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An Eschatological Laundry List:
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A partial register of the 927 eternal Truths
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1. This is it!
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2. There are no hidden meanings.
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3. You can't get there from here, and besides, there's no place else
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to go.
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4. We are all already dying, and we will be dead for a long time.
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5. Nothing lasts.
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6. There is no way of getting all you want.
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7. You can't have anything unless you let go of it.
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8. You only get to keep what you give away.
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9. There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things.
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10. The world is not necessarily just. Being good often does not pay
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off and there is no compensation for misfortune.
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11. You have a responsibility to do your best nonetheless.
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12. It is a random universe to which we bring meaning.
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13. You don't really control anything.
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14. You can't make anyone love you.
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15. No one else is any stronger or any weaker than anyone else.
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16. Everyone is, in his own way, vulnerable.
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17. There are no great men.
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18. If you have a hero look again: you have diminished yourself in
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some way.
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19. Everyone lies, cheats and pretends. (Yes, you too, and most
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certainly, I myself.)
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20. All evil is potential vitality in need of transformation.
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21. All of you is worth something, if you only own it.
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22. Progress is an illusion.
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23. Evil can be displaced but never eradicated, as all solutions breed
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new problems.
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24. Yet, it is necessary to keep on struggling toward solutions.
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25. Childhood is a nightmare.
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26. But it is so very hard to be an on-your-own-take-care-of-yourself-
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cause-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown up.
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27. Each of us is ultimately alone.
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28. The most important things, each man must do for himself.
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29. Love is not enough, but it sure helps.
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30. We have only ourselves, and one another. That may not be much,
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but that is all there is.
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31. How strange, that so often it all seems worth it.
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32. We must live within the ambiguity of partial freedom, partial
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power, and partial knowledge.
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33. All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient
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data.
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34. Yet we are responsible for everything we do.
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35. No excuses will be accepted.
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36. You can run, but you can't hide.
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37. It is most important to run out of scapegoats.
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38. We must learn the power of living with our helplessness.
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39. The only victory lies in surrender with ourselves.
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40. All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
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41. You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the
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consequences.
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42. What do you know...for sure...anyway?
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43. Learn to forgive yourself, again and again and again and again...
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