This passage from @neilhimself's American Gods inspired my #phdlife and dissertation. I'm not being hyperbolic. His entire body of work taught me more about who we are than anything else I've ever read since.
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"(although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. "
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"I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive."
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"I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck."
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"I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too."
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"I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies."
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"I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system."
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"I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
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Thank you,
@neilhimself. The map you gave me was a good one to follow!Show this thread
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