(1913 - 1996) Mountain Climber, Scottish Author
The Scottish Himalaya Expedition, 1951
"But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money--booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend. Adapt!
If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting, If I tell you I'm no good, You know I'm lying.
There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you find it.
Although beaten, he kept thinking of a next move.
The power to believe in yourself -- that will become the power to change fate.
He knows that, and he knows it instinctively.
Under the courageous, there is nothing.
The springtime of youth waits for no one!
Hard work.
Fortes Fortuna Aduvat.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.
Fargo: Ha ha ha!!
Arrgh, what are you
trying to tell me, Flame?
You say that we are all
born in sin and all die
in sin?
Well, I say that is why we
should continue to sin,
then....
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Yet, is not the very
reason we go on living so
that we can make ammends
for our sins!?
Pierre:
I understand now!
A true hero knows
fear...
And yet while knowing
fear, he still has the
courage to put up a
fight!
If moi lack the caliber
to be called such then
moi will just have to
work harder!
“The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.”
“Quod erat demonstrandum.”
“We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
“White signifies Purity and Innocence; Red, Hardiness and Valor; and Blue, Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice.”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
“From the cowardice
That shrinks from new truths,
From the laziness
That is content with half-truths,
And from the arrogance
That thinks it knows all truth.
O God of truth,
deliver us.”
“A hero lives but a few moments, but a master holds on to his life.”
“In the beginning there was nothing. And God said let there be light and there was...nothing. (But at least you could see it.)”
“To the degree that you impose your values upon others, they cease to be values and instead become judgments.”
“If you’re right you’ll never need to blow your stack, and if you’re wrong you never should.
“‘After the meal green tea will be available to lift the astronaut’s spirits,’ the scientist said, perhaps overlooking the possibility that being the first Chinese astronaut might not be a big enough ego boost.”
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
“Whatever happens
We have got
The Maxim gun
And they have not.”
“Survival of the fittest.
Adios,
Unfit”
“They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.”
“You can’t make a point by being extreme in a compulsively extreme culture. From now on, I’m going to rebel by being quietly moderate.”
“See the world as yourself, and then you can care for all things.”
“You want to live in this world the way it is? No? Then do something about it!”
“Writing—the art of communicating thoughts to the mind—is the great invention of the world....Great, very great, in enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space, and great not only in its direct benefits, but its great help to all other inventions.”
“In the final stages, before the user revolution occurs, word processing programs would begin to criticize our ideas. ‘Let me give a counterargument,’ the paper clip would begin.”
“So you see, even a fifth-grade schoolchild can solve second-order linear differential equations…sometimes.”
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
“I'm having a suspicion that ‘moral values’ means ‘anti-gay, anti-women, anti-science, anti-personal-liberty and anti-free-speech.’”
“These Wheel of Time people make no sense to me. I've met some before, and they seem totally absorbed in some fantasy world.”
“It’s raining here, and there’s a pretty strong breeze blowing across my backyard. There’s a tiny hummingbird with a shiny green breast sitting on a telephone wire that connects to the eave just above my office window...the wire’s moving all over the place, but he’s not letting go for anything. That’s cool.”
“Contrary to popular belief, social validation won't make you complete.”
“Yoda’s philosophy was quite simplistic. ‘If you get angry, you’re gonna lose.’ ‘Don't try, do.’ He has a basic philosophy that is very charming. Not very profound, although young people consider it profound. I wish they would read more.”
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
“It’s like the beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam. ‘No, I didn’t build it myself. But it’s based on an idea of mine!’”
“Hayao Miyazaki’s movies are for people who find their most elaborate dreams fascinating. I am one of those people, so I am a big fan.”
“Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
“There is but one good, knowledge; and but one evil, ignorance.”
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
“There are always…possibilities.”
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."
Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope...Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds.
Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus
and its devestation, which put pain thousandfold upon the Achaians
Hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls
of heroes, but gave their bodies to be the delicate feasting
of dogs, of all birds, and the will of Zeus was accomplished
since that time when first there stood in division of conflict
Atreus' son the lord of men, and brilliant Achilleus
O Fortuna
velut Luna
statu variabilis
trans:
O Fortune
like the moon
you are ever changing
Pathei Mathos
trans:
Wisdom through suffering
Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.
When someone ceases believing in God they will not believe nothing, they will believe anything.
Thus even as Eru spoke to us shall beauty not before conceived be brought in to Ea, and evil yet be good to have been.
Do not be overrighteous,
neither be overwise -
why destroy yourself?
Do not be overwicked,
and do not be a fool -
why die before your time?
It is good to grasp the one
and not let go of the other.
The man who fears God will avoid all extremes.
…do you know if Caesar said that before or after he marched on Rome?
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
“Libenter homines et id quod volunt, credunt.”
Oh, and I'm not quite up on my Latin... what does that one Latin one mean?
QuotePathei Mathos
But hey, do you notice a trend in each person's quotes? ZeaLitY is mostly about perseverence and striving forward in the face of difficulty. Lord J has a certain intellectual streak - knowledge and understanding above all.
…silence is wisdom you have yet to learn…
“Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.”
All I know is that I know nothing else. The rest is just guesses.
In my darkest hour, I looked deep within myself. I searched for meaning; I searched for a piece of God. I found nothing, so that's what I believe in now.
There's no easy way to be free.
Entire books have been written defining Good and Evil. I can define each in one word. Good: Us. Evil: Them.
You claim the forces of good will always triumph, but you've got cause and effect mixed up. The forces that triumph always call themselves good.
Knowledge is not a zero-sum game.
Whenever I read a quote, and realize if was taken not by an outside party, but the writer themselves, I can't help but wonder what kind of ridiculous self important image that person must have. -JossiRossi
QuoteWhenever I read a quote, and realize if was taken not by an outside party, but the writer themselves, I can't help but wonder what kind of ridiculous self important image that person must have. -JossiRossi
Joke. Joke. I just happen to like irony.
“I just learned from a Junior Trivial Pursuit edition Pringles potato crisp that horned lizards shoot blood from their eyes when threatened.”
All your base are belong to us!
Well, we could reconfigure the solar matrix in parallel for endothermic propulsion.
Embrace the pain.
The flow of time is cruel...Its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it.
Haven't you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?
I don't listen to hip-hop!
I had no knowledge of what was to come. Nor did I care. How the knowledge changed me...It will also change you. As you read this, you will come to learn fear as I have. You too, will come to understand, or you will perish.
To think that once I could not see beyond the veil of our reality...to see those who dwell behind. My life now has purpose, for I have learned the frailty of flesh and bone. I was once a fool...
I have not failed. I have just discovered 10,000 ways that won't work.
...Shut up. The cycle of nature and your stupid plan don't mean a thing. Aeris is gone. Aeris will no longer talk, no longer laugh, cry, or get angry...What about us...what are WE supposed to do? What about my pain? My fingers are tingling. My mouth is dry. My eyes are burning!
What are you saying? Are you trying to tell me you have feelings, too?
A grudging “welcome back” to the General board, Daniel. (What is your real name, anyway?) Now let’s not hijack yet another thread, yes? You are old enough to behave yourself.
As told by Cicero, in his De Officiis.
Ah, Julius Caesar! One of history’s most well-known sinistrals, and the namesake of my birth month. He revived an ailing republic, preserved countless historical writings, and crucially influenced the shape of the world to this very day. Dante assigned his betrayers the cruelest punishment in Hell, and, against all democratic tradition, there were no few people in his time who wanted him to put on that crown—which he never did. He is still one of the greatest people our species has ever produced.
Quote from: Julius CaesarI had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Such beautiful ambition was perhaps the inspiration for Milton when he wrote Satan's famous line centuries later. And of course with such a mindset, Caesar ultimately surmounted his own poetic dilemma and achieved the status of being first in Rome after all.
[/quote]Quote from: Julius Caesar“Libenter homines et id quod volunt, credunt.”
“What men wish, they like to believe.”
One fate. One million ways to defy it.
I still don't really know how to be with myself. Which is why- and I do think most of us do- feel so alone.
His whole life felt like some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
If your map was torn. Navigate.
If your compass broke. Navigate.
"Hold nothing. If you meet the Buddha, kill him. If you meet the patriarchs, kill them. Free of all, bound by nothing. You live your life simply as it is."
Make all your mistakes in pencil.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
This is here and now. Something I'm sure of. How can heaven be any better than this?
One life at a time. If there's another one-well, that's a bonus. And I'm not so sure of that next one.
The only reason it hasn't really affected me as it maybe could have is I didn't really know that I was in any danger until after it was over, so I never had that panic moment. After the fact, it was sobering, but people have a lot of close calls; you're crossing the street and you almost get hit by a car . . . this one just happened to be related to something massive. I really can't let it affect me because I'm a comedy writer. I have to put that in the back of my head.
“Don’t take any advice from anyone! I think every person intuitively knows what works for him or her. When you do something and it feels good, keep doing it. I think that’s the most important thing. Everybody is an individual, and everybody has a different thing that works for them, and nothing at all is ever wrong!”
Tis better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you are not
That is so untrue. Whoever said that is a philisophical moron.
Consider it thus: To be hated, is REALLY horrible. To be loved is REALLY great.
To not pretend is kind of alright because of less stress. And to pretending can become a little stressful.
People in society these days, and even in ages gone by, can spend thier whole lives pretending, and being comfortable and happy.
Politicians, for instance. Although they pretend and are hated, but you get the gist of it.
Quote from: TonjevicThat is so untrue. Whoever said that is a philisophical moron.
Consider it thus: To be hated, is REALLY horrible. To be loved is REALLY great.
To not pretend is kind of alright because of less stress. And to pretending can become a little stressful.
People in society these days, and even in ages gone by, can spend thier whole lives pretending, and being comfortable and happy.
Politicians, for instance. Although they pretend and are hated, but you get the gist of it.
Have you been both? I have, and as bad as being hated is, it's still better to be hated honestly than loved dishonestly. Whether it's for who you aren't, or for what you are, love without honesty is meaningless and hollow.
Quote from: Radical_DreamerQuote from: TonjevicThat is so untrue. Whoever said that is a philisophical moron.
Consider it thus: To be hated, is REALLY horrible. To be loved is REALLY great.
To not pretend is kind of alright because of less stress. And to pretending can become a little stressful.
People in society these days, and even in ages gone by, can spend thier whole lives pretending, and being comfortable and happy.
Politicians, for instance. Although they pretend and are hated, but you get the gist of it.
Have you been both? I have, and as bad as being hated is, it's still better to be hated honestly than loved dishonestly. Whether it's for who you aren't, or for what you are, love without honesty is meaningless and hollow.
I agree with Tonjevic. If you have the choice, seldom to never is it preferable to choose people's contempt rather than their admiration. Playing other people's emotions is just a tactic, one that, in a pair of able hands, works to your advantage. Who cares if the people are warranted in their beliefs or not? Who cares if the You they know is the You you are? Unless you've got self-confidence issues, it doesn't matter why people feel about you the way they do, and, thus, the better they regard you, the better it is for you, period. There are exceptions, but the general rule is obvious.
Except that people base their expecations on the you they percieve. By allowing the deception to continue, all you are doing is setting you and the other person up for a fall that will come later, so that you can feed your ego now. It's dishonest, cruel, and ultimately benefits no one. If you want to manipulate people for your own personal gain, that's your buisneuss, but you cannot base a personal relationship of any sort on lies.
Real name... hmm... well, on the internet, my realest is probably the old Guardian of Ages I used to go by. Or the Greek version of the name I now use on some, which is Alexaion. I should probably change it to that. Why do you ask? But Daniel (very grimly meaning 'God is my judge' in old Hebrew... ask Legend, I think he'll confirm that; it goes along well with my fatalistic quotes, eh?) is what I go by for now.
Quote from: Lord J esqQuote from: Julius Caesar“Libenter homines et id quod volunt, credunt.”
“What men wish, they like to believe.”
Wait... are you certain that's the right tranlation? I might just be seeing things, but isn't liber freedom? It almost seems more like 'What will give men freedom, they credit.'? But I'm probably wrong. As I said, Latin is not exactly my thing yet.
I have one favorite quote, it's by my grandfather.Quote from: Francis ScannellMake all your mistakes in pencil.
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them.
Quote from: Richard ProennekeOne life at a time. If there's another one-well, that's a bonus. And I'm not so sure of that next one.
“I’ve always theorized,” Mr. Ingram said, “that when we do get to heaven we’ll find it a rather decent place. Our earthly wants and woes will be lifted forever. However, one must consider that, with all the billions of souls there, the administration of the place must be staggering.” […]
“For example, transporting the souls in and out of purgatory. Someone must register them all and keep track of them just to see if they are qualified to stay. I’m certain that everyone will be assigned to a job of sorts, one he or she likes, but the organization of the place has to be tremendous. After one is there for six or seven centuries all the contentment might get a little dull.”
Obviously, we hadn’t heard this assessment of heaven from Father Lynch and had supposed that everything would be done up there by magic. Mr. Ingram’s dissertation on the logistics of running heaven was certainly a revelation.
“To get to my point,” he said,” it seems that we have to have moments of turmoil to contrast to moments of peace in order to truly understand and appreciate that peace. What we have captured this moment in this meadow is an instant of peace. Right here and now, this is paradise, do you agree?”
“Aye, it’s paradise,” Conor said.
“What we have confused is the belief that heaven and paradise are the same. So long as we are capable of moments of paradise here, we ought to cherish them, because we may not find paradise in heaven.”
“Bravo,” Miss Lockhart said.
“You’re right,” I said, “heaven can’t be any better than this.”
After that I played the flute again and we all sang some Scottish songs led by Mr. Ingram.
Quote from: Radical_DreamerExcept that people base their expecations on the you they percieve. By allowing the deception to continue, all you are doing is setting you and the other person up for a fall that will come later, so that you can feed your ego now. It's dishonest, cruel, and ultimately benefits no one. If you want to manipulate people for your own personal gain, that's your buisneuss, but you cannot base a personal relationship of any sort on lies.
Dreamer, you're adorable! If only life were as straightforward as that, eh?
Quote from: Lord J esqQuote from: Radical_DreamerExcept that people base their expecations on the you they percieve. By allowing the deception to continue, all you are doing is setting you and the other person up for a fall that will come later, so that you can feed your ego now. It's dishonest, cruel, and ultimately benefits no one. If you want to manipulate people for your own personal gain, that's your buisneuss, but you cannot base a personal relationship of any sort on lies.
Dreamer, you're adorable! If only life were as straightforward as that, eh?
While it may be a bit of an over simplification, it's basically true. This is the voice of experience talking, not some lofty philosophical idea. I've been in both places, and I know what I'm talking about.
I do agree with RD, here. I've been in situations where I started getting positive attention and "love" because of something that was false or misunderstood. Before I realized the nature of what people loved about me, sure, the feeling of being loved was indeed fantastic. But once I realized the truth, it ate at me like those nasty worm-leeches in King Kong.
As I mentioned before, we mustn't let issues of self-confidence overwhelm our zeal to make good choices. I recognize how hard this can be to live out in practice, but it nevertheless remains true. If people give you their love for a false reason, and you are uncomfortable with that, such that you feel unable to continue in the deception, then that is a character flaw: something to be repaired!
In life we are often faced with being unpopular. But, contrary to popular opinion, social validation will not make you complete. (I believe that was a quote in my list earlier in this topic.) If we submit our decision-making authority to our fear of being unpopular, we surrender our identity to the void. Do not do it!
I do not blame you for being naïve to the pragmatic depth of our world. To truly embrace such an understanding without becoming a cynic requires a Machiavellian audacity that would overwhelm most people's integrity. Not to imply that such a fate would befall you--you're one of the most respectable people on the whole Compendium--but that perhaps it is a mountain steep enough that you do not wish to climb it, or have never even thought to look high enough to see its rewarding peak.
Let me put it in words you already know, so that I am not telling you anything new, but merely repeating wisdom that is already your own: Life is not a fairytale. We do not all live happily ever after. Justice is seldom served. People are cunning, and passionate, and this puts them into conflict with one another regardless of their intentions. There is no such thing as good behavior, for the term implies that a behavior can be judged outside of its context, and this is an absurdity that few people bother to appreciate. Instead, I offer the real truth: We can only act in accordance with our convictions, or against them.
This places the emphasis on becoming creatures of good character. If random acts of "good behavior" are no longer our moral god, then we must turn to the more difficult work of evaluating our motives. Suddenly we are revealed to live in a world where ends and means are indistinguishable. We see that life has no chapter breaks, no punctuations. The story continues on. And therefore if we are going to be sincere in our passions, and humble in our capacity for ignorance, then we must act in our own interest with the confidence of knowing that we are acting true to ourselves. So goes the continuation of life as we know it.
With that logical framework in place, it is simply a matter of looking at the dilemma and choosing the better alternative. To the extent that our convictions are noble, we must always seek to empower ourselves. And to the extent that our species is noble, we still must always seek to empower ourselves, counting on humanity's innate goodness--its penchant for discovery, for imagination, its indomitable drive--to overwhelm the corruption of those whose intentions are not noble after all. This is manifest in everything from the rule of law to the common courtesies.
Which, then, is the more empowering? I say that to gain the favor and trust and love and respect of others is surely superior to the alternative, which invites their ire and suspicion and hatred and contempt. There are certainly exceptions where the latter is preferable, but the general rule seems almost painfully obvious: If we are made to choose between these two extremes--as the original quote under discussion indeed compelled us to do--we must choose people's love.
Someone might say that ill-gotten love is going to collapse in on itself like a house of cards--indeed, that is one of the two main objections that you and others have raised thus far. But I say this is an extraneous factor in the equation. If choosing people's love over their hate is amended with the condition that this love, simply by its virtue of being misguided, is doomed to fail, then there is no dilemma after all: On one hand we have people's contempt, and on the other hand we have the same. But if the love is sustainable, then we should choose it, and maintain it as necessary.
Indeed, Radical_Dreamer, the case you are proposing is less interesting than the case I am proposing. Supposing that this love can be extended indefinitely, that it will not fail simply because it is misguided, then perhaps you can better understand my position. Garnering the love of the people is just a tactic. It serves us. It serves us individually. It serves us all.
Is this to the detriment of those who give you their love? That depends on who you are. But I like to think, opposite the Christians, that ours is not quite so miserable a species, and that we continue to grow over time. And I tell you this, in absolute frankness: It is this very mechanism which I have described, that allows leaders to lead. If ordinary people understood that their leaders were answerable to the pragmatic concerns of the real world, rather than ideology alone, they would the lot of them be up in arms.
=)
As I mentioned before, we mustn't let issues of self-confidence overwhelm our zeal to make good choices. I recognize how hard this can be to live out in practice, but it nevertheless remains true. If people give you their love for a false reason, and you are uncomfortable with that, such that you feel unable to continue in the deception, then that is a character flaw: something to be repaired!
In life we are often faced with being unpopular. But, contrary to popular opinion, social validation will not make you complete. (I believe that was a quote in my list earlier in this topic.) If we submit our decision-making authority to our fear of being unpopular, we surrender our identity to the void. Do not do it!
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.
Love relies on honesty. Love without honesty is like ice in an oven: Sooner or later, it will melt away.
“The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down”
“Bigot-A person who wins an argument with a liberal”
“Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job”
“If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.”
“The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.”
Quote from: Radical_DreamerLove relies on honesty. Love without honesty is like ice in an oven: Sooner or later, it will melt away.
I suppose this is the crux of your argument, yes? Aside from some rather strange deviations onto the subject of moral relativism, most of what you say can be boiled down to this pithy idea: that honesty is a necessary prerequisite for sincere and persisting love.
Do you believe that to be true? Maybe you think you do, but let's try and falsify it instead. That's the scientific way. What if I told you there are people in the world who believe in lies, people whose love, no matter how sincere, is misguided? What if some people lived their whole lives believing in things that are not true, loving their perception of something more than the something itself? Do you dispute that such people exist? I leave it to you to answer, but there is only one answer.
Your argument is impressively tall, but insufficiently deep. It will fall over...and all those tall towers will look rather silly lying on the ground.
Most of the people who have disagreed with that--with me--have said either that love cannot exist without the object of the love being what the love-giver perceives it to be, or that it is too emotionally uncomfortable to maintain such a charade. But the former argument is a phoney, and the latter is irrelevant.
I killed the child molester. He won't touch any more kids.
On the one hand, we can't let people going around murdering people willy-nilly, but on the other hand, there is one less child molester in the world, and that's never a bad thing. Do the ends justify the means? And is it sending the wrong message if we do or do not convict Hammond of murder?
On the one hand, we can't let people going around murdering people willy-nilly, but on the other hand, there is one less child molester in the world, and that's never a bad thing. Do the ends justify the means? And is it sending the wrong message if we do or do not convict Hammond of murder?
Quote from: Radical_DreamerOn the one hand, we can't let people going around murdering people willy-nilly, but on the other hand, there is one less child molester in the world, and that's never a bad thing. Do the ends justify the means? And is it sending the wrong message if we do or do not convict Hammond of murder?
Vigilantism is the antithesis of civilized society. No one should have the choice of life or death over a person. The rule of law is what protects us from the lynch-mob.
How can we say that it is a good thing that a previous child molester is murdered?
Quote from: Radical_DreamerOn the one hand, we can't let people going around murdering people willy-nilly, but on the other hand, there is one less child molester in the world, and that's never a bad thing. Do the ends justify the means? And is it sending the wrong message if we do or do not convict Hammond of murder?
Vigilantism is the antithesis of civilized society. No one should have the choice of life or death over a person. The rule of law is what protects us from the lynch-mob.
Quote from: Radical_DreamerOn the one hand, we can't let people going around murdering people willy-nilly, but on the other hand, there is one less child molester in the world, and that's never a bad thing. Do the ends justify the means? And is it sending the wrong message if we do or do not convict Hammond of murder?
Vigilantism is the antithesis of civilized society. No one should have the choice of life or death over a person. The rule of law is what protects us from the lynch-mob.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
If the law says you can use lethal force to defend yourself, family, or property, and you use lethal force to do so, then no, its not vigilanteism. It would only be so if the law didn't allow it.
Finally, here's something for thought: Name a superhero. Chances are, he's a vigilante. Even Superman, arguably the tamest and most respecting of the law, fits into this definition as he works to uphold the law when the normal system can't.
A ship is safe in harbor-- but that's not what ships are for.
