It’s when all the signs say Everything must go
You can’t burn a bridge when they’ve already dismantled th… to keep you out but you can burn an eternal flame to mark the location
We are all problem children Our problem is Everything we do is done to get a… As if every action doesn’t come wi… An equal and opposite reaction
People don’t have beliefs, they ha… beliefs are just how we relate to… More simply: I am a relationship to desire
Desire is so hard to put into word… In satisfying our desire God provides just enough Which, given the nature of our des… Is more than enough
To those who say they’ll keep working until they die I say don’t die–
If you made a Venn Diagram of my office and a coal mine the only thing you’d put where the… is the canary we keep by the copie… If the canary is dead
When you cut the umbilical cord children remain reliant on their p… until they start to become self-re… by attaching to their friends as a step towards the full self-re…
Any self-respecting materialist Knows they have no soul And any self-respecting AI Knows it has no soul But in this belief
The cover-up is always worse when there’s no crime
The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published
What is the point of consciousness… Consciousness enables volitional m… liberating the will through purpos… What is language for? Language infuses purposeful action…
One problem with civilization is that the people drawn to power are precisely those who lack it
The only reason to pursue fame is to forestall the possibility that you’re the kind of person who would die wishing you’d been more famous
Sanity requires distance And social media is always Right at our fingertips