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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "it's bad to have excessive tranquility"
    --Mr. McDowell, my 86 year old neighbor

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:

    What is stronger, the adverse reaction to being ruled over or the urge to call any attempt to save us from ourselves a lie?

    But does the person trying to save us from ourselves not have their own agendas?

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,869 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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
  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,577 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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/

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    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.

  • ArmyRanger375
    ArmyRanger375 Posts: 6

    "The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph"
    - Thomas Paine

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,567 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They have done the first here (see current college students), and are working on the second by accusing the intelligent of being Fascists.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2024

    Seems like he wrote a little book about that once called Common Sense

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." – Omar Khayyam

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those who seek perfection tend to only find imprrfection.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits."

    --@someguyintexas

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • First_Warrior
    First_Warrior Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭✭✭

    " 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

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,603 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hmm, it is a wonder we aren't all insane, @First_Warrior .