It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that trying to find absolute order or meaning in the universe may be pointless, yet we continue to persevere despite this futility.
Philip K. Dick's quote highlights the existential struggle that individuals face when confronted with the vast, often chaotic nature of the universe. It expresses a sense of futility in seeking to impose order or meaning on life, recognizing that many aspects of existence may never fully add up or make sense. Nevertheless, the quote encourages resilience and a determination to forge ahead despite these uncertainties.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about embracing life's challenges without expecting clarity.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.
liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.
Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.
Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. Iβm an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.
On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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