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term A word with no commonly used positive form; i.e. dishevelled, inept, discombobulated, etc. The root word has been phased out of regular use or never existed in regular use, thus the negative of the root is left ‘orphaned.’ -wertperch, everything2 Read more

There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop.… Read more

noun A lover of rain   – wiktionary.org   Read more

Decimal encoding of “Hi!” (072073033) appears at the 80,158,568th digit of pi while the decimal encoding of “Hi?” (072105063) appears at the 1,535,052,686th digit of pi. One could infer that pi was initially more enthusiastic with it’s greeting, and when no one said hi back it became less enthusiastic. -mattindustries, reddit Read more

  …If Jesus had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one to mourn or torture him, would we still be saved? With all due respect. According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get.” -Chuck Palanuik, Survivor Read more

Don’t let the system lead you to abandon your passions. Buy in to it just enough to understand its “inner workings”, but maintain a healthy enough distance so as to not become absorbed, lost, or assimilated by it. Diversions are around every societal corner. – Unknown Read more

 There were two “Reigns of Terror”, if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our… Read more

  Sometimes, you have to be prepared to abandon your luggage. -Heinlein, Friday Read more

If… news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, and only when packaged to fit the advertising appropriation of a sponsor, then I don’t care what you call it – I say it isn’t news…. … We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to… Read more

How to get around the Caspian Sea? There’s several options here: the North route, the Ferry across, and the South route. The North option is probably our lease likely choice, as it requires entering Russia. We will be getting Russian Federation visas anyway, but unless one gets a three year visa, only two entries are… Read more