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 learningtofly
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: xFrockx]
#11676569 - 12/18/09 04:42 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks - Dr. Dre
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 deCypher
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#11676657 - 12/18/09 04:55 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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How could I forget the philosophical wisdom inherent in gangsta rap?!
fuck y'all, all of y'all
if y'all don't like me, blow me!
--Dr. Dre
nobody likes me, but that's okay
cuz I don't like y'all anyway
--50 Cent
you don't got to go to church to get to know your god
--Jedi Mind Tricks
I was in love once... then I learned from that
--Jedi Mind Tricks
worst case scenario is there never ever was a higher power
so in the midst of chaos now
the only real savior is fire power
--Tech N9ne
I have ammo, what about you?
--Tech N9ne
they told him any motherfucking coward can sell drugs
any bitch nigga with a gun can bust slugs
any nigga with a red shirt can front like a blood
even Puffy smoked a motherfucker up in the club
but only a real thug can stab someone till they die
standing in front of them, staring straight into their eyes
--Immortal Technique
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
  
Edited by deCypher (12/18/09 05:06 PM)
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learningtofly
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#11676836 - 12/18/09 05:22 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Life ain't nothin but bitches and money - Ice Cube.
Move bitch, get out the way. - Ludacris ... bitch is a metaphor for obstacles in his life and people who are bringing him down.
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Edited by learningtofly (12/18/09 05:22 PM)
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Ego Questio
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: learningtofly]
#11681682 - 12/19/09 02:56 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not all philosophical, but...
"The crucial test of ethical values is whether they apply to strangers, and those afar, not just in our midst."
Bernard Crick Essays on Citizenship, 2000
"Just as the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to persuade it to rise, but shines anyway and is universally loved, so you should not wait for applause and praise in order to do good; but be a voluntary benefactor and you will be beloved like the sun."
Epictetus Handbook, 1st Century CE
"Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked – as I am surprisingly often – why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn’t it sad to go to your grave without wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?"
~Richard Dawkins 1998
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
- Marcus Aurelius
Had we discovered, simply, that each atom tends to some one point, we should still have fallen on a discovery which, in itself, would have sufficed to overwhelm the mind; but what is it we are actually caled on to comprehend? That each atom attracts, sympathises with the most delicate movements of every other atom in the vast expance of the universe, each and all at the same time, forever, according to a determinate law of which the complexity, even considered by itself, is utterly beyond the grasp of the imagination. If I propose to ascertain the influence of one mote in a sunbeam on it's neighbouring mote, I cannot accomplish my task without first counting and weighing all the atoms in the universe and defining the precise positions of all at one particular moment. If I venture to displace, by even a billionth of an inch, the speck of dust lying on the point of my finger, what is the character of the act I have comitted? I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of the multitudionous myriad of majestic stars that roll and glow in the presence of their Creator.
~Edgar Allan Poe
"Eureka"
1848
"Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe the more intensely the reflection dwells on them:the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
~Immanuel Kant
(also carved on his gravestone)
I particularly appreciate the Edgar Allan Poe one-this man had no scientific training whatsoever-one day he just turned his mind to conceptualising reality and came up with a stunning little book. Anyone into physics should give it a read. Reminds me of Thomas Paine, who one day just started thinking about the rights and liberties of man, and wrote some seminal works.
Some people just perceive the truth. 
Edit:Oh, and the sig, or course! 
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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
(1806 - 1873)
My UPDATED UK supplies thread
My first trip report-sclerotia
Fundamentalchair's Sclerotia FAQ
This makes me a sad panda  Marijuana Conspiracy
Proudly discovered Highly Sensitive Person ~2009
To all you good gents, I say 
Edited by Ego Questio (12/19/09 03:07 PM)
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Ego Questio]
#11681727 - 12/19/09 03:04 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have EAPs heart in my freezer. Whenever I thaw it, it starts to beat ever more.
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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."
Edited by Icelander (12/19/09 03:04 PM)
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RationalEgo
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11685030 - 12/20/09 07:38 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.-- Charles Darwin
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yelyarb
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: RationalEgo]
#11690546 - 12/21/09 03:13 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.
Hafiz
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It's the same thing.
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: yelyarb]
#11699178 - 12/22/09 12:53 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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"I remember when the future was a promise.
Now it's like a threat". - unknown
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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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Huehuecoyotl
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11703055 - 12/22/09 09:11 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Every bit of knowledge that becomes power has death as its central force. Death lends the ultimate touch, and whatever is touched by death indeed becomes power
-- Carlos Castaneda
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Maybe there is no Heaven. Maybe this is all pure gibberish — a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow — to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested...
--HST
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ExponentialTrance
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
#11705927 - 12/23/09 11:48 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
"To use your head, you have to go out of your mind."
-Timothy Leary
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[quote]It's my mind, I'll expand it if I want to. [/quote]
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 Freedom
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
#11712261 - 12/24/09 01:09 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Huehuecoyotl said:
Quote:
Every bit of knowledge that becomes power has death as its central force. Death lends the ultimate touch, and whatever is touched by death indeed becomes power
-- Carlos Castaneda
That quote was great.
This has got to be one of my all time favorite quotes:
Quote:
Investigate the various repugnant aspects of the body, beginning with the fact that the body is a conglomeration of all sorts of things. In other words, it's a burial ground, a national cemetery, filled with the corpses of cattle, pigs, ducks, chickens, sour, sweet, greasy, salty, gathered and aged in the stomach, filtered and distilled into blood, pus, decomposing and putrid, oozing throughout the body and coming out its various openings: this body, which all of us in the human race care for without ceasing — bathing it, scrubbing it, masking its smell — and even then its filth keeps displaying itself as ear wax, eye secretions, nasal drip, tooth tartar, skin-scruff and sweat, always oozing out, filthy in every way. What it comes from is filthy, where it stays is filthy (i.e., in a cemetery of fresh corpses, or even worse — we've probably buried hundreds of different kinds of corpses within ourselves).
----- From Frames of Reference by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Freedom]
#11713050 - 12/24/09 03:22 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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 perfect.
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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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blackdust
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: deCypher]
#11735131 - 12/28/09 11:08 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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The nature of rain is the same but it grows thorns in the marshes and flowers in the meadows ---- The book "Awerness"
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you read a book before you fuck!?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: blackdust]
#11735394 - 12/29/09 12:36 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"Men who believe in nothing write learned tomes about gods who never existed. ... If you are proficient at it you finally get a seat in the academy where you slowly degenerate into a full-fledged chimpanzee."
Henry Miller
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11735405 - 12/29/09 12:41 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yea Henry!
Makes me want to read some of him again. It's been years.
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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 Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11735429 - 12/29/09 12:52 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"Men who believe in nothing write sagacious posts about gods who never existed. ... If you are proficient at it you finally get a seat in as a regular at the Shroomery where you slowly degenerate into a full-fledged chimpanzee."
By the way, that was from The Colossus of Maroussi.
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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11735469 - 12/29/09 01:08 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think I've read everything he wrote. I used to be a prolific reader. Now I'm mostly over it. It's all the same old shit now. Nothing new under the sun and all that.
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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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Icelander
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11735488 - 12/29/09 01:14 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Somebody keep my balance
I think I'm falling off
Into a state of regression
The expiration date
Rapidly coming up
It's leaving me behind to rank
Always move forward
Going "straight" will get you nowhere
There is no progress
Evolution killed it all
I found my place in nowhere
I'm taking one step sideways
Leading with my crutch
Got a fucked up equilibrium
Count down from 9 to 5
Hooray! We're gonna die!
Blessed into our extinction -Green Day
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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 Quotes [Re: Icelander]
#11735522 - 12/29/09 01:21 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pretty much. I think there are odd texts out there I haven't read, but they are very rare and hard to find. Even Miller is crap in ways, but it has life in it, unlike most literature. Most literature is very formulaic and follows a reordering and manipulation of set rules of plot and narrative structure. American novels, detective novels, horror, etc are exceptionally typical...
Edit:
I think what makes you typical is that you have lost nearly all your spiritedness. I dislike how that happens to most of the elderly. 
Edited by Lakefingers (12/29/09 01:24 AM)
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Silversoul
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#11736397 - 12/29/09 08:52 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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"A Smith & Wesson beats four aces." -- Canada Bill Jones
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