I dunno man For all that I've been called a smug atheist or vindictive anti-Christian I wish I were still religious pretty damn often I just can't, because from where I'm sitting I've seen too much and know too much
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The whole of human history and culture and literature and art is one big lie, one big act of will to try to make the world that actually exists disappear and replace it with something else
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Hell that's what THE HUMAN MIND is, all the psychological structures of memory, imagination, language, symbolism, narrative that separate us from other animals It's our capacity to bullshit a world inside your head to replace the one on front of your eyes
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If - or rather when - the human race torches this planet in nuclear fire and all that's left of us is our books and pictures and stories the best all of us collectively can hope for is that future alien archeologists will remember our bullshit about ourselves and not the reality
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Morgan Gendel did a comic book followup to his award winning episode of Star Trek TNG "The Inner Light" (the one with Picard's flute), with a shocking reveal where they actually do find frozen people from the planet the simulation came from and discover that it was a fraud
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It was a sanitized Little House on the Prairie style mockup of what their world was like It was literature, not history The creator of the sim programmed herself into it as the protagonist's wife to be remembered as a perfect version of herself
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It's depressing, but it's also completely predictable Immediately you realize that if you were to embark on a project like the one they did with their little space probe, that's what you do Who the hell wouldn't do it
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I guess if I were to start a new relationship that would be my test question "Will you lie about me at my funeral" And refusing would be a red flag but ESPECIALLY the romantic maudlin refusal "What would I have to lie about"
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That's what love is "I agree to believe the lies you believe about yourself, if you believe the lies I believe about myself" If you don't understand or accept that you're fucking useless
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I agree with most of this, but especially this. My siblings and I, when we were writing eulogies for my dad, were determined to be honest - but we had really long & specific discussions of HOW honest, honest in what WAYS, WHY to include or exclude some bits. Tactical honesty.
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We wanted to make people reach a new perspective and confront some uncomfortable truths - but not all of them, and not in a shock jock way. Radical honesty would have been sadism. So even for all our honesty - lies of omission were critical.
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