Letter from Charles Darwin to Asa Gray (22nd May 1860)

With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.— I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I shd wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.

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It's a funny thing, I used to a werewolf but I'm alright noo^ooo^ooow.

It's not acceptable to freeze children? Brb...

Also: big, fat, fucking, ego-driven lie.

The breeding sow should be thought of, and treated as, a valuable piece of machinery whose function is to pump out baby pigs like a sausage machine.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Fucking Hell, flair this fucker NSFW. I very nearly read a Daniel Hannan piece by accident.

What the fuck is that? Kill it with fire! If it finds a hole it'll either build a nest in it or try to fuck it.

To me, that’s just being a cunt.

Welcome to religious conservatism.

Remember that time she gave away a vital clues in the Richard Ramirez case and possibly extended his serial killing career?

The absolutely hilarious thing about this is that all of these MPs that clamoured for this bill because "Won't somebody think of the children!" are up to all sorts of terrible behaviour and a whole bunch of them are on Signal.

Property developer...

It's funny how the mind makes odd connections but for some reason William Burroughs's 'Words of Advice for Young People' springs to mind:

We don't like to hear the word "vampire" around here

We're trying to improve our public image

Build up a kindly, avuncular, benevolent image

"Interdependence" is the keyword, "enlightened interdependence"

Life in all its rich variety, take a little, leave a little

However, by the inexorable logistics of the vampiric process

They always take more than they leave...

That cat seems suspiciously well reconciled to wearing that wig.