User:72/Thoughts

Thoughts
''In a dark wasteland sits a man seemingly doing nothing. Indeed, his brain is doing nothing. But every once in a while, a woman in a distant room presses an electric light switch that she believes is broken, and it sends a huge jolt through the man's body. In that tenth of a second, a fully-formed phrase appears in his brain, and a large, electronic device transcribes what he thought. While 99% of these occurrences generate nonsense, the few thoughts considered worthwhile are presented below.''


 * I love you because of the things you do, and I love everything you do because of what you are.


 * If all we ever did was love, the world wouldn't turn. And if all we ever did was keep the world going, we'd want to jump off it.


 * Sorry if I laugh at my own wit; I have spent so much time with no company but my brain, I have grown accustomed to its sense of humour.


 * A dialogue:
 * “Doctor, for my difficulty in telling dreams from reality, you installed this light which only turns on when I am awake. But it does not work.”
 * “Why, what's the matter?”
 * “Sometimes I dream that the light is on.”


 * There is a difference between good grammar and good poetry: good grammar is the cries of the mind, but filtered through the rules of what’s okay to say or not.


 * An English teacher who doesn’t speak French doesn’t understand English.


 * TRAGEDY:
 * It is tragedy when one dies.
 * It would be tragedy if all but one died and that one survived.
 * ∴ It is tragedy if one survives.
 * ∴ Tragedy is inevitable.


 * It is not tragedy if all die (having nobody to perceive it as tragic).
 * ∴ It is not tragedy if, all but one having died, that one dies.
 * ∴ It is not tragedy if one dies.
 * ∴ WTF.


 * Okay, fine; we’ll make a compromise: 2+2=4.5


 * Dear telemarketer: regarding Call Privacy; although it’s a wonderful invention, it hardly conceals you. If I get ten calls from Call Privacy, I can be fairly sure it’s you.


 * You may never lie to retain your job as teacher. Your job is to communicate the truth. If you must lie to maintain that position, you save its existence and gut its purpose—you lose any reason to have saved it.


 * In the forest it's all alive: creatures, plants, even the air is filled with tiny life. Humans seem to have forgotten they are living beings, because they choose, instead, the company of dead things: walls, computers, vehicles. Eventually they'll realize they don’t fit in with their preferred company, and will either go back to the forest or assimilate themselves with the nonliving.


 * There are some who apply a certain entrepreneur’s sense to Christianity, reasoning that God is giving away salvation so cheap because, well, it really isn’t worth much. In truth, he paid for the item himself.


 * So much has been said about love - so many deeds and characteristics attributed to it - that it’s quite amazing we have any clear idea of what it is.


 * The sign of selflessness is when the helper is more pitiable than those they helped.


 * I am so anxious to get my coffee in the morning that when I finally do drink it, it’s very relaxing.


 * The worst thing about a chicken, onion, and tomato pizza is that it has the distinct flavour of a chicken, onion, and tomato sandwich.


 * Everyone likes the music of the superstars, but everyone’s favourite song is by a lesser-known artist.


 * I became skeptical about philosophy being taught in school when I read in my textbook, "Are there any propositions which you currently believe, but which are false?"


 * Don’t wish for a camera; wish your friends were there to see it.


 * Making an ethical appeal to the wrong person is what's called making an ethical appeal to the right person.


 * A dialogue:
 * “You can’t stop taking your medicine! If you did, today might be your last day alive.”
 * “If today were my last day alive, I’d certainly stop taking my medicine!”


 * If girls notice that men are full of themselves, it’s because when a girl notices something about a boy he feels like he must be worth a great deal.


 * No one has it right—not even the people who admit they don’t have it right.


 * If you are presented with a question to which you can neither give a definitive yes nor no, it’s the wrong question.


 * One life is a miracle; a million deaths can’t compare.


 * When I see things with “Dermatologically tested, laboratory tested... etc other claims,” I wonder, “What were the results?”


 * I have heard good and bad things about optimism. I see now we are not talking about the same thing. Optimism about the present is a matter of perception, and is subject to flaw or wishful thinking; but there can be no fault with optimism for the future.


 * Many obstacles keep a man from what he wants; but the only things between a man and God are the sort that the first puts up and the latter tears down.


 * A church should never be an organization that would operate the same whether or not there was actually a God behind the fog.


 * Death? You actually believe there's such a thing? Lemme tell ya, kid, not a SINGLE person currently on Earth has EVER died. Not once in their lives!


 * 72 User_Seventy_two_Truly_Random.jpg (UTC) 22:03, 23 January 2010 (UTC)