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Re: Pithy Quotes Thread
« Reply #75 on: February 27, 2015, 08:42:45 am »

I gotta say, this thread is excellent for separating the self-congratulating narcissists from everybody else.
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Re: Pithy Quotes Thread
« Reply #76 on: February 27, 2015, 08:44:53 am »

"If I ever get quoted from another person is that I am a horrible man in history or a great man in history."
So far, neither.

I figured if I ever get quoted, I would want it in the most esoteric way to confuse most amount of people.
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"100% of participants in a recent study decided to dodge the hunks of wood thrown at them rather than catch them, regardless of the pithiness of the wood in question." - throwing things at people is fun, especially when you can justify it with "its for science"
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"I might well flunk out of college due to this thread." -Capt. Ringo McClellan
"This is a ☼☼Quote☼☼, all craftsmanship is of the highest quality. It is made of bullshit and adorned with rings of loquaciousness. It menaces with spikes of recursion. On the bullshit is an engraving of McClellan and forumites in jaded ego. The McClellan is speaking, the forumites are disinterested. It refers to the establishment of the 'Pithy Quotes Thread' of 'Bay 12' in 2015."

I gotta say, this thread is excellent for separating the self-congratulating narcissists from everybody else.
"This is a ☼☼Quote☼☼, all craftsmanship is of the highest quality. It is made of bullshit and adorned with rings of loquaciousness. It menaces with spikes of recursion. On the bullshit is an engraving of McClellan and forumites in jaded ego. The McClellan is speaking, the forumites are disinterested. It refers to the establishment of the 'Pithy Quotes Thread' of 'Bay 12' in 2015."
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« Reply #77 on: February 27, 2015, 09:03:24 am »

Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!" -- As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated? -- Thus they yelled and laughed.

The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us -- for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."

Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke into pieces and went out. "I have come too early," he said then; "my time is not yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than most distant stars -- and yet they have done it themselves.

It has been related further that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his requiem aeternam deo. Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but: "What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?"


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Re: Pithy Quotes Thread
« Reply #78 on: February 27, 2015, 09:21:53 am »

Nietzsche? It feels like it's Nietzsche, or at least a similar school of thought. I've pondered such before, but cannot conclude the means by which we would even do such a deed. More aptly, though still arrogant, I would say we've banished God. Though some call for him to return, would he do so? I don't know. Perhaps. Perhaps not. At least, it seems, it hasn't happened yet.

EDIT: Though he's purported to still keep up correspondence with some, and I believe he has set signs in place, hidden in nature as plain things, that point to some evidence or notion of himself. Perhaps to point the way for those who wish to find him, perhaps as warning signs, perhaps just as a signature on a work... that is arguably in progress, but may well be completed.
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« Reply #79 on: February 27, 2015, 09:39:30 am »

Nietzsche? It feels like it's Nietzsche, or at least a similar school of thought. I've pondered such before, but cannot conclude the means by which we would even do such a deed. More aptly, though still arrogant, I would say we've banished God. Though some call for him to return, would he do so? I don't know. Perhaps. Perhaps not. At least, it seems, it hasn't happened yet.

EDIT: Though he's purported to still keep up correspondence with some, and I believe he has set signs in place, hidden in nature as plain things, that point to some evidence or notion of himself. Perhaps to point the way for those who wish to find him, perhaps as warning signs, perhaps just as a signature on a work... that is arguably in progress, but may well be completed.
It was a poetic metaphor entirely, Nietzsche loved his snappy one-liners.

The entire point was that the traditionally understood God as the source of Morality and the thought of the point of living being was to go to Heaven after you die was, as an idea, inadequate. At the time of his writing, the intellectual world at large had a massive crisis of values; Nietzsche's point was that there isn't a point to life, indeed - but so what? There isn't a rule you cannot make one for yourself.
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« Reply #80 on: February 27, 2015, 10:14:39 am »

Also, it's a really long reply that isn't a quote, even an original quote, in the sense that quote means a witty snippet or aphorism.

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« Reply #81 on: February 27, 2015, 10:16:13 am »

You guys know pithy is an actual adjective that means something right?  A lot of these quotes aren't pithy at all.

The pithiest quote of all, though, is "this."
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« Reply #82 on: February 27, 2015, 12:02:27 pm »

Ents have the pithiest of quotes.
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« Reply #83 on: February 27, 2015, 01:31:51 pm »

You guys know pithy is an actual adjective that means something right?  A lot of these quotes aren't pithy at all.

The pithiest quote of all, though, is "this."
Yeah... sorry about that. It's just all gone downhill since I posted the thread. (Not that the thread started that great either. ) It was inevitable, I suppose. I should've come down harder on the rules and reiterated that we were only supposed to make quotes not quote existing quotes, but it's far too late now.

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« Reply #84 on: February 27, 2015, 01:41:37 pm »

Considering the topic of God being mentioned, here's on I ran across once:

"It is better to believe and be wrong than to not believe at all.  For if you believe and are wrong, you have lost little, but if you do not and are wrong, then you have cost yourself a great deal."
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« Reply #86 on: February 27, 2015, 01:43:09 pm »

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« Reply #88 on: February 27, 2015, 02:33:02 pm »

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« Reply #89 on: February 28, 2015, 05:44:42 pm »

I gotta say, this thread is excellent for separating the self-congratulating narcissists from everybody else.
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Nietzsche? It feels like it's Nietzsche, or at least a similar school of thought. I've pondered such before, but cannot conclude the means by which we would even do such a deed. More aptly, though still arrogant, I would say we've banished God. Though some call for him to return, would he do so? I don't know. Perhaps. Perhaps not. At least, it seems, it hasn't happened yet.

EDIT: Though he's purported to still keep up correspondence with some, and I believe he has set signs in place, hidden in nature as plain things, that point to some evidence or notion of himself. Perhaps to point the way for those who wish to find him, perhaps as warning signs, perhaps just as a signature on a work... that is arguably in progress, but may well be completed.
It's Nietzsche. I read that passage just yesterday (although in German).

Considering the topic of God being mentioned, here's on I ran across once:

"It is better to believe and be wrong than to not believe at all.  For if you believe and are wrong, you have lost little, but if you do not and are wrong, then you have cost yourself a great deal."
That rests on the unproven assumption that believing is always a boon when it as well could be a bane. Just imagine a God who punished people who believed based on this kind of argument (a God valuing honesty above anything else would mean I definitely shouldn't dishonestly convince myself I believed in something I find utterly unbelievable).

Actually, let me put it like this:
"A God valuing honesty above anything else would mean I definitely shouldn't dishonestly convince myself I believed in something I find utterly unbelievable."
Seems much more official this way. :P
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