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QotD 27 Sep: Absurdity
In an absurd world, seriousness is the ultimate absurdity.—Charles L. Weatherford
Published in Group Writing
Well played. 🤪
The ultimate absurdity is to run their nonsense through the Mill of Logic in front of them and let them see the intellectual wreckage that results. Then smile and say “You mean like that?”
Yep, and for that, you have to be serious.
I love Weatherford’s books, but it’s rare to find a quote like this one.
If he’d get off here more often, maybe he would finish the third in the series.
Hey, Gary, or anybody else who knows, how you link things like that… I’ve tried, but I’m an Irishman, we don’t trust things like computers.
Nothin’ to it. Highlight the link you’re guiding us to, do a CTRL-C, come on back to Ricochet and make a comment. Highlight the words that trigger the link, hit the “chain link” symbol on top of this comment box, and do a CTRL-V to copy the URL into it. Voila.
Thank you!
Surely you can’t be serious!
When Charles Weatherford talks, people listen.
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As fierce an objection to Sartre as one could ask for.
I am Sirius, and quit calling me Shirley.
A religious person is someone who takes G-d with the utmost seriousness while not taking himself seriously at all.
reminds me of the Orwell quote “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”