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"To stand before" is an interesting phrase. It fuses space and time. Before is temporal, but the meaning is that you're "in front" of something. So if you're spatially "before" it, it implies that you're about to dissolve into it.
“I would scarcely have admitted it at that moment but there is something extraordinary in the ordinary practice of keeping animals as domestic companions. The unconditional love we are capable of expressing for small beings can mask but not overcome the fact that we love what we can never finally know. We can love only what cannot be fully
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if you give your fucks to the unliving—if you plant those fucks in institutions or systems or platforms or, gods forbid, interest rates—you will run out of fucks.
Mandy Brown • A Unified Theory of Fucks
“The issue for mystics is not whether we use our language accurately to describe the world that is really there but whether we see that the things created by our language have the impermanence of foam on the face of the unnameable, the unknowable, the unutterable. For Aristotle and Descartes; the silence of animals that does not give rise to speech
... See moreOLLOS is an experiment that organizes everything in my personal computing environment on one unified timeline.
alexanderobenauer.com • Ollos
The entire
building is the computer.
building is the computer.
Dynamicland
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
Shaun Usher • What a world
Arnold Kling, an economist, published a book a decade ago that offered a way to think about the core difference between progressives and conservatives. Progressives, Kling wrote, see the world as a struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed, and they try to help the oppressed. Conservatives see the world as a struggle between civilization and... See more