Quote Of The Day

peter4jc

Curmudgeon alert; those two are memes, not quotes.

entschuldigen mir bitte.

Ksqsmoking

@peter4jc said:
Curmudgeon alert; those two are memes, not quotes.

entschuldigen mir bitte.

Right you are. My humble apologies @peter4jc

Vision

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
Albert Einstein

"Its funny how when
Im loud, people tell
me to be quiet,
but when Im quiet,
people ask me whats
wrong with me."

silvermouse

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
--Charles Bukowski

Vision

One of the most poignant quotes on religion.

“Religion is such a great thing, It keeps you, you know, there’s something to be good about. You want to be good; you want to…It’s so important. And I don’t know if it’s explained. Right. I don’t know if I’m explaining it right now, but when you have something like that, you want to be good. You want to go to heaven, okay? You want to go to heaven.”
“If you don’t have heaven, you almost say, ‘Oh, what’s what’s the reason?'”
“‘Why do I have to be good? Let’s not be good. What difference does it make?'”

Donald Trump

peter4jc

The Donald should apply this quote from Psalm 131:1, where we find this from King David; "O LORD, my heart is not proud, and my eyes are not haughty; And I do not involve myself in great matters, Or in matters too marvelous for me."

CalvinAndHobo

“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.” - Neal Stephenson

peter4jc

Would you say that holds true of people who live in Iowa?

Edit: that's my idea of subtlety.

CalvinAndHobo

@peter4jc said:
Would you say that holds true of people who live in Iowa?

Never

ShawnOL

"Do you know what this cigar needs? A really huge band."

-No cigar smoker. Ever.

Amos_Umwhat

"I have never seen a cigar in need of a life preserver." -- Mark Twain

Ksqsmoking

peter4jc

"I number it among my blessings that my father had no car, while yet most of my friends had, and sometimes took me for a drive. This meant that all these distant objects could be visited just enough to clothe them with memories and not impossible desires, while yet they remained ordinarily as inaccessible as the Moon. The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I measured distances by the standard of man, man walking on his two feet, not by the standard of the internal combustion engine. I had not been allowed to deflower the very idea of distance; in return I possessed "infinite riches" in what would have been to motorists "a little room". The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that it "annihilates space". It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation which lowers the value of distance, so that a modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventure than his grandfather got from travelling ten. Of course if a man hates space and wants it to be annihilated, that is another matter. Why not creep into his coffin at once? There is little enough space there."
-C. S. Lewis

Amos_Umwhat

"We live in an age when rhetoric prevails and no one cares about the facts"

--Thomas Sowell

Stubble

OutdoorsSmoke_21191

silvermouse

Success is a lousy teacher.
--Bill Gates

silvermouse

“A question ain’t really a question if you know the answer too.” – John Prine

CommanderDuke_1

peter4jc

ShawnOL

"I can fix it. My brother's got a bitc-hin set of tools."

silvermouse

"Beware the fury of a patient man":
--Dryden

OutdoorsSmoke_21191

ShawnOL

"Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me".
-me

silvermouse

from the back of an archetype cigar band
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
--Carl Jung

silvermouse

A rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?” After a long pause, the rabbi finally responded with a soft but sincere voice. “God created atheists” he said, “to teach us the most important lesson of them all – the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that God commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his actions are based on his sense of morality. Look at the kindness he bestows on others simply because he feels it to be right. When someone reaches out to you for help. You should never say ‘I’ll pray that God will help you.’ Instead, for that moment, you should become an atheist – imagine there is no God who could help, and say ‘I will help you’.”
— Martin Buber, “Tales of the Hasidim”

Amos_Umwhat

The only thing worse than unfairness is imaginary fairness -- Thomas Sowell

Amos_Umwhat

@silvermouse said:
A rabbi was asked by one of his students “Why did God create atheists?” After a long pause, the rabbi finally responded with a soft but sincere voice. “God created atheists” he said, “to teach us the most important lesson of them all – the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs an act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that God commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his actions are based on his sense of morality. Look at the kindness he bestows on others simply because he feels it to be right. When someone reaches out to you for help. You should never say ‘I’ll pray that God will help you.’ Instead, for that moment, you should become an atheist – imagine there is no God who could help, and say ‘I will help you’.”
— Martin Buber, “Tales of the Hasidim”

This made me wonder, Edward, did you ever read Buber's "I and Thou"? I tried, but too far over my head. I keep thinking I'll tackle it again, but so far I haven't.

silvermouse

I don't put much store in theology, but that anecdote 'spoke to my condition' as the Quakers say. This is closer to what I understand of all:

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. ****, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

Hawks

Laughing at the auto censor of Díck.