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16 Apr 2014, 6:05 pm

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07 Jul 2014, 2:38 pm

And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of a whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night?"
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02 Sep 2014, 1:14 am

?Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.?

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle



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16 Sep 2014, 7:53 pm

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16 Sep 2014, 8:12 pm

Raptor wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
on Patriotism:

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?Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.?
- George Bernard Shaw

?Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.?
- Bertrand Russell

?Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.?
- Oscar Wilde

?Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him??
- Blaise Pascal

?Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, and conscience, and a slavish enthralment to those in power.?
- Leo Tolstoy


You forgot to say that patriots are bullies but I'm sure one of your kind will come along and add that.
Your's truly,
The Patriot.


I have no idea what "his kind" is, but I personally see no relationship between patriotism and bullying. I am more concerned with verbal bullying than physical bullying anyway. My example of bullying is someone like O'Rielly, who raises his voice and jabs his finger into his guests face in an attempt to bully them into using his words to answer his questions instead of permitting them to speak for themselves.



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16 Sep 2014, 8:46 pm

"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil."

-Robert Anton Wilson.



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16 Sep 2014, 9:18 pm

khaoz wrote:
Raptor wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
on Patriotism:

Quote:
?Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.?
- George Bernard Shaw

?Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.?
- Bertrand Russell

?Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.?
- Oscar Wilde

?Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him??
- Blaise Pascal

?Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, and conscience, and a slavish enthralment to those in power.?
- Leo Tolstoy


You forgot to say that patriots are bullies but I'm sure one of your kind will come along and add that.
Your's truly,
The Patriot.


I have no idea what "his kind" is, but I personally see no relationship between patriotism and bullying. I am more concerned with verbal bullying than physical bullying anyway. My example of bullying is someone like O'Rielly, who raises his voice and jabs his finger into his guests face in an attempt to bully them into using his words to answer his questions instead of permitting them to speak for themselves.


? You're responding to a post from over two (2) years ago.
? You're replying to someone (me) that you vowed not to speak to again since that person, according to you, has no "integrity".
? If O'Reilly bothers you that much why do you watch him?
? It might interest you to know that the person I was replying to has been banned, I believe, for trolling.


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16 Sep 2014, 9:24 pm

Nice to see AP's spirit has arisen from the ban grave. :D


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15 Jan 2017, 9:47 am

“In the midst of a single breath, where perversity cannot be held, is the way of the samurai.”
- Hagakure, by Yamamoto Tsunetomo (quoting Lord Sanenori)

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
- The American Crisis, by Thomas Paine



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14 Mar 2020, 6:46 pm

Philosophers dearly love to call their utterances 'truths', since in that guise they become binding upon us all. But each philosopher invents his own truths. Which means that he asks his pupils to deceive themselves in the way he shows, but that he reserves for himself the option of deceiving himself in his own way. Why? Why not allow everyone to deceive himself just as he likes?

Lev Shestov - All Things Are Possible


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