Quote of the day
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that the world keeps shifting so quickly under her feet that she has to keep running just to keep her position. This is our predicament with cancer: we are forced to keep running merely to keep still.
As God intended no doubt.
It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
As God intended no doubt.
Right, kids?
"How small a thought it takes to fill someone’s whole life,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote.
Imagine him here.
In God we trust, he brusquely told a journalist. All others must have data.
Okay, but brusquely enough?
If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.
Next up: you tell me.
It is one thing to try to understand how genes influence human identity or sexuality or temperament. It is quite another thing to imagine altering identity or sexuality or behavior by altering genes.
Says who, in other words.
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that the world keeps shifting so quickly under her feet that she has to keep running just to keep her position. This is our predicament with cancer: we are forced to keep running merely to keep still.
As God intended no doubt.
It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
As God intended no doubt.
Right, kids?
"How small a thought it takes to fill someone’s whole life,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote.
Imagine him here.
In God we trust, he brusquely told a journalist. All others must have data.
Okay, but brusquely enough?
If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.
Next up: you tell me.
It is one thing to try to understand how genes influence human identity or sexuality or temperament. It is quite another thing to imagine altering identity or sexuality or behavior by altering genes.
Says who, in other words.
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Jan Mieszkowski
You know your local bookstore is a winner when Beyond Good and Evil is a bestseller and the staff pick is Spinoza’s Ethics.
Like that could actually happen.
"The problem with determinate negation is that you never see it coming until it's too late." Hegel
Next up: indeterminate affirmation.
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing." Gertrude Stein
Wow! Not unlike being a pinhead!!
Write your memoirs in French,
Your love letters in Italian,
Your shopping lists in English,
And your deal with the Devil in German.
For the Devil, he means Russian, of course.
Who gave philosophy such a bad name?
Aristotle: Plato
Spinoza: Plato
Hume: Plato
Schopenhauer: Plato
Nietzsche: It was me!
Though not necessarily in that order, of course.
I asked my class what Walter Benjamin meant when he said that capitalism is a religion. A student answered with one word: Christmas.
A+ right?
You know your local bookstore is a winner when Beyond Good and Evil is a bestseller and the staff pick is Spinoza’s Ethics.
Like that could actually happen.
"The problem with determinate negation is that you never see it coming until it's too late." Hegel
Next up: indeterminate affirmation.
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing." Gertrude Stein
Wow! Not unlike being a pinhead!!
Write your memoirs in French,
Your love letters in Italian,
Your shopping lists in English,
And your deal with the Devil in German.
For the Devil, he means Russian, of course.
Who gave philosophy such a bad name?
Aristotle: Plato
Spinoza: Plato
Hume: Plato
Schopenhauer: Plato
Nietzsche: It was me!
Though not necessarily in that order, of course.
I asked my class what Walter Benjamin meant when he said that capitalism is a religion. A student answered with one word: Christmas.
A+ right?
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"You do not have to listen to a weird dude dressed in an orange curtain to know what homosexuality is." - Sculptor, Toward a Critique of Hindu Educational Systems
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Gore Vidal from Julian
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
Next up: how marvelous Kindles are?
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
Unless, of course, you're one of the winners.
Never offend an enemy in a small way.
Right. Stick to the big ways.
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
If only all the up to the grave.
On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.
Or, here, up in the clouds.
How hungrily we read about ourselves!
And that was in 1964!
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
Next up: how marvelous Kindles are?
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
Unless, of course, you're one of the winners.
Never offend an enemy in a small way.
Right. Stick to the big ways.
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
If only all the up to the grave.
On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.
Or, here, up in the clouds.
How hungrily we read about ourselves!
And that was in 1964!
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The Onion
Fetterman Struggling To Adapt To Size Of Capitol Building
Whereas Oz would have fit right in.
Well, once they elected a Speaker.
Neurologists Confirm Nightmares Persist After Death
Next up: wet dreams.