-John A. Shedd
Buddha was once threatened with death by a bandit called Angulimal. "Be good enough to fulfill my dying wish," said Buddha, "cut off the branch of that tree." One slash of the sword and it was done! "What now?" asked the bandit. "Put it back again," said Buddha. The bandit laughed. "You must be crazy to think that anyone could do that." "On the contrary," replied Buddha,"it is you who are crazy to think that you are mighty because you can wound and destroy. That is the task of children. The mighty know how to create and heal."
-from "The Heart of the Enlightened"
by Anthony De Mello
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
QuoteYou see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Last one I like. On with the show!
1. (Sentenal will get a kick out of this): "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." (Luk.12:49-53) "Jesus"
2. "You should show courtesy and be cordial with each other, so that nobody should consider himself superior to another nor do him harm." Muhammad
3. "What is the best type of Jihad [struggle]?" He answered: "Speaking truth before a tyrannical ruler." Muhammad
4. "Happy is the man who avoids dissension, but how fine is the man who is afflicted and shows endurance." Muhammad
5. "Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers." Muhammad
6. “The most excellent jihad (struggle) is that for the conquest of self”. Muhammad
7. “He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger” Muhammad
8. “Do not say, that if the people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them” Muhammad
“Do not say, that if the people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them” Muhammad
"Though one should conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers his own self, is the greatest of all conquerers." Buddha
Oh, and Sentenal, The Holy Spirit is Gabriel and the word (as in, in the beginning there was the word, and the word was with god...) was the word god said to create Jesus, and the word is NOT god. Just venting, thats all...[/i]
Mr ET: I Pity the fool who doesn't phone home!
1. (Sentenal will get a kick out of this): "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." (Luk.12:49-53) "Jesus"
Oh, and Sentenal, The Holy Spirit is Gabriel and the word (as in, in the beginning there was the word, and the word was with god...) was the word god said to create Jesus, and the word is NOT god. Just venting, thats all...[/i]
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Luke 3:16-17)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
[2.191] And kill them wherever you find them (note: them=disbelievers), and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
[9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters (note: has been translated as pagans; non-muslims) wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
[47.4] So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates.
[22.19] These are two adversaries who dispute about their Lord; then (as to) those who disbelieve, for them are cut out garments of fire, boiling water shall be poured over their heads.
It is worth noting the "find them..." part in 2 and 9 mean in war. Specifically 9 (Taubah) is the Surah talking about a broken treaty. And yes, don't most people kill each other in war? And hey, becoming a slave in an Islamic System is better then being dead.
I'll get back to you once I find that book...
Quote from: Burning ZeppelinIt is worth noting the "find them..." part in 2 and 9 mean in war. Specifically 9 (Taubah) is the Surah talking about a broken treaty. And yes, don't most people kill each other in war? And hey, becoming a slave in an Islamic System is better then being dead.
I'll get back to you once I find that book...
Yeah, I can see how killing people because of religion, or going to war because of religion, is a sane thing to do. Just ask Josh, he loved it when Christians did it.
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Say: O ye that reject Faith!
I worship not that which ye worship,
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
And I will not worship that which ye have been wont to worship,
Nor will ye worship that which I worship.
To you be your Way, and to me mine. -God
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
--Martin Luther King
Quote from: Burning ZeppelinIt is worth noting the "find them..." part in 2 and 9 mean in war. Specifically 9 (Taubah) is the Surah talking about a broken treaty. And yes, don't most people kill each other in war? And hey, becoming a slave in an Islamic System is better then being dead.
I'll get back to you once I find that book...
Yeah, I can see how killing people because of religion, or going to war because of religion, is a sane thing to do. Just ask Josh, he loved it when Christians did it.
Quote from: SentenalQuote from: Burning ZeppelinIt is worth noting the "find them..." part in 2 and 9 mean in war. Specifically 9 (Taubah) is the Surah talking about a broken treaty. And yes, don't most people kill each other in war? And hey, becoming a slave in an Islamic System is better then being dead.
I'll get back to you once I find that book...
Yeah, I can see how killing people because of religion, or going to war because of religion, is a sane thing to do. Just ask Josh, he loved it when Christians did it.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but "love it" is not the phrase that comes to mind when I think of a cadre of blind Christian fanatics slaughtering the innocent and corrupting the fabric of societies all over the world for generations.
“A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.”
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Ahem. On other news...Quote“A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.”
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Wow. I really split the relationship of the forumites, haven't I?
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
— Mark Twain
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
A true man hates no one.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
An army marches on its stomach.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.
Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
I made all my generals out of mud.
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Imagination rules the world.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Let the path be open to talent.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Respect the burden.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
The French complain of everything, and always.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
War is the business of barbarians.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Lower thine guard and thou'rt allowing the enemy in.
She's like a part of me I can't let go. Let's leave it at that.
I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.
With great power comes great responsibility.
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
Well I better save this thread before you guys kill it. 8)Quote from: Frog AKA Glenn PimptasticLower thine guard and thou'rt allowing the enemy in.
Such a simple yet intellegent thing to say. If you let your guard down your enemies will overtake you.Quote from: Leon S. KennedyShe's like a part of me I can't let go. Let's leave it at that.
This is a very insightful yet tragedic take on ones own struggles with the opposite sex. Even though Leon knows he can't have Ada, she is still a very important part of Leon's life/personality. It's a very noble way of accepting his fate.Quote from: May ParkerI believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.
I don't think I need to really say anything about this line. It speaks for itself.Quote from: Ben ParkerWith great power comes great responsibility.
These Parkers really dish out the money quotes don't they? This is somethign that I think most politicionas seem to forget on thier rise to the top. Everyone can learn from this, it is very insightful.Quote from: Glen BatemanShow me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
For those unfamiliar this is from Stephen King's novel The Stand. It makes you realize how predictable human nature truly is in terms of social settings. No matter how many times you start over, you'll always end up in the same predicament.
More to come...
There are only three excuses you'll ever need:
1. It was like that when I got here.
2. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
3. I plead the Fifth.
Look down, Javert! He's standing in his grave! Give way, Javert! There is a life to save!
Go now Valjean, before I change my mind. I will be waiting, 24601...
We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, that we are capable of doing anything with nothing.
Quote from: The U.S. NavyWe, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, that we are capable of doing anything with nothing.
A Navy quote about the fact that our military is unappreciated, no matter what. There will always be some people who hate the troops, and will do anything to see them without anything.
I was sent up to space to see about an enemy that might destroy this country. And I can safely say that there is no enemy up there. But there is an enemy down here -- fear -- a fear to love, for a fear not being loved back; a fear to give, for a fear of not receiving; a fear to live, for a fear of dying -- this will never be a real land of the free, if we aren't brave enough not to be a afraid -- if we're not brave enough to be free.
Get cancer, please.
OHHH SNAPS!!!
You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.
OMFG (insert something awesome here) R0XX()RZ T3H BIG ONE!111
...and then a dinosaur got loose and ate like fifty kids...
lolocaust
It's right here, clear as purple crayon!
Well, you are quite the poo-poo head.
Warned you we tried. Listen, you did not. Now screwed we all will be!
A boobie?
You can determine the measure of a person by the opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
Do you think there's a better way to phrase that without being sexist? The original quote simply uses "measure of a man" and "him, but "him or her" makes it a little unwieldy.
Quote from: ZeaLitYDo you think there's a better way to phrase that without being sexist? The original quote simply uses "measure of a man" and "him, but "him or her" makes it a little unwieldy.
Use the original quote.
One hundred years from now, it will not matter how big my house was, or the type of car I drove, or how much money was in my back account. But the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
Do you think there's a better way to phrase that without being sexist? The original quote simply uses "measure of a man" and "him, but "him or her" makes it a little unwieldy.
...and ought to be rectified in this day and age.
This actually reminds me of a little story I heard a while back. There was this one mountain, and its height had been recorded as such-and-such for a long time. Then, with more accurate measurements, they found that it was actually about 20 feet taller. So, what was done? Did they correct the records, and simply include the corrected figure in any new reference books printed? Nope, it was easier to simply pile 20 feet of concrete on top of the mountain so that those books would already be correct. This is not a joke (well... it is f***ing ridiculous, and hilarious, but true).
Press on. Nothing in th world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Considering the effort required, I'd rather spend my time getting wasted and hitting on married women, or at least finding some way to make money that doesn't involve getting a job.
...And quite frankly, most of them [the faculty] have diarrhea of the mouth.
Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age in theirs. All the years that have passed before them are added to their own. Unless we are very ungrateful, all those distinguished founders of holy creeds were born for us and prepared for us a way of life. By the toil of others we are led into the presence of things which have been brought from darkness into light. We are excluded from no age, but we have access to them all; and if we are prepared in loftiness of mind to pass beyond the narrow confines of human weakness, there is a long period of time though which we can roam. We can argue with Socrates, express doubt with Carneades, cultivae retirement with Epicurus, overcome human nature with the Stoics, and exceed its limits with the Cynics. Since nature allows us to enter into a partnership with every age, why not turn from this bief and transient spell of time and give ourselves wholeheartedly to the past, which is limitless and eternal and can be shared with better men than we?
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
All the above are fictional.... If you want the Truth, read the Jewish Torah.
I could not find the car I had been dreaming of, so I decided to build it.
"One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organized religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion."
* 4 November 2004, after the declaration of US President George Bush's re-election.
Quote from: Ferdinand PorscheI could not find the car I had been dreaming of, so I decided to build it.
Fidel is not a communist. If he were one he would have a few more weapons.
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have as much.'
A democracy is nothing more than an angry mob, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.
Three cocks, three holes!
Ain't I a Stinker?
LOL
Quote from: V_Translanka (in reference to a girl when in the company of two male friends)Three cocks, three holes!Quote from: Bugs BunnyAin't I a Stinker?Quote from: Annonymous Internet UserLOL
It's good to have you back, V_T.
Nevermore
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.
The world stands on its head ...for those few and far between souls who devote 100 percent.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Quote from: Herbert HooverWords without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Muah ha ha hah!
Q: Let us pray...for understanding, and compassion.
Picard: Let us do no such damn thing!
Less haste, more speed....
"Oh, and Allah is dead as well."
~ Nietzsche on Allah
"More like, you're dead, duh."
~ Allah on Nietzsche
Kupo!
Crono can save the world with a Mop, and Cloud needs a gigantic sword. Crono could own Cloud.
In all honesty, Z, could you post those as thumbnails? I know you're ZeaLitY, but it's still against forum rules to post disruptively large pictures. I don't want other people getting the idea that it's okay to do that...What do you think this is, a democracy?
Taking the freedom of others is true sin, that's why God gave us free will. - Matilda from the Lengend of Mana
I think should do, That I pretend that I'm one of those deaf-mutes? Or should I? - Smiley man from Ghost in the shell
What it is to a man when he gain the world but loses his own soul. - Dracula from Castlevania: The Symphony of the Night
I your attack goes well, your walking to an ambush. - anonymous
Before I begin, I say to you that security is an indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike for example— Sweden?
You are the change you wish to see in the world.
Ah, those huge pics are still there, aren't they...Quote from: GhandiYou are the change you wish to see in the world.
Just cause you're bigger than me
Just cause you're smarter than me
Just cause you drive a better car than me
Does not mean
No way, no how
I am sucking you off for any amount of money
Here's something that...if you want your father to think you're not a silly fuck...don't slap a guy across the face with a glove. Because if you do that, that's what he will think...unless you're a nobleman or something in the 19th centurey...which I'm not.
I have so much strength in me. You have no idea. I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.
Any time of the day is a good time for pie.
So, you be sure to exercise every day. Otherwise, in that low gravity, your muscles and tendons will get flabby. And oxygenate yourself. And eat hamburgers and drink beer and you'll be fine.
Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
All my life I've had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always too slow.
My first suggestion is that you fix that fucking stutter.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen.
Now to unleash screaming temporal doom.
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead — big possibilities. Like the song says, "We've just begun."
It's crap, son.
I hate eating gooey eggs, it's like eating an abortion.
I'm going to win quote of the year! Not really :D(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1273/quoteut2.jpg)Quote from: My Video TeacherI hate eating gooey eggs, it's like eating an abortion.
Only a fool tries to fool Mr. T!
~ Mr. T (http://fool.ytmnd.com/)
"Then, if you don't mind, I'll go with you," said the Lion, "for my life is simply unbearable without a bit of courage."
"You will be very welcome," answered Dorothy, "for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily."
"They really are," said the Lion, "but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy."
"That's enough of that shit." - what Eastwood says after a take, instead of "Cut!"
"I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live."
"I think I'm on a track of doing pictures nobody wants to do, that they're all afraid of. I guess it's the era we live in, where they're doing remakes of "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979) and other old television shows. I must say, I'm not a negative person, but sometimes I wonder what kind of movies people are going to be making 10 years from now if they follow this trajectory. When I grew up there was such a variety of movies being made. You could go see Sergeant York (1941) or Sitting Pretty (1948) or Sullivan's Travels (1941), dozens of pictures, not to mention all the great B movies. Now, they're looking for whatever the last hit was. If it's The Incredibles (2004), they want 'The Double Incredibles.' My theory is they ought to corral writers into writers' buildings like they used to and start out with fresh material."
"Plastic surgery used to be a thing where older people would try to go into this dream world of being 28 years old again. But now, in Hollywood, even people at 28 are having work done. Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life. But I figure I might as well just be what I am."
Asked if he has disappointed his conservative fans by directing Million Dollar Baby (2004): "Well, I got a big laugh out of that. These people are always bitching about 'Hollyweird', and then they start bitching about this film. Are they all so mad because The Passion of the Christ (2004) is only up for the makeup award and a couple of other minor things? Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."
no no... quote of the year goes to my friend for this quote:I'm going to win quote of the year! Not really :D(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1273/quoteut2.jpg)Quote from: My Video TeacherI hate eating gooey eggs, it's like eating an abortion.
Sometimes the T doesn't even stand for things that rhyme with T, like knife.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
The foolishness of that comment is so deep I can only ascribe it to higher education. You HAVE to have gone to college to say something that stupid.
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.
People say that spirits are the souls of dead men. That being the case, spirits should always appear naked, for surely it is not contended that clothes have souls as well as men.
It is on record that Wen Wang could drink a thousand bumpers of wine and Confucius a hundred gallons. From this we are to infer how great the virtue of these sages was, as it enabled them to master the wine. If at one sitting they could drink a thousand bumpers or a hundred gallons, they must have been drunkards, not sages.
Guy: All your hard work will prove worthless if you don't believe in yourself!
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.-Scottish Proverb
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: `It seemed a good idea at the time.Dame Rebecca West
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.John Homer Miller
So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb-Dark Helmet "Spaceballs"
Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach. It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself. Exalted beyond this, as it sometimes is, it remains Caliban still and still plays the beast. My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible use of wealth.
I propose to take an income no greater than $50,000 per annum! Beyond this I need ever earn, make no effort to increase my fortune, but spend the surplus each year for benevolent purposes! Let us cast aside business forever, except for others. Let us settle in Oxford and I shall get a thorough education, making the acquaintance of literary men. I figure that this will take three years active work. I shall pay especial attention to speaking in public. We can settle in London and I can purchase a controlling interest in some newspaper or live review and give the general management of it attention, taking part in public matters, especially those connected with education and improvement of the poorer classes. Man must have an idol and the amassing of wealth is one of the worst species of idolatry! No idol is more debasing than the worship of money! Whatever I engage in I must push inordinately; therefore should I be careful to choose that life which will be the most elevating in its character. To continue much longer overwhelmed by business cares and with most of my thoughts wholly upon the way to make more money in the shortest time, must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery. I will resign business at thirty-five, but during these ensuing two years I wish to spend the afternoons in receiving instruction and in reading systematically!
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Of course you can, I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
I'm Batman.
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard. When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut that drawer and open another. Do I wish to sleep, I simply close all the drawers and then I am— asleep.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform either very great actions or very bad ones; all depends upon the principles which direct him.
I have recognised the limits of my eyesight and of my legs, but never the limits of my working power.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
"A wise general strives to feed off the enemys land. Each bushel of food taken fromthe enemy is worth twenty carried from home"Sun Tzu
the most important thing in war is victory, not perseveringSun Tzu
Me too. V is the awesomest comic-born character to ever grace the big screen.
Maybe until they realize the awesomeness of Frank Miller (Sin City, 300) and just give him the Batman movie franchise...and whenever the fuck Alan Moore's (He did V For Vendetta, in case you're a comic n00b or something) other masterpiece, Watchmen comes out will blow V outta the water...I was a hair dissapointed that they kind of lost the Anarchy mentality and seemed to focus more on the fact that he wears a Guy Fawkes mask...
Or were you guys all talking about how awesome I am? :lol:
"Nearly everyone who isn't a Shadow escapes the Shadows."
"Just as you touch the energy of every life form you meet, so, too, will their energy strengthen you. Fail to live up to your potential, and you will never win."
"I came, I saw... I got blowed up."
"History is rarely made by reasonable men."
"For if you knew who stood with you, how could you be afraid?"
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
"Double the pleasure, Double the fun..."
"A mind that is stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions."
"I'm confused."
"So what else is new?"
"Fate makes fools of us all."
"Oh, sh-"
"You said it."
The Reaper is always a step behind me...
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"Just because someone is on the other side, does not make them 'evil.' "
"Say, can you hear that? It's the sound of the Reaper..."
"Breaking up is hard to do."
"I wouldn’t know."
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
"But don't you see what this means?"
"Yes. We're going to die."
"Hesitation can be the end of you-or those you care about."
“Lord, what fools these mortals be.”
And those who feed you are hamburgers.
We're in the building
Where they make us grow
And I'm frightened by
The liquid engineers
Like you.
My Mallory heart
Is sure to fail
I could crawl around the floor
Just like I'm real
Like you.
The sound of metal
I want to be
You
I should learn to be a man
Like you.
Plug me in
And turn me on
Oh everything is moving.
I need my treatment
It's tomorrow they send me
Singing 'I am an American'.
Do you?
Picture this
If I could make the change
I'd love to pull the wires from the wall
Did you?
And who are you
And how can I try
Here inside I like metal
Don't you
All I know
Is no-one dies
I'm still confusing love with need
Lone Starr: A million? That's unfair.
Pizza the Hutt: Unfair to payor but not to payee. But you're gonna pay it, or else!
Barf: Or else what?
Pizza the Hutt: Tell him, Vinnie.
Vinnie: Or else pizza is gonna send out for *you*!
QuoteLone Starr: A million? That's unfair.
Pizza the Hutt: Unfair to payor but not to payee. But you're gonna pay it, or else!
Barf: Or else what?
Pizza the Hutt: Tell him, Vinnie.
Vinnie: Or else pizza is gonna send out for *you*!
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought
What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
I would use my Bombos medallion on the Republicans.
being noble is a sin, save your self your family, your stuff, then help everyone elselocal community emergency response team's(cert) motto
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.[/quot]
You have at your command the wisdom of the ages.
Short version: You're a fucking idiot. If you're going to be lazy and inept and start yet another worthless forum with no purpose other than to pet your own ego, then try at least stringing some actual words together, you worthless fuck.
Short version: You're a fucking idiot. If you're going to be lazy and inept and start yet another worthless forum with no purpose other than to pet your own ego, then try at least stringing some actual words together, you worthless fuck.
albinomonkassassin
love this...everyones so much more cheerful than today lol like, today there would be like a video of someone slitting their wrists or something lol
It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.
When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my gun.
Sanity!? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
Distances and spans of time and difficulty unimaginable to most men are but the space between your footprints.
I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Hasten deliberately.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. "Why are you trying to trap me?" he asked. "Bring me a denarius and let me look at it." They brought the coin, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied. Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." And they were amazed at him.
whats that mean?QuoteBut Jesus knew their hypocrisy. "Why are you trying to trap me?" he asked. "Bring me a denarius and let me look at it." They brought the coin, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied. Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." And they were amazed at him.
whats that mean?Keep state and church separate, basically.
really? that doesnt sound like something Jesus would say. I mean doesnt he think you should live life 100% always with God? so saying that is like adding "Unless your doing something state related."whats that mean?Keep state and church separate, basically.
Get off my plane!!
"Wow! I feel as if I've passed some arbitrary experience value and gained more power!"--Marcus
"Uh... I have information that... could lead to establishing a network of... um, all the existing vaults throughout the country. Yea that's it."--The Chosen One
"How about you and I... well, you know... get together."--The Vault Dweller and Tandi
"Listen... uh... but I... uh... I-I like guys, okay? Whew! Uh, excuse me, I got stuff to do."
"I am the bringer of death. Fall to your knees and beg for mercy... Or give me a sandwich, I'm pretty hungry."--The Vault Dweller
"What do you want?"--Thug and the Vault Dweller
"To see a valley filled with my enemies' heads mounted on spears. A silent valley, except for the wind whistling through their ears."
"What sort of stupid questions?"--The Chosen One and Dave Handy
"Oh, like: 'Why can't I use a sword or a chainsaw on my monitor?'"
Hmm. Yes, Sora, what a fine point that would be if you weren't completely wrong. Which brings me to another quote:how am i wrong?Quote from: Harrison FordGet off my plane!!
Hmm. Yes, Sora, what a fine point that would be if you weren't completely wrong. Which brings me to another quote:how am i wrong?Quote from: Harrison FordGet off my plane!!
Mark: Homosexuality
1. One of the followers of Jesus was a young, nearly naked man who dropped his linen cloth and "fled from them naked" when the priests came to arrest Jesus. 14:51-52
I bet Steve is laughing his ass off right now. He made the Jesus phone Asia could never produce. Then he signs a 5-year exclusivity deal knowing full damn well what his community will do with the thing once it's on the market. Then, it all comes to fruition and iPhone sales go up even further (at least through the Apple store). Ten bucks says Apple doesn't do a thing to prevent this (a la Apple TV).
You have all the time to type something, but only a few seconds to say something.
Q. Why can't a fifth of Americans locate the US on a map?
A. I personally believe that ... um ....that US Americans are unable to do so because, ah soma people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh...I belive our education, like just as in south africa and the Iraq...everywhere..like such as..and...ah...and I believe that they should...our education over here in the US should help the US....or should help South Africa and should Iraq and the Asian Countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.
She not even that great looking. :(
"I stopped playing D&D because I was the only person actually trying to role-play. Everyone else was there for the munchkin routine."Hey! I am a munchkin some times! (Looks at midget halfling lvl12 thief/lvl8 Assassin from version 2.0)
How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.
Nah, this is probably a "Timed Exclusive"... They can't make their money back if there are only 4 million people that own a PS3 and most of them aren't aware that it plays games.
GERONIMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
This is my house. But don't make yourselves too comfortable!
OHHHH YEAHHHHH!!
Here we go...Psyche yourself up, baby!
Time to GET IT ON!!
This train is awesome! A transcontinental railroad, baby!
We're on your team, Instructor. Let's kick some ass!
Hey, a key...NOT!
Why don't you try to show a little more passion...? You know, like me!
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."--Mark Twain
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."--Confucius
"Love is the emblem of eternity:--Germaine De Stael
it confounds all notion of time,
effaces all memory of a beginning,
all fear of an end."
Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.
Time traveling forward is the same as time traveling backwards, except that your going forward.
Flectere si nequeo superos, Achaeronta movebo.
But it is easier to think what poetry should be, than to write it.
If there's nothing wrong with me...there must be something wrong with the Universe...
I am NOT a merry man!Star Trek is full of fun quotes...
The present hasn't been born yet.
If my health would bear it, I could write a Poem which I have in my head, which would be a consolation for people in such a situation as mine. I would show some one in Love as I am, with a person living in such Liberty as you do.
Usted bastardo!!
Henri Ducard: But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just... poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you'd be spared your pain.
The RIAA Attacks Usenet
Basking in glory after orchestrating a record punishment for a petty file-sharer in the US, the RIAA takes its legal campaign to the next level. Many may want newsgroups to stay under the radar but it's too late - major labels have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com and it won't be going away.
I heard the RIAA just sued independent musicians because they aren't giving the RIAA half of any money they make.
I heard the RIAA just sued a guy for walking down the street while whistling a tune!
I heard the RIAA once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
The Doctor: You were supposed to be dying.
Face of Boe: There are better things to do today. Dying can wait.
The Doctor: You want weapons? We're in a library! Books, best weapons in the world. This room is the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself.
Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
The Doctor: You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive.
Charles Dickens: What the Shakespeare is going on here?
The Doctor: The thing is, Adam, time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've got to throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers... or is that just me?
The Doctor: Go! Now! Don't drop the banana!
Jack: Why not?!
The Doctor: Good source of potassium!
Jack: Last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered four hyper-vodkas for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that. Woke up in bed with both my executioners. Lovely couple. They stayed in touch. Can't say that about most executioners.
Rose: It was a better life. And I don't mean all the travelling, seeing aliens and spaceships and things, that don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know, he showed you too. You don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no! You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away!
It is difficult to associate these horrors with the proud civilizations that created them. Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the Samurai... all shared the lone ideal: the honor of strength, because it is strength that makes other values possible. Nothing survives without it. Who knows what delicate wonders have died out of the world for want of the strnegth to survive?
Civilization's highest ideas--justice--could not exist without strong men to enforce it. Indeed, what is civilization but simply the honor of strong men? Today, the young are taught nothing of honor. The sense of life as epic, of life as big, of life as something for which one learns to fight--this is follish to them. To them, grandeur is irrelevant. The young no longer dream.
My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of Prayer,' when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.
One of the great tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war. - Francis Collins, head of the National Human Genome Research Institute and leader of the Human Genome Project
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
"He who in time long ago was great, throbbing with gigantic strength, shall be as if he never were, unspoken. He who followed him has found his master, and is gone. Cry aloud without fear the victory of Zeus, you will not have failed the truth: Zeus, who guided men to think, who has laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate. From the gods who sit in grandeur grace comes somhow violent."- the Chorus from Aeschylus' Agamemnon, 168-183
Failure defeats losers and inspires winners.
Under your pardon. You must note beside,
That we have tried the utmost of our friends,
Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:
The enemy increaseth every day;
We, at the height, are ready to decline.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
When I was having dinner with Chuck [Norris] I did ask him: "If you and Bruce would be in a real fight to death, who would win?", and he said without thinking: "Bruce of course. Nobody can beat him".
God this stuff isn't getting to me - the shootings, the knifings, the beatings. Old ladies being bashed in the head for their social security checks. Nah that doesn't bother me. But you know what does bother me? You know what makes me really sick to my stomach? It's watching you stuff your face with those hotdogs! Nobody - I mean nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog!
Ten Reasons Gay Marriage is Un-American
1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
9. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
A phenomenon I still don't understand. Rudy says if a Democrat is elected in 2008, we'll be at risk of another 9/11, because . . . he was mayor of New York when they attacked the World Trade Center the first time? His slogan should be "Not on my watch . . . again."
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I websurfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious website of 'hot chicks galore',
While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour.
"'Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my cheap hardcore!"
Quoth the server, "404".
Abandon your fear. Face forward. Advance. Don't give an inch. Retreat and you will age. Be afraid and you will die.
When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.
Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
If I move forward, follow me. If I die, avenge me. If I move back, kill me.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.I never liked this Idea. I personally believe that it that thinking that flaws modern Physics. Look at the overarching trait Of quantum mechanics, Sub-atomic particles can go/do anything, look at the double slit test or electron placement. All of these "prove" that there is only a probability its true. Every out come is existent until observe. Yes, this method does work and no contradiction present there self, but all it states is that: event A most likely Will happen, but it is possible that event B will happen in stead.
Look to this day!-- Kālidāsa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81lid%C4%81sa)
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the truths and realities of existence:
The joy of growth,
The splendor of action,
The glory of power.
For yesterday is but a memory,
And tomorrow is only a vision;
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday
a memory of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
I SAY: Bring it on you mutherfuckers (6+ / 0-)
the people are taking this country back and there ain't shit these assholes can do to stop it
PS: I just signed up for 24 hours of Canvassing (4 Friday, 8 Saturday, 8 Sunday, 4 Monday) and 12 hours of Poll Duty + Precinct Convention Chair in my own District in Houston Texas....
Let the Status Quo Squirm, they have no fucking clue what's coming at them... the sleeping giant is awakening and we're mad as fucking hell and we will bury them
The Doctor: What was his policy? What did he stand for?
Martha: I dunno, he always sounded... good. Like you could trust him. Just nice. He spoke about... I can't really remember, but it was good. Just the sound of his voice.
The Doctor: The human race. For such an intelligent lot, you aren't half susceptible. Give anyone a chance to take control, and you submit! Sometimes I think you like it. An easy life.
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
oh god.
i forgot all about serge's ass.
“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”
~ Martha Beck
“How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.”
~ Annie Dillard
“You have at your command the wisdom of the ages.”
~ Fortune Cookie
“Other evils there are that may come.... Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
~ Gandalf the White
“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.”
~ Gloria Steinem
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
“Progress is slow because nothing is ever invented and perfected at the same time.”
~ ?
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
~ Steven Weinberg
Set your phasers to Miss.
~ ?
Infamously, WordPerfect used F3 instead of F1 for Help, F1 instead of Esc for Cancel, and Esc for Repeat.
~ ?
How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces and they were on their knees slitting their bellies or cutting their throats, or cast out into the freezing world, they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lord or husbands or vassals -- anything or anyone -- but never themselves. So very strange.
~ ?
“A wise heart accepts commands.”
~ Ancient Eastern Wisdom
“It’d be nice if the battle were only against the right wingers, not half of the left on top of that.”
~ François in Paris
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Quote from: Benjamin FranklinAny society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here!
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.
Can I make a suggestion that doesn't involve killing anybody, or is this the wrong crowd?
This report is maybe twelve years old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear because there’s a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They’re gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten, they’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people…better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
wuh duh ma huh ta duh fung-kwong duh wai-shung dohTranslation: holy mother of god and all her wacky nephews
But Prophet's guile just ends, shouldnt there be more?
There is...chrono trigger
"They made you a god... When they didn't own the heavens..."
~Paul Janson, from Robert Ludlum's The Janson Directive
"You have just killed another living thing Pasha..."
General Pavel Leonidovich Alekseyev, from Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising
"Carpe Diem, seize the day...
Carpe mundum, seize the world..."
Alan Demarest/Peter Novak, The Janson Directive
"Do we have a duty to feed the world?
Yes.
Why?
Because we can."
~Orson Scott Card
"Falling in love is an irrational thing.
Even just by falling in love with someone, you'll hurt people, and you'll get hurt yourself.
To be truly in love with someone, you have to be ready to put your life at risk."
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
~Socrates
"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing."
~ Oscar Wilde
"College is fun as long as you don't die."
~ L
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
~Socrates
"Remember that half the people you know are below average."
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man."
~ Socrates
"If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you."
~Bruce Lee
"Time is like a sword. If you don't cut with it, it will cut you."
You see at this point, I'm pretty much the Queen Bitch of the Universe, and not all of your little soldiers or space ships will stand in my way again.
Stay thy hand, Judicator. The stewards of Tassadar shall not fall while the Dark Templar live. Call off your guards and stand aside, and you may yet live to see another moonrise.
Remember us, Executor. Remember what was done here today. May Adun watch over you.
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon
People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other was the left, but he never could remember how to begin-Winnie The Pooh
I have this thing about losing, I don't do it.
Real story: Obama's international diplomacy skills may bring ceasefire to African region, and maintain oil production.
MSM headline: "African militants hold Obama in high esteem."
TV news talking point: "Do we really want a President who is respected by terrorists and militants?" [next to photo of Obama in traditional African clothing]
Clinton: “Obama is weak because he talks to our enemies, when I am strong because I threaten to obliterate them with nuclear bombs.”
Voter: “I am voting for Clinton because I heard on the news that how Obama is closely aligned with African militants. Also I think Hillary is a fighter.”
... yep.Quote from: larsone86Real story: Obama's international diplomacy skills may bring ceasefire to African region, and maintain oil production.
MSM headline: "African militants hold Obama in high esteem."
TV news talking point: "Do we really want a President who is respected by terrorists and militants?" [next to photo of Obama in traditional African clothing]
Clinton: “Obama is weak because he talks to our enemies, when I am strong because I threaten to obliterate them with nuclear bombs.”
Voter: “I am voting for Clinton because I heard on the news that how Obama is closely aligned with African militants. Also I think Hillary is a fighter.”
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Things do not change: we do
To save something that might remind me of you, I would have to admit that I could forget you.
How often do writers invoke a parenthesis, only to leave its mate forgotten in the torrent of words that follows! We live in the realm where all of those unborn closing parentheses congregate. We are they. Each of us is the tail end of a thought so incidental that it could not even exist in the writer's own world without being sheltered, by us, yet, through authorial negligence and our own ensuing absence, that world has been turned upside down as parenthetical thoughts leech into the environment, corrupting all things. We, we markers of the fantastical, can only gape at the pandemonium. Each of us has a place we shall never reach. Each of us belongs to something from which we are forgotten. Aware that nature has played some cruel trick on us, but only dimly, we seek out our beginning, and we seek out the purpose that gave rise to us, but what would we do even if we found them? They are written, and we are not. We are free radicals, a realm of closing parentheses who once could have brought order to the cosmos, but not do not even exist:)No interviews, please! There is much work to be done if we are to restore sanity to the cosmos.
It is well that, when the act accuses him, the result should excuse him; and when the result is good, as in the case of Romulus [killing his brother Remus to save Rome], it will always absolve him from blame. For he is to be reprehended who commits violence for the purpose of destroying, and not he who employs it for beneficent purposes
Si vis pacem, parra bellum.
At eve praise the day,
when burned down, a torch,
a wife when bedded, a weapon when tried,
ice when over it, ale when 'tis drunk.
Erarre humanum est.~Doctus and probably someone more important...
Having failed to succeed, you have in fact found success at failure.~Someone... maybe? might have made it up... but I say it a lot...?
With this sword I have slain 1000 demons... more or less.~Swordmage: Makai Senki Disgaea
This engine is so weak it couldn't pull a greasy string out of a duck's ass.~Any given redneck in my area...
"No, the answer is, no. It can't be done."~I forget...
"Then what's this?"
"...Damn you."
Law of inverse proportional gravity:~One of many anime law lists...
Any object that becomes airborn is immediately very fast. The larger and more convoluted the object is, the higher, faster and farther it travels while airborn. Moutains are the fastest natural structure.
Instead of putting an electrical device that, when broken, automatically opens the prison doors on tha inside of the room... I designed MY fortress with a device that fuzes the door shut and docks the air to the room when tampered with.~The one smart Evil Overlord
Furby is not allowed at classified military conferences.~An actual enforced law under penalty of courtmartial.
I'll get you for this! I'll do... something... really... not to your liking!! eventually...maybe.~I forget, but it's likely from Jhonen Vasquez's work.
CAUTION: Flux capacitor will not engage,~an actual airline malfunction report
Low blinker fluid,
Hyperdrive rattles above 560321 km/h
There's 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't~some guy at some point...
"Listening to you is like bathing in acid while chewing on tin foil, masturbating with sandpaper, cleaning your ears out with a mace, washing your hands with chalk, wearing contacts made from onion skins, and trying to defeat the plastic bag on your head in a sucking contest."~one of my friends @ a guy in my modeling class
"I--"
"I wasn't finished, that was just the intro to my 13 page essay on the subject."
Life's a bitch, then you die.~My grandfather, who has had better days.
"Just because he's black doesn't mean you have to make a note of it. Why do you have to bring race into it if you're just gonna say you aren't racist!?"~conversation from my middleschool days...
"Ok... here, you try and describe me to someone who's never met me, without looking at me, while about 400 people with brown hair, a slight bit of weight, and not very much height walk by... and do it without mentioning my glasses."
"..."
The only people who really care about racism are usually so 'politically correct' that the mention of a race, any race, is considered an offence. So how is that different?~Another one of my friends
Damn you Windows updates, I like the crappy way my crappy stuff works now, crappily... there's no telling what will happen when you try to crap on it some more.~almost every windows user...
Damn you windows update... damn you.~the truncated "I'm too tired" versionof the former
"Just because he's black doesn't mean you have to make a note of it. Why do you have to bring race into it if you're just gonna say you aren't racist!?"
"Ok... here, you try and describe me to someone who's never met me, without looking at me, while about 400 people with brown hair, a slight bit of weight, and not very much height walk by... and do it without mentioning my glasses."
"..."
I've actually had (pretty much) this exact same conversation on more than one occasion. Always ends the same way: the awkward silence of defeat.
The Doctor: Don't worry, Reinette, just a nightmare. Everyone has nightmares. Even monsters from under the bed have nightmares.
Reinette: What do monsters have nightmares about?
The Doctor: Me!
"How did you fool that gorilla?"
"Simple, I made a sound like a banana"
Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
The flattening of underwear with plessure is the job of the chambermaid
We invite you to take advantage of the chambermaid
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday
Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in boots of ascension.
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis.
It is strictly forbidden on our Black Forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose.
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable foods, give it to the guard on duty.
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage, then tootle him with vigor.
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?
IF YOU CANNOT READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET LESSONS
WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL
DOESN'T WORK)
Revives? Crono don't need no stinkin' revives...!
"Aren't you that fuckfaced kid who barely ever talks?"
"Yeah?"
"Got any pussy lately?"
"I just got $500 for my artwork."
"Shutup queer...
Paper or Plastic?"
topic:"Very cool new Discovery Channel commercial"
eqtworld: You materialists make me sick "the world" is nothing compared to the awesomeness of our Lord and Savior; Jesus Christ. /My God is an awesome God, he reigns from heaven above...
Poo_Fight: My God is a mediocre God. He's prone to forgetfulness and fits of smiting.
10:04 PM: Grant has added the song Intergalactic by The Beastie Boys to her profile
...
10:06 PM: Grant is wondering why Facebook thnks he's a girl
Quote from: farktopic:"Very cool new Discovery Channel commercial"
eqtworld: You materialists make me sick "the world" is nothing compared to the awesomeness of our Lord and Savior; Jesus Christ. /My God is an awesome God, he reigns from heaven above...
Poo_Fight: My God is a mediocre God. He's prone to forgetfulness and fits of smiting.
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
“Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior.”
"I have developed a plan to counter gas prices. If anyone can create an alternatively powered engine that leap-frogs the Hybrid Car, you will be awarded $3,000,000
Of the elementary proofs, multiplying 0.333… = 1⁄3 by 3 is apparently a successful strategy for convincing reluctant students that 0.999… = 1. Still, when confronted with the conflict between their belief of the first equation and their disbelief of the second, some students either begin to disbelieve the first equation or just simply become frustrated.
Quote from: John Mccain"I have developed a plan to counter gas prices. If anyone can create an alternatively powered engine that leap-frogs the Hybrid Car, you will be awarded $3,000,000That's exactly what this nation needs. Oh thank you, Wise John Mccain, for doing the exact opposite of your job.
Permit me, sir, to give you one piece of advice. Be not so positive; especially with regard to things which are neither easy nor necessary to be determined. When I was young I was sure of everything. In a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before. At present, I am hardly sure of anything...
I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.
Democracy is Bullshit - I haven't said that in a while, so I figured I might clear up any doubts as to whether or not I still feel that way.
Now that I think about it, my post might have conflicted with democracy itself.
I meant as in he's running for president, yet he's relying on the US populus too much. Then again, in a way that's how America has been running it's entire life...
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
QuoteWith or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
~ Steven Weinberg
Weinberg's statement is true as far as it goes, but it is not the whole truth. To make it the whole truth, we must add an additional clause: "And for bad people to do good things—that takes religion."
~ Freeman Dyson
"Heretics who question the dogmas are needed... I am proud to be a heretic. The world always needs heretics to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies."
~ Freeman Dyson
BATMAN HAS NO LIMITSd
BATMAN HAS NO LIMITSd
Wonder what movie you went to see/are planing to see x
You'll see... When the cards are on the table, these civilized people... Will eat eachother.
Picard is the ambassador of humanity. If someone like him were to arise in the near future, I wish I would be able to support and follow that individual, I wish I could live that long to see it happen and many other things...
TV says donuts are high in fat, Kazoo! 'Found a hobo in my room..It's Princess Leia, The Yodel of Life, give me my sweater back or I'll play the guitar!!
BATMAN HAS NO LIMITSd
Wonder what movie you went to see/are planing to see x
OMFG, I saw that today. Best. Batman. Movie. EVER!Quote from: The JokerYou'll see... When the cards are on the table, these civilized people... Will eat eachother.
Why so serious?!
Eat--or die!(his philosophy of life!)
I'm really interested in that point you reach w hen you actually fail from exhaustion at something, whether it's weight training or cardiovascular exercise. I'm interested in seeing just how much of that is a physical point and how much of it is a mental point. When you reach that point where you say, "Oh, that's it! I can't do another one," if you actually challenge yourself with something like "All right, there's a man standing with a gun to your mother's head, and he says, 'If you do one more' of whatever it is you're doing--say, jump rope for one more minute--'I won't pull the trigger, otherwise I will'"--see if you can do it! You've got to try and challenge yourself this way. I find that you have to amke it into a game at some level in order to continue doing whatever foolish thing it is you're doing that's causing you so much discomfort!
Well, i would say this: when you move down the road towards mastery of the martial arts—and you know, you are constantly moving down that road—you end up coming up against these barriers inside yourself that will attempt to stop you from continuing to pursue hte mastery of the martial arts. And these barriers are such things as when you come up against your own limitations, when you come up against the limitations f your will, your ability, your natural ability, your courage, how you deal with success—and failure as well, for that matter. And as you overcome each one of these barriers, you end up learning something about yourself. And sometimes, the things you learn a bout yourself can, to the individual, seem to convey a certain spiritual sense along with them.
...It's funny, every time you come up against a true barrier to your progress, you are a child again. And it's a very interesting experience to be reduced, once again, to the level of knowing nothing about what you're doing. I think there's a lot of room for learning and growth when that happens—if you face it head on and don't choose to say, "Ah, screw that! I'm going to do something else!"
We reduce ourselves at a certain point in our lives to kind of solely pursuing things that we already kno how to do. You know, because you don't want to have that experience of not knowing what you're doing and being an amateur again. And I think that's rather unfortunate. It's so much interesting and usually illuminating to put yourself in a situation where you don't know what's going to happen, than to do something again that you already know essentially what the outcome will be within three or four points either way.
Science and logic are tools for inferring and deducing the truth. Religion is a tool to make up one’s own truth!
Of course, like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.
Letter to Winterton C. Curtis (29 August 1922)
False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion interest, et cetera.
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others. At least, those who have not thoroughly examined to the bottom all their own tenets, must confess they are unfit to prescribe to others; and are unreasonable in imposing that as truth on other men's belief, which they themselves have not searched into, nor weighed the arguments of probability, on which they should receive or reject it. Those who have fairly and truly examined, and are thereby got past doubt in all the doctrines they profess and govern themselves by, would have a juster pretence to require others to follow them: but these are so few in number, and find so little reason to be magisterial in their opinions, that nothing insolent and imperious is to be expected from them: and there is reason to think, that, if men were better instructed themselves, they would be less imposing on others.
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
Religion Is Politics ...
06 Sep 2008 02:20 pm
... and politics is religion. With Sarah Palin, America has taken one very large leap toward a completely theocratic politics. For Palin, as for Rick Warren, there can be no distinction between politics and religion: all politics is subject to religious guidance and that guidance is to obey the literal truth of everything in the Bible:
In the address at the Assembly of God Church here, Ms. Palin’s ease in talking about the intersection of faith and public life was clear. Among other things, she encouraged the group of young church leaders to pray that “God’s will” be done in bringing about the construction of a big pipeline in the state, and suggested her work as governor would be hampered “if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God.”
She also told the group that her eldest child, Track, would soon be deployed by the Army to Iraq, and that they should pray “that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God, that’s what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God’s plan.”
Everything in her worldview must be according to God's plan, and God's plan is revealed without any ambiguity whatsoever in the literal words of the Bible, Old and New Testament. There is no detail too small, no policy too obscure, that isn't vetted through this filter. This is the fundamentalist psyche in its most extreme form: think Bush but less intellectual. Think Bush's evangelical tradition combined with speaking in tongues and a belief in the Rapture. Yes, this is now conservatism. If you want to explore how it came to this, I gave it my best shot here.
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance, or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
It can not be doubted that the more complete our internal resources and the less dependent we are on foreign powers for every national as well as domestic purpose the greater and more stable will be the public felicity.
May our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.
The maxim which our ancestors derived from the mother country that "the freedom of the press is the great bulwark of civil and religious liberty" is one of the most precious legacies which they have left us.
I can not forego the occasion to urge its importance to the credit of the Government in a financial point of view. The great necessity of resorting to every proper and becoming expedient in order to place the Treasury on a footing of the highest respectability is entirely obvious. The credit of the Government may be regarded as the very soul of the Government itself--a principle of vitality without which all its movements are languid and all its operations embarrassed.
