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Take me down to the parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly.

What the US and Israel are doing in Iran and Lebanon is depraved beyond imagination. Assassinating scientists, journalists and medics, bombing schools, universities and hospitals, attempting to destroy society itself... we are staring evil in the face.

From C.S. Lewis's essay, "Tolkien's Lord of the Rings:" "The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity’. The child enjoys his cold meat (otherwise dull to him) by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savoury for having been dipped in a story; you might say that only then is it the real meat. If you are tired of the real landscape, look at it in a mirror. By putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves. This book applies the treatment not only to bread or apple but to good and evil, to our endless perils, our anguish, and our joys. By dipping them in myth we see them more clearly. I do not think he could have done it in any other way."

Fatherhood is the end of philosophy. you can read every book ever written about meaning and purpose and discipline, but the moment a small human looks at you and believes you, everything you thought you knew burns down. because now you have to do it, not think it, not debate it, not post about it. the child watches your hands, what you do when you are tired, what you do when you are mad, what you do when nobody else is looking. that is your only sermon and you cannot fake it for one day because children are bullshit detectors made of flesh. if you are a weak man your son will know it before he can spell the word weak, and he either becomes you or becomes the opposite of you, both out of desperation.

Western media has gone blind, deaf & mute on two big stories: 1)A respected Palestinian doctor gang raped to death by Israeli soldiers who went free &were treated as heroes 2)18-month- old baby tortured with cigarette burns & nail being shoved into his leg by Israeli soldiers.

@Steve_Sailer Here's the first page of Dahl's original essay that started all this. There is nothing remotely antisemitic about it. I suggest everyone read it, because the clear message of this controversy is: If you ever criticize Israel, you will be branded an antisemite forever.

@runesword1 What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss...

there is no dice rolling in the rune sword rpg, only coin flips

School was good? Hmm good. Well. Son, there's no easy way to say this. But Kirby just sucked up your mother and then Kirby himself transformed into a ghoulish facsimile of your mother

@lolt64 Despair is for those who see the end beyond all doubt....

They're sending "Ships to me"...? Then it is already too late

@bronzeagemantis @CityBureaucrat Yes

@CityBureaucrat Is In n Out better than 5 mens

As usual, WASP aristocratic unostentatiousness sets a new trend

@STRONG_PlSS Agreed. Made me feel gross by the time I was done eating. New whopper did not make me feel particularly gross

My review of the Big Arch: - Very sloppy. Don't attempt to eat & drive - Sauce overrides most flavors - Actually is too much burger - $13.15 w/ meal & tax - I'm not going to get it again

Mark Fisher: "Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast *privatization of stress* that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so 1/

@moultano Bobcat and the hound dogs are like ponies

Do hobbits have hobbit sized cats, or is owning a cat for a hobbit like owning a bobcat?

@SlamFireOpera @jakebrodes you piss a lot

@jakebrodes "Beers 10-20" how do you drink that much liquid and not just be leaking like a bargain boat? 10 beers at 12 ounces per is 120 ounces, that's almost a fuckin' gallon. I have like 20 ounces of water and I'm hitting the bathroom every ten minutes.

Beers 1-9 at buddys house: John wick washes jason Bourne. out of your mind if you think jason Bourne even has 1% chance Beers 10-20: fucked it up like 10 years ago honestly im just still here for some reason Beers 20-30: if I was the hulk for 8 hours I could fix the country

"Washington [D.C.] is a political village which has become a world capital, without becoming a metropolis … conspicuously lacking in what might be described as intelligentsia.” - Vanity Fair, 1933

Why would you hunt for Gollum? He’s so fucking ugly and annoying. And he’s almost fully nude

Worf: Am I MAGA? Or am I… woke Picard: Now is not the time Worf Data: *spins around* Captain, if I may? The two options may not be mutually exclusive Wesley: Impact in fifteen seconds

@indexnforgetit Same. As long as you aren't planning on applying for any big loans, it really doesn't affect you at all. Collections will call you... Who cares? Straight to voicemail & deleted. If you actually do need a loan or mortgage, just negotiate a payment

Guy I work with told me he just doesn't pay medical bills Doctors appointments, surgeries, urgent care... none of it. Says he hasn't paid a single medical bill in 8+ years Says it doesn't count against credit because medical is usually deleted from reports when applying for loans Drives 2 brand new vehicles, has a big house, lives in good area... just doesn't pay any medical bills

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