Jacques Vallée - Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers
It is in the literature of religion that flying objects from celestial countries are most commonly encountered, along with descriptions of the organization, nature, and philosophy of their occupants. Indeed, several writers have consistently pointed out that the fundamental texts of every religion refer to the contact of the human community with a "superior race" of beings from the sky.
Jacques Vallée - Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers
Let us come to the point now. It would be nice to hold on to the common belief that the UFOs are craft from a superior space-civilization, because this is a hypothesis science fiction has made widely acceptable, and because we are not altogether unprepared, scientifically and even, perhaps, militarily, to deal with such visitors. Unfortunately, however, the theory that flying saucers are material objects from outer space manned by a race originating on some other planet is not a complete answer.
Dan Reeder
- Two Weeks After Dieter Died
Two weeks after Dieter died, you could call him on the phone. He would tell you that he's not home, and it gave you an eerie feeling even though you knew it was just an answering machine. Somewhere deep inside you know they don't come back when they go, and he had gone and when they're gone... they're gone.
Dan Reeder
- Maybe
Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure. Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure. Maybe you'll come back someday as a king prawn. Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven, or the other way; but from down here, it appears that when they're gone... they're gone.
Dan Reeder
The first guy I knew who died, can't remember his name, the tenth grade started, he just never came again. All his friends sat around and cried for a day or two. You can say what you want about immortal souls, when that guy died, it left a hole. It was my first clue that when they're gone, they're gone.
A kid trying to do some work
- Insert title here
I have a filming project that is due. It's for this school program I go to. I'm just going to type some random stuff here for one shot for the film. The project is due about... uh, a couple of days from now. Do you like dogs? Or do you like cats? Or do you hate pets in general? I have never seen a cat in person. Probably because no one takes their cats for walks, people should start walking more with their cats.
Paige Bradley
- The Box
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we.
Ana Char
- Peace
"I am peace. I choose peace. I have the ability to control my emotions in any given situation and my baseline is peace." Say this a few times a day and you will start to make decisions that lead you towards peacefulness.
Mal Reynolds - Firefly
- The Hero of Canton
It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another. Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.
Chase Atlantic
- Run Away
I wasn't given a warning. It's three o'clock in the morning. Cause we've been circling all night long, keep repeating the same damn songs. Staring out of the window, say the word and then we'll go to anyplace that you feel at home, cause I know that you feel alone. Run away, run away with me.
Technoblade
- so long nerds
If I had another hundred lives, I think I would choose to be Technoblade again every single time, as those were the happiest years of my life. I hope you guys enjoyed my content and that I made some of you laugh, and I hope you all go on to live long, prosperous, and happy lives, because I love you guys. Technoblade out.
CJ The X
- Subjectivity in Art: Intent and Interpretation
The moment where intent and interpretation access the same transcendental essence via an art object is so much more than opinion or coincidence or sensory pleasure. It's a moment where we see each other beyond our capacity to express with words.
Anonymous
We need an American Girl Doll who can't afford an American Girl Doll and is one of the only girls in her fancy private school (that she attends on scholarship) not to have one.
A Novice Typist
- Songs and Challenges
I have found that when the sample text is a memorable song, it is difficult to navigate the lyrics without keeping the cadence of the song. This has probably hurt my words per minute while practicing. On a completely different and unrelated note, I have really struggled with typing the word 'because' without error the first time. I apologize for the single quotation marks, those also hurt my words per minute, but at least it's practice.
Chris Avellone - Knights of the Old Rebuplic II
- Kreia's Big Reveal
Perhaps you were expecting some surprise, for me to reveal a secret that had eluded you, something that would change your perspective of events, shatter you to your core. There is no great revelation, no great secret. There is only you.
CJ The X
- Subjectivity In Art
Art is an aesthetic engagement. Aesthetic engagement is part of what art is. Our subjective interpretations are fractal manifestations of transcendental unspeakable essence and truth. And we must accommodate it, spread through the collective consciousness like a virus!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Beauty
And Rakitin doesn't like God, oof, how he doesn't! That's the sore spot in all of them! But they conceal it. They lie. They pretend. 'What, are you going to push for that in the department of criticism?' I asked. 'Well, they won't let me do it openly,' he said, and laughed. 'But,' I asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent.
CJ The X
- Meme the Pain Away
Self-consciousness, constant performance, and cyborgian transhumanism are eating us alive. The corporations that control the mediums only care about profit. The parents still don't fully understand what a dab is. And the kids are so lost in irony and despair that they can only meme the pain away.
Kugane Maruyama
- Ainz to Neia, Overlord Volume Twelve
Failure is the mother of success. The consequences of not relying on me and instead thinking for yourself, even if they should end up being a failure, should not be feared, but embraced. This is because they are the failures necessary for success.
