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"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did, in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."

Bob Monkhouse

~and~

"Too fucking busy. And vice versa."

Dorothy Parker, in response to nagging by her publisher to produce more work while on her honeymoon.

I meant to add this one in my OP and forgot, but I really love it.

After it's landing on the moon in December 2013, the Chinese Moon Rover "Jade Rabbit" experienced trouble and had to shut down for a lunar night to preserve it's batteries.

Prior to being shut down the rover sent out one last message since it's fate was at the time still unknown.

"Before departure, I studied the history of mankind's lunar probes. About half of the past 130 explorations ended in success; the rest ended in failure," noted the Jade Rabbit in its report.
"This is space exploration; the danger comes with its beauty. I am but a tiny dot in the vast picture of mankind's adventure in space.
"The sun has fallen, and the temperature is dropping so quickly... to tell you all a secret, I don't feel that sad. I was just in my own adventure story - and like every hero, I encountered a small problem," said the Rabbit.

"Goodnight, Earth," it said. "Goodnight, humanity."

"Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!"

Inigo Montoya

"Knock down that wall,  knock down that wall,  and knock down that fargin wall."

Roman Maroni

"It's an 88 magnum,  It shoots through schools"

Danny Vermin

"This goes through armor.  And through the victim, through the wall,  through a tree outside."

Danny Vermin

"To the German Commander:

NUTS!

The Allied Commander."

General A. McAuliffe, when asked to surrender at Bastogne.

"Nonsense, they couldn't hit a barn door at this dis..."

Gen. John Sedgwick, 1864, on being warned about some Confederate snipers.

Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite-- the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the former."

"Sincerity is the greatest thing - learn to fake that and you've got it made."

Groucho Marx

"... you must hate a Frenchman as much as you hate the Devil."

Horatio Nelson

"You like to say fucking a lot, don't you?" I muttered while adding the sweatpants to the cart.
"It's like verbal salt. I enjoy sprinkling it on everything."
― Bijou Hunter, Damaged and the Knight

"Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease." - Kurt Vonnegut

"If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream... and we haven't got any."
-- Moe Howard

"They think I do not know a buttload of crap about the Gospel, but I do!" ~Nacho

"Precious Father, why have you given me this desire to wrestle and then made me such a stinky warrior?" ~Nacho

"I'm not listening to you! You only believe in Science. That's probably why we never win!" ~Nacho

Sister Encarnación: Where are your robes, Ignacio?
Nacho: They were... stinky. These are my recreational clothes.
Sister Encarnación: They look expensive.
Nacho: Thank you. I mean... they might have the appearance of riches, but beneath the clothes, we find a man... and beneath the man we find... his... nucleus.
Sister Encarnación: Nucleus?

I'm not crazy, I'm an airplane!

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by [Douglas Adams].

"Balls!"

Spike Milligan

"When they start talking and talking about us, it shows they are worried about playing Liverpool,"
Rafael Benitez quote-

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So true :P

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-Nam

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So true :P

^^^
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:secrets1: Apparently, he never said that.
But he would say something like that.  :chin:

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:secrets1: Apparently, he never said that.
But he would say something like that.  :chin:

To those who aren't Trump Chumps, it does sound like something he would say, which is why I think that one spread.  Though one thing made me question it more than anything else, Republicans are racist and against women's rights (both are things that Trump also is), so speaking negatively of them like that in public is not likely unless they insulted him first.

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu

Quote from: Guardian85 on March 21, 2016, 04:05:36 PM
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu

Nice one...

Quote from: Davin on March 21, 2016, 02:55:33 PM

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:secrets1: Apparently, he never said that.
But he would say something like that.  :chin:

To those who aren't Trump Chumps, it does sound like something he would say, which is why I think that one spread.  Though one thing made me question it more than anything else, Republicans are racist and against women's rights (both are things that Trump also is), so speaking negatively of them like that in public is not likely unless they insulted him first.

