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Book cover for On the Shortness of Life
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in ...more
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Sam Esmail
“Is that what God does?
He helps?
Tell me,
why didn't God help
my innocent friend
who died for no reason
while the guilty roam free?
Okay, fine.
Forget the one-offs.
How about the countless wars
declared in his name?
Okay, fine.
Let's skip the random,
meaningless murder for a second,
shall we?

How about the racist,
sexist, phobia soup
we've all been drowning in
because of him?
And I'm not just
talking about Jesus.
I'm talking about all
organized religion...
Exclusive groups
created to manage control,
a dealer getting people hooked
on the drug of hope,
his followers
nothing but addicts
who want their hit of bullshit
to keep their...

Their dopamine of ignorance,
addicts afraid
to believe the truth...
That there is no order,
there's no power,
that all religions are just
metastasizing mind worms
meant to divide us
so it's easier to rule us
by the charlatans
that want to run us.

All we are to them
are paying fanboys
of their poorly written
sci-fi franchise.

If I don't listen
to my imaginary friend,
why the fuck should
I listen to yours?

People think their worship's
some key to happiness.
That's just how he owns you.

Even I'm not crazy enough
to believe that
distortion of reality.

So fuck God.

He's not a good enough
scapegoat for me.”
Sam Esmail, Mr. Robot 1x01 Pilot Screenplay

Erin Hunter
“When everything you dreamed of seems like its just too awfully far
And the whispered voice of doubt
Has been ingrained in who you are
Do not curse the distance
For it provides the time to grow
What would be the point of dreams
If you could reach them in one go!”
E.H

Ryan Holiday
“Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.”
Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

Matt Haig
“A society which demands we be normal even as it drives us insane.”
Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

Paul Kalanithi
“While all doctors treat diseases, neurosurgeons work in the crucible of identity: every operation on the brain is, by necessity, a manipulation of the substance of our selves, and every conversation with a patient undergoing brain surgery cannot help but confront this fact. In addition, to the patient and family, the brain surgery is usually the most dramatic event they have ever faced and, as such, has the impact of any major life event. At those critical junctures, the question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living. Would you trade your ability - or your mother's - to talk for a few extra months of mute life? The expansion of your visual blind spot in exchange for eliminating the small possibility of a fatal brain hemorrhage? Your right hand's function to stop seizures? How much neurologic suffering would you let your child endure before saying that death is preferable? Because the brain mediates our experience of the world, any neurosurgical problem forces a patient and family, ideally with a doctor as a guide, to answer this question: What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?”
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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