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 Lakefingers
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Freedom]
#11634430 - 12/12/09 02:04 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Ah, another Schopenhauer to follow this up with. This is by the way not one of my favorite quotes as in I identify with its message, but I identify with twisting these very thoughts around in many directions:
“For evil is precisely that which is positive, that which makes itself palpable; and good…is that which is negative, the mere abolition of a desire and extinction of a pain.”
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11636159 - 12/12/09 11:24 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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“Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find ''tomorrow'' on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, ''If I had my life to live over again. ''Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
Og Mandino
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#11638519 - 12/12/09 05:55 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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“Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
~ Mark Twain
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The best way to live
is to be like water
For water benefits all things
and goes against none of them
It provides for all people
and even cleanses those places
a man is loath to go
In this way it is just like Tao ~Tao Te Ching/Daodejing
"Find what you're looking for by not looking for it." ~Old Hippie Philosophy
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#11638568 - 12/12/09 06:02 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#11638630 - 12/12/09 06:12 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Cracka_X said:
�Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.�
~ Mark Twain
Yeppp.
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L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cracka_X]
#11639006 - 12/12/09 07:30 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Cracka_X said:
�Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.�
~ Mark Twain
In a similar vein:
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything. ~Oscar Wilde
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
#11641554 - 12/13/09 08:16 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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The old believe everything? That makes no sense.
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Lakefingers
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11641602 - 12/13/09 08:27 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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What he meant to write was: the old can make no sense of anything. 
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11641644 - 12/13/09 08:39 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Icelander said:
The old believe everything? That makes no sense.
'Believe everything', as in have strong, deeply-ingrained beliefs about 'how things are' and 'how things should be'. Not that I think that's universally true by a long shot.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
#11641766 - 12/13/09 09:13 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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oh, cause the only think I believe strongly is that nobody knows wtf their talkin about.
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11641784 - 12/13/09 09:17 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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You're not old yet.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lion]
#11641835 - 12/13/09 09:30 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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My back hurt when I got up this morning. 
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11643411 - 12/13/09 02:13 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: LucidSid]
#11643953 - 12/13/09 03:52 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Return of the Ragpicker or The Greatest Salesman in the World? Either way, I love Og Mandino, thanks for reminding me of him!
"You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
#11669259 - 12/17/09 02:30 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11672244 - 12/17/09 09:41 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them
daaaamn.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11673176 - 12/18/09 01:48 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Icelander said:
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
And the 100 million that don't work with used cars contemplate suicide. Hunter S. Thompson went all the way.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#11673184 - 12/18/09 01:52 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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learningtofly said:
We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them
daaaamn.
Off topic, but this article might interest you:
American fascism: by political definition the US is now fascist, not a constitutional republic by Carl Herman, Examiner.com, Published: December 14, 2009.
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11674551 - 12/18/09 10:32 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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thanks, i'll take a look.
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#11674800 - 12/18/09 11:22 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped." -F. Perls
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