Meg18_Meek
- Maidens
All flower's, all flower's growing up so high. We all pretty maids and we all have to die. Excepting little Mary she's the only one. Oh, what a shame, Oh what a shame... Never look at her again!
Robin Hanson
- Some book
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is "the elephant in the brain." Such an introspective taboo makes.
Unknown
- Mneumonic for the Presidents
Wilma and John made merry and just vanished. He told people they'd found perfect bliss. Love just got him good and consumed him. Crazy man, really. That Wilma had captured him romantically! Today, everyone knows John never found comfort. Really, bliss can be overrated, tiring, boring.
Anonymous
So ur with ur honey and yur making out wen the phone rigns. U anser it n the vioce is "wut r u doing wit my daughter?" U tell ur girl n she say "my dad is ded." THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
Just a Typer
- Just Keep Typing
I like typing and I do typing tests when I'm bored on occasion. I really like how this site tracks my WPM, as well as my accuracy, and averages them. It's pretty nice to see my average speed and accuracy go up.
Aspiring Typist
- A little typing tip
When I'm typing on this site, depending on my state of mind, I eventually start making mistakes, or find long quotes daunting. This negatively affects my typing speed and accuracy. The more my typing speed and accuracy decline, the more frustrated I get. So... a little typing tip. When you find yourself in this situation, only focus on writing the next word and nothing else. Do it well. Do it fast. Then move on to the next one after that. Nothing else matters.
China Mieville
- How International Law Works
There is nothing to stop a legal argument continuing forever, simply switching from ascending to descending categories endlessly. Of course, legal arguments do not go on forever. But their resolution is not a result of the internal logic of the concepts, but represents interpretation backed by force.
Dan Reeder
- Clean Elvis Pt. 2
I battle aliens from outer space. They got one eye right in the middle of their face. I grab my laser gun, I know my place. Somebody has to save the human race. And I will always love you. It seems hopeless, but wouldn't you know, they got a weakness and they let it show; they can't jump and they're a little bit slow. When I say World War II, I mean the video. And I - help me, Elvis! I - come on now Elvis! I can't help falling in love with you.
Frank Herbert, Dune
Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.
Anonymous
- Silent Cry - Stray Kids
I'll listen to your silent cry, so that you don't get tired in a lost corner of your heart. Through the cracks in the door of that poorly closed space called you, there is a silent cry that only I can hear. The silent cry that you've been hiding for a while. You can show your tears that you've been quietly hiding, to me. Can I listen to your familiar self-talk too? Don't be the only one hurting.
Anonymous
- Fondest Memories
Its been several years, and now I am in high school. I don't really remember much from primary except that it was the happiest times of my life, and I can call a memory so. Nothing is better than sitting on a bus with all of your friends that you've bonded with the entire year going on a trip to the mountains with Hall of Fame playing on the bus's speakers. Nostalgia fills me when I look at the sunset with friends on every side talking and enjoying themselves. Its one of my fondest memories.
Dan Reeder
I looked up death in the dictionary one day just to see what the dictionary had to say: it's the complete and irreversible cessation of life functions. Which is not very poetic but it's precise and clean, and if you analyze it, what that means is when they're gone... they're gone.
Dan Reeder
- Long Ago
Long ago, before the world had cooled, the moon flew out of the earth. Eons it spun around the earth and the sun, until it was perfectly round. And I have been waiting an hour now for a bus on the outskirts of town. Maybe this bus doesn't run anymore, or maybe the schedule is wrong. Walking is out of the question from here; it's raining and my youth is gone. Long ago, before the world had cooled, the moon flew out of the earth...
Dan Reeder
- Clean Elvis
I inject pure kryptonite into my brain, it improves my kung-fu and it eases the pain during acceleration when the pedal hits the floor; this thing burns nitroglycerin and powdered C4. And I will always love you. I drive a modified T-series Lola - it's kind of heavy, but I like the feel. When I say Vietnam it sounds just like Coca-Cola. I believe most anything as long as it's not real. And I will always love you.
Brennan Kenneth Brown
- Four Seasons Excerpt
Take stock of everything here, the cold fingertips and beautiful hoarfrost killing the garden outside. I don't need God, I am no longer small. It's calmer now.
Instrint
- Nobody cares
Nobody cares, so go on with life. Stop sharing useless things with the world and eat a cock. By cock, I mean specifically... A male chicken. Grab it by the neck and snap it, Chop off the head with an axe and boil the body. By boiling the body, you make it easier to remove the feathers. Once they are gone you can further cook it and do with it as you please :).
Jon Bois
- 17776: An answered prayer.
Struggle - true, unfabricated struggle - is a cocoon they have shed. Humans are beings of the land and sea who have refused to cast themselves into the cosmic zoo. Exploration and conquest are meaningless. They have achieved their final form, and they are resting in an eternal moment. They are creatures of play. They will be creatures of play until the end of time.
Jon Bois
- 17776: Heaven is scary
Because I'm like you, I kinda look at the big long life ahead of me that stretches out forever and disappears. And I get scared. And I think, "This can't be Heaven if I'm getting scared, right?" And then I think, "Maybe I am in Heaven, and Heaven is scary."
Jacques Vallée - Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers
The visitors have the power to fly through the air using luminous craft, sometimes called "celestial chariots." With these manifestations are associated impressive physical and meteorological displays, which the primitive authors call "whirlwind," "pillar of fire," etc. The occupants of these craft, to whom popular imagery will later ascribe wings and luminosity, are similar to man and communicate with him.
