"The meaning of life?"

Oh, oh, do this one next:

"My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

fair enough

“A journal — any writing — is a chance at immortality, or if not eternal life, at least a little more life, a little more after death” (Elisa Gabbert, 'Any Person is the Only Self,' pp. 102f).

#SundaySentence #journaling #writing @bookstodon #meaningoflife

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work against each other is contrary to nature; and resentment and rejection count as working against someone.
 
[γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν: ἀντιπρακτικὸν δὲ τὸ ἀγανακτεῖν καὶ ἀποστρέφεσθαι.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) [tr. Gill (2013)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7491…

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I have to tell you, buddy

Every time I think about abstract concepts in depth I eventually feel like I go full circle and end up where I started. Like one of these impossible geometry drawings by Escher. Often I don't really come to a satisfying conclusion beyond: "shit's complex and fucked up".

While I am keenly aware of the fact that my own cognition imposes limits on the degree of my understanding - that is the complexity of mental models I can realistically draft up and employ to make sense of the world - I cannot help but wonder if this circular nature of reasoning is somehow symptomatic of some fundamental laws of nature. An expression of some circular property of reality. The carousel goes around and round and round and round. Get on for another round!

#WilliamGrassie - What are the #UltimateQuestions of #Nature?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcxzaJjIslE

Man... Even 1980s Monty Python know what up.

https://vimeo.com/111458975

life is either
inherently worth living
or not at all

#Poetry #Senryu
#Philosophy #MeaningOfLife #Purpose
#MentalHealth

Still on the fence :/

Bonus points for black-and-white thinking.

Sometimes it's important to focus on the big questions. The big picture. The things that really matter and define life in this big, beautiful world.

Questions such as...

Why TF is the Tooheys jingle stuck in my head?

A quotation from Thoreau, Henry David:

«
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/72667/

Galaxy Song

a song written by Eric Idle and John Du Prez
from ‘Monty Python's 1983 film ‘The Meaning of Life’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

There was the sound of faint footsteps far away in the darkness. They approached, slowly and deliberately. And stopped. A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. Another voice said: One, two, three, four— And the universe came into being. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. This had shape. It had rhythm. It had a beat, and you could dance to it.
Everything did.

T. Pratchett

A quotation from Omar Khayyam:

«
YESTERDAY This Day’s Madness did prepare;
TO-MORROW’S Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/5221/

A quotation from Watterson, Bill:

«
CALVIN: God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind I will never die.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/watterson-bill/4069/