Scone
| ID: | 150 |
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| Name: | Scone |
| Sex: | Male |
| Posts: | 241 (find them) |
| Registered: | 2007-10-26 08:31:14 |
"Communication is not just words. Communication is architecture. Because of course, it is quite obvious that a house which would be built without the sense, without that desire for communication, would not look the way your house looks today." ~ TZD
"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. " ~ Josephine Hart
"Sitting at The Breakfast Club, gesturing to Gabriel over the summit of my 'Hobo Scramble,' I presented a powerful pro-waffle position. Its core assertion was that we should have hot waffles, smothered in chocolate ice cream, available for free at our Sakuracon booth. He's been trying to talk me out of it for a week now, because he has no vision, and I do: I see waffles leaping out of toasters and into smiling mouths. I don't see what the fucking problem is. I tried to break down the essential position for him. "You're arguing for a universe with fewer waffles in it," I said. "I'm prepared to call that cowardice." In a last ditch attempt to dissuade me from my righteous course, Gabriel tried to suggest that we would get in trouble for toasting up such unauthorized treats. Of course, the whole endeavor was designed to provoke just such an encounter: to create a situation where someone would approach us and demand that we 'stop making waffles.'" ~ Jerry Holkins
Quotes others can identify with; those whose state of minds I love dearly:
"It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain, and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty." ~ Charles S. Peirce
"In ordinary perception the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world." ~ Aldous Huxley
"What we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in casualty- the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only be opening the doors of perception and experiencing it" ~ Tom Wolfe
"It was as if the sensory overload that is the American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated."
~ J. Maarten Troost
"Why is there evil? For the joy of good arising from it. Why darkness? That light may shine the more. Why suffering? For the instruction of the soul and the joy of sacrifice..." - The Upanishads
"...And don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinema verite, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt." ~ Zadie Smith, White Teeth
"May the bridges I burn light the way" ~ Anon
"It is well we can not hear the screams
we make in other people's dreams." ~ Edward Gorey
"Just throw caution to the wind my friend
And then sit back and watch your life begin, cause
Scars heal... glory fades
And all were left with are the memories made
Yeah pain hurts, but only for a minute
Yeah, life's short so go on and live it
Cause the chicks dig it" ~ Chris Cagle
Viewpoints that frighten me:
"Some have suggested that technology can save us...
Some have suggested that technology /alone/ can save us..." ~ Anon