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I will not go quietly into the night!
Author: drenn1077
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If you wish to remain socially involved in a group your choice is clear. You must accept the ideologies, however irrational, of that group. As an atheist I am an non-believer. As a total atheist where the gods of human construct are concerned I deny their existence. Even atheist groups have been infected with irrational…
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Sufficient time has past. Transgressions as yet unforgiven are now set in the cement of the past, never to change. No further consideration will be given to changing the status of these memories. Future behavior concerning these transgressions will be governed solely by the past. Those that have acted against me, insulted me, or otherwise…
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A blind eye to suffering, destruction, annihilation. Ignoring pleas of help for suffering, dying, expiring. If humans will not listen but instead march headlong into destruction why should I care? Even if their destruction leads to my own, why care, there’s nothing to be done, anyway. Abandoning empathy, sympathy, and caring due to a deaf…
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Humanity is presently on a course to extinguish itself in the same way bacteria in a petri dish proliferate and die in their own poisons. This inevitable scenario was constructed by evolution. Humans like to deny that evolution created all living things. The evidence that it is so is all around and plain to see.…
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Most seniors and others on Social Security live from month to month… they spend all their income and merchants are grateful for the business. Trump and the callous GOP have made enormous cuts in this vital income. In ten years there may be no Social Security. They will have taken billions of dollars out of…
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Perspectives depend too heavily on mood. Mood is too heavily dependent on the reception of outside information. The present variables that have created the mosaic which is your existence may or may not change, yet the perspective with which you regard them is so fragile that even without change, just the reception of information that…
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The world would be a better place if not for the likes of people like Trump, Pence, and Ryan. Such people show such disdain for the rest of humanity that their absence would be a boon, instead of the bane it is. These excuses for human beings would rather grandma and grandpa were living in…
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Does a rock on Mars seek relevance? Does it care? Has it sentience? Of course not. Then is it sentience that prompts a desire for relevance? What is relevance? Is it a desire that others take notice? Is it some need to be important in the scheme of things or others’ lives? Despite its lack…
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Schadenfreude is a German term that translates “malicious joy”. The malicious joy is taken by one over the miseries suffered by another. It is another example of the human capacity to be cruel. This past week there was a lot of Schadenfreude expressed in the Senate. The GOP was carrying out their dream of initiating…
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