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@vnikolov

> Now I am reminded (maybe it's a distant
> association) of John Maynard Keynes
>(I think): "in the long run we're all dead".

Yeah, this kind of obvious truth is troublesome. I have a closely related haiku (original context climatejustice.social/@kentpit):

borrowed from Nothing
we, and Time itself, pretend
we were here at all

Climate Justice SocialKent Pitman (@kentpitman@climatejustice.social)@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org borrowed from Nothing we, and Time itself, pretend we were here at all #haiku #senryu #physics #universe #CreationMyth #poem
#haiku#senryu#poem

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." ~ Douglas Adams

Scientists Discovered Something Kinda Alarming: The Universe Shouldn't Actually Exist –Popular Mechanics

popularmechanics.com/space/dee

Popular Mechanics · Scientists Discovered Something Kinda Alarming: The Universe Shouldn't Actually ExistBy Jackie Appel

"Subtle alterations to some existing and established thought elements have been suggested, i’m perusing aspects of this new exercise but my mind grudgingly attempts conformation..."

read 'considering change' an opinion piece by for much deliberation published on write.as...

#writing #fmdnetwork #opinions #ProsePoetry #dailylife #individualism #society #existence
write.as/for-much-deliberation

for much deliberation · considering change...Subtle alterations to some existing and established thought elements have been suggested, i’m perusing aspects of this new exercise but my mind grudgingly at...

"Il y a ceux qui achètent des livres pour lire, et c’est une minorité, et il y a ceux qui en achètent afin de constituer une bibliothèque, et c’est une majorité."
"À quoi me sert la science si elle ne me rend pas heureux ?"
"On ne commence jamais, tout est continuation."
Notes contemplatives - Miguel de Unamuno, Amour et pédagogie
sites.google.com/view/mardiphi
#Philosophie #Contemplation #Unamuno #Espagne #España #Filosofίa #Amor #Pedagogia #Amour #Pédagogie #Existence #Vie #Mort #Suicide

A quotation from Omar Khayyam

Thrust into life without my own consent,
Thrust back to death, with who knows what intent?
   Arise, bright saki, fill the cup with wine
And drown the burden of my discontent.

Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 21 [tr. Roe (1906), # 44]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/75907/