Age

Inside every old person is a younger one wondering what the hell happened.

Immigration

Illegal immigrants are not the new problem. Native Americans used to call them "white people".

Enlightenment

"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this except freedom to use reason."

- Immanuel Kant

Entitlements

- Kathy Newman: "Why should your right to free speech trump a trans persons right not to be offended?"
- Dr. Peterson: "Because in order to be able to think you have to risk being offensive. I mean, look at the conversation we are having right now. You know, like, you are certainly willing to risk offending me in the pursuit of truth. Why should you have the right to do that? It's been rather uncomfortable."

-  Dr. Jordan Peterson's interview on BBC Chanel 4 on free speech and being offensive

Appalachian Trail

Catfish Fire Tower - Kittatinny Ridge, New Jersey

Enemy of Knowledge

"As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make acquisition of knowledge a real sin."

- Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason, part 2, p 129

Non Fui, Fui, Non Sum, Non Curo

"Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us."

- Epicurus: "I was not, I was, I am not, I do not care."

p.s.: There is no possibility of an afterlife, hence no reason to fear death!

Joke of the Month

A Jamaican mad man was seen speaking into an empty envelope and was asked: "What are you doing?" He answered: "Yuh a idiot? Yuh nuh si seh mi a sen a voice mail?"

Void

"The implied meaning of 'destroying' something is to undo its existence, to make it not there anymore, and this can not be so: if the void is that which does not exist, and if this void is the implied destination of the destroyed, then the thing in reality can not be destroyed, for the thing could not have existed in the first place."

- Epicurus elaborating on Parmenides'  "Ex nihilo nihil fit" (Nothing comes from nothing)

The Riddle of Epicurus

"God either wants to eliminate bad things and can not, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can.
If he wants to and can not, than he is weak - and this does not apply to god. If he can but does not want to, than he is spiteful - which is equally foreign to god's nature. If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god. If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?"

- Lactantius: De Ira Deorum

Homo Hostis

"In the heyday of the European Imperialism, conquistadors and merchants bought entire islands and countries in exchange for coloured beads. In the twenty first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are giving it to the tech giants in exchange for email services and funny cat videos."

- Yuval Noah Harari: "Homo Deus" pg. 346