spring is the laugh of a maniac, I say

Jul 31, 2007 22:53

"...Like, silly behaviourists of the sociology and computer sciences today are more interested, mind you, in measuring the reactions to the pain of life, and in pinpointing the cause of pain on their fellow humans, i.e., society, than in pinning it down once and for all on what it come from: birth. Even metaphysical gurus and philosopher prophets ( Read more... )

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madmanofprague August 1 2007, 03:18:34 UTC
*points at my bio quote*

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miswired_zero August 1 2007, 03:19:45 UTC
SPRING IS THE LAUGH OF THE MANIAC, SAY I!

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madmanofprague August 1 2007, 03:25:20 UTC
winter the laugh of the babe-hungry crone...

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a rebuttal: hooray! cheer up! bulldogg_soulja August 2 2007, 02:48:39 UTC
Oh, give it a rest, Kerouac. We all know you're not that invulnerably pessimistic. To you, all existence is not suffering. If birth was the cause of all existential suffering then all human behaviour is moot. Every day seems to reaffirm that social injustice and political tyranny bring misery to billions, literally billions of people. Is everyone simply deluding themselves? If you're trying to say that if we were not born we would not suffer you are probably right, but I couldn't care less.
I can never say that nature is insane. Vicious, certainly, but given my experience is makes perfect sense that it would be. Life is painful, but it is glorious too.

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cheer up emo jack madmanofprague August 4 2007, 18:06:23 UTC
Pop culture Zen as an excuse to be emo?

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Re: cheer up emo jack miswired_zero August 4 2007, 18:09:11 UTC
aw... Jack wasn't emo.
He was just very obsessed with the notion of death and mortality.

"Cheer up existentialist kid!"

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Re: cheer up emo jack madmanofprague August 4 2007, 18:11:31 UTC
"My book's as American as mom and apple pie..."

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cl_sus4 August 2 2007, 17:15:07 UTC
i think the mistake is not that people blame
it's that people put the full weight of that blame upon the heads of gears and cogs
those people ["government, a secretary of state, a defense minister"] do their share of misery proliferation, and yes, things need to be done to correct or counter balance their malignments
but people need to be more aware of the true rules that envelope us and not just focused on the self imposed rules that we've constructed around us

much like how one abides by their own personal ethical codes, while being aware of differing values as well as the towering monolith of legal code

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miswired_zero August 2 2007, 19:20:49 UTC
well put.
well put indeed!

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madmanofprague August 4 2007, 18:07:36 UTC
but people need to be more aware of the true rules that envelope us and not just focused on the self imposed rules that we've constructed around us

is there a difference?

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miswired_zero August 4 2007, 18:12:23 UTC
the true rules perhaps being just that... there is no difference.
there is no anything, no nothing. there is no IS and yet... that's all there IS!

thats the true golden rule: ...

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