PROMETHEAN OBSERVER

1.
Whatever one my say of the "Tabula Rasa" view of humans, I believe that environmental conditioning only works on mice, sheep, and a large percent of the human population.

2.
What am I going to did with my life?

3.
Classical:
Something worth preserving.

Contemporary:
Something that no one knows if it's worth preserving yet.

4.
Be consistent..., Subvert everything.

5.
...With a fist raised to heaven and an extended middle finger waved at the ground below...

6.
It's most natural for humans to be unnatural.

7.
Give a million monkeys infinite time and they just might randomly type out a work by Shakespeare – maybe.

Give a trillion-trillion-trillion, etc…subatomic particles enough time to interact randomly and they will most certainly produce a universe – Shakespeare included.

8.
How many Leftists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

None, they're too busy ranting about the "injustice" of having to screw in a light bulb.

9.
Guilty until proven innocent:
Isn't it an odd semantic quirk when people say, "It was a child," or, "it was a dog,"...and "they're so innocent," the implication being that if you're an adult human, you're automatically guilty of something.

I say we hold trials for all kids under the age of 6 and any animal that looks deceptively cute to determine if they are indeed "innocent" as claimed. If not, they get no treats of any kind for a week. As for the "guilty" adult humans -- make them attend sales meetings at large insurance companies – and Barbara Streisand concerts.

10.
"Come on everyone. Lets all join hands with total strangers of diverse backgrounds, class, and lifestyle for a big insincere group hug."

11.
Miracle saints and lunch items :
The famous grilled cheese sandwich auctioned on e-Bay that had a “miracle” image of the Virgin Mary was actually not so impressive because, in the bible itself (many people don't know this), Mary was actually described as looking somewhat like a grilled cheese sandwich – “and she was of note to be one half cubit in length and breadth and had a complexion akin to lightly toasted bread – and orange colored melted cheese.”

12.
God, who doesn't exist, is laughing at us...for believing that he does exist...

13.
“Bleed the productive…win valuable gifts and prizes.”

14.
Age is youth in motion.

15.
Hollywood has become a mere venue for rich individuals and corporations (the entertainment industry) to bitch about other rich individuals and corporations (every other free market expression of products, services, and ideas).

16.
One picture can attempt to sway thoughts like a thousand words but is often "worth" only one word – "deception."

17.
I like art..and my wife has art on her face.

18.
People who say they “are not taking a side” will typically be taking the opposite side from yours.

19.
Anyone who says they “don't take sides” is probably taking the side of your enemy.

20.
Guess I'm just not a "rebel" ...like everyone else, who is a rebel?

21.
"True love" is what occurs when you basically find someone who can tolerate your nonsense.

22.
Wanting a sex change is perfectly normal. Almost everyone would like a change ...from some sex to more sex.

23.
No one should be "obedient" to anything beyond common civility or efficient productivity.  All else is icing of shit on a cake of ass.

24.
The most difficult thing to save someone from is their own stupidity.


25.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and blatant stupidity.

26.
Clothing or lack of clothing has its effect no doubt but, the sexiest thing a woman can do is to look and act like she wants sex (yes this is from a guy's perspective).

27.
Seeing the object when there appears to be an object allows there to be an object.

28.
Savor all that pleases the moment, and leave leftovers for unpleasing moments.

29.
Regardless of how much free will one may exercise, all events become fate after they have taken place.

30.
Response to those who believe some random guy is or was “God:”
The creator of the universe probably doesn't have hair.

31.
Ultimately, everyone's academic degree is a “B.S.” degree.

32.
If God “made 'man' in his own image” we are faced with the rather odd concept of the creator of the universe modeling monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees similar to his own image.

33.
Don't plug your brain into anything but the thoughts of your choice.

34.
The only true reality occupies the immediate moment,
…and it’s gone already.

35.
Laugh at all nonsense that comes your way...and realize that it occurs everyday.

36.
Steal fun and games and laugh at the fools who left them unnoticed.

37.
Comeback to a faceless bureaucrat: "I'm sorry, what exactly was the role I had asked you to play in my life?"

38.
If you "can't judge a book by its cover" it makes one wonder why books have covers (?)

39.
Comedy, philosophy, and the arts are all channels that allow us to cry, laugh, and stand awestruck at the daily things and events we see around us that we are so accustomed to that we miss them for their impact or beauty.

40.
Ambiguity is everywhere and when things are otherwise even that is transient.  Inhale the vapors, refine the vision, and lie still in epiphanies large and small.

