Thought for the day

[Muse]

Feel free to post yours. I just encountered this in reading the Wikipedia page on Aldous Huxley:

In "A Philosopher's Visionary Prediction," published one month before he died, Huxley endorsed training in general semantics and "the nonverbal world of culturally uncontaminated consciousness," writing that "We must learn how to be mentally silent, we must cultivate the art of pure receptivity.... [T]he individual must learn to decondition himself, must be able to cut holes in the fence of verbalized symbols that hems him in."[46]

Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia

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[shortylickens]

" Yur all a bunch of fucks. "



OK, I can go to sleep happy.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

The world sucks.

 

[Muse]

I just realized something: Aldous Huxley died the same day as JFK! I was curious when he died because I had personally encountered him a few months before (he visited our dorm), then remembered seeing today that he died in Nov.1963 and wondered if it was before or after JFK, who I knew died Nov. 22. Then saw same day!!!

From the Wikipedia page:

On his deathbed, unable to speak owing to advanced laryngeal cancer, Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 µg, intramuscular." According to her account of his death[65] in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 a.m. and a second dose an hour later; Huxley died aged 69, at 5:20 p.m. (Los Angeles time), on 22 November 1963.[66]

Media coverage of Huxley's death, along with that of fellow British author C. S. Lewis, was overshadowed by the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy on the same day, less than seven hours before Huxley's death.[67] In a 2009 article for New York magazine titled "The Eclipsed Celebrity Death Club", Christopher Bonanos wrote:

The championship trophy for badly timed death, though, goes to a pair of British writers. Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, died the same day as C. S. Lewis, who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia series. Unfortunately for both of their legacies, that day was November 22, 1963, just as John Kennedy's motorcade passed the Texas School Book Depository. Huxley, at least, made it interesting: At his request, his wife shot him up with LSD a couple of hours before the end, and he tripped his way out of this world.[68]

 

[esquared]

I just realized something: Aldous Huxley died the same day as JFK!

From the Wikipedia page:

On his deathbed, unable to speak owing to advanced laryngeal cancer, Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 µg, intramuscular." According to her account of his death[65] in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 a.m. and a second dose an hour later; Huxley died aged 69, at 5:20 p.m. (Los Angeles time), on 22 November 1963.[66]

Media coverage of Huxley's death, along with that of fellow British author C. S. Lewis, was overshadowed by the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy on the same day, less than seven hours before Huxley's death.[67] In a 2009 article for New York magazine titled "The Eclipsed Celebrity Death Club", Christopher Bonanos wrote:

I do remember about that story that he went out on an LSD trip.
Read about it many years ago.

 

[Muse]

I do remember about that story that he went out on an LSD trip.
Read about it many years ago.

I wonder how that went. Evidently his wife explained in that account, This Timeless Moment.

 

[NuclearNed]

My thought for the day. My wife just got a new gynecologist: Dr. Dre(y). When she told me that last night, it was the funniest thing I had heard all day. My first thought was "at least he's finding good work after that rap thing fell through."

In the same vein, her old gynecologist was Dr. Box. Seriously.

 

[highland145]

My thought for the day. My wife just got a new gynecologist: Dr. Dre(y). When she told me that last night, it was the funniest thing I had heard all day. My first thought was "at least he's finding good work after that rap thing fell through."

In the same vein, her old gynecologist was Dr. Box. Seriously.

Wife's OB when the kid was born...Dr Boehner.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Life sucks.

 

[jmagg]

Im not as smart as i know i am

 

[MtnMan]

The more people I interact with, the more I appreciate my dog.

 

[Captante]

Life sucks.

And THEN you die !!!

 

[Scarpozzi]

I remember in high school people would always say they were talking behind each other's backs. I started thinking though....behind you back is actually your front.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Dammit. Woke up again.


Hate when that happens.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Gloom, despair and agony on me ....

 

[highland145]

 

[jmagg]

 

[Muse]

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[Captante]

Gloom, despair and agony on me ....

 

[Muse]

A guy I met way back when quoted me that most men live a life of quiet desperation. I can gladly and honestly to say I have done a lot better than that.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Hawk circling above.

 

[Captante]

A guy I met way back when quoted me that most men live a life of quiet despair. I can gladly and honestly to say I have done a lot better than that.

Well at least I wasn't quiet!

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all

 

[nakedfrog]

I just realized something: Aldous Huxley died the same day as JFK! I was curious when he died because I had personally encountered him a few months before (he visited our dorm), then remembered seeing today that he died in Nov.1963 and wondered if it was before or after JFK, who I knew died Nov. 22. Then saw same day!!!

From the Wikipedia page:

On his deathbed, unable to speak owing to advanced laryngeal cancer, Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 µg, intramuscular." According to her account of his death[65] in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 a.m. and a second dose an hour later; Huxley died aged 69, at 5:20 p.m. (Los Angeles time), on 22 November 1963.[66]

That seems like a nice way to make your final bow.

 

[Muse]

That seems like a nice way to make your final bow.

I just ordered his wife Laura's account of it, it's about their time together, a personal view, This Timeless Moment. I have my Berkeley Public Library copy in hand, and it's the most messed up library book I have ever seen. Spills on many pages, smudges, and a ton of pencil underlining. I'm going to complain. Meantime, my copy's in the mail.

I debated, but read some passages which made up my mind. They were here in Berkeley in 1962, same time I was a sophomore at Cal. He visited our dorm, ate dinner with us and a bunch of us gathered in the lounge to chat afterward. I was silent and took it in. It wasn't a program or anything, I believe he's the only person who we ever had as a guest, which I believe speaks to his magnanimity. I had no idea at the time, but he was living in Berkeley briefly, a few blocks from me. We were both interested in psychedelics, but I hadn't access to any. I did subscribe to Tim Leary and Richard Alpert's Psychedelic Review at the time!