Cool quotes
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:58 pm
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
this dudes got loads. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/autho ... es_jr.htmlA mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Same really, should have cut it down really. Was just looking for one the said something about peoples morality generally being arbitrary to their faith and that's the first that sprung to mind.d-T-r wrote:wouldnt agree with the first and last part of that quote above.
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
If you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.
Robert Anton WilsonThe shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.
re-ordered for truthhackman wrote:Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first; but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problem that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it.Robert Anton WilsonIf you think you know what the hell is going on, you're probably full of shit.
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
— Maya Angelou
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
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.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas AdamsIt is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
If people only knew how hard it is to be wounded, to die, they would all be meek and gentle, would not split into parties, would not incite mobs to attack one another, and would not kill. But when they are in good health they know nothing of this. When they are wounded, no-one believes them. When they are dead, they can no longer speak.

don't encourage himparson wrote:the bible does say to be like god i'm pretty sure. it's fundamental to judaism anyway, which christianity is founded on.
basically what they mean by being godlike is to feel the constant gratification of bestowal


Garrison KeillorTake good care of your friends because there will be times when you are no good to anybody, and there will be no good reason to like you except just out of pure habit.