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Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you’re going, or why. It tells you it doesn’t matter. It persuades you. It dangles something sparkly before you, shimmering like that water patch on the road up ahead. You will drive until you find it, the treasure, the thing you most desire.
You will never find it. Madness may mock you so long you will die of the search. Or it will tire of you, turn its back, oblivious as you go flying. The car is beside you, smoking, belly-up, still spinning its wheels.
"Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher (via babyimjustkitten)
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"Quiet people have the loudest minds."
Stephen Hawking (via theworldthatmadeushatesus)
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"All speech, action, and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two."
Louis de Bernieres
We’re all just human behind the smoke, the fire, the bitterness, the angst, the struggle, the tyranny; we’re all just humans.
Everybody is fighting, or has fought a war, has fought from pain, through pain, from happiness, to happiness - from fear. As a means to an end, we have all fought a war to some respect, to some relative degree.
Therefore I could never consider it justifiable or fair to juxtaposition the significance of one being’s pain to another being’s pleasure - the continuity of our suffering to anybody else’s, no matter how great, cannot be judged by personal past experience.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” - Plato
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Humans
“Humans are pretty stupid; humans won’t survive. Humans ain’t gonna survive; not the way they’re going. They’re going to destroy every fucking thing. If you sat down and you started thinking “people,” it would take you ten weeks to think up two-hundred million people. Do you know how many people that is? Now you run out of food with two-hundred million people, you run out of oil with two-hundred million people, you run out of thought with two-hundred million people; that’s a lot of meat to deal with.” — Charles Manson, 1988
Interesting thought
The Earth/Solar system are about 3-4.5 billion years old, while the universe is about 13.7 billion years old. What if there already has been an advanced (lol, really primitive, but relatively advanced to us) civilization much like ours, in a solar system that developed around 10 billion years ago, but went extinct long ago? That would mean, 5-10 billion years ago there could have been a curious young adult blogging on Tumblr in the middle of the night…..long before his species/planet/solar system died out, and even longer before another curious young adult from another species on another planet in another solar system ended up blogging on Tumblr in the middle of the night. This would also mean that if we were to die out, in another 5 billion years, another solar system could develop, and life could evolve on one of its planets, and a curious young adult far far into the future could be blogging on Tumblr……wondering if perhaps, 5 billion years ago, there could have been some one/”thing” doing the exact same thing as him……in a civilization maybe named the “United States” on a planet called Earth that was extinguished by its sun long long ago….
Does God exist? If he does, He/She/It cannot be both omnipotent and omnibenevolent. If He’s omnibenevolent then why does he allow evil to happen? Thus if He is omnibenevolent, He cannot be omnipotent. If he is omnipotent, then he cannot be omnibenevolent because again, he allows evil to happen. They are mutually exclusive, just one more flaw with traditional Christian ideology.
Imagine you are on a game show, and there are three doors in front of you….
Behind two of the doors are goats, and behind one is a Ferrari (which you want).
So you pick a door, and the game show host opens one of the remaining doors to reveal a goat, and asks, “Would you like to change your pick to the other remainig door?
Should you change you pick in order to increase your chances of getting the Ferrari?
-Stephen
