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It occurred to me that my Unix-iversary is somewhere around today. This year marks 35 years that I've been using Unix and its descendents and cousins and step-children. Small potatoes by the standards of anyone who was at Bell Labs in the '70s, but long enough for me.

So I've been thinking about Unix, the Unix philosophy, how things have changed and evolved - some for the better, some not - and inevitably, init systems.

I can't decide which flavour of #absurdity #systemd falls under - Monty Python? Or more Kafka?

It's kinda-sorta both. But to me, using it feels more like walking into what you think is the Argument Clinic office to ask for an #init system, but you are actually in the Abuse room, and they give you systemd.

#MontyPython #Kafka #kafkaesque #MeaningOfLife #absurd #ridiculous #ludicrous #Unix #UnixPhilosophy #InitSystem

It occurred to me that my Unix-iversary is somewhere around today. This year marks 35 years that I've been using Unix and its descendents and cousins and step-children. Small potatoes by the standards of anyone who was at Bell Labs in the '70s, but long enough for me.

So I've been thinking about Unix, the Unix philosophy, how things have changed and evolved - some for the better, some not - and inevitably, init systems.

I can't decide which flavour of #absurdity #systemd falls under - Monty Python? Or more Kafka?

It's kinda-sorta both. But to me, using it feels more like walking into what you think is the Argument Clinic office to ask for an #init system, but you are actually in the Abuse room, and they give you systemd.

#MontyPython #Kafka #kafkaesque #MeaningOfLife #absurd #ridiculous #ludicrous #Unix #UnixPhilosophy #InitSystem

It occurred to me that my Unix-iversary is somewhere around today. This year marks 35 years that I've been using Unix and its descendents and cousins and step-children. Small potatoes by the standards of anyone who was at Bell Labs in the '70s, but long enough for me.

So I've been thinking about Unix, the Unix philosophy, how things have changed and evolved - some for the better, some not - and inevitably, init systems.

I can't decide which flavour of #absurdity #systemd falls under - Monty Python? Or more Kafka?

It's kinda-sorta both. But to me, using it feels more like walking into what you think is the Argument Clinic office to ask for an #init system, but you are actually in the Abuse room, and they give you systemd.

#MontyPython #Kafka #kafkaesque #MeaningOfLife #absurd #ridiculous #ludicrous #Unix #UnixPhilosophy #InitSystem

🎩✨ Oh, Brad Feld, the aging philosopher of Labor Day, has discovered the meaning of life at 60: it's a text message from Amy. Meanwhile, the internet collectively rolls its eyes at this groundbreaking realization that time passes. 🕰️🙄
https://feld.com/archives/2026/09/the-real-luxuries-in-life/ #BradFeld #MeaningOfLife #TextMessage #AgingPhilosopher #LaborDay #HackerNews #ngated

🎩✨ Oh, Brad Feld, the aging philosopher of Labor Day, has discovered the meaning of life at 60: it's a text message from Amy. Meanwhile, the internet collectively rolls its eyes at this groundbreaking realization that time passes. 🕰️🙄
https://feld.com/archives/2026/09/the-real-luxuries-in-life/ #BradFeld #MeaningOfLife #TextMessage #AgingPhilosopher #LaborDay #HackerNews #ngated

🎩✨ Oh, Brad Feld, the aging philosopher of Labor Day, has discovered the meaning of life at 60: it's a text message from Amy. Meanwhile, the internet collectively rolls its eyes at this groundbreaking realization that time passes. 🕰️🙄
https://feld.com/archives/2026/09/the-real-luxuries-in-life/ #BradFeld #MeaningOfLife #TextMessage #AgingPhilosopher #LaborDay #HackerNews #ngated

Moon eclipse Aug 28

was the conclusion of Lion's Gate Portal and Eclipse season periods. It was an express way to face and accept oneself as a whole. An opportunity to level up, to
go on to create meaningfully and with higher guidance. Otherwise you stay lost on the level-of-emotions, where you will deal with your emotional baggage (or karma) for another round.

