Religion through its holiness and legislation...seek to exempt themselves from [reason]. But...they excite a just suspicion against themselves, and cannot lay claim to...unfeigned respect that reason grants only to that...able to withstand its free and public examination. IK

Minimal thanksgiving this year. Being thankful assumes one is indebted.

Full of dreams, but in reality firmly grounded.

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. - cooking has begun!

To tell an employee just before a holiday or time off they are not performing as expected and their role is in jeopardy, is some kind of sadistic leaning on the part of a manager. Holiday ruined. Never work for others if you can avoid it.

I am thankful for the discovery of evolution and its continued contradiction to the books of faith.

Never pick up your phone, if a book is an available option instead. Read don’t browse.

I want something good to die for To make it beautiful to live.

…in our time, which no longer believes in God, there are still thinkers who believe in the holy man. FN.

Not how one soul comes close to another but how it moves away shows me their kinship and how much they belong together. FN.

Gold holds a unique place among humanity and been a source of value since it was first mined in days of King Croesus in Lydia in 550 BCE. Past civilisations associated gold with qualities like immortality and enlightenment, today we still treat it as a symbol of perfection.

At the edge of an abyss I sit with a lantern that has been mine, one I kept shining with knowledge. As I prepare myself to enter an abyss, I know the lantern can’t travel with me and does not shine there. Knowing this my hope is to hand my lantern to the next keeper of the light.

But what if this belief is becoming more and more unbelievable, if nothing turns out to be divine any longer unless it be error, blindness, lies- if God himself turns out to be our longest lie? FN.

All humans by nature desire to know. A.

The undetermined object of an empirical intuition is called an appearance…the matter of all appearance is only given to us a posteriori, but its form must all lie ready for it in the mind a priori…IK.

It’s not that you give up, sometimes you just get tired of life.

My body shows the effects of aging, but my mind doesn’t believe the truth of the observation.

We now have machines that can mindlessly generate words, but we haven’t learned how to stop imaging a mind behind them.

Your mind is manipulated for money. And you give it over freely, so long as you are entertained.