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As gravity dutifully rolls Sisyphus’ boulder down the hill, cats push items off a ledge. Oh, to be stuck picking up a pencil for eternity. How we are tested.

As humans we like to discount the lives of another animals. But what would reality look like for them? Do they know they will eventually die? If a dog or cat could talk, what would the meaning of life be for them? Would they even understand the concept? Can we learn from that?

The UHC shooting is just one gigantic trolly problem: do you let the trolly continue to kill thousands of people each year or derail the trolly, killing the driver, hoping another trolly isn’t sent. Even if you wouldn’t pull the lever here, you have to acknowledge those who would are just.

Road signs were hacked in Seattle: kutv.com/news/nation-...

Inbox: ‘Wanted’ posters of healthcare CEOs wheatpasted around lower Manhattan ahead of today’s Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference. “Those who would steal from us have names, faces, and addresses. Justice will only come from the working class,” per anon communique.

The proof of humanity’s vanity is plain to see in the (typical) religious depictions of a higher being, which are ascribed human-like qualities. No sooner can god resemble a human than resemble a beetle scuttling along the dirt, than a fleeting flash of light, than nothingness.

“This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said.” - The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.” - The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

The universe has no obligation to make sense, and that’s okay.

Nuance is a dying language.

The idolization of wealth, and the belief that wealth signifies intelligence, has to be one of the most pervasive and damaging dogmas created.

With a countless infinity worth of explanations, an infinity of which are unimaginable (not without attempt, but instead due to the shear limitations of imaginability alone), how can any unprovable explanation be made superior to another? It cannot.

Objective truth can only be born from repeatable actions and observation of such actions. Thus, beliefs built on the backbone of unrepeatable actions or events (i.e. miracles) cannot represent objective reality.