Qverlord37
Qverlord37 t1_jb14ty8 wrote
Qverlord37 t1_jazupi7 wrote
Reply to Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by BigJimNorton
I learned about Terry Pratchett a little too late, it was around last year did I came across discword, and only now did I learn that he passes years ago.
his writing in Discworld is really fascinating.
my favorite is the ending to Hogfather.
>"All right, I'm not stupid. You're saying that humans need fantasies to make life bearable."
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>"No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape."
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>"With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?"
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>"Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies."
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>"So we can believe the big ones?"
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>"Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing."
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>"They're not the same at all!"
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>"You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and THEN show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet... you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged."
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>"But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?"
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>"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
it gave me a different perspective on religion.
Qverlord37 t1_jb16k9n wrote
Reply to Silent Harley, painted by me :o) by pumpkinlillies
Elesh Harley, clown cenobite.