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Raxin

1. Raxin
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   May 10, 2016 3:53pm UTC
   The United States of America is a country for people who refuse to be ruled by others. We rule ourselves.
   If the ever-testing forces of fascism, despotism, capitalism, religion-ism, or any other "ism" seem to influence the direction of our country for a period, it is only because we have inadvertently allowed them to do so, being preoccupied in our pursuit of happiness or daily survival. However, it is we the people who own this country, and it is we the people who can exercise control of our country at any time. All that we require to do so is will. Everything else is a tool of will, including communication to each other of the facts, communication of our opinions about those facts, agreement on any mutual intentions, and organized action to correct the wrongs of those facts and bring our country back in line with the will of the people.
   We are many. It's tough even to agree with your closest neighbor, let alone millions of neighbors, making Democracy a messy and cumbersome process. So what? We all still hold one common belief, one common value. That is self-determination, and Democracy is still the best invention to date that supports the self-determination of the people.
   
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2. Raxin
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   May 9, 2016 9:10pm UTC
   The moment of conception is a misnomer. Conception means beginning.
   It's a moment of joining. Two living cells combine into one living cell and continue living.
   There's no beginning, only continuing in modified form. None of us represents a new spark of life. We are the latest faces on the same ancient ongoing flame that passed through our parents, their parents, and everyone elses parents.
   There is literally only one life, and each of us gets to carry it for a while, or, rather, it assumes the shape of each of us for a while before recombining and morphing on.
   When you see other people around you, say hello to yourself.
   Hi me!
   
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3. Raxin
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   May 6, 2016 8:17pm UTC
   Where can I get a shirt that’s
   dandruff-colored?
   
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4. Raxin
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   May 4, 2016 11:09pm UTC
   The things I've concentrated on for the last five or ten years are ending one by one and leaving me with nothing, which threatens desolation or promises freedom, depending how I take it.
   It's not a life phase. I think musically. It's the end of a phrase. What will I play next in this free jazz called being human?
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5. Raxin
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   May 3, 2016 12:47am UTC
   Some people think that having money makes you right. That’s ridiculous. Having money doesn’t make you right. Money isn’t even real. What’s real is action. If you want to know who a person is, watch what they do.
   Trump—are you kidding me? One thing we definitely don’t need in politics is more capitalists. They’re corrupting the whole democratic system. Do you think Trump could have garnered massive grass-roots donations as Sanders did? The only reason Trump gets his face plastered all over the place is that he has money. The only reason he has money is that he took advantage of the corrupt laws that protect the biggest capitalist thieves. He already went bankrupt three times. That means he didn’t have to pay his creditors what he owed them. He walked away each time. If he were made to pay all the people he owed money to, he would be worse than broke. He’d be deep in the hole. If Trump becomes president, he’s not going to “put up a wall” or follow through with anything he says while campaigning. Every speech is purely a publicity stunt. He’s only building his “brand”. As president, all he would do would be to build a bunch of graft deals for himself and his cronies, ripping off the country for four years and getting even richer. Then he would walk away clean with the spoils, just as he has done before, except this time, it wouldn’t be only his creditors he’d leave to eat the loss and clean up the mess. It would be the whole country.
   I’ll delete this in a few months.
   
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6. Raxin
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   April 25, 2016 1:29am UTC
   I don’t know what "experience" actually is, but I like it sometimes. I feel alone, but I see everyone around me. There’s a chance to be friends. I’ve tried. I’ve had wonderful moments. That’s what I like. I don’t like what happens after. I always come back to this starting square—just me, just my awareness, just my inescapable point of view. Somebody has to be me. I guess it might as well be me.
   Desire and loneliness are the words that describe me and rule me now. One day, I’ll die, and I won’t have to suffer the disappointments anymore. Unfortunately, I won’t know it at the time. While I am alive and able to know anything, I must apparently know pain. That seems to be the only fixed star in the sky they call life. They praise life for its potential, for its opportunity, but I keep finding regular old dirt.
   
