The more I think about it, the more I think "we hold these truths to be self-evident," and not the following sentiment about equality, is the true American creed.

Never in its history has America acted as though "all men are created equal." But we are very, very good at mass movements centered around often-novel, "self-evident" truths.

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@RL_Dane I'm always dancing gleefully on the edge of despair and exuberance! St. Ephram, iirc, said you should "look into the abyss until you can stand it no longer, then draw back and have a cup of tea." Change that to triple Mocha Monster, and you have my life in a nutshell!

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It is not reason
to waste
precious, perishable,
temporal time
on
that which is *not*.
that which *is* naught.

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