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Silenus:

--- Quote ---The Brahmins however had to find it [the truth about the worthlessnes of life], because they were completely free from the struggle for survival, because they could lead a pure, placid life and spend all the power of their mind to solve the riddle of the world. Furthermore, they occupied the first position in the state: There could be nobody happier […] than them and therefore, the shadow, that clouds the judgement of the inferiors, namely the thought, that happiness gilds the peaks and cannot reach the valleys, that it really exists in the world, just not everywhere, never threw itself between them [the Brahmins] and the truth."
--- End quote ---
- Philipp Mainlander

An ascetic life + the vow to work as little as possible = "free time," the Machine's worst enemy.

Who or what is a bigger threat to a culture-civilization than the person who works to abolish the clocks that hang on the walls which imprison them?

Holden:
What I see,Mr.Silenus, in my organisation is that people are crazy for promotion. And if the boss-man, tells them to put in a few hours more,they'd gladly do it.
I am told that on the day the promotion is due, the wives wait for the men to get home,and if they turn up without having received the promotion letter then the wife won't allow the hubby to enter the house. He needs to sleep outside that night.

Nation of One:
Am I unfit for servitude?

Is being unsuited for slavery a crime against the masters and their zoo keeping Slave Patrol?

Was Nietzsche on to something when he pointed out the affinity between the lifelong outlaw and the Living In the Flesh Philosopher-Prophet-Scholar?  Both are Free Spirits.   ;)

Nation of One:

The Case for Nothing


*wakes up and looks at phone* ah let’s see what fresh horrors await me on the fresh horrors device ...

–@MISSOKISTIC IN A TWEET ON NOVEMBER 10, 2016

This is from first chapter of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell, a little gem of a book I intend to explore - one I found while allowing myself to "browse" at the local library where this message board was created back in 2014.

I remember the place having so much on/by Marlowe and Cioran.  I would record my interactions with those texts with music in background.  Even though I might have been an emotional basket-case usually either in the grip of heavy tangled emotions, or recovering from such episodes, I have some archives of those "sessions" that still inspire me today.  Some things survived, thanks to phenomena such as "Clouds" like The Wayback Machine and github, not to mention Math Modules that I may never have the opportunity to scan and upload to "the only people I can call my own," those who would receive my efforts with genuine gratitude and affection.  Did I ever store the Big Integer Calculator on github?   For some reason, from the public library, I am unable to access github.org.  It goes directly to some bs github.com ---  ???

We have source code here for both the regular one built from Stroustrup's text as well as the Big Integer Calculator in the thread, Modified Calculator Program in Stroustrup Textbook C++PPP.

I look forward to, God willin' and the crick don't rise, exploring some of that work, if my mind and emotional state allow it.   Much like the weather and the behavior of cricks, I am not always able to control these elemental forces within my breast.

I did find the Polynomial Calculator I built on github.com.  I just can't remember my password at the moment.  Too many other things on my mind.   I came in here to change Board Name from Why Bother? to "Interludes of Consciousness" ...

I also located the Fraction Class I has been pecking away on since the Summer of 1999.  It has evolved.   I wonder if it would be a good mental/spiritual exercise to save fraction.cpp as fraction.txt and send it to the Kindle device.   8)

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