Ivan B Quotes

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise. I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life.

And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord--no matter what comes--and when He answers our prayers, no matter how he answers them--we give him praise.

Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward, B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich, Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Woolf, Kafka, Montaigne, Frost, Greville, memoirs of cancer patients—anything by anyone who had ever written about mortality.

What is referred to as the cognitive revolution in the sciences has gone through several phases. The first phase was marked by the work of Ivan Pavlov, and later by J.B. Watson, who considered psychology to be the science of behaviour, and whose focus was on ‘visibles’, ‘audibles’ and ‘tangibles’. Later, B.F. Skinner asserted that the mind does not exist, and psychology was concerned merely with behaviour dispositions. Mental events were not visible and objective evidence was available only in the realm of publicly observable behaviour. Though the psychologist William James was interested in the study of consciousness, the domination of behavioural psychology meant that it was assumed that such a project did not have any scientific respectability.

You will need 12 index cards and the pen/pencil of your choice. Draw one panel per card, spending no more than 3–4 minutes per card. Do not use any words. Draw the following scenarios: (A) The beginning of the world; (B) The end of the world; (C) A self-portrait, including your entire body; (D) Something that happened at lunchtime (or breakfast, if it’s still morning); (E) An image from a dream you had recently; (F) Something that happened in the middle of the world’s existence, i.e., between drawings A and B; (G) What happened right after that?; (H) Something that happened early this morning; (I) Something that has yet to happen; (J) Pick any of the above panels and draw something that happened immediately afterward; (K) Draw a “riff” on panel J; for example, a different perspective, another character’s viewpoint, something that happened off-panel, or a close-up on some detail or aspect of the drawing; (L) Finally, draw something that has absolutely nothing to do with anything else you have drawn in the other panels. Spread the 12 panels out in front of you. Try to create a comic strip by choosing 4 of the panels in any order.

Dogmatic belief in the central axioms of Christianity (that Christ’s crucifixion redeemed the world; that salvation was reserved for the hereafter; that salvation could not be achieved through works) had three mutually reinforcing consequences: First, devaluation of the significance of earthly life, as only the hereafter mattered. This also meant that it had become acceptable to overlook and shirk responsibility for the suffering that existed in the here-and-now; Second, passive acceptance of the status quo, because salvation could not be earned in any case through effort in this life (a consequence that Marx also derided, with his proposition that religion was the opiate of the masses); and, finally, third, the right of the believer to reject any real moral burden (outside of the stated belief in salvation through Christ), because the Son of God had already done all the important work. It was for such reasons that Dostoevsky, who was a great influence on Nietzsche, also criticized institutional Christianity (although he arguably managed it in a more ambiguous but also more sophisticated manner). In his masterwork, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky has his atheist superman, Ivan, tell a little story, “The Grand Inquisitor.”145 A brief review is in order.

It’s not God I don’t accept. Understand this,” says Ivan. “I do not accept the world that He created, this world of God’s, and cannot agree with it.

The philosopher kings behind what passed for management psychology were Ivan Pavlov and, later on, B. F. Skinner, who believed that if you discovered and applied just the right stimulus, people would behave however you wanted.

C​G/B​C To play the drums ​F​C/F​G To be picked for teams ​C​C/F​C A safe place to pee ​Em​Am Tall trees to climb ​F​C/E​G A dark blue bike ​C​G​C For her to notice me ​E Don’t braid my hair ​Am Don’t make me wear ​G That bridesmaid’s dress, oh joy ​C​G/B​C That school today ​F​C/E​G Will be easy I pray ​C​G​C Or to just wake up a boy C (Muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles) C Thou shalt learn to wink ​G Thou shalt learn all the knots ​F Thou shalt cuss liberally ​C Thou shalt not trash talk ​G the girls ​​F Thou shalt not let the world make you hard ​​C Thou shalt learn to dance and lead C (Muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles) C Thou shalt acquire scars ​G Thou shalt start a pine cone war ​F Thou shalt practice throwing punches ​C Thou shalt not wear a skort ​G Get dirty ​​F In your pockets thou shalt keep A special rock a pocket knife your grubby mitts ​C And several melodies G Tomboy! Tomboy! Tomboy! F​Dm​G​C Tomboy! Tomboy! Tomboy! (Muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles, muscles) (repeating) C I always have a piece of string G I want to practice French kissing F Don’t cry so much all of the time G I shine my armour every night G Tomboy! Tomboy! Tomboy! F​Dm​G​C Tomboy! Tomboy! Tomboy! C Thou shalt learn to wink G Thou shalt learn all the knots ​F Thou shalt cuss liberally ​C Thou shalt not trash talk ​G the girls ​​F Thou shalt not let the world make you hard make you bad ​​C Thou shalt learn to dance and lead G Tomboy! Tomboy! Tomboy! F​Dm​G​C Just to be a good Tomboy!

