Posts Tagged ‘Philosophy’

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Making My Mark

by Seraphine Khorana on June 14th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Making My Mark

Few of us will make any individual mark for mankind to remember. What we can do today is make our lives meaningful in the moment. Future generations will remember none or few of us as individuals; our legacy is the world we leave for our children and their children.

I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that any more.
Quotation from Dorothy Parker

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Quotation from Henry David Thoreau

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Metta Metta

by Seraphine Khorana on February 3rd, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Metta Metta

3) The unexamined life is not worth living.
2) Be mindful of the questions you ask.
1) All questions ultimately have the same answer.

Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Quotation from Sutta Nipata

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Crap is Art

by Seraphine Khorana on December 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Crap is Art

“When you wet the bed, first it gets warm then it gets cold.” So says James Joyce. And this is true for everything: a man’s life, a mother’s love, worldly passion, weather, fashion, technology, war, a bird in the nest, a beating heart, milk on the floor, ball bearings, anger, the sun, a barking dog, ice cream, the sound of a hand moving through water, words, sulpher, the color blue.

You never know who will have the answers… but you must push to find the questions that need to be asked.
Quotation from Jason Manley

Hence art is indefinable. (Weitz, 1956)
Quotation from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Purgatorily Yours

by Seraphine Khorana on December 11th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Purgatorily Yours

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Yet, some people argue passionately about everything. They enjoy testing the strength of another’s convictions, or else they have a mood disorder. Perhaps they are simply bullies. Or it’s PMS.

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has a wide variety of symptoms, including mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue, irritability and depression. An estimated 3 of every 4 menstruating women experience some form of premenstrual syndrome.
Quotation from MayoClinic.com, Premenstrual Syndrome

[FYI: Don't argue the fact that 3 out of 4 is almost 75%.]

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This girl is not a safe alternative to cigarettes

by Seraphine Khorana on November 21st, 2009
Posted In: Comics
This girl is not a safe alternative to cigarettes

People should come with warning labels. “Use at your own risk.”

But I’m a creep, I’m a wierdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here.
She’s running out again.
She’s running.
She runs runs runs runs
Runs.
Lyric from Radiohead, Creep

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It’s Right Under Your Nose

by Seraphine Khorana on October 1st, 2009
Posted In: Comics
It’s Right Under Your Nose

I’ve added some new widgets to Encore Seraphine, including a Search function and a Tag Cloud. I hope you like the changes and decide to try them. The current publication pace of a new comic roughly every other day is working great for me. In about a week, I’ll be presenting my 700th comic. Thank you for your encouragement and wonderful comments.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose… It is our duty to find ourselves.
Quotation from Woodrow Wilson, 1907

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Zero World

by Seraphine Khorana on September 6th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Zero World

When you lose direction (velocity), you’re susceptible to Zitterbewegung, or that jittery existence between positive and negative energy. Some call it ambivalence, others describe it as lethargy. It’s not being able to move in any direction.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can’t move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won’t be troubling you much longer.
Quotation from Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Alter-Google Earth

by Seraphine Khorana on May 19th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Alter-Google Earth

So why exactly did God (or Allah, Yahweh, El Roi, Gore, Sophia, Zhu, Budda, Elohim, Abba) invent the Internet? Surely, the Answer to Life is contained therein, or the Internet wouldn’t exist. One final question regarding our human identity, because I have forgotten the answer: Are we Blips, or are we The Others?

If you type “the answer to life, the universe and everything” into Google (without quotes or capitalising the small words), the Google Calculator will give you 42.
Quotation from Wikipedia (Wikipedia.org)

The Campaign to Save Paste: If you donate anything, even a dollar, to save Paste magazine, you’ll get download access to their vault of over 100 songs, which currently includes artists such as Cowboy Junkies, Indigo Girls and Neko Case. Seriously good music! Bettye LaVette’s Change is Gonna Come alone is worth the price of admission.

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Multi-Directional Optimization

by Seraphine Khorana on August 20th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Multi-Directional Optimization

I lose time. Seriously, check the couch cushions.
There’s a hole in my time pocket.

This is the closest you may come to resurrecting Time. (Time Travel Fund)
Umm. I’m not affiliated with, nor endorsing this “fund.” Buyer Beware/Shown here for amusement purposes only.

Time is of your own making;
its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
time too stops dead.
Poem by Angelus Silesius

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