People want to be what they are not

You're either running towards something, or you're running from something

I am going to tell you a deep secret of the English language. When we want to tell the truth, we use Germanic-derived words. When we want to lie, we use Latin-derived words. - Germanic (Old English) words → concrete, direct, sensory, testable - Latinate/French words →

“If you cook for yourself, your domestic labor isn't taxed. If you work an extra hour to treat yourself to a restaurant, that exchange is taxed twice: first your labor, then the restaurateur's. In this context, it's logical that the French, rather than specializing in their core

Há uma reprimenda para isto — “sabes muito”. Um “amor de Verão” (já em si uma abstração da experiência directa, pura, e material) não pode ser inocentemente vivido por quem já teve 10 mas nem por quem já ouviu falar disso 10 vezes e ainda menos por quem “sabe que é um clichê”.

memetic_sisyphus As has often been described, for some people, marriage is a hostile corporate merger, for others it is a startup where you both have everything invested.

Eu já vi como é que as mulheres me olham quando lhes falo do meu passado de crime de colarinho branco

The last election in Spain was decided by a 300k vote margin lol.

"In the beginning was the Word" John 1:1 Logos - the reason, the word. The Western world is predicated on the strange foundational claim that first comes articulation From the indeterminate, the cosmic soup of everything except boundaries, came something, and that was reason

Wealth being subjective is hard to argue for, but living in Portugal I wont ever be able to spend over a hundred dollars on a snack I also have organic strawberries in my backyard

This is the last thing you'll hear before you die You'll bleed out on the fields, warm exposed flesh against cold stinging mud As your consciousness fades out you'll question the stupidity of it all, and wonder if your ancestors felt the same before getting trampled by a horse

Birdsong has got me into jhana states into >2 mins of meditation

Men have mostly checked out of mass culture. Find a niche YouTube channel. Scroll on twitter while at work. Just live in your own world.

The idea that relaxation requires energy is very much right. The body requires the signal of abundance to downshift. But it'll make even more sense if you understand that energy has two qualities. Taoists will often use the terms electricity and magnetism (yang and yin) to

One of the coolest things about /b, back in the day, is how there was just so. much. damn. lore. And you had to be there all the time to catch up. LLMs have made making memes and remixing them TRIVIAL so in 3 days you get what you would before get in months. Here 2 different

people like me not because I'm good, but because they are

talvez um dia tenha filhos e a minha filha também seja uma grande idiota que me manda memes cansados toda bebeda às 7h da manhã. nesse dia eu vou ser muito feliz e nutrir um amor inconcebível por ela

eu vivi neste sítio

They do not even understand the memes These people are either stupid (they harm but don't know it) or evil (they harm and are fully aware of it)