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—| x |—
06:18 / 28.02.02
"Knowledge is the excrement of experience"

Austin Osman Spare.

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: modthree ]
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
06:28 / 28.02.02
"Spare was a strange little man obsessed with his own phallus, but the most bizarre aspect of him was his hair. It lay flat, then thatched, then crossthatched, flustered, shiny, piebald, flat, crimped, curled, and springy. I had quite forgot his curios personality and unusual odour for several moments by the time he spoke."

Anon. contemporary.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
06:33 / 28.02.02
(You know, that's amusing for all kinds of reasons.)

"Everyone else in the world is a Buddha except you! And they are all waiting for you to get your act together, so get out of bed and get going!"

-Phil Hine
 
 
lentil
06:33 / 28.02.02
I had an experience with excrement this morning, but i don't think I gained any knowledge.
 
 
The Planet of Sound
06:33 / 28.02.02
"in the future, as society becomes more specialised, it will be the generalists who become its leaders."
Marcel Masse
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
06:33 / 28.02.02
quote:"Masse never truly understood the nature of his own genius, which lay, not in his talent for political critique, but in the darker and more subtle aspects of his work, most especially in his handling of the notion of 'denouement'. An excellent abstract thinker, he was at a loss in the kitchen."Ibid.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
06:33 / 28.02.02
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."

- Noam Chomsky
 
 
deja_vroom
10:01 / 28.02.02
"Inteligence has much less practical application than we are led to believe"

- Me
 
 
The Monkey
00:39 / 01.03.02
Some Thelemic Wizz-dom for Y'All.
 
 
—| x |—
02:24 / 01.03.02
"The Tao that can be told of is not the
eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the
eternal name.
The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and
Earth;
The named is the mother of all things.

Therefore let there always be non-being,
so we may see their subtlety,
And let there always be being, so we may
see their outcome.
The two are the same,
But after they are produced, they have
different names."

Lao-Tzu
 
 
iratescottishgit
02:28 / 01.03.02
you never really learn something important until you fuck up!


me
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:06 / 01.03.02
"Heaven is down.
Hell is up.
This is proven by the fact that the planets and stars are orderly in their movements,
while down on earth we come close to the primal Chaos.
There are four other proofs,
but I forget them."
- Josh the Dill, King Kong Kabal,
"Principia Discordia"
 
 
higuita
12:37 / 01.03.02
'Whereof one cannot speak, one should remain silent'

Wittgenstein, unpopular pub philosopher
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
12:46 / 01.03.02
"...the world was created. This has made a lot of people very angry..."

Douglas Adams
 
 
Bear
13:06 / 01.03.02
quote:Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals....... except the weasel.


Lord Homer of Simpson
 
 
Fra Dolcino
13:10 / 01.03.02
'You can't buy size 13 shoes in Uganda'


Idi Amin.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
13:16 / 01.03.02
There is one phrase that will see you through life.

"It was nothing to do with me, I was never there at the time, honest guv'"
 
 
—| x |—
11:25 / 02.03.02
"If one corner of my life is in disorder, then the whole of my life is in disorder...So I shouldn't ask how to put one corner in order, but why I have broken life into so many different fragments--fragments which are in disorder themselves and which all contradict each other."

J. Krishnamurti
 
 
Traz
13:44 / 02.03.02
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons, even Death may die."

--H.P. Lovecraft
 
 
Persephone
17:18 / 02.03.02
"We must not cease from exploration, and the end of all of our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."

--T.S. Eliot*


*not an entirely nice man, but this one a nice thought
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
17:35 / 02.03.02
"Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through"

Jonathon Swift 1709
 
 
A
11:21 / 03.03.02
"Mother Nature's leprechauns have come back to rock'n'roll."

-Jonathan Richman.
 
 
Not Here Still
13:00 / 03.03.02
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words without thoughts never to Heaven go.


Shakespeare
 
 
Mourne Kransky
16:53 / 03.03.02
As the poets have mournfully sung,
Death takes the innocent young,
The screamingly funny,
The rolling in money,
And those who are very well hung.

W H Auden
 
 
Ganesh
16:54 / 03.03.02
Champagne for my real friends,
Real pain for my sham friends.

Francis Bacon (I think)
 
 
—| x |—
03:52 / 04.03.02
"The causalism that underlies our scientific view of the world breaks everything down into individual processes which it punctiliously tries to isolate from all other parallel processes. This tendency is absolutely necessary if we are to gain reliable knowledge of the world...Everything that happens, however, happens in the same 'one world' and is part of it. For this reason events must possess an a-priori aspect of unity."

Carl Gustav Jung
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
05:24 / 04.03.02
"Jung's objectivity was severly compromised by his desire to win approval from one person, and one only. His relationship with his housekeeper, Mrs. Heinemann, some thirty years his senior, was curious in the extreme. The widowed Heinemann was a deep believer in the Universal Spirit, and whether in an attempt to seduce his wrinkled muse, or merely to gain her maternal approval, Jung theorised frantically on this basis. Like Marx and Horkheimer, he had considerable difficulty with Italian food, prefering sausage - whose cooking was Mrs. Heinemann's principle talent."

Anon.
 
 
Captain Zoom
11:58 / 04.03.02
"Because in Heaven or in Hell, or in any lonely place that's been forgotten inbetween, the only thing that matters is feeling wanted, like you belong."

-The Devil.

Zoom.
 
 
Not Here Still
16:20 / 04.03.02
Le secret d'ennuyer est... de tout dire

Voltaire
 
 
—| x |—
03:38 / 05.03.02
TUESDAY D-D-DOUBLE SHOT!

“It is at those moments when we are, as we say, in a bad mood, when we feel incapable of the elevation of soul which befits holy things, it is then that it is most effectual to turn our eyes towards perfect purity. For it is then that evil, or rather mediocrity, comes to the surface of the soul and is in the best position for being burnt by contact with the fire.”

&

“Even the very highest achievements of the search for beauty, in art or science for instance, are not truly beautiful. The only true beauty, the only beauty which is the real presence of God, is the beauty of the universe. Nothing which is less than the universe is beautiful.”

Simone Weil
 
 
Not Here Still
16:24 / 05.03.02
Vae, puto deus fio.

Emperor Vespasian
 
 
Not Here Still
16:07 / 06.03.02
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast

Goethe
 
 
suds
16:09 / 06.03.02
"boys should touch each other more, i mean, they don't fucking have to beat each other up. it's the only reason they beat people up is because they want to fuck each other."

kathleen hanna.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
16:11 / 06.03.02
When time is yours to spend remember Caveat Emptor.
 
 
—| x |—
05:32 / 07.03.02
"We are not in safe possession of the truth or of knowledge of good and evil or of the right standards, and able to apply them with sovereign wisdom to Mozart or Moses, Shakespeare or the Buddha, Michelangelo or Paul. It is through our encounters with them that our standards are formed."

Walter Kaufmann
 
  

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