Manifesto: 91 things I believe

  • Knowledge is fossilised intuition.

  • Love is built on a foundation of fear.

  • Your senses bring the trouble.

  • Pornography is a mirror, Art is a window.

  • Passion is ignorance.

  • Enjoyment requires the temporary suspension of reality.

  • Fun is a requisite illusion (for sanity.)

  • Hierarchy is a circle.

  • Nothing is more important.

  • Personality is the projection of consensus.

  • All invention is rediscovery.

  • The end is radical step change.

  • Everything is natural.

  • Happiness is not meant to be.

  • Consequence is the shadow of living.

  • Poetry is the language of pain. (Pain is the language of poetry…)

  • Feelings are over-rated electrical connections.

  • Equality is an error of measurement.

  • Luck is being surprised by destiny.

  • A path offers least resistance.

  • You can only see as far as you can think.

  • Greed is the fuel of the universe.

  • Process determines outcome.

  • All people are afraid. (Because we think more than we are.)

  • Values are anchors of insecurity.

  • An ounce of failure weighs more than an ounce of success.

  • All the change of the Universe adds up to zero.

  • Being is degrees of dying.

  • There are answers to everything, just not enough questions?

  • The boundary of the universe is knowledge

  • There is only black and white.

  • The final emotion is always disappointment.

  • Failure is a definition.

  • Life is destiny.

  • The purpose is the purpose.

  • Everything is alive.

  • Fear is god.

  • Survival is the engine of the universe.

  • Sleep makes saints of us all.

  • The universe never ends. You never end. You are the universe.

  • Life is a pattern.

  • Counting is not possible.

  • Everything risks something.

  • Reality is not what it seems.

  • You need people as much as you fear.

  • The sky is not blue.

  • Everything is connected.

  • Self is unknowable.

  • Electrons, protons and neutrons = plants. Electrons, protons and neutrons = people. God is the difference.

  • Uniqueness is composed from similarity.

  • Wealth weighs you down. Poverty ties you down.

  • Wanting to know is the source of all unhappiness.

  • Wrong is only timing.

  • There only good. And mistimed, misapplied and misunderstood good.

  • Wanting to know is the biggest risk. Believing to know is the biggest failure.

  • Equilibrium is theory

  • Everything happens before the end.

  • Growth is destruction.

  • Planning hopes to avoid the unavoidable.

  • Pain is the only barometer of living. (A zero reading is only theoretically possible.)

  • Everything you learn prevents further learning. (Which is why it stops.)

  • People learn but cannot be taught.

  • The only truth is truth.

  • Trust is the temporary suspension of reality.

  • Truth is hope.

  • Focus is the enemy of adventure

  • Life is the ultimate paradox.

  • Living is dynamically building and breaking belief sets that conforms to your perception of reality.

  • There is no escape.

  • All people have a talent. Not all talents are apparently useful.

  • Commonality is unequal.

  • Community is shared self-interest.

  • Everyone is an apostle for something.

  • Fame is the cancer of personality.

  • Friendship is an exchange of needs.

  • Leadership is an illusion.

  • Limits are the boundaries of sensibility.

  • Loves lasts forever. The experience does not.

  • Man and woman are unequal halves.

  • People don’t need people except to be needed.

  • People don’t understand people.

  • Self is paramount.

  • People are hollow.

  • Equity is desire, not reality.

  • Flaws define perfection.

  • It never gets better, just different.

  • Nothing is the same.

  • Reliance is peril.

  • The more you want to protect, the less you are able to keep.

  • You are not in control.

  • There is a God.

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