If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people."

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?