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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: connectedcosmos]
    #28254840 - 03/30/23 02:51 PM (9 months, 24 days ago)

Thanks for that one, connectedcosmos!

"There is no longer any contradiction in the term 'totalitarian democracy,' every democracy evolves into a totalitarian regime all by itself, because the people do not wish to rule, they wish to be ruled. The people claim democratic rights and freedoms for themselves, but they are too lazy and too stupid to make use of those rights and freedoms. The mass cannot think, and thus finds it easier to serve and obey than to lead and command; the mass invented slavery, not the dictators." - Ward Ruyslinck, Het Reservaat (a Dutch book, my personal translation)




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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: connectedcosmos]
    #28254854 - 03/30/23 03:00 PM (9 months, 24 days ago)

Upon The Sand (from The Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran)

Said one man to another,
"At the high tide of the sea, long ago, I wrote a line upon the sand with the tip of my staff; and people still pause to read it, and they are careful that naught shall erase it."
And the other man said,
"I too wrote a line upon the sand; but it was at low tide, and the waves of the vast sea washed it away. But tell me: what did you write?"
And the first man answered,
"I wrote this: 'I am he who is.' But what did you write?"
And the other man said,
"This I wrote: 'I am but a drop in this great ocean.' "




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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: doolhoofd] * 2
    #28254866 - 03/30/23 03:07 PM (9 months, 24 days ago)

A student in zen consulted his teacher, and said,
"My meditation is horrible! I get distracted, my legs ache, or I'm falling asleep... It's just horrible!"
"It will pass," the teacher replied.
A week later, the student returned, and said,
"My meditation is wonderful! I feel so aware, so peaceful, so alive... It's just wonderful!"
"It will pass," the teacher replied.


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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: doolhoofd]
    #28294564 - 04/25/23 10:19 AM (8 months, 30 days ago)

A grumpy and bitter old man walks into a local First Baptist Church, and says to the secretary, "Hey, I wanna join this damn church."

The secretary replies, "I beg your pardon, sir! I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?"

"Listen up, dammit. I said I wanna join this goddamn church!"

"I'm very sorry, sir, but that kind of profanity is not tolerated here!"

The secretary leaves her desk and goes to the pastor's study to inform him of the situation. The pastor agrees, that she does not have to listen to such foul language. They both return to the desk, and the pastor asks, "Sir, what seems to be the problem here?"

"There is no damn problem!" the man says. "Looky here, I just won two hundred million bucks in the damn lottery, and I wanna join this damn church to get rid of some of this goddamn money!"

"I see," says the pastor. "And is this bitch giving you a hard time?"


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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: doolhoofd] * 1
    #28294750 - 04/25/23 12:41 PM (8 months, 30 days ago)

:awehigh::lol::lolsy:


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54. The true nature of things is to be known personally , through the eyes of clear illumination and not through a sage : what the moon exactly is , is to be known with one's own eyes ; can another make him know it?


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: doolhoofd] * 1
    #28295134 - 04/25/23 06:08 PM (8 months, 29 days ago)

:ducklol:


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #28299107 - 04/28/23 04:29 PM (8 months, 26 days ago)

The Old Man, The Boy And The Donkey - a fable by Aesop

An old man and his son were once going to the market with their donkey. As they were walking, a countryman passed them, and mocked: "You fools, what is a donkey for but to ride upon!"

So the man put the boy on the donkey, and they resumed their course. But very soon they passed another group of men, one of whom sneered: "See that lazy youngster! He lets his father walk while he rides!"

So the man told his boy to get off, and got on himself. But they hadn't gone far before they passed a group of women, one of whom clamored: "Shame on that lazy lout, to let his poor little son trudge along like that!"

Well, now the old man didn't know what to do; but at last, he took his son up before him on the donkey, so they both could ride. By this time, they had entered the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and laugh and point at them. So the old man asked them what they were scoffing at, and they said: "Aren't you ashamed of yourself, for exhausting your meager donkey?"

At that point, the man and the boy both got off, and pondered what to do. They thought, and thought, until at last they decided to cut down a pole, tie the donkey's feet to it, and raise the pole, with the donkey hanging on it, to their shoulders.

Thus, they shambled along, amid the ridicule of all who saw them, until they came to the market bridge, where the donkey, getting one of its legs loose, kicked out, fell into the water, and quickly drowned.

"That'll teach you," said another old man who had followed and observed them: "Please all, and you will please none."


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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #28566877 - 12/03/23 02:54 PM (1 month, 24 days ago)

"This is a culture which sets up specialized institutes so that people’s bodies can come together and touch, and, at the same time, invents pans in which the water does not touch the bottom of the pan, which is made of a substance so homogeneous, so dry and artificial, that not a single drop sticks to it - just like those bodies intertwined in 'feeling' and therapeutic 'love,' which do not touch, not even for a moment.
This is called interfacing or interaction. It has replaced face-to-face contact and action. It is also called communication, because these things really do communicate: the miracle is that the pan bottom communicates its heat to the water without touching it, in a sort of remote boiling process, in the same way one body communicates its fluid, its erotic potential, to another, without that other ever being seduced or even disturbed, by a sort of molecular capillary action. The code of separation has worked so well that they've even managed to separate the water from the pan and to make the pan transmit its heat as a message, or to make one body transmit its desire to the other as a message, as a fluid to be decoded. This is called information, and it has wormed its way into everything, like a phobic, maniacal leitmotiv, which affects sexual relations as well as kitchen implements.
Everywhere the transparency of interfacing ends up in internal refraction. Everything pretentiously termed 'communication' and 'interaction' - walkman, sunglasses, automatic household appliances, hi-tech cars, the perpetual dialogue with the computer - ends up with each monad retreating into the shade of its own formula, into its own self-regulating little corner and artificial immunity."

