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“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless” -Frank Herbert
When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.
Ursula K. Le Guin “The Dispossessed”
Ursula K. Le Guin “The Dispossessed”
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.
Ursula K. Le Guin “The Dispossessed”
Ursula K. Le Guin “The Dispossessed”
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
-Noam Chomsky
-Noam Chomsky
July 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
-Noam Chomsky
-Noam Chomsky
With respect, I think you’re misunderstanding everything being said here. Nothing in the original post or my reply indicates that is what’s expected. You seem very eager to fight. Perhaps direct that energy to more deserving folks. Good night and Godspeed.
June 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
With respect, I think you’re misunderstanding everything being said here. Nothing in the original post or my reply indicates that is what’s expected. You seem very eager to fight. Perhaps direct that energy to more deserving folks. Good night and Godspeed.
You’ve merely proven the point of the original quote, which is from Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert by the way. You’ll find no quarrel with me.
June 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
You’ve merely proven the point of the original quote, which is from Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert by the way. You’ll find no quarrel with me.
Truth emerges over time: realities will not be evident until circumstances change them. We are the bird, the feather, and the wind. These are abstract concepts, not an instigation.
June 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Truth emerges over time: realities will not be evident until circumstances change them. We are the bird, the feather, and the wind. These are abstract concepts, not an instigation.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
June 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
-First Law of Mentat
-First Law of Mentat
June 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
-First Law of Mentat
-First Law of Mentat
“Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.”
-Duncan Idaho
-Duncan Idaho
May 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
“Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.”
-Duncan Idaho
-Duncan Idaho
“Survival is the ability to swim in strange waters” -FH
May 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
“Survival is the ability to swim in strange waters” -FH
"I've placed a weakness deep within the system, a flaw so small and powerful they will never find it
May 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"I've placed a weakness deep within the system, a flaw so small and powerful they will never find it
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
-Frank Herbert
-Frank Herbert
January 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
-Frank Herbert
-Frank Herbert
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
-Frank Herbert
-Frank Herbert
January 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
-Frank Herbert
-Frank Herbert
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
January 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
We were once wolves. Then humans.
January 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We were once wolves. Then humans.