Words to Ponder Upon

[BaalChatzaf]

Homo liber nulla de re minus quam de morte cogitat; et ejus sapientia non mortis sed vitae meditatio est. SPINOZA'S Ethics, Pt IV, Prop. 67

(There is nothing over which a free man ponders less than death; his wisdom is, to meditate not on death but on life.)

quoted by Erwin Schrodinger speaking at Dublin University in 1944

From his Essay: What is Life?

[Brant Gaede]

It seems I was dead 14 billion years before I was born.

What's the BFD?

--Brant

it's like they never happened

[BaalChatzaf]

It seems I was dead 14 billion years before I was born.

What's the BFD?

--Brant

it's like it never happened

No. In the past you and I did not exist for the longest time and in the not to distant future neither of us will exist for the longest time.

[Brant Gaede]

No, what? I was being L I T E R A R Y.

For example (another example): "The world was made when I was born and the world is mine to win."

Of course I was not "dead" before I was alive. Nor will I be "dead" after I die. I won't be anything. "Dead" is nothing. "Dead" is all in the head.

--Brant

[BaalChatzaf]

No, what? I was being L I T E R A R Y.

For example (another example): "The world was made when I was born and the world is mine to win."

Of course I was not "dead" before I was alive. Nor will I be "dead" after I die. I won't be anything. "Dead" is nothing. "Dead" is all in the head.

--Brant

Ahh. Now you speak wisdom, Grasshopper...

[Brant Gaede]

I will be a corpse until "I" gets tossed into the incinerator.

--Brant

don't argue with a corpse--you'll look foolish