41.
See the writing on the wall,…and start editing it.

42.
That's all he terrorists are fighting "for" -- hoping to get the 72 virgins "in heaven" that they can't get here.  In more mundane circumstances we usually just call such folks losers.  But more fervent. They're just plain, "sore losers."

43.
"Reality is perhaps too obvious.  So it is that works of the creative imagination (Art) bring such satisfaction.  They are ultimately stealth depictions of reality.  The most fanciful or bizarre creative work on some level reminds us of the absolute marvel of the mundane that surrounds us daily.  No one marvels at a supermarket, but put that supermarket on another planet and stock it with the same items morphed to another paradigm with shoppers of the same variety as those we see daily -- albeit more wondrous form -- and we are "entertained." 

44.
Somewhere there's a drought and somewhere there's a flood and somewhere someone is tucking in a toddler and another is savagely spilling blood.  In the end it all means that numbers increase possibilities.  Often tragic when it's your number.  A mere column in a newspaper when it's someone else's.

45.
Find a person who sees vast intrigues and conspiracies in world events and you'll find someone whose personal life is dramatically uninteresting.

46.
The future may be in the same book, but it's a different chapter now.

47.
I want to start a religion where you get the 72 virgins now (actually they don't have to be virgins – I never did quite understand that aspect of Muslim "paradise").

48.
(In reference to a common astrology saying); "The stars do not compel but impel" -- and meteors just fall on your head.

49.
Frustration…Self-induced failure leads to aggression.

50.
Everything in moderation is for people who can tolerate the deprivation of moderation.

51.
I must confess that the most significant branch of my philosophy is I'm-pissed-o-mology.

52.
Being “wrong” means not being right, according to someone else…

53.
Shyoga-nai…Nai! (You have to live in Japan and disagree with one of its major cultural ideals to understand this).

54.
Reality only occupies the immediate present…and it (the immediate present) is gone already.

55.
Are not all events that touch our lives but mere catalysts to those that follow?

56.
Pretend you're in a movie. Know your pretending, know it's a movie, ...and all will be fine.

57.
'Mind if I smoke...Oh Hell!, 'mind if I burst into flames?

58.
No more bad please.

59.
Aristotle and Plato reconciled:

60.
The whole world is a ghost.
Matter only looks “real” because we're in the same dream with it...On the other hand, it's appropriate to acknowledge the tangibility and significance of something you share a world with. Even a ghost can probably be cut in the world it dwells in.

61.
There's nothing worse than a “no-it-all” that doesn't know anything.

62.
Wouldn't it be funny if god wore a hat.
63.
The word, "dread" probably fails to capture the feeling of...dread. At such times, one may hope to summon such ineffective words to one's side and we can only hope that there may be a part of the universe that secretly knows that nuance of our feelings and later gives us credit to the loses which come our way...

64.
Most people don't even know what's going on after it happened.

65.
It could be that the only reason people exist at all is so that food has a place to travel.

66.
If one's life is relatively happy and significant, there will not likely be a need to meddle in the affairs of others. The left is typically not happy and their lives never quite significant enough for their ego's satisfaction.

67.
We're riding on the crest of a wave of immediate reality, poised on an ocean of mere memory or anticipation.

68.
The past would never happen if the future didn't want it to.

69.
"Matter can neither be created or destroyed."
That concept can probably be taken a step higher. Matter is ultimately a manifestation of an archetypal principal (see the writings of C.G. Jung) – the crystallization of form.
It is a base archetype that can neither be created or destroyed. Being-ness can only Be, fragment, dissipate, diversify, and its pieces interact in either harmony or discord.
Matter is just the most obvious "thing" in this process -- to us at least -- but we're made out of matter so no attempted insight by us can ultimately be all-encompassing.

70.
The most random events can be considered fate...after they occur. Thus, the difference between caprice and destiny in the universe ultimately resides in the mere reference point in time one observes from.

71.
While “early to bed” may offer health, wealth, and wisdom, “early to rise” is to be avoided
at all costs.

72.
“Don't sweat the small stuff...It's all small stuff” is the creed of someone who doesn't know how to measure.

73.
Aging is a steady progression of coming to know and accept how insignificant one is in the grand scheme of things.

74.
He became a weight around the necks of anyone who came within proximity to him. When walking into a room that was completely quiet it somehow became quieter.

