Aphorisms Winter 2023

Aphorism 102. One poem can answer a thousand more questions about history, than a thousand stones.

Aphorism 103. Most great thinkers have gotten something simple wrong.

Aphorism 104. A wise man looks for his errors, but when he finds none, he shudders.

Aphorism 105. I can't believe it, but I understand Kanye.

Aphorism 106. It took about 200 of the most brilliant minds in history to cause 200 years of flourishing. How many Years of suffering will four million so called experts create?

Aphorism 107. "Some claim Homer was literate." Okay? Award for the stupidest statement the internet had ever made. Who, exactly, says he wasn't?

Aphorism 108. Maybe more black men and women need to read Malcom X, instead of instigating race riots and making everything about skin color.

Aphorism 109. Neil Degrasse Tyson, for all our disagreements, is a man I respect.

Aphorism 110. The media fiddles while America burns.

Aphorism 111. Hate is just a vitriolic form of love. Just like Self Hate is a vitriolic form of Self Love.

Aphorism 112. No one is more mature, than one who has a disinterest in themself.

Aphorism 113. Every instance of hate I ever saw, was actually suppressed love. Including Racism.

Aphorism 114. There is no hate more cold, than disinterest.

Aphorism 115. There is no hate more hot, than to feign disinterest.

Aphorism 116. The most irritating thing about a person, is the boundaries they set that prevents us from fully expressing who we are. Yet, without these boundaries, there ceases to be peace.

Aphorism 117. There are good oranges, Bertrand.

Aphorism 118. Stanford, you are the Peanut Gallery.

Aphorism 119. Nostradamus was just a poet, who knew no one would buy his fantasies, unless they believed it.

Aphorism 120. I would rather Nostradamus studied as a first rate poet, rather than a third rate prophet.

Aphorism 121. Let people study my work, the way I study Nostradamus. As a vessel for ideas, not as a gateway into viewing the future.

Aphorism 122. An old Native American Proverb said to have lightning in the hand, rather than thunder in the mouth: But, if all you have is thunder, remember it can cause an avalanche.

Aphorism 123. I pretend like I believe the lies, so I can find other problems they don't even know about. If these issues are taboo, then these other ones you never even thought of ought to be interesting, and catch your ear.

Aphorism 124. Ms. Arulpragasam is a smart cookie.

Aphorism 125. The beautiful thing about Freedom of Speech, is that I don't have to be a lawyer to tell you what you are free to speak.

Aphorism 126. The deceptive thing about today, is the plutocracy of a degree dictating what you are allowed to say you know.

Aphorism 127. A lawyer does law. A physician proscribes medical treatments. An engineer builds complex structures. A degree is necessary to do law, to proscribe medical treatments, and to build complex structures.

Aphorism 128. If I study law, that does not make me a lawyer. If I study philosophy, that does make me a philosopher.

Aphorism 129. Where expertise is actually needed, then a degree is actually needed. Where unrequired, it is unrequired.

Aphorism 130. To have a license to practice law is to ensure a defendant has a fair trial. To have a license to go kayaking is a way to tax.

Aphorism 131. To need  a license to drive ensures the roads are safe. To need a license to serve food is a way to ensure only the rich can eat.

Aphorism 132. To need a license to practice medicine or accounting ensures the security of  health and wealth. To need a license to distribute food to the homeless ensures the homeless starve.

Aphorism 133. I once told a Police Officer that I am a Sovereign Citizen because he wished to arrest me for talking to him. Little did I know that term was already appropriated by far right-wing nationalists.

Aphorism 134. To lie and deceive is not what's protected under the first amendment.

Aphorism 135. If I have an opinion or belief, I am allowed to have and share it. That is what's protected under the first amendment.

Aphorism 136. To be wrong is not a criminal offense.

Aphorism 137. The current mindset of Americans is to specialize everything, so nobody can speak, except those rich enough to buy the education needed to make them incapable of uttering anything.

Aphorism 138. Modern education consists of teaching everyone everything, except the truth.

Aphorism 139. Truth is kept in old books, where the modern pedant scoffs and tells you not to look there.

Aphorism 140. A Theologian once claimed there are new questions today. I don't see that, but only a presumption of the answer.

Aphorism 141. The questions we ask today have obvious answers, while the answers we seem to agree upon are all bold faced lies.

Aphorism 142. If they make you question what Gender is, they can then tell you the answer for the meaning of life.

Aphorism 143. Obviously, the modern scholar believes what's specious, and scoffs what's true.

Aphorism 144. Wherever I had ever found an obvious truth, I also found an educated man saying it wasn't right.

Aphorism 145. I trust older sources because they didn't lie to themselves. So they also won't lie to me.

Aphorism 146. According to Papias' calculastions, 25 sextillion souls will be saved.

Aphorism 147. According to my calculations, there will be seven septillion human souls.

Aphorism 148. There were once estimated to be fourteen sextillion grains of sand in all the world's beaches. And there was once estimated to be seven septillion grains of sand underneath all the world's oceans.

Aphorism 149. If there ever were a creature like me in history, it would be Hans Christian Andersen.

Aphorism 150. To have the opposite life of Mr. Anderson, where I have a wife but remain unknown until my appointed time, would be happy.