Winter Maxims

Maxim 1: A globe is a good thing to own.

Maxim 2: Have some nice things you can take out of their place, and look at sometimes. But not many.

Maxim 3: The stupid thing about self deceit, is that you still know you are being deceitful.

Maxim 4: There can be as much cruelty in trying to be kind, as kindness in having a disposition that is cruel.

Maxim 5: I'd prefer a man who wears his opinion on his sleeve, and tells me honestly he does not like me, to the one who hides his hatred with sweet melodies.

Maxim 6: The kindest man, is often one with a cruel word. Whereas the vilest man, is one with flateries.

Maxim 7: The kindest people can put up the harshest defenses, and cut you with their words. Whereas the meanest man can flatter you till Sunday, and ruin you in a moment.

Maxim 8: A Russian tells the truth, and this makes them impolite; but they still tell the truth. And that makes you like them.

Maxim 9: A man who tells the truth to you, will unmistakably be a better friend, than a man who lies to you.

Maxim 10: Best friends are not those who bestow gracious words and kind gestures, but the ones who talk about real things, and don't believe everything they're told.

Maxim 11: A friend will ruin you for a moment and give you a lifetime. An enemy will cling to you for a lifetime, and ruin you in a moment.

Maxim 12: Honesty is rewarded more than flattery, by those who who truly wish to benefit from it.

Maxim 13: Flattery is rewarded more than honesty, by those who wish to never know themselves.

Maxim 14: The stupid man is nobler than the foolish man.

Maxim 15: The average intelligence of people does not allow them to grasp much.

Maxim 16: Smart men think they do the world a favor by reminding the masses they are stupid. 

Maxim 17: A dictator is a bit smarter than the average person, but there is a threshold of high intelligence where a person cannot ever become one.

Maxim 18: A good ruler is often not intelligent. They rather rely on their cabinets and administrators to lead them to executive decisions.

Maxim 19: Heads of states with IQs above 150 are prone to making massive mistakes. That is why you ought not have philosopher kings.

Maxim 20: The smartest men make bad rulers because they understand all too well the people they rule.

Maxim 21: Intelligent men do not seek political office, not because they are smart and therefore avoid it, but because they cannot attain it.

Maxim 22: Politicians without greed rule countries well; envious ones are their ruin.

Maxim 23: The king who is a philosopher, allows genocides in his kingdom; the king who is a man of practical arts, usually abates them.

Maxim 24: You find no more foolish man than a philosopher.

Maxim 25: The man who thinks he can forge fortune, does not understand it. But the man who seizes fortune, does.

Maxim 26: There is a thief and liar who has a good life, and a good man who doesn't. That's just been the way of the world for six millennium.

Maxim 27: To try and change the world, is to make it have your faults, and rarely gives it your good qualities.

Maxim 28: A philosopher like myself, might be useful, if it is only in the realm of arts that I dabble, and not realpolitik.

Maxim 29: Artists are philosophers, because philosophy is best suited for art and entertainment. Not for real world decisions.

Maxim 30: A world without philosophy would be boring as hell.

Maxim 31: Literature is the best philosophy, and the worst philosophy is artless.

Maxim 32: I listened to a philosopher once spend 20 pages to prove light reflects off a wooden table. Somehow this proved God doesn't exist. I still don't understand why.

Maxim 33: The manic high, and depressed low, the euthymic middle. Not a sound mind. And usually because they caused trouble.

Maxim 34: "That's crazy," is what they say to people who tell the truth. Until the thing they thought never could, happens.

Maxim 35: People, despite insistently being proven in the wrong, will still continue down their path of degradation, and every fulfilled prophecy, is a moved goal post for them, that can prove nothing.

Maxim 36: In the 00s they boasted that 1984 could never happen. Hip teens back then thought for sure, with their swank nihilism, until they ushered in the beginnings of thoughtcrime.

Maxim 37: The silliest thing about success, is the refinement and superficial manners it brings.

Maxim 38: The silliest thing about poverty, is the depravity, and how it reveals our true nature.

Maxim 39: If you think you can move to the woods, and survive, you'll likely die in less than a week.

Maxim 40: People invariably need one another to live. That is why capitalist economies are the best. If you cannot understand that link, then don't become a politician.

Maxim 41: Marxism is conceited... it is envy and covetousness born by frustration turned into a war, and then into tyranny.

Maxim 42: The stinky thing about Freelander Society, is that it would probably last about as long as it did.

