The mind isn’t simply a dangerous place, it’s the most dangerous place. All that’s wrong, sinful, and evil starts in the mind. It’s ironic how the part of the human body that controls everything is also the most out of control part of the body.
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He proposed ‘to distinguish the species by the name Homo Neanderthalensis’ after the Neander Valley where they were discovered. In the process, he unwittingly immortalized a little-known 17th-century psalmist, Joachim Neumann. Following the Philhellenic fashions of the day, Neumann’s last name (literally ‘new man’) was translated to the Greek ‘Neander’ and was then attached to the valley (‘thal’ in German) where he penned his psalms. Thanks to King, members of the long-extinct species unearthed there have been known by the wonderfully ironic name of Neanderthals (people from the valley of the new man).
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Indeed even today when US presidents take their oath of office, they out their hand on bible. Similarly in many countries around the world, including USA and the UK, witnesses in courts put their hand on a bible when swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It's ironic that they swear to tell the truth on a book brimming with so many fictions, myths and errors.
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It is ironic that man desires to dominate the material universe while he can not even control his own blood pressure and heartbeat!
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For Aristophanes, the verse by Euripides that reads "My tongue has sworn, but unsworn is my mind" became almost a motto of that poet's form of tragedy, the ironic emblem of his defeat in the Frogs. In representing the visually concrete and physical exterior of the mythical character, tragedy heightens the mystery of his interior life.
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The poem isn’t meant to be a celebration of going against the grain but rather an ironic performance about the futility of choice. He says that by believing our lives have endless possibilities, we stave off the horrifying truth that to live is merely to move forward through time while an internal clock counts down to a final, fatal moment. “We’re born, we live, we die,” he says, “and the choices we make in the middle, all those things we agonize over day after day, none of those matter in the end.”
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