I just got caught up on a few months worth of these profound thoughts and I’m sick of you all.
And I thought it was worth sharing. So, I posted it in the great quotes thread. Annoying, isn’t it?
Clearly the appeal from an American statesman is much greater than that from Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus. I thought it was a funny juxtaposition.
@Bob_Luken said: I just got caught up on a few months worth of these profound thoughts and I’m sick of you all. And I thought it was worth sharing. So, I posted it in the great quotes thread. Annoying, isn’t it?
@Bob_Luken said: I just got caught up on a few months worth of these profound thoughts and I’m sick of you all.
Hopefully, it isn't something we can't work through. Please reach out if you need anything, Mike-Bob.
How's that for annoying? :-)
@peter4jc said: @Bob_Luken said: I just got caught up on a few months worth of these profound thoughts and I’m sick of you all. And I thought it was worth sharing. So, I posted it in the great quotes thread. Annoying, isn’t it? Hopefully, it isn't something we can't work through. Please reach out if you need anything, Mike-Bob. How's that for annoying? :-)
@peter4jc said:
I was going to say get your keister on vHerf, Bob, but your reply is much more civil.
@Yakster said: Clearly the appeal from an American statesman is much greater than that from Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus. I thought it was a funny juxtaposition.
I swear I wasn’t staring at your juxta.
"Oh my God. Everything hurts this morning. "
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
@silvermouse said: Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
@silvermouse said: Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell
My Dad took Bertrand Russell's philosophy class at Northwestern many years ago, came away believing that he himself was an atheist, but that kids should be raised in church nonetheless. Net effect on our family was that it was many years before Dad declared himself to be a Christian, although he remained active in the church.
The whole thing pissed Mom off terribly. I learned all this when Mom saw me reading Bertrand Russell's "Why I am not a Christian". I had never known this until after my Dad was gone.
Dad didn't know Voltaire, though.
we need to ban the books of all philosophers who harbor doubt I guess.
That would be, wait for it, all philosophers.
“He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.” — W.S. Gilbert
This one speaks to me quite clearly, and fits me to a T.
What is the context? It sounds like he is saying we should not be certain of anything. Yet, society would not function without certainty.
@Hobbes86 said: @silvermouse said: Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire What is the context? It sounds like he is saying we should not be certain of anything. Yet, society would not function without certainty.
@Hobbes86 said:
Are you sure about that?
@TRayB said: Are you sure about that?
I certainly am.
"I have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion" George Orwell 1938
@First_Warrior said: "I have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion" George Orwell 1938
Dang, I thought that was L. Ron Hubbard
I quoted Randy Wayne White quoting Orwell. Whoever, but the quote rings true.
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." --Nietzsche
@peter4jc said: There is no end to the CAS madness, but there will be an end to your 'madness' once you smoke all of these.
Maybe the universe is trying to tell me something. ;-)
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
Desiderius Erasmus
