tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467236423735891536.post4523643305636287078..comments2023-10-29T13:33:18.452+00:00Comments on Anthony Peake's Cheating The Ferryman Blog Page: So Far, So GoodAnthony Peakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12199138770925114308noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467236423735891536.post-16770606583589657922008-03-12T13:38:00.000+00:002008-03-12T13:38:00.000+00:00Ah the legend that is Steven Wright:I always remem...Ah the legend that is Steven Wright:<BR/>I always remember one particular quote of his (which IS his as I've seen him perform it on video), which has always struck a chord with me and how my own head works:<BR/><BR/>"You know how it feels when you're leaning back on a chair, and you lean too far back, and you almost fall over backwards, but then you catch yourself at the last second? I feel like that all the time."Karl Le Marcshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01402028443489182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467236423735891536.post-73758040083850168782008-03-12T10:54:00.000+00:002008-03-12T10:54:00.000+00:00This explains A LOT!!! I read some of his and they...This explains A LOT!!! I read some of his and they're absolutely classic, then i read some others and i think "what went wrong?"Hurlyburlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991008325876909831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467236423735891536.post-58360680070439038132008-03-12T10:44:00.000+00:002008-03-12T10:44:00.000+00:00I probably should add the caveat that when I looke...I probably should add the caveat that when I looked Wright up on Wikipedia, I found this:<BR/><BR/>"There are numerous lists of jokes attributed to Wright circulating on the Internet, sometimes of dubious origin. Wright has stated that 'someone showed me a site, and half of it that said I wrote it, I didn't write. Recently, I saw one, and I didn't write any of it. What's disturbing is that with a few of these jokes, I wish I had thought of them. A giant amount of them, I'm embarrassed that people think I thought of them, because some are really bad.'"<BR/><BR/>So, who knows whether he actually wrote the quote I posted. In any case, I love it, because it reminds me of the sort of thoughts I was having when I first started taking the concept of reincarnation seriously: I started thinking, What are the odds that, of all the time points in the history of the world that I could have existed, I should exist *right now*, in the present -- the most current era in which it is possible for a person to exist? Why wasn't I a caveman? Was I just lucky? I thought, Maybe I've always been here and always will be?<BR/><BR/>I know many people would find these questions idiotic, because when *else* could I exist? If I'd lived at any other point in history, I could have said the same thing in *that* present moment, and I wouldn't be here, now, in 2008, to ask the question. I'm sure someone has tried to explain it in terms of probabilities and human populations, etc., too. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought, yeah -- I shouldn't just take it for granted that my existence, my consciousness now, in 2008, is due simply to randomness. In other words, So far, so good.Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11066840629733573007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467236423735891536.post-57772722691468003482008-03-12T08:56:00.000+00:002008-03-12T08:56:00.000+00:00I love Steve Wright. I think he takes up about a q...I love Steve Wright. I think he takes up about a quater of one of my favourite quote bookss "Ultimate Wit".<BR/><BR/>One of them is something like<BR/><BR/>"My father used to make us stand in the corner very quietly for 5 minutes everyday, he called it elevater practice"Hurlyburlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991008325876909831noreply@blogger.com