Nothing Gained Without Cost Is Valued. Freedom

The Only Sovereign I Can Allow To Rule Me Is Reason. The First Law Of Reason Is This: What Exists Exists; What Is Is. From This Irreducible, Bedrock Principle, All Knowledge Is Built. This Is The Foundation From Which Life Is Embraced. Reason Is A Choice. Wishes And Whims Are Not Facts, Nor Are They A Means To Discovering Them. Reason Is Our Only Way Of Grasping Reality–it Is Our Basic Tool Of Survival. We Are Free To Evade The Effort Of Thinking, To Reject Reason, But We Are Not Free To Avoid The Penalty Of The Abyss We Refuse To See." -richard

Charity, If You Have The Means, Is A Personal Choice, But Charity Which Is Expected Or Compelled Is Simply A Polite Word For Slavery.

Fate Occasionally Touches Us All In Ways We Don't Always Understand.

To Exist In This Vast Universe For A Speck Of Time Is The Great Gift Of Life. Our Tiny Sliver Of Time Is Our Gift Of Life. It Is Our Only Life. The Universe Will Go On, Indifferent To Our Brief Existence, But While We Are Here We Touch Not Just Part Of That Vastness, But Also The Lives Around Us. Life Is The Gift Each Of Us Has Been Given. Each Life Is Our Own And No One Else's. It Is Precious Beyond All Counting. It Is The Greatest Value We Can Have. Cherish It For What It Truly Is..... Your Life Is Yours Alone. Rise Up And Live It.

I've Always Said Fantasy Is Sort Of 'stealth Philosophy'.