Epicurus Happiness

"Do not fear god, Do not worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure."- Epicurus

New Eyes

When I was 24 I realized I had to reread everything because my perspective has changed so much.

Cyborg

People complain about the hassle of going on an airplane, but really an airplane is just another place to use your phone. That's all the world is anymore, a series of places to use your phone. It doesn't matter if you're eating dinner with your grandmother or driving a car through a 4 way stop. Part of your mind is always on your phone, did someone text or email or snap me, did I see a picture of that on facebook or instagram, that reminds me of something someone tweeted yesterday. These thoughts dominate our consciousness, the internet owns part of our mind, we are all becoming cyborgs and I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I never have to know how to solve a math problem anymore and I don't need to store trivia in my brain. So what do I need to know? HOW TO ASK (the computer) QUESTIONS! As the ability to answer questions becomes ubiquitous the ability to ask questions becomes paramount.

The things we tell ourselves are the things that we wish to believe. We wish to believe them because if they were true it would cover up our defiencies and draw intention to our strengths.
"the prom is stupid"
"Dumb jocks"

The topic category gives away the intention. Why are you even thinking about something if you think it is insignificant?

The things we tell to ourselves are of the majority rationalization and attempts to brainwash ourselves against our own feelings.
The phrase that I quote to myself the most frequently "I'm never lonesome when Im by myself." from modest mouse's Baby Blue Sedan. So what does that imply? I'm trying to convince myself that I am not lonely when I am. Over time I had to redefine loneliness. If I am reading a book or watching a movie am I alone? If I am consuming the thoughts of another, isn't that the intrinsic value of a social interaction? What is the need to share yourself with others? Although it's a selfish perspective, if you are not asked, is it necessary to impose your own tales of fortune or distress? "Happiness shared is twice happiness, but sorrow shared is half the sorrow." If I am to live in a global world the meaning of life is to teach and act in ways that resonate through the universe to the infinite.

Some other frequently quoted lines. Interpret as you will.
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you'll find, you get what you need."- Mic Jagger (convince my self effort will be rewarded with at least, substance)
"Oh lordy its hard to be humble perfect in every way and it's getting hard to look in the mirror cause i get better looking each day" (confidence can be manufactured!)
" I think I'll pack it in and buy a pickup take me down to LA"- Neil Young (delusions of eccentric grandeur)
"5 beats a day for 3 summers." - Kanye
"What's my age again?"- Blink 182
"you were just a face in the crowd, out in the street walking around" Tom petty
"To be stuck inside a mobile with the Memphis blues again"-Dylan
"And we can be hero's just for one day"- Bowie
"All I wanna do is have some fun, and I got a feeling, I'm not the only one"- Crow
"Photographs and memories"- Jim Croce
"grandma got run over by a reindeer" ???

No Please

Magazine subscriptions are 60% guilt based. Just like girl scout cookies, it is difficult to say no to a child.
It is difficult to say no.

Johnny deep the person is more interesting than any role he's played for years. I want to see a romantic comedy where johnny deep plays himself who falls madly in love (for eccentric reasons) with a random woman he sees on the street.

Like a Doll's Eyes

I thought frosty the snowman was supposed to have a button nose what's with the carrots?

2+2=5

A cure for addiction is brainwashing.

Give up your freedom for a month and you can make anyone to believe anything.

Ettufet brute

Think Fast

Consciousness defines time. A watched pot never boils.

Robber Baron von Munchausen

I don't want to own a business because I don't want to be a slave master

I Should Have Walked Away

I never understood being lost in your eyes before I met you. Every time I see you smile it begins a daydream where, every morning for the rest of my life I wake up in love with you.

Government Art

Who's the modern Medechi?

Cleavage

Cleavage is an effective ice breaker

I used to sneak out of the house when my parents went to sleep. I would  walk barefoot to the park near my house and watch baseball. If i was lucky there would still be a few innings left in a local higschool game. I never used to go when i was younger and more afraid of the dark.
but now im drawn to the lights like the thousands of bugs burning up from flying to close to the lights.

Mass Murderer

I work at the local animal hospital spaying and neutering animals so I can play god.
Does the potential for life begin at conception or earlier?
Am I committing murder every time semen is spilled not used for procreation?

Right to Life

I want men to have the right to choose.

No Rest for The Weary

Contortionists should wake up in the middle of night to stretch

Write a haiku by committee

Manager quality assurance rhyme scheme metaphor simplicity

Jimmy Frankie Fitzy

The name's Jingleheimer-Schmidt, John Jingleheimer-Schmidt. My friends call me John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt but that's only when I go out. When I'm at home they just call my by my nickname, Johnny Jakey Jinglhimey Schmitty

A Poor Tailor

A mendicant who cannot mend a pair of pants.

Being a beautiful girl kinda like being a paranoid schizophrenic, you always feel like people are staring at you, afraid everyone is after you.

Buy pennies to throw

Sexist Fears

Guys own dark alleys

Different silly superstitions that got associated as a harbinger for disasters, your brother got up on the wrong side of the bed one time and krackatoa erupted

Randy Johnson

I call my dick moby dick because my dick looks like Moby
I call my dick and balls Pinky and The Brain because my dick is pink and my balls are wrinkly

Last Wish

Ridiculous deathbed last requests
"Fix the kitchen cabinets"
"Change your name to Gerald" "only pee outside"

7's Up

I think the average 1-10 attractiveness scale is judged on a bell curve.

The telltale "fart"

Gentle Reminder

Your body needs to be reminded that you want to use it in certain ways

Miranda rights are there for cops to remind themselves criminals are allowed to remain silent

The s***** City Association

I want to be the most famous person with my name but that's tough with a name like James so I'm changing my name to shitty-shitty-fuckface. Because even if there were parents in history mean enough to name their child that, they would change their name as soon as they were legally allowed. Which means by default i will be the greatest shity shity fuckface who ever lived. I won't even need a last name like Aristotle or cher. Because i will be the de facto

Youthful Exuberance

Have you ever gone to a school playground to see if you can recapture some of your youthful enthusiasm for life and you just realize how much more exercise you used to need as a kid

First Name Basis

I work at a place where we wear name tags. It's weird when someone you've never met before call's you by your first namey

I should wear a name tag all the time so that it is easier for other people to approach me.

I feel like jet skis are for b****** just like horses
Cause that motion is not great for a guy who has balls

I attempted to add to my vocabulary but I and abandoned the aspiration after the letter A. As an aftereffect I have an awfully apparent affinity for apples

Have you ever told a lie that isn't a lie, yet. Like did you take the garbage pit before its too late? You say yes when you haven't done it with the intention of following through before you are found out

Mary hartman meets the big bang theory

Dynamite outlawed but jj walkers patented Dyn-o-mite fufilled a loophole and now dominates the explosives industry

A begger as a modern sherezade telling tales for sustenance (to use as a framing device)

He who dies pays all debts.

I heard they are repealing the right to remain silent

A glass manhole cover with a scary monster (or lacivious lad) climbing up