A lot of people think that because I’m one of the nicest and happiest people they’ve generally run across in real life that I am in essence kind-hearted. I’m not, really. Life is war, and I’m not in any way better than the next person over; I’m just a rebel. A renegade. A defector. A deserter. I was born in genuine wartime, in genocide, I’ve got scars as old and as deep as me, there’s no way I can be the common definition of “kind.” I’m kind simply because I’m a rebel who sticks to his principles. See, unconditional love is the only way I know how to give society,…

Sometimes you get on people’s bad sides permanently just because you’re not what they expected you to be. Because you’re more than anything that can be simply summed up. Simple mathematics, consciously or subconsciously, they hate being wrong. And your very being, your very presence, is a constant reminder of that. #Hahaha#LikeThereAreRulesToThisGame#KeepOnKeepingOn #ForwardAlways

I don’t really do deep, honest, heartfelt conversations. They rarely happen in “real” life. Especially when people ask for them. In almost all occasions people in a conversation are testing each other. On their knowledge, morality, successes, failures, &c.. Conversations are a battle-field in which the general mindset of both sides is, “What can you do for me?” And that mindset isn’t wrong, the world is a harsh place and ain’t none of us got time for anything but our lives and the people in it. The battle-field is necessary. I’ve found that people are only ever truly honest when they’re alone by themselves. This is why I write and…

You don’t have to pick between religion or science. There’s a difference between a religious education and a scientific one. One lets you navigate the world, and one lets you understand it. Navigate life’s seas by the compass—religion—you deem best for yourself. You can even choose to sail without a compass. It’s up to you. But it’s always helpful to know why the sea’s acting the way it is. It’ll take you a lot longer to understand why the sea—life—is acting the way it is than it will for you to understand how to navigate it. In fact, you’ll never truly understand it. So I suppose it all comes down…

*Born in Rwanda, flew to Los Angeles, grew up in Texas, Georgia, and very very briefly New York, before I moved to Toronto, Canada to become a proud citizen. Being black in the US more or less means that you’re African-American. And being black in Canada means that you’re just another immigrant, like everyone else in Canada. If you’re black in the US there’s a general feeling of camaraderie against a common foe. Some attribute this to African-Americans not knowing where in Africa they’re truly from. And so you get this mish-mashed group of dark-skinned peoples banding together for a common cause like orphans realizing that you can make a…

Kinda fascinating how all new forms of mass-communication seem to be quickly followed by the distrust of that form of communication. Not so because we as people distrust the form of communication itself, but because we distrust the common everyday person using it. With the invention of language came along the thought, then the saying, then the life lesson, “You can’t trust everything you hear.” You can’t trust everything you hear not because you can’t trust what you’re hearing, but because you can’t always trust who’s editing the form of communication, language, to pass along false information. You can’t trust words blindly because people can easily make-up false words with…

The moment we’re born we intellectually absorb the world around us. We have no choice but to. We learn our nation’s languages, we’re indoctrinated into our parents’ religions, we dress like our friends, think like our teachers, and go about our day like the people around us. Everything we do is derivative. Thus the question arises, where on Earth can originality be found? The answer’s simple – originality can be found in environments uninfluenced by ordinary thinking. And originality can be found in people who’ve been raised on ideas different from everyone else’s. Originality hinges not on what it is, but on what it’s not – it’s not like everything…

English. English is the universal language so that’s necessary. The language of the people around you. Always take into account where you’re at – lots of people speak Arabic, Hindi, and Russian, but if you’re living and/or working in Rwanda and learn any of those before Kinyarwanda you’re an idiot. The language of people who are never going to learn either. If you’re an English speaker it’s not useful or efficient that you learn Spanish or French like most people think, the fact is that most French and Spanish speaking people are already doing the hard work of communication for you from the other way ’round by learning English. Language learning is about…

Most of the longest novels I’ve ever read were written by regular people in their spare time. Not well-known authors, just random regular people you run across online who post their works for free. For example, on the Western half of the world,

Somewhat quoting Frederick Burnham, “Foremost, she holds a complacent belief in the unending plenty of our natural wealth.” By this I mean she holds a smug belief that the limits of Man, as self/creator/thinker, are nonexistent and good and positively bountiful (‘positively’ loosely defined by her as ‘positive,’ which is vague and leaves it up to her to define the terms however she wishes, which she does). And that Man has all right to do whatever they wish and can, a limitless perspective, in/with/and to the world. A world which is strictly limited (limitless is impossible). She smugly thinks the world’s resources are limitless and to thus be used by…