"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
— Aldous Huxley
Musings, Missives, Meanderings from the Open Minded, Thoughtful, Skeptical, Philosophical & other working thinkers of a more rational realm.
Discuss your beliefs, or lack of them. Ask me anything.
I need to hear you too.
August 8, 2012
August 7, 2012
"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."
— Aldous Huxley
July 22, 2012
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!"
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Hunter S. Thompson
This quote is being published 36 years to the minute after I was born. =)
May 30, 2012
"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more."
— Christopher Hitchens
May 29, 2012
"I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state that I’ve finally won out over it."
— Elwood P. Dowd
May 28, 2012
"It would have been a perfect evening if their brother Rick had been here with us, but I guess life does what it’s supposed to do and you accept it and go on."
— Johnny Carson
April 24, 2012
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference."
— Richard Dawkins
April 12, 2012
"The best journeys answer questions that, at the beginning, you didn’t even think to ask."
March 17, 2012
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again."
— Og Mandino (the greatest miracle in the world)
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“Voting for the president these days is a lot like cheering on WWE. You probably won’t change the outcome but you feel good doing it anyway.”
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Just signed up for Spotify- Let’s start this shit up.
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I felt bad about giving the KY Creation Museum money, but this shirt was so hilariously awesome.
This is an awesome T-shirt....
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“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