Man Googling ‘Tender Lump On Neck’ About To Begin Exciting New Phase In Life
You know, if exciting is the right word.
France To Offer Free Condoms To Adults Up To Age 25
True story. Well. as true stories go, anyway.
Kevin McCarthy Assures Skeptical Republicans He Shares Their Vision Of Innocents Drowning In Oceans Of Blood
Nope, still not enough, is it?
Union-Busting Manager Graciously Accepts Pay Cut Because Boss Knows Best
Irony let's call it. Right, Jeff?
Fetterman Struggling To Adapt To Size Of Capitol Building
Whereas Oz would have fit right in.
Well, once they elected a Speaker.
Neurologists Confirm Nightmares Persist After Death
Next up: wet dreams.
Man Googling ‘Tender Lump On Neck’ About To Begin Exciting New Phase In Life
You know, if exciting is the right word.
France To Offer Free Condoms To Adults Up To Age 25
True story. Well. as true stories go, anyway.
Kevin McCarthy Assures Skeptical Republicans He Shares Their Vision Of Innocents Drowning In Oceans Of Blood
Nope, still not enough, is it?
Union-Busting Manager Graciously Accepts Pay Cut Because Boss Knows Best
Irony let's call it. Right, Jeff?
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Eric Hoffer
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members. Though manifestly unfair, this tendency has some justification. For the character and destiny of a group are often determined by its inferior elements.
Here I tend toward the pinheads myself.
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
Let's try that here, he suggested.
Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.
And one month a year he comes here.
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
How's that for ironic?
Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
At least on this side of the grave.
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
Or blessedly few?
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members. Though manifestly unfair, this tendency has some justification. For the character and destiny of a group are often determined by its inferior elements.
Here I tend toward the pinheads myself.
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
Let's try that here, he suggested.
Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.
And one month a year he comes here.
There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
How's that for ironic?
Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
At least on this side of the grave.
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
Or blessedly few?
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The Onion
Iconic Artist Of ‘Huge Titty Lois Griffin’ Sadly Remains Unrecognized In His Lifetime
Not huge enough, I guess.
Panicked Tree Freezes In Headlights As Car Barrels Toward It
Finally, the tree's point of view.
Area Dad Looking To Get Average Phone Call With Adult Son Down To 47.5 Seconds
Cue Harry: https://youtu.be/KUwjNBjqR-c
Defeated Man Too Tired To Fight New $14.99 Fee On Phone Bill
We will all reach that point eventually.
‘Sesame Street’ Introduces First Enigmatic Muppet Who Has Yet To Reveal True Intentions
Let's deconstruct that.
World’s Oldest Jeans, Found In 1857 Shipwreck, Sell For $114,000
No, really! https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... gle+Search
Iconic Artist Of ‘Huge Titty Lois Griffin’ Sadly Remains Unrecognized In His Lifetime
Not huge enough, I guess.
Panicked Tree Freezes In Headlights As Car Barrels Toward It
Finally, the tree's point of view.
Area Dad Looking To Get Average Phone Call With Adult Son Down To 47.5 Seconds
Cue Harry: https://youtu.be/KUwjNBjqR-c
Defeated Man Too Tired To Fight New $14.99 Fee On Phone Bill
We will all reach that point eventually.
‘Sesame Street’ Introduces First Enigmatic Muppet Who Has Yet To Reveal True Intentions
Let's deconstruct that.
World’s Oldest Jeans, Found In 1857 Shipwreck, Sell For $114,000
No, really! https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... gle+Search
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from Frankenstein
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
Next up: the tipping point.
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
Uh, no one?
It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
I'll be your monster if you'll be mine.
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
That'll do it. Well, sometimes.
The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
You either get this or you don't.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
You either regret this or you don't.
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
Next up: the tipping point.
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
Uh, no one?
It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
I'll be your monster if you'll be mine.
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
That'll do it. Well, sometimes.
The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
You either get this or you don't.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
You either regret this or you don't.
