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Go Absurd 99 – It’s The Little Things, and big things, That Don’t Matter

“…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.”  (E. M. Cioran) An Absurd World… Huge numbers of people applying to work at McDonald’s… https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/law-graduates-mcdonalds-rejection-email-23081786 We’ve got a really rigorous selection process at McDonald’s and a large number of people apply to work with us each day…   A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Up in the hills is down in the valleys Book Title You Will Probably Never See… How To Migrate To The Sahara Desert: Or Was It A Southern Dessert?   The Meaning of Life? Eating ice-cream and defecating while it snows Said No One, Probably

Go Absurd 98 – Why Bother to Bother?

  “…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries -- this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.” (ALBERT CAMUS,  The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays ) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Two in the oven is worth three in the town A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A British man has been bitten by

Go Absurd 97 – Read What You Believe

  “…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” (Alan Watts) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Is the glass half-empty or empty? A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A freak gust of wind has lifted a jumping castle seven metres in the air resulting in serious injuries to two children who have undergone surgery and are now in a serious but stable condition https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-09/children-in-surgery-after-freak-jumping-castle-incident/12863504 Book Title You Will Probably Never See… How To Get The Job You Don’t Want By Trying, AKA, Living   Absurd Magazine Article Title… 86 Ways To Pleasure Your Partner To A Restle

Go Absurd 96 – Where Doing and Don’ting Don’t Matter

  “…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “But at root…it is nothing more than the mysterious utterance of the old man of Spithead, who opened the window and said: Fill jumble, fill jumble, Fill rumble-come-tumble ” (Alan Watts, The Book ) An Absurd World… US Politics… A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said… There are no free lunches in Heaven…there are no lunches to be had… A Saying? To be or to be is to be Book Title You Will Probably Never See… The Beginner’s Guide To A Better Metaphysical Carnal Life: With Pictures! A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foolish Question… What’s the difference between intercourse, discourse, and ‘of course!’?   The Meaning of Life? Scribbling down lines