This is not a philosophy; if only it were! This is a series of random thoughts with the only association that they are all observations on Life, the Universe and Everything.
Sorry, there is not 42 of them.
Disputes are never black and white.
There are always at least two sides to every issue and nobody is perfectly altruistic.
Evil does not exist; even human action is causal.
Learn from your errors but don’t dwell on them.
There is no perfection; only compromise.
Life is no illusion; if nothing else it survives Occam’s razor.
There is no prime cause; but the primary path to utopia is sharing.
Some obscurity is deliberate but most is accidental and too complex to unravel.
Magicians are not the only professionals that rely on misdirection.
When a talking-head is tub-thumping, try to work out what is being obscured or overshadowed.
Uniforms are de-personalising; this may be on purpose.
Between Chaos and Linearity, Complexity is the happy medium.
Nothing is perfectly random because nothing is perfectly free. Refer 4
Sects are weak religions; Religions are powerful sects.
When faced with an extreme, look for a corresponding, balancing extreme.
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