Aphorisms

Aphorism 151. One day, everyone's sins will be as naked as mine.

Aphorism 152. Skeptics are appalled Abraham, yet I was taught the moral was he didn't sacrifice Isaac.

Aphorism 153. "God will provide," and He did.

Aphorism 154. Philosophy is the love of wisdom, not blind skepticism.

Aphorism 155. The skeptic is more blind than the man who has faith.

Aphorism 156. "Love your neighbor as you love yourself," does not mean you ought to love yourself so you can love your neighbor.

Aphorism 157. No one lacks self-love.

Aphorism 158. Suicide is an act of self-love, not self denial.

Aphorism 159. Hamnet is Romeo.

Aphorism 160. Prescient thoughts come from seeing it before.

Aphorism 161. No Mary Sues, info dumps, expositions or purple prose; show don't tell, start where the action is, don't use helper verbs... Follow all that advice and what do you get? Absolutely nothing.

Aphorism 162. Experiment with form not because you ought to, but because you want to.

Aphorism 163. Write how you want, just make sure it says something.

Aphorism 164. War and Peace had essays interrupting the narrative. It is the best novel ever written, bar none.

Aphorism 165. How do I know what Illuminism is? Because I read it in Tolstoy.

Aphorism 166. If you're interested in Freemasonry, they sit around and talk a bunch about geometry and tell old ghost stories.

Aphorism 167. America was created by Freemasons. It dies by Kings.

Aphorism 168. My complete knowledge of Freemasonry comes from a college student and Tolstoy.

Aphorism 169. America's most influential founders were not Christians. However, this does not mean they censured Christianity.

Aphorism 170. Separation of Church and State is good, until the State separates morals from State.

Aphorism 171. Farts are funny.

Aphorism 172. The Dark Ages were dirty, and that's not a myth disseminated by Victorians.

Aphorism 173. I find it amusing how the "Dark Ages" are no longer "Dark", like some malevolent force wishes to return us there.

Aphorism 174. Life was better when it was "After Death" and not "Common Era".

Aphorism 175. Theft, if you're poor, is still theft. What someone worked hard to create does not automatically belong to everyone.

Aphorism 176. Imagine you spent your whole life building something, and someone else came and said, "That belongs to me." That is essentially the moral problem with modern Democrats.

Aphorism 177. Imagine you were poor, and there was no work available to you. And then some rich, fat man judged that you were lazy. That is essentially the moral problem with modern Republicans.

Aphorism 178. Imagine there was a mountain, yet so many people repeated it didn't exist that everyone believed it. That is the problem with Atheism.

Aphorism 179. Imagine there was a teacher who was kind, yet His adherents decided to be cruel? That is the problem with Christians.

Aphorism 180. Imagine there was also a teacher who taught right from wrong, yet His adherents thought it merely a suggestion. That is also the problem with Christianity.

Aphorism 181. Buddhism appeals to narcissists.

Aphorism 182. To sit idly and tolerate suffering is the full sum of Buddhism.

Aphorism 183. Gurus always inculcate in the Western Mind the full extent of their teachings; which usually leads to disaster.

Aphorism 184. I am not a guru. I am not a moral philosopher. And I can't be a sage because of my writing. Rather, it's Christ... That's who you should really listen to.

Aphorism 185. Poetry is the act of reflecting on someone else's thoughts. Not your own.

Aphorism 186. The Tao Te Tsing can enlighten you. Yet, I've found enlightenment to be vanity.

Aphorism 187. What enlightened me, was the concept that words have meaning---it is not the words but what they mean. That is what enlightened me in Lau Tsu.

Aphorism 188. Christianity is the only religion that has proof.

Aphorism 189. Miracles do exist. They are not formed by a faulty memory.

Aphorism 190. You spend a whole life reaching Nirvana to forget the pain of those around you.

Aphorism 191. Buddhism makes sense to me. It is most popular in densely populated regions of the world where there are multitudes of poor. In the end, it's just a way to bear the grief.

Aphorism 192. If Buddha were wise, he would have used his wealth to enrich the people, rather than selfishly sate his own desire.

Aphorism 193. Muhammad created a book to do statecraft.

Aphorism 194. If the Bible were created for statecraft, it would have been much simpler.

Aphorism 195. It is said that the Bible is inconsistent. I read it every day. It is not.

Aphorism 196. Moses failed.

Aphorism 197. My religion is to comfort the weak and downtrodden. That was Christ's religion, also.

Aphorism 198. Had it not been for the book of Mark, I would not have kept my faith.

Aphorism 199. Had it not been for Jesus' stories and sayings, I would not have kept my faith.

Aphorism 200. In the end, I look at Jesus and say, "I hope He is God." I find no other who would suffice.