"Life is lived forwards, But understood backwards." ~ Soron Kierkegeard~
"The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument." ~Madeleine L'Engle
"Language is not a strait jacket." ~Psychologist Lita Gleitman
"Words are pegs to hang ideas on." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"Heredity deals the cards, environment plays the hand." ~Psychologist Charles L. Brewer
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do now know it; this is knowledge." ~ Confucius
"Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up; it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung." ~Psychologist Peter Russel, 1979
"Anything sounds commonplace, once explained." ~Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes
"It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problem with a mind free from bias." ~Simone De Beauvoir
"The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"Thinking is one thing, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world." ~Poet Goethe
"Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory" ~Physician Albert Schweitzer
"When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go, When it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; When it returned, they felt as if it had never gone." ~George MacDonald
"When you laugh, the world laughs with you. When you cry, you cry alone." ~Oldboy
"All information processing in the brain involves 'talking to' each other at synapses." ~Neuroscientist H. Snyder (1984)
"You are your synapses." ~Joseph Le Doux, The Synaptic Self,2002
"Don't believe everything you think." ~Bumper sticker
"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~Krishnamurti
"All the people in history, literature, art, whom I most admire... not one of them would qualify for a mental-health certificate." ~Madeleine L'Engle
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talents have lived and died in cotton fields and sweat shops." ~Stephen Jay Gould
"Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the differences of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity?" ~Herman Melville
"One of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a human to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control." ~T.H. Huxley, Evolution and Ethics
"Truth is arrived at the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ~Sherlock Holmes in "Sign of the 4"
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." ~Chinese proverb
"Life is the art of being well-deceived." observed William Hazlitt
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who am i: Zennia Theta Gino. seriously. Talk or forget about adding me. To whoever may be actually reading this this is rly long + you might not understand anything about me as I am writing bit sarcastically as well as seriously. So don't take this too literally or lightly. Detachment, intelligence, and respect is all I ask. If you are faint of heart or like thinking life is full of promise than I suggest you stop reading this & continue making hopefully better use of "life". I won't go into full detail explaining myself because then I would like to write million pages but ill share some things. My ethnicity/heritage is a second-generation Korean. I was born in Portland, OR. lived the majority of my pathetic life in Beaverton, OR. moved to Fairfax, VA for 1 & 1/2 yrs. Moved to University Place, WA and lived here for 2 1/2 years or more so far. I was always an oddball since I was born. I do love to break stereotypes. I suffocate & eventually break when around hypocrites & narrow minded people or in a narrow minded atmosphere. I am more dysfunctional than perfect. Sorry if i don't meet your expectations. Im just too fucked up. I used to have high hopes and good intentions. I have a good long-term memory so Im very resentful and unforgiving if things aren't resolved. I can also be tremendously hateful. I lived in my own bubble amidst a chaotic and decaying life. The world popped it and smashed everything to bits. Gradually I learned about the truth. At first I became crazy, succumbed by sorrow at the losses every piece of ignorance that used to remain. Now im just hanging around... But here are some cold hard facts. Everything you thought was magical is but an illusion. Everything you thought was supposed to be or just the way things are have a reason behind everything to how it became that way and why. Everything mysterious is yet to be discovered and solved. After that it is either just another crap or another fact of life. It does not change the fact that in the end, it amounts to nothing more and nothing less. There is no meaning behind anything unless you decide it does. It is for the sake of helping to preserve the human race. People instill meaning because then there is hope isn't there? love can save the day perhaps. Not the love everyone knows about through the media that is just a trick to reproduce and continue the human race or vow to remain in a constant insane, delusive, transient state of passions and infatuation and required to stay that way until death do them part. Love as in Altruism: The unselfish regard for the welfare of others. I am not emo alright. I did not ask to be born in this fucked up world okay. It's not like people get a fucking choice if they want to be born here or not. I did not choose to become this way. Ultimately, I believe life is fatalistic. That there are things beyond human control. We are living in an always ever changing and unpredictable environment. I had to evolve my views, thinking and approach on life or become extinct. I have often thought death would put me to rest but never attempted to carry it out yet. Even through all the pointless and wasted pain now I realize I do not really regret everything. I learned a lot about myself and all the time I still am. I wish I was born wise & all-knowing or born under different circumstances but w/e. I am what I remember. I am living in a state of knowing I am being deceived. I always chew everything and myself inside and out. As society's tenditive directions, approach me i will keep away from enculturization. It's fine if you hate me because of these words pissing you off or not understanding me even more. Everyone practically has self-serving biases. It's just another part of survival, to protect one's esteem. If you get this you are smart. In the end one has to become wiser and understanding. That will come with age my friend unless you want to burn quick then extinguish. I drew since the age of two and decided my profession at the age of six to be an Animator. I decided Art is the thing that will help me get through. Until my time is due then hopefully I can successfully lie to myself in order to live in this lie by enjoying my remaining time & live out my "goals" if circumstances make it possible. Well there's more shit but you probably won't wish to know.
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