Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking

[ER]

I have learned to reconcile my own free will with the concept that ultimately my life will reach a point toward which I was partially led by the decisions and consequences of that free will acting in concert with the intrusion of factors over which I will have had no control. I think of that concept as cinneadhadh (kin-na-aw) after the Irish words for "decision" and "luck".

[RCMerchant]

^ Sounds like the overthinking...

[ER]

No, I don't think it's a coincidence, I think the Ayurvedic herb ashwagandha makes many women more amorous.

[RCMerchant]

 

[Rev. Powell]

Did you decide to have free will? I mean, if given the choice I don't know that I'd take it.

[ER]

Will entropy have an entropy?

[Alex]

Will entropy have an entropy?

Yes. It stops when everything has decayed to the lowest possible state.

[Allhallowsday]

... everything has decayed to the lowest possible state.

Now here I must comment.  This would describe my brother who has been diagnosed with Korsakoff Syndrome.  He has been hospitalized for a month.

[ER]

In fourth grade I read Charlotte's Web and no book in my life has ever made me cry harder, though the near-agape demonstrated by the old priest in The Exorcist also got me good as a teenager.

I count that reaction as my first real exposure to the propensity toward entertaining sadness that often lies in Celtic genes.

I went to school and confided my sorrow to my teacher, and she said to me, "Do you not understand, child, that death is part of life?"

"Yes, Sister."

"Well, that's why we need to be prepared for death at any moment. When was your last confession?"

"Uh..."

"Then maybe you'd better stay in at recess and go to special confession."

Never tell a nun that death makes you sad.

[Trevor]

I think I need to buy some new shoes.

[ER]

Somewhere in the world there are immortal rabbits. We just don't notice.

[claws]

I think I need to buy some new shoes.

I bought a pair of red sneakers last week, for $25. My nephew bought a pair online for $350. I would never pay that much for a pair of sneakers, even if I were a millionaire 

[pacman000]

After ~20  years I finally beat Puzzle Bobble 2.

[ER]

Years ago my grandfather told me he heard the IRA tried to shake Stanley Kubrick down during the filming of Barry Lyndon, but the best it got out of the attempt was some of its supporters being used as extras in a few scenes, and others becoming Ryan O' Neal's drinking buddies after hours, and you know, every time I watch Barry Lyndon I try to see who among the visual back benchers looks like they may be in the IRA. I've narrowed my suspicions down to the squinty guy in the army camp sequence, and the bald man in the brown vest.  Provos, I tell you.

[ER]

Halloween should last all month.