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The Onion
Eventually, every male mentions their envy of Regis Philbin.
I had to Google him myself.
Biblical Archaeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Poster-Board Photo Collage Displayed At Jesus’ Funeral
Well, that settles something, right?
Conair Unveils New Tiny Blow Dryer For Knuckle Hair
Next up: mid-sized blow dryer for pubic hair.
Complete Psychopath Meets Proper Screen Time, Sleep, Exercise Guidelines
You tell me.
Tumbleweed Of Pubes Rolls Through Desolate Dorm Bathroom
On the other hand, seeing is believing.
NFL Releases Statement Clarifying There Are Not Things More Important Than Football
All the way to the bank, it turns out.
Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation
New 7 plus docs to follow.
Eventually, every male mentions their envy of Regis Philbin.
I had to Google him myself.
Biblical Archaeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Poster-Board Photo Collage Displayed At Jesus’ Funeral
Well, that settles something, right?
Conair Unveils New Tiny Blow Dryer For Knuckle Hair
Next up: mid-sized blow dryer for pubic hair.
Complete Psychopath Meets Proper Screen Time, Sleep, Exercise Guidelines
You tell me.
Tumbleweed Of Pubes Rolls Through Desolate Dorm Bathroom
On the other hand, seeing is believing.
NFL Releases Statement Clarifying There Are Not Things More Important Than Football
All the way to the bank, it turns out.
Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation
New 7 plus docs to follow.
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Tom Stoppard from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Except for the last one of course.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
How about your bridges? Same thing?
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said...no. But somehow we missed it.
Note to Carleas: when did that happen here?
We're actors — we're the opposite of people!
Next up: the shit scripts.
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
I'll need to see the box of course.
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.
Bottom line [one of them]: no one asked to be born.
Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Except for the last one of course.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
How about your bridges? Same thing?
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said...no. But somehow we missed it.
Note to Carleas: when did that happen here?
We're actors — we're the opposite of people!
Next up: the shit scripts.
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
I'll need to see the box of course.
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.
Bottom line [one of them]: no one asked to be born.
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The Onion
Incredibly Productive House Of Representatives Assembles For 8th Vote In Just 3 Days
Of course, that's ancient history now, right?
Woman Can Always Tell Period Coming By Way Doors Slam Shut, Lights Flicker
Next up: the tells that she is pregnant.
College Senior Holding Out Hope That Internship Will Lead To Class-Action Lawsuit
Let's root for her.
Gym Patron Just Resting For A Second Until Will To Live Returns
And, with any luck, it won't.
Roger Goodell Announces Thinking Too Hard About Football Has Given Him CTE
Being a pinhead though, how hard can that be?
Plume Of Smoke Above Vatican Signals Last Evidence Of Abuse Has Been Burned
I guess they just plum forgot that God sees all.
Incredibly Productive House Of Representatives Assembles For 8th Vote In Just 3 Days
Of course, that's ancient history now, right?
Woman Can Always Tell Period Coming By Way Doors Slam Shut, Lights Flicker
Next up: the tells that she is pregnant.
College Senior Holding Out Hope That Internship Will Lead To Class-Action Lawsuit
Let's root for her.
Gym Patron Just Resting For A Second Until Will To Live Returns
And, with any luck, it won't.
Roger Goodell Announces Thinking Too Hard About Football Has Given Him CTE
Being a pinhead though, how hard can that be?
Plume Of Smoke Above Vatican Signals Last Evidence Of Abuse Has Been Burned
I guess they just plum forgot that God sees all.
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Emil M. Cioran from The Trouble with Being Born
My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now.
And he meant it.
Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining.
I know that I do.
[wink, wink]
I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.
Among other things, go figure.
Man accepts death but not the hour of his death. To die any time, except when one has to die!
Among other things, go figure.
A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.
I guess we'll never know though.
The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me...
So, how am I doing with that here?
My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now.
And he meant it.
Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining.
