Small Talk (33)

aphorisms and short reflections

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an engine, as the word suggests, is literally ingenious, meaning there is a genie inside. an evil one.








a god is never accepted in his own church








i have multiple personality order









most are in for a rude awakening. i'm in for a polite nap.









i'm the first person in my family to drop out of the school of life








the concert played by the band Pink Floyd in Pompeii was a rite to release all the souls trapped there since the disaster. it was successful. few know this.









i know something about most nothings








reality changes as fast as its machines travel. horse and buggy metaphysics won't do.








the election of the elect is not democratic











the stumbling part of falling in love is great. the only thing better is rising back up together.









the sad truth is most devils are stupid but we're often stupider









i have fondue memories of that time








my problem with secret societies is not that they're secret, but that they're societies.









i'm reviewing my novel for the third time, my wife has done it three times as well, and i'm still finding typos and errors. some i just cannot believe were there before and neither one of us caught them. if you introduce computer demons into the mental model, then it makes sense








the fact that God exists and prayers work goes against everything i was taught in church











we are the missing masterpiece of the puzzle of God












in those days there were giants on the earth, and midgets in the sky









i could explain things very easily, but i don't want to break the law









there used to be a spectre haunting europe, but now it is fully embodied










science rules, but scientists suck. philosophy rules, but philosophers suck. theology rules, but theologians suck. a fundamental pattern.









i'm sure there are other equivalent cases, but i can't think of any descriptor more misused, by both proponents and detractors, than abrahamic.










there are only two metaphysics, really. God is God because he's the best at godding, or, God is God because he's the only one that can god.










i have very little to say so i'll keep it short.










before you believed in God, God believed in himself










i taught myself to learn. i was a terrible teacher and a terrible student.














the worst implication of the absolutist position is not even that it means God in some way created evil but that it changes completely our understanding of this life, incarnation, why we're here. it makes it all futile, or some kind of punishment at best. and of course, it makes Jesus irrelevant as well. but if we understand freedom as this germ that is uncreated, we can understand that we had to consent, in some form, to being incarnate, thus life is potentially filled with meaning for ourselves personally, as individuals. and two, that when God gives us our bodies, the limits of incarnation are a way for us to learn how to use our freedom, as only limits can test it, much like meter in poetry, or harmony in music. in other words, the purpose of this life, with its limitations, is to be creative. and thus it also explains why Jesus himself had to go through it to open the next door, to initiate the next phase, itself a creative endeavor. ~ these thoughts were elicited by this post

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