"Converting hell to ice cream is what writing is all about."

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     9) No one is trustworthy. Disputes over money dissolve family bonds faster than piss on cotton candy. 99% of married women, under the condition their husbands would never find out, would have an affair or at least a fling. Your best friend has the best odds of killing you, better even than your family, since you trust him. Let's hope nobody offers him an absurd sum of money to kill you (before you can do it yourself).
      8) Shit keeps costing more money but your job doesn't know it. Most things cost more as time goes on. Most jobs outside of Congress do not offer cost-of-living raises. If you're unfortunate enough to add a wife and/or children, you're going to be paying four times more for the same shit to keep them alive and happy too. Taxes have a new gimmick, they dress in ninja garb and call themselves "fees". Nobody votes on them or can account for them, they just appear, rape you and return again each month.
      7) The longer you live the more your body falls apart. Growing old is a crime. Super-expensive health care will only bring you back to a pitiful simulacrum of what used to be your normal state of health. Better to OD on a wave of druggy bliss than choke on your own tongue in the gutter behind the nursing home/prison.
      6) Laws become more and more restrictive every day. The only place laws have room to expand is into personal freedom. The Law isn't interested in stopping crooks, since they cost money to house and feed. They make more $$$ raping you, the dumbass who pays for Deputy Donut's patrol-car-installed porn-internet connection as well as the outrageous tickets for driving too fast on roads paid for by you! Every day you probably break 100 laws and not even know it. Cops can make stupid shit up on the spot to arrest you and sure enough, somewhere in an obscure law book, there's probably some stupid law unenforced since the 1800s to justify the prick. Everyone is criminal as long as someone else can make money off it.
      5) Your children could be worse or worse off than you. No blame to you, some kids are just worthless, born evil, whatever. You could be raising the world's greatest ingrate/mooch/parasite or your very murderer, you never know. Even if you love them they could be killed or taken from you by some unseen force. Not worth it!
      4) There will never be enough. The ratio of DESIRES created by a corrupt society versus your meager ability to acquire things to satisfy them creates psychotic discord. Even as you read these words, voices are demanding to know why you're not eating steak or getting laid or cleaning the bathtub or enjoying fantastic savings at the Big Sale. GO GO GO GO GO!
      3) God is a coward. He may very well be real, which would be bad for His press agents seeing how things always turn out for the worst, or at least, not as good as before. The Creator of the Universe is either preoccupied or doesn't give a shit, you never see Him, and if by chance you hear Him speak to you and you tell others about it they lock you away in a place where God can't or won't talk to you anymore. Depressing.
      2) Love is a biochemical trick of nature. After 4 years of wearing the ring you awaken one morning wondering why you ever found ______ attractive, much less worth marrying. Mother Nature doesn't care about your vows or legal commitments, the Bitch still wants you to fuck everything in sight, the female equivalent of which is to find one mate and suck his innards out, soul and all, tossing the husk when through.
      1) No one gives a shit. It's nothing personal, but people are designed to look after themselves and maybe a handful of other people they are interdependent on. There's no room for more. As Don Henley sang from his hot tub, no doubt surrounded by 5 or 6 groupies young enough to be his great-granddaughters, "There's just not enough love in the world."
     Every human you meet or will ever meet is a nightmare-machine of unchained, self-destructive desires and wants, wearing a razor-thin fabric mask of civility. Anyone could snap at any time. The ones that want to love or save you are powerless to do so, and will do you the added favor of wishing you dead when you explain their ineffectiveness to make a significant difference even in the life of a flower.
      0) Reasons given here never go away or change, they form a singularity, the dot on the volume knob cranking higher and higher every minute you're alive while you wait in vain for deaf ears to turn it down again. The shit never ends, and probably won't even after you end it.