#astrology #eclipse2026 #MoonEclipse #eclipse #EclipseSeason #EclipseCorridor #CelestialEvent #mindfulness #mindset #life #meaningoflife #awakening #change #spirituality #karma #growth #purpose #lionsgate #lionsgateportal

Moon eclipse Aug 28

was the conclusion of Lion's Gate Portal and Eclipse season periods. It was an express way to face and accept oneself as a whole. An opportunity to level up, to
go on to create meaningfully and with higher guidance. Otherwise you stay lost on the level-of-emotions, where you will deal with your emotional baggage (or karma) for another round.

#astrology #eclipse2026 #MoonEclipse #eclipse #EclipseSeason #EclipseCorridor #CelestialEvent #mindfulness #mindset #life #meaningoflife #awakening #change #spirituality #karma #growth #purpose #lionsgate #lionsgateportal

Moon eclipse Aug 28

was the conclusion of Lion's Gate Portal and Eclipse season periods. It was an express way to face and accept oneself as a whole. An opportunity to level up, to
go on to create meaningfully and with higher guidance. Otherwise you stay lost on the level-of-emotions, where you will deal with your emotional baggage (or karma) for another round.

#astrology #eclipse2026 #MoonEclipse #eclipse #EclipseSeason #EclipseCorridor #CelestialEvent #mindfulness #mindset #life #meaningoflife #awakening #change #spirituality #karma #growth #purpose #lionsgate #lionsgateportal

A quotation from Einstein

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here, involuntarily and uninvited, for a short stay, without knowing the why and the wherefore. In our daily lives we feel only that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own.
 
[Seltsam erscheint unsere Lage auf dieser Erde. Jeder von uns erscheint da unfreiwillig und ungebeten zu kurzem Aufenthalt, ohne zu wissen, warum und wozu. Im täglichen Leben fühlen wir nur, dass der Mensch um anderer willen da ist, solcher, die wir lieben, und zahlreicher anderer, ihm Schicksalsverbundener Wesen.]

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1932-09), “My Credo [Mein Glaubensbekenntnis]”

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/201/

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A quotation from Einstein

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here, involuntarily and uninvited, for a short stay, without knowing the why and the wherefore. In our daily lives we feel only that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own.
 
[Seltsam erscheint unsere Lage auf dieser Erde. Jeder von uns erscheint da unfreiwillig und ungebeten zu kurzem Aufenthalt, ohne zu wissen, warum und wozu. Im täglichen Leben fühlen wir nur, dass der Mensch um anderer willen da ist, solcher, die wir lieben, und zahlreicher anderer, ihm Schicksalsverbundener Wesen.]

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1932-09), “My Credo [Mein Glaubensbekenntnis]”

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/201/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #charity #connections #life #lifetime #meaningoflife #others #purpose #service #sympathy

A quotation from Einstein

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here, involuntarily and uninvited, for a short stay, without knowing the why and the wherefore. In our daily lives we feel only that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own.
 
[Seltsam erscheint unsere Lage auf dieser Erde. Jeder von uns erscheint da unfreiwillig und ungebeten zu kurzem Aufenthalt, ohne zu wissen, warum und wozu. Im täglichen Leben fühlen wir nur, dass der Mensch um anderer willen da ist, solcher, die wir lieben, und zahlreicher anderer, ihm Schicksalsverbundener Wesen.]

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1932-09), “My Credo [Mein Glaubensbekenntnis]”

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/201/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #charity #connections #life #lifetime #meaningoflife #others #purpose #service #sympathy

August 12 solar eclipse slams you with inescapable reality. It dumps your inner darkness right in your face pressing you to see your true self directly reflected in your surroundings. Will you continue wading the bogs of accumulated karma, or will you leave those petty struggles behind and welcome clarity?

