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Post by Lugh on Apr 26, 2018 21:29:38 GMT
History is a nightmare from which i am trying to awake - James Joyce.
Its not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most that will conquer. - Terence MacSwiney
We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future. - Patrick Pearse
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Post by Arlon10 on Apr 28, 2018 13:39:34 GMT
History is a nightmare from which i am trying to awake - James Joyce. Its not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most that will conquer. - Terence MacSwiney
We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future. - Patrick Pearse
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Post by viola on Apr 28, 2018 14:05:04 GMT
 "I may not have fought the good fight, but I have kept the faith." - Sinclair Lewis |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Apr 28, 2018 18:45:22 GMT
"URH GOOM ORB TRA FEYYY!"- Elephant Man
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Apr 28, 2018 18:58:30 GMT
So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 28, 2018 22:11:01 GMT
tariff, a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer - Ambrose Bierce
marriage is the chief cause of divorce - Groucho Marx
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Post by general313 on Apr 28, 2018 22:53:37 GMT
We build too many walls and not enough bridges - Isaac Newton
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 23:14:59 GMT
Once I ventured the guess that men worked in response to a vague inner urge for self-expression. But that was probably a shaky theory, for some men who work the hardest have nothing to express. A hypothesis with rather more plausibility in it now suggests itself. It is that men work simply in order to escape the depressing agony of contemplating life – that their work, like their play, is a mumbo-jumbo that serves them by permitting them to escape from reality. Both work and play, ordinarily, are illusions. Neither serves any solid and permanent purpose. But life, stripped of such illusions, instantly becomes unbearable. Man cannot sit still, contemplating his destiny in this world, without going frantic. So he invents ways to take his mind off the horror. He works. He plays. He accumulates the preposterous nothing called property. He strives for the coy eye-wink called fame. He founds a family, and spreads his curse over others. All the while the thing that moves him is simply the yearning to lose himself, to forget himself, to escape the tragic-comedy that is himself. Life, fundamentally, is not worth living. So he confects artificialities to make it so. So he erects a gaudy structure to conceal the fact that it is not so.
H.L. Mencken
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 28, 2018 23:16:48 GMT
We build too many walls and not enough bridges - Isaac Newton What happened to the wall that Trump promised? Have not heard about it since. |
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Post by Rodney Farber on Apr 30, 2018 0:52:36 GMT
Two hands working do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. - Han Solo
I don't object to the concept of a deity, but I'm baffled by the notion of one that takes attendance. - Amy Farrah Fowler
Any concept understandable to people today would be understandable to people 3,000 years ago, if you have the patience. If there was a God 3,000 years ago and wanted people to understand the germ theory of disease, he could have told them how to make a fucking microscope instead of giving instructions on exactly what the curtains in his temple should look like. – posted by Darren Garrison, SMDB.com, 06-Oct-2017
“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ... But He [Lord] loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” - George Carlin
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Post by cupcakes on Apr 30, 2018 12:59:44 GMT
tpfkar You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 30, 2018 22:39:49 GMT
"Remember that time is money."
Ben Franklin
"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead."
Ben Franklin
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on May 1, 2018 6:59:06 GMT
My all-time favorite quote:
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on May 1, 2018 7:01:25 GMT
Once I ventured the guess that men worked in response to a vague inner urge for self-expression. But that was probably a shaky theory, for some men who work the hardest have nothing to express. A hypothesis with rather more plausibility in it now suggests itself. It is that men work simply in order to escape the depressing agony of contemplating life – that their work, like their play, is a mumbo-jumbo that serves them by permitting them to escape from reality. Both work and play, ordinarily, are illusions. Neither serves any solid and permanent purpose. But life, stripped of such illusions, instantly becomes unbearable. Man cannot sit still, contemplating his destiny in this world, without going frantic. So he invents ways to take his mind off the horror. He works. He plays. He accumulates the preposterous nothing called property. He strives for the coy eye-wink called fame. He founds a family, and spreads his curse over others. All the while the thing that moves him is simply the yearning to lose himself, to forget himself, to escape the tragic-comedy that is himself. Life, fundamentally, is not worth living. So he confects artificialities to make it so. So he erects a gaudy structure to conceal the fact that it is not so. H.L. MenckenThis quote is like the pessimist's version of the Jung quote I posted above.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2018 0:48:43 GMT
Once I ventured the guess that men worked in response to a vague inner urge for self-expression. But that was probably a shaky theory, for some men who work the hardest have nothing to express. A hypothesis with rather more plausibility in it now suggests itself. It is that men work simply in order to escape the depressing agony of contemplating life – that their work, like their play, is a mumbo-jumbo that serves them by permitting them to escape from reality. Both work and play, ordinarily, are illusions. Neither serves any solid and permanent purpose. But life, stripped of such illusions, instantly becomes unbearable. Man cannot sit still, contemplating his destiny in this world, without going frantic. So he invents ways to take his mind off the horror. He works. He plays. He accumulates the preposterous nothing called property. He strives for the coy eye-wink called fame. He founds a family, and spreads his curse over others. All the while the thing that moves him is simply the yearning to lose himself, to forget himself, to escape the tragic-comedy that is himself. Life, fundamentally, is not worth living. So he confects artificialities to make it so. So he erects a gaudy structure to conceal the fact that it is not so. H.L. MenckenThis quote is like the pessimist's version of the Jung quote I posted above. I think that both quotes get to the heart of why so many educated people in the 21st century are still religious. But I think that the fact of the prevalence of religion even amongst people who should be capable of knowing better, lends itself to more of a pessimistic interpretation of the human condition. |
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2018 3:34:32 GMT
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Post by OldSamVimes on May 2, 2018 6:32:13 GMT
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
-Joseph Campbell
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Post by OldSamVimes on May 2, 2018 6:32:52 GMT
My all-time favorite quote: "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung That's a good one. |
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on May 2, 2018 6:53:18 GMT
My all-time favorite quote: "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung That's a good one. Always wondered if Wallace Stevens had it in mind when he wrote Of Mere Being: |
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Post by cupcakes on May 2, 2018 14:10:14 GMT
tpfkar I'm gonna give you a shot of Atomcol absolutely free. For $5.
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