Eleven Aphorisms

Beginning with a Clown's Prayer

1. “G-d, if I fail to entertain tonight, go screw yourself.”- a clown’s prayer.

2. A child’s charm is in her inability to hide her thoughts. Few can handle an adult with that same charm.

3. “My mirror must be warped!” So said the mind upon reviewing the reasons for its beliefs.

4. Me: I think most people just parrot most things most of the time and don’t really think about it critically.
   Him: What?! You don’t have a spine to think for yourself?
   Me: On second thought, the ravings of a mad man might have more to do with an inability to think logically and simply hear what the other person is saying.

5. The G-d shaped hole, if recognized for what it is, is closer to G-d than one filled with idols.

6. Each time he mentions the enemy’s name I hear “Girardian scapegoat that will make truces amongst us and clarify the Schmittian friend-enemy distinction.”

7. All collectives—nation-states, religions, working classes, cultures—are arbitrary and ever fickle. And your thoughts? Are they so different? And yet you seem to trust them with your life!

8. We think we know who a person is ‘deep down’ when we isolate them from other social pressures. But a person is as deep as their personality is consistent in different environments.

9. Retard is a very poor way of describing a person who is not merely lagging, but lacks the potential to reach the typical cognitive capacity of his peers.

10. He brought a gun to a knife fight and wondered why he wasn’t invited to another party again.

11. Do not be surprised if individuals reach far past the collective. Jacob’s ladder reached the heavens, something the Tower of Babel failed to do.