February 2011
5 posts
“In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice, they are not.”
– Lawrence Peter Berra
January 2011
22 posts
“You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on...”
– Carl Sagan (via ageofreason)
Makes me think →
A few of them might be fake, but some are pretty heavy, so it definitely cancels out.
2 tags
Caring for your Introvert →
Age of Reason: A Summary of Seven World Religions →
ageofreason:
Christianity (2.1 billion people): A cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father will torture you forever if you don’t make him your invisible friend and master so he can save your soul from an evil force unleashed on the world when a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to…
“You know, I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to...”
– Mitch Hedberg
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Brain in a vat →
bestofwikipedia:
In philosophy, the brain in a vat is an element used in a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of our ideas of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, and meaning. It is drawn from the idea, common to many science fiction stories, that a mad scientist, machine or other entity might remove a person’s brain from the body, suspend it in a vat of...
“The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery....”
– Atisha (via ageofreason)
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
So speak to me with...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mitch Hedberg
On a stop light green means go, red means stop and yellow means slow down, but on a banana it’s just the opposite. Green means “hold on”, yellow means “go ahead”, and red means “where the f*ck did you get that banana at?”
My life is Nerdy →
Because it just is.
Weltschmerz →
readmorewikipedia:
Weltschmerz (from the German, meaning world-pain or world-weariness) is a term coined by the German author Jean Paul and denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who understands that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind.
The modern meaning of Weltschmerz in the German language is the psychological pain caused by sadness that can occur when...
