Quotes that you like

"Do no dishonor to the earth, least you dishonor the spirit of man"

Henry Beston

 

I'm Sure "Lottie" Has This Framed And Openly On Display In Her Home......



Cheers Glen.

 

You didn't notice the spelling error?

 

Yes......BUT......Because I'm Not A "Pedantic Pain In The Rectum"...(like you)...I Chose Not

To Draw Attention To The Fact......



Cheers Glen.

 

why not?

on the other paw of course, i don't want to be told what to pretend is, by anyone who doesn't know what they're talking about, about it, which no one does.

the only thing anyone knows about reality is that it owes nothing to what we tell each other, and this imposes no limitation on its diversity and that some things happen more often then others and some things happen more often when other things happen first. well we also know that the wish to be feared always brings harm, to someone or some thing, and that always averages out to greater harm, often much greater harm, then any benifit it brings.

knowledge and existence are two entirely separate things,
that do not in anyway depend upon each other.

science is real, the only real knowledge that there exists is consistent with it,
the only reason that isn't the end of it right there,
is again simply that nothing has to be known in order to exist.

 

Personally I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

 

Years Ago I Tried Both Flavours........Found One "Sweet"........The Other Somewhat "Sour"......

No Prizes For Guessing Which One I Went With.......



Cheers Glen.

 

I may have to repeat the taste test until I know for sure.

 

not a quote, though someone somewhere has probably said something like it:
too often we take the great thoughts of people who died before we were born,
as excuses and reasons to not do out own thinking.

 

i would change one word: treason is the lesser crime, tyranny is the greater.

and an adversarial culture is tyranny, regardless of a nation's organizational chart, or the words of it "leaders".
(or whatever ideology it hides its reality behind)
hierarchy only becomes unavoidable, when people, culturally and individually, have perpetuated upon themselves the habbit,
of being insufficiently mutually considerate, to avoid requiring hierarchy to maintain a peaceful existence,
which ultimately, without sufficient mutual consideration, even it, cannot for more then a few generations continue to do.

it is also of course true, that a leader who intentionally deconstructs the means of people to protect themselves,
(and i'm talking here about laws and the courts, and regulations against non-voluntary risk, and not about possession of lethal force, lest anyone misconstrue that)
and with it, every other benefit they otherwise gain from social organization, both betrays and tyrannizes them.

the line is clear and unambiguous, between what is needed to not need hierarchy,
and attempting to be deliberately destructive of it, without what it would take, for it to not be needed.