[1097] in Central_America
New quotes for Mon Nov 21
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 21 01:28:05 1988
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 88 01:27:58 EST
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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capsalad (Dave Schulman):
Gosh, Jim, lookit all that MONEY!
Money makes the world go 'round.
We have found that green paper is a valuable source of
polytetrafluoroethelyne. That's pretty slippery stuff to you and me.
On November 19, 1988, I uttered for the first time the fateful words:
MELONELON IS A SLORPF!
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celine (Adam Weishaupt):
If nothing matters, why do anything?
This is an interesting question. People often automatically
associate lack of significance in life with a complete lack of
motivation to undertake any particular action. This causal
association escapes me.
Even if there is no innate meaning in anything, there is no inherent
reason for us to throw up our hands and say "Well, if nothing is
significant, I guess I just won't do anything". Biologically, it
makes no difference at all whether or not there is some ultimate
purpose in our actions. We will continue to eat, sleep, and defecate
with _or without_ a purpose.
What exactly am I implying here? That life without purpose is worth
living? No, not exactly. Personally, the thought of living as a
biological animal (albeit with higher tastes) appalls me. Not in
others, for everyone has the right to choose their own path. In me,
it is appalling.
But at the same time, if one were to say that a life in which there is
no significance merits no action, I balk. Individual pursuits in a
life might be seen to lend it worth, even if there is no ultimate
meaning to it. If, for instance, a person enjoyed flying kites, just
because ultimate significance is lacking in such action, they could
still see fit to do so simply because they enjoy it, significance
aside, i.e., from a purely humanistic point of view.
So apparently I am at an impasse. On the one hand living for the
moment appalls me, and on the other I fail to see why significance
lacking, people should not just go on doing what they deem most
appropriate given their interests. Perhaps the standards I set for
myself are too high; and yet, temporal actions with temporal
consequences are so... so...
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cheshire (Mary Vogt):
Slow down...
Take the phone off the hook and disappear for awhile
It's alright you can afford
to lose a day or two
When will you realize...
Vienna waits for you.
-Billy Joel
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crichman (Richard Contreras):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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dachurch (Douglas A. Church):
With her grandmother's face and her father's brown eyes
her own force of will to her mothers suprise
A whole look about her that says that she may
she lifted her arms and she floated away
She floated away yes she floated away
she lifted her arms and she floated away
She dont give a damn what the other girls say
she lifted her arms and she floated away
- "She Floated Away", Husker Du, _Warehouse: Songs and Stories_
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edyamp (Ed Yampratoom):
Non sum qualis eram sub regno bony Sinatra.
-James Thurber
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jab (Adm. J. A. Beardsley):
"You're in the colony of slippermen
There's no who? why? what? or when?"
-- Genesis, from "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
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mjmills (Michael J Mills):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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nlkosuk (Nicholas L Kosuk):
Current Plans:
1. Passing classes.
2. Doing work at my UROP someday.
3. Filling out grad school applications.
4. Dreading the third hammer blow.
5. Patiently awaiting the onset of my approaching insanity, just like the
Wandersmann in Schubert's "Wintereisse."
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smamros (Shawn Mamros):
Fall term locations:
Weekdays: Digital Equipment Corporation, Marlborough, MA
(508)490-8900
E-mail to: mamros%wmbr.dec@decwrl.dec.com
Weeknights and weekends: WMBR, 50-030, x3-4000
The few times I get some sleep: Ashdown House, room 401B, 225-9751
Currently in the midst of a sanity bugcheck...
They rule by fear: fear of change, fear of foggy spectres which exist
only in their own overactive imaginations. Their followers blindly march
in lockstep, staring straight into the sunrise, oblivious to the chasm opening
right before their feet.
Are you one of those followers? If not, count yourself lucky, because it
seems you are in the vast minority...
From a Use(less)net posting:
"By the way, if you measure the Dow Jones in yen,
it's falling. Think about it."
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tytso (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
Watch while the Queen
in one false move
turns herself into a pawn
Sleepy and shaken
and watching while the blurry night
Turns into a very clear dawn
Do you love any, do you love none,
do you love many, can you love one
do you love me?
Do you love any, do you love none,
do you love many, can you love one
do you love me?
Suzanne Vega,
"Knight Moves"
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