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This rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light turne
... See more"Nietzsche’s statement ‘God is dead’ had said the unsayable to an age unwilling to go so far as to acknowledge the obvious: that without belief in the divine there was no longer any moral authority for the laws that had persisted throughout the civilisation built over the last two thousand years." (Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!)
To sum up our contention so far, we may say that the most characteristic current philosophies have not only a touch of mania, but a touch of suicidal mania. The mere questioner has knocked his head against the limits of human thought; and cracked it.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
Dieu ne figure pas dans ce tableau car les êtres humains qui L’ont inventé L’ont également tué. Nous sommes désormais livrés à nous-mêmes. Vivre c’est nous jeter non pas dans la foi, mais dans nos vies propres, en les conduisant dans l’affirmation de chaque instant, exactement tel qu’il est, sans espérer quoi que ce soit de différent, ni nourrir d’
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