Presente Futuro Passado

"Tudo é o agora" - em um pensamento intrínseco, particular, talvez seja esta a melhor solução.
"O passado está morto" - aí encontramos claramente algo que nunca saíra do plano das idéias. A morte ao passado nunca virá. Talvez ao futuro sim. É mais fácil matar o que ainda não possui vida propriamente dita. Mas o passado, mesmo que só em pensamento, talvez seja o único possuidor do deleite utópico da vida eterna.
"Você faz seu destino" - ah, o futuro... O grande mistério. Expectativas, ideais, sonhos.
O presente só é o presente que é, pelo passado que foi. O futuro jamais vai ser o futuro que seria, se o passado fosse diferente.
Muitas vezes olhamos para o agora perguntando: "Por que?". Acharíamos tal porquê nas justificativas do passado, ou nas atitudes do presente? O futuro pode depender do passado, mas quando o futuro chegar, o presente já se foi. Pois então, a qual pensamento seguir, acreditar?
O hoje é o 'olhar pra trás' de amanhã. Ninguém criou nosso passado para nós. Nós criamos nosso presente e, daí, chegaremos enfim à lógica conclusão de que nós, somente nós, criamos nosso futuro.

Humanity is not to be trusted.

This was a really harsh conclusion for me to make. A very painful conclusion. Because you know I used to have this theory that "There are no strangers. Only friends you haven't met yet." When to a certain degree that's true... But it's just not that simple. You cannot trust humanity. I mean why do you think we have locks on our doors? Alarms in our cars? Guns in our holsters? Cops on our streets? Passwords on our bank accounts? If we trusted humanity... If humanity was trustworthy, do you think these things would exist?

People might disagree with me. People may say I'm looking at the glass half empty. People might say that people are intrinsically good. I do agree! In the movie 'Love Actually', I loved the introduction. About how on September 11, all the people at the airports were calling their families and friends out of love and a genuine concern and empathy. I mean, we were all cute babies once. Even the worst murdering sadistic rapist alive was once a cute innocent little baby who you would never think could eventually be capable of such despicable atrocity. Even our worst enemies were once carried by mothers who loved them enough to feed them and take care of them. I mean, even if you do nothing to a baby but feed him/her and change his/her diapers. If you just let the baby sit there in the crib without giving him/her constant contact and love by touching and holding him/her, the baby will die. Babies can't survive on just food alone. They need love. So just the simple fact that someone is still alive means that somebody loved them enough to keep them alive for so long. So humanity isn't all bad. But that's not my point...

I guess what I'm trying to say is, this is the world we live in. If you are swimming in the ocean and see a shark swimming after you, you don't ask the shark : "Why Mr. Shark!? Why did you eat my arms and my legs and my babies?! You horrible horrible douche! Let's have an argument! You and me Mr. Shark! I'll give out the opening statement!"
You don't ask or question why. In the same way that you don't question why we have to have locks on our doors, or alarms in our cars, or police in our streets. I mean, it's a shark. Sharks are stupid. It's what they do. Sharks WILL kill. There is absolutely nothing you can do about that. But there is one thing you CAN do: Stay away from the sharks! It's a huge ocean out there. But even so, avoiding sharks completely is eventually impossible. Not just sharks, but we're going to run into other fucker douche bag fish, like jelly fish and piranha and electric eel and all that. But that doesn't mean we have to stay out of the water. There are so many things to do out in the ocean, like scuba, and snorkel and jet ski, and surf. We can't let a bunch of douche bag fish take that away from us...

By TONY ISIDRO.

Fear or laziness?

"There are two kinds of sufferers in this world:
those who suffer from a lack of life...
and those who suffer from an overabundance of life.
I've always found myself in the second category.
When you come to think of it,
almost all human behavior and activity...
is not essentially any different from animal behavior.
The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship...
bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level.
Actually, the gap between,
say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human...
is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee
and the average human.
The realm of the real spirit,
the true artist, the saint, the philosopher,
is rarely achieved.
Why so few?
Why is world history and evolution not stories of progress...
but rather this endless and futile addition of zeroes?
No greater values have developed.
Hell, the Greeks years ago were just as advanced as we are.
So what are these barriers that keep people...
from reaching anywhere near their real potential?
The answer to that can be found in another question,
and that's this:
Which is the most universal human characteristic --
fear or laziness?"

Waking Life.

Crepúsculo dos Ídolos

O erro oriundo da confusão entre causa e conseqüência.

- Não há nenhum erro mais perigoso do que confundir a conseqüência com a causa: eu o denomino a própria perversão da razão. Apesar disso este erro pertence aos hábitos mais antigos e mais recentes da humanidade. Ele é mesmo santificado entre nós e porta o nome da "religião", da "moral". Todas as proposições que a religião e a moral formulam encerram-no. Sacerdotes e legisladores morais são os autores dessa perversão da razão.

Nietzsche.