The Only Truly Genuine Currency in Life

"Lying to save face" is deficit spending. It's borrowing from Peter, based on shameless falsehoods, to pay Paul. It's like spending counterfeit money to keep from losing something you obviously have far too little, or even none of, in the first place. Because "the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth," is the only truly genuine currency in Life.

On the Nature of Coping and Crutches

At some point, a "coping mechanism" can become "a crutch." But therein lies the rub. Because most people really aren't honest with themselves about where one ends and the other begins.

On the Nature of Bias

Actually, what I think is real, real interesting, is how, when certain groups of clearly biased people whine about not being treated well enough, they more often than not just end up putting their own prejudices and self-seeking tendencies blatantly on display in the process.

Check the Facts, Ma'am (or Sir)

In fact, "the more you know" (or at the very least, the more you even bother to actually check your facts), the less prone you tend to be to buy into and spread all the politically correct BS that most people unconsciously soak up from popular society, and then blindly regurgitate, as if spreading half-truths and misinformation with the greatest of ease were actually a genuine sign of any kind of worldly virtue to begin with.

The Hallowed Halls of Time

Alliteration, assonance, consonance, meter, melody, harmony and rhythm; undying echoes and fleeting flashes of brilliance, dancing within the fleeting, flickering light and shadow of the hallowed halls of Time.

I Have Only 2 Rules for Life

Rule #1: Don't expect anyone to actually care. Just do your thing, each and every day, the very best you can. Just keep getting up in the morning and do your absolute best to do what you know deep down is right.

Rule #2: Try to help others when and how you can, but don't take any crap off of anybody. Everybody's got an excuse, but it's nobody's job to take abuse.

Ode to Science Almighty

Each individual is just a cell within an immense, universal body. The collective good of that body is God. The collective bad is called the Devil (the evil), and a slew of other names not even worth mentioning here.

So some people who enter into our lives nourish and help us grow, while others act to introduce deadly viral strains into the collective. Some people may even grow strong within hateful groups (cell cultures) that, ultimately, amount to little more than a deadly cancer of the collective human soul. And all of this, and much more, is merely the most basic of concepts that theologians have posited for countless millennia now.

But don't worry, one day, Science Almighty will finally catch up, just to finally clarify, classify and assign it all the proper scientific terminology. And then they'll sit back, smile smugly to themselves, and act like they invented it all to begin with.