Lip Service

No matter how much

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No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the … Read more

While we pay lip

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While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves … Read more

I can’t become naked

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I can’t become naked for everybody. It’s never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so I find bits of myself, bits of what I think in some articles. And I don’t give lip service to journalists. I never make them feel comfortable. I say, It’s your job to … Read more

There’s faith that knows

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There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.
R. Scott Bakker