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News Briefs 24-03-2011

All debts must –and will– be paid in full…

Thanks Rick, Greg & Susan.

Quote of the Day:

“They think time is like what’s in a watch, but that’s another one of these dreadful illusions.”

José Arguelles (1939-2011)

  1. Radio Saturn
    The seasonal variation of the radio signals is just a sign of seasonal north-south migrations of the local life forms. You know, like whales, reindeer, retired Canadians.

  2. ‘Free will’ : Quotes
    In no particular order…

    “Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.

    Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
    At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
    — Chuck Palahniuk

    “It is impossible to exercise free will as long as we are operating from within the system. Free will requires consciousness, and our pervasive and deep-seated patterns of thought are unconscious; they are outside of our awareness and therefore outside of our control. While we remain in the system, we see the world through the eyes of carnism. And as long as we look through eyes other than our own, we will be living in accordance to a truth that is not of our own choosing. We must step outside the system to find our lost empathy and make choices that reflect what we truly feel and believe, rather than what we’ve been taught to feel and believe.”
    — Melanie Joy (Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism)

    “Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir.” he read, “You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next – and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, ” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.”
    — Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions)

    “Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will’s impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.”
    Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist.

    “Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it’s up to him and only him through his reasoning mind to decide which he wants to be.”
    Ayn Rand

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