… I've got a little black book with my poems in
Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in
When I'm a good dog, they sometimes throw me a bone in

… I got elastic bands keepin' my shoes on
Got those swollen-hand blues
I got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from
I've got electric light
And I've got second sight
I got amazing powers of observation
And that is how I know
When I try to get through
On the telephone to you
There'll be nobody home

… I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm
And the inevitable pinhole burns
All down the front of my favorite satin shirt
I've got nicotine stains on my fingers
I've got a silver spoon on a chain
Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains

… I've got wild staring eyes
And I've got a strong urge to fly
But I got nowhere to fly to
Ooh, babe when I pick up the phone

… there's still nobody home

… I've got a pair of Gohills boots
But I got fading roots

During his time as a federal prosecutor, Reinhart worked on the case against now-deceased Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender.

But, he switched sides in the middle of the case, quitting the US Attorney's office and going on to defend several of Epstein's employees. — Business Insider, 11August2022

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky

18 USC 793 (re: Espionage Act) > min. 10 years in prison / offense

18 USC 2071(re: to hide, damage or destroy Government Records) > max. 3 years in prison / offense + lifetime ban from federal office

18 USC 1519 (re: to falsify, destroy or cover up government records to Obstruct ... Justice) max. 20 years in prison / offense

Or maybe it really is the case that it’s possible to be wrong even if you know everything. — Michael

And I think certainty is only possible if the truth is necessary, so non-fallible omniscience requires that all truths are necessary. — Michael

We then conclude that I could be wrong even if I know everything (and assuming that some p is not necessarily true): — Michael

God" is an elementary religious subterfuge used by all the religions. — javi2541997

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and when death is come, we are not. — Letter to Menoeceus, 3rd century BC

... the greater the damage to the brain, the greater the corresponding damage to the mind. The natural extrapolation from this pattern is all too clear – obliterate brain functioning altogether, and mental functioning too will cease. — The Myth of an Afterlife, 2015

Under the rubric of 'Wisdom': — Torus34

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. — Beyond Good and Evil

You may be a lover,
but you ain't no dancer! — Macca '68

You say 'talking meat', I prefer 'embodied mind'. — unenlightened

I think, therefore my thought exists (Is that right?) — T Clark

Have you heard of Poincaré's recurrence theorem? In short: a closed system in thermodynamic equilibrium will (if you wait long enough) randomly reach a state of lower entropy, And then increase again, so you get fluctuations in entropy. Moreover, if I may refer to one of my favourite little books "The Character of Physical Law" Feynman makes a good case for physical laws to be symmetrical and therefore in theory allowing for objects to fall upwards, time to flow in reverse and entropy to decrease. — Benkei

One must say Yes to life and embrace it whenever it is found — and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is. For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. — James Baldwin

I imagine that a hemispherectomy ain’t no walk in the park either. — praxis

Although, im sure from the perspective of the Nazi, there was indeed sufficient meaning and purpose to justify such suffering. — Cartesian trigger-puppets

For example, would you say that the holocaust was bad? — Cartesian trigger-puppets

If yes, are you saying that it was bad because the things that happened there go against your desires?

Or, the desires of those afflicted?

Was it bad independent from any desires?