Maxim 43: Second shift hours--getting to bed at 12am and waking up at 10am--is not shameful, so long as you do work.

Maxim 44: I covet the ability to wake up early: If only I could function for so many days doing so. Having tried, I'm worthless doing it.

Maxim 45: If you could shield yourself from both poverty and riches, shame and allaudement, do so.

Maxim 46: Good fortune is modest, not extraneous. Anything more than what you need, destroys who you are.

Maxim 47: Fame is not to be coveted. Rather, it's to be avoided, unless you are someone whom the people need.

Maxim 48: If you can gain success, do it without destroying yourself.

Maxim 49: Poverty, the kind found all over the world, is actually a rich life that no one covets.

Maxim 50: Every child of the 21st century goes through a cycle of interest and boredom. I don't know whether by expectations, or by design. But it is the greatest hindrance to their chance at happiness and success.

Maxim 51: To be consistent is real. To be ever changing is false.

Maxim 52: Do not masturbate. You will make so much love in your dreams you'll want nothing to do with it.

Maxim 53: Yanking on the monkey makes a frustrated desire.

Maxim 54: The mind is privy to feel things it never knew. Be it sensations or emotions... or even tastes.

Maxim 55: Do not feel guilty for dreams, my children. They are but dreams. As Leviticus says, get up, wash, and stay out of battle. That is all the commandment says about it.

Maxim 56: You can feel pain in your dreams, often because your battle with the shadow is your greatest war.

Maxim 57: Sex feels good. Love feels real.

Maxim 58: Covet nothing in this life more than true love. Not the rapturous kind that is like soda on vinegar, but the kind that is general amity.

Maxim 59: Do not separate from your spouse for prolonged periods of time.

Maxim 60: When dating, if the woman truly loves you, she will spend all her time with you. So with the man. 

Maxim 61: There is a cold artifice to modern relationships, that all love must be cut with the knife of betrayal, and all hearts must be broken. It is the rule.

Maxim 62: The woman laughs at her husband. What can he do? The child holds a grudge.

Maxim 63: If there is one thing that makes "Gay" a sin, it is the cruelty of people who believe it is okay. There can be no fidelity with the person who holds such a position... all relationships to them are foreskins, and a little controversy is the knife.

Maxim 64: A foolish man disputes with a wise man. A wise man disputes with a foolish man. Where there are two wise men, there is usually no dispute. Where there are two fools, there is mischief afoot.

Maxim 65: The best way to be wise, is to place yourself among the wise; argue with them if you must, but sooner or later you will stop and listen.

Maxim 66: The wise compels a fool in nothing, for they are a fool. The words are like cymbals, noisy and clamorous.

Maxim 67: "Evidence", yet they do not know when something actually is, and will outright lie to dispute it.

Maxim 68: A good lawyer makes up facts in the moment, and uses extraneous laws that ought not apply.

Maxim 69: A bad judge takes too much consideration of the law, and not enough of right conduct.

Maxim 70: I do not care about the Second Amendment, insofar as I do not want to own a gun. But I do want my neighbor to own a gun. So I do not have to then petition to own a knife.

Maxim 71: The true intent of the Second Amendment was to make life dangerous, so there would not be too much bureaucracy. Not to defend a country against itself, which would be futile today, as five men could kill ten thousand.

Maxim 72: Where there is a public piano, and people are forbade to play it, you know you live in a dictatorship. Whether by the people or the government, it is still what it is.

Maxim 73: At the cloister, if you can, play the piano. See what happens. Either good or ill. That shows you what kind of church you are at.

Maxim 74: At the cloister, reveal a secret to the pastor. If he cannot hold his constitution, move on.

Maxim 75: If the Altar does not cleanse sin, then what is it for? What is church if it is a place where perfect people congregate and pretend to have done no ill?

Maxim 76: One of the most ironic things about today--and probably Satan's greatest maneuver--is that Christianity is a little bit naughty in some regards with the things it allows and believes; compared to the stinginess of a modern woman, who has a morality more prudish than a nun's, but the forehead of a whore.

Maxim 77: If you write for an audience, you’re writing propaganda. If you write for yourself, you’re writing art. Propaganda sells, but art lasts.

Maxim 78: You got to love each season, in time. Winter for the snow, spring for the flowers, summer for the rain, and autumn for the peaceful silence.

Maxim 79: I Live by the New Testament, while my adversaries die by the old.

