{"id":1636,"date":"2004-10-20T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/20\/the-notebooks-of-lazarus-long\/"},"modified":"2004-10-20T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T21:56:00","slug":"the-notebooks-of-lazarus-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/20\/the-notebooks-of-lazarus-long\/","title":{"rendered":"The Notebooks of Lazarus Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.<br \/>\nAlways listen to experts. They&apos;ll tell you what can&apos;t be done, and why. Then do it.<br \/>\nGet a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.<br \/>\nIf it can&apos;t be expressed in figures, it is not science, it is opinion.<br \/>\nIt has long been known that one horse can run faster than another&#8211;but which one? Differences are crucial.<br \/>\nCertainly the game is rigged. Don&apos;t let that stop you; if you don&apos;t bet you can&apos;t win.<br \/>\nIf you don&apos;t like yourself, you can&apos;t like other people.<br \/>\nYour enemy is never a villain in his own eye. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate&#8211;and quickly.<br \/>\nOf all the strange &#8220;crimes&#8221; that human beings have legislated out of nothing, &#8220;blasphemy&#8221; is the most amazing&#8211;with &#8220;obscenity&#8221; and &#8220;indecent exposure&#8221; fighting it out for second and third place.<br \/>\nThere is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know&#8211;so why fret about it?<br \/>\nCheops&apos; Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.<br \/>\nIt is better to copulate than never.<br \/>\nAll men are created unequal.<br \/>\nMoney is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.<br \/>\nDelusions are often functional. A mother&apos;s opinions about her children&apos;s beauty, intelligence, goodness et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.<br \/>\nOne man&apos;s theology is another man&apos;s belly laugh.<br \/>\nSex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys, it&apos;s more sanitary.<br \/>\nMen rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.<br \/>\nAvoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. N.B.: Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!<br \/>\nA generation which ignores history has no past and no future.<br \/>\nPlace your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent. Always listen to experts. They&apos;ll tell you what can&apos;t be done, and why. Then do it. Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect. If it can&apos;t be expressed in figures, it is not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/20\/the-notebooks-of-lazarus-long\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Notebooks of Lazarus Long&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-qo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}