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7. Raxin
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   April 23, 2016 5:41pm UTC
   Inspirational
   Hope for the hopeless
   Help for the helpless
   Joy for the joyless
   Home for the homeless
   Ironic
   Art for the artless
   Age for the ageless
   Time for the timeless
   Law for the lawless
   Meaning for the meaningless
   Sin for the sinless
   Clever
   Aim for the aimless
   Wit for the witless
   End for the endless
   Nonsense
   Hap for the hapless
   Cord for the cordless
   Base for the baseless
   Best
   Un for the unless
   
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8. Raxin
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   April 15, 2016 11:11pm UTC
   Boo hoo.
   Screw you.
   
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9. Raxin
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   March 24, 2016 8:50pm UTC
   Circular reasoning:
   “Why is it cold?”
   “It’s winter.”
   “What makes it winter?”
   “It’s cold.”
   
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10. Raxin
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    March 24, 2016 8:47pm UTC
    Believer: “Everything that exists was created.”
    Challenger: “Who created the creator?”
    Believer: “Nobody created the creator.”
    Challenger: “Then, by your first rule, the creator doesn’t exist.”
    
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11. Raxin
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    March 5, 2016 1:42pm UTC
    We're ketchup and ice cream, a couple of great flavors that just don't go together.
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12. Raxin
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    March 5, 2016 12:01pm UTC
    Not-now is the time to worry about anything.
    Now not-is the time to worry about anything.
    Now is not the time to worry about anything.
    Now is the not-time to worry about anything.
    Now is the time not to worry about anything.
    Now is the time to not worry about anything.
    Now is the time to worry-not about anything.
    Now is the time to worry about not-anything.
    Now is the time to worry about anything. Not!
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13. Raxin
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    March 1, 2016 11:55pm UTC
    There's so much contradictory advice out there that you can cherry pick the pieces you want to hear to support whatever you actually think you should do. In that way, advice is just a mirror that's pretending not to be you. It's like when you flip a coin to make a decision, and if it shows the side you secretly didn't want, you can flip again for the best out of three or best out of five until you get the decision that you really wanted to make, and could have just made, in the first place. Isn't it funny that we can't trust our own judgement, but we can judge other people's advice, even random advice? Whatever works, I guess.
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14. Raxin
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    February 28, 2016 3:41pm UTC
    I don’t think you realize it.
    My mother was more important to me than my father was.
    My sister is more important to me than my mother was.
    You — you are more important to me than my sister is.
    I took you to that fancy shop to get pieces of metal to wrap around our fingers.
    I drove you to another state, to a famous city,
    where marriages can happen quickly,
    because I had to have you ASAP.
    I knew it.
    I recognized it.
    You were the one.
    You are still the one.
    I thought you felt the same.
    You promised.
    You vowed.
    We agreed divorce was a no-no.
    What happened?
    I don’t understand.
    I’m still here.
    I’m still on our path.
    You’re not.
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15. Raxin
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    February 28, 2016 3:11pm UTC
    Cosmic clock, you are so long. You are so finely divided. You are so continuously variable. A bug lives a fast life in a month, a small fish a year. I've lived decades and I probably have more. It seems like a long time when I think back. It's nothing compared to you. You are the expanse within which continents jiggle around like water droplets on a hot skillet. You are the scale at which binary stars encircle each other in a guitar string's blur. You watch a galaxy vortex into its black hole while I watch my bathtub drain. What is it like to know the expansion of the universe as a sneeze?
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16. Raxin
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    February 25, 2016 12:45pm UTC
    Race isn't a real thing. Ask any biologist. We are all one species, and we vary across many inherited phenotypical features. It's just as silly to arbitrarily define race by skin color, as by any other feature. Would you say “the race of muscular people” or “the race of musical people” in a rational discussion? You wouldn't, because you would sound ridiculous. It's just as stupid to say “the race of yellow people” or “the race of red people” in a rational discussion. It's complete trash, the speech of ignoramuses.
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17. Raxin
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    February 25, 2016 12:40pm UTC
