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A Quote Thread....

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light... could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." -CHARLES DARWIN
 
"The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people.

Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative.

If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything."

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
 
>>>> >>"That the human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom; and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless>>, for boredom is nothing other that the sensation of the emptiness of existence." >>>>

soapyhauser is quite wrong. when we refill our needs like hunger and thirst, we could get bored (or satiated, but of course bored immediately after), but we usually do... wat's the phrase... "do shit!"

we build civilizations and have fun. it's not all boredom

boredom might not even have evolved if it hadn't been for a molecular fluke. boredom is an emotion, and as such, it is local to the human (or any) brain. it's a feeling.

the feeling of boredom may be strong and make everything seem meaninless, but the feeling of spirituality can be strong and make everything seem amazing

boredom is an artifact of the BRAIN, it has no say about whether the universe has meaning. we could, with sufficient tech, make a brain/computer that is bored all the time because he's too intelligent (you know which robot i'm talking about...HGGalaxy) and you could make a robot that is in ecstasy his whole life (assuming we are able to figure out what makes "qualia" "consciousness" etc tick
 
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L O V E L I F E said:
"The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people.

Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative.

If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything."

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
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Fucking GREAT quote!

"What you should say matters less than what you do say, and why you say it matters most of all." ~ John Wyndham.
 
Taken from another thread, Credit goes to justsayn2o

"One periodically hears some lecturer holding forth on the subject of psychedelic drugs, and you may hear him give voice to that old rubric that LSD is an odorless, colorless, and tasteless drug. Don't believe it. Odorless yes, and colorless when completely pure, yes, but tasteless, no. It is slightly bitter."
(page 21, PIHKAL)
 
When we are awake we also do what we do in our dreams: we invent and make up the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget it.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process ho does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Sensuality often hastens the growth of love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

A criminal is frequently not equal to his deed: he makes it smaller and slanders it.

all from Nietzche-my first post on bl
 
^Nice first post :)

"You know how it is when you come out of ether or nitrous oxide...you come back to somewhere, a familiar somewhere; but the place from which you have come is nowhere- and yet you have been there". - Aleister Crowley.
 
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.” - Mark Twain
 
walk a lonely road with me
i will walk with you

half as lonely we will be
when we walk as two

--

if the road goes straight up hill
we'll admire the view

walk a lonely road with me
i will walk with you

--

there's more, since it's from a song. the magnetic fields - walk a lonely road
 
Consistency is the last refuge of
the unimaginative.
-Oscar Wilde
 
"Hunter Patch Adams: Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."
Bill Davis: To check out.
Hunter Patch Adams: To shuffle off this mortal coil.
Bill Davis: To head for the happy hunting ground.
Hunter Patch Adams: To blink for an exceptionally long period of time.
Bill Davis: To find oneself without breath.
Hunter Patch Adams: To be the incredible decaying man.
Bill Davis: Worm buffet.
Hunter Patch Adams: Kick the bucket.
Bill Davis: Buy the farm.
Hunter Patch Adams: Take the cab.
Bill Davis: Cash in your chips."
 
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