Today
I do not know how, or why; but we have forgotten ourselves. Our stories are not told, our songs are not sung! Tonight, as we came home, we sang a song of victory - a song known only to me as a lullaby. But it is a warrior’s song!
Tok, Star Trek: TNG - Birthright: Pt. 2
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston Churchill, May 2, 1935 speech to the House of Commons
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N:
tell me stories
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A:
Once upon a time there was an entire society of girls and boys that were swayed by emotions and then eventually they all died. The end.
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One day later,
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A:
tell me a bedtime storyy
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N:
Once upon a time there was an entire society of girls and boys that were not swayed by emotions and they chose to just listen to some neuronal activity as the basis of all their thoughts, actions, feelings, etc. and then eventually they all died. The end.
You do understand, don’t you- that thought is the basis of all reality? The energy of thought, to put it in your terms, is very powerful… Space and time and thought aren’t the separate things they appear to be.
The Traveler, Star Trek: The Next Generation
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
