Your Quote of the Day

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift

“I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.

"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ”
― William S. Burroughs

“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.” Not true for many of us seniors whose memory is so bad, there's nothing to escape from.

Lily Rothman
October 4, 2018

"It was also possible for those [Americans] who had participated in Nazi-sympathetic groups to later cloak their beliefs in the Cold War’s anti-communist push — a dynamic that had in fact driven some of them to fascism in the first place, as it seemed “tougher on communism than democracy is,” as Hart puts it. (One survey he cites found that in 1938, more Americans thought that communism was worse than fascism than vice versa.) Such people could truthfully insist that they’d always been anti-communist without revealing that they’d been fascists, and their fellow Americans were still so worried about communism that they might not press the matter."

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

"The older you get, the harder it is to find someone willing to share a horse costume with you."
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I would presume a donkey would be more difficult.

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

― Socrates

To get somebody to be the hindquarters, a near possibility.

Usually discarded verse of This Land is Your Land:

‪’In the squares of the city, ‬
‪In the shadow of a steeple;‬
‪By the relief office,‬
‪I'd seen my people.‬
‪As they stood there hungry, ‬I stood there asking,‬
‪Is this land made for you and me?‬’”
Woody Guthrie

“Don't wish me happiness
I don't expect to be happy all the time...
It's gotton beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

Relying on observations is different then understanding the process causing what you observe and what occurs next. Not knowing the process means there is no way of ruling out in any way any process for the cause, meaning the configuration of the process. Therefore anything has an equal chance of occurring at any time because there is no way to rule out the any way the process could cause any any possible event to occur. Any possible event means an infinite amount of events; everything needs an opposite of itself to be able to exist, causing opposites to exist in an infinite amount of ways. One opposite is the opposite of something else taking up space, which has an opposite type of space, which together is the opposite of an opposite which together is the opposite of an opposite and so one. For every opposite there is another opposite which always form another opposite which always have an opposite. Opposites need to exist because what causes the opposite to be able to exist is caused to cause something to be able to exist in that way. Because the cause was caused to cause x to exist in x way the cause of the cause needed to know how not to cause that cause. To know that the cause needed to know how to not do x which can only be know by observing how not to do x.

also nothing can be created from nothing because there is nothing there to create, therefor everything existed forever and for one oppossite to exist every oppossite needs to always exist for that cause to know how to constantly keep x the way it is.

Oddly, I don't find that post particularly controversial. For every action there is an equal and opposed reaction.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
-- Douglas Adams

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

A twofer today:

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf