Quotes to remember

"I cannot get out of my mind the recent news photos of ordinary Americans sitting on chairs, guns on laps, standing unofficial guard on the Arizona border, to make sure no Mexicans cross over into the United States. There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call “civilization,” we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call “nations” and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary."---Howard Zinn
 
"Before you achieve anything today, you are already a very successful 850 Centillion to one shot. Vikings, Pilgrims, Veterans and Vagabonds. Your odds of even existing are oh-so-slim. That’s right, the odds of you existing right now are about 1 in 10^2685000. That’s a 10 with a couple of million zeros after it."---- https://thefrug.com/what-are-the-odds-of-you-existing/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFSAGFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVXojLXT2oWrjycJOGzIiYppdS_WPl5NfuxJ_htgKOL6EKOnmbKU9VlVrw_aem_-15raY77oWWXU0NPEYJZoA#:~:text=Your odds of even existing,of 1 in 100 Centillion

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“Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?”
― Aldous Huxley
 
"Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse."

"Along came a spyder and picked up a rider
and took him off to eternity."

To His Greatness, James Dean.
 
“There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.”
—Knut Hamsun
 
"Good fences make good neighbors."

Mending the Wall,
Robert Frost.

I've been working all weekend getting the pernicious vines out of our fences. Waved the neighbors off, I was having fun fighting the good fight.
 
The problem of consciousness and how it arises ends up over time feeling very suspiciously like the ultimate zen koan, a kind of unsolvable riddle which by defying all answers opens us up to a whole new level of understanding.

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I've spent months at a time in a coma, usually induced by the doctors. Nothing out there for me to find. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place.

Zen it could be that the right places aren't looking for me.
 
Fired my Browning .50 caliber Heavy Machine Gun for the last time today. Official turned it over to the lads who run toward the shit. They been "custodians" for ten years now, and I'm not up to trooping through the woods thinning out the coyote population.
 
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."----[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition

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Gawdzilla Sama said:
Fired my Browning .50 caliber Heavy Machine Gun for the last time today. Official turned it over to the lads who run toward the shit. They been "custodians" for ten years now, and I'm not up to trooping through the woods thinning out the coyote population.
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.50 for coyotes?
wow
 
With a two mile kill radius you don't have to reposition much. When the seals were shaggin' for the boats they'd let us know when they were under the umbrella. Time to beat the ground behind them. Couple of times I fired between them. They said that was "stimulating". Meh, got them back to the boats.
 
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
 
“It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
 
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