Book: Eve's Three Daughters
"I guess I'll limit myself to lying a well-known quote," the atheist professor said. - Religion is a fairy tale for those who are afraid of the dark.
"In that case, atheism is a fairy tale for those who are afraid of light," retorted the religious professor, who spoke with a soft Irish accent.
All eyes were on Professor Azur.
"I confess that I love fairy tales very much," he began, and mischievous lights flashed in his eyes. - In fairy tales, the hero is often asked to choose one path out of three. In my opinion, my esteemed colleagues made the wrong choice. One of them denies the possibility of faith, the other - the possibility of doubt. Both refuse to understand that a person equally needs both faith and doubt. Uncertainty, my friends, is a great good. We must not give it up. And I choose the third way, the path of uncertainty.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 22:42
Commitment to one idea, whatever it may be, is always a weakness. In my opinion, both absolute unbelief and absolute faith are equally questionable... Some scientists tend to divide everything into categories, others - to mix and combine everything. People are used to the fact that every question must be answered. But questions are far more important than answers! I want God to take in a particle of the devil, and the devil to take a particle of God. What we see in the mirror is not us at all. It's just a reflection. We can know our true self only by knowing other people. We are for versatility. To discover in each hundreds of other personalities, thousands of beating hearts. All life on earth develops from simple to complex...
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:33
When we fall in love, we turn the object of our love into a deity, that is the danger. If we are not reciprocated, anger, resentment, even hatred awakens in our souls ... After all, love is somewhat similar to faith. Just as blind, don't you think? The sweetest euphoria of all. We feel a mysterious connection with someone who is outside of our own personality, so understandable and familiar. But when love - or faith - engulfs us entirely, it turns into dogma, stops developing. Sweetness gives way to bitterness. We begin to suffer under the rule of the deity, which we ourselves have created.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:30
Serenity. Insensitivity. Sometimes Peri dreamed of them as a great gift. If only she could forget. If only I could not be in pain. She tried to shake off the past, but despite her best efforts, it stubbornly pursued her. (…) Consciousness of her guilt, shame and self-hatred, united, melted into a kind of dense substance, which lay with a heavy burden on her soul.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:27
There are two types of cities in the world: those that, with all their way of life, constantly convince residents that their tomorrow, like the day after tomorrow, will not be much different from today's day, and those that, on the contrary, constantly remind their citizens of the changeability of life. Istanbul belongs to the second type. There is no time to engage in self-seeping in anticipation until the clock finally breaks an hour for some more or less noticeable event. Istanbulites rush from one emergency news to another, even more rapidly digest them, until it is the turn of a new emergency that requires their close attention.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:24
Education ... Not a university degree, not a future profession, but education. A word that has an almost sacred meaning for countless parents, who at one time did not have the opportunity to study, but who piously believe that education is the main guarantee of success in life.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:21
But, alas, not a single string in her soul trembled. Why is it like this? Why can't she like this kind, handsome guy who is suitable for her age and, perhaps, will make her happy? No, she continues to sigh for the professor - a person much older than herself, mysterious and inaccessible. A person with whom she cannot have a future. Still curious, Peri thought, why had she never dreamed of happiness? Why did this magic word, which is full of the pages of books and lyrics, invariably leave her indifferent? No, of course she didn't want to be unhappy. I just didn't see the search for happiness as my main goal in life. If it had been otherwise, she would never have allowed herself to dry up for a man like Azur.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:18
Perhaps this is the first sign of impending old age - to save the names of deceased friends and relatives in their address books, thereby continuing their ghostly existence. Because the day will come, and you yourself will turn into the same name with the phone number written down next to you.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:15
This world is too complex and changeable, and everyone who lives in it should be clear only one thing: diligence is better than idleness, inspiration is preferable to indifference. Questions are much more important than answers, and doubt is always more fruitful than incontestability. To doubt everything is the motto of anyone who does not want to stand still.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:12
Confidence does with the inquisitiveness of man what the sun did with the wings of Icarus. In the bright light, certainties fade and doubts disappear. Confidence entails arrogance, arrogance is followed by blindness, and blindness is followed by darkness. Thus, the brighter the light of confidence, the more darkness it creates. This is called the contradictory nature of a belief.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:09
A few decades ago, all advanced scientists were convinced that in the twenty-first century religion would simply disappear. Instead, in the late seventies there was her very spectacular return. Like an opera diva, who was bored with forced rest, religion returned to the stage, and her voice becomes more and more sonorous from year to year. Today, questions of faith are once again causing heated and irreconcilable disputes.
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MegaMozg 04-11-2020 / 15:06
Falling in love entails mental turbulence; parting entails confusion even more powerful. All these feelings and experiences will have to spend a lot of energy, and for lunches, dinners, walks, endless quarrels on the most insignificant occasions and sweet reconciliations - a lot of time. It's all very exhausting.
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MegaMozg 02-11-2020 / 22:27
There is no wisdom without love. There is no love without freedom. We will not achieve freedom until we move away from those we have become.
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MegaMozg 02-11-2020 / 11:30
She continued to memorize the words, trying to comprehend the subtlest shades of their meaning. She collected words, as once in childhood she collected shells and corals polished by waves on the seashore. Only, unlike the beautiful but dead gifts of the sea, the words were full of life and movement.
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MegaMozg 02-11-2020 / 11:27
"I believe that there is no dictatorship with a human face," she said firmly.
- Why? - The architect inquired.
- Because any dictator sooner or later begins to consider himself a god. And when a person plays God, the interests of other people seem to him insignificant.
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MegaMozg 02-11-2020 / 11:24
