Continuity
Throughout history, all over the world, the ruling classes have always been the same kind of people. Hell, they’re usually the SAME people.
Stop all the clocks
My grandfather’s fob watch, a present from his father, ticked away all the years and events of the first half of the twentieth century – marriages and births and deaths and wars and emigration and illness and disappointment and much joy. But since he died, in 1953, of a horrible illness, a young man of
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Butterfly dreaming
Is this symptom I have an illness masquerading as an anxiety attack, or an anxiety attack masquerading as an illness?
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Riders in the dust storm
How wonderful to look up at Mars and know there are vehicles, made by humans, on its surface. How aweful to look up at Mars and know there are vehicles, made by humans, on its surface.
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Don’t confuse me with the facts
Why the attacks on Science? Same reason as always. Homo sapiens is not a species that lives, like other animal species, in a rational way in a real world (one piece of evidence for this being that other animal species haven’t invented religions). Our belief systems, the set of things we believe, are derived from
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In a yellow wood
Look, guys, after some 1400 of the buggers I’m all haiku’d out. Anyway, whatever tiny audience there was for anonymous haiku has evaporated faster than the morning fog is dissipating outside my window. Few readers, few followers, and close to zero comments. So, have to find some new form of expression to amuse myself, my
Now, where did I leave…?
Scatterbrained people may find it impossible to collect their wits
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Via one of many theocracies
America from first democracy on to last autocracy
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And the one after that
What doesn’t kill me simply makes way for the next thing which will kill me
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