The universe itself — and the Mind behind it — is insane. Therefore someone in touch with reality is, by definition, in touch with the insane: infused by the irrational.
Philip K. Dick, VALIS
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I know it's irrational but sometimes I just want to say "I don't want you to fix the problem! I want you to have not caused the problem in the first place!"
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"Stop trying to get hold of God with your head. It's a heart thing... As soon as you get into reasoning, you're going to have trouble believing."
-- Televangelist Joyce Meyer
Translation: “Don’t think about it or it won’t make sense.”
If you need to shut down reasoning and rational thought in order to believe, then it is an unreasonable and irrational belief, and those who hold it must be regarded as unreasonable and irrational. And therefore dangerous.
Faith is indistinguishable from delusion.
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Allodoxaphobia is the fear of other people's opinions. It's a rare social phobia that's characterised by an irrational and overwhelming fear of what other people think.
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Es ist dumm, sich nach etwa szu sehnen, das man gar nicht will, aber auch sehr menschlich.
Juli Zeh: "Über Menschen", S.201
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Since I get lots of new folk hanging out this time of year, I have two important introductory messages:
First, I hate cats. I've tried to train myself to be more open to difference, but it's a struggle. I'm a pluralist, feminist, multiculturalist (is that still a thing?), trans-ally, all that. But not cats. The link up above is why.
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The denial of absolute moral values leads to an irrational position and moral disintegration.
Samples, Kenneth Richard. ‘Without a Doubt: Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions. p. 235
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Sorry for acting irrationally I do that to people I care about because my fear of abandonment started when I was 6
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I think if I see her on my dash again I'm going to punch something
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According to Nietzsche, “slaves” and their “reign” do not in the least subvert or abolish the topography of mastery.
They claim only that mastery should be deserved, that one has to be “qualified” to be a master (or that one has to “work hard” in order finally to become a master).
Even God should earn the right to be called God: He seems to be more and more incompetent at performing His job, and men have “reasonable grounds” for doubting that He is equal to His task.
This, for Nietzsche, is “slave morality” at its purest: we want a God/ Master, but a competent one! We want a Master, but a Master who will be dependent upon us, a Master whom we can approve of, and eventually replace with another one.
In other words, we want mastery without the Master.
Just as, according to Nietzsche, Christianity perpetuates itself without God, mastery comes to perpetuate itself without masters.
It perpetuates itself through knowledge that poses as objective, as absolutely foreign to the “irrational” and tautological dimension of mastery (“it is so, because I say it is so”).
But this is still a form of mastery (“the new tyranny of knowledge”), and a very powerful one at that.
The Shortest Shadow
Alenca Zupancic
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I cannot apologize for my behavior. But I can apologize for being so irresistible.
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When feelings are the priority, truth and reality are not.
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Gefühle wollen nicht verstanden werden! Gefühle wollen gefühlt, geteilt und mitempfunden werden. Emotionen sind nicht immer rational. Manchmal ist man auch einfach nur sentimental.
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Irrational
In ordinary dreams, the prefrontal cortex, responsible for logic, falls asleep, allowing bizarre events to unfold seamlessly.
But wouldn't you want to revisit even one of those scenes when you're awake?
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