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Originally Posted by MSD
I hope there are women in this world who are even more evil than ladder theory claims, just so there's someone to torment the pathetic losers who cling to the theory rather than try to become better people.
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Well, considering I have neither wealth nor power, I'm not sure what I think of ladder theory. If it's a working theory....if I were to ever get wealth and/or power....well, to paraphrase Tolkien:
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"No!" cried Baraka, springing to his feet. "With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ladder would gain a power still greater and more deadly." His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. "Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Ladder Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ladder to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not climb it, not even to keep it guarded, unused. The wish to conquer it would be too great for my strength. I shall have such need of it. Great perils lie before me."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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