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Described as a misanthrope he is actually more than just that. The scene in the bowling alley for example. But he is definitely aberrant when engaging the opposite sex. He creates this fantasy in his head [re The Collector] and then fortuitously [voyeuristically] bumps into a beautiful incarnation a...

God “No matter what the cause, God is only as willing as you are.” Steve Maraboli Tell that to the Jews in Nazi Germany? In other words, it is never, ever God's fault? “I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.” Richelle Mead...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Roussin: I can roughly guess what you’re feeling. Being taken hostage is not so different from what you’re going through. Am I right? Henriette: Hostage? [Awkward silence.] Roussin: Jean-Dominique was kind enough to give me his seat on a flight to Hong Kong. Then, ...

Existentialism edited by Robert C. Solomon John Shand enjoys a collection of essays about existentialism. Wilson accuses Sartre of pessimism. Sartre, in particular in his novel Nausea, supposedly presents a world stripped of illusion; a world revealed as it would be if devoid of the ordering categor...

The Records
Starry Eyes
https://youtu.be/lAH1ioLiaHw?si=CzQ-Vyxx7yPN-3Rb

Magnolia Electric Co
Night Shift Lullaby
https://youtu.be/JtctJ0J0C5U?si=t50GmGyF7D6TtW-s

Lyrics Natilie Merchant I should know to leave them home They follow me through the store with these toys I can't afford "Kids, take them back, you know better than that." Dolls that talk, astronauts, T.V. games, airplanes, they don't understand and how can I explain? I try and try but I c...

Woody Allen once suggested this: "I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That’s the two categories. The horrible are like, I don’t know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don’t know how they get through life. It’s amazing to me. And the miserable ...

Time “Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.” Graham Greene Anyone here know for sure? “There is a time in the life ...

Dead Man Walking Sister Helen: Think about it. Their kids are shot, stabbed, raped left in the woods to die alone. How’d you feel if somebody did that to your family? What would you do to them? Matthew: l’d sure as hell want to kill them. There you go? Prison guard: Tell me something sister, what i...

Ludwig Wittgenstein A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. A few of them might even be funny. The limits of my language means the limits of my world. If that doesn't encompass objectivism, what does? I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure tha...

Amy X Neuburg & The Cello ChiXtet
Difficult
https://youtu.be/n6Bl7eXUXVg?si=ccdqVw5WkI6qKQiD

Dead Man Walking State’s attorney: There’s been no doubt in the court’s mind about who did the murder. Matthew Poncelet is not a good boy. He is a heartless killer. These murders were calculated, disgusting and cruel. This man shot Walter Delacroix two times in the back of his head. And raped Hope ...

Slavoj Žižek The problem of materialism is not 'does reality exist outside?' The problem is 'does our mind exist?' How does my mind exist and how is it inherent to reality? Then the part where it seems that some minds clearly exist more than others. But are they compelled to? It is only when we des...

There are two sides to every story. The right side and the wrong side. The good side and the bad side. The true side and the false side. And then there’s the real world. But most will see this guy as a scumbag and what he did as despicable. And Robbins shows us just how despicable. Personally, I thi...