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Cross-posted from n8o.r30.net:

The sensation of total control of your universe is indistinguishable from the commitment to total acceptance of it.

Accept how things are for long enough, and they become desirable.
Desire how things are for long enough, and one acts to make them so.

And when one acts to make something exactly what it is, one succeeds. Permanently.

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Doubt is at once more powerful, and more wonderful, than faith.

It is doubt that has raised our castles into the sky, by eroding away all the soft, inviting quicksand of our muddy thinking from the bedrock of undeniable, incontrovertible, immutable truth.

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Canada is a better place to be uninsured than the US.

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The biggest evidence for the existence of God is the incredulity one encounters at the hypothesis that human beings would invent a divinity so thoroughly and despicably cruel as Jehovah to serve as the object of their adoration and devotion.

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"Natural ingredients" is an oxymoron.

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There is no "the" in future. There are many futures, all of which are real. The appearance of a single future is a cognitive illusion necessitated by the fact that we must decide and act.

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May your   original sins be forgiven  by God,
and your unoriginal sins be forgotten by men.

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Hey, man, I don't know if you noticed, but you dropped your onus back there.

What - did you think I was going to pick it up?

"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them."