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is Latin for “Never less alone than when alone.”

The feeling of loneliness is due to the desire for company. The desire for company is due to our perception of others, or possibly the memory of a time when we were no so alone.

I believe what that quote means is if we completely remove the presence of others, physically and mentally and theoretically, then there is no such thing as loneliness.

If we were each hatched on a deserted island with no human contact, we would never know loneliness simply because we would never know that we’re expected to be anything else. We wouldn’t watch movies about […]

it conjures up images of a tired, weepy person with a box of Kleenex lying in bed all day. While that may be an accurate image some days, it’s hardly exemplary of this condition. They’d like you to think that depression is due to lethargy, sadness & general lack of energy. They’d like you to think you’re a car with no gas rusting on the side of the road. At least that’s the popular image as far as I’ve seen in movies, the news and various ads for pharmaceutical products (god, the Zoloft commercial with the sad lazy bubble just slays me).

But in me, and […]

I want to commit suicide a thousand times over. I want this world to know how much it has failed me. With every selfish prick who inflicts misery on others, the world has failed me. With every good intention that humans kill, I want to kill myself. With every bear in every bile farm in China, with every child who is raped everywhere in the world, with every cow in every slaughterhouse who ends up in some fat fuck’s Big Mac, with every injustice that humans not only perpetuate, they relish, I wish I could kill myself again and again and again, leaving an ugly […]