#astrology #eclipse2026 #solareclipse #eclipse #EclipseSeason #EclipseCorridor #CelestialEvent #mindfulness #mindset #life #meaningoflife #awakening #change #spirituality #karma #philosophy #growth #purpose

August 12 solar eclipse slams you with inescapable reality. It dumps your inner darkness right in your face pressing you to see your true self directly reflected in your surroundings. Will you continue wading the bogs of accumulated karma, or will you leave those petty struggles behind and welcome clarity?

#astrology #eclipse2026 #solareclipse #eclipse #EclipseSeason #EclipseCorridor #CelestialEvent #mindfulness #mindset #life #meaningoflife #awakening #change #spirituality #karma #philosophy #growth #purpose

August 12 solar eclipse slams you with inescapable reality. It dumps your inner darkness right in your face pressing you to see your true self directly reflected in your surroundings. Will you continue wading the bogs of accumulated karma, or will you leave those petty struggles behind and welcome clarity?

#astrology #eclipse2026 #solareclipse #eclipse #EclipseSeason #EclipseCorridor #CelestialEvent #mindfulness #mindset #life #meaningoflife #awakening #change #spirituality #karma #philosophy #growth #purpose

Theodicy, or vindication of God, or karma, or whatever you want to call it, feel like a lazy excuse for life's suffering. It minimizes the pain and fails to acknowledge the hardships. In a way, it's like lying to oneself, which makes it harder to see suffering for what it is. #LiveTrue #LifeIsHard #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife 📸 Floranz Neculai/Wiki Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0

Theodicy, or vindication of God, or karma, or whatever you want to call it, feel like a lazy excuse for life's suffering. It minimizes the pain and fails to acknowledge the hardships. In a way, it's like lying to oneself, which makes it harder to see suffering for what it is. #LiveTrue #LifeIsHard #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife 📸 Floranz Neculai/Wiki Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0

Theodicy, or vindication of God, or karma, or whatever you want to call it, feel like a lazy excuse for life's suffering. It minimizes the pain and fails to acknowledge the hardships. In a way, it's like lying to oneself, which makes it harder to see suffering for what it is. #LiveTrue #LifeIsHard #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife 📸 Floranz Neculai/Wiki Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0

I came across this definition of Aristotle's eudaimonia, or "flourishing," while reading MIT professor Kieran Setiya's "Life is Hard". If you could choose any life to live, what would it look like? I think of a life without financial stress, but is that meaningful enough? #LifeIsHard #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife

I came across this definition of Aristotle's eudaimonia, or "flourishing," while reading MIT professor Kieran Setiya's "Life is Hard". If you could choose any life to live, what would it look like? I think of a life without financial stress, but is that meaningful enough? #LifeIsHard #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife

I came across this definition of Aristotle's eudaimonia, or "flourishing," while reading MIT professor Kieran Setiya's "Life is Hard". If you could choose any life to live, what would it look like? I think of a life without financial stress, but is that meaningful enough? #LifeIsHard #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife

🤖😂 Oh, the "AI Situation" - where software developers ponder the meaning of life through context windows and compression! 🧠💥 It's like watching someone explain how to teach a goldfish to do calculus - both time-consuming and utterly pointless. 📈🐠
https://srikanth.ch/posts/the-ai-situation/ #AI #Situation #SoftwareDevelopment #MeaningOfLife #ContextWindows #Compression #HackerNews #ngated

🤖😂 Oh, the "AI Situation" - where software developers ponder the meaning of life through context windows and compression! 🧠💥 It's like watching someone explain how to teach a goldfish to do calculus - both time-consuming and utterly pointless. 📈🐠
https://srikanth.ch/posts/the-ai-situation/ #AI #Situation #SoftwareDevelopment #MeaningOfLife #ContextWindows #Compression #HackerNews #ngated

🤖😂 Oh, the "AI Situation" - where software developers ponder the meaning of life through context windows and compression! 🧠💥 It's like watching someone explain how to teach a goldfish to do calculus - both time-consuming and utterly pointless. 📈🐠
https://srikanth.ch/posts/the-ai-situation/ #AI #Situation #SoftwareDevelopment #MeaningOfLife #ContextWindows #Compression #HackerNews #ngated

A quotation from Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 2 “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (1854)

More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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A quotation from Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 2 “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (1854)

More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #deliberation #essentials #lessons #living #meaningoflife #retreat #solitude #woods

A quotation from Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 2 “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (1854)

More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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A quotation from Homer

And, oh! whate’er Heaven destined to betide,
   Let neither flattery soothe, nor pity hide.
Prepared I stand: he was but born to try
   The lot of man; to suffer, and to die.
 
