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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

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

🎩✨ 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

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/

#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

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

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

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

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

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

🤖😂 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/…

#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/…

#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/…

#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/…

#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/…

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

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

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

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

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]

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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.

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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

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

From a Monkey Mind to a Monk Mind: My Journey Towards a Peaceful Life

https://aparnauthaman8-lmkzr.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/from-a-monkey-mind-to-a-monk-mind-my-journey-towards-a-peaceful-life/

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 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 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 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 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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