Below are some sayings compiled for no good reason, which is a pretty good reason. Especially on a Friday. A little night reading, I mean light reading–good because you don’t have to follow along. These sentences only sporadically have anything to do with the ones next to them. Or do they…?
THE WHIZDUMB OF CONFUSEDIOUS with help by Disputin
The first thing said is usually not any more important than anything else, but it will be perceived that way.
Pick the first thing you say carefully, often you don’t get to the last thing.
Certainty is certainly not better than mystery, and is often worse.
Being certain is a certain way to be wrong.
Concrete ideas are usually viewed as better than abstract ideas, regardless of their specific merits.
Abstraction is almost inevitably undervalued.
Paradox keeps things interesting.
Talking louder does not make ones facts more true, but it is how in most arguments are won on planet Earth.
Communication requires assumptions, but assumptions hinder understanding.
The hardest thing to find is the thing that is not known to be missing.
Explaining something is often a sure way for it to be misunderstood.
Those not concerned with truth have more time to think up falsehoods.
The Equinoxes and Solstices are holidays for everyone and everything on Earth, therefore, most people completely ignore them.
It has not yet been proven that the human brain will function correctly for long periods away from the Earth.
Electromagnetic field will have to be taken along on spaceships, just like food, water, and oxygen.
As it was in the beginning, so it shall be in the middle.
Living in the middle is less glamorous than living at other times.
Mind over matter, except when its matter over mind.
Death comes to all who wait for it, and also those who don’t.
God does not recognize petty human distinctions.
God forgives all faiths, but not all actions.
Dogma arises even from the best of intentions. Dogma arises more easily from bad intentions.
The worse the intentions, the greater the importance of dogma.
It is arrogant to assume that we have any clue as to how things work in reality.
It is arrogant to assume that ‘god’ is in a human-form.
God in a human form is arrogance of the flesh. (aka a “sin” of the flesh.)
Science has not proved that animals have no emotions.
Religion has not proved that animals have no souls.
The term ‘anthropomorphized’ is short-sighted and arrogant.
The scientific method is rooted deep in the book of Genesis. – JCL
Discovering flaws in people’s beliefs is not a difficult task; with some people it is quite easier than others.
Those secure in their beliefs need not convince others.
The extent that we are a group organization, or of a group consciousness, is the extent that one needs to concern themselves with other people’s minds.
Having bad qualities is not a reason for total dismissal, but IS a reason for partial dismissal.
Digital sampling error is the equalivalent to what you don’t see due to near-sightedness.
Vision is relative.
History is convenient and self-aggrandizing for humans.
History is written by the victors, and re-written by the victors’ step-children.
No one even knows what happened today, let alone a few years ago.
History repeats, although each time it is completely different.
Adaptation is a virtue, yet many try to call it a vice.
Adaptibility is a strength, rigidity is a weakness.
Skycrapers sway in the wind so that they can stand.
A wet noodle is a poor building material.
Simple truths are often overlooked; simple falsehoods are often held in the highest esteem.
Some forms of wisdom are understood immediately, and some take a very long time.
Stupidity (by definition) is understood immediately.
Jesus loves you; the Jesus people do not.
Outrageous falsehoods need elaborate defenses. Innate truths exist on their own.
Those that are constantly exploring have never built a church.
The church that values new experience is not found in your town.
The congregation that said ‘Go explore god in all their variations’ dispersed on that day.
The spiritual leader that told others “You are as qualified as me” is not written about in any book.
If you want to see evidence of Satan, look no farther than organized religion.
The incapacity of the human mind requires much linguistical shorthand. Linguistical shorthand should never be confused for the truth.
The perfect map is useless.
A useful map is so by how it leaves out information.
Inability to understand should never be used as an excuse for inaction, although sometimes it can be a reason.
Predestination is a convenient method of shirking responsibility.
Gods can and do change their minds, despite all human efforts to the maintain opposite.
When you join a religion, you un-join from all the others.
Is is not a betrayal of one’s beliefs to believe differently for a while.
In the pursuit of your own beliefs, it is wise to consider other beliefs.
A journey of 1000 miles begins with the first step, and travels through many lands.
A journey of 1000 words begins with the first picture.
Listen to Confusedious when you want entertainment, listen to your heart when you want truth, and listen to Notredamus when you want college football scores predicted.
Polytheisms offer less psychological support for warfare than monotheisms.
A mono-theist should believe their god to be a hermaphrodite, except that such an idea makes most of them uncomfortable.
If all humans were Christian, and then all women followed the example of Mary, the human race would be extinct.
A survival mechanism is only as good as how well it corresponds to reality – JCL.
All religions are bogus, but some are more bogus than others.
It is impossible to respect politically and morally those you do not respect spiritually.
A trickle is not enough to live on, unless you are very very small.
An ‘unjust’ war is more profitable than a ‘just’ war.
