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“Sometimes when I want to do something, I get really quiet, and in the stillness, I hear that voice inside of me that always says ‘Do whatever you want. It’s always justified.’”
That's fucking crazy. I don't mean that in a funny way, I mean that it sounds like he has schizophrenia.
In the 5th year of his reign, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV had an epiphany— the sun god, Aten, had chosen him as his personal vessel on earth, and he, of course, changed the state religion to Atenism, and devoted his life (and drove everybody crazy) talking about the goddamned Aten all the time. (The Aten, I hope is really clear, obviously doesn’t exist, since this is like 2500 years ago and it’s not like the sun god is exacting his revenge on our planet by cooking it.)
Anyway, that asshole was erased from history because he was a legendary pain in the ass, but at least he’d grown up in a world where everyone, from the day he was born, told him he was a special prince destined to rule the world.
Where Mike fucking Johnson gets off with that level of delusion, I cannot say.
Hate to be that guy, but that is going to happen in a few billion years
If we keep up our economic growth we will definitely have ruined our star well before it has a chance to eat us.
There is nothing new under the sun