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 Cory Duchesne tabernacle    Registered: 10/05/16 Posts: 1,471 Loc: Nova Scotia Last seen: 3 hours, 11 minutes |
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I collected these memes over the course of a couple years. I consult quotes such as this when I am stricken by grief or feeling ingratitude, feeling confused, etc.
Here they are: I am not an anarchist. In fact, the government has a duty to punish you or me if we deprive another person of life, liberty or property. - Thomas Szaz When people try to evade problems, you first have to ask if it is not just laziness. Jung once said, “Laziness is the greatest passion of mankind, even greater than power or sex or anything.” ~The Way of the Dream, Page 42-54 An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. - John Locke If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition. As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter. If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more. It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive. - Norman Borlaug, As a response to a question from an interviewer from Reason Magazine, "What do you think of organic farming? A lot of people claim it's better for human health and the environment.".[1] The most despicable way a person can feel that he is important is by declaring that somebody else is no good. This is what religious wars were about. The original belief of Judaism is the original belief that the Jews are the chosen people. Does not this mean that all the other people are gods step children? I see this as the struggle for self esteem. If we keep doing this we are going to do terrible things to each other. And I think we should try to find ways of securing self esteem without debasing the other person, without beating someone else. It is possible to give ones life significance without pushing someone else down. The other has always been put down. One must strive for a situation where there is no other. Where there is a true appreciation that every life is sacred. Not inferior because of any difference and not necessarily superior, either. - Thomas Szasz We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. (Mortimer Adler) ”A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.” — Spinoza, Ethics (1677), Prop. 67 Borlaug cautioned, "There are no miracles in agricultural production. Nor is there such a thing as a miracle variety of wheat, rice, or maize which can serve as an elixir to cure all ills of a stagnant, traditional agriculture."[51] Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight. (Deborah Needleman) The child lives in the minute, the boy in the day, the instinctive man in the year. The man imbued with history lives in the epoch. Spinoza would have us live not in the minute, the day, the year or the epoch but in eternity. Those who learn to do this will find that it takes away the frantic quality of misfortune and prevents the trend towards madness that comes with overwhelming disaster. - Bertand Russel It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail. (Myrtle Reed) Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision. (Quintilian) “You have to have empathy for the victims of the criminals. And if you just have empathy for the criminals, it's actually shallow empathy. You got to say, if you don't incarcerate this person, who are they going to hurt?” Balancing Empathy in Immigration: Elon Musk on Criminal Justice and Victims Boundaries can be weaponized. The boundaries are gratuitously offensive. Gratuitously offensive boundaries are weaponized boundaries. These boundaries are arbitrary and are shifting. (Sam Vaknin) The state either leaves you alone or it does not leave you alone. There is one element here: coercion. - Thomas Szaz It (marijuana-cannabis) will slowly make you more and more incapable of handling life situations. Marijuana slowly makes you incapable of handling many things. After sometime, slowly you are the same person who now gets agitated and irritated by every little thing. You cannot handle anything properly. When life demands something out of you, you will see that you will be totally incapable. (Sadguru) I think marijuana, for example, makes you stupid but sensual. I'd certainly be the last one to pass laws against marijuana. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber-just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next-and I found them really quite boring. It was a great tragedy in my life that this happened to me personally. You're trying to get me to endorse drugs, aren't you? (Timothy Leary) “That's what Humans are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites Chemical restraints are the inappropriate use of medicines to make severely disabled or difficult residents go to sleep or make them “drugged out” and easier to manage. Commonly, cases of chemical restraints involve the use of antipsychotic drugs, which are strictly indicated for patients and residents diagnosed with serious disorders, particularly schizophrenia. People would be furious if they saw their loved ones in nursing homes in handcuffs or bound to their bedposts because they were being difficult. However, if we saw an elderly resident sleeping, we probably wouldn’t think twice. That is the evil of chemical restraints. It is the same thing as a straitjacket, but it is invisible to the untrained eye. (Drugs Are the New Straitjacket for Greedy Nursing Homes) "I did not seek their affection nor wish to become buddies. Mutual respect and camaraderie strengthen your team. Affection, in fact, may weaken it by tempting you to play favorites. Where Friendship exists you will find the makings of a formidable organization." - John Wooden Affectation cannot last very long, and one day the mask will fall off. Nemo potest personam diu ferre fictam, says Seneca;[1] ficta cito in naturam suam recidunt — "no one can persevere long in a fictitious character; for nature will soon reassert itself." AS The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with those who free you, who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel. Today's life is too hard, too bitter, too anemic, for us to undergo new bondages, from whom we love. This is how I am your friend, I love your happiness, your freedom, Your adventure in one word, and I would like to be for you the companion we are sure of, always. ~Albert Camus (Source: Translated from Correspondance 1946-1959 "At night, when we are in bed; for then the mind is fully relaxed, and the power of judgment quite unequal to its duties; but imagination is still awake. Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be. This is why our thoughts, just before we go to sleep, or as we lie awake through the hours of the night, are usually such confusions and perversions of facts as dreams themselves; and when our thoughts at that time are concentrated upon our own concerns, they are generally as black and monstrous as possible." AS "Towards evening, when our powers of thought and judgment are relaxed, — at the hour, as it were, of subjective darkness, — the intellect becomes tired, easily confused, and unable to get at the bottom of things; and if, in that state, we meditate on matters of personal interest to ourselves, they soon assume a dangerous and terrifying aspect." AS Difficiles in otio quies — "it is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do." On "doctor assisted transition" "You do not need to have a fatal or terminal condition to be eligible for medical assistance in dying. If your only medical condition is a mental illness, you are not eligible for medical assistance in dying until March 17, 2027. If you have a mental illness along with other medical conditions, you may be eligible for medical assistance in dying." “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” - Isaac Asimov “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina “Never procrastinate. Never say you’ll do it tomorrow or the next day. Slow workers never fill their barns. Neither do procrastinators. Diligence does the job.” — Hesiod "... a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never." "Michel de Montaigne “Growth has become addictive. Like heroin addiction, the habit distorts basic value judgments. Addicts of any kind are willing to pay increasing amounts for declining satisfactions. They have become tolerant to escalating marginal disutility. They are blind to deeper frustration because they are absorbed in playing for always mounting stakes.” - Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality "I never realized how political garbage and dirty water could be, or how tracking it could reveal just why making peace here is so urgent." Whose Garbage Is This Anyway? Thomas L. Friedman "My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal." Demetri Martin "The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared at in a class apart. One does not talk to a monkey in a zoo, or to a freak in a sideshow— one only stares. Perhaps that is a reason why toilet doors in our society have locks on them.” ― Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life The old proverb "No man is free who has a servant" could well read "No man is free who has an animal." Today, subject to a CTO, the patient does not return to full citizenship status but to a reduced social standing, neither full citizen nor patient but a diminished hybrid of the two – the 'community patient'. Dr. Ken McLaughlin “I want to protect each person’s boundaries. Once you begin to yield the slightest ground on some pretext, you’re ultimately left with nothing.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Gora “As E. B. White once remarked, “A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom—he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.” ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: the classic guide to intelligent reading "Speech that leads to unkind amusement or laughter is considered evil and is forbidden." Trappists "Male humor prefers the laugh to be at someone’s expense, and understands that life is quite possibly a joke to begin with—and often a joke in extremely poor taste. Humor is part of the armor-plate with which to resist what is already farcical enough. (Perhaps not by coincidence, battered as they are by nature, men tend to refer to life itself as a bitch.) Whereas women, bless their tender hearts, would prefer that life be fair, and even sweet, rather than the sordid mess it actually is. Jokes about calamitous visits to the doctor or the shrink or the bathroom, or the venting of sexual frustration on furry domestic animals, are a male province. It must have been a man who originated the phrase “funny like a heart attack.” BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS "There are few ways by which you can make more certain of putting people into a good humor than by telling them of some trouble that has recently befallen you, or by unreservedly disclosing some personal weakness of yours. How characteristic this is of humanity!" AS ....the liar contaminates everything he says, because everything he says is meant to further a cause that is false. The liar as liar has endorsed a world of falsehood and deception, and to focus only on the truth or falsity of his particular statements is to miss the danger of being caught up in his twisted world. This is why, as Bonhoeffer says, that “(i)t is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie” (Ethics, p.67).” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics “As Thomas Hobbes said, “If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.” ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book "There is one domain where you must respect authority, and that is in the parent-child relationship. The parent must teach right and wrong to the child, and that requires authority." Leonard Sax "Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy." - Aristotle "Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong." Jean-Jacques Rousseau Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls. - Hippolytus "Human nature generally answers external coercion with countercoercion. It seeks its satisfaction not in the reward for obedience and docility, but aims to prove that is own means of power are the stronger. The results of the application of power are apt to be disappointing to both parties. No blessing comes of the use of power." Alfred Adler, COERCION, pg. 456-457 As George Orwell put it, “my whole life…was one long struggle not to be laughed at” (Orwell, as cited in Gilbert, 1997, p. 127). "The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase." Melanie Klein Research into the causes of “hearing voices,” formally termed auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), has primarily focused on cognitive mechanisms. A potentially causative role for emotion has been relatively neglected. This paper uses historical and contemporary case studies of AVH to tentatively generate the hypothesis that shame can be a causal factor in the onset of AVH. "People are frugal in guarding their personal property, but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which they have a right to be stingy." Seneca “Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.” ― Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings "Nay, some virtues are actually hated; inflexible strictness, for example." Tacitus “Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.” ― C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious "Eye gaze avoidance is one of the most basic defensive behaviors, explaining why Euripides wrote that the eyes are the abode of shame. It is therefore unsurprising that shame is associated with a desire to hide." (Tangney et al., 1996) "God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it." Euripides "When farmers honor the animal’s role in sustaining human life, they can provide a farm where animals thrive, protected from the harshness of the wild. In return, a quick and peaceful death becomes a sacrifice, solidifying the mutually beneficial trade-off." https://abundantpermaculture.co "When a tree rots or burns, the carbon in the wood is released to the atmosphere. Active forest management, such as thinning, removing dead trees, and clearing debris from the forest floor very effectively reduces the number and intensity of forest fires. And the removed wood can be put to good use for lumber, paper and energy." Patrick Moore, Forestry and Climate Change "Active forest management — such as removing dead trees and clearing debris from the forest floor — will be imperative in reducing the number and intensity of fires." by Patrick Moore, Special to the Sun, August 29, 2007 "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter." -Mark Twain ”When an illness is incurable and painful, and makes useful activity impossible, it is mere cruelty to prolong life; at any rate if the sufferer is anxious to die, or has lost reason. The prolongation of life can be neither a happiness to the sufferer nor a benefit to society, and is therefore equally unjustified from the standpoint of the individual and from that of the community.” — Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others: American Essays 1931–1935, Vol II. Essay On Euthanasia (1 January 1934), p. 267 "He who lives long lives badly. It is certainly a rash thing to wish for long life; it means, to see much evil." A.S. "Revenge is an admission of pain: a mind that is bowed by injury is not a great mind." — Seneca. "He used the image of someone who is hit by an arrow. A few minutes later, a second arrow comes and strikes exactly the same spot. After the second arrow comes, not only the pain is doubled by it can be tripled or ten times more painful, intense." Pain, Despair, and The Second Arrow, Thich Nhat Hanh "If someone is badly hurt at some point in life - traumatized - the dominance counter can transform in a manner that makes additional hurt more rather than less likely ... [they continue] to attract genuine negative attention from one or more of the fewer and generally less successful bullies still extant in the adult world." Jordan Peterson, Malfunction, pg. 22, 12 RULES FOR LIFE "Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learned to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense. This is why they talk so much about the value of human understanding and sympathy - it has a certain rarity value in their world." Celia Green "The meaning of becoming “whole” or creating “wholeness” is to make something holy or to heal. The descent into one’s depths brings healing. It is the path to total being, the treasure which makes sacrifice worth the effort. This is the place where consciousness is born, and at the same time the place where healing and redemption take place. It is the cave where the dragon of chaos lives. But it is also the place of an indestructible city, a sacred place in yourself where all the split-off parts of personality are united and become connected." ~C.G. Jung, Tavistock Lectures, "Enrico Ferri expressed his view of crime as degeneration more profound than insanity, for in most insane persons the primitive moral sense has survived the wreck of their intelligence." Cesare Lombroso “I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.” - William Shatner "They were as “clear a middleman rip-off as you are going to find”, because they make more money when they pick a higher priced drug over a lower priced drug." Controversies and litigation, pharmacy benefit managers If you say ' Easy does it', you are telling someone to be careful and not to use too much effort, especially when they are moving something large and awkward. “In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.” ― William Hazlitt, Selected Essays, 1778-1830 mark time idiom to march in one place without moving forward to do little while waiting for something that is going to happen: “Going to bed and waking in the morning (I woke, most often, too early) were bad times—so many hundreds of evenings and mornings. Sometimes I wondered who or what sends us this senseless repetition of days and nights and seasons and years; is it not like hearing a stupid boy whistle the same tune over and over, till you wonder how he can bear it himself?” ― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces "What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things." Alexander Pope “Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. ” ― Ovid Thankful.