You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort.
Think of what happened after 911, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.
Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.
I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like ZERO.
People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.
Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young.
Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.
I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.
Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.