Tom's Spiritual Beliefs

I am an event rippling through existence, interacting to one degree or another with all the other things that together, make up that existence. I was neither destined nor designed, but I am the product of the same natural forces that create everything else. I had a beginning, and I will have an end, but the stuff that I am made of can be neither created nor destroyed. And that's cool.

Life According To Tom

I am completely out of my mind. So what. Here are some thoughts I'd like more people to dwell on:

• If you treat certain people favorably because of your associations, what are you doing to everybody else?
• People who don't understand what's going on should get out of the way.
• It is human nature to succeed at the expense of others, and it is also human nature to deny that's what's happening.
• You might as well enjoy everything that you can manage in life, because there are no points for suffering - in fact no points at all.
• Most decisions are easier if you pretend someone else is making them and you start by eliminating the intolerable.
• Thoughtful treatment of quality ingredients can almost guarantee a satisfying outcome.
• People either create turbulence, absorb it, or ride on top of it.
• Deception is a way of arming your adversaries.
• Discard stale thoughts to make room for fresh ones (i.e. eat more Mentos).
• Never pick up a penny you find on the floor - just kick it under something.
• You probably have more of almost everything than you really need.
• Plants have been celebrating ever since the day that animals stopped eating them and started eating each other instead.
• You can't predict the weather, yet somehow you can still trust it. The opposite is true for people.
• The game "musical chairs" is basic training for a "shaft your way to success" culture. Conscientious people are terrible at musical chairs.