Blaise Pascal

[KillahBee]

"All of man’s troubles stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone"

Fucking mint

 

[EnderJE]

Bad times again?

 

[KillahBee]

Bad times again?

I have no idea what this means

 

[EnderJE]

Are you having a bad day to post up a quote like that?

 

[KillahBee]

Are you having a bad day to post up a quote like that?

Very interesting that you saw it that way. What does that quote mean/say to you?

Interestingly, I am having an amazing day/time. I just randomly heard that quote last night in a CD I was listening to (it was Dyer, Smurfy) and thought it was genius.

 

[nefertiti]

Pascal had some interesting theories about faith, too, but I won't thread hijack.

 

[Smurfy]

Very interesting that you saw it that way. What does that quote mean/say to you?

Interestingly, I am having an amazing day/time. I just randomly heard that quote last night in a CD I was listening to (it was Dyer, Smurfy) and thought it was genius.

fukkin love Dyer.


genius.

 

[Smurfy]

in other words, people bring situations upon themselves ?

 

[KillahBee]

This particular quote was used in the context of meditation (whatever "meditation" may mean to you, i.e. prayer, budhhist meditation, being quiet in a room, etc). But I think it speaks mostly to people's refusal / in ability to STOP and pay attention for a while.

 

[alien amp pharm]

Interesting

because my ideal situation is being alone without anyone else around.

I hate people

and noise

 

[KillahBee]

Interesting

because my ideal situation is being alone without anyone else around.

I hate people

and noise

What you described and what this quote is about are 2 totally different things.

 

[alien amp pharm]

you say potato I say patato

 

[KillahBee]

You do like dudes. So, there's always that

 

[nefertiti]

kb, Are you reading something now that prompted this?

 

[KillahBee]

kb, Are you reading something now that prompted this?

Was listening to one of my Wayne Dyer audio clips last night and he mentioned that quote. I've never read anything about Pascal (not that into philosophers / scientist combos) before.

 

[nefertiti]

Ahhh, ok. I did a paper on some of Pascal's math/philosophy theories my freshman year...pretty interesting to me, but I'm a dweeb.

 

[jackangel]

^^^ dweeb that loves DP

 

[needtogetaas]

so true.....

 

[anthrax]

"The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal.
Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so."

Blaise Pascal