If you told the common man any time in history other than the baby boomer generation, that the way to get rich was ‘hard work’ and ‘Budgeting’ they would die of laughter.
From a comment on Reddit.com, quoted from Hacker News.
… we believed the rock music but I don’t think we believed in the love songs, either then, or now. Ours was a life lived in paradise and thus it rendered any discussion of transcendental ideas pointless. Politics, we supposed, existed elsewhere in a televised non-paradise; death was something similar to recycling.
Life was charmed but without politics or religion. It was the life of children of the children of the pioneers - life after God - a life of earthly salvation on the edge of heaven. Perhaps this is the finest thing to which we may aspire, the life of peace, the blurring between dream life and real life - and yet I find myself speaking these words with a sense of doubt.
I think there was a trade-off somewhere along the line. I think the price we paid for our golden life was an inability to fully believe in love; instead we gained an irony that scorched everything it touched. And I wonder if this irony is the price we paid for the loss of God.
But then I must remind myself we are living creatures - we have religious impulses - we must - and yet into what cracks do these impulses flow in a world without religion? It is something I think about every day. Sometimes I think it is the only thing I should be thinking about.
from Douglas Coupland’s Life after God.
Irony has its limits. You can go to really interesting places with it, but you can’t go to the best place with it.
Douglas Coupland
There’s no such thing as copied spirituality.
The only spirituality there is is new creation.
Eugene Peterson
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we’ve missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.
From Life After God by Douglas Coupland.
藍奕邦 Pong Nan《青春於舞池流逝》 (by eastasiamusic)
可能，現在的社會風氣和歪曲了的道德觀念底下，跳舞和有傷風化掛鉤，我們每天日復日，在「有意義」的地方為「有意義」的事忙碌，要自己有一番作為，每天過後卻換來一堆堆的不快樂。可能，到我們老了，身體虛弱了，卻後悔把時間完全奉獻給那一堆「有意義」，而沒有切實地讓自己快樂過。
I am strangely attracted to this song, and I’ve been listening to a lot more hip hop lately.
Years ago I didn’t understand why Radiohead liked dance music, but I think I understand now. There’s something about rhythmic and dance music that overcomes and relieves angst. It’s a rebellion against weariness. Of course, this can be an escapism, and dance music is often linked to the party and sex culture — but like they say here, “跳舞，根本是一樣很「真實」的行為。”
When we are emotionally lost, maybe we can benefit from rediscovering our bodies. It’s not a coincidence that this dance EP came after his emotionally mature output in “藍”, “奕”, “邦”.
許是如此，大部分人都是一個人來，天大地大就是全世界都不在乎，至少還有我。做自己相信的事，不需聯群結隊。而只要不怕孤獨踏出一步，方知天有眼，周圍都是同路人。
Sufferers attract fixers the way roadkills attract vultures.
Eugene Peterson
林一峰 《活下來》 (by kristyma401)
那一切，仍能陪著回憶活下來。
我們全能憑著奇蹟活下來， 好好活下來。
Posted
Wednesday, March 21st, at
7:48 PM (∞).
ANNE LAMOTT Discusses Grace Eventually and Traveling Mercies (by bordersmedia)
It’s an hour long, but the part after the political stuff is so good.
Camera Obscura — “Super Trouper” (ABBA cover) (by cami0z)
Posted
Friday, March 16th, at
10:51 PM (∞).
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
Paul Graham describes some scary big problems that are waiting to be solved.
