Skatche comments on Rationality Quotes: January 2011

[Skatche]

The comfort of the knowledge of a rise above the sky above could never parallel the challenge of an acquisition in the here & now.

-- Kay Hanley

[Dorikka]

This reminds me of hyperbolic discounting and doesn’t seem to have other redeeming qualities.

[Skatche]

I was thinking along the lines of doing one’s best with earthly life rather than waiting for a promised afterlife. Mind you the song’s not really about either of those things, but I first heard the quote out of context and decided to keep it that way. :p