Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment "The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it." - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 10 days ago

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."

Reposted from Micah

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”

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deviantinc.bsky.social•10 days ago

This next-level satire from the April Fools issue of my 9yo' comic reminds me of a Discworld bit soooo much! The magazine title was 'Total Bricks' 😂

deviantinc.bsky.social•10 days ago

hexzor.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

edgarallandoh.bsky.social•9 days ago

Just reread. So great!

suyang.bsky.social•8 days ago

Nuggan is currently running the US and abominating low pressure shower heads.

zairenzu.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yup, anything I think is true I basically think is true *for now. Anything can change and if I learn more/different information what is true* can change.

lplante.bsky.social•9 days ago

It’s possible that these Pratchett quotes are the best part of my day so…thank you.

rincewind.run•10 days ago

I’ve met a lot of people in my life who think they’ve really, truly got it all figured out

none of them ever have

dern.im•10 days ago

Isn’t that also a little sad?
Don’t they enjoy figuring stuff out anymore? Finding the little surprises and wonder, even (or maybe especially) in everyday things? I wouldn’t want to miss that for the world… 😕

ladydeirdre.bsky.social•10 days ago

And all of them are insufferable.

invalid-handle.com•10 days ago

I’m very unsure of what it is let alone how I would go about locating it

mfreeman.bsky.social•10 days ago

Loosely related, but not long after having kids you realize your parents and all their friends didn’t have much figured out either. No one really does, about anything. Pretty jarring epiphany.

dern.im•10 days ago

100%! Everybody’s just making it all up as they’re going along. Honestly a little relief and mentally freeing, isn’t it? Nobody else has as clue either, and that’s alright. Most people seem to be getting along, nonetheless 🙂

mfreeman.bsky.social•10 days ago

Lot of winging it out here, and that’s alright.

phillyinsomniac.bsky.social•6 days ago

thinking about books series that I loved--before I was into Pratchett, I was into the Animorphs books, got them as fast as they came out
looking back at them years later, this really was a central theme I'd barely noticed: that nobody has the answers and everybody is figuring it out as they go along

felgraf.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah, finding the truth is a lot like being good:

It's a verb, not a noun. A thing you strive for, not a thing you intrinsically are or have.

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