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Drakon-Deus
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posted December 28, 2020 03:46 PM |
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"Time is said to be irreversible. And this is true enough in the sense that ‘you can’t bring back the past’. But what exactly is this ‘past’? Is it what has passed? And what does ‘passed’ mean for a person when for each of us the past is the bearer of all that is constant in the reality of the present, of each current moment? In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight only in its recollection. King Solomon’s ring bore the inscription, ‘All will pass’; by contrast, I want to draw attention to how time in its moral implication is in fact turned back. Time can vanish without trace in our material world for it is a subjective, spiritual category. The time we have lived settles in our soul as an experience placed within time.”
—Andrei Tarkovsky , Sculpting in Time
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Gnomes2169
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Duke of the Glade
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posted December 28, 2020 04:19 PM |
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To live a hard life was to make solid and impregnable every way in, until no openings remained and the soul hid in darkness, and no one else could hear its screams, its railing at injustice, its long, agonizing stretches of sadness. Hardness without created hardness within.
Sadness was, she well knew, not something that could be cured. It was not, in fact, a failing, not a flaw, not an illness of spirit. Sadness was never without reason, and to assert that it marked some kind of dysfunction did little more than prove ignorance or, worse, cowardly evasiveness in the one making the assertion. As if happiness was the only legitimate way of being. As if those failing at it needed to be locked away, made soporific with medications; as if the causes of sadness were merely traps and pitfalls in the proper climb to blissful contentment, things to be edged round or bridged, or leapt across on wings of false elation.
Scillara knew better. She had faced her own sadness often enough. Even when she discovered her first means of escaping it, in durhang, she’d known that such an escape was simply a flight from feelings that existed legitimately. She’d just been unable to permit herself any sympathy for such feelings, because to do so was to surrender to their truth.
Sadness belonged. As rightful as joy, love, grief and fear. All conditions of being.
Too often people mistook the sadness in others for self-pity, and in so doing revealed their own hardness of spirit, and more than a little malice.
-Steven Erickson: Toll the Hounds (Book 8 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen)
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Yeah in the 18th century, two inventions suggested a method of measurement. One won and the other stayed in America.
-Ghost destroying Fred
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PandaTar
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Legendary Hero
Celestial Heavens Mascot
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posted December 28, 2020 11:08 PM |
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The movie | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The movie | Kung Fu Panda
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"Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster."
GlaDOS – Portal 2
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Galaad
Hero of Order
Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
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posted November 23, 2021 09:28 PM |
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Nietzsche said:
It is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad.
Not targeting anyone on this forum in particular. 
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Salamandre
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Wog refugee
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posted November 23, 2021 09:46 PM |
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Have indeed no idea who you're targeting
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fred79
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posted November 23, 2021 11:03 PM |
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lol. 
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Salamandre
Admirable
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Wog refugee
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posted November 23, 2021 11:11 PM |
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fred79
Disgraceful
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posted November 23, 2021 11:31 PM |
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that post still makes me laugh. great job, sal. 
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted October 19, 2022 01:08 PM |
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Drakon-Deus
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Qapla'
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posted December 28, 2022 07:26 PM |
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“Never wish them pain. That's not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing.” ― Najwa Zebian
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CountBezuhoff
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Nihil sub sole novum
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posted December 29, 2022 03:02 AM |
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'In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.' - Douglas Adams
The Count
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted January 02, 2023 07:50 AM |
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What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?
All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23.
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Drakon-Deus
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Qapla'
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posted April 07, 2023 07:05 AM |
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"Capitalism in Romania is gone forever. The people are the true masters and will forever remain masters of their destiny and the country's riches"
- Nicolae Ceausescu
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