When you get to the bottom you go back to the top of the slide...
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
That surprised me but sure enough:
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
“It would be a good contest among Christians, one to labor to give no offense, and the other to labor to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.”
—Richard Sibbes
" There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it never care for anything else thereafter."
Ernest Hemingway
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What is stronger, the adverse reaction to being ruled over or the urge to call any attempt to save us from ourselves a lie?
"it's bad to have excessive tranquility"
--Mr. McDowell, my 86 year old neighbor
But does the person trying to save us from ourselves not have their own agendas?
When you get to the bottom you go back to the top of the slide...
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. - Dalai Lama
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
That surprised me but sure enough:
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
https://europeanacademyofreligionandsociety.com/news/when-is-violent-self-defence-justified-in-buddhist-ethics/
Any time someone attempts to take your life or those you love, it is righteous to end them with extreme prejudice.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph"
- Thomas Paine
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
“It would be a good contest among Christians, one to labor to give no offense, and the other to labor to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.”
—Richard Sibbes
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
They have done the first here (see current college students), and are working on the second by accusing the intelligent of being Fascists.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Seems like he wrote a little book about that once called Common Sense
The future's not what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." – Omar Khayyam
Those who seek perfection tend to only find imprrfection.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
"In the world of hi-fi you have some nuts that pay so much attention to how it sounds, they forget to listen to the music."
--@peter4jc
"You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits."
--@someguyintexas
True enough. ( You misspelled "imperfection")
MARGARITAS, they're not just for breakfast anymore.
~don't remember who said it, or much else for that matter.
" There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it never care for anything else thereafter."
Ernest Hemingway
Hmm, it is a wonder we aren't all insane, @First_Warrior .
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."