“Whether or not they exist, we’re slaves to the gods.”
—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
June 2013
“Whenever I’ve tried to free my life from a set of the circumstances that continually oppress it, I’ve been instantly surrounded by other circumstances of the same order, as if the inscrutable web of creation were irrevocably at odds with me. I yank from my neck a hand that was choking me, and I see that my own hand is tied to a noose that fell around my neck when I freed it from the strangers’ hand. When I gingerly remove the noose, it’s with my own hands that I nearly strangle myself.”
—Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
madelioness replied to your post: which came first: the chicken or the egg?
nah, just solving some age-old philosophical problems - all in a day’s work, ma’am. it’s what i do.dude you rock
epistemologicalfallacy replied to your post: which came first: the chicken or the egg?
This is the rational, informed answer. I, unencumbered by any knowledge of biology, just tried to make up a cute story.I’m a bio/phil double major!!! I would say that there wasn’t a distinct, first member of the chicken species, for the chickens have ancestors just like homo sapiens do, and there’s some fluidity there. *loud, booming voice* evolution *crowd goes insane*
…but I don’t like this answer because I want nothing to do with an explanation that denies the existence of an OG Chicken.
which came first: the chicken or the egg?
The chicken, of course. There’s no way a chicken could’ve hatched from an egg laid by a non-chicken, right? The first chicken could not have been born from an egg, just as Adam and Eve weren’t birthed by humans. Where did it come from, then? The only plausible explanation is that this chicken was causa sui - the self-caused chicken. The First Chicken (capitalized to show proper respect for this wondrous being (we could also call it the O.G. Chicken)) came into being by means of its own will - such was its godlike power. Then it laid a thousand eggs and populated the world with its chicken progeny.
“If others go to Hell, I will go too. But I do not believe that; on the contrary, I believe that all will be saved, myself with them—something which arouses my deepest amazement.”
—Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers
“The most memorable moment is just all the gatherings we’ve had and just hugging thousands of people, and just really connecting with people in the most, you know, intimate way. It breaks down any kind of separation between us, you know, from famous musician to fan - that breaks down for these moments. We hug, and it becomes two people that need love. They need love but they also need to give love.”
—Boyd Tinsley (via playful-beginnings)
“Men are loners at heart. I know we pretend to be otherwise, but men are loners, they’re explorers, they’re hikers, they’re writers, they’re poets. They’re not good in groups, and that’s why it was a bad move when we were put in charge of the world; it just hasn’t worked out that well. We’re meant to be off on our own.”
—Garrison Keillor, The News from Lake Wobegon, 6.15.13
“The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.”
—Notes from the underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky (via beautyfreek)
“As soon as the will begins to cast a covetous eye on the outcome, the individual begins to become immoral - the energy of the will becomes torpid, or it develops abnormally into an unhealthy, unethical, mercenary hankering that, even if it achieves something great, does not achieve it ethically - the individual demands something other than the ethical itself.”
—Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (via sorensays)
drunkenssoldier replied to your post: drunkenssoldier replied to your post: …
i’m sorry jess but i’m laughing omg without any context everything is so weird and randomhere have emotions over this (not as good when you dont know the ~~story but still a good summary youtube.com/watch?v…
