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I enjoy drinking, smoking, pornography, and self-righteous indignation.
You: are a whiny, bitter shrew with a misplaced sense of entitlement and unrealistic expectations. In time you will become coolly hostile when I don't fulfill every unmet need you've ever had. Bonus points if you just finished having sex with every guy in town and but now want to take it slow with me. My perfect night would include getting hammered in a sh*t-hole bar while you flirt with seedy old drunks, followed by an embarrassing screaming match.I would be open to an unsatisfying fling that leaves me filled with regret and dread but prefer a long-term, soul crushing descent into booze and pills. No friendships. I don't need any more dam friends. Age unimportant, but I will condescend to women under 30 and rehash mother issues with women over 40.Serious replies only please.
Grief and anger shrink my world, and I resent this. They seem to paralyze my memory of happier times, of friends, places, things, options. Squeezed by the grip of intense, unsettling emotion, I grow smaller in my single-mindedness. I suppose it is partly because I have discarded a range of choices, impairing in some measure my freedom of will. I don't like this, but after a point, I have small control over it. It makes me feel that I have surrendered to a kind of determinism, which irritates me even more. Then, vicious cycle, this feeds back into the emotion that drives me and intensifies it. The simple way of ending this situation is the headlong rush to remove its object. The difficult way is more philosophical, a drawing back, the reestablishment of control. As usual, the difficult way is preferable. A headlong rush may also result in a broken neck. ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________"I t appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science." [Darwin] "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." [Voltaire]"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism." [Einstein]"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." [Nietzsche]"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living … our dread of coming to an end." [Edison]"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." [Lincoln]"Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?" [Arthur C. Clarke]"Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies." [Thomas Jefferson]"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile." [Kurt Vonnegut]"Religion is based . . . mainly on fear . . . fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. . . . My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race." [Bertrand Russell]"A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her." (W. C. Fields) -----------------------------------"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ------------------------------------"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." (George Bernard Shaw) --------------------------------------"Alcohol is the cause and solution to all life's problems." (Dan Castellaneta, as Homer Simpson) ----------------------------------------- - "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss." (Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love) -----------------------------------"Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted." (E. Jean Carroll) -------------------------------------"O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth..." (John Keats) -----------------------------------"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) --------------------------------------------"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America." (George Bernard Shaw) "Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them." (George Bernard Shaw) ----------------------------------------"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people." (Gloria Steinem) ------------------------------------------------"The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!" (John Lennon, re. US) -------------------------------------------------------"Amer ica's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole." (Bobcat Goldthwaite) ------------------------------------------------"America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization." (John O'Hara) ----------------------------------"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) -----------------------------------------------"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) --------------------------------"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi)------------------------- "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) --------------------------------------"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) -------------------------"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.)--------------------------------------
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation." (Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925-68)
"Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love; husbands and wives who can't communicate, children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on (and in real life, I might add) spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up." (Tom Lehrer, That Was The Year that Was)
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb)
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80)