H.Sapiens violated the
first law of a successful parasite, moderation.
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After I'm dead, I
don't really care what happens to the human race. The only way a massive
die-off might affect me after I'm dead is to drive up the price of real
estate in Heaven-or Hell. I'm sure both places will be booked solid until
the powers that be find another planet on which humans can run amok.
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Book: Century's End- "We now know that the idea of the future as a
'better world' was a fallacy of the doctrine of progress." German novelist
Thomas Mann, 1938
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I do not believe that people will stop using technology until the
system completely breaks down.
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One reason I keep hanging on to life's cross of iron
is because I have an apocalyptic vision of a world laid to waste. I pray to
God that I live to see it! No matter how the world ends, it will be a
surprise. One day mankind may be hovering on the irrevocable brink of
nuclear war, with everyone thinking that this will be our common end, only
for everyone to be smashed out of existence at the eleventh hour by a stray
asteroid. No matter what the end, it will arrive accompanied by a load of
irony. I think mankind's end will occur as suddenly as a heart attack.
Everything will appear just as it always has until the blade suddenly
drops.
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"The word "paranoid" is designed to make people not like it. There
is an implicit assumption that there's nothing to be paranoid about. In
fact, in a very dynamic and unsteady universe, paranoia may well be a true
sensitivity to the facts of the matter." -Terrence McKenna
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Book: Cambodia: a book for people who find television too slow,
by Brian Fawcett.
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"In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of "the abyss of birth". An
abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not fall but from which, instead, we
emerge, to our universal chagrin."
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"When they made a desert, they called it peace." -Tacitus
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"Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the
rafters of which are rotten and worm eaten, and those who embark on them
are fated to be shipwrecked." -Buddha
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"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as
though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things
that seem than by those that are." -Machiavelli
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* In medicine as in life, until the mind has been prepared to see
something, it will pass unnoticed, as invisible as if it did not exist.
-Ovid, ancient Roman poet.
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* Do you not see how necessary a world of pain and trouble is to school an
intelligence and make it a soul? -John Keats, Letters
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* The mad mind does not halt. If it halts, it is enlightenment.
-Chinese Zen Saying
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* To see truth, contemplate all phenomena as a lie. -Thaganapa
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* Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up by ruling over a
desert.
-Albert Camus
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You dream you are the doer,
You dream that action is done.
You dream that action bears fruit.
It is your ignorance, it is the world's
delusion that gives you these Dreams.
-Bhagavad Gita
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*"Paradoxically as it may seem, modern industrial society, in spite of an
incredible proliferation of labor-saving devices, has not given people more
time to devote to their all-important spiritual tasks; it has made it
exceedingly difficult for anyone, except the most determined, to find any
time whatever for these tasks." -E.F. Schumacher