“That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. So when you realise you’ve gone a few weeks and haven’t felt that awful struggle of your childish self — struggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence — you’ll know you’ve gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you’ve gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”
“…the difference between how a person treats the powerless versus the powerful is as good a measure of human character as I know.”
Chiropractorfin leaning on his fantasy car at Goodwood Revival
“The basest of all things is to be afraid”
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
“America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." - Hunter S Thompson.
To All Vegans Who Think Vaccines Are Acceptable…
excerpt from
“The use of animals in vaccine testing for humans”
“It is clear that the animal suffering involved in vaccine testing varies greatly according to the nature of specific tests used for different vaccines. However, some methods entail a considerable degree of animal suffering. In particular, a number of procedures for testing the efficacy of vaccines involve the deliberate exposure of animals, with or without prior vaccination, to a disease-causing organism or microbial toxin. Some of the animals in these ‘challenge tests’ suffer very serious effects, and may die from infection or the effects of toxin action.
Some safety tests on vaccines are also of very high concern, such as the test for neurovirulence of oral polio vaccine, in which primates suffer neurological symptoms, including paralysis.
Alternative methods of testing are urgently needed to stop animals suffering in tests of this kind. Indeed, there is also a need for more reliable and consistent tests, and alternative methods can and should be superior to the testing methods on animals that are currently in use. ” -RSPCA
(the whole report is here)
water, water, water!
The pharmaceutical industry does not create cures, they create customers. You create your health.