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 hairybear
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 Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Dangeros65]
#12238730 - 03/20/10 07:00 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Changed my life when i first watched it lol
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lorddavidone
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: hairybear]
#12254853 - 03/23/10 10:35 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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aldous huxley
But the need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short. Such a drug must be potent in minute doses and synthesizable. If it does not possess these qualities, its production, like that of wine, beer, spirits and tobacco will interfere with the raising of indispensable food and fibers. It must be less toxic than opium or cocaine, less likely to produce undesirable social consequences than alcohol or the barbiturates, less inimical to heart and lungs than the tars and nicotine of cigarettes. And, on the positive side, it should produce changes in consciousness more interesting, more intrinsically valuable than mere sedation or dreaminess, delusions of omnipotence or release from inhibition. To most people, mescalin is almost completely innocuous. Unlike alcohol, it does not drive the taker into the kind of uninhibited action which results in brawls, crimes of violence and traffic accidents. A man under the influence of mescalin quietly minds his own business. Moreover, the business he minds is an experience of the most enlightening kind, which does not have to be paid for (and this is surely important) by a compensatory hangover. Of the long-range consequences of regular mescalin taking we know very little. The Indians who consume peyote buttons do not seem to be physically or morally degraded by the habit. However, the available evidence is still scarce and sketchy.* Although obviously superior to cocaine, opium, alcohol and tobacco, mescalin is not yet the ideal drug. Along with the happily transfigured majority of mescalin takers there is a minority that finds in the drug only hell or purgatory. Moreover, for a drug that is to be used, like alcohol, for general consumption, its effects last for an inconveniently long time. But chemistry and physiology are capable nowadays of practically anything. If the psychologists and sociologists will define the ideal, the neurologists and pharmacologists can be relied upon to discover the means whereby that ideal can be realized or at least (for perhaps this kind of ideal can never, in the very nature of things, be fully realized) more nearly approached than in the wine-bibbing past, the whisky- drinking, marijuana-smoking and barbiturate-swallowing present.
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Cyanesense
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: lorddavidone]
#12254912 - 03/23/10 10:44 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Familiarity breeds contempt" - I think I heard that on malcom in the middle....
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Cyanesense]
#12260698 - 03/24/10 05:13 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination" ~ Oscar Wilde
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"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination" ~ John Lennon
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: TimmiT]
#12263159 - 03/24/10 01:27 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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GrimaceTheFrog
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12291451 - 03/29/10 07:39 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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i yam what i yam
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Simms
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: GrimaceTheFrog]
#12300434 - 03/30/10 03:19 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness." Emo Philops
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Simms]
#12325290 - 04/03/10 05:33 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Courage is always authentic." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Silversoul]
#12328026 - 04/04/10 08:37 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Exception: courage is defined by the ruling power. Like the US calling all the nations on their side "courageous".
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deCypher
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12328215 - 04/04/10 09:27 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Lakefingers said:
courage is defined by the ruling power.
Always?
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher] 1
#12329786 - 04/04/10 01:58 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Mr. Cypher said:
Quote:
Lakefingers said:
courage is defined by the ruling power.
Always?
It was minimal.
Drawn out: In one case courage is defined by the ruling power. E.g....
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mellow vibez
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Lakefingers]
#12347518 - 04/07/10 08:33 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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No one to claim Creator yet the masses are perplexed
Cause by life we're so impressed, we all wish we had a next - zion i
Loss of thought, is loss of self
My familiarity makes you scared to see
The beauty in front of your eyes
You're thinkin' merrily
Everything isn't a predictable occurrence
If you've experienced everything except a purpose
Then you've missed everything that was meant to be caught
Life sessions aren't lessons that can be simply taught - cunninlynguists
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no one to claim creator yet the masses are perplexed, cause by life were so impressed, we all wish we had a next.
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Conzept
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: mellow vibez]
#12348120 - 04/07/10 10:46 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Progress is not always forwards, sometimes it is just a step in a unkown direction.
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ImaginingEmotions
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Conzept]
#12348893 - 04/07/10 12:45 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Great people talk about Ideas,
Average people talk about things,
Small people talk about other people."
not sure one the author...
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"The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care but my arms are busy in the air saying I wish you were here."
If we didn't have pain, we wouldn't know pleasure.
It's not that I'm never wrong, it's just that I never open my mouth unless I'm right. 
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deCypher
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I like to talk dirty ideas about the things I'd like to do to other people.
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jw2234
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: deCypher] 1
#12356502 - 04/08/10 03:47 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Non-rational creatures do not look before or after, but live in the animal eternity of a perpetual present; instinct is their animal grace and constant inspiration; and they are never tempted to live otherwise than in accord with their own animal dharma, or immanent law. Thanks to his reasoning powers and to the instrument of reason, language, man (in his merely human condition) lives nostalgically, apprehensively, and hopefully in the past and future as well as in the present; has no instincts to tell him what to do; must rely on personal cleverness, rather than on inspiration from the divine Nature of Things; finds himself in a condition of chronic civil war between passion and prudence and, on a higher level of awareness and ethical sensibility, between egotism and dawning spirituality.
But this "wearisome condition of humanity" is the indispensable prerequisite of enlightenment and deliverance. Man must live in time in order to be able to advance into eternity, no longer on the animal, but on the spiritual level; he must be conscious of himself as a separate ego in order to be able consciously to transcend separate self-hood; he must do battle with the lower self in order that he may become identified with that high Self within him, which is akin to the divine Not-Self; and finally he must make use of his cleverness in order to pass beyond cleverness to the intellectual vision of Truth, the immediate, unitive knowledge of the divine Ground.
Reason and its works "are not and cannot be a proximate means of union with God." The proximate means is "intellect," in the scholastic sense of the word, or spirit. In the last analysis the use and purpose of reason is to create the internal and external conditions favourable to its own transfiguration by and into spirit. It is the lamp by which it finds the way to go beyond itself." -Aldous Huxley
I can't believe how wise and perceptive Huxley was. I absolutely agree with what he has to say.
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deCypher
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: jw2234]
#12356504 - 04/08/10 03:47 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Patience
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#12356706 - 04/08/10 04:17 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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"My days are always great. It's people around me that fuck it up."
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mellow vibez
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: Patience] 1
#12381813 - 04/12/10 09:08 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Until Philosophers are kings...cities will never have rest from their troubles - Plato
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no one to claim creator yet the masses are perplexed, cause by life were so impressed, we all wish we had a next.
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deCypher
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Re: Your Favorite Philosophical and Spiritual Quotes [Re: mellow vibez]
#12381831 - 04/12/10 09:10 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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meaning never
-me
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