    You and I are related under the same two parents somewhere back in history. Think about it. Everyone alive on Earth today including you and I had to have two parents. Your parents had to have parents, which means you had to have four grandparents and eight great-grandparents. Every set of parents doubles exponentially, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, etc. As you go back in time, at some point, the doubling of total parents required to keep your family tree and my family tree separate becomes greater than the number of people on Earth at that time. (It only takes 33 generations to surpass 8 billion.) If it's greater by even a single person, we must share at least that one ancestor. Let's suppose that ancestor is female. If you go back another generation, it would require double the number of people on Earth to keep us from also having a common male ancestor, then quadruple, then eight times, 16 times, 32, 64, etc. You can see how mathematically necessary it is for everyone alive today, including you and I, to be related under the same male ancestor and the same female ancestor somewhere back in history. In fact, you and I are statistically likely to have many thousands of ancestors in common throughout history. Everyone alive on Earth today is literally family.
    Think about that the next time you insult someone's lineage. You're insulting your own family member. You're insulting your own lineage.
    Let's approach the math slightly differently. Suppose there are 7,000,000,000 people alive on Earth today. That would immediately require 14,000,000,000 parents to keep everyone separate, which is impossible, so we know many people on Earth are immediately brothers and sisters. Every previous generation requires double the previous number to keep people out of the same family. That's 28,000,000,000; 56,000,000,000; 112,000,000,000; etc. Since those numbers are increasingly impossible, it forces greater and greater numbers of people alive today to be in the same family. Also, as you go further back, the fewer and fewer people were actually alive on Earth at any time. You can see that the exponentially increasing impossible numbers of parents required to keep us separate and the decreasing actual population on Earth requires that we are all related.
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18. Raxin
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    February 21, 2016 7:30am UTC
    Some people say Earth is visited
    by aliens who choose to remain in secret. If it’s true, what could they want? Certainly, they must be so technologically superior to us that they can’t possibly need anything technological from us. If they need resources (some say they’re after gold or water), wouldn’t they just take those resources? It’s not as if we could resist them, so why do they hide?
    I have a hypothesis.
    There is something we have that they don’t have that would require their remaining hidden in order to get. That thing is our culture. They’re observing our art, our music, our mistakes, our wars, and our silly little sciences struggling to understand the universe. They enjoy watching us in our wild, undisturbed, primitive state. They see our highest technology and think, “Isn’t that cute. Look what they think they invented.” They take deep breaths of our pollution and it makes them feel rustic and quaint.
    Were they to reveal themselves
    to us, they would infect our culture with their culture, and we would no longer be wild. We would no longer be natural. Everything alien would become the latest fad. Our music would start to sound more like theirs. Our TV would tell alien gossip. Our schools would teach their math and languages. The more we became like them, the less entertaining we would be for them. That is why they hide. Earth is a wildlife preserve for aliens. They come here to get back to nature, as we go to the park to watch the squirrels.
    Aliens
    Squirrels
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19. Raxin
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    February 17, 2016 3:34pm UTC
    MOMENTS OF LUCIDITY
    When people get Alzheimer’s disease or suffer any serious injury that affects their ability to think and be aware, the nurses say the person has good days and bad days.
    “She was lucid yesterday.”
    “He's been hard to reach today.”
    Lack of lucidity doesn’t only happen with injured, old, or diseased people. It happens with everyone. Most of the time, most of us are in some sort of hypnotic state as we negotiate our way through the typical day of school or work. Most of us shut down to avoid the emotional pain of realizing that we are trapped in our own patterns.
    Only occasionally do we have “moments of lucidity” when we see things more clearly. Those are the few times when our best personalities emerge. Those brief times are when we are most creative, when we get closest to our true selves.
    Those brief episodes are when we actually live. Otherwise, we might as well be dead.
    It’s like when a mirror is moved, and for one brief part of a second, the mirror reflects a flash of the sun. It’s a completely different order of magnitude of light than everything else we normally see reflected in the mirror.
    We all need more light. We live on light. Without light, we move, but only as robots move.
    Please, let me be lucid more often, because I want to live more often. I want to accumulate at least a few hours of true life before I die.
    MOMENTS OF LUCIDITY
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20. Raxin
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    February 13, 2016 7:02pm UTC
    I wake up when I dream of her. I scold myself for entertaining a fantasy. How dare my dreams give me whom I can no longer have? How dare I miss who is gone? The dreams continue anyway. Apparently, I will want whom I want, and I will miss whom I miss. There’s nothing I can do about it.
    
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