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- This is the explanation for my eternal laughter with people.
Quote Explanation: Marina Tsvetaeva. Notebook 1919-1920.
№ 460345   Added Viker 10-01-2024 / 13:46
Why do the world's leading scientists even put forward these far-fetched theories? Because they understand that a purely physical explanation of the world cannot be adequate. They understand that a purely naturalistic picture cannot answer the most important and pressing questions. At the same time, they recognize that the Universe has all the characteristics of a designed, created system, as if there was a plan and will behind it all. But they refuse to admit that they actually mean God. So they have to invent aliens, computer simulations, and other simple stories to make sense of things that make no sense from the point of view of strict materialism. Maybe one day they will unearth the truth they worked so hard to hide.
№ 457976   Added Viker 31-10-2023 / 12:58
- It depends on what you consider a creature.
Quote Explanation: Episode 1
- It depends on what you consider a creature.
№ 457451   Added Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:33
If a person cannot climb the steps that break and collapse under him, he himself will come up with an explanation that he only wanted to go straight in the direction in front of him. Your right: to tell a person that the steps leading upstairs collapsed under him from his own personality traits.
№ 454105   Added MegaMozg 08-06-2023 / 10:09
The disciple should first of all touch the feet of the Guru. The explanation is that the Guru is the path to God, without which it is impossible to meet God.
№ 450786   Added Viker 02-03-2023 / 11:08
It all started with the Big Bang!
Quote Explanation: poetic translation of the introduction
№ 450341   Added Viker 14-02-2023 / 09:38
Rats have played a significant role in the history of Ankh-Morpork. Shortly before the patrician came to power, there was a terrible infestation of rats in the city, and as a method of struggle, the city council offered to pay twenty pence for each rat's tail. For a week or two, the number of rats actually dropped, but then people with rat tails began to line up in huge lines, the city treasury was empty, and everyone was just chasing rats. Which were still swarming everywhere. Lord Vetinari listened carefully to the explanation of the problem and solved it with a single memorable phrase that spoke a lot about himself, about the stupidity of the reward idea, and about the innate instincts of true Ankh-Morporks. "Tax the rat farms," said the patrician.
№ 449895   Added MegaMozg 07-02-2023 / 04:21
Our parents have a higher education: my mother is a teacher of elementary grades, my father is a university teacher, but for some reason they were not worried about their daughter's progress. They didn't force her to study harder, didn't help her with her homework, and didn't even scold her for bad grades. The explanation was the same: She
№ 448138   Added Viker 02-01-2023 / 12:22
I have a super cool idea - let's explain to me what's going on?
№ 447238   Added MegaMozg 03-12-2022 / 17:27
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean there isn't an explanation.
№ 444745   Added MegaMozg 20-09-2022 / 15:30
Something weird is happening to us. Maybe some professor will explain it to us through the newspaper: they have their own explanation for everything.
№ 443008   Added Viker 06-08-2022 / 21:57
So what do you need from me? Perhaps some explanation? Any great soul-saving story that would explain how events unfolded? Perhaps there was a reason - a driving force that would make everything logical; and, having understood it, you might hate me a little less than now. However, one does not exist. I never had time to repent. I am elemental. So to speak, axiomatic - such as the one who is inside a whole tangle of false moves should be. As you can see, I got my way. I am who I am. This is my blessing and - for the sake of symmetry - my curse.
№ 441161   Added MegaMozg 24-06-2022 / 01:18
Quote in English
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№ 440426   Added MegaMozg 04-06-2022 / 14:21
Madness? What a convenient explanation for her genius.
№ 438624   Added Viker 17-05-2022 / 15:40