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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth’ – Henry David Thoereau What does truth mean to you? Is it some kind of universal truth based on science or mathematics? Or is it honesty? And sincerity? To others, and maybe most importantly, to yourself? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cxqtlEUYhk
I will repost this several times a day, for as long as that continues to be the case! You should post it the same amount too! Okay, bye for now friends! Sidenote: I actually am reading Anna Karenina at the moment too. I that doesn’t call for a hot dog, I don’t know what does.
If someone had a knife to your throat, and you were certain they were going to go slashy-slashy … what’s the one thing you’d wish for? A good job? To be happy? To be rich? Or just to live?… To live a bit longer? Well, luckily that’s (probably) not happening to you… so, when times are tough, you at least have…
Planet Earth has officially run out of any public space bigger than 2m x 2m where you can actually walk. But luckily, this device, which scientists are at the moment referring to as a ‘treadmill’, will solve that problem. Despite planet Earth no longer having a single outdoor area where you can take even two steps forwards or backwards, free…
If freedom is important to you, it may be far better to be single (with its uncertainties and anxieties) than to be in a relationship where you wish you were single. It may be better to be alone than to want to be alone. If you’re alone (which is not necessarily ‘lonely’ as Daniel Johns can tell you about), it may…
Has music ever made you cry? When was it last time? Was it because you were thinking back, forward or just because of where you were at that moment? I don’t know why it made this girl cry, but it shows how absurd but how beautiful and powerful music is… (check it out, at 4:19)
Though it sounds as creepy, scary and ominous as FUCK, O fortuna is actually a battle song that intended as a song about fortune (and for victory). And it’s lyrics are a brilliant snapshot of what fortune does, and how she treats us, and how powerless we are to her whims: (translated from Latin): O Fortune, like the moon you…
This is part 4 in a series on the absurd but brilliant philosophy of Rosencrantz and Guildernstern in Rosencrantz & Guildernstern are Dead. Here’s the rest, and why those guys are diamonds. We know nothing about death. And cannot. But oh, but actually, there is one thing we know about it – it’s inevitable. Which can either be incredibly depressing…
Get a coin. Flip it. What was it? Head or tails? Okay, now do it again. And again. Now, those previous flips have an effect don’t they. They affect what you expect will happen, based on probability, but have absolutely zero effect on what actually happens. Because: #1: Probability’s a factor which operates within natural forces. Rule #2: Probability is not…
This is part 2 of the absurdist but brilliant philosophy of Rosencrantz and Guildernstern… here’s part 1. All the medical progress that’s been made over the years is good, right? And all the scientific and engineering progress too, right? And the fact that your parents had you is also good, right? Well, of course it’s good, but you have no…