All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.
Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.
My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.
It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.
The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.
Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.
Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?
For he who has died has been freed from sin. . . 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable; and were they not so, would be extremely pernicious to human society. Render possessions ever so equal, men's different degrees of art, care, and industry will immediately break that equality. Or if you check these virtues, you reduce society to the most extreme indigence; and instead of preventing want and beggary in a few, render it unavoidable to the whole community.
Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.
So what if nobody came? I’ll have all the ice cream and tea, And I’ll laugh with myself, And I’ll dance with myself, And I’ll sing, “Happy Birthday to me!