Abyss
“You know what they say. The living are only a species of the dead, aren’t they? And a very rare species at that. The cradle rocks over the abyss.” Adrian McKinty
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
“I am scared of snapping. That something, some random day, it will simply make ‘click’ in my mind and all of the sudden I will absolutely lose my mind. In other words having gazed into the abyss for too long. Go completely and totally insane! How does one descend into madness? What makes one click so all of the sudden life is upside down and people don’t know themselves anymore?” Ryan Gelpke
Well, click of course. The other one.
“No. All I say is that it is not argument that convinces me of the necessity of a future life, but this: when you go hand in hand with someone and all at once that person vanishes there, into nowhere, and you yourself are left facing that abyss, and look in. And I have looked in…” Leo Tolstoy
And now, Leo?
“If a person who has come to the edge of the abyss does not go further, it is because things in that person’s life stronger than that abyss are pulling him back powerfully!” Mehmet Murat ildan
Distractions I call them.
“I refuse to throw her into the abyss.” Nick Oliveri
So, should someone throw [you know who] into the abyss?
“Another abyss that we have to cross, another abyss that we have to stare into in the hope it won’t stare back to us.” Ryan Gelpke
New thread?
Suicide
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” Ned Vizzini
Tell me about it!
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.” David Levithan
New thread, right?
“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” Vincent van Gogh
Uh, fame and fortune?
“Did you really want to die?"
“No one commits suicide because they want to die.”
“Then why do they do it?”
"Because they want to stop the pain.” Tiffanie DeBartolo
Right, God?
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Hundreds of them so far. Well, dozens anyway.
“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.” J. Michael Straczynski
Of course: https://youtu.be/vLAQiwEGGKs?si=5s-mx2HFHmzj17F1
Bullshit
“I hate the moments between
meeting someone and leaving
someone
there’s this brief feeling of trust
before the paranoia that seeps in
once you begin to realize that
they’re just like everyone else
you’ve met before
different person
same bullshit" R.H. Sin
What, even virtually?
“She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.” Laura Lippman
Yes, even virtually.
“Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.” Harry G. Frankfurt
Bullshit?
“Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation.” George Carlin
Democracy some call it.
“Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.” Harry G. Frankfurt
See, I told you.
“I wasn’t sure which was worse - to know you were a liar or to believe your own bullshit.” Ellen Cook
Actually, it’s still believing the bullshit of others.
Stupidity
“If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow." Jane Austen
What’s that in bitcoins?
“When you’re surrounded by stupidity, self-preservation isn’t a sin.” Meljean Brook
Who the fuck has ever thought otherwise?
“Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called ‘educated’ making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting?..The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.” George Eliot
Of course, we can readily Trump that today.
“Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there’s a doorway somewhere." Robert Anton Wilson
Let’s double our attempt to find one here.
“I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance” Alfred de Vigny
Let’s all admit that. You first, of course.
“It’s the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.” L.M. Montgomery
Well, if only up in the clouds here.