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from Poker Star Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 14:49 (Agree/Disagree?) Live and let die. No joke. Leave people alone to make their choices. It's not your responsibility to save and save them and you can't anyways. (reply to this comment)

from Anonyymous Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 17:34 (Agree/Disagree?) Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. People with opinions just go around bothering each other. Attributed to Buddha (reply to this comment)

from murasaki Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 17:20 (Agree/Disagree?) For fellow victors.... A true revolutionary doesn't ask questions. I have this day set thee....to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. Your own righteousness is filthy menstrous rags. I of my own self can do no good thing. (reply to this comment)

From AnnaH Friday, December 15, 2006, 11:17 (Agree/Disagree?) Wow, that is incredibly communist. Were these all from the family?(reply to this comment)

From afflick Friday, December 15, 2006, 11:37 (Agree/Disagree?) The Family is very much akin to a Communist nation: individual units working long hours for uniform pay (nothing) while sharing limited living space, food supplies and non-perishable goods (home and provisioning). At the same time, elite units live in far more luxurious circumstances under the guise of "all being equal." The great thing about communism is that, if you are at the "right" place at the "right" time, you can live very well off other people's efforts. If you are in the "wrong" place, you work very hard for very little benefit. In my senior teen and SGA years in The Family, I was one of those "wrongies" who worked very hard caring for others' children and preparing meals, raising funds every weekday and weekend. I never even had a dental check up during this time, my clothes were all hand-me-downs and I slept in a room with eight other girls. Meanwhile, the leaders whose children I cared for regularly went shopping with home money (I know, I went with them to mind their children while they shopped), visited the doctor whenever necessary, took long naps and "get outs" and owned their own cars as well as having very large bedrooms (with their own bath). (reply to this comment)

from Moronic Minimee Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 01:43 (Agree/Disagree?) If you don't have a sense of humor, you don't have any sense at all. Love will make a ugly dog seem cute, but it's still an ugly dog. Seat belts are not as uncomfortable as wheelchairs. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. Don't worry if your child is afraid of the dark. Very soon she'll become a teenager who wants to stay out all night. Business conventions are important. They demonstrate how many people a company can operate without. There are no new sins; the old ones are just getting more publicity. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM. It could be a right number. No one ever says "It's just a game." when his team is winning. In 40 years, we'll have thousands of OLD LADIES running around with tattoos. In 50 years, RAP music will be the Golden Oldies! Money can't buy happiness. But it's more comfortable to cry in a Lexus than in a Daewoo. Money can't buy happiness. But it can buy everything else. I'd be happier if I had everything else. (reply to this comment)

from SeanSwede Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 00:41 (Agree/Disagree?) Just thought I would say hi. How are you doing? Its been awhile since I was on this site. What are you doing these days? (reply to this comment)

From Phoenixkidd Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 11:43 (Agree/Disagree?) Who you talking to, if it's me I am doing great Sean, it's finally starting to get cooler around 65 degrees wow. (reply to this comment)

from neez Monday, November 27, 2006 - 22:15 (Agree/Disagree?) Mmmmmm... beer (reply to this comment)

from Oddman Monday, November 27, 2006 - 08:12 (Agree/Disagree?) The mantras of villains. "Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future." "Only force rules. Force is the first law" "The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category." "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." "When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community." "How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started -- that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed." - Adolf Hitler “A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.” “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” “The Pope? How many divisions has he got?” “If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” “I trust no one, not even myself.” “good use of it against the Japanese.” - Jozef Stalin “It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power” Juxtaposed with “The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.” “We have tons of potatoes, but the people aren't potato eaters. They have rice, but don't like it.” - Robert Mugabe "I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of “Apartheid!” I’ve said many times that the word “Apartheid” means good neighbourliness." "I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong." "Adapt or die." - PW Botha, “You expect to break me? Impossible! You broke me years ago. You killed me years ago....” “In fact, it makes me mad when someone kills snakes or dogs or cats or horses. I don't even like to eat meat - that is how much I am against killing....” - Charles Manson “Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.” - Saddam Hussein (reply to this comment)

From Ne Oublie Monday, November 27, 2006, 08:35 (Agree/Disagree?) It's sad how accurate so many of these are as descriptions of human nature.(reply to this comment)

from Shaka Monday, November 27, 2006 - 08:04 (Agree/Disagree?) "Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." Ozzy Osbourne (reply to this comment)

from Jedran Monday, November 27, 2006 - 05:38 (Agree/Disagree?) The company of those who seek the truth is infinitely preferable to those that have already found it. (reply to this comment)

from lucidchick Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 22:50 (Agree/Disagree?) Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. (Gandhi) (reply to this comment)

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From Samuel Monday, November 27, 2006, 04:56 (Agree/Disagree?) I love the one by Catherine the Great, Sara. Victor Hugo too. (reply to this comment)

from Oddman Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 14:59 (Agree/Disagree?) A few of many, Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer~ The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. ~Ayn Rand~ The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. ~Frederich Nietzsche~ With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ~William Lloyd Garrison~ I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. ~Lisa Alther~ Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. ~Unknown~ When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Kotowaza~ The reverse side also has a reverse side. ~Japanese Kotowaza~ Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. ~Albert Guerard~ Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~Alan Corenk~ War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~John Stuart Mill~ What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ~Mahatma Gandhi~ The Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction. ~Ian McKellen~ Interview regarding the Davinci Code film The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. ~Bertrand Russell~ Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate person inside it. ~unknown~ I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ~Bertrand Russell~ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau~ Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. ~Stanley Walker~ Manners maketh the man ~Unknown~ The suit may not make the man, but it certainly reflects the man. ~Unknown~ Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. ~Voltaire~ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~Dalai Lama~ Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ~Bertrand Russell~ I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. ~Bertrand Russell~ Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. ~Bertrand Russell~ Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. ~Bertrand Russell~ The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~Bertrand Russell~ Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ~Thomas Jefferson~ (reply to this comment)

