Status Updates From Reine Farbe

what the fuck

wtf

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But without a microscope we couldn't see them. I know, so what? So all I'm saying is that maybe we don't have the technology yet to see God. No! Well, we once didn't have the technology to see cells or atoms.

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They say God put the whole universe into motion, but how can he do that without a physical being?— because it's a basic thing. For something to act, it has to have a physical being. But cells act and you can't see cells, and atoms act and you can't see atoms. Yes you can, you can see them through a microscope.
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That doesn't make it not real; that might make it even more real, like a fingerprint is different on every human body, or the way our muscles work has a unique signature, too— so does that make a fingerprint, or the way our muscles work, something that's not real? Look, it's against the laws of nature.
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Then you can believe anything you want, because if you believe in God, God is something that can do or be anything it wants to be, so it can be a million things, it can be different for everybody.
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if you want to have a true picture of God in your head, you have to recognize that you can have no true picture of him. Of course not! Of course you can't have a true picture of something that doesn't exist. But if you believed that God existed.
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they don’t realize what a rare opportunity they have to observe this universe, because here’s this amazing universe, and if humans hadn’t evolved to this stage, they wouldn’t know they were living in this beautiful place.

what is the part that makes us want to love someone who doesn’t love us back? Don’t focus on that. What should I focus on then?
That the probability of any person being around is one in 1 trillion, so it’s almost a 0% chance of you being here. But you’re going to have, 8 billion people, and those 8 billion people have won the lottery. And the worst part is that nobody realizes that!
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That’s what it felt like to have two hands. The nice thing about not having hands is not to feel the requirements. Do you love it? I like it. I didn’t realize that buddies would give us urges. When you have parts, they make you want to use them.
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she doesn’t know why she spends so much of her life, thinking about such trivial things, or looking at websites, when just outside her window, there was a sky that was not trivial.
Had it been wrong of her not to understand that this guy was more valuable than a website? People once value the sky, but only because they had nothing better— because they didn’t have websites.

The last thing that’s needed is to judge your own heart, but then that’s the first thing you’d go and do. Heart rushes to judge itself. A heart should have better things to do. A heart doesn’t .

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All that was needed was for spirit to blow into her flesh. So our relation to others is not what we think. It is a relation to spirit that makes us alive. The clouds don’t have a father, they still live.

for now that her father is gone, they were obviously only words; for now she can exist without the father, she could always have existed without a father— because she is not his child, just matter infused with spirit, which makes her live
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What were the words that came into her mind, as she lay with him in the darkness of his final days?
For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Control your mind, she told herself sternly and seriously through his final hours in days. She knew his death was sending her into the future, and she wanted it to be a bearable one. Control your mind, she said to herself, so she wouldn’t go down the deepest path of recrimination and despair.
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Mira, who knew nothing of this, wondered what the intensity meant: Why any of all people on this earth? Why could she not stop thinking about Annie?

on such occasions, it is often the gods who to blame. They slip into a person like an amoeba, and from within one person, they watch another one— the one they have chosen to watch.
So from within Annie, the gods were watching Mira,… It doesn’t always happen mutually this way, but in their case it did— the Gods just taking notes on humans, to make us better in the next draft of the world.

with a few people in one’s life, too much happens emotionally — more than even makes sense to happen, given how little has actually occurred. Such people are deeply igniting in a way that others are not. This igniting always happens in the very first instant, and it never goes away. No stupidities can destroy the igniting, so even if those two people never meet again, connection always remains.
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