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Complaining about a finite life is like complaining about a finite amount won in lottery.

Nothing happens for a “reason” , other than you screwing up, being ill prepared, or being unrealistic.

Adjust expectations and plans, and keep going.

Personal revulsion is not moral revulsion. Otherwise, eating broccoli would be immoral to most people.

#dontjudge

A 1998 survey by UFT found that 1 out 4 public school biology teachers believe that humans and dinosaurs inhabited the earth simultaneously. I wonder if the ration is the same 20 years after.

There is a difference between respecting peoole’s sensitivities towards their believes, and granting those believes immunity from critical scrutiny.

If you are not for yourself, then who will be for you?

And if you are only to yourself, then who are you?

“Don’t live your day as if it is your last day, live your life as if it is your last life.”

Humans: we are the dominant species.

Bacteria: you are so cute! When you grow old and survive your first 100 million years, then we will talk about it.

Purpose is in the future, and the moment we realize the freedom of the fact that life has no inherent purpose, we appreciate the now, and only then we would truly live for the first time.

Intuition is only important in the subjective matters.