Curiosity Crusade

Exploration

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If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury (via skotia)

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Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I’d really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person.
Haruki Murakami (via pavorst)

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The word “Lingerie”

Who made this word up? Honestly, it makes it sound more like a substance. It makes it sound like water. How do you say “I bought multiple Lingeries”? “Multiple instances of lingerie were bought by I”. The plural form should be lingeri. But it doesn’t stop at plurals. There is no singular form of lingerie. “I bought a lingerie” just sounds stupid. We must resort to saying “I bought some lingerie” as if you buy it at the market by weight. Or as if you go to your local deli and have them slice up some fresh lingerie for you.

Now take every awkward sentence i just said and replace bought with “drank” and lingerie with “water”. Is lingerie supposed to be some kind of molecular compound or is it pure enough to be an element? Maybe there should be some sorta periodic table. The more innocent articles would be the stable elements and the raunchy and dirty articles would be near the bottom of the table and all radioactive and shit.

Now that I think of it some more, it seems that only lingerie and fluids (both liquids and gases) are treated this way grammatically. I’m sure there are other examples of intangible nouns that work this way, but for now, the word lingerie is stupid and I am tired of having to check how it is spelled over and over so I’m just gonna end this with a bad conclusion. Bitch.

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Double You

Why is W the only letter of the alphabet that has more than one syllable? and why aren’t there any intermediately syllabolic letters? It goes straight from one syllable and jumps to three. Where the hell is the two syllable letter? It seems like quite the leap.

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Zeno’s arrow paradox

“If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.”

If something is considered to be “in motion” if it is moving to where it is not, then once it reaches the area where it is not, it will be there, so the area where it is not will become the area that it occupies, so it will never reach the area which it does not occupy„„, commas!

If we glimpse at anything at any moment it is impossible to determine that something is moving. It is like taking a photograph of something in motion. at any one instance, an object has no motion. So next time you get asked by a police officer “Do you know how fast you were going?” after getting pulled over, just respond “Well technically since there is no amount of time in a single moment, I was not moving at all!”. This will ensure that you will be handed a ticket promptly.