@silvermouse said:
Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If we have an opponent, then more times than not, we are also someone's opponent. Wouldn't that mean we are invincible and vulnerable at the same time?
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
@silvermouse said:
Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If we have an opponent, then more times than not, we are also someone's opponent. Wouldn't that mean we are invincible and vulnerable at the same time?
Only if you allow yourself to be. It’s about the mindset.
“There is something extraordinarily magical that occurs in the shared space of smoke, cigars, and people,” Lucianao Meirelles said. “It’s as if barriers are bridged, and guards lowered. The experience goes beyond language, culture, gender, or any sense of otherness. Varied pathways lead to this common ground, a sacred ambience where we can connect and understand that no matter how foreign we may be to one another, the humanity in us overwhelms our perceptive differences. Those once strangers to one another are brought together, under the influence of a worldly cigar.”
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Science is a merely one tool for modeling & working with reality..
Science is as easy to corrupt & manipulate as any other process invented by people.. Politics, Ideology, money, activists and faddish social trends all influence science much more than people want to admit.
--Richard Benack
"People think hitchhiking ended because hitchhikers became more dangerous. But that wasn’t really it. The practice faded because drivers themselves got scared. Or their cars were too clean, too personal to allow entry to a random stranger. Our worlds of trust and fellowship shrank as our private worlds expanded. We had our headphones, our Sony Walkmans, our cassette tapes. Or now our earbuds, our podcasts, our hyperindividualized channels of news or entertainment. Who wants some grubby stranger barging into that? We have farmed out our hospitality to the hotel and restaurant industries and all transportation to trains, buses, airplanes, taxis, and Uber. We have sanitized and made a business of the whole of it. We’re hospitable if we put up friends or make them dinner. But that is not the origin of a bedrock concept as old as man."
@silvermouse said:
"People think hitchhiking ended because hitchhikers became more dangerous. But that wasn’t really it. The practice faded because drivers themselves got scared. Or their cars were too clean, too personal to allow entry to a random stranger. Our worlds of trust and fellowship shrank as our private worlds expanded. We had our headphones, our Sony Walkmans, our cassette tapes. Or now our earbuds, our podcasts, our hyperindividualized channels of news or entertainment. Who wants some grubby stranger barging into that? We have farmed out our hospitality to the hotel and restaurant industries and all transportation to trains, buses, airplanes, taxis, and Uber. We have sanitized and made a business of the whole of it. We’re hospitable if we put up friends or make them dinner. But that is not the origin of a bedrock concept as old as man."
–From Neil King’s American Ramble (2023).
I spent most of 1974 hitchhiking around. TX to CA to FL, Midwestern states, CO, AZ, all over. King makes a lot of good points, a lot of it is just that society has changed so much. Also, just about everyone has a car now.
Think for a second about the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou?. A vehicle comes lumbering down the road and offers to let 3 strangers hop on the back. I've literally lived that scene, mostly in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
The hardest place to get a ride was California. The general belief across the country was that California was "20 years ahead of the rest of the country". Maybe it was.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth, then it's far too late, when they pass away
We were talking about the love we all could share
When we find it, to try our best to hold it there with our love
With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew
Try to realise it's all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you
We were talking about the love that's gone so cold
And the people who gain the world and lose their soul
They don't know, they can't see, are you one of them?
When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you
We know they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know that we know that they are lying.
We know that they know that we know that they know they are lying.
Ans still...they continue to lie.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
@silvermouse said:
"It is impossible to love and to be wise"
--Francis Bacon
I'd be interested in hearing his rationale for that statement.
Ask Kevin Costner.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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Those that say a job cannot be done should not interrupt those that are doing it. ― George Bernard Shaw
Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If we have an opponent, then more times than not, we are also someone's opponent. Wouldn't that mean we are invincible and vulnerable at the same time?
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Only if you allow yourself to be. It’s about the mindset.
Thank you, sifu.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
“ The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. “
"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."
Rudyard Kipling
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
"Motivation is a false god, discipline is manhood."
Cigars are great and so is this
There are no chick's with dix, only dudes with titz.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
“There is something extraordinarily magical that occurs in the shared space of smoke, cigars, and people,” Lucianao Meirelles said. “It’s as if barriers are bridged, and guards lowered. The experience goes beyond language, culture, gender, or any sense of otherness. Varied pathways lead to this common ground, a sacred ambience where we can connect and understand that no matter how foreign we may be to one another, the humanity in us overwhelms our perceptive differences. Those once strangers to one another are brought together, under the influence of a worldly cigar.”
Tolerance is the lube that helps slip the díldo of dysfunction into the àss of a civilized society.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Science is a merely one tool for modeling & working with reality..
Science is as easy to corrupt & manipulate as any other process invented by people.. Politics, Ideology, money, activists and faddish social trends all influence science much more than people want to admit.
--Richard Benack
Too late, we are already there
Cigars are great and so is this
"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win."
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
"People think hitchhiking ended because hitchhikers became more dangerous. But that wasn’t really it. The practice faded because drivers themselves got scared. Or their cars were too clean, too personal to allow entry to a random stranger. Our worlds of trust and fellowship shrank as our private worlds expanded. We had our headphones, our Sony Walkmans, our cassette tapes. Or now our earbuds, our podcasts, our hyperindividualized channels of news or entertainment. Who wants some grubby stranger barging into that? We have farmed out our hospitality to the hotel and restaurant industries and all transportation to trains, buses, airplanes, taxis, and Uber. We have sanitized and made a business of the whole of it. We’re hospitable if we put up friends or make them dinner. But that is not the origin of a bedrock concept as old as man."
–From Neil King’s American Ramble (2023).
I spent most of 1974 hitchhiking around. TX to CA to FL, Midwestern states, CO, AZ, all over. King makes a lot of good points, a lot of it is just that society has changed so much. Also, just about everyone has a car now.
Think for a second about the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou?. A vehicle comes lumbering down the road and offers to let 3 strangers hop on the back. I've literally lived that scene, mostly in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
The hardest place to get a ride was California. The general belief across the country was that California was "20 years ahead of the rest of the country". Maybe it was.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” -Mahatma Gandhi
"Within You Without You"
We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth, then it's far too late, when they pass away
We were talking about the love we all could share
When we find it, to try our best to hold it there with our love
With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew
Try to realise it's all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you
We were talking about the love that's gone so cold
And the people who gain the world and lose their soul
They don't know, they can't see, are you one of them?
When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you
--George Harrison
Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.
“Politics is the continuation of war by other means”
--M. Foucault
We know they are lying.
They know they are lying.
They know that we know that they are lying.
We know that they know that we know that they know they are lying.
Ans still...they continue to lie.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I quit smoking cigarettes and with the $70 a month I am saving not smoking cigarettes I'm smoking $700 worth of cigars.
Ron White
"It is impossible to love and to be wise"
--Francis Bacon
I'd be interested in hearing his rationale for that statement.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Ask Kevin Costner.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"War is mainly a catalog of blunders"
--Churchill