Logic Beach: Part I

by Exurb1a

get higher than a giraffe's vagina.

One of the best analogies

so anti-theist that Richard Dawkins would’ve found you obnoxious.

I laughed for a good 30 seconds at this. This book is so well written

After Einstein’s friend Besso died, Einstein wrote to Besso’s family: “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” An empty comfort, Albert. Thanks anyway.

What is your general opinion on Half-Life 3 ever being made? No.

No!

I’d rather be well-fed and unfulfilled than starving and inspired.

“What really interests me,” Einstein said once, “is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.”

As a final formality, what is the object of this test?” The Navigator raised an eyebrow. “Some kind of highbrow metaphor about consciousness inside Arcadia, I expect. The inefficacy of trying to determine sentience past a certain complexity threshold.”

“Greatness is rarely appreciated during the stages of its becoming,” Lambert said quietly to herself.

the project would have to be split into four sections. Temporal: Why does the universe exist in time? Spatial: What was the origin of space and matter? Scalar: Why does the universe behave differently depending on the scale at which one conducts an experiment? And Interactive: What is it about the first three interacting with each other that leads to a consistent universe?

“Time is the medium by which matter will organise itself into a perfect state. More than that I cannot say until I have been completed.”

Isn't punctuation fun? How dull would a sentence be without punctuation? Just think about it a sentence with no full stops or commas or hyphens would have to continue and continue and any contradictory point you wanted to make or qualifier or something would just have to get shoehorned in there because you could not pause or stop and soon it would be ever so tedious to read like this one.

There are the early days aren't there, of courting and screwing, of kissing goodbye for ages and growing obsessed. You studiously watch this other human for hints of their deep-psychology. If they're nice to the waiter, maybe that means they're a nice person etc. But if you stick it out with someone long enough, if you make it through all that, if you live with them, if you watch them go through a bereavement or some horrible disease, then they'll give you a peek or two at their true face. If the conditions are right then it is possible to love that face, but quite improbable you will like it. You've killed the myth. You've come up close to a harsh truth: people are ugly, all of them. They're bitter and mad and insatiable. Whether they tell you so or not, there will have been days when they regretted meeting you or getting close, just as you will have those days regarding them. They will consider choosing their own self-interest above yours. They will fantasise about other men or women. They will be joyless for weeks. They will squeeze the toothpaste from the middle of the tube. But if you can watch the myth die before your eyes, if you can accept that your lover is disgusting and petty at times, if you can accept this of everyone you ever meet, then everything will almost certainly be fine.

angry at small minds who ride big ones and milk them for talents they themselves couldn't fathom, let alone imitate.

Hot damn.