75.
If the only thing you symbolize is yourself, then you and what you symbolize isn't very noteworthy.

76.
The point at which a tragedy becomes printed on a T-shirt is the point when it ceases to be a tragedy.

77.
The imagined past and imaginary future are in pervasive tension with a willingness to accept the real present.

78.
God created the universe;... and since then it's all been pretty much just an act.

79.
A fine symphony is as if beauty itself had been cut from the air by a mind lathe.

80.
“How can you say such things?” ...well, easy actually. And the ease of saying them is facilitated by the fact that they are true.

81.
Death is when all of life becomes nothing but memory.

82.
It is a fact of human psychology that we can be "having a bad time" when in fact, nothing bad is happening. And, conversely, we can be having a good time when nothing particularly good is happening.

83.
I don't think that god comes in a book.

84.
Tomorrow has always happened.
85.
There's something sad about the future when it becomes a memory.

86.
Those who fail to see the magic aren't blind...they're stupid.87.
My shoes even hurt when I'm not wearing them...

88.
Some sheep have no problem with the smell of lamb chops.‏

89.
I'm not a day person,...why does life so insist that I adopt manners alien to my nature?, so foul to my urgent striving for tranquility?

90.
We're all here today and gone tomorrow and can only hope that after the show we get to watch reruns for eternity...or something like that.

91. People are often amazed at the prophetic skill some people have when, in fact, a common sense awareness of human nature and creative capacity could come to the same conclusions just as easily. An accurate appraisal of the human condition and its development arises not from being a genius but by simply not being blind.

92. "When you look into the Abyss [ the Abyss couldn't care less ]." -- Cliff paraphrasing Nietzsche

93. The Japanese "way" is to sacrifice one's personal happiness to the ends of arbitrary rules of inconvenience, inefficiency, and atmospheric ugliness.

94. A town that tolerates a shitty ambience will ultimately perpetuate that shitty ambience. Ugliness will flourish. A town where beauty springs up will reach a critical point where ugliness will ultimately be banished. Aesthetics are contagious.

95. ...clinging to the past in hopes of preventing the end of the future

96. Consensus is when everyone agrees to be stupid.

97. He's so open-minded that he thinks everyone should agree with him.

98. Self deprivation is stupid.

99. ...Their capacity to feign stupidity was augmented by the fact that they were stupid.

100. You know the world's going to hell when all your paranoid fantasies are actually materializing.

101. I'm going to wait until the end of the world before I panic about the end of the world.

102. Being “smart” doesn't give one a license to be stupid.

103. Sometimes a position is mistaken or naïve – sometimes it's just stupid.

104. Life is basically a series of interruptions that intrude upon sleeping.

105. The movement of events in time

The progressions and developments we perceive in time intuitively seem to occur in orderly succession ("past" to "future"). Such perception leads one to believe that all creative acts and events occur from a sort of symbolic "push" forward -- the events of the past and present produce the future. But, we don't have to perceive it that way. It is every bit as realistic to perceive reality as being "pulled" toward what has already been determined to be.

From the broadest of perspectives -- beyond time so to speak -- everything that can or will occur has, at some future time, already occurred. In that sense, the perceived "push" into the future is actually a natural process of events being drawn forward by what has already "occurred." This would present an amazing but completely plausible scenario in which the universe was existing in a perpetually cycling loop, producing itself from itself - a recurring state of always producing itself yet having always been.

Another analogy would be to look upon existence as being akin to a motion picture film or chapters in a book, where the characters in each frame or chapter are clearly embedded in their moments of time having passed various demarcation points and moving toward a future that is already very much there but is yet unknown to "them."

