Ambiguity Lightens the Mood or Deadens the Discourse

Ambiguity Lightens the Mood or Deadens the Discourse

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
— Voltaire (1694-1778)

Language Makes Mourning Sad and a planksip Palindrome at Noon

Ambiguity Lightens the Mood or Deadens the Discourse

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
— Voltaire (1694-1778)

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Voltaire - planksip

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his...

planksipChristine de Pizan

Fear is far from ideal, so why evoke the God hypothesis? Focus on the Good; intensions are shared amongst the pious and skeptics alike. Pathways to prosperity begin and end with an adaptive and consilient approach to the problems we face as a society. Start with the problem of knowledge, then move on to the problem of conduct, and finally the problem of governance.

Nice Time Reversal

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.

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... The Winter Morning is a Warm-Up

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
— Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

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Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life in the insurance industry.

planksipChristine de Pizan

Iterative Revisionists

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance, to ourselves, they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.
— Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

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Eudora Alice Welty was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist’s Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.

planksipNiccolò Machiavelli

Either or do not manifest in a row or any similar related sequence. Physics is the determiner of the universe, at least the language we use to describe it. Making sense out of sadness, mourning, noon and night give meaning to our brief time on this planet. Let's not ruin it for future sea men.

The Liberating Function of Logos

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
— José Saramago's (1922-2010)

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José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE, was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.

planksipDaniel Sanderson

The utility of the epiphenomenal self is self-limiting, governing and knowing. The logic of language isn't without its rhetoric form of convincing speech despite the redundancy of its probabilistic tendencies. The safe bet is a prudent strategy of limited abundance and living within the golden mean.

Moanin to Moanin

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
— Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.

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Saying, "moanin", in the morning makes mournings magical. Hey man, whatever floats your boat! Using language is something that is unique to our species, replicating ambiguity with the broad spectrum of a language defines consciousness with, and through a felt experience.

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