“It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsRealEndsBodyIndividualHeavenWishAcceptingFantasySubjectsDangerousUniqueDestructionMurderAbsolutesDon't BelieveAtheistFulfillmentMortalityAfterlifeRecycled Author:David Cronenberg
“Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.” PeopleFirstsHumorPoliticalAcceptingExampleUniqueAbsolutesDevotionChosenTyrantsFaith In GodDictatorCommandmentsThreatenedDisobedienceResentPolitical HumorChosen By God Author:George W. Bush
“God wants a love partner, centering on the place where husband and wife become one through their sexual organs, God wants to appear and meet us...I wish you would center on the absolute sexual organ, unique sexual organ, unchanging sexual organ and eternal sexual organ and use this as your foundation to pursue God...We have to realize that the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven will begin on this foundation.” WantUseEarthHeavenWishRealizingWifeHusbandEternalUniqueAbsolutesFoundationPartnersKingdomsPursueOrgansKingdom Of GodWish YouHusband And WifeUnchangingCenteringI Wish You Would Author:Sun Myung Moon
“There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.” GodResultsMovementEternalUniquePerfectionEssenceRelationAbsolutesInfiniteBeing UniquePlenitude Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker movie I was obsessed with playing the trumpet, and to my absolute shock I haven't picked the trumpet up since we wrapped. It was so much work. I thought I was going to keep playing the rest of my life, 'cause it was fun, it's just a lot of work. And it's a really unique job that exposes you to a lot.” JobsFunCausesHavensUniqueAbsolutesEvolveObsessedShockTrumpetsBakersReally TrueChet Baker Author:Ethan Hawke
“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.” PersonsDifferentSpeakMarriageUniqueFemaleAbsolutesMalesPartnersChosenEchoesFaithfulnessCovenantCovenant With God Author:Rowan Williams
“Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.” WellsSoulLastsDesireMorningWrittenMonthsDiseaseUniqueAbsolutesCardsImaginaryEarningFatigueFellowshipBlogsVisitorsFeesCementEarly MorningHomesicknessPiercingsLove Of My LifePrincetonBirthday CardEach MonthAbsolute Love Book:Americanah Source: Americanah