Minutes of a Monday #32

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Brain Food > Something otherworldly

“For me, there is forever a struggle between the rational side of myself and the side that is alert to glimpses or impressions of something otherworldly. And, of course, I know there is no coherent argument to be had here. My rational self has all the weaponry, all the big guns – reason, science, common sense, normality – and all that far outweighs the side of me that only has suspicions and hints and signs of something else, something mysterious and quietly spoken.

But, even still, it feels, under the circumstances, that to dismiss the existence of these things that live beyond our reasonable selves outright is, at best, ungenerous. Don’t you think? I mean, I don’t blindly succumb to these feelings, but still I remain watchful for that promise.”

Nick Cave speaking to Seán O’Hagan in an excerpt from Faith, Hope & Carnage.

Soul Food

“God is a story we tell to assuage the terror within ourselves.”

John Yorke

LOL

There is nothing funny about this man’s condition, but having heard him speak in public in Austin, I can testify he is one funny f*cker:

Appendix

“A prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone….it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it; it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books or putting investigators to work to pin some offense on him.”

Former U.S. Attorney General, Supreme Court associate justice and chief U.S. Nuremburg trial prosecutor, Robert Jackson.

AOB

New article coming next Monday. In the meantime, have a great week ya’ll.