“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?'”
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."
“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
"I have never seen a cigar in need of a life preserver." -- Mark Twain
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"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
"We live in an age when rhetoric prevails and no one cares about the facts"
--Thomas Sowell
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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”
The only thing worse than unfairness is imaginary fairness -- Thomas Sowell
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
@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.
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"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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Curmudgeon alert; those two are memes, not quotes.
entschuldigen mir bitte.
Right you are. My humble apologies @peter4jc
The obstacle is the way.
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."
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
--Charles Bukowski
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
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."
“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
Would you say that holds true of people who live in Iowa?
Edit: that's my idea of subtlety.
Never
"Do you know what this cigar needs? A really huge band."
-No cigar smoker. Ever.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
"I have never seen a cigar in need of a life preserver." -- Mark Twain
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
The obstacle is the way.
"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
"We live in an age when rhetoric prevails and no one cares about the facts"
--Thomas Sowell
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
Success is a lousy teacher.
--Bill Gates
“A question ain’t really a question if you know the answer too.” – John Prine
"I can fix it. My brother's got a bitc-hin set of tools."
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
"Beware the fury of a patient man":
--Dryden
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
"Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me".
-me
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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
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”
The only thing worse than unfairness is imaginary fairness -- Thomas Sowell
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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
Laughing at the auto censor of Díck.
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