Prickly City by Scott Stantis for August 27, 2024

What is Stantis up to?

Carmen espouses pure Camus Absurdism with a pine tree.

My grandmother used to say our purpose was to support each other. Not so much financially but in a more familial sense.

We are minuscule dust in the history of the universe.

In a less existential time, I might have more patience to ponder the meaning of life.

One of my credos: “We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.” (Kurt Vonnegut)

Our purpose is to do the will of God to the best of our ability.

The world’s religions can be boiled down to one basic tenet: Don’t be a d!ck.

To grow, To learn, To be better today than yesterday

A good reason to sit in the shade, drink beer, and fish.

Well, then, why are our lives more valuable than the life of, say, a cockroach?

The purpose of a gene is to make more genes with variations. Living systems are just the expression of them.

For everything under the sun, there is a purpose. At present, “Kat’s” purpose is to remind others of Commie “Commiela’s” purpose . Consider for a moment the purpose of a tiger. A tiger will always be-to be a tiger. The same is true for _"Commiela". Once a commie, always a commie.

A campaign “biggie” has urged the people to “reimagine freedom and democracy beyond the Founders’ little piece of paper.” Little pieces of paper?

Ah, and there you have it! The true conservative mindset. Nothing should ever change from what they want or are accustomed to.

It’s one thing to say all men (and note it only says men) are created equal, and quite another to treat them as equal in all matters.

Rule no. 1: Procreate. Rule no. 2: Procreate. It’s turtles all the way down.