(this ends Tuesday)
Christianity is a religion which sets an impossible standard of forgiveness and that's the reason its history is packed wall to wall with rage.
Islam sets an impossible standard of submission and that's the reason it's history is packed wall to wall with schisms and rebellions.
Judaism sets impossible standards for observance that enables Jewish survival through every persecution for thousands of years. It is also the cause of that persecution. 2/2
Judaism sets an impossible standard for ritual observance which becomes more extreme with every generation. Our obsessive compulsion about rituals is the distinctive perseverance that enables Jewish survival through every persecution for thousands of years. It is also the cause of that persecution.
Half of the world's atheists are in severe danger of relapsing into fundamentalist Christianity.
By the new contemporary standard, well over 75% of worldwide marriages are abusive, possibly 90%. Well over 50% of those marriages are still better than any alternative.
Violence doesn't solve problems unless you already run a whole country.
Teen boys are the worst human beings on earth, but not all boys will be boys. There is surely a critical mass of boys whom we can teach to treat others better. But at least 10% will only become worse with every time their bad behavior is censured.
Whether you like or hate sports, sports is all that stands between the world and the rage of its billion most violent people.
Every critical theory is a different way of convincing people that reality doesn't exist. The problem is that reality does.
Every side of political discourse rages against cultural arguments when applied to them. Then they apply cultural arguments to everyone they dislike.
It's statistically projected that one in four people around the world have some kind of mental illness. Either the standard of what constitutes mental illness is much too low, or that figure lowballs it by a multiple of 2.
A difficult person is someone who can't get along with other difficult people.
One in ten has a definite alternative sexuality, one in ten has a definite alternative gender. It is extremely common, much more common than ever was supposed and, needless to say, an entirely normative state of being that will soon be the state of a billion people worldwide, but it's still not the normative state of a vast majority.
If I'm wrong, if gender and heteronormativity is entirely performative, normative women would eventually be considered as much the jailers of humans' true nature as normative men, and even feminism itself will soon seem to most progressives as destructive as nationalism is now.
Critical theory is like religion in that every theory contradicts other theories, so it's extremely unlikely that any two of them can be right, let alone any one.
Pessimism can often make people happier than optimism.
The human brain is still the one organ for which our medical understanding isn't any better than it was in the Middle Ages.
Nature installed a homing device in human beings. When humans get too prosperous, our very security feels to us like prisons, and we feel an overwhelming urge to blow it up.
Suffering artists are more likely to create great art, but artists don't create great art because they suffer. The easiest way to stop a destructive obsession is a constructive obsession. Suffering artists need a distraction from suffering, and only someone in pain would endure the masochism of that much work.
People who feel the need to give offense have a black hole in their souls which nothing can fill.
Therapy is often the sickness of which it purports to be the cure (not original).
At least half the world population is incapable of seeing people in their lives as anything but entirely good or entirely evil. 80% of the population is neither, and switches freely between the two every day.
Psychopaths are mostly men. It's not because social conditioning teaches men to be entitled. It's because masculinity itself is toxic.
When nearly half the world still lives on less than $5 a day, it should be a little difficult to feel too sorry for the majority of Americans unless we know them personally. That will change, of course, if we destroy everything we've worked so hard to build. In which case we will join the world's other half.
Without friendship, we'd all die, but most of us want to kill most of our friends.
Without the hope of love, we'd all die, but 90% of us spend half our days hating the people we love.
Depressed people see the world more accurately, but not for the reasons it's often said. If the mentally ill see parts of the world more accurately, it's because their brains are wired excessively for a particular type of reason to the detriment of other types. The obsession required for a brain to more accurately perceive certain things means that other kinds of perceptions go to seed, and that lack of perception in other areas severely damages a person's life circumstances - which depresses them.
If we want to view every human life as important, there need to be less human lives to cherish than 7 and a half billion.
The DH ruined baseball. There need to be five more rules like the infield fly rule to speed up the game, and inter-league play was 90 years overdue.
....I've got others which are still more controversial....
...these all may be deleted by Tuesday so if you want to screw me over later in life with these statements, cut and paste them now.
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