There is no such thing as a ‘just’ war, it’s just war..
The ‘rules of war’ are a fallacy, used to justify murder.
Striking first is actually just striking.
Upon being struck, you are justified either to do nothing, or strike back at a strength 10 times greater.
Sudden and extreme changes in scale are usually deadly
Authoring is best done with less than total wisdom.
The best advertising campaign is based on nothing.
A frontier defined becomes a place in itself, with new frontiers defined at its edges.
It is impossible to see from all sides, but it is possible to imagine it.
It is possible to imagine all sides, but difficult to try to explain it.
One way to look at reality is as a mixture of vortexes and voids.
A void defined becomes a vortex in itself, with new voids defined at its edges.
A void is a vortex of low density.
What someone knows is always defined by what they don’t know.
Paradoxical statements often sound profound whether they are or not.
Just because a statement is paradoxical, doesn’t necessarily mean it has deep existential meaning.
Total light is just as blinding as total darkness.
Freezing is just as deadly as burning.
Vision is possible because of partialities of light and dark.
Hearing is possible because of partialities of sound and silence.
“Conductors” are only so because they are surrounded by “resistors”.
When one finds faults in another, those areas are the likely places to find faults in that person.
Art is done by the the artist.
Copying is the greatest measure of skill, but it should not be confused with inspiration.
An expert needs a lifetime of dedication, a critic needs only a mouth.
The less you know, the easier it is to criticize.
The more you know, the easier it is to constructively criticize.
One is ill-advised to take sexual tips from one who has not had sex.
To the extent that creating art is like having sex, an artist should only take advice from other artists. To the extent that creating art is like anything else, an artist should listen to anyone.
Some great art has been done by people who don’t listen to anyone.
Some great art has been done by people who listen to trees.
People who don’t have sex, but watch a lot of pornography, should not be listened to, in general.
Those people who have a lot of sex, and who watch a lot of pornography, should come over to my house right away.
A true painter will not allow others to paint their paintings.
It is not the skillet we use to cook our bacon, but the skill-it-takes to fry it right. – Plato Bacon
The Golden Mean is in the middle of your pee spot.
3000 years ago, Confusious lamented that kids were not following the old traditions like they used to.
Once upon a time, there were 2 Chinese people–now look how many there are. – Benny Hill
Only the smallest amounts of poison are acceptable.
For a long life, keep the poison distributed in minute amounts throughout your body–don’t not let a bunch settle in the same place.
There are trillions of inhabited planets, if not more.
There are as many paths to god as there are paws to walk them.
You can not respect the creators, without respecting the creations.
Disrespect for creations is disrespect to the creators.
One needs to focus more on creation than destruction. The natural order of events will provide more than enough destruction.
One needs to focus more on peace than violence. Reality usually provides more than enough violence.
Sometimes to destroy is to create, but this is not a justification for violence.
From every disaster arises some good, but this is no reason to justify disaster.
Words simultaneously illuminate and obscure an idea.
To laugh at is not to scoff at, although sometimes it is.
A jester will laugh at innate truths, and at gross falsehoods.
A jester will laugh at gross truths, and at innate falsehoods.
One has no control over what one finds funny.
An evil laugh corresponds to tears of happiness..
Tis better to have lived and laughed, than never to have lived at all -Bristow Adams
The earth has been provided with an amazing clock and calendar in the form of the moon, but modern society has chosen to use the sun and a myriad band-aid fixes to keep its time.
If the earth were to stop spinning (and not rip apart), the side facing the sun would burn while the other would freeze, in just a few days.
It is less the distance the Earth is from the Sun, and more the spin, tilt, and ratio of water to land, that determines our climate.
Life arises on the threshold of salt and fresh water, in light polarized by clear and cloudy skies.
The sun was the first strobe light; day and night the first binary switch.
Even in the dead of night, the earth is still basking in the sun.
Night is a local phenomenon.
Systems are spirals; organisms are mirrors.
Even if some being created all things, those things were made to evolve.
Teach a computer how to fish, and it will know how to fish. Teach a computer how to learn, and it will be able to do anything.
Humans operate on a level larger than atoms, and smaller than planets
It is likely that fractal patterns also exist in psychological and sociologial realms. If so, one can discern a ‘scientific proof’ that the actions and thoughts of an individual can affect the actions and thoughts of a society. (you CAN make a difference!)
Every statement you make can be better by placing ‘usually’, ‘probably’ or ‘maybe’ at the end, usually.
Every statement you make can be made more truthful by adding “in my mind” at the end.
There is only one place you can be on Saturday night at 8pm.
There are only so many corrections you can make without sounding like a know-it-all.
It IS possible to know something, and possible to be correct in your knowledge.
If you think you know something, just wait a moment and it will pass.
Don’t battle the old paradigm, just live the new one. – JCL
The thing said last can often be remembered forever. The thing said too late is never heard.
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