JohnPRyan

“RETROSPECTIVE‌ FALSIFICATION «D. H. Rawcliffe coined this term to refer to the process of telling a story that is factual to some extent, but which gets distorted and falsified over time by retelling it with various embellishments. The embellishments may include speculations, conflating events that occurred at different times or in different places, and the incorporation of material without regard for accuracy or plausibility. The overriding force that drives the story is to find or invent details that fit with a desired outcome. …The original story gets remodeled with favorable points being emphasized and unfavorable ones being dropped. The distorted and false version becomes a memory and record of a remarkable tale.»”
― Angeliki Anagnostou - Kalogera, Can You Stand The Truth?: The Chronicle of Man's Imprisonment: Last Call!

“Trolls hurt people—their words turn news sites, social media sites, and other collective posting spaces into toxic spaces. Even when the reader is aware that the person posting such vitriol and hate is, at best, a coward operating from the anonymity of an alias, simple exposure to this hateful, uncivil, baiting, and cruel abuse contributes to the larger toxicity in which we are all currently living and that is negatively impacting everyone’s health and well-being.”
― Ramani Durvasula, "Don't You Know Who I Am?": How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility

“God is a thought that makes everything straight crooked and everything that stands whirl.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Complete Works of Nietzsche: including Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Human All Too Human, The Birth of Tragedy, and many more

“This is why, Celestial Man, originating from the Aeon, in order to return back to IT, acts as follows: He denounces the prison of the body/grave which is forced upon him through birth. He maintains his balance, un-oscillating, in the change of time. He reinstates his soul to order, shutting the door behind him. He discovers the identity of ‘his Essence’ through self-knowledge (self-Epignosis) and walks toward his Aeon/Cosmos. There and then, he takes in the Unified Patrogenes Light (of the Father), and not the split quasi/substitute light (Ant-Avge) of Logos.”
― Angeliki Anagnostou - Kalogera, Can You Stand The Truth?: The Chronicle of Man's Imprisonment: Last Call!