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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
There's only one truth regarding anything that happens, and that is exactly what happened. This doesn't change because someone feels a certain way.
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You should check out postmodernism. If you want to reject many of the intellectual developments of the last century or more, that's fine, but you should know about them before you do.
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Fantasyland is highly amusing, but can also be terribly depressing, except for this: The objective never goes away. Grace does not get her own reality. Nor does Donald Trump. In the end, they're all futile characters, speed-bumps in a progression toward a world based primarily on reason.
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This is about as reassuring as Keynes saying that in the long run we're all dead.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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