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States.
Our Government is one of limited powers, and its successful administration eminently depends on the confinement of each of its coordinate branches within its own appropriate sphere.
The great law of morality ought to have a national as well as a personal and individual application. We should act toward other nations as we wish them to act toward us, and justice and conscience should form the rule of conduct between governments, instead of mere power, self interest, or the desire of aggrandizement.
The great objects of our pursuit as a people are best to be attained by peace, and are entirely consistent with the tranquillity and interests of the rest of mankind. With the neighboring nations upon our continent we should cultivate kindly and fraternal relations. We can desire nothing in regard to them so much as to see them consolidate their strength and pursue the paths of prosperity and happiness. If in the course of their growth we should open new channels of trade and create additional facilities for friendly intercourse, the benefits realized will be equal and mutual.
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we otherwise should have made... But this war was a fearful lesson, and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future.
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.
What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?
An unlawful expedient can not become a permanent condition of government. If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?
Whatever you do, tell the truth.
Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.
Nothing is easier than to falsify the past. Lifeless instruction will do it. If you rob it of vitality, stiffen it with pedantry, sophisticate it with argument, chill it with unsympathetic comment, you render it as dead as any academic exercise. The safest way in all ordinary seasons is to let it speak for itself: resort to its records, listen to its poets and to its masters in the humbler art of prose. Your real and proper object, after all, is not to expound, but to realize it, consort with it, and make your spirit kin with it, so that you may never shake the sense of obligation off. In short, I believe that the catholic study of the world's literature as a record of spirit is the right preparation for leadership in the world's affairs, if you undertake it like a man and not like a pedant.
A republic worth living in is worth fighting for, and sacrificing for, and dying for.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
I am that kind of conservative because I am that kind of liberal.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. ... No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
We know that most people's intentions are good. We don't question their motives, we've never said they're unpatriotic. Although they say some pretty ugly things about us. And we believe very strongly on preserving the right to differ in this country, and the right to dissent, and if I have done a good job of anything since I've been president, it's to insure that there are plenty of dissenters.
North Vietnam cannot humiliate and defeat America — only Americans can do that.
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
Reason for more bear sightings: more bears.
She Answered A Question!
17 Sep 2008 02:51 pm
For real! The candidate for vice-president of the United States actually responded to a question from the press! Amazing:
"Though she has been on the campaign trail for nearly three weeks, Palin has yet to hold a press conference, and this morning’s stop marked the first time she answered a question from the press on the fly, prompting concerned looks from staffers."
What twilight zone are we in?
There is a strange sense of entitlement, an eerie assumption of an unspoken working relationship that I am happy to inform does not exist. Why we insulate ourselves from the notion that the external critic can EVER be right, is because their critique is moot in regards to the progression of our work.
... the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals.
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! "Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options."
All governments are lying cocksuckers.
Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To hear what it's all about, perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once?
"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration — that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."
Hi,
There's a very important thing you need to change in your site. The Naruto face!!!!!!!! What in the hell is it doing there, it's everywhere. It's ugly, it has nothing to do with Chrono Trigger, and in addition, you can't see anything written on it!
For every visitor you hvae, change the layout and take that Naruto face away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously! I'd rather it be simply white
I voted today. I'm a 33 year old, white criminal defense lawyer in southwest Kansas. The early voting is at the courthouse. I arrive to find 12 old white people occupying all the voting machines. I wait. A machine opens up. The 80 something white male who had been using the machine is now up at the front table asking if he can vote again. The lady running the table says "no, one person, one vote." He replies, "well, I just want to make sure we don't have some terrorist running the country."
This obviously catches my attention so I look at the old man. Our eyes meet. He points a bony finger at me and says, "Don't let it happen." Thinking this old man could one day kill someone and need my services, I don't say anything and proceed to vote.
As I'm leaving the voting room, the young black janitor is in the hallway in front of the room with his cleaning cart. "Did you do the right thing?" he asks me. "You know it." I say and we exchange a terrorist fist jab.
Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.
Think yourself, and let think.
Vote for me because I'm going to change existing Republican policies with these specific proposals.
Vote for me because...um, be afraid of Obama. I think he knew a Palestinian dood once. Did I mention I was a POW for a while?
Fear Obama -- he *gasp* wants to have a government in Washington D.C.! It's not god's will, doggonite gee willickers!
They believe your emotions will hamper your judgment.
Wings symbolize freedom for those who have none.
But Zack, no matter what happens, I have to protect my honor.
SOLDIER's duty is not to think - it is to protect men who think for them, like me.
I'm still SOLDIER at heart, I suppose.
Don't you think I'd be put to better use on the battlefield?
This is a symbol of my dreams and honor.
The wind sails over the water's surface. Quietly, but surely.
If we pull this off, we'll all be heroes! At the very least, I'd feel like one!
Just remember it's what's INside that counts, as I used to remind girls in high school constantly. CONSTANTLY - until I realized that I was empty inside. Empty and homely. Man, that's a rough combo.
Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.
The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.
Always be yourself, unless you suck.
Every day is a negotiation, and sometimes its done with guns.
I'd agree, but I don't like being wrong!
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
With great power, comes great responsibility.
Quote from: Ben ParkerWith great power, comes great responsibility.
The one person who first coined this saying is a person I declare to be wiser than King Solomon himself could EVER be.
Quote from: Ben ParkerWith great power, comes great responsibility.
The one person who first coined this saying is a person I declare to be wiser than King Solomon himself could EVER be.
Stan Lee?
I have grown numb and become crushed to an extreme degree; I have roared due to the groaning of my heart. My own heart has palpitated heavily, my power has left me, and the light of my eyes also is not with me.
Leave Nest!
Have baby! Give milk!
Have more baby!
Also, for the newer members, this isn't 4chan. Have fun if you want, but don't be asses. That's on you though.
DO NOT PRAY! If you pray, your hands will close together. You will not be able to fight.Guts, from Berserk
Now, he's happy. Or, is death the end of the dream? Is it a failure of hope?Griffith, from Berserk
Upon further review, we've discovered that Chrono Trigger does not have a level that allows you to travel back to 1982 to throw a football over some mountains and win the state championship. You'll spend most of the game traveling through time, fighting evil bosses and trying to save the planet's future, probably by preventing Sarah Connor from giving birth to Marty McFly.
Why? What did he do?
I hope Griffith gets what's coming to him.
Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest. See everything in its entirety effortlessly. That is what it means to truly see.Takuan Soho
Fuck, Andy Griffith? Seriously? I thought he was like the nicest man ever in existance.
Ah, that's right. You two...
Let me teach you about [ way of the space time ]
You two...
[ If you go back in time, you can change the past ]
Do you think so?
Ho ho ho That is a mistake.
For example, If you got hurt by falling down.
If you go back to yesterday and to yourself...
warn about not to fall down.
... that is the problem. There is an inconsistency.
The reason why you wanted to go back in time was...
you got hurt by falling down.
But, If you from yesterday didn't get hurt...
... Naturally...
You, going back to yesterday and giving the warning, don't exist anymore.
After all, It's like this. even if you go back in time...
You can't change what is already done.
To say, in other word, it's a parallel world...
[ Past doesn't change, but your whereabouts changes ]
...It's like that.
Your... Parallel world...
in other words, is moving along with the axis of [ possibility ]
It might happen this way or that way, It is a world with uncertainness.
Essentially, whereabouts of this [ possibility ]...
There can be only one side.
...messing around too much isn't good.
Well then, my lecture ends here.
Jim: You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
Quote from: Blazing SaddlesJim: You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
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Grimmjow Jaegerjaques "we is the king!!"
When in doubt... LUMINAIRE!!!
On your feet, you lazy do-naughts!
Fuck, Andy Griffith? Seriously? I thought he was like the nicest man ever in existance.
Well, except Barney Fyfe, of course.
When you think about it, broth is really just tea made with meat.
When you think about it, broth is really just tea made with meat.[/quote]
When calling shotgun, all riders of the car must be outside, and shotgun can only be called when the car is in view. Riders in the car are not allowed to run to shotgun and steal it before the person who called and deserves it arrives there. The driver of the car has no authority to decide on who gets shotgun. If a legitimate confrontation comes up where the rightful owner of the shotgun can not be determined then it will be decided by one round of paper rock scissors (with no shoot). If the two contenders tie 5 times in a row then the rightful owner of the shotgun is to be decided by a UFC cage match in which the first blood drawn decides the rightful owner of shotgun.
If at any point during the process of determining the shotgun rider a hot girl hints that she would like to sit up front the driver has the sole right to declare her the shotgun rider and depending upon the situation may even deny rides to all other passengers. However, if said hot girl is an ex of any passenger they may overrule the driver's decision and make her ride in the back. Additionally, if all passengers happen to be female then revert back to original method of deciding shotgun rider substituting mud wrestling for UFC cage match. The winner then gets either a cold water hose down or shotgun the next ride unless the car is really shitty and the owner doesn’t care about muddy seats.
The head nod is an acceptable way to greet another guy when simply walking past. No words are needed to be said. An upward nod is for friends, a downward nod is for fellow men.
No man in any circumstance, unless mocking a violator of this law, should pop his collar.
Under no circumstances shall any man lay a hand on a female or a child in violence. Spanking of a woman's ass or pulling of the hair is permitted if done on request. Corporal punishment is permitted excluding obvious extremes. Punishment for the attacking male is that if other men see the assault taking place they having the right to take him out back behind a building and show him how to fight with real men. In this situation more than one man may be used in the attacking of said woman beater because he clearly doesn’t mind an unfair fight seeing as he was hitting a lady or a child to begin with. A call to the police is a very last resort and should only be used if said male is over 6' 5" 250lb. or an ufc cage fighter. A kick to the crotch is only called for in cases of rape. If it is merely a guy beating a woman, defenseless child, or elderly people then a legitimate beating is called for, but no shots to the crotch. If it is a case of rape however, multiple shots to the crotch are called for. The punishment must fit the crime and since rape is using that area of the body, it is ok to inflict damage to it.
Do not have a conversation at a urinal.
If a large snake catches a man off guard and bites, said man is allowed to scream once.
The girl who replies to the question "What do you want for Christmas?" with "If you loved me, you'd know what I want" gets an Xbox. End of story.
The dressing of any pet for any reason is not acceptable...any garment that is not a part of the animal shall not be allowed to be attached to that animal...exceptions are collars, leashes, etc. exception to this rule are monkeys.
No man shall ever read an instruction manual. If the man does not know how to use the item trial and error shall be used until the correct function is determined
Was that a joke, Trans, or are you really that ignorant of car slang?
Just checking.
Man Law #25. Being a Pirate should be considered a Manly job because pirates get two types of booty.
What about skinny white people?
What about skinny white people?
I fit into that category.
'Love is not a victory march, It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah...' - Leonard Cohen
Question: What is that everybody has, and that some pirates and thieves try to steal from them?
Tha booty.
Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.
-- Sanford Meisner
The center of every man's existence is a dream.
I've learned that I have what I believe is the right temperament for the presidency. Which is, I don’t get too high when I’m high and I don’t get too low when I’m low. And we’ve gone through all kinds of ups and downs.
People forget now that I had been written off last summer. People were writing many of the anguished articles that they’re not writing after our loss in Pennsylvania. On the other hand, after Iowa, when everybody was sure this was over, I think I was more measured and more cautious.
That, I think, is a temperamental strength.
Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.-Ron Burgundy
Oedipus was a crazy motherfucker.-Random SomethingAwful member
"Autumn, a season of dying nature, of melancholy, of seeking the past, was best for writing obituaries. Winter, joyous in itself - bracing frost, snow sparkling in the sun - was good for living."
"A hard life is better than an easy death."~ from the novel, 'Death and the Penguin'.
We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.From The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Seriously though, why do people keep asking for a leak?Because it's stupid, and stupid, for whatever reason, seems to be contagious.
Impossible is just a word people use to make themselves feel better when they quit.
This day will always be remembered. How it's remembered is up to us.
That does it I'm playing SoA later.Quote from: VyseImpossible is just a word people use to make themselves feel better when they quit.Quote from: VyseThis day will always be remembered. How it's remembered is up to us.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
If I have a good trait, it's probably relentless.
You seem to strive to minimise threads (at the expense of specificity), but don’t say why.
What we end up with are a few monstrosities that are liable to become too broad in scope (and which would probably do better even as their own forums than as single threads) and short-lived but current threads dominating this forum, uncertainty as to where to post some things (and fear of creating new topics for these things in case they get merged and lost to obscurity) and a situation where people explicitly acknowledge from the outset that their threads might be merged in their infancy.
To be honest, it seems like the only reason you merge as many threads as you do and have edited as many posts as you have is because of a notion of propriety regarding modding—you seem to feel like you have to do something, and so doing something has become an empty end instead of incidental to a purposeful end, or that, on other forums, thread merging and post editing is rampant and so you transfer that observation to how you mod here.
Usually I try to edit the thread poster's post in the merged thread to say why.
Quite the opposite, I'm afraid. Most forums I've been to have very little moderation and are left with dozens of garbage threads akin to, "WHO'S THE HOTTEST FF GIRL?", "WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE W/E?", etc. Those types of threads are just there to breed post-whores and usually mark the end of a forums (or at least anything resembling discussion on any real level).
I'd rather have friendly giant threads anyone can jump into, which, I admit, are probably intimidating to n00bs or w/e…
…rather than pages & pages of threads that are too similar to one another…
If there's already a thread for it, why not post in that rather than make an entirely new thread?
If there's already a thread for it, why not post in that rather than make an entirely new thread?
The best fortune cookie ever, however was one my friend Jon got. The fortune was completely blank. Nothing on it at all. How does one interpret that? XD
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
QuoteDream in a pragmatic way.
Such boards suffer not from having too many threads but from a lack of posting quality and lacking posting standards.
Plonking everything into the megathreads discourages full exploration and discussion of individual items. The pace of the megathreads is much higher because they cover so much, and it’s much harder to have ongoing or deep exchanges in them because the current’s so swift.
Better to have pages and pages of threads that run their course and can be revived at the expense of encouraging searching and necromancy than having a few limited or overworked megathreads dominating the forum and limiting discussion and discouraging people from starting new threads.
The 10 Commandments of Optimus Prime
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10. Always start a road trip by saying, "Transform, and roll out!"
9. Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost.
8. Be prepared to die for what you believe in, more than once if necessary.
7. There’s a thin line between being a hero and being a memory.
6. Give people a chance. There’s more to them than meets the eye.
5. Don’t bite off more than you can shred.
4. The future is built on dreams. Hang on to them.
3. Danger can't be ignored. It must be conquered.
2. All you need in life is a little energon, and a lot of luck.
1. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings (except Decepticons).
Sources
10. Cartoon series - multiple references
9. Transformers: The Movie (1986)
8. Transformers: The Movie (1986), Episode: Dark Awakening
7. Episode: More Than Meets the Eye
6. Transformers (2007)
5. Episode: Countdown to Oblivion
4. Episode: The Core
3. Episode: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 2
2. Transformers: The Movie (1986)
1. Transformers (2007)
By 'look closely' you must mean if you smoke crack, get hit over the head w/a bottle, get papercuts in your eyes and squint from 50 yards away...
That would be like putting a picture of Lara and Taban at the end of Chrono Trigger. It would make little, if any, sense.
QuoteDream in a pragmatic way.
*scratches head* An oxymoron, yes?
“Contrary to popular belief, social validation won't make you complete.”
Also, for the newer members, this isn't 4chan. Have fun if you want, but don't be asses...
Back at headquarters, however, there is little room for nuance. "Here in Rome, Ted Kennedy is nobody. He's a legend with his own constituency," says the Vatican official. "If he had influence in the past, it was only with the Archdiocese of Boston, and that eventually disappeared too."
"I'm the one who got 11111 views on this topic. Furthermore, I believe Carthage should be destroyed."
I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.
I admire them - the bravery of idiots is bravery nonetheless!
Don't worry if it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear.
Just sing,
Sing a song!
I am the product of millions of generations of individuals who each fought against a hostile universe and won, and I aim to maintain the tradition.
If you're one of these New Atheists, the lesson is obvious: ditch the useless faith, and follow science.
"So it was your plan to kill us all? That's good, that's very good. Because I'd hate to think you'd done something so monumentally stupid by accident!"
'Theosophy? Ha! Surely you mean theophany? Because we're not talking about real gods here, are we? We're talking about the appearance of gods. Your heavenly powers are a little too mechanical for my liking. And, if I may be so bold, Lord Zeus, your demeanor is not very godlike.'
'You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying. Like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive. This is the year 5.5/apple/26 - 5 billion years in your future, and this is the day - hold on... This is the day the Sun expands. Welcome to the end of the world!'
Mickey: I bet you don't even remember my name!
The Doctor: Ricky.
Mickey: It's Mickey!
The Doctor: No, it's Ricky.
Mickey: 'I think I know my own name.'
The Doctor: 'You think you know your own name. How stupid are you?'
Rose: 'My mother's cooking.'
The Doctor: 'Good. Put her on a slow heat and let her simmer.'
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."
The Doctor: I thought you were supposed to be dying.
The Face of Boe: There are better things to do today. Dying can wait.
Rose: Oh, here's trouble. What you been up to?
The Doctor: Oh, this and that. Became the imaginary friend of a future French aristocrat, picked a fight with a clockwork man... Oh, and I met a horse.
Mickey: What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
The Doctor: Mickey, what's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective!
John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.
The Doctor: And... Utopia is...?
Professor Yana: Oh, every human knows about Utopia! Where have you been?!
The Doctor: Bit of a hermit.
Professor Yana: A hermit. With... friends?
The Doctor: Hermits United. We meet up every ten years. Swap stories about caves. It's good fun... for a hermit.
Ah, so should I look for the 1960's version or the 2005 version?
It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That's not a weakness. That's life.
Rose: What's the emergency
The Doctor: It's mauve.
Rose: Mauve?
The Doctor: Universally recognized color for danger.
Rose: What happened to red?
The Doctor: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings. All those red alerts, all that dancing.
I thought I could imagine a better Grand Canyon, did I? Well, cried Reality, take a look at this--and oh boy!--you ain't seen nothing yet. ... I have heard rumors of visitors who were disappointed. The same people will be disappointed at the Day of Judgment. ...
If I were an American I should make my remembrance of (the Grand Canyon) the final test of men, art, and policies. I should ask myself: Is this good enough to exist in the same country as the Canyon? How would I feel about this man, this kind of art, these political measures, if I were near that Rim?
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbour's, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
1 Corinthians 14:34-36
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
1. Bart D. Ehrman in Misquoting Jesus (p.184) says this about 1 Corinthians 14:34-35: ""LOL PAUL DIDNT WRITE IT, I FKN SWEAR HAHA, BUT HE WROTE ALL THAT OTHER STUFF MOS DEF"
- n the basis of a combination of evidence -- several manuscripts that shuffle the verses around, the immediate literary context, and the context within 1 Corinthians as a whole -- it appears that Paul did not write 1 Cor. 14:34-35."
Holy books are the most dangerous books in the world.
Of course, like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.
Letter to Winterton C. Curtis (29 August 1922)
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up... they have no holidays.
December 24th, Capitalism Day.Quote from: Henry YoungmanI once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up... they have no holidays.
And by Capitalism Day, you mean... what, exactly?
Every weekend is an atheist holiday: D&D, yo!
Quote from: Henry YoungmanI once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up... they have no holidays.
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
-- Frances Wright, "Divisions of Knowledge" (1828), quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition, p. 40
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever offered -- that truth which we can all find, if we will but seek -- in things, not in words; in nature, not in human imagination; in our own hearts, not in temples made with hands.
-- Frances Wright, Life, Letters and Lectures, p. 101, quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition, p. 34
Time is it to arrest our speculations respecting unseen worlds and inconceivable mysteries, and to address our inquiries to the improvement of our human condition, and our efforts to the practical illustration of those beautiful principles of liberty and equality enshrined in the political institutions, and, first and chief, in the national declaration of independence.
-- Frances Wright, Life, Letters and Lectures, p. 101, quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition, p. 34
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
-- Frances Wright, calling churches the most formidable enemy of human progress, third lecture at the Cincinnati, Ohio, Courthouse, August 24, 1828, from Life, Letters and Lectures, pp. 39, 44, quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition, p. 36-7
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one. Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment.... We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
-- Frances Wright, "Morals" lecture, from Life, Letters and Lectures, p. 73-4, quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition, p. 37
I purpose to develope with you that just rule of life, which no system of religion ever taught, or can ever teach; which exists apart from all faith, all creeds, and all written laws, and which can alone be found by following, with an open eye, a ready ear, and a willing heart, the steps of knowledge; by exercising the senses, faculties, and feelings, which appertain to our own nature; and, instead of submitting our reason to the authority of fallible teachers, by bringing always the words of all books and all teachers to the test of our reason.
-- Frances Wright, "Divisions of Knowledge" (1828), quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition, p. 42-3
Humanity's manifest destiny is illumination.
Some may disagree, but this is the course I've set for humanity. The human race will have a conclusion, just as its risen from humble, animal origins over thousands of years. That ascent will continue. Humans will augment their knowledge and themselves; they'll explore the stars with high technology; they'll seek to learn all they can about the universe and themselves, and transcend humanity to achieve higher sentience. This is humanism (and these days, "transhumanism" is becoming another boon). This is the direction humanity is going, despite a few stumbling steps.
To frame all of human affairs and arguments in the context of human nature and this manifest destiny of illumination is to gain a solid foundation of understanding of things. When I first read the Constitution, I asked, "pursuit of happiness—but what is happiness?" Without awareness of a conclusion, or meaning (excluding even meaning assigned by religion, like "life exists to get to heaven"), this world is nothing but a population of frail life-forms who run about day to day in search of some fleeting pleasure. Everything begins with desire, whether conscious or biological; the "pursuit of happiness" is allowing these desires to compete for fulfillment.
I know humanity is more than that. All our efforts to reduce inequality and injustice; to educate and learn about this world and ourselves; to answer the cosmological questions of the universe and find our own meaning in this existence—it's all a forward process to our "enlightenment" as sentient beings, and beyond. To stand back, and accept human nature—for all its savagery and cruelty, as well as its passion, love, and altruism—and to desire still improvement and more understanding—that's meaningful and insightful, and that's what's going to happen. It's excelsior; it's the springtime of youth; it's the stars beckoning the children of earth to discover all the wonders of the world, within and without them.
