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Love requited is a short circuit.
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.
I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.
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I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.
Did Hillary Clinton short-circuit when she advocated for the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi and Libya is now an Islamic State stranglehold?
Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between "awareness of" and "awareness as" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide.