Thursday, February 18, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Postulate
"Permanent mild skepticism of everything is possibly the greatest guarantor of freedom from idealogical tyrannies."
I'm not entirely sure this is a postulate. It isn't one of mine either, it was a comment* on a friend's Facebook post* - but I just went hunting through three months' worth of timeline* activity for someone who's quite active on Facebook to find this. Why? It seems tailor made to describe the exact principle I live by. I'm therefore going to put it here so it's easily accessible for future reference.
*Social media terminology that I'm forced to use in my language, simply because it's become part of everybody's vocabulary. I can taste the bile rising up the back of my throat as I type these words out.
I'm not entirely sure this is a postulate. It isn't one of mine either, it was a comment* on a friend's Facebook post* - but I just went hunting through three months' worth of timeline* activity for someone who's quite active on Facebook to find this. Why? It seems tailor made to describe the exact principle I live by. I'm therefore going to put it here so it's easily accessible for future reference.
*Social media terminology that I'm forced to use in my language, simply because it's become part of everybody's vocabulary. I can taste the bile rising up the back of my throat as I type these words out.
Friday, November 13, 2015
Postulate
For the people (and there indubitably are) who have - or will accuse me of being cluttered and/or disorganised, let it be known that I was once in a library and, finding books by the same author on two different shelves, had to positively struggle to not move the wayward volumes to where they ought to be.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Postulate
Listening to this song, I can't help but wonder if the chap who invented Hindi had some sort of respiratory condition. Or perhaps it was always spoken when exercising. Why else would a language end with an exhalation after every sentence? Made to be ridiculed, isn't it, this
Monday, November 2, 2015
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