{"quotes":[{"text":"Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and momentary purpose coherent to a context rooted in contiguous reason. This unbridled brash Spirit is, to itself, burdensome, yet dynamic, for it sees no flaw in working within the confines of a closed system to achieve ends that extend beyond it. This Spirit is, in fact, self-deceptive for to achieve such ends, it becomes necessary to bound manipulable fragments of the Self with a twine by which these parts can be joined indissolubly and maneuvered adroitly with the skill of a marionettist.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["ephemerality","evanescence","fleeting","form","marionette","multiple-universes","parasitism","past-lives","poetry","puppetry","spirit","transcendentalism"],"id":101553,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .","author":"Olivia Sudjic","tags":["chaos","multiple-universes","multiverse","olivia-sudjic","sympathy","universes"],"id":110435,"author_id":"Olivia+Sudjic"},{"text":"The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private af.","author":"David Klinghoffer","tags":["accountability","aliens","dawkins","extraterrestrials","id","intelligent-design","judgement","moral-responsibility","multiple-universe","multiple-universes","multiverse","new-scientist","responsibility","richard-dawkins","science","theism"],"id":127322,"author_id":"David+Klinghoffer"},{"text":"Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments? Perhaps, in his dreams, he had traveled back in time, or even drifted into another dimension of space-time and inhabited the body, experiences, and nostalgia of another. To even envisage so allowed the trauma of those lost moments, though not his own, to draw from him a certain envy for the entity in whose memories he had basked vicariously. . .Perhaps, nostalgia was a microorganism. . .The bacterium that infected. . . Yes. . .Maybe he was sick.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["ailment","bacterium","consciousness","entity","envy","infection","lost-time","microorganisms","multiple-personalities","multiple-universes","nostalgia","pathogen","plague","remembrance-of-things-past","time-travel","vicarious-experience"],"id":198328,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}