A Quote from The Talos Principle 2
1K, Melville
1K: There will always be user error.
Melville: I think I could idiot proof this thing... but I do take your point. Pellegrino once almost killed himself with a bucket.
More quotes from The Talos Principle 2
The beauty of the universe and the beauty of what we can accomplish within it are two related but separate things, and the separation matters.
The honest philosopher is rewarded with poison; the hypocrite is rewarded with power.
User tried to make changes to their own device settings which could result in an infinite regress and/or omnipotence. There is only room for one god around here.
Straton wrote that the most common error we commit is to think that ideas determine reality, when in fact the opposite is true. Ideas follow from material conditions; belief systems are formed to explain and justify the way we live. We did not have kings because we believed in the mandate of heaven; we believed in the mandate of heaven because we lived in monarchies.
perhaps faith is neither choice nor submission
perhaps faith is a demand
for our pain to have meaning
for the stories of the world to rhyme
for a world designed by a loving hand
perhaps I will believe with defiance
in the forgiveness of all sins
in the kingdom of god on earth
and even
the resurrection of the dead
I will believe with clenched fists
and gritted teeth
and prayers that refuse
to be gentle
