Ultimate Philosophy

[Unexard]

The genius of Terry Pratchett is that the most "human" character of the discworld is... Death...

[Dwarfman01]

RIP Ian Richardson.

[Sairin13]

This is sort of the positive parallel to Vonnegut's line "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

[kroese1870]

CREATION, CREATE, CREATIVITY, CREATOR.

"You are Gods" - Jesus of Nazareth

"As you think, so will you be and so you will create the world" - Siddartha Gautama

[ra2006ra]

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[twdarkflame]

Its a wonderfull speach, allthough its easy to poke holes in it.

Grind the universe down and you wont find a single molecule of gravity either.

Things can be non-physicaly, yet still exist and be very important.

Imagination itself is a non-physical idea, yet its profoundly important for us too.

[Codex7777]

@twdarkflame How is imagination "non-physical"?

[twdarkflame]

@Codex7777 because you cant touch it. You could argue its generated in part of the brain that is physical of course, but that part of the brain is whats physical, not the imaginition itself.

[Codex7777]

@twdarkflame Imagination is how we describe certain brain/body processes. It's not something invisible & immaterial, floating around next to us.

[Sonetodecirene]

@twdarkflame

True, but gravity is something that exists on it's own while justice, beauty and so on are concepts created by humans..

[Jcolinsol]

@Sonetodecirene

Gravity is an aspect of the simulation that we experience. Keep that in mind, even the laws of nature are just as much a creation of the mind as our fantasies.

[phoenixrisinghigh]

"What can the harvest hope for, if not the care of the reaper man."

Pterry, when you leave this world, I hope, because of the world you've created, and the minds you've have enlightened, our hopes and belief have created Death, and that you are one of his special cases

[southsydney]

im not gonna live a lie Pratchett, regardless of how articulate you are about it.

[Jcolinsol]

@southsydney

But it's all lies, and the lie that you can bring yourself to believe to be a truth, is the most deceptive lie of all. And ultimately, the joke will be on you.

[cdrerratic]

...you're sayin humans need fantasy to make life bearable?

-No, humans need fantasy to BE human.

[lordcrapalot]

I remember when I saw this scene on the telly, heh it's actually a profoundly deep and well thought out line.

"You need to belive in things that aren't true, how else can they become"

I believe in that line in hopes that it might become true:D

[darrenfromworksop]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld should be a foundation of modern education.

It's much more reliable than religon for a start

Pratchett's books have taut me so much of the human condition, the man is a genius.

[thebytegrill]

@darrenfromworksop I'd add Frank Herbert's Dune, all six of them.

[phoenixrisinghigh]

@darrenfromworksop i will agree that hes a genius, but his musings on the human nature are just obvious if you're willing to open your mind and harden you heart to the almost morbidly depressing truth,

[FrancisBerryman]

@phoenixrisinghigh Often it takes a genius to see the things that are right in front of them.