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He was missing the fingers on his left hand, but in his mind they must still have been there, because he pointed and gestured with the phantom digits.
did he look like Abraham Lincoln????
“This island is an island that tilts toward the strange and this summer there are, everywhere, outcroppings of weird.”
― Drifts
― Drifts
“In Schopenhauer’s illuminating view of reality, the will is indeed free because it is all there ultimately is. Yet, its image is nature’s seemingly deterministic laws, which reflect the instinctual inner consistency of the will.”
― Science Ideated: The Fall Of Matter And The Contours Of The Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview
― Science Ideated: The Fall Of Matter And The Contours Of The Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview
“Consciousness is all there is, flowing, streaming through these instruments in a manner which, in accordance with the perfect unfolding of totality, is perceived as discreet individual entities autonomously performing actions, but in truth this is not the case. There is no individual, no entity, no separate self here to do anything or to be anything, awakened or enlightened included.”
― Perfect Brilliant Stillness
― Perfect Brilliant Stillness
“July 23, 1962: The United States joins thirteen other nations at Geneva in signing the “Declaration on the Neutrality of Laos.” CIA and Pentagon opponents regard Kennedy’s negotiation of the Laotian agreement as surrender to the Communists. They undermine it by supporting General Phoumi’s violations of the cease-fire.”
― JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
― JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
“A neighboring country provided more recreational opportunities. We took our children to Shaykh’s Beach, the king’s beachfront home. The king graciously opened this estate for visitors, provided they were of specific ethnicities. Guards at the entrance enforced a strict entry code: whites and East Asians were permitted; Muslims, (including citizens), Hindus, and South Asians were not. Within the estate, the whites, Japanese, and Chinese spread their blankets at one end of the beach and the Filipinos spread theirs at the other. I guessed that the ban on Muslims was because the king didn’t want to expose Muslims to a European-style beach setting.”
― The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture
― The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture
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