Here is this month’s collection of assorted quotes.
The Auditors had tried to understand religion, because so much that made no sense whatsoever was done in its name. But it could also excuse practically any kind of eccentricity.
[Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time]
The body’s not a problem to be solved. It is the place we live.
[Unknown]
It’s not necessarily that I’m thinking, “Oh, this object has its own will,” but how do we respect previous relationships that this object had that are still relevant today? Because some of them don’t expire. For example, the material relationship between a stone and the mountain it was a part of. Even if that rock goes away from the mountain, they’re still connected, and they live in a different timeline because mountain time is different from human time.
[Gala Porras-Kim]
The cars usually don’t have what’s called a “soul” until an hour before they’re supposed to have a person driving them. I don’t know all the details, but basically you can’t connect to the car, you can’t do anything with it, you can’t adjust its settings at all until it has a soul. And for some reason they don’t get a soul until an hour before a shift starts.
[Interview with a Waymo Robotaxi Handler]
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong … or absolutely right.
[Albert Guinon]
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
[William Blake]
Don’t lie, don’t kill, don’t steal. Don’t use love as a game or weapon. Respect the earth, and don’t abuse its gifts. All are familiar ethics that we somehow forget, or manage to sidestep, when we just don’t feel like thinking about consequences.
[Stephanie JT Russell]
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something – something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance – did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
[Aldous Huxley]
The last irrational, moralistic taboo in America is that of public nudity. There is no difference between an Iranian woman being arrested for going out in the streets without her hair covered and an American woman being arrested for stepping out her front door without a top on. Nobody can give a rational explanation for anti-nudity laws. The government uses, instead, abstract terminology like “disturbing the peace” or “public indecency”. Without realizing it, we criminalize nudity on strictly moral grounds, based on ancient and outdated religious biases that have no place in a modern society.
[https://writersdisease.blogspot.com/2013/04/nudity-is-future.html]
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
[unknown]
Then it was a 100 metre walk to the dentist where we both had check-ups and hygienist appointments. While N got stung for a filling, I had two very tiny, 1x3mm, shards of tooth removed from my gum – they were obviously left over from the surgery last autumn and had worked their way out; very curious!
It was clear over us and started a little way off, stretching away to the horizon, and much wider than in this image. Really spectacular.