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Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking

Started by ER, September 30, 2021, 01:18:27 PM

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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".
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

RCMerchant

Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

ER

No, I don't think it's a coincidence, I think the Ayurvedic herb ashwagandha makes many women more amorous.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

RCMerchant

Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Rev. Powell

Did you decide to have free will? I mean, if given the choice I don't know that I'd take it.
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

ER

What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Alex

Quote from: ER on October 02, 2021, 10:20:04 AM
Will entropy have an entropy?

Yes. It stops when everything has decayed to the lowest possible state.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.

Allhallowsday

Quote from: Alex on October 02, 2021, 11:46:02 AM
... 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.
If you want to view paradise . . . simply look around and view it!

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.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Trevor

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

ER

Somewhere in the world there are immortal rabbits. We just don't notice.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

claws

Quote from: Trevor on October 03, 2021, 03:35:47 PM
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  :bouncegiggle:

Is it October yet?

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.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

ER

What does not kill me makes me stranger.