To examine social issues and the human condition through this lens is humanism, transcendent of culture, tradition, religion, and belief. It ushers much into view about the beauty of humanity and our environment, and it allows one to debate and strive with a clear goal and metric in mind. It is acceptance and striving both; serenity and ambition.
(http://chronofan.com/Zeality/beginning.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZyjNvy5lwo&fmt=18)
Let's see what's out there.
Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! Wife or no, you are no one's property to be tossed aside. You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen.
Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will — will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power.
The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.
Simple Truths message to Congress (1938)
They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor — these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small-businessmen, the investments set aside for old age — other people's money — these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in. Those who tilled the soil no longer reaped the rewards which were their right. The small measure of their gains was decreed by men in distant cities. Throughout the nation, opportunity was limited by monopoly. Individual initiative was crushed in the cogs of a great machine. The field open for free business was more and more restricted. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.
For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor — other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.
Against economic tyranny such as this, the American citizen could appeal only to the organized power of government. The collapse of 1929 showed up the despotism for what it was. The election of 1932 was the people's mandate to end it. Under that mandate it is being ended.
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen two hundred limping exhausted men come out of line-the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward forty-eight hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
I wish I could keep war from all Nations; but that is beyond my power. I can at least make certain that no act of the United States helps to produce or to promote war. I can at least make clear that the conscience of America revolts against war and that any Nation which provokes war forfeits the sympathy of the people of the United States.
Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.
A dark old world was devastated by wars between conflicting religions. A dark modern world faces wars between conflicting economic and political fanaticisms in which are intertwined race hatreds.
Well, my days of disagreeing with you are certainly coming to a middle.
QuoteWell, my days of disagreeing with you are certainly coming to a middle.
I'm not sure who originated that quote, but I think it's cute.
Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly comin' to a middle.
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
"...I swear by my pretty floral bonnet: I will end you."
Well, if that isn't the horn's toot!
~ Joshalonian euphemism for "Cool!"
The adventure for tomorrow. ... The camaraderie; people caring about people. Man unashamedly loving man. Learning to understand the motivations of others, who in turn will often end up being not your enemy but your friend.
"You feel that pounding in your heart? That tightness in the pit of your stomach? The blood rushing to your head? You know what that is? That's adventure, the thrill and the fear of stepping into the unknown. That's why we're all here, and that's why we're alive!"
Islam will dominate! Freedom can go to hell.
The willow knows what the storm does not--that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
What is going on in America? It is amazing, and disturbing, to ride on a road and see street signs that are printed not only in English but in other languages as well. What's more, even legal documents are no being written in foreign languages. How unnerving to walk down an American street and not understand what people are talking about. Maybe this isn't America. I feel like a stranger in my own land. Why don't they learn to speak English?
Let's get dangerous!
We're the Rescue Rangers, a small, but efficient, battalion of do-gooders devoted to helping those in trouble. Would you like to see our news clippings?
Why is it every time I need to get somewhere, we get waylaid by jackassery?
It is the nature of humankind to fear what they do not understand. Their ways are not our ways.
The written word is all that stands between memory, and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift neither teaching, nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present and prisms reflecting all possible futures. Books, are lighthouses erected in the dark sea of time
I come from the Net - through systems, peoples, and cities - to this place: MAINFRAME. My format: Guardian. To mend and defend - to defend my new found friends, their hopes and dreams, and to defend them from their enemies. They say The User lives outside the Net and inputs games for pleasure. No one knows for sure, but I intend to find out. ReBoot!
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits."
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on."
Said, "Hey old man how can you stand to think that way?
Did you really think about it before you made the rules?"
He said, "Son...
That's just the way it is.
Some things will never change.
That's just the way it is."
Ah, but don't you believe them!
Now it's over, I'm dead, and I haven't
Done anything that I want
Or, I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do.
I know politics bore you.
But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you
And your racist friend.
Your friend apologizes, he could see it my way
He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking
Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
From Nashville came a dark horse riding up
He was James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump
In four short years he met his every goal
He seized the whole southwest from Mexico
Made sure the tarriffs fell
And made the English sell the Oregon territory
He built an independent treasury
Having done all this he sought no second term
But precious few have mourned the passing of
Mister James K. Polk, our eleventh president
Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump
Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a colored ribbon.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon
But...if I agreed with you, then we'd both be wrong.
Unfortunately, jackassery is a renewable resource.
Anger is like holding onto a red hot coal with the intent to throw it at somebody else. You are the one who gets burned.
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.
:lol: For YOU, and the 20% of the world's intellectuals, because you've got the right frame of mind. For the rest of the 80%, Buddha's rule applies. I've rarely met those who use anger productively, and Buddha must have been one heckuva calm fella.
Pfft. What a self-limiting, small-minded bastard. When I feel good, I'm productive. When I get angry, I get productive. Any emotion can be a fulcrum for self-improvement and achievement with the right frame of mind.
Bartimaeus: "According to some, 2 Generally those who don't have to do it. Politicians and writers spring to mind. heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, however manly, or defi- ant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking."
"Well, you try giving yourself a rude hand gesture. See, it just doesn't work does it?"
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Youth, my good friend, you certainly require
When foes in battle round you press,
When a fair maid, her heart on fire,
Hangs on your neck with fond caress,
When from afar, the victor's crown,
Allures you in the race to run;
Or when in revelry you drown
Your sense, the whirling dance being done.
That which issues from the heart alone,
Will bend the hearts of others to your own.
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"Haha the deal with arrogance? If I think myself wise, then undoubtedly I'm a fool. But if I acknowledge I'm a fool, wouldn't I be wiser still? Hahaha
Either half of my colleagues are enormously stupid, or else the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs - and equally compateable with atheism.
Quote from: Stephen Jay GouldEither half of my colleagues are enormously stupid, or else the science of Darwinism is fully compatible with conventional religious beliefs - and equally compateable with atheism.
I find this quote to be extremely useful personally.
The three laws of journalism are:
1) Inform the public of matters of public import.
2) Entertain the audience, when it does not interfere with the first law.
2) Sneak in puns when it does not interfere with the first two laws, unless it's a really good one.
Som dievča do voza aj do koča.
I'm a girl into a carriage and even into the carriage driver.
Som girl in voza Koča to behold.
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
Ratzinger should remain in charge of the whole rotten edifice - the whole profiteering, woman-fearing, guilt-gorging, truth-hating, child-raping institution - while it tumbles, amid a stench of incense and a rain of tourist-kitsch sacred hearts and preposterously crowned virgins, about his ears.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it." But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
Hah, what a beautiful badass. Dawkins, motherfucker. Calls it like it is.
Quote from: Doctor Who - Love and MonstersWhen you're a kid, they tell you it's all "grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it." But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.
So why does a smart guy like Richard Dawkins regularly give atheists a bad name by putting his foot in his mouth with his inane and ridiculous pronouncements about God and religion?
Anonymous 05/23/10(Sun)23:36 No.9471036
someone should tell the Lost producers that God, Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell aren't real
These extremists are not the first to kill in the name of God; the cruelties of the Crusades are amply recorded. But they remind us that no Holy War can ever be a just war. Such a warped view of religion is not just incompatible with the concept of peace, but the purpose of faith - for the one rule that lies at the heart of every major religion is that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
For if we lose that faith - if we dismiss it as silly or naïve; if we divorce it from the decisions that we make on issues of war and peace - then we lose what is best about humanity. We lose our sense of possibility. We lose our moral compass.
There are no good Hindus, bad Hindus, good Christians, bad Christians. Either you are a good person or a bad person. Religion is not the criterion, humanity is.
...but suppressing the rights to believe, the rights to curiosity...
I understand every faith and science has its flaws...This construction is incorrect because the two are not parallel.
One of the greatest tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war.
When are you and GenesisOne going to stop following me around like little missionaries? Fuck off.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.
Faith and Science are indeed parallel.
As for the irony, I won't bother saying. You'll find out one way or the other, you're pretty smart.
The Doctor: Funny little human brains. How do you get around in those things?
Rose: When he's stressed he likes to insult species.
The Doctor: Rose, I'm thinking.
Rose: Cuts himself shaving - does half an hour on life forms he's cleverer than.
"That deeply emotional conviction of a presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
"The Babel fish" said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is a small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconsious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the consious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish."
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
`I refuse to prove that I exist, says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic."
`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Being British helps with everything.
Being British helps with everything... I mean:Quote from: ThoughtBeing British helps with everything.
A subject always best approached with a sense of humour.
And indeed, both science and faith has its flaws. And there's more to it than that. But I take it back; you don't seek understanding. But I'm not really one to elaborate.
you've not taken the time to step into the shoes deeply enough of every (theistic or not) and experience the morals therein
As for Tesla, initially he never really had any evidence. He was one of those scientists that take on "Open-View" considering the role of "possibility" in Science. He merely began speculating at some point without any hard evidence, making his peers think he's mad, but he sought them out anyway; first the evidence in order to harness help and funds for the project, and then he did the impossible, saw the invisible, and rowed the powah!
I am an ordained Mormon priest. I experienced full religion, right down to crying and feeling the spirit burn in my chest. Hysteria can be a powerful emotivator. I have walked down the path of belief, and it's a fraudulent house of cards.That statement of mine was implied at Lord J, since I was fully aware of your former religious background, but do note that note every community is the same as the other. Just because one's so hateful doesn't mean every other is the same; some often contribute greatly to humanity. But something tells me you fear to explore them from the heart. Fear breeds ignorance, and ignorance breeds more fear, both in turn breeding hate.
Science considers possibilities and then explores them based on likelihood. You didn't explore Hinduism; you were born into it. If you'd been born in the American South, you'd be talking about Southern Baptists right now. Affirming and ratifying childhood conditioning is not choice.Hah, there goes your "something you can't see does not exist" theory, but I'm glad you're starting to see my point slowly. But judging things based on category and background alone is your weakness giving you a very limited view of the nature of things even in humanity; you judge me because I was born in a community that I defend. What you fail to notice that I've taken my chances, my choices each step of the way, my decisions, knowledge and views vastly different from common atheists, Hindus and Muslims alike? I told you that I'm a Philosopher first, a humanitarian, and I look at humanity (Atheist or Religious) from that perspective. My difference in views are the result of my studies and exploration of my own culture, and varied religion of not only my country but also those outside, yet I do not enforce people to think like me. But I will till the end defend them all, even those I have not heard of yet. Religion, just like the government of some nations, has been a victim of selfish politics, and if you're going to take up arms against a false target then you may as well become an anarchist.
Religion, just like the government of some nations, has been a victim of selfish politics, and if you're going to take up arms against a false target then you may as well become an anarchist.
But something tells me you fear to explore them from the heart. Fear breeds ignorance, and ignorance breeds more fear, both in turn breeding hate.
Everything! Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.
By the way, my concept of "Faith" is not bound to religion, but more on Philosophical and Psychological terms, the absolute belief of a human mind.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
"My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment"
"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."
In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.
I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things.
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
I am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.
"From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it."
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledgeHaha true for every human, actually. The more we know, the more we THINK we know, and thus there's not much we actually know.
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool
When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
I wasn't teaching you engineering sir, that you know better than me. I was teaching you .. How to teach.
Rancho: You know, our hearts fear a lot. So at times we gotta convince them with a little pat, saying, "Don't worry, mate, all is well".
Raju: And that's gonna solve everything?
Rancho: Nah, but that gives us the courage to deal with it.
Rancho: Pursue excellence, and success will follow, pants down
Mark Twain: In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
Karl Kraus:Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots
Farhan Qureshi: [after finding out Rancho topped their exam] That day we learned, when your friend flops, you feel bad. When he tops, you feel even worse
Big dilemma; support your friend, or wipe tears off the eyes of your friend's mother. Then we thought -- forget about it, just concentrate on the food.
Actually, J, it does.
Your conclusions do not follow from your evidence. And you can quote me on that.
Saari umar hum
Mar mar ke jee liye
Ek pal to ab humein jeene do
Jeene do
Give me some sunshine
Give me some rain
Give me another chance
I wanna grow up once again
Ending 'don't ask, don't tell' would undermine religious liberty
When did the Quote Digest thread become the Frustration thread?
Ah, so you mean religion is about having the freedom to hate a stigmatize a subculture of your choosing?You just never give up; still insolent and immature. I'm not even gonna bother arguing anymore, it's not like you can do anything about people's beliefs anyway.
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.http://tricycleblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/einsteins-quotes-on-buddhism/
XD, well, dude, but religion doesn't equal to religious people.
There are a lot of blind followers of a religion XD few of them are philosophers that can fully understand the theory and idea
The skies will be clear and the weather pleasant, but if you've fallen in love then it's obviously gonna rain on you.
When I feel I don't know which way to turn, I usually try to ride the waves of inspiration.
Hell yeah! 8)
Jaden Smith: You know the rules?!
Jackie Chan: Of course, we do! You hit him, but don't let him hit you.
Non-Pilot 1: Aviators have a saying: Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
Non-Pilot 2: Any landing where you can reuse the plane is a good one.
Pilot: *snickers*
"Prayer" was inspired lyrically by two events. The first event was the death of vocalist David Draiman's grandfather, the second was the September 11 attacks, chiefly the response the clergy made to the events. Draiman explained, "Instead of consoling their flock, people [of the clergy] like Jerry Falwell and Oral Roberts chastised them and used the situation as a means of empowerment, saying it was our own fault because we're a decadent and promiscuous people. I just thought that whole notion is ridiculous."[1] Therefore, "Prayer" is about a conversation between Draiman and God. In the conversation, Draiman is telling God to "bring it on" if he's trying to use pain to elicit a response from Draiman.[1]
Another dream that will never come true
Just to compliment your sorrow
Another life that I've taken from you
A gift to add on to your pain and suffering
Another truth you can never believe
Has crippled you completely
All the cries you're beginning to hear
Trapped in your mind, and the sound is deafening
Let me enlighten you
This is the way I pray
Living just isn't hard enough
Burn me alive inside
Living my life's not hard enough
Take everything away
Tranquil as a forest
But on fire within
Once you find your center
You are sure to win
You're a spineless, pale, pathetic lot
And you haven't got a clue
Somehow I'll make a man out of you
We must be swift as the coursing river
With all the force of a great typhoon
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the darkside of the moon
Frogs all follow a very firm moral coade! (sic)
I have always wondered how the 80's were. I wish I could have experienced the 80s.
I wish i was living durning this era, i love this shit
There are those who have no luck. Christopher Columbus cannot attach his name to his discovery. Dr. Guillotin cannot detach his from his invention.
Quote of the Week
"to live for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." - Robert M. Pirsig
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
Your arguments have reminded me how precious the right to choose is. And because I've never been one to play it safe, I choose to try.
Faust. Where are you damn’d?
Meph. In hell.
Faust. How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
Meph. Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think’st thou that I who saw the face of God, 75
And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?
O Faustus! leave these frivolous demands,
Which strike a terror to my fainting soul.
Meph. Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
That is not dead which can eternal vex,
And with strange aeons even death may index.
You should not become dogmatic. As the wise test gold by burning, cutting and rubbing it (on a piece of touchstone), so are you to accept my words only after examining them and not merely out of regard for me.
In an era when religions tend to divide people, with each believer quoting his own dogma or sacred scripture, the Dalai Lama is a firm believer that all the religious traditions and texts need to be 'tested'. It is why the Tibetan leader initiated a dialogue between science and spirituality last week in Delhi.
Quote from: NewsIn an era when religions tend to divide people...
As opposed to all those other centuries. =PXD Maybe, but unlike today not all religion/culture have discriminated against each other in the past. True, there were some AND they were horrible, but there have been pretty awesome influences too.
The great and invigorating influences in...life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
Even weirder? Free will. Remember, to a neuroscientist, free will is every bit as real as the Tooth Fairy. They can watch your neurons light up at the moment you make moral decisions, can trace the exact electrochemical pathways. If there is nothing beyond the physical, then your ability to choose your actions vanishes along with God and Heaven and the angels. It was an atheist professor who told me that, in a class on ethics.I was right all along. Heh, this brings new meaning to "Ghost in the Shell". LOL this also brings evidence to origins of originality and why derivatives and inspirations are usually way to go: we can't EVER think anything from scratch. Something or the other always influences us to do something. It's like an endless domino in our minds.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_15759_10-things-christians-atheists-can-and-must-agree-on_p3.html#ixzz18gpU2Z8f
(Translated) I'll put so many holes in ya that you'd be confused where to breathe from... and where to... fart from. *giggles like a school girl*
"Being on a boat is like being in jail, except a man in jail usually has more room, better food and commonly better company."
"Much of Man's misery may be attributed to a simple inability to remain happily alone in a room by himself."
"The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable."- Oscar's views on fox hunting
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
"Golf is a good walk, ruined."
He who ceases to be better ceases to be good.
There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.
What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
"Homosexuality, dope, and immorality are the basic enemies of a strong society, and that's why the Russians are pushing it here, in order to destroy us."One of my favourite political leaders when it comes to quoteable -isms. :lol:
Remember, also, that the world is full of people who want to put you right, who want to play the realist to your wide-eyed innocent. P. 110
You, the wide-eyed innocent, are like the boy who declared that the emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes. You are about to change everything. P. 127
Remember: complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple. P. 166
There is such a thing as enlightened self-interest, and we should encourage it. It is possible to turn a profit while making the world a better place. P. 289
But I felt, and I still feel, it’s more important to do what you believe to be right in life, and if this contradicts your business interests, so be it. Business can’t be allowed to float above ordinary morality. P. 298
The scale of one’s social investments doesn’t matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you. An AIDS policy rolled out across the staff of your business is as important as an AIDS policy rolled out across the entire Virgin Group, or across an entire nation. The important thing is to have the idea, and realize it, however modestly. P. 299
NO. NO. Dude. do not make me angry. I am already mad as it is ... now please leave me alone I am already grow tired of this.
I said, 'Shrink... I wanna kill. I mean, I wanna kill. I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead, burnt bodies. I mean kill! Kill! KILL!' and I started jumpin' up and down, yellin' 'KILL! KILL!' and then the shrink started jumpin' and we was both jumpin' up and down, yellin' 'KILL! KILL!' And then the sergeant walked in, set me down and pinned a badge on me and said, 'You're our boy.'
:-D :lol:QuoteNO. NO. Dude. do not make me angry. I am already mad as it is ... now please leave me alone I am already grow tired of this.
Looooooooooooooooooove iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
Quote from: T. E. LawrenceThose who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
Quote from: T. E. LawrenceThose who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
I love that quote.
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought".
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
"When one dreams alone, it is only a dream. When many dream together, it is the beginning of a new reality."
Quote from: Richard Nixon, in 1971"Homosexuality, dope, and immorality are the basic enemies of a strong society, and that's why the Russians are pushing it here, in order to destroy us."One of my favourite political leaders when it comes to quoteable -isms. :lol:
"I hate double standards. Why is it that if a woman goes and has sex with a bunch of men, she's called a slut, but if a man does it he's called a homosexual?
Ayo did you know back in the day Nixon commissioned some scientists and doctors to do a study on my favorite thing in da whole wide world (WEED) to see if it was harmful or not? (like you need to take more than 5 min to discover that lol)
Long story short, the researchers came back saying that marijuana was more beneficial than it was harmful. Nixon didnt personally agree so he threw da whole report out, *smh* Guess dat cat was expectin the team to come back all sayin smokin pot will make you retarded or some ish. Fuck Nixon :evil:
white boys say some crazy shit sometimes (No Homo)
white boys say some crazy shit sometimes (No Homo)XDDD your dialect amuses me. :lol: It's been so long since I've heard someone talk like that.
The only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone.
A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from stubborn concentration on a solitary problem. I am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travelers to exotic destinations, The surest — also the quickest — way to awake the sense of wonder in ourselves, is to look intently, undeterred, at a single object. Suddenly, miraculously, it will reveal itself as something we have never seen before
white boys say some crazy shit sometimes (No Homo)XDDD your dialect amuses me. :lol: It's been so long since I've heard someone talk like that.
While cannabis is not the all encompassing villain that it is sometimes made out to be, it would be a mistake to assume that it is innocent. Use increases ones risk for psychosis and prolongs expression of that psychosis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2136386
... those which are more perfect in their kind are always inferior to those which are, in their nature, liable to more faults and shortcomings. For the finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe, that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
Who seeks, by worthy deeds, to gain renown for hire:
Whose heart, whose hand, whose purse is pressed: to purchase his desire
If any such there be, that thirsteth after Fame:
Lo, here a mean, to win himself an everlasting name.
Who seeks, by gain and wealth, t’advance his house and blood:
Whose care is great, whose toil no less, whose hope, is all for good
If any one there be, that covets such a trade:
Lo, here the plot for common wea[l]th, and private gain is made.
He, that for virtue’s sake, will venture far and near:
Whose zeal is strong, whose practice true, whose faith is void of fear,
If any such there be, inflamed with holy care.
Here may he find, a ready mean, his purpose to declare:
So that, for each degree, this Treatise doth unfold:
The path to Fame, the proof of zeal, and way to purchase gold.
I'm just amazed that weed is outlawed when drugs like xanax or adderall are prescribed -- the effects of Xanax withdrawal, for instance, are awful, worse than any negative effect of cannabis...i feel that yo, ive known too many cats who got messed up snortin adderalls n shit
That's interesting, though of course cannibis has also been studied medicinally and proved to be very beneficial etc. etc. I'm just amazed that weed is outlawed when drugs like xanax or adderall are prescribed -- the effects of Xanax withdrawal, for instance, are awful, worse than any negative effect of cannabis...
I'm just amazed that weed is outlawed when drugs like xanax or adderall are prescribed -- the effects of Xanax withdrawal, for instance, are awful, worse than any negative effect of cannabis...i feel that yo, ive known too many cats who got messed up snortin adderalls n shit
"The Candle whose flame glows Twice as Bright burns away Twice as Fast..." - Shaquille "The Big Aristotle" O'Neal
Speed Kills. Thats Real Talk.
i feel that yo, ive known too many cats who got messed up snortin adderalls n shit
Tis to create, and in creating live
A being more intense, that we endow
With form our fancy, gaining as we give
The life we image, even as I do now.
What am I? Nothing: but not so art thou,
Soul of my thought!
Why does history keep repeating itself?
Because we weren't listening the first time!
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
I’ve heard it said that within our deathly culture, the most revolutionary thing anyone can do is follow one’s heart. I would add that once you’ve begun to do that–to follow your own heart–the most moral and revolutionary thing you can do is help others find their hearts, to find themselves. It’s much easier than it seems.
