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12:33

Ir vārdi, kuru rakstībā konsekventi iekļauju [backspace]. Kinda life.

• Saki

12:43 - idiotiska pārliecība

Fanī - grūti būtu izgudrot vēl tumšāku čūsku midzeni par Saeimu, bet, vot, tauta aizvien izvēlas tieši to par savu pasaules gaismu.

Tiešām ir tik grūti atzīt "es nezinu, ko darīt!" tā vietā, lai vnk balsotu par visu, par ko liek - vienalga, vai tā būtu Eiropas Savienība, Saeima, Ādolfs vai tradīcija.

• Saki

12:53 - willy

The search for certitude - like the pretense of moral righteousness - appears to me as a medieval habit that should have vanished long ago. None of us knows enough to be certain about anything, usually, and none of us are nearly as 'moral' as we feel obliged to pretend we are in order to be acceptable to 'Decent' Society.

If we are not totally stupid and blindly selfish on all possible occasions, we are about as bright and ethical as anyone in history has ever been. The greatest batters in the history of baseball all had batting averages well below 0.500, which means they missed more than half the time they swung. Medieval morality and theology have left us with the hypocritical habit of pretending batting averages close to 0.999 in both knowledge and ethics. (The Absolutists go around talking and acting as if their averages were actually 1.000 or sheer perfection.) On average, I think I score under Babe Ruth and I suspect you do, too.

There thus appears to be a great deal of conceit and self - deception in the habitual poses of intellectual certitude and ethical perfection among the educated classes. It would appear more in keeping with honesty, I think, to recognize, as analogous to Murphy's Law, the unscientific but useful generalization I call the Cosmic Schmuck Principle.

The Cosmic Schmuck Principle holds that if you don't wake up, once a month at least, and realize that you have been acting like a Cosmic Schmuck again then you will probably go on acting like a cosmic schmuck forever; but if you do, occasionally, recognize your Cosmic Schmuckiness, then you might begin to become a little less Schmucky that [sic!] the general human average at this primitive stage of terrestrial evolution.
/ Robert Anton Wilson, "Natural Law" /

• Saki

12:56 - font much?

• Saki

15:45 - faulty by design

Kāda līksmība valdītu, ja pēkšņi tiktu izsludināts, ka atceltas tās sacensības - kurš būs vislabākais.

• Saki

18:15

fleedom

• Saki

19:46 - In the God we trust

Šķiet, ka noteiktais artikuls "the" spēj piedauzīt kristiešu "God" krustā kā nekas cits.
"Do you know the God?"
"Jesus was the God, you know."
"The God, please have mercy on me, for you are the God."

Es nez, vismaz man liekas riktīgi ņirdzīgs artikuls.

• Saki