the past must be forgiven, for if it is not, then it is infinite.
forgiving the past does not void the present, and does free it.
without a free present, the future's mutations will be ineffective.
vengeance begets itself, and is difficult to deviate from; one must.
(these or similar have been expressed much before.)

'privacy is liberty: without it i would rather die!; for to sacrifice essential privacy, in exchange for the appearance of security, is to be certain of having neither. your ability to govern your presentation, to freely decide who you truly are, is infinitely more valuable, than life preserved without such control.'

our hold on the nature of things is so infirm.

that is, more directly, that our attempts at the preservation of knowledge of all occurrences is an uphill struggle due to the continuous gradual crumbling of information as it ages.

generations are an exercise in biology. cohorts are an exercise in sociology.

personal note: it's not so much the cramped quarters that bother me as it is the junk. confines, boundaries, are comforting; mess is inaccessible, impersonal, separate. when junk occupies, it imposes, taking the space away from you. instead, walls and doors are under your power, they are a way of dividing up and organizing the space, and the nearness can be a soothing pressure. while both forms of inhabitance subtract real estate, one is an exercise of control, while the other is a loss.

slogan: our people should be industrious, not our industries be persons

i posted an article 3.6 hours ago that in my blindness convinced me of some faulty opinions, a post which i've now deleted (2.4h ago), pictured below. you gotta be careful when reading articles that sound highly scientific: dotting i's and crossing t's doesn't necessarily ensure that an essay is accurate, even if it does makes it sound more convincing. the institution this came from is a conservative advocacy group from 2002 called the american college of pediatrics, that broke off of and is trying to portray itself as the official American Academy of Pediatrics (established 1930). it is dodgy at best, and its other policy positions are definitely pretty wrong. i still retain the skepticism this article gave me toward whether transsexualism is congenital, and i was already opposed to letting minors (let alone young children) consent to irreversible procedures; but i now seriously doubt its claim that dysphoria simply goes away if you give it time and "therapy", which to be honest i'd never heard before and so i originally took it at face value. i should not have:

if you read another article of theirs (.../position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children), you find that the source of this claim is page 455 of the DSM-V, that “Rates of persistence of gender dysphoria from childhood into adolescence or adulthood vary. In natal males, persistence has ranged from 2.2% to 30%. In natal females, persistence has ranged from 12% to 50%.”, which they use to present the greatest dissipation rate as the main dissipation rate, claiming in that article that persistence isn't present in 88-98% of children (caveating with "as many as"), which entirely ignores the far greater upper bounds of persistence.
the article i posted claims 6 times without caveat that 80-95% (similar numbers to acp's more-clearly deceptive article) of prepubescent children with gender dysphoria will lose their dysphoria by the end of puberty; but the paper it sources (http://www.jsm.jsexmed.org/article/S1743-6095(15)32124-X/fulltext#s0025) says these numbers only twice, to describe the dissipation that occurs by the time puberty starts (age 12: acp was concerned about starting treatment at the similar age of 11), and specifically states that if dysphoria remains once puberty has begun, then it and wishes for sex reassignment invariably persist into adulthood regardless of treatment: in other words, the article i mistakenly posted promoted an opposite message to the source it used via obviously deliberate misconstruction.

if one of the major arguments of this article was upon inspection so clearly intentionally fabricated, imagine what other bullshit and disproof might turn up if i put in more time and effort than i already have. at any rate, everything said there should be taken with a fraction of a grain of salt. here's the bottom line: nate, +Lord Satan, bud: i currently trust what you share with me, so you need to improve your skepticism and find more-reputable material to read :P

our present era, starting somewhere after 2014, is a time when memes are real. and that can be both astonishing and disturbing.

1) there is an absolute reality
2) there are various modes to this reality: offline, vidchatting, online, with superiors, with peers, with subordinates, at work, at events, at home, etc.; which are: subsets of the totality / founded upon and within existence
3) we should not allow these modes to affect our perspectives and actions: although existent, they are constructed, and thus are in some sense false
4) the effects are inevitable, because what modes are is collections of perspectives, which to engage in we must partly adopt, and our perceptions necessarily affect our actions
5) analogy: knowledge of spacetime does not imbue you with the ability to jump out of time and see things exactly and fully as they actually are, however you ought not let this obstacle of relativity prevent you from achieving a proper understanding of how objects relate
6) in fact the awareness of filters aids you in reaching the truth, as you can account for their consequences to gain an accurate approximation of what is real[ and act accordingly]