Time is short. It’s short for our planet–the planet that is our home–that is being killed while we stand by. And it is even shorter for all of those students whose lives are slipping away from them with every awful tick of the clock on the classroom wall.
There is much word to be done. What are you waiting for? It’s time to begin.
I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthropomorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe. Given a planet in a stable orbit, not too hot and not too cold, and given a few billion years of chance chemical reactions created by the interaction of a sun's energy on the planet's chemicals, it's fairly certain that life in one form or another will eventually emerge. It's reasonable to assume that there must be, in fact, countless billions of such planets where biological life has arisen, and the odds of some proportion of such life developing intelligence are high. Now, the sun is by no means an old star, and its planets are mere children in cosmic age, so it seems likely that there are billions of planets in the universe not only where intelligent life is on a lower scale than man but other billions where it is approximately equal and others still where it is hundreds of thousands of millions of years in advance of us. When you think of the giant technological strides that man has made in a few millennia—less than a microsecond in the chronology of the universe—can you imagine the evolutionary development that much older life forms have taken? They may have progressed from biological species, which are fragile shells for the mind at best, into immortal machine entities—and then, over innumerable eons, they could emerge from the chrysalis of matter transformed into beings of pure energy and spirit. Their potentialities would be limitless and their intelligence ungraspable by humans.Amazing! This guy... this guy thinks the same way I do... or is it that I think the same as him? :shock: The odds of me having similar, unique ideas like a dead director I've never heard about in my life before, especially considering the ongoing war between Atheists and Religious folks, it's... frightening...
You guys should look into Deism.I know, but the problem is that the belief completely contradicts my train of thought. XD (Yet, I don't really have anything against it)
I believe all science will hopefully (eventually) point to the existence of God.
But the problem is, it could also point to (in essence) Cincinnati.
42.
Quote from: Douglas Adams42.
...let me tell you that so far as what we've seen there hasn't been a single concept which was entirely unreliable or false, and considering the amount of books we've had regarding Gods and Religion since the horizon of eras, it is safe to assume that these texts do point at some direction rather than exactly at what they imply. Just because we can't prove its existence doesn't mean we have evidence of its non-existence, and an outright rejection of a concept with no evidence is a major flaw in Absolute Rationalism.
Deism is very loose in that there is no practicing church, simply the acceptance that the concept of God is looked at way too literally, and that there is likely no person-shaped giant translucent deity waiting in the clouds, judging people. "God" doesn't have to be a sentient creature. Personally I feel that the laws of physics and other sciences that govern the universe and allowed for the miracle of life at all is in itself "God". It's as good a name as any other.
so far as what we've seen there hasn't been a single concept which was entirely unreliable or falseIt means exactly what I said. :P For instance, the story of Spiderman is entirely fiction, and as with every fiction everybody knows this shit isn't real. Then some kid comes by telling scientists (with no evidence whatsoever) that the concept of Spiderman IS possible in real life. One thing he got wrong is that radioactive spiders don't give you superpowers, but just because it is false doesn't mean the concept in itself is entirely false or unreliable. You see, genetic mutation/fusion and having the powers of a spider fused with a human is possible, but requires a much tedious, careful and methodical science. It's called Gene Splicing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering), and human experiments with that is illegal, but has been successful with animals (look up "Humster").
"I can't prove my god exists, but YOU can't prove it DOESN'T exist!"You see, that's something I'd like to call an "Opposing Balance". Basically, when two sides are neutral about their own beliefs, when one side says something contradictory about the other the other would run the opposite direction finding a blank check to do the same. Meaning, if you reject an idea if it has no evidence, they will reject your rejection because you have no opposing evidence either. But this is flawed in one way.
Deism is not really any better than theism from a philosophical standpoint. It may be less likely to inform religious fundamentalism, but we may only speak in probabilities, and so long as somebody maintains a faulty belief--or any belief--there is the potential for abuse and the likelihood of inconsistency on policy positions.
Quote"I can't prove my god exists, but YOU can't prove it DOESN'T exist!"You see, that's something I'd like to call an "Opposing Balance". Basically, when two sides are neutral about their own beliefs...
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
...so long as somebody maintains a faulty belief--or any belief--there is the potential for abuse and the likelihood of inconsistency on policy positions.
@Bekkler: Religion wasn't always evil and meaningless, Bekkler. People make em that way. Here in India, reading scriptures never made a Hindu. It's the values and understanding of a Hindu and its culture that counts. Hell, I never read Bhagwat Gita completely either.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
My mind is my own church.
I wouldn't call that neutral. That example is an escalating conflict waiting to happen. Both sides still oppose the other regardless if either is correct.If that was the case, Nikhil and I would have been sworn enemies today. XD You have NO IDEA of the conflicting views we have, and yet we decide to see each other's views and understand them rather than try to correct each other. You see, a person can't be 100% right, and often misses views which the opposing person knows, whether or not the opposition is right.
Sherlock Holmes: [after explaining a series of complicated deductions] The picture's a fake.
Dr. John Watson: [impressed] Fantastic.
Sherlock Holmes: Meretricious.
DI Lestrade: And a happy new year.
Holmes: Look at that, Mrs. Hudson. Quiet. Calm. Peaceful. Isn't it hateful?
Mrs. Hudson: Oh, I'm sure something will turn up Sherlock. A nice murder. That'll cheer you up
Clearly the suggestion was that science would somehow prove a divine premise...
I disagree about the merits of distinguishing "points to" and "proves" in this instance. The distinction itself is valid, but because the former implies a claim about the latter, it's irrelevant. ... Clearly the suggestion was that science would somehow prove a divine premise, hence my questions pertaining to the difficulty in so doing. They were honest questions meant to provoke thought, even if I am skeptical that any defensible pro-religious answers are to be found.
The burden of proof rests with that person, the one who claims there is a god, to prove that claim. It does not rest with the skeptic to prove that the other party's claim is false.
@Lord J and Thought: ...
Quote from: Wallace StevensI do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer?
Wiley: Yeah.
Man on the Train: I haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting
"Though I did not know the place,
I set out to find the land of my dreams,
Having arrived at the land of my dreams,
I found that I did not know the place."
The Author: "The difference between reality and illusion is that illusions are which humans have created. Life begins when u make a distinction between yourself and others. From that moment, the world becomes a stage in which you are the main character. Yet all people exist in the illusion that they are the main character. But the world, cruel as it is, denies you that role of the main character. It’s quite a twist and everyone is burdened with this sad bit of irony. But there is one way to escape."
Kino: To not to be a main character, to be a smaller role, or…
The Author: "That’s right, to be an author."
Hermes: "You do know he’s crazy right?"
Kino: "All I know is that normal people would never become authors."
"The world is not beautiful; and that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty."
Anime transliteration: "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."
"Hermes": Don't you believe that sometimes anxiety creates nations?
"Kino": Anxiety?
"Hermes": Yes, anxiety. If people are afraid of the river, they will build a dike. It's the same thing.
"Man:" The reason we hurt others is because we don't understand their pain.
@Licawolf: Walking Life? Would you review that book/media to me? Because it reminds me of a beloved philosophy lightnovel/anime series I'm a big fan of: Kino's Journey!
(...)Life begins when u make a distinction between yourself and others. From that moment, the world becomes a stage in which you are the main character. Yet all people exist in the illusion that they are the main character. But the world, cruel as it is, denies you that role of the main character. It’s quite a twist and everyone is burdened with this sad bit of irony. But there is one way to escape."
Kino: To not to be a main character, to be a smaller role, or…
The Author: "That’s right, to be an author."
John: You get off on this. You enjoy it.
Sherlock: And I said "dangerous," and here you are.
[Setting: Sherlock walks into the library where his brother Mycroft and teacher Amyus sat.]
Mycroft looked Sherlock up and down critically.
'You have been assaulted,' he said, 'and not by someone your own age.'
'Or from this country,' Amyus Crowe rumbled.
'In fact,' Mycroft said, glancing at Sherlock's shoes, 'there were two assailants. One of them was mentally deficient in some way.'
'And both were armed with pistols,' Crowe added.
'How do you know these things?' Sherlock asked, amazed.
'A trifling matter,' Mycroft said, waving his hand airily. 'Explaining it would waste time. More important is, where did you go and why were you attacked?'
Quote[Setting: Sherlock walks into the library where his brother Mycroft and teacher Amyus sat.]
Mycroft looked Sherlock up and down critically.
'You have been assaulted,' he said, 'and not by someone your own age.'
'Or from this country,' Amyus Crowe rumbled.
'In fact,' Mycroft said, glancing at Sherlock's shoes, 'there were two assailants. One of them was mentally deficient in some way.'
'And both were armed with pistols,' Crowe added.
'How do you know these things?' Sherlock asked, amazed.
'A trifling matter,' Mycroft said, waving his hand airily. 'Explaining it would waste time. More important is, where did you go and why were you attacked?'
I don't think I'd enjoy reading something about Mycroft being smarter than Sherlock, but it is an interesting premise nonetheless. I just like my canon Sherlock too much. ; )Actually, Mycroft is smarter than Sherlock even in the canon universe, in the books. 8) Which is why he's my idol. If you've seen the Jeremy Brett's adaptation where Mycroft shows up you'd also see his deductions are far more accurate than his younger brother's. But the reason that there's no "Adventures of Mycroft Holmes" is because that guy just HATES any physical exertions; he'd rather sit in his office all day and make his agents do the dirty job, while solving problems with his mind alone. Watching an obese guy all day without violent and gruesome adventures would be boring, no matter how smart or influential he is.
Fourteen years-old Sherlock: "I think there's always danger, wherever you go. You can either ignore it or wrap yourself in blankets so it doesn't hurt you, or you can walk towards it and dare it to do its worst. If you do the first thing then the danger takes you by surprise. If you do the second thing then you spend your time swaddled up in the dark, letting the world pass you by. The only logical course of action is to go towards the danger. The more you get used to it, the better you can deal with it."Mind you, that scene takes place right after the horse chase (and what an awesome one at that!) where Mycroft apologizes for not taking care of Sherlock properly, and Sherlock is more grateful towards Mycroft for never letting him down. Heh, a touching brotherhood scene.
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
Rufus: (Salutes casually) "The start of an adventure!"
Sherlock: (Calls aloud past the deafening crowd) "Eight days at sea with nothing to do but walk around and read books. Not much of an adventure."
Rufus: "Ah, but think of the miles and miles of water that will lie beneath us as we travel. Think of the wrecks of other ships that litter the bottom of the sea, and the strange creatures that swim there, in and out of the portholes and around the bones of drowned sailors. Adventure is all around, if you know where to look. And if all else fails, I can take some time to practice my music on deck, beneath the stars, and serenade the mermaids."
Sherlock: "Mermaids? More likely to be dolphins, or some other kind of marine life."
Rufus: (Smiles) "A man can dream."
Privilege is the absence of equality. The mainstream misogynist culture attacked Yoko Ono because John Lennon dared to suggest that she was an artist on the same level as himself, equally as important as he was in the world. That her ideas were just as if not more valuable than his. That his consciousness and practice were being expanded through collaborating with her, similar to (and building on) the way it had been expanded through his songwriting and friendship with Paul McCartney. Mainstream culture privileges bromance over romance because it privileges men over women.
That quote is awesome. C.S. Lewis would have been so utterly cool if he hadembraced his pagan tendencieslearned to stop "converting" myths in to Jesusdom and lobotomizing them in the process..
The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
You decide your own level of involvement.Hehe, I say this quite a lot of times when some people want to enjoy benefits without taking any responsibilities and start complaining about it.
Quote from: Charles MansonThe real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
Yeah, I know he's a total nut, but some of the stuff he says tends to be inspiring.
If you keep on thinking that insane guys have hidden wisdom, you're going to wind up shooting people on the subway.
That's what makes crazy people dangerous. They convince you they're not crazy and then you're one of them!
Manson is really intriguing because of his KIND of crazy. I watched several interviews with him and one idea he spouted out was that a jail is a crime factory. If you think about it, that's actually a thoughtful, poignant claim about keeping murderers and rapists the same place as drug offenders and nonviolent criminals, and how that kind of networking doesn't actually rehabilitate anyone. But then he starts yelling "Blahbloogobbledygook" while dancing with his hands in the air to his own mental image of what music must be like on the outside. Yeah, he's effin nuts.
Manson is really intriguing because of his KIND of crazy. I watched several interviews with him and one idea he spouted out was that a jail is a crime factory. If you think about it, that's actually a thoughtful, poignant claim about keeping murderers and rapists the same place as drug offenders and nonviolent criminals, and how that kind of networking doesn't actually rehabilitate anyone. But then he starts yelling "Blahbloogobbledygook" while dancing with his hands in the air to his own mental image of what music must be like on the outside. Yeah, he's effin nuts.
My point was that underneath that skin of possible sanity lies a pool in which nobody should swim.That's... my kinda buddy! :D We should totally get acquainted with this Charles Manson bloke.
That's... my kinda buddy! :D We should totally get acquainted with this Charles Manson bloke.
But that's totally what I mean. XD Even though I'm freaked out by potentially insane people (one mentally unstable chick once slapped me for no reason), the factor appeals to me somewhat. Gives me chills. Gives me thrills.That's... my kinda buddy! :D We should totally get acquainted with this Charles Manson bloke.
I don't think that was what Bekkler meant...
Thing is, when you remove insanity entirely from the equation, we cease to be human, and the world just falls apart.
The madman's explanation of a thing is always complete, and often in a purely rational sense satisfactory. Or, to speak more strictly, the insane explanation, if not conclusive, is at least unanswerable; this may be observed specially in the two or three commonest kinds of madness. If a man says (for instance) that men have a conspiracy against him, you cannot dispute it except by saying that all the men deny that they are conspirators; which is exactly what conspirators would do.
Imagination does not breed insanity.
If you tried a little harder, you could be exactly wrong. What do you mean when you use the word "insanity"?Sorry, not to offend you or anything, but you're too rational for this philosophy. xDDD And chances are, you're not going to agree with me (I can guarantee this by 87%). And you'd be right. And you'd also be wrong. Though I can provide you some quotes:
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane...
No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms--fortunately harmless forms as a rule.
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.
..we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane--just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Sometimes I think that the greatest sign that there is intelligent life somewhere in the universe is that it hasn't tried to contact us yet.
Everest didn't get smaller for those who climbed it. Hollywood didn't get easier for those that made it.Man, that's a rad quote! O.O"
8/7
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.And Da Vinci really NU this! :wink:
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
"Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal."
Colour is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
"Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"
I am not answering my mobile phone at the moment as I am experiencing iPhone envy and every second spent using my Nokia is like being trapped in a loveless marriage. Where you stay together for the kids. And the kids all have iPhones.
I read somewhere that a healthy breakfast helps concentration and have found, since replacing my usual diet of nicotine with froot loops, I am able to move small objects with my mind.
I have been collecting lego blocks for nearly four years now as I intend to build my own home. I currently have exactly 1,692,008 blocks of various sizes and only need another 4,836,029 to complete plans of constructing a four bedroom home with sunken lounge and indoor swimming pool. Prior plans to build a home from seawater were abandoned due to physics.
The advantages of using lego blocks over traditional building methods, in regards to durability and gaiety of colour, are without question. The only issues are finding a block of land that has a flat green plastic base.
I read somewhere once that cockroaches can survive a nuclear attack so I have been collecting the dead ones and intend to glue several thousand to the walls thereby ensuring my survival should Cyberdyne Systems become self aware between now and when the lease runs out.
I just assumed you have cane furniture, doesn’t everybody? Cane is possibly one of the most renewable natural resources we have after plastic, it is not only strong but lightweight and attractive. Every item in my apartment is made of cane, including my television. It looks like the one from Gilligan’s Island but is in colour of course.
...adulthood sure is anticlimactic and boring
Man: Why are you so optimistic all the time? Why always look on the bright side of things?
Me: Beats the alternative.
"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
Boards don't hit back.
Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Found this fuckery::Actually, Saj, as much as I agree with you, Charlie has a point there. Though it's not knowledge that actually deeply affects our psyche, rather it's intelligence. Usually increase in intelligence has certain psychological side-effects which makes us seem like complete douchebags compared to an average Joe who'd empathize with you for whatever reason.Quote from: Charlie ChaplinOur knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
What bullshit. This kind of backwards thinking really pisses me off. Kindness does not discover remedies for illnesses. Gentleness does not send shuttles out into the vast universe. Knowledge and education do the world a lot more good than people being nice.
And the two things are not even mutually fucking exclusive!
Sorry, I pick knowledge and being clever over being an emotional sap. Paint me a bitch, but knowledge will always hold a higher standard to me than being kind.
Antagonist: You're still broken! You're nothing, you hear me?!
Coron: *Gives the finger* Oh piss off.
One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honor and dishonor; and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.Heh, for so much I've seen in life, I realize not to question this bit.
Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
Actually, Saj, as much as I agree with you, Charlie has a point there. Though it's not knowledge that actually deeply affects our psyche, rather it's intelligence. Usually increase in intelligence has certain psychological side-effects which makes us seem like complete douchebags compared to an average Joe who'd empathize with you for whatever reason.
True, intelligence is an important factor for human progress, but let us not forget empathy and humanity, as it also plays a dominant role for our survival as a society. I might sound sentimental here, but empathy makes you happy, even if it doesn't cure everything in the world, and in turn spreads more joy.
Yes, I support our battle against stupidity, but first and foremost I'm a humanitarian. It is our connection with each other that gives us the power we have today.
Alas, I think there are none to replace the Corries. And those of us left behind must be content, as much as we can be, by such recordings as these. Reminds me of Tolkien's:Quote from: TolkienWhere now the horse and the rider? where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harp-string, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain...
“Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential ‘present’ of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don’t strive to become, but be.”
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one"
@Bekkler: I see what you mean, but going back to Charlie's statement, "Knowledge made us cynical," he is kind of right there. I mean, the affect is there and intelligence does affect empathy negatively, but that does not mean it indefinitely hinders it. Charlie isn't asking anyone not to be educated (he is a genius, remember), rather requesting everyone to always keep human bonds before intelligence and cherish them. Saj knows that. She wouldn't choose a Wikipedia article over D. :lol: Hardly any of us would (except for some people).
Minority isn't a synonym of outcast. It just means outnumbered.
Ignorance is bliss.
There will always be a barrier between what I see and what I am able to portray. This barrier keeps bringing me back to the canvas, carrying on a never-ending desire to express, in paint, what moves me inside.
Ignorance is bliss.
The reason we hurt others is because we don't understand their pain.
Kino: It's pretty interesting, isn't it?
Hermes: What is?
Kino: The way that when someone expresses something, someone else always shows up to interpret it. Maybe the world is just a series of such events.
Hermes: Kino, what do you think is beautiful?It's amazing Kino considers humans as beautiful considering most of them tried their best to have her killed.
Kino: The crimson skies, the endless expanse of the Earth, flocks of birds...animals playing by the waterfront. Hardworking machines. And...humans.
Hermes: Humans too? Really?
Kino: Yes. I think they're beautiful. Probably as beautiful as the world.
Kino: Why do the people of this nation build this tower?
Man: Why? I don't know. I only stock the bricks.
Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
Dad's pathan, Mom's rajput, 2nd mom's christian, in school they asked me what religion: dad said 'Human'.
The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!
Biting is excellent, its like kissing, only there's a winner
Something here doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
There is an expiration date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.
And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.
I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.
Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.
Nissa will save the elves, but only those who have proved their worth.
Magic card flavor text is occasionally epic.
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The warrior finds a liquor industry within him....
He does not succumb to outside liquors and drugs.
Taking the inside liquors, he remains ever tranquilized and equipoise
But as for the bad shit, there has to come a point where you realize the same thing I've touched on over and over again in this article: As an adult, you are now part of the world and you do have some power to change it. As a kid, you didn't have the power to change shit.
The reason you need to live in a world with all of this shitty news is because that world needs you to help fix it. The reason you can bring a child into this life is because when you pass on your morals and beliefs to them, that's one more soldier on the field to fight for the good side.
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Life gets better because you're going to make it better. Because you'll have the power and the freedom to make it better.
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Children die everyday in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, if only to satisfy the White-People's thirst for oil. But don't worry; at least your child is destined to be a martyr here.
Heh, kill me. You people enjoy killing, don't you? Go on. Pull the trigger and shoot me, but don't for one fucking moment think that Allah wants this! Innocent people don't suffer at Allah's will. When a bomb explodes it is only the innocent that perish.
An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
That's the best Atheism quote I've read so far! And I love the positiveness that emanates from it.Quote from: Madalyn Murray O’HairAn atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
When you have respect in your heart, you will see God even in stone; and when you don't have that respect, every idol or statue is but a lifeless rock.
When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.
Yes, we're mad! Though hardly any worse than this world that you call normal, where you're fined for breaking the speed limit but not for breaking someone's heart, and where you're charged guilty for breaking someone's head but not for breaking someone's trust.
What is love?
"Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had."
Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.My school teachers were big on Einstein quotes. Imagine if I showed them this! :lol:
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”Hahaha... I feel stupid now... :cry:
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”I prefer to be the latter. XD When you realize that the world is gigantic ball of impossible things happening at the same time and so many intriguing things happening that usually go unnoticed, it makes reality not so different from fantasy.
Quote from: HaddawayWhat is love?
Poker teaches you humility, emotional control and, most of all, patience. You realize that life in general is one big game of chance that you can kind of sort of control, but often is subject to just plain dumb luck, and that life is about how you react to that luck. To use an obnoxiously tired metaphor that's actually appropriate here, you learn that life will deal you a shitty hand every now and then (sometimes one after another for months on end). But when it does, you just have to toss the cards aside and wait for the next hand to come your way. The game goes on.
That's why gamblers tend to be a philosophical bunch.
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Quote from: HaddawayWhat is love?
Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me no more.
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations — past and present — are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hunger, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. Thus, we are up against the paradox that the individual who is more complex, unpredictable, and mysterious than any communal entity is the one nearest to our understanding; so near that even the interval of millennia cannot weaken our feeling of kinship. If in some manner the voice of an individual reaches us from the remotest distance of time, it is a timeless voice speaking about ourselves.Yay, individuality! :D
A grey head does not make an elder. Not by years, not by grey hairs, not by riches or many relations did the seers make the Law: He is great to us who has learning.
A man should avoid these six like a leaking boat in the ocean: a teacher who does not teach, a priest who has not studied, a king who fails to protect, a wife who is abusive, a cowherd who wants a village, and a barber who wants a forest.
