Quotes

A conversation today reminded me how much comfort I find in the ideas put forth in the movie Fightclub. I want to share some of my favorite quotes:

"It's the greatest moment of your life and you're off somewhere else. Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers failed, what does that tell you about God? Listen to me. You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, He hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen. We don't need Him! Fuck damnation! Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it! First, you have to give up. First, you have to know, not fear. Know that some day you're gonna die. It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

"We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact. So don't fuck with us."

I think modern life has provided us with a certain perspective on what it means to really be alive. The internet is proof of this. A few minutes of searching will provide countless examples of people bickering over which application is the best for viewing compressed clips of Peter North money shots, people debating which of the big three provides the best cup holder and reclining, vibrating leather seat with the built-in DVD player and Playstation 2, and the ever popular sect claiming some such religion provides the obvious answers to the questions we all have to ask ourselves at some point... which just so happen to come from a 2,000+ year old book that has been translated and re-translated by more people than Jenna Jameson has managed to sack up with in her elustrious career (is that making my bias too obvious?).

Does any of that really matter when everything is lost? I think that's the point we should all hold onto. Of course the twist here is that I am a dependent of my own collection of consumables, so who am I to find such things truly philosophical?