Maxim 80: Absolutely no good can come from playing with gasoline and matches, unless you’re making a cooking or heating fire.

Maxim 81: In my lifetime, I have seen the slow strangulation of freedom--at school I watched this thing happen, as first it was the Good Lunches, then it was Hall Passes restricting the number of times you could go to the bathroom; then it was the Vending Machines which sold Soda. I studiously rebelled, as I do today. I want freedom; not tyranny.

Maxim 82: Actions don't have consequence these days. There's enough desperate men to make a whore happy. I just saw one today, who was a porn star, ready to settle down with her boyfriend. Just by getting the taint, that's all most men desire these days. And women too. No love. No honor. Just a little sting from a honeybee. They don't even care if they're sharing the pot.

Maxim 83: Karma is just milieu.

Maxim 84:  If the uncles are arguing politics at Thanksgiving, {...} it needs to happen in a healthy democracy.

Maxim 85: If the people want fortune over freedom, then they want Kings to be their rulers. And by extension, they are deprived of both.

Maxim 86: If depth of conversation is an offense in democracy, there is no more democracy. There is a popularity contest.

Maxim 87: People['s freedoms] need protected from their neighbor[s], as much as from their government.

Maxim 88: In ethics, a criminal knows more than someone who passed a bar.

Maxim 89: Sin causes selfishness; selfishness causes hurt; hurt causes anger; anger causes hate.

Maxim 90: The worst effect of sin, is when it breeds apathy and causes you to dash others' hopes.

Maxim 91: The most grievous evil, is sin established with contentment. Others see it, and say it is a way, but then cruelty lurks everywhere.

Maxim 92: The greatest crime of humanity, is to have always associated passionate love with adultery and not the marriage bed.

Maxim 93: Some may call what I write deranged, but its strangeness comes from without and what I've witnessed, while my heroes kill it within.

Maxim 94: It’s kind of lame to ask people to know everything, and then get offended when they don’t.

Maxim 95: Islam spread by the sword. Christianity by martyrdom. You decide.

Maxim 96: The greatest mistake made by lovers, is to court without the fires of infatuation. The second, is to assume those flames will burn on for eternity.

Maxim 97: The [Bible was] written contemporary of the events. We have plenty of evidence for that. It's just the Bible makes true predictions, which make{} Academics think it was written later.

Maxim 98: Enlightenment is just another vanity. If you know how to do right toward your neighbor, and believe in Christ, you'll be saved.

Maxim 99: What a world. We sue our geniuses. And then steal their ideas.

Maxim 100: Educate even a peasant in right conduct, and let the ancient knowledge of their professions not be interfered with, and your land shall be called "Glorious."

Maxim 101: Welfare ruins a state by fostering a forgetfulness of the family's trade.

Maxim 102: You don’t have to be a bad person. Nobody has that power over you.

Maxim 103: To hate and despise is doubt. Not confidence.

Maxim 104: I practice what I preach. Exponentiated equations have multiple answers.

Maxim 105:  Our math is defined by shapes, not our shapes defined by math.

Maxim 106: "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is not about two nations, but finally becoming one.

Maxim 107: The hymen proves virginity is not a made up concept. In fact, there's a lot of chemistry involved with that, that doubly proves it.

Maxim 108: Flatter me, I'll suppose you really mean to destroy me. Tell me honestly what you think, no matter how different, I'll respect it.

Maxim 109: To give a true compliment, there must first be resistance in other areas. And no snuff of tact or politics.

Maxim 110: We are too scientifically advanced for war, but philosophically, we have regressed back to caveman.

Maxim 111: Homosexuality blurs the line between right and wrong; when that line is blurred, it leads to worse things being accepted by the culture; and when that happens, the culture fails, gets despotic or gets conquered.

Maxim 112: The Greeks and Romans said a man without Logos was a slave. Thus, the point of American Education is to bestow the gift of Logos on students, so we have a nation of kings, and not slaves.

Maxm 113: I can know all I need to know about a person, by their dog's attitude toward me.

Maxim 114: The thing I've heard a fool say most, is "Just because you say so, doesn't make it true." Then "How does reason work," they cannot know, for they opened their mouth before they listened. And refuse to know.

Maxim 115: There was never a disagreement I saw, that didn't start and end with desire.

Maxim 116: Some may say the only thing that distinguishes humans from the other animals, is that we know we have rights. That's literally the second and third chapter of the Bible. It's literally why there are laws. It's literally the theme of all the great sages. It's like arguing there's no sense to what someone says, when you say law, morality and human rights are not real. It's simply unfounded, and not true. It's not a story we invent. It's the reason we tell stories in the first place.

