User:SolarisQ

User SolarisQ, previously BurningLibrary. My username is a reference to the movie Solaris (2002), which contains a philosophical question about human awareness of mortality.

I am a person who is deeply interested in philosophical and religious topics. I am also a free speech absolutist, believing it to be a crucial right to defend in the digital age. The previous username "BurningLibrary" expressed a growing pessimism that we may be headed towards a dystopian age of censorship and disinformation.

I hope this is helpful. :)

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How do you explain that of all the billions of creatures on this planet, we are the only ones who are conscious of our own mortality?
- Rheya, in Solaris (2002)

There's a bit of every artist in their work.
- Dr. Ana Stelline, in Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Don't join the book-burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College (14 June 1953)

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.
(The sleep of reason produces monsters.)
- Francisco Goya: Los caprichos #43 (1799)

Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere.
(Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.)
- Spinoza: Political Treatise (1677)

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