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born 202 years ago today
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
was reading a new yorker piece on K and this one is a gem: "“There are two possible situations—one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it—you will regret both.”
― ryan, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
“There are two possible situations—one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it—you will regret both.”
<3
― drash, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 23:59 (nine years ago) link
you will regret either, really.
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
well I guess you regret both the doing and the not doing.
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 00:03 (nine years ago) link
so i was wrong
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 00:04 (nine years ago) link
you would have regretted not making that post
― drash, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
at least that regret would have been contained to my own self ;_;
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
now everyone regrets it. forgot to mention that part, Søren.
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
:)
― drash, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
(you forget that misery loves company)
― drash, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
into both those quotes
― markers, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
"let's drink til our hearts stop" - space ghost
― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
Kinda comforting, to me anyway. I hate decisions a lot, it's nice to know they don't matter.
― jmm, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFDtjGfW8AIIgnU.png
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 May 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
OTM
― ☂ (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 May 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
just some chill buddhism
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Friday, 15 May 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
If a bear ever charges me and pins me down, I swear I'll look him in the eye and say, "you're right to do this, we're a vile species" before he starts eating my face.
― #HipsterTroll has been blocked. #BringItOn (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, May 17, 2015 12:15 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
coming soon, eugene thacker tries to contribute to the canon: http://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Pessimism-Univocal-Eugene-Thacker/dp/193756147X/
― ryan, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
http://defamer.gawker.com/a-kendall-kylie-interview-so-good-i-literally-want-to-1708536577
Kendall had an epiphany about social media on a recent family holiday to Thailand. “We had a two-hour drive from the airport to where we were staying, and I’d left my phone in my bag, so I didn’t touch it the whole way. I looked out the window at everything, and I saw people who live in huts and have dogs that were, like, withering away. And all their food, meat, was hanging in front of their house. It was very sad.
iirc schopenhauer had much the same experience on his grand tour
― j., Wednesday, 3 June 2015 01:44 (eight years ago) link
Someone needs to turn these into FB macros
― Darin, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 02:47 (eight years ago) link
Not to be born is bestwhen all is reckoned in, but once a man has seen the lightthe next best thing, by far, is to go backback where he came from, quickly as he can. For once his youth slips by, light on the winglightheaded… what mortal blows can he escapewhat griefs won’t stalk his days?Envy and enemies, rage and battles, bloodshedand last of all despised old age overtakes him,stripped of power, companions, stripped of love— the worst this life of pain can offer,old age our mate at last.
― drash, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 07:49 (eight years ago) link
myth of silenus?
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
expressed by chorus in oedipus @ colonusechoing, yes, the wisdom of silenus
― drash, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11351316_882616678478374_2959348984621827832_n.jpg?oh=6571456239eb5f3735bc5b7102246f3e&oe=55F84A24
― Darin, Thursday, 4 June 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
let's make the best of the situation before i finally go insane
- eric clapton
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2015 00:10 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/re0GCuv.png
― 龜, Friday, 19 June 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
http://40.media.tumblr.com/04216a3895b907eacb0d84c90e99e345/tumblr_nqhba4aomV1rodhzko1_1280.jpg
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
perfect w/ cheerful av photo
― j., Tuesday, 14 July 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
"The human phenomenon is but the sum of densely coiled layers of illusion, each of which winds itself upon the supreme insanity that there are persons of any kind, when all that can be is mindless mirrors laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream."-- Thomas Ligotti, or at least TL's words delivered by David Tibet. https://youtu.be/lxZpEFJhO6k
I'm most displeased that the homemade video for this that I once saw on vimeo is no longer there. It was a miracle.
― Devilock, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/10/us/universe-dying/index.html?sr=cnnifb
The conclusion of a new astronomical study pulls no punches on this. "The Universe is slowly dying," it reads.Astronomers have believed as much for years, but the new findings establish the cosmos' decline with unprecedented precision.
Astronomers have believed as much for years, but the new findings establish the cosmos' decline with unprecedented precision.
― j., Tuesday, 11 August 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
I liked this quote from the Charting the Slow Death of the Universe
"The Universe will decline from here on in, sliding gently into old age. The Universe has basically sat down on the sofa, pulled up a blanket and is about to nod off for an eternal doze,” concludes Simon Driver.
― Planned adolescence (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Since we're quoting news reports today:
On average, the effect of a new baby on a person's life is devastatingly bad — worse than divorce, worse than unemployment and worse even than the death of a partner.
― Planned adolescence (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
lol that's great
― j., Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
but is it worse than marriage?
― ryan, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
Sloterdijk, "Rules for the Human Zoo"
Two thousand years after Plato wrote it seems as if not only gods but the wise have abandoned us, and left us alone with our partial knowledge and our ignorance. What is left to us in the place of the wise is their writings, in their glinting brilliance and their increasing obscurity. They still lay in more or less accessible editions; they can still be read, if only one knew why one should bother. It is their fate--to stand in silent bookshelves, like posted letters no longer collected, sent to us by authors, of whom we no longer know whether or not they could be our friends.
― ryan, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
allows the possibility of authors being friends; too optimistic
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 August 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. - Mignon McLaughlin
― mayhaps, Friday, May 11, 2007 9:17 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nice one--missed it the first time I read this thread.
Have been inspired to put half a dozen of these quotes into an email entitled 'Friday Funnies' and send it round the office.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 14 August 2015 05:33 (eight years ago) link
Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity
The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe’s unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
― cryptic 'failure of bread' (Sanpaku), Friday, 21 August 2015 05:03 (eight years ago) link
Thomas Bernhard: “The state is a construct eternally on the verge of foundering, the people one that is endlessly condemned to infamy and feeblemindedness, life a state of hopelessness in every philosophy and which will end in universal madness.”
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Sunday, 23 August 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
The Jacques Monod quote doesn't seem that pessimistic to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 August 2015 10:17 (eight years ago) link
Monod (a biochemist by trade) also believed that evolution of complex, intelligent life was so unlikely that we're likely the only ones. So our solitude is absolute.
― cryptic 'failure of bread' (Sanpaku), Sunday, 23 August 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
http://nihilisa-frank.tumblr.com
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 September 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
Claude Levi-Strauss:
To establish a correlation between the emergence of writing and certain characteristic features of civilization, we must look in a quite different direction. The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. Such, at any rate, is the typical patter of development to be observed from Egypt to China, at the time when writing first emerged: it seems to have favoured the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment ... My hypothesis, if correct, would oblige us to recognize the fact that the primary function of written communication is to facilitate slavery. The use of writing for disinterested purposes, and as a source of intellectual and aesthetic pleasure, is a secondary result, and more often than not it may even be turned into a means of strengthening, justifying or concealing the other.
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Friday, 4 September 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
love that tumblr
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Friday, 4 September 2015 04:17 (eight years ago) link
here's one from an anguished cosmologist
The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never been a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible, so is chemistry as we know it. However, one could always draw stoic comfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the new vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been eliminated.
― the late great, Friday, 4 September 2015 04:33 (eight years ago) link
http://www.sns.ias.edu/pitp2/2011files/PhysRevD.21.3305.pdf
― the late great, Friday, 4 September 2015 04:34 (eight years ago) link
http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/0DDCEADD-CC33-4C29-B97D-5AC5E0AFB694_zpsjz2zhamg.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 7 September 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
^^ so into this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 06:10 (eight years ago) link
is it really worth starting a new thread? all these sites die eventually
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 20 September 2015 00:05 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 20 September 2015 00:46 (eight years ago) link