Arlo, Ron, Nice one. I thought that Python quote actually sounded 250 years older, like Jonathan Swift maybe. I have that despair.com poster in a presentation slide I use when talking about the value of making mistakes. In fact I just noticed a UK news story today on that very subject ... must blog.
Regards Ian On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:19 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[email protected]> wrote: > [Ron] > We must never forget that, if there was not one thing that was on top of > another thing, our society would be nothing more than a meaningless body of > men > gathered together for no good purpose." > > -President, Society for putting things on top of Other things > > [Arlo] > Always gotta give the nod to Python. > > A favorite "Purpose" sentiment of mine is found on Despair.com's lithograph > for > "Mistakes". > > http://despair.com/mis24x30prin.html > > "It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to > others." > > Pretty accurately describes the "purpose" of a great many, eh? Quite frankly, > with purposes like that, who needs one, eh? > > I think I recall an old Bloom Country skit where Opus (and Cutter John) embark > on a trans-Atlantic flight in a flying wheelchair. Presumed lost at sea, Opus' > epithet read something like "Fed Squid". Now there's a "purpose", "To provide > a > tasty meat snack for cephalopods". > > Speaking of this, did you ever notice that those who proclaim we have a > "purpose", always make it something loudly Valiant? What if, like the > dinosaurs, our only purpose is to breed enough so that a new species a million > years from now will have a source of fossil fuel (made from our decomposing > bodies)? > > Actually this isn't much worse than being created to masturbate the needy ego > of a fairly petty and narcissistic "Source"? And at least being here for the > sole purpose of decomposing into oil leads us to have some fun whilst here, > rather than spending our time adulating about how wonderful and magnificent > the > "Source" is (all the while hoping not to piss it off). > > Scenario One. > > "Beer, Jim?" > "Sure, Dave, why not? Just passing time until I decay into fossil fuel. Who > let > the dogs out?! Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!!" > > Scenario Two. > > "Beer, Jim?" > "Damn, can't Dave. The Source has been all over me lately about spending too > much time with my friends and not enough time praising how wonderful it is. > Gonna have to stay in tonight to stroke its ego a bit, maybe use a ped-egg on > its callouses, lest it throws a temper tantrum and negates its negation again. > I'm still cleaning up the debris from that last one." > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
