KT's Musings

DAMN @ everything but especially that eloquent take on the “American dream”

“If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.”

Men dropping women because they have sex “too soon” is a complete myth. They drop you because all they ever wanted is sex, they reached their goal, and now they’re moving on. You can tell by the fact that they obviously pursued having sex with you. 

Physicists are trying to find out how nature behaves; they may talk carelessly about some “ultimate particle” because that’s the way nature looks at a given moment, but … Suppose people are exploring a new continent, okay? They see water coming along the ground — they’ve seen that before — and they call it river. So they say they’re exploring to find the headwaters, they go upriver, and sure enough, there they are, it’s all going very well. But lo and behold, when they get up far enough they find the whole system’s different: There’s a great big lake, or springs, or the rivers run in a circle. You might say, “Aha! They’ve failed!” but not at all! The real reason they were doing it was to explore the land. If it turned out not to be headwaters, they might be slightly embarrassed at their carelessness in explaining themselves, but no more than that. As long as it looks like the way things are built is wheels within wheels, then you’re looking for the innermost wheel — but it might not be that way, in which case you’re looking for whatever the hell it is that you find!