Stoic Pondering Mugs

Losing sense of materialism after being mugged

In/Out/These Things Happen.

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

"The prostate biopsy shows your pain threshold is much higher than normal."

Chiller Theatre

'According to creation mathematicians, all of Euclid's theories were originally found etched into rocks.'

Crowded Ice Fishing

A man deflates and dissolves into the ground and becomes a flower.

Admissions test for the Danbury Institute of Philosophy

"Look, if I had all the answers, would I be living alone on the top of a mountain?"

"Is this who I am?"

The Price of Freedom

"Sitting here with you each day at sunset reminds me I have to get a job."

"I cross the road to forget."

Non Thought For The Day.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"If we evolved from stupid people, why are there stupid people still around?"

"Behold! I am God! I know all. Yet I'm constantly testing you even though I already know what you'll do. But I'll still punish you for the sins I planned for you to do. And you'll suffer in a fiery pit, tormented beyond imagining forever and ever and ever

'Dad, what is peace?'

"Isn't it true that the prosecution offered you a bone to testify?"

'Just think of one of these as enabling legislation for the golden rule.'

"Remember that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

"Don’t think of that tennis ball as lost. Think of it as finally free."

'Naughty? Nice? Santa, I don't deal in absolutes.'

"If there is a heaven, why do we end up as fossil fuel?"

'Now, until you've attained perfect wisdom, you'll have to learn to evade questions.'

'Sometimes, in the stillness and warmth of an afternoon sun, I can almost hear interest compounding.'

Lost and Profound.

'He was a Stoic's Stoic.'

How did life begin? Image shows a strand of dna in the form of a question mark (with a single cell as the dot, floating in water or primeval soup). The image also refers to life beyond the earth, with the cell-like blobs resembling galaxies in outer space

Understanding art.

"Never mind 'what does it all mean?' What does anything mean?"

"I'd let you in, but I'm not sure I'm all here today"

'It's not so much you having a cockroach problem - it's more along the lines of us having a human problem.'

"Have you tried turning off your conscious mind and then turning it back on again?"