—One superfluous grain of gratitude and piety makes one suffer as from a vice—in spite of all one's independence and honesty one begins to have a bad conscience. ~ The Dawn of Day "He (J. Krishnamurti) spent much of his life living in California, not far from Hollywood, and I think his life-story is a classic Hollywood tragedy, like Sunset Boulevard. A damaged child star gets trapped in the role he had created for himself, and ends up giving up real love for fan worship. It’s a tale of child abuse, trauma, ecstasy, celebrity, and, finally, loneliness." J. Krishnamurti, the lonely Hollywood Star “Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. JEAN GENET, PRISONER OF LOVE” ― Patrick J. Carnes, The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships “For the addict, however, there is no choice. No choice. The addiction is in charge.” ― Patrick J. Carnes, Out of the Shadows Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice. - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims "Human beings addict to a startling spectrum, not only of substances, but of behaviors, we addict to each other. Heroin withdrawal and a broken heart look and feel exactly the same way. Abandonment, bursting into tears, insomina, inability to eat, does this person have a broken heart or are they getting off junk? You can't tell. We tend to addict." (Terence McKenna) “- Giving an insignificant thing your attention is a form of self-disrespect. “- Genuine happiness is not nearly as common as a fake smile." “- The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.” (Mokokoma Mokhonoana) What is the Duchenne marker for smile? The takeaway. The Duchenne smile is an expression that signals true enjoyment. It occurs when the zygomaticus major muscle lifts the corners of your mouth at the same time the orbicularis oculi muscles lift your cheeks and crinkle your eyes at the corners. “Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.” ― Eric Hoffer “Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?” — Ian Fleming, Goldfinger "Anger and even fury. I have no other motivation. Anger about the senseless distraction. The only thing that keeps me going is anger. I don't have any love in me at all. I hate community. Two things make me furious. Spiritualism, and community. People who talk about community want to manage other people. I grew up in a village. And people say that's a community, but it isn't. It's a lot of individuals, following the rules. And spiritualism, spiritual people are often very greedy, avaricious, and waste a hell of a lot of time. Nobody deserves what they are promised by spiritual people. And some people promise them eternal life. I think it's a horrific punishment to get eternal life. Ordinary people should never have such punishment visited on them." - Bill Mollison "The most intelligent beings I have ever met are plants, so why shouldn't I eat meat?" - Terence McKenna "And raising deer, boars, rabbits, chickens, wildfowl, and even edible rodents, would be even more economical—and better protect nature—than goats." Masanobu Fukuoka, natural farmer and meat advocate "Kindness is invincible." - Marcus Aurelius. "To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination." Aristotle "Young forests outperform old growth in carbon sequestration: Although old trees contain huge amounts of carbon, their rate of sequestration has slowed to a near halt. A young tree, although it contains little fixed carbon, pulls CO2 from the atmosphere at a much faster rate. When a tree rots or burns, the carbon contained in the wood is released back to the atmosphere. Since combustion releases carbon, active forest management — such as removing dead trees and clearing debris from the forest floor — will be imperative in reducing the number and intensity of fires." by Patrick Moore, Special to the Sun, August 29, 2007 “Are you a vegetarian or a carnivorous animal?” Tesla replied, “I eat meat only at rare intervals, possibly only once or twice a year. It is rich in proteins but also in uric acid. I prefer fowl to beef. Fish is more digestible and almost equally rich in proteins and in fats. The phosphorous it contains is excellent for the nervous system. But phosphorus, while feeding the brain, causes acidity. Both meat and fish give us quick energy. Under certain conditions, for certain workers, they are indispensable. They shorten life by introducing more uric acid into the system than it can conveniently eliminate. But while we live they give us considerable vigor.” Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner. (To understand all is to forgive all.) from the French version of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy “When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson A big city is like a holocaust of humanity, as Zola expressed it. Man has built his own funeral pyre and it is destroying him, and so our whole world is being destroyed. It has taken the bread away from millions, and production is still going on like mad; that is really at the bottom of the actual crisis. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 502 -------------------- C.G. Jung: "Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know." "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." - Carl Jung Krishna, as his friends called him, freely admitted his compulsive lying. He blamed it on simple fear of having his deceptions detected." NOTES OF A FRINGE-WATCHER MARTIN GARDNER on J Krishnamurti "All your questions are born out of the answers you already have. Any answer anybody gives should put an end to your questions. But it does not." [UG-K]
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 sudly Quasar Praiser  Registered: 01/05/15 Posts: 12,372 |
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-------------------- I am whatever Darwin needs me to be. 
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redgreenvines irregular verb  Registered: 04/08/04 Posts: 40,399 |
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Can it be composed as literature or poetry?
The longer form doesn't fit songs unless opera
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