- Jean Baudrillard, America (original title: Amérique), 1986, pp. 32-33 & pp. 59-60




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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: doolhoofd]
    #28567817 - 12/04/23 05:18 AM (1 month, 24 days ago)

There is no such thing as nothing.


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #28568669 - 12/04/23 06:22 PM (1 month, 23 days ago)

Quote:

BrendanFlock said:
There is no such thing as nothing.




Cool story quote, br0.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161206-we-couldnt-live-without-zero-but-we-once-had-to


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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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Re: Wise Stories: A Thread To Share Them [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #28568857 - 12/04/23 08:07 PM (1 month, 23 days ago)

"Only signs without referents, empty, senseless, absurd and elliptical signs absorb us.
A little boy asks a fairy to grant him his wishes. The fairy agrees - on one condition: that he never think of the color red in the fox's tail. "Is that all?" he replies offhandedly. And off he goes to find happiness. But what happens? He is unable to rid himself of this fox's tail, which he believed he had already forgotten. He sees it everywhere, with its red color, in his thoughts and in his dreams. Despite all his efforts, he cannot make it disappear. He becomes obsessed with this absurd, insignificant, but tenacious image, augmented by all the spite that comes from not having been able to rid himself of it. Not only do the fairy's promises not come true, but he loses his taste for life. Perhaps he dies without ever having gotten clear of it. An absurd story, but absolutely plausible, for it demonstrates the power of the insignificant signifier, the power of a meaningless signifier.
The fairy was mischievous (she wasn't a good fairy). She knew that the mind is irresistibly attracted to a place devoid of meaning. Here the emptiness was seemingly provoked by the insignificance of the color red of a fox's tail (this is why the child was not on his guard). Elsewhere words and gestures are emptied of their meaning by unflagging repetition and scansion. To wear meaning out, to tire it out in order to liberate the pure seduction of the null signifier or empty term: such is the strength of ritual magic and incantation.
But it can just as well be a direct fascination with the void, as in the physical vertigo of a chasm, or the metaphorical vertigo of a door that opens into the void. If you were to see written on a door panel: "This door opens into the void." - wouldn't you still want to open it?
That which looks onto nothing has every reason to be opened. That which does not say anything has every reason to never be forgotten. That which is arbitrary is simultaneously endowed with a total necessity. The predestination of the empty sign, the precession of the void, the vertigo of an obligation devoid of sense, a passion for necessity.
Here lies something of the secret of magic (the fairy was a magician). The power of words, their symbolic efficacy, is greater when uttered in a void. When they have neither context nor referents, they can take on the power of a self-fulfilling (or self-defeating) prophecy. Like the color red of a fox's tail. Unreal and unsubstantial, it proves compelling precisely because of its nullity. If the fairy had forbidden the child from doing something serious or significant, he would have pulled through easily, instead of being seduced against his will. For it is not the prohibition, but its nonsense that seduced him. Thus, against all logic, it is the improbable prophecies that come true; all that is required is that they not make too much sense. Otherwise they would not be prophecies. Such is the bewitchment of magical speech, such is the sorcery of seduction.
This is why neither magic nor seduction concern belief or make-believe, for they employ signs without credibility and gestures without referents; their logic is not one of mediation, but of immediacy, whatever the sign.
Proof is unnecessary. Everybody knows that their spell is carried by the unmediated resonance of the signs. There is no official intermediary time for the sign and its deciphering; it is not a matter of believing, doing, wanting, or knowing. Their attraction is foreign to the forms of discourse, as well as the distinctive logic of the utterance and statement. Their spell belongs to the order of declamation and prophecy, a discourse whose symbolic effectiveness requires neither deciphering nor belief.
The immediate attraction of a song, a voice or a scent. The attraction of the panther's scent: according to the myths of the ancients, the panther is the only animal to emit a fragrant odor, which it uses to capture its victims. The panther has only to hide (his appearance strikes terror), and his victims are bewitched by his scent - an invisible trap to which they come to be caught. But this power of seduction can also be turned against the panther: one hunts him by using spices, herbs and perfumes as bait.
But what does it mean to say that the panther seduces by its scent? Why is its scent seductive? (And why is this legend itself seductive? What sort of fragrance does it emit?) What accounts for the seduction of the song of the Sirens, the beauty of a face, the depths of a chasm, or the imminence of a catastrophe - as well as the scent of the panther or a door that opens into the void? Is it some hidden force of attraction? Or a powerful desire? No, these are empty terms. Seduction lies with the annulment of the signs, with the annulment of their meaning, with the radiation of their pure appearance. Eyes that seduce have no meaning, their meaning being exhausted in the gaze, as a face with make-up is exhausted in its appearance, in the formal rigor of a senseless labor. Above all, seduction supposes, not a signified desire, but the beauty of an artifice.
The panther's scent is also a senseless message - and behind this message the panther is invisible, like a woman beneath her make-up. The Sirens too remained unseen. Sorcery is formed by what lies hidden."

- Jean Baudrillard, Seduction


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Penny: 'What are you and Professor FussyFace up to tonight?'
Leonard: "Star Wars on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Haven't you seen that movie like, a thousand times?'
Leonard: "Not on Blu-ray. Only twice on Blu-ray."
Penny: 'Oh, Leonard...'
Leonard: "I know. It's high-resolution sadness."
- The Big Bang Theory, S07E09


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