From Rain Child Sunday, November 26, 2006, 23:54 (Agree/Disagree?) Loved those, especially the Bertrand Russell ones.(reply to this comment)

From Rain Child Monday, November 27, 2006, 00:20 (Agree/Disagree?) You total legend Oddie! Because of you I've gone and looked Bertrand Russell up on the net, and I've been reading and reading...wow! Thanks!(reply to this comment)

From Oddman Monday, November 27, 2006, 07:34 (Agree/Disagree?) My pleasure Rain. Bertrand Russell's logic is very well worth the study. As a sign of my respect for the greatest logician of the century past, I read his works with a fair measure of doubt. So far, I can safely say I'd buy so much of his material if I could afford it. (reply to this comment)

From Ne Oublie Monday, November 27, 2006, 08:36 (Agree/Disagree?) While I respect his process, it's a shame he ended up with such poor conclusions. I mean, how far can you trust a Fabian?(reply to this comment)

From Oddman Monday, November 27, 2006, 08:49 (Agree/Disagree?) Don't bash Fabians. They have a tendency to either veer near excellence, or blatantly refute excellence, on their way to at times poor conclusions. See also G.B. Shaw, H.G. Wells, Townsend, Orwell, Titmuss. It's not so much the final conclusions of great men that make them great, but the steps and stops they stopped at, which give us wisdom. Concepts they later refuted, or views they opposed also provide inspiration. We can find wisdom even in the Mein Kampf if we read, analyze, and interpret. An evil book is evil only to those who swallow everything like thanksgiving pudding or american journalism. Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. ~H.L. Mencken~ (reply to this comment)

From Ne Oublie Monday, November 27, 2006, 08:55 (Agree/Disagree?) Broadly the point I was making, except that I still think it's fun to bash Fabians. (I mean, what sort of rallying call is "What do we want?" "Gradual change!" "When do we want it?" "In good time!")(reply to this comment)

from Ne Oublie Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 13:23 (Agree/Disagree?) A few of my favourites: "If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." "He who expects nothing will never be disappointed." "Treat [him] with respect, not because he is a gentleman, but because you are one." (reply to this comment)

From Ne Oublie Sunday, November 26, 2006, 16:42 (Agree/Disagree?) And another... "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."(reply to this comment)

From vacuous Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 11:09 (Agree/Disagree?) ...the irony...(reply to this comment)

From Samuel Sunday, November 26, 2006, 13:25 (Agree/Disagree?) Very good quotes. I especially like the last one.(reply to this comment)

from Rain Child Saturday, November 25, 2006 - 16:38 (Agree/Disagree?) Ha ha ha don't be deceived the green paper pig is all a dream ha ha ha children dance on the roof the green paper pig is gonna go poof you may laugh and think its funny But man I tell you that's my money! (Just got a major hit of guilt, and feel the need to share it.) Go here to get some for yourself: http://www.hatrobot.com/littlepiggy.html (reply to this comment)

From Monday, November 27, 2006, 04:31 (Agree/Disagree?) as i am not even close to being wealthy i will not bother with the guilt. As long as i struggle daily and work my ass off for a measly salary that will never enable me to get ahead or save any significant amount, i refuse to feel guilty about the plight of people worse off than myself. See, its not my fault that i was born a citizen of the first world, I have my expectations of the standard i, by virtue of my birth am entitled to and until i reach those standards i will not be made to feel guilty about the unfortunates that lost the birth lottery. I spent enough years of my life "giving" to others whilst having fuck all for myself. I work only for my own benefit now and refuse to have anything to do with charity. Let the 3% give it. (reply to this comment)

From Phoenixkidd Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 11:46 (Agree/Disagree?) Great Words From! Wish you had a profile though. (reply to this comment)

From more where that comes from Sunday, November 26, 2006, 23:01 (Agree/Disagree?) Just a few of the weapons of my torment: You are your own worst enemy. Die daily. God hates murmurers. If you think, think, think, then you'll sink, sink, sink, because you stink, stink, stink--pew (along with: lean not to your own understanding/arm of the flesh, etc.) Give God the credit for everything good about yourself and yourself the blame for everything bad. A suggestion is an order given in love. If a brother or sister be destitute (etc.) and thou sayest unto him "be ye warmed and fed" but give him not those things which are needful to the body (etc.) The handicap of natural ability. Be more like David (then it became "Mama"). Holy holes! Yours not to question why, yours but to do or die. The unguarded moment... The less there is of you the more the light shines through. and of course: JOB 9:20! (reply to this comment)

From Rain Child Monday, November 27, 2006, 00:01 (Agree/Disagree?) Oh God, I know what you mean!!! I still unconsciously live by a lot of that...it's made me very mousy, never taking the credit for anything good I do, and always taking the blame for anything bad that happens...I'm still trying to get rid of it! And what about, "We are god's expendables, made to wear out on his altar of design" and "Well this is for all the times you didn't get caught" (as if) (reply to this comment)

from Rain Child Saturday, November 25, 2006 - 16:07 (Agree/Disagree?) Isn't it: "I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of The Lord than to dwell in the tents of the wicked"? Not that it makes sense, I just remember my dad saying that. (reply to this comment)

From Phoenixkidd Monday, November 27, 2006, 12:25 (Agree/Disagree?) Oh that's right, doorkeeper = BORING ASS JOB. I haven't thought about the Green Paper Pig in Years, some of those visuals from True Komix sure were scarry though. (reply to this comment)