becasue once the next generation accepts the new restrictions as normal it becomes a lot harder to reverse the damage. If you haven't realized that keeping our freedoms is a neverending slog, you've probalby already lost some in the meantime. Government should exist to provide cooperative public services, not to moralize.
Also, I don't understand private profiles on a social networking site if you are not being actively stalked. It's not like you list your social security number on your page, right? O-well, myspace is pretty crappy these days anyhow so who cares.
“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened."
"When someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there is not much to praise in such seeking and finding. Yet this is how matters stand regarding seeking and finding "truth" within the realm of reason. If I make up the definition of a mammal, and then, after inspecting a camel, declare "look, a mammal' I have indeed brought a truth to light in this way, but it is a truth of limited value. That is to say, it is a thoroughly anthropomorphic truth which contains not a single point which would be "true in itself" or really and universally valid apart from man. At bottom, what the investigator of such truths is seeking is only the metamorphosis of the world into man."
"Only by forgetting that he himself is an artistically creating subject, does man live with any repose, security, and consistency...Only by forgetting this primitive world of metaphor can one live with any repose, security, and consistency: only by means of the petrification and coagulation of a mass of images which originally streamed from the primal faculty of human imagination like a fiery liquid, only in the invincible faith that this sun, this window, this table is a truth in itself, in short, only by forgetting that he himself is an artistically creating subject, does man live with any repose, security, and consistency. If but for an instant he could escape from the prison walls of this faith, his "self consciousness" would be immediately destroyed. It is even a difficult thing for him to admit to himself that the insect or the bird perceives an entirely different world from the one that man does, and that the question of which of these perceptions of the world is the more correct one is quite meaningless, for this would have to have been decided previously in accordance with the criterion of the correct perception, which means, in accordance with a criterion which is not available."
"Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist. And he requires shelter, for there are frightful powers which continuously break in upon him, powers which oppose scientific "truth" with completely different kinds of "truths" which bear on their shields the most varied sorts of emblems."
"He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon."
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