The intoxication with power is worse than drunkeness with liquor and such, for who is drunk with power does not come to his senses before he falls.
The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by any fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind.
You know you're an adult, not just when you're able to put the needs of others above your own, but when you're able to do it without giving a single thought to what they "owe" you in return. You realize that, at some point you weren't even aware of, you became the tap instead of the bucket. And then you look back and hate your younger self for living under the delusion that somehow a world full of buckets could function.
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"The second freedom struggle has started ... This is a fight for change. Unless there is no change, there is no freedom, there is no actual democracy, there is no true republic, there is no true people's rule"
the present is a warped reality occurring too quickly to accurately
interpret, past tense is the clarity of that warping.
Bartimaeus: I'm not so good with the advice. How about a sarcastic comment?
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
A scarcastic comment sounds rather dangerous. Does it leave a permanent scar?At first, I was gonna mention, "When Bartimaeus is sarcastic it's always dangerous", but then I realized what ya meant. Whoops! Fixed the error. Thanks! xD
“Can you define ‘plan’ as ‘a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision and ignorance’? If so, it was a very good plan.”
(Bartimaeus) "I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered."
(Nathaniel) "What! How long has it been?"
(Bartimaeus) "Five minutes, I got bored."
According to some (generally those who don't have to do it; politicians and writers spring to mind), heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead.
"I can respect a dessert that requires a blowtorch." Rachel Held Evans (although I am not 100% positive on this).
... the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
'Learn a lesson,' Crowe said amiably. 'Traps can be reversed. That's the difference between animals and humans - rabbits don't suddenly turn around and hunt foxes, but men can switch roles. Prey can become predator. Look out for the signs. If your prey is leadin' you somewhere isolated then just maybe they've spotted you and want to get you alone.'
He turned and took a step forward. Something crunched beneath his feet. He looked down, and saw a white section of bone protruding from the ground. He'd stepped on it, cracking it in two. Boxes sometimes get dropped, the feral boy had said. Smashed. It looked like the contents got left where they had fallen. All this pomp and circumstance for the dead -- special trains, a massive city of the day at Brookwood -- and yet the remains were just left to rot where they fell if the coffins got broken. It was as if the spectacle was more important than the actuality. The mourners did not know, or maybe even did not care, whether the family member they had lost was in the coffin when it was buried.
Eventually he (Sherlock) turned away and started to walk in the direction Crow had indicated. He passed taverns and shops, market stalls and people standing on street corners with trays of goods. And people -- all kinds of people, from toffs in in fine clothes to urchins in rags. London was indeed a melting pot for all humanity.
Constable: ...but I think she more or less told the Commissioner of Police to replace them, or she would replace him.
Amyus Crowe: Interestin' that a woman has so much power in a country that denies its women the vote an' the opportunity to own property.
Rufus Stone: Suffice to say there was an actress, and a vacancy in the Salisbury Playhouse pit orchestra, and the chance to gaze up at her beautiful face all evening as I played and she acted her little heart out.
Sherlock: What happened?
Rufus Stone: (winced) She parceled that same heart up and gave it to the leading man, of course. As they always do, of course, buoyed up by the admiring glances of their followers in the pit.
Too many questions and logic did not seem to be any help. Logic was telling him that if this was alright then that was alright as well, but instinctively he knew that there was a difference. There were limits. The trouble was, he didn't know where they had come from or how to think about them properly.
And all this because he hadn't given his horse a name.
Sherlock: I think Mycroft knows. I think he warned me about her earlier.
Amyus Crowe: (Smiled) Your brother knows a lot of things. And the things he don't know generally ain't worth knowin' anyway.
Writing can be immensely enjoyable...and damn annoying.
Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay.
If the egg's shell does not break... the chick will die without being born. We are the chick; the egg is the world. Break the world's shell! For the sake of revolutionizing the world!
I sometimes think I may use my memorized poems the way some people use prayer. I'm not sure, but I certainly understand why people chant mantras when I recite "Kubla Khan" to myself.:lol: True!
Another dream that will never come true
Just to compliment your sorrow
Another life that I've taken from you
A gift to add on to your pain and suffering
Another truth you can never believe
Has crippled you completely
All the cries you're beginning to hear
Trapped in your mind, and the sound is deafening
Let me enlighten you
This is the way I pray:
[Chorus:]
Living just isn't hard enough
Burn me alive, inside
Living my life's not hard enough
Take everything away
::Sigh:: The fact that I can still recite the Utena version of that quote (which doesn't quite match what you have here, so I assume you posted the Damien version) makes me a big anime geek, I guess.
It's pretty easy to become a great thinker. All you have to do is think big! *thinks of a gynormous building* Oh... Dubai. Anyway it's being the middle-man that's tough!
CRACK THE WORLD'S SHELL!
I think we create our own meaning, and if we do it well that brings us happiness. It is too easy to have a guru on a mountaintop saying the answer is this and this. That's a cop out. The meaning of life is to struggle and find your own meaning of life.
The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise.
If the truth can be better communicated, the world will be drastically improved. How frustrated I am that I can't simply force the truth on the world. It's so obvious once you get it.This. Is. RAD!!
Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.
From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy.
Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
Ahura Mazdah! The aggressor and the shield! Pride and humility! Visions and oblivion! Malevolence and benevolence! The bold and the broken... HELL YEAH!! :DQuote from: William BlakeWithout Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.
From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy.
Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.
William Blake is such a haus.
Children of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time,
Love, sweet Love, was thought a crime!
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Holy... sheeeiit.... that's... that's...Quote from: Milan KunderaTomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
So, so true...
I escaped, then? Brilliant. I love it when I do that.
I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Faith... must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
In the last 50 years we have seen brilliant inventions and discoveries, but they have not added one inch to the moral fiber of society.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unalike your Christ.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
When you say to a child 'Bedtime, it's bedtime now' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Go and lie down in the dark. For hours. And don't move. I'm locking the door now.'
Science is a byword for "truth". It is not a construct. It is an observation.
While the remainder of your quotes was downright awesome (like they usually are), something tells me that you'd use any and every reason, no matter how irrelevant, as en excuse to enforce your belief blindly upon others.QuoteScience is a byword for "truth". It is not a construct. It is an observation....For their God doesn't exist.
We'll show this planet just what impossible means!
You have exactly ten seconds to change that look of disgusting pity into one of enormous respect!
(Pyotr Andreyevich) Shuvalov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Andreyevich_Shuvalov) and I understand each other. We think alike. When he was informed that I had been arrested, he immediately called for me to be brought to him. We drank tea, and we talked in a civilized manner. He apologized for any harsh behavior his men had exhibited, and I apologized for arriving in his country without proper notification. That is the way international relations ought to be conducted: politely and with refreshments, not using trained falcons as instruments of assassination.
(Quote from 'Young Sherlock Holmes - Black Ice')
No man nor any living thing in this world preserves their life forever. But only to men is it given to know that we must die, and that is a precious gift. This life that is both our torment and our treasure was never meant to endure for eternity. Life is a wave on the sea. Would you force the sea to grow still to save one wave?
Though there are many things in the world that I hate, such as oil spills and shark finning, I do not truly believe in the existence good vs. evil. I think this mentality of mine allows me to find visual beauty in subjects that I personally despise. During the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, I couldn't help but notice the elegant way each disgusting drop of oil moved through the water. It's easy for my human mind to associate the oil with the destruction of what I love, and therefore symbolize it as "evil", but that is just my own ego speaking. If I stepped back and looked at the grand picture, I can let go of that ego and capture the actual beauty in everything. I don't believe that it lessens the environmental message by doing so, but it does increase the chances of getting people's attention.
At first it had been a little difficult, but the gigantic beast Thought had risen into full power.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. -Albert Einstein
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Don’t be afraid to write from a different point of view. Write a poem that says exactly the opposite of what you believe.A true artist makes fear his weapon.
Follow your fear. Don’t back away from subjects that make you uncomfortable, and don’t try to keep your personal demons off the page. Even if you never publish the poems they produce, you have to push yourself and write as honestly as possible.
A writer needs an 'ear' as much as a musician does. And without this ear, he is lost and groping in a forest of words, where all the trees look much alike.
An argument is not a fight--or at least it shouldn't be. Rhetorically speaking, an argument is a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating that a statement is either true or false.
In today's media, however, it often appears that rational argument has been usurped by scaremongering and fact-free bluster. Yelling, crying, and name-calling have taken the place of thoughtfully reasoned debate.
An egg sat at the first storey and fell, but did not break. Why was that? Because when "When time is sacred then all is strong"! The egg sat again at the same storey and fell, but did not break. Why was that? Because the egg had gotten smarter this time. The egg sat yet again at the same storey and fell, but this time... it broke. Why?
(Awaits her antagonist to speak, but there's nothing but silence)
Because this time the egg was blinded by pride.
A thief is a creative artist who takes his prey in style. But a detective is nothing more than a critic, who follows our footsteps.Arsene Lupin would totally say that to Sherlock Holmes.
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
Learning is its own reward. Nothing I can say is better than that.
“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Radhika: Every corner of the house is illuminated with lamps. Why is this window so lonely?
Man: That window faces south, where winds come from. That lamp will be snuffed out.
Radhika: (Lights it anyway) It won't. Within the flame of every lamp lies radiant hope; come what may, breeze or hurricane, but the flame will burn its brightest.
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art." -Leonardo da Vinci
"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." -Albert Einstein
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Pablo Picasso
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." -Leo Tolstoy
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." -Oscar Wilde
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination--what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth--whether it existed before or not.
Happy Birthday!Quote from: John KeatsI am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination--what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth--whether it existed before or not.
Quote"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." -Oscar Wilde
We're artists. That means we have to know everything about everything!
The truth isn't on your paper. It's out there. See it.
CRAP!
Hold my hand, Doctor. Try to see what I see. We're so lucky we're still alive to see this beautiful world. Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is in fact deep blue. And over there! Lighter blue. And blowing through the blueness and the blackness, the winds swirling through the air. And there shining, burning, bursting through, the stars! Can you see how they roll their light? Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
Also, Saj, what do you mean by "askew"?
@Thought: What episode was that from?
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
That reminds me of another quote:Quote from: Emily DickinsonTell all the Truth but tell it slant
That reminds me of another quote:Quote from: Emily DickinsonTell all the Truth but tell it slant
Yep! I am absolutely sure! If I can learn to draw the real world accurately, it means I'll be able to draw the things in my head as if they were real.That's the spirit I'm lookin' for! XD
I don't feel that knowing everything about everything is a 'restriction!'The 'restriction' wasn't your ideal to know everything about everything (if anything, it's your strength), but your self imposed rule on what is 'right or wrong', or what an artist or art should be and shouldn't be. But anyway, at least for the moment, I don't think it's too important to discuss that here. Your perception and vision are unique to you to travel a new direction at your own pace; plus, you'll most likely learn the "actuality" on your own journey on your own. LOL
I love being a freak. It's great!
So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.
I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.
My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.
Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.
I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.
I suppose, to the extent there isn't already a wide market for male dresses, it's because female fashions are considerably more ridiculous than male ones, designed to emit whatever notions of sex appeal the out-of-touch people designing those fashions hold. Females in male attire look normal, but males in female attire often look ludicrous, and that's a dead giveaway of the lingering sexism in our fashion industries. Once you can begin to discern that reliably, you'll see that the females in female fashions often look just as ludicrous.Well, yes, but not always though. Not saying you're wrong, though. See, we can't wear Women's Kurtas, but Women can't wear "ours" either. The weirdest bit is that it isn't even sexist to begin with, but gender preference. See, while Kurtas were a given since the traditional times, it wasn't the males that decided to give the opposite gender a chance, but actually it was the females who decided that they could out-do men in fashion. And indeed they can. (http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/d/i/dizzyplz.gif?1)
Sexism = the selective treatment or regard of a person on the basis of sex.Actually, the dictionary tells me:
You once claimed that you like wearing a watch and it's much easier than checking the time on a phone, and also claimed that the only people who don't wear watches are "mooks" and "Al Kaeda". Does that make you sexist?
You know...they say it's poor form when you're the only one to laugh at your jokes. But I can't help it! I'm side-splittingly full of myself and it feels really good!!
I really get a kick out of being reminded of some of the ridiculous shit I say. =DSometimes the ridiculous shit are the greatest shit we've ever said. XD I personally liked your "wrist watch" quote.
You aren't the only one. I thought it was hilarious. =D
Though I did see male dress corsets at Steamcon...but I'm just saying that there need to be more dresses tailored for men. If women's dresses accentuate femininity or sex appeal, why can't men have something similar (obviously not the same)? Putting a women's dress on a man looks silly because women and men are built differently, and it's not necessarily because of "the lingering sexism in our fashion industries." Men and women look different! Just because a woman looks fine in "men's" clothing--let's take pants as an example--doesn't mean she won't look better in women's pants that are cut to suit a woman's figure. Not ALL women are curvier or bustier than men, but as a general rule we are, and so clothing is made so that it will look good on our body type.It's probably just my perception, but I actually agree with this. Well put, Katie!
"Sexism = the selective treatment or regard of a person on the basis of sex,"So when I fall only fall in love with women, and not men, that makes me sexist? Sexuality also influences how you behave towards a particular sex and what's the first thing you think of subconsciously. Prejudice should be looked down upon, and that's all well, but it amuses me that people aren't given the freedom to pick "what kind of regard" we must have for others, let alone between sexes. "Trying to fix the world" in the case feels like "tying our hands and feet". It's hypocritical, and a degeneration of intellectual liberty.
"Sexism = the selective treatment or regard of a person on the basis of sex,"So when I fall only fall in love with women, and not men, that makes me sexist? Sexuality also influences how you behave towards a particular sex and what's the first thing you think of subconsciously. Prejudice should be looked down upon, and that's all well, but it amuses me that people aren't given the freedom to pick "what kind of regard" we must have for others, let alone between sexes. "Trying to fix the world" in the case feels like "tying our hands and feet". It's hypocritical, and a degeneration of intellectual liberty.
Except that kilts are skirts—they're just a specific type of skirt (pleated and roughly knee-length, with the Scottish-traditional version being worn by both genders). </pedant>
I was just quoting previous definitions that your guys posted to make my point that differing clothing designs and choices for women and men do not constitute sexism! I wasn't actually making a statement about what sexism is, sorry. n_n'
In general I think of clothing as "masculine" or "feminine" versus "clothing made for men" and "clothing made for women." I realize this is an artificial distinction imposed upon us but hell, while it's here I may as well have fun with it. =DIf Syna ever embarks on a road for Presidency, I'd vote for her.
Hell yeah! You're the second person who has told me that! I have two votes! 8)Yeah? Who was the first? XD
"I used to be amused by Utopians. With life experience, I have grown to fear them. The great failing of Utopians is that they can never accept that someone else might not want to be a part of their utopian vision. Like ill-mannered tourists, they assume that if you don't agree with them, it must be because they're not explaining it simply enough, or often enough, or loudly enough, or ultimately, because you're stupid. Utopians always think achieving Utopia is simply a matter of education—and then re-education—and then coercion, legislation, litigation medication conditioning threats book-burnings eugenics surgical modifications hunting down the counter-revolutionaries killing the reactionaries genetic engineering—and ultimately all Utopians, no matter how nobly they begin, always end up at the same conclusion: that the only thing that keeps Man from building a secular heaven here on Earth is the nature of Man, therefore we must build a New and Better Man."
(I expect that people will understand both why this comes to mind, and why I expect to get some flak from posting it.)Ahahahahahah! No, Alfy, you won't be getting any flak. Not from me, anyway.
Like ill-mannered tourists, they assume that if you don't agree with them, it must be because they're not explaining it simply enough, or often enough, or loudly enough, or ultimately, because you're stupid.
I used to be amused by Utopians. With life experience, I have grown to fear them. The great failing of Utopians is that they can never accept that someone else might not want to be a part of their utopian vision. Like ill-mannered tourists, they assume that if you don't agree with them, it must be because they're not explaining it simply enough, or often enough, or loudly enough, or ultimately, because you're stupid. Utopians always think achieving Utopia is simply a matter of education—and then re-education—and then coercion, legislation, litigation medication conditioning threats book-burnings eugenics surgical modifications hunting down the counter-revolutionaries killing the reactionaries genetic engineering—and ultimately all Utopians, no matter how nobly they begin, always end up at the same conclusion: that the only thing that keeps Man from building a secular heaven here on Earth is the nature of Man, therefore we must build a New and Better Man.
...when you wrote that...
Cribbed from someone's sig on another board:
I wouldn't assume that you were referring to my comments from the Sexism thread when you wrote that, but tushantin certainly wasEh? Was I? I was referring to something else entirely, and I could quote you your very statement:
He didn't write it, J.
Why do you keep thinking I'm out to get you?
Tush, because you keep doing that, and apparently think that it constitutes an effective rhetoric, let me remind you: You are the one who thinks I am out to get you.Meh, if thinking that really does satisfy your nervousness then fine. Whatever. Happy now? Want a cup cake?
It's not that I don't enjoy watching you argue, because Josh, you are incredibly silly and it's funny to watch you get frustrated...
I think you will understand that for yourself one day, if you should ever decide you feel strongly about something.
but when he stakes out sexist positions or commits other egregious breaches, it's very relevant indeed to the discussion at hand.
but tushantin certainly was--he is waging a passive-aggressive campaign now, incapable of behaving better than a child--and so let me address that, if I may.
Eh? Was I? I was referring to something else entirely, and I could quote you your very statement:So, Tushantin had stated that he was not referring to you. It doesn't matter if he's lying. And I can understand why Tush then wondered aloud (so to speak) why you were being so ridiculous--as indeed you were! It didn't help matters any, but there you go. I don't condone Tush's actions any more than yours, however, Tushantin is by far more civil about things than you are--and I don't mean he doesn't state his opinions strongly! He is very well-spoken. You, on the other hand, turn everything into an angry tirade or a condescending sneer! The fact that you criticize his rhetoric and "behavior" as far as that can be assessed through text on a forum, when you, yourself, are extremely abrasive, even to a third-party observer (me! Because I try not to get involved too often in the discussions and so have no personal beef against anyone involved unless they are particularly horrid!)? Nonsense!
"You found my criticism overly serious, careless, insulting, and so forth. Ergo, your frustration."
Josh, seriously. Why are you so insecure and paranoid all of a sudden? Why do you keep thinking I'm out to get you? And now you think that quote was Alfy's "supposition" when he clearly copy/pasted from elsewhere?
Someday our enemies might win, but not today!This is practically my favorite quote from anything ever! You don't have to discuss it, but here it is just in case!
We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.
And Truthordeal, you are NOT HELPING by undermining my character! It doesn't even matter if you didn't mean it seriously! I was being serious and trying to stop this preposterous feud from interrupting everyone else! But no, you need to make light of what was in actuality a serious request from someone who likes to read discussion rather than personal arguments! You've really made it so much more difficult for me to make any difference! THANK YOU!
Now, what I will not accept from you, nor from anyone, is to be told to essentially "sit down and shut up" so that you can enjoy your peaceful blissful world where everyone gets along because no one is willing to stand up for their convictions when fools like tush come along to promote ideas which will spoil the lives of others...
I know that is not what you really want, so take a moment to contemplate your stance.
But when some of us actually try to do that, and people like you give us hell for it--for standing by our principles when it would be so much nicer and easier and more polite to just shut up and talk about something non-controversial--it sends a message that, really, people should point whichever way the wind is blowing.
The same goes for Tushantin, who I am a little disappointed in for coming down to your level, Josh! Personal discussions over "Why Josh is so paranoid all of a sudden" should be privately carried out!Well, he is paranoid! XD
Don't think you can condescendingly tell me off, as if you know me personally! "I think you will understand that for yourself one day," as if I'm a small child with no knowledge of the world or misfortune?He always does that, don't worry. Notice how he says I "promote ideas" when I clearly haven't shared anything in detail yet, and how he asks you to "shut up" without respecting your views and claims he wouldn't. Most of the time his statements are meaningless blather and nothing else, so just listen from one ear and toss it out the other. That's what the rest of the Compendium does, because chances are he'll accuse and insult you too if you don't agree with him.
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
But success SHALL crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determine heart and resolved will of man?
In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing. Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little, that I am wavering in my resolutions. I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near prospect of my undertaking. It is impossible to communicate to you a conception of the trembling sensation, half pleasurable and half fearful, with which I am preparing to depart. My swelling heart involuntarily pours itself out thus. But I must finish.
It also gives the people squabbling a taste of their own preposterity(it's a word now).
If all else fails use fire.
Toiling,---rejoicing,---sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
~ Yiddish proverb
The labours of men of genius, no matter how erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
Are you saying that Trinitarians are really triangles in disguise?!
I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
~ Alexander Pope
A wise man will not overweening be,
and stake too much on his strength;
when the mighty are met to match their strength,
'twill be found that first is no one.
~The Havamal
The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs14/f/2007/060/d/7/Burning_empire_by_doggery.jpg) (http://doggery.deviantart.com/art/Burning-empire-49905592)Quote from: Sophie SchollThe real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.
How have you left the ancient love
That bards of old enjoy'd in you!
The languid strings do scarcely move,
The sound is forced, the notes are few.
(http://gametrailers.mtvnimages.com/images/community/userimages/1271457-saria.jpg)
(Yeats translation)
The child, who is decked with prince's robes and who has jeweled chains round his neck loses all pleasure in his play; his dress hampers him at every step.
In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust he keeps himself from the world, and is afraid even to move.
Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthiest dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.
(Yeats translation)
Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!
He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put off the holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!
Deliverance? Where is this deliverance to be found? Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation; he is bound with us all for ever.
Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense! What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained? Meet him and stand by him in the toil and in sweat of they brow.
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
The friends that have it I do wrong
Whenever I remake a song
Should know what issue is at stake,
It is myself that I remake.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
But some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty of something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. That I think is job of the poet.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
~ Lord J Esq
True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it!.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Scientists are not without moral code. (etc.)
Steven Colbert: Scientists use the Terminator, or create a Super Bug that wipes out the world, or they enrage the monster at the bottom of the sea.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: When you part the curtains and, at the bottom of all of that, there's a Politician funding that research.
We judge books by the cover and minds by their appearance. We are a superficial species
Women who are fat are said to have 'let themselves go.' The very phrase connotes a loosening of restraints. Women in our society are bound. In generations past, the constriction was accomplished by corsets and girdles…. Women today are bound by fears, by oppression, and by stereotypes that depict large women as ungainly, unfeminine, and unworthy of appreciation…. Above all, women must control themselves, must be careful, for to relax might lead to the worst possible consequence: being fat.