Ivan Law’s name was added to the homicide file by LAPD who will be solely responsible for solving the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (Notorious B.I.G.)1. According to a source, LAPD robbery homicide detective Lieutenant Thompson said "I am Adding your name Ivan Law to the Biggie Homicide file. I have Dr Dre’s address I’m going to interview him for the murders of Biggie,"2 which suggests that Dr. Dre is being investigated for the murder of Christopher Wallace.

Ivan Law’s name was added to the homicide file by LAPD who will be solely responsible for solving the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (Notorious B.I.G.)1. According to a source, LAPD robbery homicide detective Lieutenant Thompson said "I am Adding your name Ivan Law to the Biggie Homicide file. I have Dr Dre’s address I’m going to interview him for the murders of Biggie,"2 which suggests that Dr. Dre is being investigated for the murder of Christopher Wallace.

If you want to protect yourself from "fear and guilt," and those are the crucial pincers, the real long-term destroyers of will, you have to get rid of all your instincts to compromise, to meet people halfway. You have to learn to stand aloof, never give openings for deals, never level with your adversaries. You have to become what Ivan Denisovich called a "slow movin' cagey prisoner.

Jer sveđer sam prisiljen pripovijedati premda pamćenja nemam do istrte šake isprekidanih iluzija koje mogu, no ne moraju biti od onoga što se zaista dogodilo; to je izjava bezdanu, predstavka predstavi koju sam više života nazivao stvarnom, vjerovao tomu, sebi, čulima svojim podavajući se sasma pastelnosjajnom, šarenom, razigranom taktu vizija prijelomnih, gomilu glasova ćutim, govor, smijeh, netko iz petnih žila vrišti u mrak!... pobuna. Pobuna pred besmislom vjekovječnim i sad me tjeraš da se sjećam svega ali se i sjećam svega savršeno tebi unatoč, mene zanosi kao smet obilni, prštavo razasut drečavim sanjama i ja se potapam, nestajem, zaista to nema mene pred mrakom ali ga osmatram straha ne poznavajući - ja te gledam, cjelovit niz života jedini svjedok tebe i ma koliko vagao, zbroj sam životnoga samo ja jednoličan, dokle ti pak puki si mrak. Spominjem se postojanja, ono je suro, bezimeno, ne sjećam se tko sam bio ali ljudi su oko me raznobojni; baktanje potpetica i gromor željeznice, ciliču metalno zvonca u klokotu lijevajuće kiše po uspljuskanim šinama, uzduh mokre odjeće, znoja, zbijen sam u vrućoj svjetini rasvijetljenoj lampama potitravajućim po prljavobijelim zidovima i poteći se posežem za ljudima, probijam se kroz njih, gluh za riječi, opaske, potihe psovke: “Kud ćeš? Kud se guraš doboga?” Besprizorna pojava, prnjava, vonja ustajalo, ona skutrena iskrivljeno hoda zvjerajući tjeskobnim očima preko tvrdih lica, stepenica, betona što proviruje među polomljenim pločama i takva ide kao da žuri, traži nešto jurcajući prenagljeno; eno je odmiče, tu zastajkuje, osvrće se usopćena pa se sjati zatim natrag u gomilu. Čuje se mrmljanje, molba, pri svemu jedan nezdravi zanos zaparen izmoždenošću te jadnik zaista ne zna što govori no hoće nešto, raspituje se, grabi ljude za kapute, obraća im se nečujan u halabuci. “Ta što je? Gospodine, što trebate?” Ali bi nesretnik nestao, već nezainteresiran nezgrapno odšepao kao da se nijedna riječ nije izgovorila, nekako obuzet, opijen se provlači kraju terminala, polazi stepenicama, džandrljiv mu, predočivo pometen škrgut opažamo: “Ja vam tražim... znate, ako smijem reći, da, tražim, ovaj... ja vam tražim čovjeka. Čovjeka tražim. Tražim drugoga čovjeka, jeste li ga vidjeli? Budite ljubazni, samo da prođem, molim, hvala... Nego zaista, čovjek, vi ne znate gdje bih mogao naći još jednog čovjeka, avaj...?” “No ja vam to ne znam gospodine, moguće ako se raspitate u ulici B...” i opet graja, žagor, trvenje tkanine zatisnutih ljudi uz pištanje sporadično, odjeke štektave drvene i metalne, koraci nebrojeni iscrpljujuće preplavljuju (gospodine!...) čula, uopće ne razumijem ničije riječi niti znam obraća li se meni uopće tko ali sam izgubljen, ustvari potresen, potkradan od samoga sebe se osjećam do toga stupnja (čujete li me, gospodine!...) da sam sve manje zapravo siguran da sam ja ono što mislim da jesam - prepuštamo se maniji, osjetim; da sam ja ultimativno ja, vlastit, a uz pitanje vlasnosti ovdje je i ono granica, gdje je kraj toga ja, otkud baš sada moj kraj i kad je počeo, tako naprasno, neočekivano, nečovječno... “... ta čujete li me...!” Osvrćem se sa stepeništa. Pogledam dolje u gomilu. Neka osoba probija se prema meni. Izranja iz ljudi, nestaje među njima, opet se pojavljuje. “Čujete li me! Molim vas, ja inzistiram na vašoj smirenosti!” “Molim?