What is the most profound statement that you have ever read? For me it’s pic related
>>23982343hardly profound. it's a popular mathematical truism.> I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.> REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.> Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—> YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.> So we can believe the big ones?> YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.> They're not the same at all!> YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET… AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME… SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.> Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point?> MY POINT EXACTLY.
For me it's the first time i read the apology of socrates. A bit big for a "statement" but he took a sledgehammer to my fear of death. These days the dread is more a weed than a matter of fact.
>>23982343>The complex exponential represents a rotation in the complex planeAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'M GOING FUCKING INSANE AAAAAAAAAAAAfucking pseud
