June 2012
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“Everyone imagines that their ego is something unchangeable, some immovable...”
– Kodo Sawaki
“I feel quite dangerous today. And I am at large in the world, alone with my...”
– Mad Jimbeau
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“I’m for mystery, not interpretive answers. … The answer is never the...”
– Ken Kesey
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OMG, he's onto us! →
This is supposed to be secret information. He doesn’t have the locator codes, obviously, or know where the infraspace transponder beacons are, but he knows enough to be a pain. If he had better grammar I might think he was one of us that had had a brain meltdown. But his English is ghastly, so he is an American, probably, and probably schizoid. He will have to be bagged and quarantined,...
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“We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and...”
– Chesty Puller (the most decorated Marine in USMC history) at the Chosin Reservoir, North Korea Winter of 1950
U. S. Marine recruits in training say, “Good-night, Chesty, wherever you are!”, in unison, just before lights out. It is the ghost of Chesty Puller that kicks a...
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Biggest Threat to Religion? Clergy People Coming... →
deconversionmovement:
A burst of media attention has been focused on atheists of an unexpected stripe — clergy members. Could non-believing clergy change how we see religion?
What happens when a clergy person — a minister, a priest, a rabbi, an imam — realizes he doesn’t believe in God?
And what happens when he says it out loud? What happens when they find each other; when they support each...
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“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a...”
– Jesus, “Prince of Peace and Lamb of God.” This is Jesus with a personality disorder. This is the bullying Jesus of discord. This verse, along with a couple of verses in Leviticus, sums up the scriptural basis for the hate-based theology poisoning the political atmosphere in America....
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“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of...”
– Thomas de Quincey (author of Confessions of An English Opium Eater)
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“If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.”
– Laurence J. Peter The Peter Principle
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“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.”
– Imelda Marcos
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“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
– Mae West
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“The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before...”
– Giacomo Casanova 