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@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:28 PM

If you get good results with your means, but your ends are corrupt...expect no recognition. If you have the right goal but fail in your means...expect to get respect for doing the right thing at least.

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A simple diagram on a white background illustrating a means-to-ends process. A green arrow runs left to right from a small green circle labeled Means to a yellow star labeled Goal, with the word Ends beside it. Above the arrow, a purple oval reads Ethics, Principles, Plans, and a green starburst near the goal reads Observe consequence. Below the arrow, a purple oval reads Objective Reality. A numbered list at the bottom reads: 1. Observe objective reality. 2. Set a goal to work toward. 3. Principles, plans and ethics emerge. 4. Observe consequence, adjust ethics, principles, plans accordingly.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 8:22 PM

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Billowing clouds of colored smoke in purple, pink, and teal blend with faint damask patterns and scattered four-pointed stars around the edges. Bold text in a pink-to-blue gradient with a thick black outline displays a quote reading We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul. -G. K. Chesterton. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:19 PM

This promotes "radical" relativism😁. This does not mean a killer and a philanthropist are the same....

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A close-up of rusted, broken chain-link fencing in purple and blue tones against a blurred background, overlaid with diagonal translucent dark stripes. Large bold text in a purple-to-light-blue gradient with a dark outline displays a quote reading To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:45 AM

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A lone silhouetted figure stands on dark rocky ground facing a towering column of bright white and violet light pouring down between shadowy cliffs, surrounded by swirling teal and purple mist. Large white handwritten-style lettering with a blue-to-pink glow and dark outline displays a quote reading I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure. -Antisthenes. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:35 AM

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A soft, luminous sky of swirling clouds in lavender, pink, blue, and golden peach, framed top and bottom by dark purple diagonal-striped borders. Hand-drawn uppercase lettering in a dark purple with a light outline displays a quote reading Drama, combat, terror, numbness, and subservience - every day these things wipe out your sacred principles, whenever your mind entertains them uncritically or lets them slip in. -Marcus Aurelius. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:59 AM

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A glowing city skyline sits along a beach at dusk beneath a spectacular sky of swirling clouds in purple, pink, and teal radiating outward, crossed by bold diagonal translucent stripes. A translucent dark band across the lower portion holds white rounded lettering with a blue-to-pink glow and dark outline, displaying a quote reading Many receive advice, few profit by it. -Publilius Syrus. The CivilSimian.com watermark runs vertically along the right edge.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:09 PM

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A row of silhouetted figures stands on misty ground with their backs to the viewer, gazing up at a vast starry sky swirling with purple and teal nebula clouds. Dark ornate eye-shaped symbols surrounded by wavy rays are scattered around the left and bottom edges, and the right side fades to black. Right-aligned hand-drawn uppercase lettering in a purple-to-blue gradient displays a quote reading A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political, legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge. -Roger Scruton. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the upper left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:44 PM

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A polished chrome ring made of several concentric metallic bands sits on a light gray background. Centered inside the ring, futuristic lettering in a pink-to-blue gradient with a dark outline displays a quote reading Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man. -Democritus. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:29 PM

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Background of dark metallic hexagonal tiles in purple and magenta tones, scattered with clusters of four-pointed stars in teal, pink, and purple along the top and bottom edges. A translucent black band across the middle holds hand-drawn style lettering in a purple-to-blue gradient with a black outline, displaying a quote reading The fundamental imperative about idolatry was that worship was not to be paid to any created thing such as a messenger, a planet, a star, one of the four elements, or to anything produced from them. -Maimonides. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears faintly in the upper left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:29 PM

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A crowd of silhouetted people stands facing a vast, glowing purple space filled with towering crystalline structures and shimmering lights. The upper half is solid black, blending into the scene below with a ragged, splattered edge, and holds futuristic lettering in a lavender-to-white gradient displaying a quote reading A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science. -Bertrand Russell. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:53 AM

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@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:57 AM

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@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:17 AM

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@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:16 AM

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A lone hooded figure stands with their back to the viewer on an overgrown city street, facing an enormous ancient tree with purple foliage that towers among ruined buildings in teal and violet tones. Bold text in a lavender-to-blue gradient with a dark outline, mixing italic and upright words in a slanted, receding block, displays a quote reading The idea of living beings as subject to 'disease' includes a recognition of a Final Cause in organization; for disease is a state in which the vital forces do not attain their 'proper ends'. -William Whewell. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:06 AM

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A stormy cosmic sky of swirling purple, pink, and blue clouds with faint streaks of light fills the right side, fading to solid black on the left. Bold lavender text with a dark outline, set at a slight slant, displays a quote reading neither our distance from a preventable evil nor the number of other people who, in respect to that evil, are in the same situation as we are, lessens our obligation to mitigate or prevent that evil. -Peter Singer. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:00 PM

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A glowing purple planet looms over a sea of pink and violet clouds, with a bright burst of golden light on the left side of the sky. Bold uppercase lettering in a gray-to-pink gradient with a dark outline is arranged in a slanted, receding block styled like a sci-fi movie opening crawl, displaying a quote reading Preserving seeks to secure the life that already is; safeguarding secures and reproduces the conditions of becoming, of living, of futurity, where the content of that life, that living, can be neither prescribed nor predicted, and where self-determination emerges as a potential. -Judith Butler. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:49 PM

See biography for Anthony Ashley-Cooper:
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Read Anthony Ashley-Cooper's work:
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An illustrated autumn forest with a sunlit path winding between dark tree trunks, the ground and branches covered in orange and gold leaves. A dark band across the upper half, edged with silhouetted foliage, holds hand-drawn uppercase lettering in a pink-to-yellow gradient, displaying a quote reading Gravity is of the very essence of imposture. It does not only make us mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake it-self. -Anthony Ashley-Cooper. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:45 PM

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A dark, moody landscape of rugged mountains and misty valleys beneath stormy clouds tinged with faint purple, pink, and gold. Futuristic lettering in a gradient shifting between pink, peach, and blue with a dark outline displays a quote reading In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination... -Marcus Aurelius. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 4:54 AM

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A cosmic space scene of swirling blue and purple nebulae dotted with glowing orange and white stars. A translucent dark horizontal band across the middle holds light purple rounded lettering displaying a quote reading A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country. -Adam Smith. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears faintly in the lower left corner.

@comfortdragon.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 3:55 AM

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A lone silhouetted man in a suit walks along a winding purple path through a hazy landscape in violet and teal tones, overlaid with diagonal dark stripes and dark atom symbols clustered around the edges, framed top and bottom by purple striped borders. Hand-drawn uppercase lettering in a blue-to-pink gradient with a dark outline displays a quote reading With what scientific stoicism he walks through the land of wonders, unwondering. -Thomas Carlyle. The CivilSimian.com watermark appears in the lower left corner.