[πέρι γάρ μιν ὀιζυρὸν τέκε μήτηρ.
μηδέ τί μ᾽ αἰδόμενος μειλίσσεο μηδ᾽ ἐλεαίρων,
ἀλλ᾽ εὖ μοι κατάλεξον ὃπως ἤντησας ὀπωπῆς.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 3, l. 96ff (3.96) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Pope (1725), l. 114ff]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/49946/

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A quotation from Homer

And, oh! whate’er Heaven destined to betide,
   Let neither flattery soothe, nor pity hide.
Prepared I stand: he was but born to try
   The lot of man; to suffer, and to die.
 
[πέρι γάρ μιν ὀιζυρὸν τέκε μήτηρ.
μηδέ τί μ᾽ αἰδόμενος μειλίσσεο μηδ᾽ ἐλεαίρων,
ἀλλ᾽ εὖ μοι κατάλεξον ὃπως ἤντησας ὀπωπῆς.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 3, l. 96ff (3.96) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Pope (1725), l. 114ff]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/49946/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #telemachus #odysseus #brutallyhonest #candor #destiny #doom #fate #honesty #meaningoflife #misfortune #mortality #suffering #death

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything will always be 42 no matter what your LLM tells you.

If only the Golgafrinchans hadn’t displaced our planet's original cavemen, it might have turned out to be something else.

#ai #llm #meaningoflife #HHGTTG

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything will always be 42 no matter what your LLM tells you.

If only the Golgafrinchans hadn’t displaced our planet's original cavemen, it might have turned out to be something else.

#ai #llm #meaningoflife #HHGTTG

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything will always be 42 no matter what your LLM tells you.

If only the Golgafrinchans hadn’t displaced our planet's original cavemen, it might have turned out to be something else.

#ai #llm #meaningoflife #HHGTTG

A quotation from Lincoln

How hard, oh, how hard it is to die and leave one’s country no better than if one had never lived for it.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1850-09?) to William H. Herndon

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #aspiration #betterment #futility #meaningoflife #patriotism #usefulness #uselessness

A quotation from Lincoln

How hard, oh, how hard it is to die and leave one’s country no better than if one had never lived for it.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1850-09?) to William H. Herndon

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7296…

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A quotation from Lincoln

How hard, oh, how hard it is to die and leave one’s country no better than if one had never lived for it.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1850-09?) to William H. Herndon

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A quotation from Arendt

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 3 (1951)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42236/

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A quotation from Arendt

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 3 (1951)

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A quotation from Richard Feynman

It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American physicist
Interview (1959-05-01) by Bill Stout, Viewpoint, KNXT radio

More about this quote: wist.info/feynman-richard/5462…

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A quotation from Richard Feynman

It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) American physicist
Interview (1959-05-01) by Bill Stout, Viewpoint, KNXT radio

More about this quote: wist.info/feynman-richard/5462…

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A quotation from Josh Billings

Life aint mutch more than a farce enny how, but it iz quite necessary that the play should go on, and the farce be well ackted.
 
[Life ain’t much more than a farce anyhow, but it is quite necessary that the play should go on, and the farce be well-acted.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-02 (1877 ed.

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A quotation from Josh Billings

Life aint mutch more than a farce enny how, but it iz quite necessary that the play should go on, and the farce be well ackted.
 