Yeah, when I saw it something didn't seem right, so I got to the bottom of it. Knowing it wasn't true, I wasn't gonna post it hoping people will believe it and dislike him even more--If that's even possible.  ::) I think that was the idea behind the meme. I don't like him, but I just can't do what he does...Remember when he lied to us with his first TV ad that shows migrants 'at the southern border,' but they're actually in Morocco?  ::)

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:secrets1: Apparently, he never said that.
But he would say something like that.  :chin:

To those who aren't Trump Chumps, it does sound like something he would say, which is why I think that one spread.  Though one thing made me question it more than anything else, Republicans are racist and against women's rights (both are things that Trump also is), so speaking negatively of them like that in public is not likely unless they insulted him first.

Yeah, when I saw it something didn't seem right, so I got to the bottom of it. Knowing it wasn't true, I wasn't gonna post it hoping people will believe it and dislike him even more--If that's even possible.  ::) I think that was the idea behind the meme. I don't like him, but I just can't do what he does...Remember when he lied to us with his first TV ad that shows migrants 'at the southern border,' but they're actually in Morocco?  ::)

Apparently, Trump hardly ever says anything (http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/) that's true.

Lately he has gotten himself in deep doo doo with women. The abortion thing and all that.  Seventy percent of Wisconsin women have come out against him according to the latest polls.  That includes Republican women.

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Rodney Dangerfield

One-liners from Rodney Dangerfield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ikvsDpmwjI

Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on April 01, 2016, 03:13:45 AM
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Rodney Dangerfield

Wish I could have met him. Funny guy, and got a lot of other comics their start. Plus "Back to School" and "Caddyshack" ... good times...

Quote from: joeactor on April 02, 2016, 02:24:40 PM

Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on April 01, 2016, 03:13:45 AM
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Rodney Dangerfield

Wish I could have met him. Funny guy, and got a lot of other comics their start. Plus "Back to School" and "Caddyshack" ... good times...

Rodney was gold for while there. I remember a few of my friends and I would memorize and greet each other with his one liners, try to imitate his voice, mannerism, you know the way he'd shrug his shoulders an neck, and adjust his necktie?


These were two of my favs:

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Quote from: Bruno de la Pole on April 02, 2016, 02:32:19 PM
Rodney was gold for while there. I remember a few of my friends and I would memorize and greet each other with his one liners, try to imitate his voice, mannerism, you know the way he'd shrug his shoulders an neck, and adjust his necktie?


These were two of my favs:

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I liked "My wife said she wanted to have sex in the car. She wanted me to drive."
Or "I got my kid a BB gun for Christmas. You know what he got me? A shirt with a target on the back."

"A mod-hat is nothing more than one of those cheap trucker-hats you can buy at the gas/petrol station." ~Bruno de la Pole.

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"...because thinking people don't regress without some disease eating away at their brain. That's why when I hear, or read a Christian say, "I used to be an atheist..." I roll my eyes and pity them for the cancer they must have in their brain. Of all the religions out there: Christianity demands of you to not think. You believe because some book tells you to; and the book is true because the book tells you it's true. Flawless logic that only a brain damaged or diseased mind would believe. Christianity's totem pole is Faith. Faith is the absence of proof. Add proof, and the mind begins to mend itself and the religion becomes a fairytale. And I like fairytales. They can be fun to read or watch but they're fiction just like religion. Anything that makes you stop thinking just makes us all sheep. And I don't know about you but I'd prefer to not be lamb stew to some else."

A private response to an acquaintance in a PM on another website on my viewpoint on every time I read or hear a Christian say, "I used to be an atheist".

I thought I'd share.

-Nam

I think there is usually a very strong influence on converts from some very charismatic, kindly people, not just by cults, but also mainstream Christianity. Also, they don't get the full story about some of the more genocidal and other unsavoury parts of the OT.

