Life, The Universe, And Everything In Between

Porcupine Tree make excellent music (Muzak? \m/) Light treats living and non-living things impartially, in terms of creating shadows. I wish FMS wins not only the match, but the cup. J I will do everything I can to fulfill my wish. When I’m riding around on the Metro, I see so many heavily under-utilized buildings…AzSol will turn these decrepits into small, long-lasting, efficient, clean, self-sustained energy generation units. I agree with Robert Downey Jr’s character in Short Cuts – you gotta pick your moments. In today’s fast-paced easily customized life, I can endeavor to keep the probability of being in places I’m good at being at. Also, the broad shape of the future can be achieved through planned actions. It’s 8 a.m., and the down-draft in the Metro is stinkingly stifling… I have always been the source of profundity and truisms. A driver out for a joyride in his employer’s vehicle, for another short one. Do muslims wear rings?...

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Man, is this Schopenhauer verbose! It is a trait shared by European philosophers, I think, except for the likes of Wittgenstein, of which there are few. How tedious all this must be in the original language, or is it that much better? How much longer (if at all), and more importantly why, should we "use" other philosophers' work? I, taking full advantage of the technological means at my disposal, hereby declare my philosophy a new breed. 6-hourism. :) Quote Schopenhauer, On Thinking For Yourself  10[ sic , I guess I meant the paragraph number - this was before I started dog-earing the poor book], as an example of his vanity, as well as being the reason to put the book down whenever I want, as my will. Prize essay on moral freedom in 1841? Was he really this vain? Anyway, who'm I to judge? Sch was before "This Is Not A Pipe" by Magritte and modern art - for On Aesthetics . Four paras into On Books And Writing  and already I'm in almost c...

These are from Essays and Aphorisms , Penguin Classics, 2004 edition. The translation from German was done by R J Hollingdale, referred to as "the definitive translation" on the back. I'll start each quote with the page number it is from, and discriminate my thoughts within [ ] : 42: Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time , which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. it ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom. [So boredom is one of the things Sch despises. I did not read this collection from start to end; instead I read as I wished. I have read the entire book except the introductory text, as I feel it imposes a frame of reference, or a set of expectations, before even getting to the (original) author's views.] 43: Thus for a race such as this [us, human] no stage, no form of existence is suitable other than the one it already possesses. [I dis...