Help with a quotation... "Life is..."

head-case · January 28, 2008, 02:35:25 PM

Quote from: Joe Barron on January 28, 2008, 02:23:18 PM
Well, there you go. Socrates demanded specificiity and held that truth, ultimate truth, could be known and named. And yet you say it makes no difference. The Tao merely takes something of the opposite view.

Are there still people in the world that think truth can be arrived at through such word-spinning? It is hard for me to fathom.

Joe Barron · January 29, 2008, 12:43:00 PM

Quote from: head-case on January 28, 2008, 02:35:25 PM
Are there still people in the world that think truth can be arrived at through such word-spinning? It is hard for me to fathom.

Just sayin', dude ... 0:)

Guido · January 30, 2008, 12:16:38 PM

Quote from: head-case on January 27, 2008, 04:44:35 PM
That sounds almost as meaningless as the Ives quote you have in your signature.

In the real world life is a set of self-replicating chemical reactions, and vagueness is an indicator of unclear thinking.

Head-case I think the point of the Nabakov quote is to highlight the incredible (and terrifying?) brevity of life and how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things. You're not really one for subtlety though, are you?

head-case · January 30, 2008, 12:20:50 PM

Quote from: Guido on January 30, 2008, 12:16:38 PM
Head case I think the point of the Nabakov quote is to highlight the incredible (and terrifying?) briefness of life and how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things. You're not really one for subtlety though, are you?

What's so sophisticated about walking around worrying about how terrifyingly brief you life is? It seems like if life is so brief you should concentrate on more useful ideas, like how incredibly good pistachio ice cream is.