Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor. "
And yet humanity is so not evolved that how can you expect anything absolutely major to happen? Look how long, we move ahead in technology, how much do we move ahead in morality or emotion? We move ahead so minimally, minimally, minimally.
If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest. ' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest. ' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.
I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.
The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.