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"Those who are willing to give up freedom for a little safety deserve neither freedom nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt
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| simple religion? |
| 07.31.03 (9:19 pm) [edit] |
the Dalai Lama:
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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| philosophy of sexuality..... |
| 07.31.03 (4:29 pm) [edit] |
Master, Slave Philosophy....
One philosopher can teach us a lot about sadism, namely the Marquis de Sade, the French aristocrat, writer and contemporary of Napoleon, from whom the phenomenon takes its name. De Sade was a sadist, whose adult thoughts were filled with fantasies about torture and murder. Though reports vary about the extent of his doing so, he put his fantasies into practice, beating one lowborn girl and facing a lawsuit as a result. His aristocratic status might have protected him but he became so extreme as to embarrass even the French nobility and he spent many of his later years in confinement. In the underpinnings of this posture, two things stand out. The first is the complete rejection of all rules or logic as they might apply to him. Self-interest is his only concern. The second is his torturers' striking desire to teach this shallow insight to their victims. It is this desire to teach that seems the only real, logical inconsistency in de Sade's philosophy.
Nearly a hundred years later, another philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, reached similar conclusions though, as a more peaceable man, he is not known to have tortured anyone. Nietzsche abandoned religion and came to despise it, particularly the Christianity of his youth. As he says in Beyond Good and Evil (para 260) :-
In a tour of the many finer and coarser moralities which have ruled or still rule on earth I found .... a basic distinction emerged. There is master morality and slave morality.
Religion, said Nietzsche, spreads a moral code teaching men to be slaves. He came to admire the master, the strong man, the individual, the superman who wrote the rules. Consider this description from The Will to Power (para 962).
In his admiration for the superman, Nietzsche seems to have missed the real dangers he poses; many people saw Hitler as a Nietzschean superman and Nietzsche's reputation declined after world war II - a real irony given his own biting contempt for antisemitism. Also, while the submissive posturing associated with religious ritual supports Nietzsche's point about moral codes, he seems to have underestimated the very real desire for subordination that makes those codes work. In any event, Nietzsche gave names to the patterns of thought associated with master and slave, Dionysian and Apollonian, after the Gods Dionysus and Apollo. (Nietzsche, had wider and less precise meanings for these terms but they have also been used in anthropology and their usage has developed (see glossary). Dionysian thought is that of the master, of domination or, more generally of the communicative transmitter; Apollonian thought is that of the slave, of subordination or of the communicative receiver.)
The significance of this classification for philosophy is that it raises questions such as, "What about logic, rationality and the thought leading to science?"
-John Hewitt
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| soul mates? |
| 07.30.03 (7:06 pm) [edit] |
"A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life." -Leslie Parrish in _The Bridge Across Forever: a Love Story_ by Richard Bach
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| Do words have meaning? |
| 07.30.03 (2:09 pm) [edit] |
To imply that words have meaning raises the question as to what "meaning" is. Is meaning a property of words in the same way that a cat has four legs and a tail? I think a word is a relational entity which lacks the power to do or to cause anything. The person who hears or sees the word must already know what it means to be able to understand it.
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| understanding......... |
| 07.29.03 (1:56 pm) [edit] |
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Scary.... |
| 07.28.03 (7:18 pm) [edit] |
In 1998, 30,708 people in the United States died from firearm-related deaths – 12,102 (39%) of those were murdered; 17,424 (57%) were suicides; 866 (3%) were accidents; and in 316 (1%) the intent was unknown.v In comparison, 33,651 Americans were killed in the Korean War and 58,193 Americans were killed in the Vietnam War.
In 1998, more than 10 children and teenagers, ages 19 and under, were killed with guns everyday.
In 1998, firearm homicide was the leading cause of death for black males ages 15-34.
In 1996, handguns were used to murder:
2 people in New Zealand,
15 in Japan,
30 in Great Britain,
106 in Canada and
9,390 in the United States.
....*Screams*....
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| Connection between our mass media diet, incitement of fear, and consumerism.... |
| 07.28.03 (7:16 pm) [edit] |
"It's a campaign of fear and consumption. Keep people afraid and they'll consume."
