rattus rattus’ blog

[Ratta says: Please, could you try a little harder to feel less pressed!]

silence came quietly and unexpectedly

silence was desired
silence was welcome

you.
again you.
once more, you.

i do not exist

it is silent

the pain gives way to silence

compassion

infinite compassion

you.
again you.
once more, you.

where do we begin?

we never started
we never ended

silence.
infinite silence.

the you
the me
the silence

“the silence” by Cairo Otaibi

[Ratta says, it’s good to know that getting no comments is one hell of a comment.]

Cartoon by hugh macleod

The annoying thing about people like you is the expectation to be taken seriously by people like me.

When I read you and I I am always wondering who is addressed. The author, the writer, the reader, me, you, or the story’s fictional characters? And what if I read a text to someone? Or, when I quote some text?

Maybe, I should just try to annoy myself less.

For some cooling air flow, may I suggest to visit Kühle Brise by Kochwerkstatt (German only), a blog and more with lots of cOOl and hot cOOking recipes provided by Karsten Kuhnen.

[Ratta says: Everything is a dichotomy albeit a big one.]

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

A quote attributed to Richard Feynman, though published by Steven Weinberg in Nature 330 (1987): p433-. My lying heart likes it as much as it is written from a philosophy of science’s point of view.

There are basically two ways to indulge in disfinism — the science of no definition: Don’t provide any definition, or provide a new one for each and every occasion and let everyone come up with their own. Worst of all: Make them differ only slightly. For examples see

• Google search on “definitions of sustainability”
• The definition of sustainability (by umweltbildung.at; English only readers may want to skip the German introduction)
• Definitions of Sustainable Development (by Susan Murcott)
• Definitions of Sustainability from the Literature (PDF, by Annie Pearce and Leslie Walrath; a comprehensive list of “over 200 definitions of sustainability from published literature, including source citations and key words”)