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We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules. – Alan Watts	added by JokerGem 3 months ago
This land is not meant for any of those things. The biodiversity of the land has been completely destroyed, where will the sewage and the excrement go? All across the floodplains! – Anand Arya	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Where will the sewage and the excrement go? All across the floodplains! – Anand Arya	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. – Gene Spafford, 1992	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. – Norman O. Brown	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules.

– Alan Watts

added by JokerGem
3 months ago

This land is not meant for any of those things. The biodiversity of the land has been completely destroyed, where will the sewage and the excrement go? All across the floodplains!

– Anand Arya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Where will the sewage and the excrement go? All across the floodplains!

– Anand Arya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

– Gene Spafford, 1992

added by anonymous
13 years ago

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

– Norman O. Brown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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