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Based on a true story. Yet another glimpse inside the world of religious faith. This time Jehovah’s Witnesses. But are they all the same when push comes to shove? It’s a world in which what you believe pales next to the fact that you believe in whatever that might happen to be. It’s a world of ritua...

Philosophy “Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” René Descartes Well, in a free will world, anyway. “The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.” Thich Nhat Hanh What particular t...

The Last Detail Meadows: If you’re Catholic, do you think it’s, uh, sacrilegious to chant? Buddusky: Did it get you laid? Meadows: No. Buddusky: Then Meadows, what the fuck do you want to go on chanting for? Mulhall: Chant your ass off, kid. But any pussy you get in this world, you gonna have to pa...

How do I refute nihilism? from the Quora site. TheGrapeThief Humans, by default, resist change. Change begins with questioning what is already there, so questioning things is often feared by humans on a primal level as a sign of change, something we, again, fear on a primal level. However, questioni...

Lyrics John Prine There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear 'em there buzzing And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say? This Mortal Coil The jeweler has a shop on the corner of the boulevard...

You, of course, are not obligated to believe any of this. The bare minimum of what I am shooting for is for you to at least be open-minded to the fact that I am merely trying to give you a tentative insight into what God might possibly be. Click. For those here who do believe in a God, the God, my ...

I was in the military for three years. That’s not a prerequisite here but it does facilitate a better understanding of what you are up against when everything revolves around “following orders”. And [this being Jack Nicholson following them] stretching the meaning of that almost to the breaking poin...

Ben X Ben [narrating]: And then it was over. I was over. Eyes open again, head shut once more. Then it was time for truthfulness. Shamefulness, painfulness. Everything can be destroyed so easily. Why couldn’t I just be destroyed too? Or, perhaps, not be humiliated over and over again? Ben [narratin...

Death “Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.” R...

Asperger’s syndrome. It’s a type of Autism. A busted brain. Only some parts of it are anything but. It makes no difference where you go, there are always bullies and thugs. Here a lot more than there but no less infuriating there I’ll bet. Being different, of course. These scumbags always poke aroun...

God “It is not doubt, it is certainty which makes mad… But to feel in this way one must be profound, abyss, philosopher… We all fear truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche Most, alas, still need one or another “my way or the highway” objectivist font in order to sanctimoniously divide up the world between the ...

lisa gerrard
serenity
https://youtu.be/lHAUH8fF_2Q?si=kDoJ6wQOde8a_ijD

Children of a Lesser God Sarah: Nothing. I can do nothing. I’m equipped for nothing and trained for nothing. I feel like an idiot. You treat me like an idiot. You pity me. And now you see Marian… James: What about Marian? Sarah: Let me be me. You don’t. You want me to be a deaf person so you can ch...

Big Black
Racer X
https://youtu.be/_7_OpDdqGeg?si=fktq08_CRI23fWL_

The Plasmatics
Sometimes I
https://youtu.be/RQwNm_HvU7A?si=6rdXaoSBq7T7X6kr