Maxim 117: Just because Disney made a stinker, doesn't mean you get to sue them.

Maxim 118: It's just natural, that it's happier both for rulers and their people when they have laws and rights. Hence why civilizations founded them--some may say those principal Laws were given by God, too.

Maxim 119: If Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are not self evident, then neither are the laws of addition or subtraction.

Maxim 120: I'm a fire and brimstone person. No more kind person you'll ever meet, than a good old fashioned fire and brimstone preacher. Quote me on it. All their bad stuff comes out in that preaching, so they live peacefully inside.

Maxim 121: People have too much compassion on animals, and not enough on humans.

Maxim 122: To know that men are inherently different than beasts, watch the beasts eat, and then men sat down at table. What you see is lawlessness contrast with law.

Maxim 123: Just in: Karma is why there are Indian men neck deep in human sewage, and Dictators swimming in money and women.

Maxim 124: To have malaise around an animal generally makes it distrust you. Just like with people.

Maxim 125: Everything in this life is really moot. Fame. Fortune. Success. Family. Achievement. We all go to the grave. And there what we’ve done is accounted for.

Maxim 126: [T]he person most likely to be a killer, is the one obsessed with other people doing it. The most likely racist, is the one obsessed with racism. You catch the drift?

Maxim 127: The act speaks volumes of the heart.

Maxim 128: I’d rather pray selfishly, and act benevolently, than pray benevolently, and act selfishly.  I ask Him for things for myself, because I can do for others with what He provides me.

Maxim 129: If you can give nothing, then pray for that person.

Maxim 130: The acumen of a true artist is to know when you're done. So you don't spoil the original effect.

Maxim 131: The issue with most writers, is they worry more about their words than the idea. Have an idea, and the words will naturally flow the more lucid it is.

Maxim 132: Just because you hold a degree in a field, does not make your word gospel. In fact, the most common sense things can be overlooked by the most educated people.

Maxim 133: Christians, I've found, are the only ones who can tell the truth.

Maxim 134: You want one good moral the Bible has that the world doesn't? Sure, I'll give you one. 'Homosexuality is a sin.'

Maxim 135: To make a perfect world would be a crime. Because humans are fallible. Hence, we need God to judge. And generally, we come prewired knowing right from wrong, and it's built in us, but we don't follow it. And that's why there's suffering in the world.

Maxim 136: The most tempting thing about gaining the world, is you get to try and end its suffering.

Maxim 137: I say not a word to try and fix this world--such is futile--only to fix a man's heart, and help them find Jesus.

Maxim 138: The only one who struggles to define what a novel is, usually turns out to be a literary critic.

Maxim 139: There is such mystique surrounding novels for literary critics, like a long prose set to narrative is so hard to define, it must be transcended into some mystery it certainly is not.

Maxim 140: An epic poem exceeds 2,000 verses. A book consists of more than 800 verses, a long poem between 150 and 800; a short poem less than 150.

Maxim 141: A novel is a prose narrative greater than 40,000 words. A novelette is any prose narrative between 40,000 and 25,000 words. A short story between 1000 and 25,000. A flash fiction 1000 or less. An epic novel exceeds 500,000.

Maxim 142: I'm not prejudiced against black people, but barbarians. I enjoy civilization, no matter the color of its people. An African sage is just as interesting to me as Confucius, Moses or Thomas Jefferson. A Japanese carpenter as much as a Tribal Elder.

Maxim 143: A poem, like water, the more coldly you try to get it exact, the more it crystalizes into ice. But the more you try to see its every possible angle, even ones not foreseen by its author, it is like water. Too much unforeseen, it whisps away into an airy vapor.

Maxim 144: It is better to know love, and never have it, than to find  vain relationships.

Maxim 145: Love’s only as real as the people who can make it.

Maxim 146: All the reasons that make our modern world doubt, those are the same reasons I believe.

Maxim 147: Some things are best spoken, and heard once, rather than recorded for all to see.

Maxim 148: The weird thing is I can understand everyone else, but they just can't understand me.

Maxim 149: It's amazing that the skill I have is to listen, and understand every nuance of a person's speech. I wish to employ it more.

Maxim 150: Now we are no longer called "Fishers of men" but "Hunters of men" for we must go forth, and with a little discipline, rebuke the nations and bring them back to Christ.