Burning and Dancing and Contemplating Life

Well,
I'd love to find out how sex feels like
So obviously I have to get married.
Traditions are great

Maybe

Maybe

Yes

No

I might get married if she wants to. Pressure from other family they can fuck off. There are tax benefits supposedly. Other than that fuck marriage.

I think having kids is certainly a worthwhile project. I just don't know if I want to partake in that particular project. Once the child is born there is no going back unless you are ok with being a deadbeat. I am not ok with being a deadbeat. I do value freedom. It's an interesting one.

What is the value of tradition?

The passing down of customs and beliefs. Ok Boomer.

Nice customs and beliefs you have Boomer. Ok Boomer.

Will the world fall apart?

The world is falling apart.

We have to look outside of tradition and the status quo for the answers.

already am, yes, no, no (I mean I personally am but I understand that it's terrible for a lot of people so I want it to change for them.)

I don't know what Drone does for a living but he just seems to have a good life. Up there in Norway with his soulmate cross country skiing all the time. That is a mark of a hero. The status quo is good for him but he understands that it is bad for many so he's willing to change it.

I don't hate billionaires by the way. I may think they are typically evil but they are the way they are because of the social structures and systems in place just like the poor are where they are due to the same social structures and systems.

Santafairy,

What traditions in particular are important to you?

The Giving Pledge is a sham. No one signed over shit. Most wouldn't give shit if there weren't estate taxes. It's a branding play so we don't fucking eat those motherfuckers. We SHOULD eat those motherfuckers.

62% of the USA has less than $1,000 in a savings account.

Prisoners made 23c/hr in production for entities like the US military, McDonalds, Microsoft, Starbucks, et al.

Who are you warrrrrendeape?

Of course I love Radiohead.

A handshake of carbon monoxide

with no alarms and no surprises

I never read the lyrics before. It's a suicide note.

A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal
You look so tired, unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide

With no alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent

This is my final fit
My final bellyache

With no alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises, please

Such a pretty house
And such a pretty garden

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises, please

Thanks for posting. This song is totally my vibe right now.

tradition to me is acknowledging the fact that the things people have worked and died to build before you, are worth something, and are worth maintaining, and they're so valuable that you should raise the next generations to preserve and improve them still
that you don't know everything
that it's not all about you
that you should attempt to leave the world better than you found it

it's not about any one thing as trivial as bow this many times to the dead person or visit your in-laws at christmas or anything

it's about accepting with grace your place in the greater cosmos

now maybe this sounds too abstract but that's how I feel, it's an attitude, a frame of mind, it's not about specific practices

i am the unironic boomer, when someone says, like what was that slogan? no border, no wall, no USA at all?

i want to take them to arlington cemetery look them in the eyes and see if they would spit on the graves of those who died for their freedom

i've reached the point of believing that unironically now

let me give you an example when i listen to vera lynn or someone sing wagner, i'm having a different experience than someone smoking reefer and listening to ed sheeran. the reason people want to sing wagner is different than the reason people want to become the best breakdancer in the world. this is not disparaging the fact that we can invent new fields and try to become the best at them. just trying to delineate the two things to make a point. with respect to the fact that all parts of life are a part of it, the wagner is intrinsically more valuable if you compare it one-to-one with its counterpart. that's tradition. the things that win that 1-1 comparison.

i mean there are things that people are actually communally forgetting how to do, either as a result of the tyranny of leisure, or the leeching of our valuable and finite attention, or collective moral decay. yeah people can run faster, hit a baseball farther, than ever before, or whatever. but... yeah

Wagner is a neckbeard pussy that panders to Christians and the German Reich (I'm a Nietzsche fanboy). Now Bach. You should have said Bach. Bach vs smoking reefer (lol you said reefer) and listening to Ed Sheeran is lol.

That's not a bad thought though. Tradition is things that win the 1-1 comparison. What WORKS? That clam and linguine recipe from who even knows how long Italians have been making clam and linguine. Anyways, it WORKS. That is tradition.

Does the constitution work?

I am not trying to spit on anyone's grave at Arlington National Cemetery. That doesn't mean I support the government and the military implicitly.