Toxn Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 This thread is dedicated to the knowledge you have acquired, and how it has enhanced your inner life. For example, studying evolution and population genetics has done approximately nothing to increase my employability. But the understanding I've gained has been invaluable in positioning my life and works within the grand sweep of the universe. Knowing in your heart that you are a minute spec in an infinite, uncaring cosmos. Knowing that this body you occupy is in some sense a fleeting vessel for ageless genes, quick to be discarded and renewed. And knowing that life itself represents something like a cosmic rebellion against the great plan of the universe: a little trickle of increasing order in an ocean of unwinding entropy. These are thoughts that can change your perspective about life; its successes, failures, goals, ends, means, triumphs and tragedies. Please share with us what you have learned about beauty, and what you have felt about truth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 As far as truth goes, I can say that owning Chickens has reinforced my previously held conviction that life is not sacred. Collimatrix, xthetenth, Sturgeon and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinegata Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Pork is divine especially when you figure out how to cook it properly, and I would totally accept it as a valid reason for my ancestors signing up to be slaves of the Spanish Empire than be slaves of the Muslim Sultanates of South East Asia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 As far as truth goes, I can say that owning Chickens has reinforced my previously held conviction that life is not sacred. Meat may be murder, but that's even more justification to eat chicken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 There is a certain amount of beauty and truth when you find that your buddy has written a story about the Federal Government spending $5 million in order to dissuade hipsters from smoking. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/04/06/the-nih-is-spending-5-million-to-discourage-hipsters-from-smoking/ The federal government spent millions of dollars in recent years to discourage tobacco use among hipsters through a program that recommends “styling your sweet mustache” and listening to music “no one else has heard of” as good alternatives to smoke breaks. ... ... Ling has concluded that hipsters need something more than scary health warnings to keep them from lighting up. “Saying ‘Smoking is bad for you’ isn’t relevant to them,” she said in a 2010 article on the UCSF Web site. “But they do care about self expression and social justice.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 Tell them that smoking is white privilege, because minorities probably picked tobacco at some point in history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 Well you see smoking tobacco is cultural appropriation because the natives Americans did it first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 Well you see smoking tobacco is cultural appropriation because the natives Americans did it first. Native Americans. Truly the original hipsters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 Knowing that I'm better than all of you has changed nothing. Because I'm better than all of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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