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Either way, can't complain / Ain't no strings / I guess I got it made
Created on 2002-02-15 10:44:34 (#469163), last updated 2009-11-23
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Bio"Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it."
- from a book I like
"It is as though two old friends, a Catholic and Protestant, were sitting drinking beer, enjoying life, and the subject of birth control somehow came up. Big freeze-out.
And, of course, when you discover something like that it's like discovering a tooth with a missing filling. You can never leave it alone. You have to probe it, work around it, push on it, think about it, not because it's enjoyable but because it's on your mind and it won't get off your mind. And the more I probe and push on this subject... the more irritated he gets, and of course that makes me want to probe and push all the more. Not deliberately to irritate him but because the irritation seems symptomatic of something deeper, something under the surface that isn't immediately apparent. "
- from another book I like
"I think to myself, That's the problem, all right, where to start. To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you have to go, until what looked like a small problem of communication turns into a major philosophic enquiry..."
- same book, a bit later
"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."
-Karl Marx, a long time ago
"Meeting groups of people any larger than ten to twelve falls completely outside of what I know of social behavior. Thresholds become wildly more sensitive, expectations are completely different, people kid around with greater abandon.
It is the knowledge that I never got out enough, and now it's time to pay; it is the sensation of being lost in an unfamiliar maze.
I'm sure my expression and demeanor proclaim this to anyone and everyone who's witnessed how I conduct myself in such a situation."
-from something I wrote around 11/06; probably important
"It is better to live your life as if there are no gods, and try to make the world a better place for your being in it. If there is no god, you have lost nothing, and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is some benevolent god, it will judge you on your merits and not just on whether or not you believed."
-Pascal's Wager inside out; don't remember where from. I love this.
- from a book I like
"It is as though two old friends, a Catholic and Protestant, were sitting drinking beer, enjoying life, and the subject of birth control somehow came up. Big freeze-out.
And, of course, when you discover something like that it's like discovering a tooth with a missing filling. You can never leave it alone. You have to probe it, work around it, push on it, think about it, not because it's enjoyable but because it's on your mind and it won't get off your mind. And the more I probe and push on this subject... the more irritated he gets, and of course that makes me want to probe and push all the more. Not deliberately to irritate him but because the irritation seems symptomatic of something deeper, something under the surface that isn't immediately apparent. "
- from another book I like
"I think to myself, That's the problem, all right, where to start. To reach him you have to back up and back up, and the further back you go, the further back you have to go, until what looked like a small problem of communication turns into a major philosophic enquiry..."
- same book, a bit later
"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."
-Karl Marx, a long time ago
"Meeting groups of people any larger than ten to twelve falls completely outside of what I know of social behavior. Thresholds become wildly more sensitive, expectations are completely different, people kid around with greater abandon.
It is the knowledge that I never got out enough, and now it's time to pay; it is the sensation of being lost in an unfamiliar maze.
I'm sure my expression and demeanor proclaim this to anyone and everyone who's witnessed how I conduct myself in such a situation."
-from something I wrote around 11/06; probably important
"It is better to live your life as if there are no gods, and try to make the world a better place for your being in it. If there is no god, you have lost nothing, and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is some benevolent god, it will judge you on your merits and not just on whether or not you believed."
-Pascal's Wager inside out; don't remember where from. I love this.
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