if a prediction can lead to changes in the system that the prediction is made in relation to, it becomes difficult to assess the predictions with the events that actually occur.
There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty: the duty to take the consequences.
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
- Donella Meadows
You know, the fact that you are even reading this is completely by random chance.
OH MY GOD, LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!!
I want to die like my father, quietly, in his sleep—not screaming and terrified like his passengers. — Bob Monkhouse
normal men have killed perpaps 100,000,000 of their fellow men in the last 50 years.
- Ronald D. Laing [1967]
The Rule of Fives states that all things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly related to five. The Rule of Fives is never wrong.
If we are truly all mad here, I cannot make you mad. I can only show you my virgin of madness.
The best part about Cartesan Dualism is the existential relief one feels when they reason that it is actually absurd.
These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives; for all the scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation of the grave. Bodies jerk like puppet corpses, and hell walks laughing --
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