[darnton]

I had a strange moment of mental serenity during an earthquake a couple of years ago. Furniture was rolling around the place and glass was smashing, my heart rate was about 180 and my respiration the same, but I had a moment of complete mental quiet as I realised it didn't matter what got lost or broken.

I've never really believed that "you don't own your stuff - your stuff owns you"; I've always thought that was claptrap. But it was interesting to me that in the face of losing all my stuff it didn't really bother me too much.

[moron4hire]

Yeah, when I first saw the damage from the flood, I said to myself, "funny that the microwave that I never use wasn't destroyed". And at that very moment, the stack of cardboard boxes it was sitting on finally gave way and dumped the thing into hip-high water.

Sometimes, the universe provides enough randomness to just let you stumble on counterexamples to your theorems.

[lucidrains]

Profound dude