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If you are a reasonable person, you will encounter a few unreasonable people, but if you are an unreasonable person, you will encounter many more unreasonable people.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is difficult to get a man accustomed to sleeping on rocks to try a mattress instead, and especially so if he thinks people he doesn't like will get mattresses also.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Once we're adult enough to do so earnestly, we should critically review everything we learned before the age of ten or so. That is when most of the misinformation we believe was programmed into us. It is the hardest to dislodge, because it is likely part of our identity by now.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Humanity will not achieve worldwide cooperation by insisting we all be the same. It can only be achieved when we learn to accept our differences, so long as they cause no material, measurable harm. Everything doesn't have to be our cup of tea, but we can let others drink theirs. It does us no harm.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

An excess of ego has caused far more foolish behavior than an insufficiency of intelligence ever has.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Far from the worst take on life. Discover. Learn. Enjoy.

Unpopular opinion: | don't think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; | think it's okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die. @ambernoelle

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Indeed, it's probably better that you didn't.

If you say no to someone and they get angry, it doesn’t mean you should have said yes.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There is no amount of religion that will make a bad person good, and no dearth of it that will make a good person bad.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Taking down evil is good. Replacing it with another evil that is more satisfying to us is not. Justice and vengeance are not the same things.

I am not a “burn it all down leftist. l am a "we must carefully disassemble the current system and rebuild intentionally in the name of community care" person. If our desire to eat the rich is louder than our desire to feed the poor, I fear we’ve missed the point.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A smart person is skeptical of their own intelligence, and this humble self-awareness is a big part of their evolving wisdom. A stupid person is confident of their own intelligence, and this arrogant willful ignorance is a big part of their compounding foolishness.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Seems like good advice. via Life Vibes. www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

DEEP!

1. If you're looking for reasons not to do it, do it. If
you're looking for reasons to do it, don't do it.

2. Don't offer a lecture to a person who needs a hug.

3. No amount of anxiety is going to make any difference
to anything that is going to happen.

4. How can you be ahead or behind in life when you are
moving on a path that only you can take?

5. May the calm in you win over the chaos around you.

6. When you're born, you look like your parents, When
you die, you look like your decisions.

7. You are here to understand yourself, not to be
understood.

8. The truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.

9. Sometimes what didn't take place was the most
important thing that happened.

10. I love life because there'll always be a situation you think
you'll never get over and you always do every time.

11. Stopping your worst habit would change your life much
faster than starting your best habit. Fix the leak, before
filling the bucket.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Perhaps mostly because many people think only a select group of people deserve such luxury, be it here or in an afterlife and, coincidentally enough, this select group happens to almost always includes themselves.

I find it fascinating that everyone's idea of Heaven is untouched paradise with crystal clear waters, clean air full of birdsong, lush forests teeming with wildlife and a utopia society where nobody goes hungry. But if you suggest we try to do that on Earth people think you're evil. -Nate Luebbe. Travel/Adventure

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

CIVANTICISM A refuge for the kind and the wise while the rest catch up www.civanticism.com

The most successful political propaganda in our time was convincing millions of people that caring for others and the planet was somehow a threat to America.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If a someone lies, it is their fault for deceiving. But if someone has a history of lying and being caught at it, then the blame for the deception shifts toward the deceived.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

For anyone confused: Your political views are also your moral views.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Never conflate who you are with what you know. Else, you'll never learn new things and grow.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Humans are, mostly, not rational animals. We are rationalizing animals. Our emotions do the bulk of our decision making but, if we need to justify our actions to ourselves or others, our intellect pops in to tick off sound and logical reasons why it was a good idea, or at least not a bad one.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Monsters walk amongst us, but few of them would recognize a monster if they saw one in a mirror.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There are few things uglier and more dangerous than enraged ignorance.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not harming others is the bare minimum for being a good person. To claim you're a good person because you don't harm others is like saying you won a race when you never left the starting line.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Most people have the same definition of Fairness, in that everybody should have equal opportunity. The problem is that most people have different definitions of "everybody".

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

CIVANTICISM Wisdom ֎ Truth ֎ Balance ֍ Virtue ֎ Empathy www.civanticism.com

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Evil could not take even a single step without the shoes of human apathy and human stupidity.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

People who are full of themselves are ironically the emptiest people around.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' -Fred Rogers

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people a who are helping.'
-Fred Rogers

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Republicans since Reagan when they say they’d love to help the Middle Class but need to cut taxes on the Rich, first.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Ten tons of reason, facts, logic, and evidence will not budge an opinion glued in the mind with only a drop of emotion.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Skin color is, literally, only skin deep, making it the second most shallow human attribute. Only people who judge others by their skin color are more shallow.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some people are so miserable inside that the only relief they can feel is seeing others suffer more.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A few people have reasons to hate. Most people just have excuses to.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -Rumi

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If we don't defend democracy FOR all, we don't defend democracy AT all.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Too many people would rather drive off a cliff, their family with them in the car, rather than admit they had made a wrong turn. Note: This might be an analogy and not really about cars.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

CIVANTICISM Wisdom ֎ Truth ֎ Balance ֍ Virtue ֎ Empathy www.civanticism.com

I heard someone say "healing can be so hard when your inner child wants love, your i teenage self wants revenge, and | your current self only wants peace." ~Unknown

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Too many people rationalize the impossibility of helping everyone as an excuse to help no one.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

When someone likes a bad idea, they will ignore the 99% that is wrong with it and focus on the 1% that isn't too bad. When someone hates a good idea, they will ignore the 99% that is right with it and focus on the 1% that is problematic.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

CIVANTICISM A refuge for the kind and the wise while the rest catch up www.civanticism.com

The longer you stay on the wrong train, the more expensive it is to get back home.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Civanticism — The reason of Humanism and the compassion of Buddhism, with a touch of snark for good measure. www.civanticism.com

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

None of us live in reality, but some people live a LOT closer to it than other people.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Evil thrives in the shadows of indifference.

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

CIVANTICISM Spirituality without Spuriousness Community without Conformity Hope without Hocus Pocus www.civanticism.com

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. -Harlan Ellison

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Civanticism @civantic.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

CIVANTICISM Spirituality without Spuriousness Community without Conformity Hope without Hocus Pocus www.civanticism.com

In case you forgot: We live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. Where octopuses dream. Where elephants return to the bones of their dead family members and stand over them in silence to remember them. Where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. Where flowers bloom. Where crows remember human faces, especially those who were cruel to them, and pass that memory on to their young. Where ants build entire cities. Where cats purr at a frequency that can help us heal. Where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

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