Christians today saying they used to be atheists is them saying, "I grew up in a Christian home. I went to church on Sunday's and went to Sunday Class/Camp and read the Bible. When I got Baptised, I became a True™ Christian. Before then I was just lost." i. e. I was a godless heathen/atheist. That's what they mean when they say they used to be an atheist. I've read or heard the story so many times. They actually believe they were atheists. I ask them: "Did you believe in Jesus and God and/or that Jesus is God before being baptized?" Every answer is "Yes". They were never atheists. Today, many fundamentalists and/or preachers use it as a tool in conversion, " Hey, I used to be an atheist, too! If I can change, so can you!"

It's bullshit propaganda.

-Nam

Women belong in the house... and the Senate. ~Author Unknown


I saw a t-shirt with that on it recently, love it.

I want one of those tee shirts.

Bruno, you're a genius...

xSilverPhinx

"I have not yet begun to fight!"
~ John Paul Jones, America Revolutionary Naval Fighter

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"
~Thomas Jefferson, American Revolutionary Fighter, 3rd President Of the United States

"I am not an educated man. I never had the opportunity to learn anything except how to fight"
~Pancho Villa, Mexican Revolutionary Leader

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
~Pancho Villa, Mexican Revolutionary Leader

I was sitting outside for a time tonight with a fire going, and there was a decent breeze blowing. Although there aren't many leaves on the trees yet there are enough that I could hear some of the leaves in the trees and bushes singing in wind...my favorite is the song the leaves from birch trees make, especially when you travel north and sit along side a lake ringed with birches.

These have always been my favorite trees.

Anyway thinking of trees, leaves, wind and song reminded me of these lyrics from Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed".

Wind in my hair I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees they're singing with the dead
Overhead


Might as well post a good live version of this song from the Water on the Road DVD.

Quote from: Thadon, Duke of Mania, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Shivering Isles expansionIt all ends up the same. Dust and tears.

Context:
It felt like rather a long time, but then long times get longer when you're standing around thinking about them. A curious thing, that. Long roads get longer too, if you're thinking about them, but what about long words? They don't change nearly as much. Long, short -- it all ends up the same. Dust and tears. Usually tears first, then the dust. Dust can't cry, you see.

Quote from: Bruno de la Pole on May 22, 2016, 04:30:15 AM
I was sitting outside for a time tonight with a fire going, and there was a decent breeze blowing. Although there aren't many leaves on the trees yet there are enough that I could hear some of the leaves in the trees and bushes singing in wind...my favorite is the song the leaves from birch trees make, especially when you travel north and sit along side a lake ringed with birches.

These have always been my favorite trees.

Anyway thinking of trees, leaves, wind and song reminded me of these lyrics from Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed".

Wind in my hair I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees they're singing with the dead
Overhead


Might as well post a good live version of this song from the Water on the Road DVD.

That was awesome, I'll need to check this DVD out. I'm seeing Pearl Jam for the seventh (I think?)  time at Fenway Park in August. Love them, even though I haven't really enjoyed their last few albums.

 
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We were speaking of belief
Beliefs and conditioning
All belief possibly could be said to be the result of some conditioning
Thus, the study of history is simply the study of one system of beliefs deposing another
And so on, and so on, and so on
A psychologically tested belief of our time is the central nervous system
Which feeds its impulses directly to the brain, the conscious and subconscious
Is unable to discern between the real, and the vividly imagined experience
If there is a difference, and most of us believe there is
Am I being clear?
For to examine these concepts requires tremendous energy and discipline
To experience the now without preconception of belief
To allow the unknown to occur and to occur requires clarity
For where there is clarity there is no choice
And where there is choice, there is misery
But then why should anyone listen to me?
Why should I speak? Since I know nothing! Heh heh heh!"

