If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
Interpretation
This quote suggests that if something causes extreme distress or suffering, it is inherently flawed or wrong.
Frank Ocean's quote reflects a critical viewpoint on belief systems or ideologies that lead to pain and suffering. It emphasizes that any doctrine or faith that brings a person to a state of despair is not worthy of following, encouraging individuals to evaluate the impact of their beliefs on their well-being and happiness.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about toxic ideologies at a philosophy club.
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.
The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there's no more arrow of time.
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
At the end of the day, is Singapore society better or worse off? That's the test.
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