November 2006
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Unabashed
If I spend my free time with you, it is because I find value in spending time with you, because there is something I get from spending time with you and perhaps something more I hope to get from it in the future. If I cease to spend time with you, it is because the [...]
Rather Than More Hypocrites
There are already far too many men worth hating because they do not live by the ideals they profess: I am far more interested in meeting men worth hating because they do live by their ideals.
The Middleman
A fascinating passage I read today: One economist in an unusual situation showed how the physical fallacy does not depend on any unique historical circumstance but easily arises from human psychology. He watched the entire syndrome emerge before his eyes when he spent time in a World War II prisoner-of-war camp. Every month the prisoners [...]
Love Without Trust
Love without trust is the one of the bitterest forms of slavery.
True Love
Love is the conviction that you could never meet anyone better than your partner — that a better person may be imaginable, but likely does not exist and quite possibly never could exist.
I Never Thought That Love Would Save Me
I always thought that there would be this girl and she’d be just like me, but not like me.1 I guess when you’re young, you just believe there’ll be many people with whom you will connect with. Later in your life you realize it only happens a few times.2 Amazingly, these short, simple passages seem [...]
Revenge
There is a common theme in my favorite stories — in Hamlet, Dune, the Iliad, the Odyssey, Lawrence Of Arabia, The Crow, Conan The Barbarian, V For Vendetta and so on –: that theme is revenge. Why such an intense love for this theme in stories? Because only in stories are we still allowed to [...]
Still, It Had Been Good
Nearly everything we teach our children about the world is false — and much of what we teach them we know to be false even as we teach it. We lie to our chidlren because we fear causing them pain by telling them the truth about the often dire conditions holding in the world in [...]
Irrational Man
Almost every single experience in life proves that humans are driven not by carefully considered reasons, but by emotions, instinctive reactions and habit — and that nearly everything thus far called rationality has been merely impulse disguised — that is say, misrepresented — as the result of rational analysis.
Blatantly Unromantic
My ideal relationship at the moment can be summarized in the words, “I neither expect nor ask for you to love me: I only want to have sex with someone I can go out to dinner with on Friday nights and watch movies together with.”