#Futility
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vintage-tigre · 7 months ago
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“A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it”
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
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oliviasgreenmug · 3 months ago
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am I going crazy or did she say “oh fuck” and they didn’t catch it?
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savagechickens · 3 months ago
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Cat Therapy.
And more cats.
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greatwyrmgold · 16 days ago
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Asgore, buddy. Maybe set achievable goals. You're not gonna hook up with your ex-wife by the time Asriel gets back.
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kameel-sm · 29 days ago
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Futility.
Originally completed on 8th October 2021.
My interpretation: A group of guards try to protect their castle against the onslaught of a fire-breathing dragon. It has already turned their homes into flaming ruins in the town below. But maybe if they find and exploit its weak spot, the beast could be slain. They loose their arrows right as the dragon exhales a gout of fire. Maybe they'll get lucky. Maybe they will hit their marks. But they're not hopeful as the wall of flame rushes forth to engulf them.
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mournfulroses · 1 year ago
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Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "Snails," featured in White Pine: Poems & Prose Poems
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fiction-quotes · 2 years ago
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“I meant,” said Ipslore, bitterly, “what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?”
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE.
“Curse you!”
MANY HAVE, said Death, evenly.
  —  Sourcery (Terry Pratchett)
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alexcabotgifs · 2 years ago
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4x22 Futility
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aud-chron-images · 6 days ago
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thepersonalwords · 4 months ago
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It does not matter what kind of self-destruction you choose – as if the protagonists in Furmani – Sokolov let say conscious of inevitability of their ontological and eschatological destiny, which they by no means want to change, but they accept it with joy of their own and peculiar optimism. Someone buries herself/himself in the library, and someone in a suburban tavern – they would say – the result is the same. The starting point is always that of futility, and the ultimate goal is destruction, which leads to self-destruction of all that restrains them from the total immersion in their own suffering and the pain of their own existence.
Ivo Žurić
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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year ago
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"Our spiritual traditions have carried virtues across time. They are tools for the art of living. They are pieces of intelligence about human behavior that neuroscience is now exploring with new words and images: what we practice, we become. What’s true of playing the piano or throwing a ball also holds for our capacity to move through the world mindlessly and destructively or generously and gracefully. I’ve come to think of virtues and rituals as spiritual technologies for being our best selves in flesh and blood, time and space. There are superstar virtues that come most readily to mind and can be the work of a day or a lifetime—love, compassion, forgiveness. And there are gentle shifts of mind and habit that make those possible, working patiently through the raw materials of our lives."
~ Krista Tippett
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mybeautifulchristianjourney · 7 months ago
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Approaching God with Awe
1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. 2 Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.
3 As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.
4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow. 5 It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.
6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messengera that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands? 7 For as many dreams bring futility, so do many words. Therefore, fear God.
The Futility of Wealth (Psalm 49:1–20)
8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them. 9 The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
10 He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile. 11 When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
12 The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
13 There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner, 14 or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
15 As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands. 16 This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind? 17 Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
18 Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
19 Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor. This is a gift from God. 20 For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart. — Ecclesiastes 5 | Berean Standard Bible (BSB) The Berean Study Bible (BSB) © 2016, 2018 by Bible Hub and Berean Bible. All rights Reserved. Cross References: Exodus 3:5; Exodus 23:25; Exodus 30:18; Leviticus 4:2; Leviticus 4:22; Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 12:7; Deuteronomy 12:18; Deuteronomy 23:21; Judges 11:35; 2 Chronicles 1:12; Job 1:21; Job 11:2; Job 20:20; Psalm 39:6; Psalm 127:2; Proverbs 3:24; Proverbs 10:19; Proverbs 15:2; Proverbs 22:16; Ecclesiastes 1:3; Ecclesiastes 1:8; Ecclesiastes 2:9,10 and 11; Ecclesiastes 2:23; Ecclesiastes 3:13-14; Ecclesiastes 6:1-2; Ecclesiastes 7:18; Matthew 6:7; Acts 5:4; 1 Corinthians 16:16; 1 Timothy 6:7; 1 Peter 4:12
Ecclesiastes 5 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise)
Key Passages in Ecclesiastes 5
1. vanities in divine service 8. in murmuring against oppression 9. and in riches 18. Joy in riches is the gift of God.
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futilereality · 1 year ago
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savagechickens · 8 months ago
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Chasing Lasers.
And more cats.
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i-want-to-be-a-poet · 2 years ago
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my mind it shall not stop its nonsensical ramblings on and on it goes about one thing or another to silence it is something that i would be willing to die for for it has been years since i have known any peace.
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hathaway-hayes · 1 year ago
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"I was meant to end, We were all meant to end, this was meant to end. It always could. It always did." - H.H. (from "044 - we were meant to end")
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