July 2011
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“All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some...”
– The Free Mantra of Sri Syadasti Syadavaktavya Syadasti Syannasti Syadasti Cavaktavyasca Syadasti Syannasti Syadavatavyasca Syadasti Syannasti Syadavaktavyasca (for some strange reason, commonly called Sri Syadasti)
“If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is...”
– Kerry Wendell Thornley, in the Introduction to the 5th Edition of Principia Discordia
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“Life is short, even for those who live a long time, and we must live for the few...”
– Ma Double Vie [My Double Life : Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt] (1907)
“A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via existentialistaesthetics)
“Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
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– Aldous Huxley, from Island (via awakeinthedream)
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It...”
– Edith Sitwell, Taken Care Of: The Autobiography of Edith Sitwell (1965)
“There is no Plan, no Reason, no Why. There is just the huge confusing mess you...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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“If you examine an elephant with a microscope, what are the chances you will...”
– Mad Jimbeau poet, painter, postman, & the consort of Evangeline, The Cannibal Queen.
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“From the depths of despair, we glimpse something shiny, and hope ignites again. ...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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An old man with a beard like God, or Santa Claus,...
I’m not here to help you make sense of the world. No. On the contrary, I am here to convince you that there is no sense but nonsense. There is no Plan, no Reason, no Why. There is just the huge confusing mess you find yourself entangled in. And you my young friend, are intimately connected to, and indeed, identical with, that huge confusing mess. You were not born into this world;...
