Random Thoughts – Page 227

Similarity

Entire science is based on axioms, basic postulates that cannot be either proved or disproved. In this aspect, science is very similar to religion.

Entire science is based upon several consensuses: in the past, some people sat together and made agreements: 1+1=2, there are 10 digits; these are letters, these numbers, etc. And then we call it objective.

Balance

Entire human existence, according to one theory, can be explained by the need to restore a balance: if we’re hungry, we eat, if we’re thirsty, we drink, etc. However, what motivates us, what puts us in motion, is imbalance. Once we acquire a temporary balance, we become complacent and inactive. That’s why all religious descriptions of Paradise look boring.

I hate dentists!

M. Houellebecq says in “Whatever”: “In general I hate dentists; I take them to be exceedingly venal creatures whose only goal in life is to wrench out the most teenth possible and buy themselves a Mercedes with a sunroof.”

Virgin

If you haven’t had sex for a while, you’ll become a virgin again.

Counting

Humans would be better off if they stopped counting years.

Civilized

To be civilized means not to be vindictive.

Not bad at all

If I were born in the US, I’d probably go to ivy-league college, I’d be a quarterback on a local football team, marry my high-school sweetheart, get a house, two cars, 2.5 kids, etc. It wouldn’t be such a bad life, after all.

Good ‘ol times

All my life, after I did some mischief of sorts, people were telling me that that was not what they expect from me. Good ‘ol times!

Chekhov

A.P. Chekhov, one of my favorites, has a short story titled “The Man in a Case”. If you haven’t read it so far, please read it immediately. That way you’d understand a bit better the things that I write about here.

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