The Swami

Quote from: Firebird on May 22, 2016, 04:55:13 PM

Quote from: Bruno de la Pole on May 22, 2016, 04:30:15 AM
I was sitting outside for a time tonight with a fire going, and there was a decent breeze blowing. Although there aren't many leaves on the trees yet there are enough that I could hear some of the leaves in the trees and bushes singing in wind...my favorite is the song the leaves from birch trees make, especially when you travel north and sit along side a lake ringed with birches.

These have always been my favorite trees.

Anyway thinking of trees, leaves, wind and song reminded me of these lyrics from Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed".

He's new to me. That was lovely. Research will take place.

Wind in my hair I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees they're singing with the dead
Overhead


Might as well post a good live version of this song from the Water on the Road DVD.

That was awesome, I'll need to check this DVD out. I'm seeing Pearl Jam for the seventh (I think?)  time at Fenway Park in August. Love them, even though I haven't really enjoyed their last few albums.

The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.

Irish Proverb

"Wanting to fuck somebody over and over for the rest of your life isn't love.
Wanting to be with somebody for the rest of your life no matter how many times life fucks you both over and over though?
Could be."

-Unknown-

"I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious, that means that they're worthy"

-Tim Minchin

"Juliet's cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen."

"Unseen Academicals" by Terry Pratchett:

^^ I knew a similar person, nice quote.


Do not pass by my epitaph, traveler.
But having stopped, listen and learn, then go your way.
There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon,
No caretaker Aiakos, no dog Cerberus.
All we who are dead below
Have become bones and ashes, but nothing else.
I have spoken to you honestly, go on, traveler,
Lest even while dead I seem talkative to you.

Ancient Roman tombstone

I really like this, came across it by accident while browsing. You know if I was going to have a tombstone I would consider putting this on it...I used to want to put "Fuck Off" on my tombstone, but I'm going to be cremated so I'm out of luck in that regard.

That's excellent!

I have always liked the cranks of the world so here are some cranky quotations:

QuoteSure I'm a crank: "a small element in a machine that makes revolutions"

E. F. "Small is beautiful" Schumacher, described as a "humane economist".

QuoteI am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

Wilbur Wright.

Quote
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

QuoteIf we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

William Dean Howells

I came across this quote earlier this morning on a writing website, and I love it.

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary." ― David Sedaris

Quote from: Father Bruno on June 15, 2017, 02:06:04 PM
I came across this quote earlier this morning on a writing website, and I love it.

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary." ― David Sedaris

Sedaris is a great raconteur, one if the dryest and wryest humours I have heard.

A long gone Liveral party leader, either Jeremy Thorpe or Jo Grimond,  was once asked, "What are the three best things in life?"

His reply was, "The drink before and the cigarette after."

More and more as I get older I find myself enjoying the quite of solitude (Even beyond moments when I'm not meditating)

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." ~ Blaise Pascal

"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt in solitude, where we are least alone." ~ Lord Byron, 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'

"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be." ~ Ellen Burstyn


"I had told people of my intention to be alone for a time. At once I realized they looked upon this declaration as a rejection of them and their company. I felt apologetic, even ashamed, that I would have wanted such a curious thing as solitude, and then sorry that I had made a point of announcing my desire for it. ... To the spouse, or the long-time companion, or the family, and to the social circle, as it is called, the decision to be alone for any length of time is dangerous, threatening, a sign of rejection. ... Having never felt the need to be alone themselves, having always lived happily in relationships, they looked upon my need as eccentric, even somewhat mad. But more than that, they saw it as fraudulent, an excuse to be rid of them rather than a desperate need to explore myself." ~ Doris Grumbach, 'Fifty Days of Solitude'

QuoteNothing is a struggle, but everything is a challenge.

"If you can't say anything nice about anybody, come sit by me." - Clairee in Steel Magnolias

"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Mark Twain

"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I bet I'd be darling at it." - Dorothy Parker

Oh! Another good one from Dorothy Parker:

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."

