The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.