Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. [...] Big, undreamed-of things--the people on the edge see them first.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Dwayne, hepsi de motelde kalan, Sanat Şenliğine gelmiş olan seçkin ziyeretçilerden bazılarının kokteyl salonuna geleceğini umuyordu. Onlarla konuşmak, eğer yapabilirse, yaşam üzerine daha önce hiç duymadığı bazı gerçekleri bilip bilmediklerini öğrenmek istiyordu. Yeni gerçeklerin kendisine getireceğini umduğu şeyler şunlardı. Güçlüklerine gülüp geçme, yaşamaya devam etme ve onu Midland Bölgesi Genel Hastanesinin Kuzey Kanadından, deliler hastanesinden uzak tutabilme gücünü kazanabilme.
Vonnegut, Kurt. 1973. Şampiyonların Kahvaltısı, sf 208.
Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. And, since the creator of the universe is to them unknowable so far, they serve as best they can the highest abstraction of which they have some understanding, which is their community.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament. He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.
But the Gospels actually taught this:
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected. So it goes.
The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn’t look like much, was actually the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought, and Rosewater read out loud again:
Oh, boy–they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch _that_ time!
And that thought had a brother: “There are right people to lynch.” Who? People not well connected. So it goes.
The visitor from outer space made a gift to the Earth of a new Gospel. In it, Jesus really was a nobody, and a pain in the neck to a lot of people with better connections than he had. He still got to say all the lovely and puzzling things he said in the other Gospels.
So the people amused themselves one day by nailing him to a cross and planting the cross in the ground. There couldn’t possibly be any repercussions, the lynchers thought. The reader would have to think that, too, since the new Gospel hammered home again and again what a nobody Jesus was.
And then, just before the nobody died, the heavens opened up, and there was thunder and lightning. The voice of God came crashing down. He told the people that he was adopting the bum as his son, giving him the full powers and privileges of The Son of the Creator of the Universe throughout all eternity. God said this: From this moment on, He will punish horribly anybody who torments a bum who has no connections.
Mots clés christianity jesus
Politikmi sa stávajú výlučne psychopati, ktorí nemajú svedomie a disponujú veľkou túžbou ovládať druhých.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Hallottam egy keleti uralkodóról, aki azt a feladatot rótta bölcseire, hogy találjanak fel neki egy olyan mondatot, mely minden időkben s minden helyzetben igaz és alkalmas. S ők e szavakat tárták elé: "És ez is elmúlik egyszer." (Kurt Vonnegut: Időomlás /r./)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés life philosophy change
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend--a lousy poem.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés life art writing dancing soul singing
Any man can call time out but no man can say how long the time will be out.
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