The History of The World Backwards
Cheesy Brit humour, however the concepts are thought provoking.
I Love Death (from Future Shorts)
WHY DO WE ALLOW OUR GOVERNMENT TO DO THIS TO THE LAKES, THE LAND, THE WILDLIFE, TO OUR LIVES!!
WRITE! PROTEST! STOP! THE ABSURDITY NOW!
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Kurt Vonnegut
Derrick Jensen - endgame - premise eight
Human beings will be happier
Not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again.
That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors.
But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks.
We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.
Richard Dawkins
Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism.
Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories.
Human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon – which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.
Douglas Hofstadter
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These articulate writers express my thoughts more eloquently than I ever could.
P. F. Crimer envisioned:
...knowledge, discernment, self-respect, the Golden Rule, fighting off your fears, & loyalty to those you love... are some of the things i meant (in "arming" to save oneself). Learn to see the shit BEFORE it actually HITS the fan. Trust your instincts, not what you're TOLD you should think or feel.
I think everyone should ONLY be allowed to use black-powder muskets... there's time for a hoot between shots, then you just don't FEEL like killing anymore. Imagine how many victims would still be standing if a person had to stop, and THINK for just 2 stinking minutes! Or fight with fireworks instead... that'd be sweet.(topic on gun control)NOW WHO IS THE BRILLIANT ONE!
THERE IS A DEVIL,THERE IS NO DOUBT. BUT IS HE TRYING TO GET IN US OR TRYING TO GET OUT
Paracelsus proclaimed:
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art.
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Penn & Teller conjured:
Sure, we lie, cheat, and swindle. We've been known to deal in a bit of bullshit ourselves. So some of you may ask, "Why pee on someone else's parade?" One important difference: WE TELL YOU WE'RE LYING!
On one side there are people with relationships, and miserable. On the other side there are people out of relationships, and miserable. What's the deal? Don't they know that love is a roller coaster? You sit, you hold hands, you scream, then you get off and ride again!
Anyone can talk to the dead; getting an answer -- that’s the hard part.
One of the weird things Houdini discovered is that some of these mediums actually slip into believing their own bullshit. They forget their own misses, or as John Edward, THE BIGGEST DOUCHE IN THE UNIVERSE, does, rewrite them as hits that we're just not able to recognize. Cold reading can be done accidently. That doesn't mean the psychic is a better person. Lying to themselves does not make lying to others ok. It can make intellectually lazy scumbags more convincing and dangerous.
Ayn Rand wrote:
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Plato found:
There is only one good, namely knowledge, and only one evil, namely ignorance.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Kurt Vonnegut believed:
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Mark Twain stated:
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
One cannot be comfortable without one's own approval.
One who carries a cat by the tail learns something one can learn in no other way.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Anne Frank noted:
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Tom Robbins says it best:
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules.
Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Maya Angelo wrote:
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.
I believe that every person is born with talent.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ''I'm with you kid. Let's go.''
Bertrand Russell understood:
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Carl Sagan realized:
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Laurie Anderson mused:
You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
Language is a virus
The fewer expectations you have, the better.
Albert Eistein added:
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Steven Stills advised
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one your with.
Janis Joplin belted
You got to get it while you can.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
I'm one of those regular weird people.
Man, you and any housewife have all sorts of pain and joy. You'd have soul if you'd give in to it.
I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time,
Douglas Hofstadter with his wife, Carol demonstrating what real love is kids! I love this pic!
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Third Uncle - Brian Eno Tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq-Il8AO7NA
Classic energy music, "Third Uncle" has been referred to as an early predecessor to punk and metal. What better tune to honour such an innovator and those that he influenced.