Aphorisms by Bo Fowler
Posted on November 23, 2009
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Bo Fowler loves aphorisms; he fiddled with the form in college, penning his own sayings on transparent strips of paper and leaving them inside crusty books in the university library; and aphorisms helped him woo his wife-to-be. Fowler is also the author of the novel, Scepticism Inc. He says he “intends to write one hundred novels and then die.” All this information comes from a letter included with a copy of Notes from the Autopsy of God, a compact collection of more than 1,500 of Fowler’s fulsome and funny fulminations against faith. Fowler follows in the footsteps of antithetical, anti-theological philosophers like Nietzsche, though the potshots he takes at God are generally quite genial. Yes, life can seem quite meaningless, and there’s nowhere we go after we die, but here are some interesting things to think about in the meantime.
When we measure time we only waste it.
Thank God prayers are not answered.
What a monumental effort it would take to leave no trace at all.
We volunteer for our destinies unaware.
The normal is just the alien grown accustomed to us.
Never settle for contentment.
Believe in your doubts.
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I found all my prayers answered in the silence of the stone.
When you reach the end of your rope, make more rope.
Broken things have a life of their own.
The correct “irrelevant” and “irrespective” sometimes engender the incorrect “irregardless.”
“An important idea? I think it an impotent one.”
Sometimes we can find it a bit difficult to meet up with God, because she was travelling incognito.
On the other hand, vice in the defense of extremism is definitely a liberty.
Bohr’s famous statement ‘Your theory is crazy, but it isn’t crazy enough to be true’ was crazy, but it wasn’t crazy enough to be true.
There’s safety in numbers, if the number is a multiple of √-1.
I’m still a bit skeptical about the existence of God, as if he/she/it really existed then this alternative dimension of heaven would be my vision of hell; which is still a place I wouldn’t like to end up on holiday if I had already booked a week or two at Butlins but died of ennui before I could get there… But still, using the concept of God and following in the footsteps of antithetical, anti-theological philosophers as a subject of aphorisms to pass the time can’t do any harm in the long term after all can it…
The last person in the world you should be sleeping with is still someone you should be sleeping with.
It’s good to have your head held high, as long as you’re the one doing it.
I’d support freedom of expression for those I disagree with, but I don’t disagree with anybody.
isthis the bo fowler who lives in nightingale lane
if so
how are you and the family doing
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edith