Desire is never absent, regardless of whether reason is present or absent.
Even desiring “nothing” is a desire: “I have everything I need or want; I don’t want anything more …”
False premise = false conclusion.
But as someone famous once said “at some point you have made enough money…”
“In an absence of desire, why lie or steal?”
Because of the significance of the passage of time.
Time is significant. And it’s passing is significant. This is true if time is significant or if its passing is significant or if both time and its passing are significant.
Now time can be more significant than its passing and also its passing can be more significant than time.
But the bottom line is that significance is very significant.
And yes, we have been to the border and no, I haven’t been to Europe either.
@JohnTyler – lol, sounds like Kamala Harris composed that circumlocutious nonsense.
I always thought that was, “In the absence of lying and theft, why desire?” and their corollary, “In the absence of reason, why wonder?”
The only bumper sticker I ever attached to my truck said “How Does It Feel To Want?” I didn’t have an answer for a long time, but people did ask me what it meant; Other people wondered, and didn’t have an answer either. One day, the answer did dawn on me: Normal. It’s normal to want. Why lie? It’s hard to be perfectly honest with ourselves, even.
O grasshopper: desire is the font of all suffering.
@ IrishOtter49 > “O grasshopper: desire is the font of all suffering.”
A Buddhist bot?
Why not?
But in this season, the one thing that is most definitely not in absence, is desire. Hence the lying and stealing, yet to come.
Indeed.
More accurately, “desire” means the absolute psychological NEED to project, e.g., on the Left, such “desire” has ref-lined beyond the RPM dial and gone beyond insane…
“Leftists Predict Hysterical Dystopian Future Ruled By JD Vance And An Immortal Elon Musk“—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leftists-predict-hysterical-dystopian-future-ruled-jd-vance-and-immortal-elon-musk
Desire is never absent, regardless of whether reason is present or absent.
Even desiring “nothing” is a desire: “I have everything I need or want; I don’t want anything more …”
False premise = false conclusion.
But as someone famous once said “at some point you have made enough money…”
“In an absence of desire, why lie or steal?”
Because of the significance of the passage of time.
Time is significant. And it’s passing is significant. This is true if time is significant or if its passing is significant or if both time and its passing are significant.
Now time can be more significant than its passing and also its passing can be more significant than time.
But the bottom line is that significance is very significant.
And yes, we have been to the border and no, I haven’t been to Europe either.
@JohnTyler – lol, sounds like Kamala Harris composed that circumlocutious nonsense.
I always thought that was, “In the absence of lying and theft, why desire?” and their corollary, “In the absence of reason, why wonder?”
The only bumper sticker I ever attached to my truck said “How Does It Feel To Want?” I didn’t have an answer for a long time, but people did ask me what it meant; Other people wondered, and didn’t have an answer either. One day, the answer did dawn on me: Normal. It’s normal to want. Why lie? It’s hard to be perfectly honest with ourselves, even.
O grasshopper: desire is the font of all suffering.
@ IrishOtter49 > “O grasshopper: desire is the font of all suffering.”
And also of all progress.
I miss that show. Our boys were encouraged to do better by watching it.
And they all got hooked on Chinese, and then Japanese, martial arts.
https://kidadl.com/facts/quotes/kung-fu-grasshopper-quotes-from-the-1970s-tv-show
Maybe not the all-time best quotes, but good enough.