Killosophy

Copyright © 2015 by Criss Jami

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ISBN 1-5061-4935-9

Killosophy

Killing Knowledge. Loving Wisdom.

Original Aphorisms & Poetry

by

Criss Jami

Killing Knowledge.

Book of Aphorisms (part 1)

Loving Wisdom.

Book of Poetry (part 2)

The height of cleverness is in one’s ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one’s pride in proving oneself right with one’s zeal for finding the truth.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

I have a thing for things that last.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Your love is as stable as you are: It’s not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature’s sci-fi.

Good...if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

It’s fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.

One of the Christian’s biggest fears is appearing ‘too Christian’. God forbid, because that’s often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being ‘one of them’.

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.

The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in great tension, he’s about as complex as a shape-shifter; or a head with faces on all sides, but not necessarily in the negative connotation as one being two-faced usually implies. For instance, to be misunderstood can mean to be improperly deemed a troublemaker when that is not one’s true intent: you see, to troublemakers, the artist knows that the peacemaker may seem like a troublemaker; therefore he may, whether in honesty or in jest, at times, present himself as a troublemaker for perceptual, artistic flair. But then to the artless peacemakers, because of this they will interpret him as a troublemaker. This is why the artist has so few allies. To the troublemakers he’s a troublemaker, yet still the peacemakers a troublemaker.

When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.

You think you’re losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it’s not all gone.

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really want to fear something, they should be fearing separation from God, the supposedly more comforting alternative to a literal Hell. For separation from the authorship of love, mercy, and goodness is the ultimate torture. If you think a literal Hell sounds too bad, you are very much underestimating the pain of being absolutely, wholly separated from the goodness while exposed to the reality of the holiness of God.

Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality; he just never connected with you at the intersection.

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.’

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

Normality is the new eccentric.

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ’s sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don’t let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you’re part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He’s not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.

Of course we’ll win. And even if we were to lose, we’d win at losing.

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy (‘love of wisdom’) is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people’s-visions-for-the-future.

The thing about stereotyping is it’s usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

"Pretentiousness isn’t always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don’t mean beans or