Strange Encounters with Uncertain Reality

Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles By Werner Heisenberg is an interesting book. There an interesting little passage there:

... we see that we apparently have little freedom in the selection of our problems. We're bound up with the historical process, our lives are part of this process, and our choice seems to be restricted to the decision whether we want to participate in a development that takes place in our time, with or without our contribution ...

smacks of Schopenhauer's ... and

Dogs are still the only mammals not allowed on the beach ... where is the fairness in that?

nonlinearly strange as well is James Cameron's {Titanic) -- Strange Days ... released 13 October 1995 and on DVD 2002 ...

pretty strange if you ask me ... and might not be connected to quark strangeness at all ... or charm

not pleasure, but freedom from pain

The first and foremost rule for the wise conduct of life seems to me to be contained in a view to which Aristotle parenthetically refers in the Nichomachean Ethics: .... not pleasure, but freedom from pain, is what the wise man will aim at.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Counsels and Maxims
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2000 Penn in DC -- (not far from GWU) is NOT painful at all ... how did we miss if for so long?