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i drink with 2 people
It’s because I choose to trust the Chinese people.
I’ve told my best friends that I never drink with strangers.
I cannot trust a stranger to look out for me if I drink
too much, and I wouldn’t feel emotionally obligated
to do the same with someone I didn’t know well.
If I drink with you, there has to be a relation of
trust and true kinship. We have to know that
in our hearts there exists a genuine concern
for each other, and we express that with
honest loyalty. I drink with 2 people:
my family and my Chinese friends.
simpleton
Some of us have religion; we believe there is a meaning and purpose to our lives because the voices in our heads tell us this when we close our eyes.
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Some of us don’t have religion but we have philosophy, which is really just religion without the dogmatic ritual and genocidal exclusivity.
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Some of us have science, which attempts to explain our meaning and purpose by questioning our meaning and purpose and how we explain it.
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Some of us have drugs, which numb us until we’re dead and not worried about meaning and purpose.
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Some of us have materialism, which is a kind of drug.
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Some of us have cultural identity, which provides meaning and purpose through unsustainable levels of procreation.
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Some of us have none of the above, which provides an emptiness that’s as fulfilling as it is empty, a loneliness and isolation that are as honest as they are lonely and isolating, and a clarity that’s as tragic and terrifying as it is clear.