You have to lose your mind to come to your senses.

Babble in progress:

No higher power is needed to achieve one’s destiny. In fact, not achieving one’s destiny is what may require a higher power.

We are going to believe some falsehoods and we are going to disbelieve some truths, and the less we do of one, the more we will unavoidably do of the other.

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”

― Aleister Crowley

I think we can all agree that comparisons are very limiting or they can cause limitations. I used to think better comparisons would lead to less limitations. Now I have come to realize that less comparisons lead to less limitations.

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don’t confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything’s gonna be all right. —G.C.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label. —J.B.C.

“But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

— Matthew 6:6 

(Matthew 6:6 is contradicted by 1 Timothy 2:8  which calls for prayer every where.)

… to your twinges lest they become winces. —R-U.S.

“Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he [Jesus] commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.”

— 1 John 2:4 

DOXASTIC OPENNESS “If you are a person of the same sort as myself, I should be glad to continue questioning you: If not, I can let it drop. Of what sort am I? One of those who would be glad to be refuted if I say anything untrue, and glad to refute anyone else who might speak untruly; but just as glad, mind you, to be refuted as to refute, since I regard the former as the greater benefit.” —Socrates in Gorgias