Vignettes
"Nothing else matters," Said the campaign manager. "The voters need to see the appearance. You need to look like a hard-working man with convictions and a genuine concern for their welfare."
After the advisor left, the man running for mayor thought to himself, "But what if I want to be that hard-working man with convictions and a genuine concern for the people in this city?"
The systems of this world do not prevent disaster, they ensure disaster.
When David Hume looked in the mirror and asked if anyone was there, he heard a voice respond, 'No one who wishes to be.' This was how he concluded that the self did not exist.
"What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience."
2 Corinthians 5:11b
As the man pulled slowly out of his parking space, he hesitantly turned on the radio. "...there is no why." The radio said, "You have only yourself to blame for the choices you have made in this-"
The man immediately turned off the radio.
A happy person can do everything an unhappy person can do, but he does nothing in the same way.
How short our supply of knowledge is, and how vain it is to get more. It does not matter whether one is Robespierre or Rabelois, no one knows anything about what will follow death and it is unclear how they may find out -except by the means which all shall find out. No living person may rightly claim to be an authority on the topic, the best anyone can do is to become convinced ... to believe.
The love of human understanding may be compared to the grave clothes of a deceased man. They only serve to disguise the rotting, stinking body underneath.
After the advisor left, the man running for mayor thought to himself, "But what if I want to be that hard-working man with convictions and a genuine concern for the people in this city?"
The systems of this world do not prevent disaster, they ensure disaster.
When David Hume looked in the mirror and asked if anyone was there, he heard a voice respond, 'No one who wishes to be.' This was how he concluded that the self did not exist.
"What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience."
2 Corinthians 5:11b
As the man pulled slowly out of his parking space, he hesitantly turned on the radio. "...there is no why." The radio said, "You have only yourself to blame for the choices you have made in this-"
The man immediately turned off the radio.
A happy person can do everything an unhappy person can do, but he does nothing in the same way.
How short our supply of knowledge is, and how vain it is to get more. It does not matter whether one is Robespierre or Rabelois, no one knows anything about what will follow death and it is unclear how they may find out -except by the means which all shall find out. No living person may rightly claim to be an authority on the topic, the best anyone can do is to become convinced ... to believe.
The love of human understanding may be compared to the grave clothes of a deceased man. They only serve to disguise the rotting, stinking body underneath.
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