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العمل يبطئ قراءتي *دمعة*

It's getting sooo interesting. The build-up of the argument is that which leaves one on suspense. OK, I get this.. and this.. come on, tell me your idea.

Magnificent narration.. totally engrossed.

This is a masterpiece. A fairy tale. I looove it.

"it is no mystery where our knowledge of abstractions comes from: it comes from conjecture, like all our knowledge, and through criticism and seeking good explanations."

No no, abstractions are the result of conjecture and systematic thought, not vice versa. *sigh

"Creationism ... is not a theory explaining knowledge as being due to creation, but the opposite: it is denying that creation happened in reality, by placing the origin of the knowledge in an explanationless realm. Creationism is really creation denial."

That will only be the case if one uses divine creation as a way to block further inquiry into how things actually come to be, which is absolutely not the case.

"The idea that similar laws of physics can be expected to give rise to similar environments is undermined by the very existence of fine-tuning."

Dear man, that is the question, why those laws exactly? The logical unnecessarity of the laws is an argument for and not against a creator.

Sometimes, one gets sick of the illogical arguments. Such the one that an ultimate designer's designer, really? Such deluded author get it wrapped in nice books and deliver it to us, ignorant, to consume as blind as we are.

بدءاً بربع المهلكات بعون الله تعالى.

"This is a fantastic gloomy business, a modern case, an incident of today when the heart of man is troubled, when the phrase is quoted that "blood renews", when comfort is preached as the aim of life, here we have bookish dream, a heart unhinged by theories."

I have a great liking for Stephen Fry's narration.

"I could find no utterance for what I felt... all my efforts were in vain, my love and joy were dumb."

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."

"There is, it seems to us,
At best, only a limited value
In the knowledge derived from experience.
The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies,
For the pattern is new in every moment
And every moment is a new and shocking
Valuation of all we have been. We are only undeceived
Of that which, deceiving, could no longer harm."

"what have we to do
But stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards
In an age which advances progressively backwards?"

"There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose."

Dodo's marriage informs me a lot.

"The data of perception and, more generally, the events which comprise the history of the world, cannot be
deduced from a certain number of laws which supposedly
make up the unchanging face of the universe. On the contrary,
it is the scientific law that is an approximate expression of the
physical event and which allows this event to retain its opacity."

Science as I understand it, phenomenal.

I'm the book reading itself. I do not exist.

"The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him or her alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and inextricably lost."

—Schopenhauer, "meditate on our common mortality"

"Our senses are not open valves that simply allow all stimuli into our brain; instead we perceive only certain parts of our environment."

This afflicts my soul, acutely. I ardently wish to see AND comprehend EVERYTHING.. to experience, in William James's term, an altered state of consciousness. Yet, a human am I.

"Until men are ready to share the responsibilities of full-time, universal child-care as a social priority, their sons and ours will be without any coherent vision of what nonpatriarchal manhood might be."

Oh! David's obsessive infatuation with miss Larkins is sooo descriptive of this kind of acute emotional state.

"The experience of lying halfawake in a barred crib, in a labor room with other women moaning in a drugged condition, where “no one comes” except to do a pelvic examination or give an injection, is a classic experience of alienated childbirth. The loneliness, the sense of abandonment, of being imprisoned, powerless, and depersonalized is the chief collective memory of women who have given birth in ... hospitals."

"Undertake, till the last day of your life, to learn; which to do readily requires a great humbleness, for the proud do not win the hearts of those who know secrets." —Louise Bourgeois

"Whatever I had learnt had so slipped away from me in the sordid cares of my life from day to night that now, when I was examined about what I knew,

I knew nothing."

"The woman’s body, with its potential for gestating, bringing forth and nourishing new life, has been through the ages a field of contradictions: a space invested with power, and an acute vulnerability; a numinous figure and the incarnation of evil; a hoard of ambivalences, most of which have worked to disqualify women from the collective act of defining culture."

"She exists, not to cajole or reassure man, but to assert herself."