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torsdag, 24. januari 2008, 23:04

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Originally posted by ilex011
Don't you know yet? Fling the emptiness out of your arms
into the spaces we breathe; perhaps the birds
will feel the expanded air with more passionate flying.

-Rilke

*******

Weißt du's noch nicht? Wirf aus den Armen die Leere
zu den Räumen hinzu, die wir atmen; vielleicht daß die Vögel
die erweiterte Luft fühlen mit innigerm Flug.



(atma and holley- bringing you the best in optimistic atheism! ;))


;)
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fredag, 25. januari 2008, 17:13

Sometimes in the state that the world is in, I wonder should I bother trying to help anyone?
Loneliness is a Slow Poison

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lördag, 26. januari 2008, 01:05

It's precisely *why* one should bother helping. A ripple in the ocean...


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Originally posted by Marci
Sometimes in the state that the world is in, I wonder should I bother trying to help anyone?

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lördag, 26. januari 2008, 05:15

"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."
http://anotherbody.tumblr.com/

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lördag, 26. januari 2008, 08:52

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Originally posted by Vorbedacht
"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."



the transient nature of that makes me sad, and I don't like that it makes me sad...

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lördag, 26. januari 2008, 13:39

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking”

- Marcus Aurelius
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lördag, 26. januari 2008, 14:00

Eek, was skimming my Hermann Hesse books.
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söndag, 27. januari 2008, 20:29

@Vor:

Oh, don't mind me. I'm packing and moving house. As you know.

It's all the damn *books* that are a real pain in the ass. So heavy. I'm taking my vinyl and computers myself, but movers for all else.

Oops, this is Thought of the Day, not Holley's Moving Gripes... hm, let's see... I was reading a book of Kafka short stories last night, let's see what happens if I open to a random page and that will be my Thought of the Day:

I closed my eyes, opened a page, and pointed to a random sentence. I got:

My memory's failing, and I can't keep track of so many things anymore.


No, that won't do. :( I should have chosen Rumi....

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torsdag, 31. januari 2008, 14:06

"A closed mouth gathers no feet."

Nx
Falling out of cars and playing in traffic.

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fredag, 1. februari 2008, 02:56

Moving Really Sucks.




profound, huh.

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måndag, 4. februari 2008, 03:37

Going Home by Wislawa Szymborska

(translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh)


He came home. Said nothing.
It was clear, though, that something had gone wrong.
He lay down fully dressed.
Pulled the blanket over his head.
Tucked up his knees.
He's nearly forty, but not at the moment.
He exists just as he did inside his mother's womb,
clad in seven walls of skin, in sheltered darkness.
Tomorrow he'll give a lecture
on homeostasis in metagalactic cosmonautics.
For now, though, he has curled up and gone to sleep.

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måndag, 31. mars 2008, 06:19

I have no words to say it, and I feel that my thoughts become a senseless language of signs.

-Heroes del Silencio.

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måndag, 31. mars 2008, 15:30

Heroes del silencio! that brings lots of memories...
2010: The Year We Make Contact

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tisdag, 8. april 2008, 08:24

My rather non-profound thought of the day is wondering why I sometimes peer into the Side-Line forum... :mauer:

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tisdag, 22. april 2008, 05:44

I'm missing our Thought of the Day threads. Someone post something that we can chat about. Atma, I vote you. :D

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tisdag, 22. april 2008, 06:30

I vote for Atma too :D
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onsdag, 23. april 2008, 14:34

What kind of election is this?about what? ?(

Today, I changed lil bit the configuration on my pc......now, it is working more worse than before...... Thinking on the phrase.....

"Never touch a running system." :tongue:

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Originally posted by LePand
I vote for Atma too :D

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torsdag, 24. april 2008, 05:48

*AHEM!*

I see that for profundity it's time to grab a book, open to a random page, close my eyes and choose a sentence.

OK, the book is The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe.

The random sentence/phrase chosen was:

"But anyway, there was no reason for him to feel any obligation or responsibility for her smile. By his disappearance she would only lose a fragment of her life, one that could easily be replaced by a radio or a mirror"



8o


That, ah, wasn't what I had in mind... :rolleyes:

I think the last time I did this I got something similar too...

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måndag, 28. april 2008, 00:18

I see you miss me a bit... ;)

Ok, so here's a thought...

- Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect, human kind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

- Milan Kundera, (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
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måndag, 28. april 2008, 08:01

Thank you, Atma, now we are back on track.


"There are two reasons, then, for being content with whatever happens to you. The first is that it was meant just for you, prescribed for you, and preserved for you like a thread woven into your destiny from the very beginning. The second is that whatever happens to the individual contributes to the health, wholeness, and survival of the entire universe. You destroy the symmetry and continuity of the whole if you cut away even one part or remove a single cause. And that's what you do, to the extent you're able, every time you whine and complain - mutilate the whole by amputating the parts."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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