“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice

(July 8, 2016 at 12:34 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:

OMG... I completely forgot about that show!!

(July 7, 2016 at 11:57 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice

The same Anne Rice who betrayed atheism for Jesus? Fuck her.

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We look up at the same stars and see such different things.  - Jon Snow

Steven Wilson Wrote:The suffering or the bad memories are as important as the good memories, and the good experiences. If you sort of, can imagine life as being 99% of the time quite linear, and most of the time you're in a state of neither happiness nor sadness. And then that 1% of the time you experience moments of very crystalised happiness, or crystalised sadness, or loneliness or depression. And I believe all of those moments are very pertinant. It's like I said to you, that for me it's mostly those crystalised moments of melancholy which are more inspirational to me. And in a strange way they become quite beautiful in their own way. Music that is sad, melancholic, depressing, is in a kind of perverse way more uplifting. I find happy music extremely depressing, mostly - mostly quite depressing. It's particularly this happy music that has no spirituality behind it - if it's just sort of mindless party music, it'd be quite depressing. But largely speaking, I was the kind of person that responds more to melancholia, and it makes me feel good. And I think the reason for this is, I think if you respond strongly to that kind of art, it's because in a way it makes you feel like you're not alone. So when we hear a very sad song, it makes us realise that we do share this kind of common human experience, and we're all kind of bonded in sadness and melancholia and depression.

''Sometimes what we worry over is worse than reality.'' - me

My meaningful ideas kind of work together:

1) There are a practically infinite number of particles inside my body, but I am 99.999999% empty space. I'm like a galaxy.
2) There are a practically infinite number of stars, and maybe even of galaxies. I'm nothing more than a tiny little speck of a speck of a speck.

Put those together, and that guy honking his horn in rush hour traffic seems a lot less bothersome to me.

(July 8, 2016 at 12:34 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:

Those cops and their methods

(December 3, 2016 at 8:19 pm)bennyboy Wrote: My meaningful ideas kind of work together:

1)  There are a practically infinite number of particles inside my body, but I am 99.999999% empty space.  I'm like a galaxy.
2)  There are a practically infinite number of stars, and maybe even of galaxies.  I'm nothing more than a tiny little speck of a speck of a speck.

Put those together, and that guy honking his horn in rush hour traffic seems a lot less bothersome to me.

Okay. This is deep.   

(December 3, 2016 at 10:11 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:

(December 3, 2016 at 8:19 pm)bennyboy Wrote: My meaningful ideas kind of work together:

1)  There are a practically infinite number of particles inside my body, but I am 99.999999% empty space.  I'm like a galaxy.
2)  There are a practically infinite number of stars, and maybe even of galaxies.  I'm nothing more than a tiny little speck of a speck of a speck.

Put those together, and that guy honking his horn in rush hour traffic seems a lot less bothersome to me.

Okay. This is deep.   

I think the Christian idea of humility is very close to this-- if I'm just a tiny little creature in God's grand universe, then why sweat the small stuff?  That's a very liberating idea, no?