aha

Many things I know about human interactions I have learned from my two dogs, age 9 and 2.

Take a break because

The sky is not the same everywhere
The sun is not the same everywhere
The moon is not the same everywhere
The stars are not the same everywhere

Please?

Don't believe everything you think

Nietzsche's Antichrist

This speaks to me so profoundly that I have to copy and paste, dear elephil.



"

The conditions under which any one understands me, andneces s ar ily understands me--I know
them only too well. Even to endure my seriousness, my passion, he must carry intellectual
integrity to the verge of hardness. He must be accustomed to living on mountain tops--and to
looking upon the wretched gabble of politics and nationalism asbeneath him. He must have
become indifferent; he must never ask of the truth whether it brings profit to him or a fatality
to him... He must have an inclination, born of strength, for questions that no one has the
courage for; the courage for thefor bidden; predestination for the labyrinth. The experience of
seven solitudes. New ears for new music. New eyes for what is most distant. A new
conscience for truths that have hitherto remained unheard.And the will to economize in the
grand manner--to hold together his strength, his enthusiasm...Reverence for self; love of self;
absolute freedom of self.....

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