I know that I do.
[wink, wink]
I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.
Among other things, go figure.
Man accepts death but not the hour of his death. To die any time, except when one has to die!
Among other things, go figure.
A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.
I guess we'll never know though.
The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me...
So, how am I doing with that here?
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The Onion
On Top Of Everything Else, Kevin McCarthy Wetting Bed Again
Noted. Let's move on.
Still Too Early To Tell If Pulling Chain Turned Overhead Fan Off
Ask me about mine.
Icy Road Conditions Lead To Multi-Deer Pileup On Highway
No fatalities fortunately.
Wistful Woman Wonders If This Could Be The One She’ll Sleep With For Few Weeks Before Losing Interest
Modern love, as Peter Gabriel once informed us.
Passenger Ruins Perfectly Good Windshield By Flying Through It
How embarrassing is that?
Supportive Parents Encourage Child’s Interests In Anything Within 15-Minute Drive
In Kansas no less.
On Top Of Everything Else, Kevin McCarthy Wetting Bed Again
Noted. Let's move on.
Still Too Early To Tell If Pulling Chain Turned Overhead Fan Off
Ask me about mine.
Icy Road Conditions Lead To Multi-Deer Pileup On Highway
No fatalities fortunately.
Wistful Woman Wonders If This Could Be The One She’ll Sleep With For Few Weeks Before Losing Interest
Modern love, as Peter Gabriel once informed us.
Passenger Ruins Perfectly Good Windshield By Flying Through It
How embarrassing is that?
Supportive Parents Encourage Child’s Interests In Anything Within 15-Minute Drive
In Kansas no less.
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Albert Camus from The Stranger
He wasn't even sure he was alive because he was living like a dead man.
Trust me: it's only as matter of time.
I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another.
Ah, dasein!
Whereas, once again, the machine destroyed everything: you were killed discreetly, with a little shame and with great precision.
Ah, capitalism!
Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
Though considerably less obvious for some of us.
In the long run one gets used to anything.
Actually, I wouldn't go that far myself.
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
So much for God...
He wasn't even sure he was alive because he was living like a dead man.
Trust me: it's only as matter of time.
I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another.
Ah, dasein!
Whereas, once again, the machine destroyed everything: you were killed discreetly, with a little shame and with great precision.
Ah, capitalism!
Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
Though considerably less obvious for some of us.
In the long run one gets used to anything.
Actually, I wouldn't go that far myself.
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
So much for God...
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The Onion
Study: Average Person’s Life Plan Can Only Withstand 25 Seconds Of Direct Questioning
Though some have actually reached the minute mark. Or so they told me.
Report: God Directly Communicating With You Through This Headline
Fill us in then.
Lettuce Sentenced To Slow, Painful Death In Vegetable Crisper Drawer
Vegetable crisper drawer? Is that a real thing?
Botched Autopsy Brings Murder Victim Back To Life
Or is "botched" the wrong word?
Explosive Prince Harry Memoir Reveals William Used Too Much Tongue When They Kissed
True story? Wouldn't surprise me at all.
McCarthy Elected Speaker After Far-Right GOP Minority Joins Rest Of Far-Right GOP Majority
It's all in Hunter Biden's laptop.
Study: Average Person’s Life Plan Can Only Withstand 25 Seconds Of Direct Questioning
Though some have actually reached the minute mark. Or so they told me.
Report: God Directly Communicating With You Through This Headline
Fill us in then.
Lettuce Sentenced To Slow, Painful Death In Vegetable Crisper Drawer
Vegetable crisper drawer? Is that a real thing?
Botched Autopsy Brings Murder Victim Back To Life
Or is "botched" the wrong word?
Explosive Prince Harry Memoir Reveals William Used Too Much Tongue When They Kissed
True story? Wouldn't surprise me at all.
McCarthy Elected Speaker After Far-Right GOP Minority Joins Rest Of Far-Right GOP Majority
It's all in Hunter Biden's laptop.