[Life ain’t much more than a farce anyhow, but it is quite necessary that the play should go on, and the farce be well-acted.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-02 (1877 ed.

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A quotation from Hoffer

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 75 (3.14.75) (1951)

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A quotation from Hoffer

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 75 (3.14.75) (1951)

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A quotation from Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1865-02) to Joshua Speed

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A quotation from Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1865-02) to Joshua Speed

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/5258…

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A quotation from Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1865-02) to Joshua Speed

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/5258…

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A quotation from Euripides

MESSENGER:       I have not now first learn’d that all
   Th’ affairs of mortal men are a mere shadow:
   Nor would I fear to say that those, who most
   Boast of their wisdom and their deep research,
   The widest in the paths of folly stray.
   No mortal man is happy: if the tide
   Of wealth flows in upon him, one may be
   More fortunate than others, happy never.
 
[ἌΓΓΕΛΟΣ: τὰ θνητὰ δ᾽ οὐ νῦν πρῶτον ἡγοῦμαι σκιάν,
   οὐδ᾽ ἂν τρέσας εἴποιμι τοὺς σοφοὺς βροτῶν
   δοκοῦντας εἶναι καὶ μεριμνητὰς λόγων
   τούτους μεγίστην μωρίαν ὀφλισκάνειν.
   θνητῶν γὰρ οὐδείς ἐστιν εὐδαίμων ἀνήρ:
   ὄλβου δ᾽ ἐπιρρυέντος εὐτυχέστερος
   ἄλλου γένοιτ᾽ ἂν ἄλλος, εὐδαίμων δ᾽ ἂν οὔ.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1224ff (431 BC) [tr. Potter (1814)]

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A quotation from Euripides

MESSENGER:       I have not now first learn’d that all
   Th’ affairs of mortal men are a mere shadow:
   Nor would I fear to say that those, who most
   Boast of their wisdom and their deep research,
   The widest in the paths of folly stray.
   No mortal man is happy: if the tide
   Of wealth flows in upon him, one may be
   More fortunate than others, happy never.
 
[ἌΓΓΕΛΟΣ: τὰ θνητὰ δ᾽ οὐ νῦν πρῶτον ἡγοῦμαι σκιάν,
   οὐδ᾽ ἂν τρέσας εἴποιμι τοὺς σοφοὺς βροτῶν
   δοκοῦντας εἶναι καὶ μεριμνητὰς λόγων
   τούτους μεγίστην μωρίαν ὀφλισκάνειν.
   θνητῶν γὰρ οὐδείς ἐστιν εὐδαίμων ἀνήρ:
   ὄλβου δ᾽ ἐπιρρυέντος εὐτυχέστερος
   ἄλλου γένοιτ᾽ ἂν ἄλλος, εὐδαίμων δ᾽ ἂν οὔ.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1224ff (431 BC) [tr. Potter (1814)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/84868/

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✮ Blinker ✮

We spend so much time blinking and looking away,
we blink so much that we don’t realize our fuse is alight.
A turn of the dial,
into another scene,
never rooted in the moment,
as transient as everything mortal.
We blink, to erase the unpleasant,
we blink, to jump forward,
coil our bodies around rest,
wrap paychecks inside our hands,
so, we can blink a little more.
We skip and jump out of the day,
when tomorrow is worse than today,
we blink it away,
as if we have unlimited blinks,
and soon enough we’ll hit a wall
and wish we could have kept our eyes open
more frequently.

Here today; gone tomorrow, never take anything for granted.

When complaining about long walks, someone is dreaming of having such luxury. Walks that people take for granted mean everything to someone else who is bound by a condition that prevents them from doing so. They could be bedridden; they could be hiding in fear in a war zone; they could be impeded by physical conditions that limit them.

You complain about tidying up. It’s because you have a home. You stress out over traffic. It’s because you have a car. You can’t deal with the noise. You have a family. Someone out there wants what you have but can only dream of it.

When frowning in dissatisfaction over a prepared meal, think about that person who took time and poured every ounce of their heart, hoping to bring you happiness. Think.

