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Weekly Residuum 154 -MAY 2003 E
© photo and text Koen Nieuwendijk




Some things simply happen to you without you asking for them, a bit like catching unidentified invisibles engaging in unannounced, uncoordinated dialogues. Let me invite you to a selection from LUC, the Log of Unauthorised Contemplations.

From Heavenly Brain Trust Department (HBTD):
The will to plumb the depths of an enigma is genetically predisposed.

From Local Insight Association (LIA):
After all, do we not have opposing mechanisms such as idleness or laziness, or perhaps we should simply call it economic conduct? Obviously these too are genetically predisposed, thus enabling Free Will more or less to survive as an ideal, given that processes such as mood and digestion, which are accessible as well as reasonably controllable, appear to have considerable influence in this respect.

From Foundation for Fine Thinking Development (FFTD):
Which thus constitutes the outset of the insight that the concept of Chaos is a product of inadequate intellectual capacity.

From Corrective Authority of Supra Rational Thinking (CASRT):
Pipe down, will you, for intelligence is a characteristic that scarcely suffices for fathoming continually recurring processes, as much as mankind would want to reduce these to manageable proportions.

Could it be that intelligence started out originally as a deviation without an evolutionary edge which with a bit of luck could belatedly contribute to the survival of the species? If so, we'd recommend appreciating that the advantage of one form of life tends to be a fatal drawback for another, but we'll deal with that later. As long as mankind continues commandeering the primacy of the universe, it will be fundamentally at odds not only with all potential forms of life, but with itself as well.

From me (very timidly):
Why don't they go on to admit that the reason man has coined the concept of "good" is that he hopes and prays this will keep his insignificance from turning against him?

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