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"When youre born you get a ticket to the freak show. When youre born in America, you get a front-row seat."
bmpbmp
(310 posts)I think it's just too damn big.
(Possibly paraphrased)
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)"There are two ways to think about this existence we have. One of them is that its Wednesday and its three fifteen and were talking here in my home, and at four oclock I have to leave for another meeting. Now, thats a reality. But theres another reality. Were in the solar system of a second-rate star, three quarters of the way out on a spiral arm of an average galaxy in a thing called the Local Group. And ours is only one of billions of galaxies, each of which has billions of stars. Some star systems are binary, and there could be a planet that revolves around a center of gravity between two binary stars. So youd have two sunrises and two sunsets every day. One could be a red giant, the other a white dwarf; two different-sized, -shaped and -colored suns in the sky. And there might be other planets and comets. In other words, fuck Wednesday, fuck three fifteen, fuck four oclock, fuck the United States, fuck the earth. Its all temporal bullshit. I like thinking about being out there and not thinking about the corporate structure, not worrying about freedom and not worrying about guns. I chose a life of ideas. That entertains me. That nourishes me." - George Carlin
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)I like it too.
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)(as opposed to the artificial fart under the arm)
Initech
(100,065 posts)TwilightZone
(25,467 posts)Could not be more appropriate at this time.