Filius Ultimus Deorum
I am uniquely happy tonight. I have the house to myself and I am indulging in my boredome; I have the entire infinity of nothingness with which to amuse myself, or at least to entertain the puerile creature to whom I serve; the body that commands my conscience; my beloved enemy of an organism. I am sick of my past, and only in solitude can I abandon it, today is the only future I can trust, but I must love it while I can, I shall return soon; back into the blissful peaceful life that was, above all, disgustingly facilitating to my every need. I am a stranger to sadness, I have yet to feel true pain. I couldn't begin to explain how I dread the future and adore the present.
Man can gain little in time; and even his time is little; although my experience has perhaps tuaght me to judge in a very practical sense, my perception of existence is the same as it has always been and always will be. Nothing has changed in the universe since my conception. The ants have crawled from one hill to the other, and the nebuli have scurried across their galactic playground; these are miniscule details in my infinite reality. I can watch through glass the mighty universe toying with its psuedo-omnipotent mystery; here me now, should my voice be any more than the mere vibration of my surrounding particals, and my words herein more than light projected from a screen, you are not as grand as they think you are. You are nothing.
May the spirit of my ideas be laden into the inner recess of redemption, may this be the path to freedom: The great answer, for which we toil, has been long found and understood. I swear to you, I swear even by God himself, beyond the blatant and ancient truths, which are above all else common sense, there is nothing more to existence.
Posted on 09 May 2008 by maxwell
hehe
Quotes from hgtg and it is a reminder of the books eternal awesomeness:
Ford stood up. "We're safe," he said.
"Oh good," said Arthur.
"We're in a small galley cabin," said Ford, "in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet."
"Ah," said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of."
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
"Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that You exist, and so therefore, by Your own arguments, You don't.
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another [theory] which states that this has already happened.
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
"When you’ve been in marketing as long as I have, you know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them."
Posted on 04 May 2008 by maxwell
oh please
Once there was a kingdom of only creatures and beasts, beasts who acted and carried forth even in a human manner. Nonetheless, at the top of their class was a mighty queen. And it came to pass that the queen was of ancient indifference, neither affording the over sympathetic routine of modern policy nor ignoring the ruthlessness of her aristocratic ancestry.
So one day a poor creature roamed the streets en route to his house, having just finished work. He was a baker, and a poor one. And upon the earth he came across a precious jewel. Now this creature was a righteous one, and would never keep it for himself, and so he waited until the next morning to consider his options, he was too tired for thinking then.
The next day he awoke to the clatter of chariots and carriages, and did hear it proclaimed into the streets and town by the Queen herself, "my people, I have lost a great gem. Now he who keeps this gem, and does not return it within thirty days shall get nothing. But for him who turns it in within these thirty days, I offer great riches." The creature knew that the queen was referring to his gem, but you see he was a clever beast, and he had a greater plan.
So he waited an entire thirty days, and after the last day, he came into the royal palace. He came to the queen and said to her, "your highness, I have your gem."
She said back to him, "Peasant, if you had given this to me earlier, you would have been rewarded, now you will receive nothing in recompense"
And to this the peasant replied, "Queen, I am a righteous man, and if I had returned it at first I would be doing it only for the reward. Instead I have waited so long that this act would be only in the spirit of justice and nothing else.
Posted on 02 May 2008 by maxwell
Hakenkreuz
Some things have come to my attention lately:
1. There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see.
2. There ought to be a place in the world for the self-aware idiot. To me it's much more dangerous to be a complete moron and not realize it than to fully accept your own medicrity and use the knowledge of it to your advantage. I'd rather someone know and admit their limitations and work within them than be some cocky arrogant kid who overestimates himself and fucks things up royally. For reference, please see: "The National Socialist Party". This ties into another realization of mine:
3. The truly intelligent are always kind; it's the people who want you to believe that they are intelligent but who aren't who have shitty attitudes and who act haughty. Truly intelligent people don't lecture. They listen, and worst of all they're so damned pleasant and nice that you feel like a tyrant in comparison. Lecturers by nature are stupid people looking to avert others away from the fact that they aren't worth listening to. I suppose that in and of itself is a clever trick, though. And by lecturer I don't mean college professor. In fact, all of the college professors I've met have luckily fallen into the "intelligent" category rather than the "lecturer" category. But you can tell a graduate student a mile away from the way they lecture -- their own insecurity and bossiness gives them away. It's why they always make crummy teachers.
So in conclusion, I've decided that for the good of my own ego and for the good of others that shutting up is a good thing, and something that everyone should do more of in this day and age. Personally, not only will it serve my own belief that the intelligent don't lecture and therefore I must be intelligent for being quiet, but also it averts any potential disaster that could result from the reality of my being not-so-bright and from not knowing my own limitations as a result of arrogance. It's a doubly-brilliant scheme: ego-stroking and disaster prevention all at the same time.
Damn, I wish I had thought of this sooner.
On another note, Schindler's List is such a mind fuck. I'm depressed that I didn't read it sooner. I mean, I knew it was going to be a favorite even before I read it because it has a reputation for being a sick book like Lolita or whatever, but because it was too popular and all I felt it beneath me to actually read it. Well, that was a stupid mistake. Now I'm mind-raped and happy. Perhaps in another couple of days when the depravity of it wears off I'll start on Pnin. Stupid Nabokov having published more stuff than I can keep track of. Later, kiddos.
Posted on 01 May 2008 by Elly
hum
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Posted on 30 Apr 2008 by maxwell