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius.Something tells me there's a lot more depth and meaning in this statement than most imagine it to be.
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.Picasso was the TRUE Springtime of Youth!
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
There with commutual zeal we both had strove
In acts of dear benevolence and love:
Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.
Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers while the bad prevails.
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.
I never translated more than passages, but in retrospect it seems so worth all those weekends spent ruining my posture & hunched over a dictionary.XD
The Doctor: Yes, he likes that … Alfie. Though personally, he likes to be called Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All.
Craig: ... how’d you know that?
The Doctor: I speak Baby.
[Humanity] is a little more than a waste. And yes, fuck you.
What men wish, they like to believe.
~ Julius Caesar
[Humanity] is a little more than a waste. And yes, fuck you.QuoteWhat men wish, they like to believe.
~ Julius Caesar
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
--Maya Angelou
This reminds me of a huge debate my ninth grade English class had, trying to figure out the meaning of "I know why the caged bird sings."Are you sure it's not a lament? XD
It's got my name written all over it. Well, not literally, but give me time and a crayon!
Planets and history and stuff, that's what we do. But not today, no. Today we're answering a cry for help from the scariest place in the universe. A child's bedroom.Damn, I'll always love this one!
The Doctor: Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire. Through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought. And a whole terrible wonderful universe of impossibilities. You see these eyes, they're old eyes. And one thing I can tell you, Alex: monsters are real.
Alex: ...You're not from Social Services are you?
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
I've been meaning to respond to this, but just didn't have the words to. Perhaps this is the best I can say: I'm going to take these words to heart, till death.QuoteBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
I normally shy away from the sentiments that you might see on motivational posters, but I like this one quite a bit: it reminds me that everyone is a universe, everyone's trials are (in one way or another) momentous to themselves, and that people are defensive about their lives because their lives are all they have. It's not always very much.
I believe there are times when you should not be kind, but as a rule, people deserve our charity. Life is confusing, tumultuous, and often very difficult. We should try to help each other fight the battles boldly.
Only one who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
Allow me to clarify. Faust has correctly identified the reasoning behind my post. I think that the image is a good demonstration of precisely why it is absurd that female armor covers less skin than beachwear.
EDIT: I'll have to let RD speak for himself, but I'm not sure RD's point is actually a criticism of the media you posted, tushantin. That pic could very well be seen as one of the few realistic works that reveal the fallacy behind the kind of attitude lampooned in this College Humor sketch (http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6550847/female-armor-sucks). In that sense, it could indeed be an effective piece of media for RD to whip out the next time this pet peeve crops up!Haha, it's completely understood that an artwork depicted as such from he surface would incite certain biased interpretations (which is usually a good thing), though you'd still benefit from researching the origins beforehand. Pardon me if I hadn't been clear, though. What I meant back there was that RD's statement was biased hence with surface interpretation without the background knowledge of the picture itself (plus, seriously, go read Carciphona; it's awesome). The story behind the picture has nothing to do with RD's claims -- unlike traditional character roles, the "aggressive warrior" is the girl while the boy there doesn't have an armor to begin with since he's a passive violinist. He isn't so much as trying to defend her. He mourns for her. He offers kindness, and that's despite the fact that the female protagonist has only been an asshole towards him. And yet he forgives her.
Heh, I agree with that. If mankind never had the liberty to commit mistakes then it would never have the liberty to nurture ingenuity.Quote from: a fortune cookieOnly one who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Though I don't agree with that statement, but that's just me. Common sense is also usually the sole case of intellectual fallacy. :PQuote from: Ralph Waldo Emerson“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
Haha, it's completely understood that an artwork depicted as such from he surface would incite certain biased interpretations (which is usually a good thing), though you'd still benefit from researching the origins beforehand. Pardon me if I hadn't been clear, though. What I meant back there was that RD's statement was biased hence with surface interpretation without the background knowledge of the picture itself...Hmm, I think we might still be talking over each other. It's not that RD had a biased interpretation; he thought the work had great intrinsic value even without knowing the context. Even reacting to it out of context, RD saw it as a useful inversion of the woman-in-skimpy-armor trope, because it actually shows a realistic outcome of not wearing armor in dangerous situations. It makes all the more sense when it's put in context; based on your description and what I've been able to investigate of it so far, it looks like a progressive work.
The best thing a writer can do to defeat sexism is [...] write compelling stories free of sexism.
If you don't get off your ass and continue your climb upwards, there will be someone younger, stronger and smarter who will take your place on the food chain. Sure you can live the good life the way you are now, but you'll never be the man you could have been. You're just another one of those smug "pretenders" happy with the BMW in the driveway and the 2.3 kids. Put that on your gravestone.
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
Lizzy: Aww, thank you! Why are you soooo sweet?
Prem: My mom and dad have diabetes, so...
Common Man: But... but why arrest me? I'm a witness!
Police Officer: You're a witness; that's your crime.
(Note: The point of the satire was that apparently in India a witness or samaritan is often treated worse than the suspects)
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time."
Holmes: "That was the curious incident."
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Sherlock Holmes: "How did you find me?"
Amyus Crowe: "Simple answer: ah was followin' you."
Sherlock Holmes: "I didn't see you."
Amyus Crowe: "That's what you can expect when ah follow you. Unlike you, ah can keep myself in the shadows, or in crowds, or around corners."
Sterndale: "How do you know that?"
Sherlock: "I followed you."
Sterndale: "I saw no one."
Sherlock: "That is what you may expect to see when I follow you."
Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.
The next day Rastignac dressed himself very elegantly, and about three o'clock in the afternoon went to call on Mme. de Restaud. On the way thither he indulged in the wild intoxicating dreams which fill a young head so full of delicious excitement. Young men at his age take no account of obstacles nor of dangers; they see success in every direction; imagination has free play, and turns their lives into a romance; they are saddened or discouraged by the collapse of one of the visionary schemes that have no existence save in their heated fancy. If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
I just discovered H.P. Lovecraft for real and I can't help but kick myself for all I've missed out on. All this time I thought Cthulhu was a bit silly for being a giant octopus thing, but it's amazing how Lovecraft whipped it all up into a work that resonates on so many levels.
While I've never read Lovecraft, I am familiar with the context of his mythos. For one thing, I relate immensely with that quote.Quote from: Narrator, "The Call of Cthulhu"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
I just discovered H.P. Lovecraft for real and I can't help but kick myself for all I've missed out on. All this time I thought Cthulhu was a bit silly for being a giant octopus thing, but it's amazing how Lovecraft whipped it all up into a work that resonates on so many levels.
The Doctor: There it is again. That itch. "Go down go down go down go down."
Ida: The urge to jump. Do you know wher e it comes from, that sensation? Genetic heritage. Ever since we were primates in the tress. It's our body's way of testing us. Calculating whether or not we can reach the next branch.
The Doctor: No, that's not it. That's too kind. It's not the urge to jump, it's deeper than that. It's the urge to fall!
albeit a little depressing.
And "every ice cream ever made" to Tushantin!albeit a little depressing.
Were you surprised? =P This is Lovecraft we're talking about. Depressing endings are to Lovecraft as "every single woman gets married" is to Austen.
"Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul."I FREAKIN' LOVE THIS BOOK!
And "every ice cream ever made" to Tushantin!
No, like I said I predicted it while reading, (though I thought it was going to happen around the halfway point and then get really crazy or something) but that didn't make it less beautiful. :)albeit a little depressing.
Were you surprised? =P This is Lovecraft we're talking about. Depressing endings are to Lovecraft as "every single woman gets married" is to Austen.
Yup! And I get to have all of em. :DAnd "every ice cream ever made" to Tushantin!
I don't get it. In Lovecraft's books, there are depressing endings. In Austen's books, every single woman gets married. In tushantin's books, every ice cream ever gets made?
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart of every single hearer,
With deepest power, in simple ways.
You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,
Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,
Blowing on a miserable fire,
Made from your heap of dying ash.
Let apes and children praise your art,
If their admiration’s to your taste,
But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,
Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”
“Whatever is the lot of humankind
I want to taste within my deepest self.
I want to seize the highest and the lowest,
to load its woe and bliss upon my breast,
and thus expand my single self titanically
and in the end go down with all the rest.”
Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.
It must return to its natural instincts, it must proclaim the Rights of Laziness, a thousand times more noble and more sacred than the anaemic Rights of Man concocted by the metaphysical lawyers of the bourgeois revolution. It must accustom itself to working but three hours a day, reserving the rest of the day and night for leisure and feasting.
And the times when man cramps his stomach and the machine enlarges its out-put are the very times when the economists preach to us the Malthusian theory, the religion of abstinence and the dogma of work.
There is no more room for illusion as to the function of modern armies. They are permanently maintained only to suppress the “enemy within”.
...the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.
What unknown wonders are contained in the “dark continent”! Fields are sown with elephants’ teeth, rivers of cocoanut oil are dotted with gold, millions of backsides, as bare as the faces of Dufaure and Girardin, are awaiting cotton goods to teach them decency, and bottles of schnaps and bibles from which they may learn the virtues of civilization.
Cannot the laborers understand that by over-working themselves they exhaust their own strength and that of their progeny, that they are used up and long before their time come to be incapable of any work at ail, that absorbed and brutalized by this single vice they are no longer men but pieces of men, that they kill within themselves all beautiful faculties, to leave nothing alive and flourishing except the furious madness for work. Like Arcadian parrots, they repeat the lesson of the economist: “Let us work, let us work to increase the national wealth.”
Under the old regime, the laws of the church guaranteed the laborer ninety rest days, fifty-two Sundays and thirty-eight holidays, during which he was strictly forbidden to work. This was the great crime of catholicism, the principal cause of the irreligion of the industrial and commercial bourgeoisie: under the revolution, when once it was in the saddle, it abolished the holidays and replaced the week of seven days by that of ten, in order that the people might no longer have more than one rest day out of the ten. It emancipated the laborers from the yoke of the church in order the better to subjugate them under the yoke of work.
Protestantism, which was the Christian religion adapted to the new industrial and commercial needs of the bourgeoisie, was less solicitous for the people’s rest. It dethroned the saints in heaven in order to abolish their feast days on earth.
And that is not all: In order to find work for all the non-producers of our present society, in order to leave room for the industrial equipment to go on developing indefinitely, the working class will be compelled, like the capitalist class, to do violence to its taste for abstinence and to develop indefinitely its consuming capacities. Instead of eating an ounce or two of gristly meat once a day, when it eats any, it will eat juicy beefsteaks of a pound or two; instead of drinking moderately of bad wine, it will become more orthodox than the pope and will drink broad and deep bumpers of Bordeaux and Burgundy without commercial baptism and will leave water to the beasts.
O Laziness, have pity on our long misery! O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish!
What honorable thing can come out of a shop? What can commerce produce in the way of honor? Everything called shop is unworthy an honorable man. Merchants can gain no profit without lying, and what is more shameful than falsehood? Again, we must regard as something base and vile the trade of those who sell their toil and industry, for whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the tank of slaves.
When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of being childish, and the desire to be very grown up. —C.S. Lewis
"Poets were the first teachers of mankind."
-Horace
"I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it."
-Toni Morrison
"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid" ~Albert Einstein
The more we talk, the more I realize your awesomeness!
You’ll find I’m good at doing the impossible... It’s one of my specialties.
I already saved the world. It only took me one book, I’ll add.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change a nation; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
-Dr. Margaret Mead
Fond of bow ties & hats. Handbag is bigger on the inside. Talks to variety of creatures. Evidence Mary Poppins is a Time Lord
...The world of men and of the gods of men is merely an infinitesimal phase of an infinitesimal thing - the three-dimensional phase of that small wholeness. Though men hail it as reality, and band thoughts of its many-dimensioned original as unreality, it is in truth the very opposite. That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
...Time is motionless, and without beginning or end. That it has motion and is the cause of change is an illusion. Indeed, it is itself really an illusion, for except to the narrow sight of beings in limited dimensions there are no such things as past, present and future. Men think of time only because of what they call change, yet that too is illusion. All that was, and is, and is to be, exists simultaneously.
...What the denizens of few-dimensioned zones call change is merely a function of their consciousness, which views the external world from various cosmic angles. As the Shapes produced by the cutting of a cone seem to vary with the angles of cutting - being circle, ellipse, parabola or hyperbola according to that angle, yet without any change in the cone itself - so do the local aspects of an unchanged - and endless reality seem to change with the cosmic angle of regarding.
Remember that when people are criticizing your writing, they are criticizing your writing. It's a reaction against your writing; it's not a reaction against you. The moment anyone starts criticizing you for your writing, you are allowed to start ignoring them, completely and utterly, forever.
“Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies.
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.”
This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good.
Egotism has no father; the moment one feels superior to others, his relations to humanity begins to deplete.
Amir: The boy's side of the family... they were screaming and yelling aloud, demanding for a car and several lakhs of Rupees?
Female Guest (Dowry victim): Yes. Beggars apparently always bark, scream and yell.
I laugh with the morn, and I fight the waves. What is a Rupee going to sell ME?
I'm from Assam, and I've only read about Dowry in books because this just doesn't happen there. But it's strange... Me, being a fully capable male, asking for money from the very wife I'm marrying, one whom I promised to keep happy for her entire life... I'd rather die than commit such a sin.
"If you think positively,
Sound becomes music,
Movement becomes dance,
Smile becomes laughter,
Mind becomes meditation,
And life becomes a celebration."
"When I worked for vBulletin helping to build version 3 (and ImpEx) and being involved in bits after that, the product was a reflection of the people involved, the passion, the happiness and camaraderie. The product reflected that at the time, from the quality produced by the tech team all the way over to the responsiveness and unrelenting calmness of the support team, even in the face of some very challenging situations."
"The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. The joy of life is to love."
“Kaise akash main suraag nahi hosakta? Ek pathar toh tabiyat se uchalo yaaro.”
"How can the sky not have a dent? At least try to throw the stone above with good health!"
Our Patriarchal culture currently tells us that real men do not cry. But I think that only de-humanizes the men living their life, and hence makes them more of a monster. Meaning, it's not just the women who have something to lose, but also men, who lose crucial sensitivity.
What is the opposite of Patriarchy? If you thought Matriarchy, then you're most likely incorrect. Patriarchy is one extreme, and Matriarchy is another -- so if one is wrong, then so is the other. So, the actual opposite of Patriarchy, that one we ought to obviously follow, is Egalitarianism. We don't want gender superiority here, and we don't want one gender being oppressed (no matter which). We are striving for equality, and I believe that with enough effort we can acquire that.
"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."
~C.S. Lewis
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If the author creates the character, he creates the world of that book. For example, if ice is hot and fire is cold when the world was created, we could still think that's nautural. The result is a different physical system. If all humans have only one eye, they will see one who has two eyes as a monster. So there's no "poorly" written book in this case, everyone is unique.
Arsene Lupin: "As the hand of that clock moves nearer and nearer midnight, you will grow more and more terrified. Your nerves are on edge!"
Detective Guerchard: "Joker!"
Arsene Lupin: "Oh, you're as brave as the next man. But who can stand the anguish of the unknown thing which is bound to happen? ... I'm right. You feel it, you're sure of it. At the end of these few fixed minutes an inevitable, fated event must happen. Don't shrug your shoulders, man; you're green with fear."
Guerchard: "My men are outside ... I'm armed..."
Arsene Lupin: (in a deep, thrilling voice) "Child! Bear in mind ... bear in mind that it is always when you have foreseen everything, arranged everything, made every combination ... bear in mind that it is always then that some accident dashes your whole structure to the ground. Remember that it is always at the very moment at which you are going to triumph that he beats you, that he only lets you reach the top of the ladder to throw you more easily to the ground."
In India, the space to make a film that reflects our actual social situation is shrinking with an alarming pace. While films about 50-year-old heroes seducing girls twenty years younger than them during the course of making ‘goondas' fly a hundred feet after being punched are super hits.
You can't make a film about terrorists - that offends certain religions. You can't make a film about caste discrimination - that offends the castes that do the discrimination. You can't make a satire about the silliness of certain times or situations - this offends the people who originally did the silly things. And you cannot make a film about any political situation - That will get your film banned (most probably).
India has no shortage of gifted actors, talented directors or risk-taking producers. What it lacks is a rational space for these artists to express themselves or their ideas.
The Congress party did not allow the film Rajneeti to release unless Katrina's character, who was modeled after Sonia Gandhi, was not referred to as the 'widow', but rather as the 'daughter'. (Like that was gong to fool anyone.)
The simplest idea is to not watch the film if you feel it offends you. Why must we all not watch something because a tiny minority of us apparently lacks the maturity to accept that not everyone is going to accept their point of view?
While many may dismiss this all as mere entertainment, the fact remains that cinema is the best medium to convey ideas or concepts to everyone.
And in India this concept is a hollow shell.
Toilet humour about homosexuals and cross-dressing has replaced subtle observations. And you can forget about political commentaries, social observations or even wry off-hand comments.
Thanks to this intolerance, what we mostly end up with is a pre-sanitized, pre-packed mulch that is intended to appeal to as low a common denominator as possible.
"Ouch! All the more reason for this wretched Empire to crumble, unless we do something about this. Let's go; we need to inform that clumsy Knight Captain of our search, before he trips onto a pebble."
So when I say "We're all in this together," I'm not stating a philosophy. I'm stating a fact about the way human life works. No, you never asked for anything to be handed to you. You didn't have to, because billions of humans who lived and died before you had already created a lavish support system where the streets are all but paved with gold. Everyone reading this -- all of us living in a society advanced enough to have Internet access -- was born one inch away from the finish line, plopped here at birth, by other people.
Sometimes children, in their simplicity, make the most compelling arguments. They have a way of cutting through all the crap to get to the core issue.
"Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it." - Rose Wilder Lane
"I think it was Patrick Rothfuss who [described getting mean spirited reader comments] ... as a turd in his bowl of oatmeal, as I recall. You can't eat the oatmeal around the turd."
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
"What do you think," said he, "of all things in the world would give me the greatest pleasure?" I was on the point of replying, removal from St. Helena, when he said, "To be able to go about incognito in London and other parts of England, to the restaurateurs, with a friend, to dine in public at the expense of half a guinea or a guinea, and listen to the conversation of the company; to go through them all, changing almost daily, and in this manner, with my own ears, to hear the people express their sentiments, in their unguarded moments, freely and without restraint; to hear their real opinion of myself, and of the surprising occurrences of the last twenty years." I observed, that he would hear much evil and much good of himself. "Oh, as to the evil," replied he, "I care not about that. I am well used to it. Besides, I know that the public opinion will be changed. The nation will be just as much disgusted at the libels published against me, as they formerly were greedy in reading and believing them. This," added he, "and the education of my son, would form my greatest pleasure. It was my intention to have done this, had I reached America. The happiest days of my life were from sixteen to twenty, during the semestres, when I used to go about, as I have told you I should wish to do, from one restaurateur to another, living moderately, and having a lodging for which I paid three louis a month. They were the happiest days of my life. I was always so much occupied, that I may say I never was truly happy upon the throne."
...if I look at a piece and don't see a whale, and if I examine myself and don't see Ahab, then the project can only be puttering along.
Napoleon. My love of Scotland, and now love of the French Revolution and Napoleon has made me quite the anglophobe. It pains me how even in my own education, Napoleon was still presented as villain, when in fact the entire whole of the western world was constantly fighting him out of fear of the dissolution of monarchies. The French challenged the order of kings and oppression, and because of that, every major power in Europe sought to squelch them.Interestingly, when reading The Human Comedy, by Honore de Balzac, the character Vautrin implies something incredibly similar. In fact, this is exactly the reason behind why he took the life of crime -- because "to revolt" against an oppressive government / monarchy / wealthy and powerful authority is still crime nonetheless. (And he referenced Napoleon for the same reasons quite a lot)
“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart of every single hearer,
With deepest power, in simple ways.
You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,
Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,
Blowing on a miserable fire,
Made from your heap of dying ash.
Let apes and children praise your art,
If their admiration’s to your taste,
But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,
Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”
Quote from: http://beyondeasy.blogspot.com/...if I look at a piece and don't see a whale, and if I examine myself and don't see Ahab, then the project can only be puttering along.
I'm taking this out of context, from a blog I read, but this really stood out to me.
"Listeners... Listeners out there in the night, clinging to my voice as the simulacrum of companionship... remember: Fear is consciousness, plus life. Regret is an attempt to avoid what has already happened. Toast... is bread held under direct heat until crisp."
And so Beethoven came to the end of this long symphonic journey—at least for one movement. Imagine a lifetime of this struggle: movement after movement, symphony after symphony, quartet after concerto after sonata, always probing and rejecting and this constant dedication to perfection, to the principle of inevitability. Somehow this is the key, the only key we can have, to the mystery of a great artist…that, for reasons unknown to him, or to anybody else for that matter, he will give away his life and energies just to make sure that one note follows another with complete inevitability. Seems rather an odd way to spend one’s life, but it isn’t so odd when we think that the composer by doing this leaves us at the finish with the feeling that something is right in the world, that checks throughout…something that follows its own law consistently. Something we can trust, that will never let us down.
Out there are people who want to hear a story that you are uniquely prepared to tell. Another story, even if it’s better, won’t do.
あなたを愛しております
生涯かけて、
あなた様だけを愛しております
今、あなたのもとへ参ります
...
二人がもう一度契る場所
I love you.
Througout my lifetime,
I will love only you.
Now, I will come to meet you.
...
In the place two people will meet again.
Ironically I am half German, but with no dialect ingrained in me. My father lost it after simply not speaking it after moving out from my grandparents' house.
I really do wish I learned German (or any language for that matter)
I actually learned that word from a movie called Mr. Nobody. Really bizarre but intriguing. Most "out-there" movies really appeal to me. "The Jacket" being another bizarre movie, but by far my favourite of all time. Definitely worth a watch.
Jonathan! This one's mad as a hatter! Dio's evil yet, but I never see him come out of an animal!
Well, my arms are folded and my eyes are closed, this is a victory laugh. You lost today because you snoozed for 2000 years.
Ironically I am half German, but with no dialect ingrained in me. My father lost it after simply not speaking it after moving out from my grandparents' house.
"The Jacket" being another bizarre movie, but by far my favourite of all time. Definitely worth a watch.
The Jacket & Domino are two of my fav Kiera Knightly movies.