-Marilyn Manson
From Bowling For Columbine
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| Knowledge for the masses..... |
| 07.28.03 (2:00 pm) [edit] |
On our discussion today about waking the masses with knowledge Gonzo....
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
-Denis Diderot
And this is what waking them all is like:
Waking Up The Dead
Human flesh is torn apart,
Eyes are eaten by ravens dark.
Blood is flowin in endless streams
And eternity will soon end.
Waking up the dead, waking up the dead!
Come with me, come with me! Waking up the dead!
Waking up the dead, waking up the dead!
They will rise, they will rise! Waking up the dead!
Hungry fire, burning corpses,
Screams of hatred, bloody soil.
Remains of flesh, burning black.
masters of darkness, killing you!
Ref.
Bag of bones, creeping down,
Crippled daughter crying loud.
Dying children crying blood,
The lightning of anger burning life!
Ref. 2x
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Pretty scary, eh? LLx2
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| American Beauty Quotes |
| 07.26.03 (7:58 pm) [edit] |
"My job requires mostly masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that less closely resembles Hell."
"...but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst...
And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...
You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure... but don't worry...
You will someday. "
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| Matrix Quote |
| 07.26.03 (7:58 pm) [edit] |
Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?
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| Fight Club Quotes |
| 07.26.03 (7:58 pm) [edit] |
Tyler Durden: Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we don't need.
Narrator: If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
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| 07.25.03 (9:33 pm) [edit] |
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." — Edmund Burke, 18th-century English political philosopher
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| beautiful? |
| 07.24.03 (2:38 pm) [edit] |
......
what is beautiful?
by nightsong
what is the image
that we all strive to be?
this skinny girl with silky hair and a tiny waist
why is she beautiful
how do we call ourselves ugly
who made this rule
if you are not a size 2
you are not beautiful
it wrecks me and brings me to my knees
i cannot live with myself
when i think these things
these horrible thoughts
about myself
who put them there?
it is not fair
i see young girls starving themselves
and for what
what do they want from life?
just be happy?
everyone tells me don't worry,
don't worry about "image"
but it is so hard
it is so easy to get caught up in it
to be wrapped around how others see you
if they think you're beautiful or are you ugly?
it is so hard.
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| who knew? |
| 07.24.03 (4:14 am) [edit] |
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
gooooooo Friedrich!
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| ....a sonnet..... |
| 07.22.03 (4:47 pm) [edit] |
From Shakespere:
CXLVII.
My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly express'd;
For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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| twice in one day...odd for me.... |
| 07.21.03 (6:19 pm) [edit] |
The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
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| fool?? |
| 07.21.03 (1:57 pm) [edit] |
Beatles - The Fool On The Hill lyrics
Day after day alone on the hill,
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still,
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see that he's just a fool,
And he never gives an answer,
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning around.
Well on his way his head in a cloud,
The man of a thousand voices talking percetly loud
But nobody ever hears him,
Or the sound he appears to make,
And he never seems to notice,
But the fool on the hill . . .
Nobody seems to like him
They can tell what he wants to do.
And he never shows his feelings,
But the fool on the hill...
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| 07.20.03 (6:17 pm) [edit] |
I dwell in possibility...
Emily Dickinson
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| i'm bored... |
| 07.18.03 (3:19 pm) [edit] |
When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.
-- Steven Wright
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| 07.17.03 (5:43 pm) [edit] |
Man and things.-- Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
--from Nietzsche's Daybreak
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| ideas? thoughts? |
| 07.16.03 (8:48 pm) [edit] |
Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger,
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god,
Wandering, wandering in hopless night,
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars...
Out here we is stoned
Immaculate.
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QUOTE:
Stupidity has a bad habit of getting its way. --"The Day After"
QUOTE: Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
– A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"
QUOTE: War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
– General Omar Bradley
I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats...
– Benjamin Franklin
"There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly."-- Klaatu, The Day The Earth Stood Still, 1951.
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