Be grateful that you are in school; not everyone is afforded such an opportunity. Not as a promise to secure a job, but to learn. Bitterness often comes from discounting what people already have. Contentment, as they say, is the key to happiness. Dream, but be forgiving. If it’s yours, it will come to fruition. If not, steady your heart and live with what you have.

Never neglect people or things that add, give, and bring value to your life. Blessed are those who can’t count how many people they love with their fingers. If you do, you’re already rich. Hurray! You will have someone to turn to.

At the end of the day, when all that you take for granted is gone, what will be left of you?

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✮ Blinker ✮

We spend so much time blinking and looking away,
we blink so much that we don’t realize our fuse is alight.
A turn of the dial,
into another scene,
never rooted in the moment,
as transient as everything mortal.
We blink, to erase the unpleasant,
we blink, to jump forward,
coil our bodies around rest,
wrap paychecks inside our hands,
so, we can blink a little more.
We skip and jump out of the day,
when tomorrow is worse than today,
we blink it away,
as if we have unlimited blinks,
and soon enough we’ll hit a wall
and wish we could have kept our eyes open
more frequently.

Here today; gone tomorrow, never take anything for granted.

When complaining about long walks, someone is dreaming of having such luxury. Walks that people take for granted mean everything to someone else who is bound by a condition that prevents them from doing so. They could be bedridden; they could be hiding in fear in a war zone; they could be impeded by physical conditions that limit them.

You complain about tidying up. It’s because you have a home. You stress out over traffic. It’s because you have a car. You can’t deal with the noise. You have a family. Someone out there wants what you have but can only dream of it.

When frowning in dissatisfaction over a prepared meal, think about that person who took time and poured every ounce of their heart, hoping to bring you happiness. Think.

Be grateful that you are in school; not everyone is afforded such an opportunity. Not as a promise to secure a job, but to learn. Bitterness often comes from discounting what people already have. Contentment, as they say, is the key to happiness. Dream, but be forgiving. If it’s yours, it will come to fruition. If not, steady your heart and live with what you have.

Never neglect people or things that add, give, and bring value to your life. Blessed are those who can’t count how many people they love with their fingers. If you do, you’re already rich. Hurray! You will have someone to turn to.

At the end of the day, when all that you take for granted is gone, what will be left of you?

Copyright © Erwinism. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations used in critical reviews or scholarly work. This work is protected under international copyright laws. Unauthorized use or reproduction of this material is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action.

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Thaddeus Metz has revised his excellent SEP-entry on The Meaning of Life,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/

Hyödynsin aikanaan artikkelia kotisivujeni asiaan?-sivun puolivälin paikkeilla, https://www.lupposofi.com/asiaan/

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Thaddeus Metz has revised his excellent SEP-entry on The Meaning of Life,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/

Hyödynsin aikanaan artikkelia kotisivujeni asiaan?-sivun puolivälin paikkeilla, https://www.lupposofi.com/asiaan/

#sep #life #meaning #meaningOfLife #filosofia #philosophy #etiikka #ethics #moralPhilosophy #kuolema #death #afterlife #existentialism #love #friendship #value #arvo #significance #political #politicalPhilosophy #wellbeing #mortalityAndMeaning #psychology #sociology

Thaddeus Metz has revised his excellent SEP-entry on The Meaning of Life,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/

Hyödynsin aikanaan artikkelia kotisivujeni asiaan?-sivun puolivälin paikkeilla, https://www.lupposofi.com/asiaan/

#sep #life #meaning #meaningOfLife #filosofia #philosophy #etiikka #ethics #moralPhilosophy #kuolema #death #afterlife #existentialism #love #friendship #value #arvo #significance #political #politicalPhilosophy #wellbeing #mortalityAndMeaning #psychology #sociology

Modern World Needs Older Myths

https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/modern-world-needs-older-myths/

Modern World Needs Older Myths

https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/modern-world-needs-older-myths/