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Reply #360 - June 28, 2010, 05:20 PM

Yeah I know. I was being facetious. I don't agree with everything Tutu has ever said or done, but that quote is worthy of being repeated by anyone in or involved with marginalized groups of any kind. Ad hominem attacks by unknown, random internet posters, aside.

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Reply #361 - June 28, 2010, 06:14 PM

Quote from: allat on June 28, 2010, 05:20 PM
Yeah I know. I was being facetious.

D'oh!

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I don't agree with everything Tutu has ever said or done, but that quote is worthy of being repeated by anyone in or involved with marginalized groups of any kind. Ad hominem attacks by unknown, random internet posters, aside.

Tutu's alright in my book, and the accusations of anti-Semitism against him pure slander. I was being facetious too.

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Reply #362 - June 28, 2010, 06:17 PM

Confusing criticism of Israel's historical and current policies towards Palestianians with anti-semitism = confusing criticism of Islamic teachings with Muslim-phobia. Two sides of the same stupid coin. I wasn't active around here when Zaephon was around, though from his old posts it seems he was big on bluster, short on rationality.

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Reply #363 - July 01, 2010, 11:07 PM

Quote from: wizzie on June 28, 2010, 08:07 AM
Quote from: Alecto on June 28, 2010, 07:31 AM
"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."- Stephen King

Damn that made me think

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Reply #364 - July 02, 2010, 02:52 PM

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it. ~The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1977

During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones

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Reply #365 - July 17, 2010, 07:23 PM

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
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Reply #366 - July 17, 2010, 07:39 PM

I like this one.

'We don't see things for what they are, we see them as we are'

Anais Nin

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Reply #367 - July 17, 2010, 07:46 PM

Indeed! Most of what we do or say is about us - not what is around us.
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Reply #368 - July 17, 2010, 07:51 PM

Ye, it is, funny, how often people never realise or take time to think about this. Humans are just naturally narcissistic to a certain extent.

I think it just helps us realise to think how things are from another perspective rather than just our own.

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Reply #369 - July 21, 2010, 01:14 PM

‎"Every society, every civilization needs an omnipresent satan. When the satan of communism died, a new one had to be created. When the satan of colonialism died, a new one had to be created. The history of human civilization's wars is built on a pile of rocks and satans." - jLaLi FaqeeR

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Reply #370 - July 23, 2010, 06:05 PM

"Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old films, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because of our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to the death."

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Reply #371 - July 26, 2010, 03:33 PM

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
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Reply #372 - July 26, 2010, 04:04 PM

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Reply #373 - July 27, 2010, 03:56 PM

Everybody, repeat after me, "We are all individuals."

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Reply #374 - July 28, 2010, 07:08 PM

"This [mystical] communication is spiritual in character and import, and it can be apprehended only on an exalted plane of spiritual awareness [at the end of the pilgrim's journey towards the divine]...but to all others it must remain an enigma, a mystery that can never be profaned by the unworthy, being guarded, as it is, by a Dragon within themselves which they have failed to challenge and subdue."

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Reply #375 - July 28, 2010, 08:28 PM

Nice one, Z10

And here's some rather interesting words from Douglas Adams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7MFbDU56s
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Reply #376 - August 01, 2010, 06:03 PM

"Blind is the eye that sees sin and error;
never does the sun behold the night."

- Allama Iqbal

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Reply #377 - August 02, 2010, 04:08 AM

Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally
paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the
void and the infinite, zero and infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics,
and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a zero—and an infinity - Charles Seife

So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
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Reply #378 - August 02, 2010, 05:11 AM

"Whatever, not my mouth"-- J.G.

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Reply #379 - August 02, 2010, 05:26 AM

"muslsums steal my fish en chipz n im reely angry at dem, grrr, i vote for BNP now n trollz da ex-muslims.. grrr. i like licking assholes"

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Reply #381 - August 04, 2010, 12:10 AM

1899 | Sir Winston Churchill

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!

Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy"

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Reply #382 - August 12, 2010, 01:37 PM

Quote from: IsLame on August 04, 2010, 12:10 AM
1899 | Sir Winston Churchill

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!

Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy"

So true, so true.
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Reply #383 - August 12, 2010, 01:47 PM

That's a good one by Churchill. Some of his quote's are amazing. I read this the other day by him:

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."

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Reply #384 - August 14, 2010, 09:36 PM

"Jesus proclaimed the coming of the Kingdom of heaven, but what came instead was the church."

- Father Alfred Loisy, Christian Modernist from the 19th century.

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Reply #385 - August 14, 2010, 10:04 PM

Quote from: Diem on September 07, 2009, 04:30 PM
Religion is an insult to human dignity.

With or without it you would have
good people doing good things and
evil people doing evil things.

But for good people to do evil things,
that takes religion.

? Professor Steven Weinberg, 1999

Thats pretty much my second fav, aside from the one I already have in my siggy.

Yay! That's my siggy!

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Reply #386 - August 14, 2010, 10:09 PM

"There are many different ways to view the world, depending on where you are standing"

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Reply #387 - August 14, 2010, 10:09 PM

Quote from: Solarjaaz on August 14, 2010, 10:04 PM
Yay! That's my siggy!

what was your previous one?

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Reply #388 - August 14, 2010, 10:16 PM

Might as well contribute some of my favorites:

"The God of the Old Testament {I would say "The God of Abraham"} is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." ~Richard Dawkins

"Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system." ~Thomas Paine

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." ~Christopher Hitchens

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it." ~Christopher Hitchens

This one is a bit long, but fantastic:

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred." ~Richard Dawkins

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Reply #389 - August 14, 2010, 10:16 PM

Quote from: IsLame on August 14, 2010, 10:09 PM
what was your previous one?

It's been my siggy since I joined.

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