"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes."
posted by Eben at 11:59 PM
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True human fear is the knowledge that reality is subjective--that it is impossible to distinguish our perceptions from what we perceive.
posted by Eben at 1:52 AM
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What if the ebb and flow of mood is arbitrary? What if depression and motivation are governed by invisible chemical reactions we can't control except by pill--badly?
posted by Eben at 10:01 AM
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"Name me another country that has gone from barbarism to decadance without creating a civilization in between."
posted by Eben at 9:55 AM
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three steps to the street from your tight apartment is a shock of open blue:
posted by Eben at 9:42 AM
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Humanity as a whole lacks the capacity to perceive the reality in which it lives. It has just enough self-awareness and perception to terrify itself with its own lack of knowledge, and so it distracts itself with science, religeon and pleasure. It is by nature self-destructive, like a badly-constructed machine that shakes itself apart, given enough time. It tries to make up its own rules, build its own version of reality in orbit around itself because it can't accept that it is not the centre of the universe--when in fact it is the only part that doesn't fit.
posted by Eben at 9:33 AM
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