“Humans are a time-binding species, existing, in the eternal now. The future flows through them and becomes the past, but it is always the present that counts.” from “Overdrawn on the Memory Bank”
I’ve been thinking that I am UNlike my dog in this respect, in that SHE lives only in the present b/c she can’t imagine the future or remember the past (consciously). So this comment is interesting to me …
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“When a 20th [century person] gets to talking about his ‘rights’ and what he is ‘owed’, things can get out of hand.” from “Air Raid”
Yeah. I always want to ask, ‘On what basis are you OWED such-and-such?’ The phrase ‘I owe it to myself’ in particular annoys the hell out of me.
Their response, if they could think, would have to be something like the premise ‘I am entitled to everything’ or ‘You are obligated to give me everything’. An indefensible claim if there ever was one.
