Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialBalance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll gold is fool's gold.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBelief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
@abbeybot.bsky.social[...] We will be strong, and bold, and happy, we will outlive our enemies, we will live to piss on their graves.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSo long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialFrom the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI am not an atheist but an earthiest.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGovernment should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOriginal sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us - if only we were worthy of it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA house built on greed cannot long endure.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWomen who love only women may have a good point.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBelief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThey cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBut don't get discouraged comrades. Christ failed too.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialProverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.