106. Laugh in advance about what will no doubt transpire. 107. Everything's a memory and everything was a memory. Nothing really happens and nothing really happened before. 108. Everything that's now, Is not happening. And everything that's then, Never happened. And everything that's here will be the underlying truth you'll see, The veil of illusion hides nothing. And nothing hides nothing more than mere uncertainty. 109. If Japan was really being"Americanized," it would be considerably more efficient, creative, and individualistic, and it would be unscarred by excessive concrete, electrical wires, mold stains, and abrasive sounds. No, in daily life, most of Japan is notably not Americanized.... Regarding the general tendency for Japanese people to endure discomfort and inefficiency: ...we left the cave long ago, ...but apparently they didn't get the memo. 110. Remember to remind me to remember not to forget to remember that.‏ 111. Thinking outside the box first requires that on get out of the box. 112. Everything is only now, but keeps on happening anyway. 113. Much of my world view is based upon what I've observed in a cup of coffee after pouring cream into it -- eddies of repose, chaos, harmony, and dissonance. 114. I'm here to remind the Saturn people that there's a little part of the universe they will never have authority over. 115. A true friend is someone who always takes your side...even when you're wrong. A true person of substance is someone who always at least takes A SIDE because they have the wisdom and insight to know that one side IS wrong. 116. Etiquette and manners, superficial as they may appear, are in fact subtle methods of establishing and maintaining societal order. 117. The real world is a mixed bag, full of terror, injustice, and squalor...or, peace, tranquility, and beauty. The world of ideals and the fervent desire to impose them has always taken the same path. The real world is full of disappointment, ...but the "promised land" is drenched in blood. 118. If age is good for anything, it offers a wider assortment of flashbacks. 119. Good music is so much better than music that isn't good. 120. It isn't so much the malice or cruelty that bothers me so much as the stupidity and incompetence. 121. I want to be the only one who's like me. 122. I want to live. Some just want to exist. There's a difference. 123. The main problem is that everything and everyone are everywhere all the time. 124. It's virtually impossible to be highly perceptive and not at least a little paranoid. 125. The fun never ends and the tragedies keep on giving. 126. If one imagines taking what one has garnered in a lifetime with them upon death, it should be clear that an awareness of things profound and moving trump the tedium of cheap entertainment fare and mundane acceptance of the vapid. 127. A breeze in the trees is better than a plastic home fixture. A mahogany wood surface is superior to a gold plastic clock, a lush green field is superior to a rusty strip of corrugated metal and, the refined strains of a symphony are better food for the soul than a cheap loud pop tune. Nothing is relative. Hierarchy exists everywhere in nature and beyond...better is better! 128. In spite of all the nonsense endured, when the movie comes out I want to play me. 129. Hard work is rewarding" is the statement of someone who never learned just how rewarding hard leisure can be. 130. When you die, all that trails behind you is a story. Your objective should be that it's a good story. 131. Understanding basic beauty, even in one's mundane daily circumstance (fashion, interior arrangements, etc.) is a type of common sense. Like other types of common sense, it's one that many people simply don't have. 132. We shall forever be both dying and on the verge of birth while assigning significance to the shallow point between. 133. Intelligence defined: One’s ability and desire to interact with the environment and one’s own thoughts. Creativity occurs when these interactions become tangible. 134. When you really think about it, the whole purpose of work is to get some time where you don't have to work. 135. If stone was sentient, granite would no doubt belittle or praise sandstone’s tendency to erode more quickly. 136. Somewhere in the definition of intelligence, one must surely include a capacity and inclination for a quality level of awareness. It strikes me so often that some people go into a new environment, gaze upon a beautiful scene, or be informed of an interesting fact, and they remain completely unaware and oblivious to to such stimulation. The environment is a stimulus. To be valid in human terms requires a response. Many among us are, unfortunately, unresponsive to even simple objects or actions. We are, however, fortunate to have others who, in their daily routine say,"what's that?, Isn't that amazing, isn't that interesting, I think that is beautiful, that looks different than it was the last time I saw it," or "tell me more about..." 137. The movie had enough eye candy to rot the teeth in the Cheshire Cat's grin. 138. A rough scale of intelligence can be gauged by the degree of complexity required to keep one from being bored -- in a sense, intellectual restlessness. 139. Everyone is born and everyone dies But, not everyone has a life between the two. 140. Some things are nice and some things are shitty. Knowing the difference should be easy... but for most people, it’s not. 141. The successful result of a search for truth is the realization that you will never find it. 142. We have about as much free will as a thunderstorm that chooses to happen on Friday at 3 o'clock. 143. Life is the beginning and the end crying for the attention of everything in between. 144. If there’s a heaven, we have every reason and right to complain when we get there. 145. For those so refined, the prime struggle of existence is between those who wish to be left alone with knowledge, peace, and beauty and those who wish to deprive them of these simple things. 146. America used to be a place to go to get away from everybody. Today, everybody’s there. ...now where we gonna go? 147. What you observe is a symptom of what is. 148. In the west, and particularly in America, the approach to life is primarily that of seeking the highest degree of happiness, satisfaction, and comfort. In Japan this is almost juxtaposed to that of merely maintaining a willingness to tolerate what one is capable of bearing. 149. Everything is fate after it happens...and nothing is fated before then. 150. I forgot to remember to remind you to remind me to remember something...but, I forgot what it was.

# posted by Promethean Antagonist @ January 21, 2006