"Times New Roman in the streets, Comic Sans in the sheets" - Mia Khalifa

I put this one here because it made me laugh

"Soup dumplings, sitcoms and one-night-stands—good ones leave you wanting more."—Eddie Huang

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen -

This quote from novelist and screenwriter Stephen Chbosky is very poignant when you think about it:

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Quote from: Essie Mae on August 20, 2017, 11:35:41 AM
This quote from novelist and screenwriter Stephen Chbosky is very poignant when you think about it:

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Yup, those who exhibit a strong self-dislike or low self-esteem cannot understand how others might possibly like or value them. They tend to reflect their own perception onto others. A tough problem to solve.

I've never felt that way. I guess I'm special~

This isn't really a quote, but rather one of my favorite poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (One of my favorite heathens and atheists0

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

This little bit from "Ode to the West Wind" is a good example to me his symbolization of the free and soaring spirit of humankind.

by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

He was one of the first atheist that I encountered in my youth, having discovered him and his writings during my sophomore year of high school. In fact I did my final essay for a poetry class on "Ozymandias", and not only received an A from my teacher, but was asked to join the school poetry club.(I wasn't always so scholarly, trust me, in fact the opposite to the chagrin of my teachers...occasionally I would find motivation and show my potential as they said)

I also recommend his "The Necessity of Atheism", which led to his expsultion from Oxford. It opens with  "There is no God."

He also wrote.. "there can be no middle ground between accepting revealed religion and disbelieving in the existence of a diety". Which is another way of stating the necessity of atheism.

Oh well, today is sort of a melancholic Sunday isn't it?

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance".

Hippocrates

QuoteThere are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
— "Great Thought" (19 February 1938), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)

Quote from: Arturo on August 20, 2017, 02:01:15 PM
I've never felt that way. I guess I'm special~

Maybe, but I'll never admit it.

"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant..."


Elie Wiesel - Portion of his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

Jewish reality: Man makes plans ...God laughs.

By a woman when asked who her baby's father was:

"No idea!  When you eat a can of beans you don't know which one makes you fart."

Quote from: Icarus on September 06, 2017, 05:40:16 AM
Jewish reality: Man makes plans ...God laughs.

I think Einstein alluded to that...

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God bless Harper Lee.

The first one is a quote for Chekhov, but the second part is a poem by Jane Kenyon. (You can listen to Amanda Palmer read the poem here (https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/27/having-it-out-with-melancholy-jane-kenyon-amanda-palmer/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=7d7ba39fed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-7d7ba39fed-233988025&mc_cid=7d7ba39fed&mc_eid=4724b75bf8))

If many remedies are prescribed
          for an illness, you may be certain
          that the illness has no cure.

          A. P. CHEKHOV
          The Cherry Orchard

"Having It Out with Melancholy,"
by Jane Kenyon

1     FROM THE NURSERY

When I was born, you waited
behind a pile of linen in the nursery,
and when we were alone, you lay down
on top of me, pressing
the bile of desolation into every pore.

And from that day on
everything under the sun and moon
made me sad — even the yellow
wooden beads that slid and spun
along a spindle on my crib.

You taught me to exist without gratitude.
You ruined my manners toward God:
"We're here simply to wait for death;
the pleasures of earth are overrated."

I only appeared to belong to my mother,
to live among blocks and cotton undershirts
with snaps; among red tin lunch boxes
and report cards in ugly brown slipcases.
I was already yours — the anti-urge,
the mutilator of souls.

2     BOTTLES

Elavil, Ludiomil, Doxepin,
Norpramin, Prozac, Lithium, Xanax,
Wellbutrin, Parnate, Nardil, Zoloft.
The coated ones smell sweet or have
no smell; the powdery ones smell
like the chemistry lab at school
that made me hold my breath.

3     SUGGESTION FROM A FRIEND

You wouldn't be so depressed
if you really believed in God.

4     OFTEN

Often I go to bed as soon after dinner
as seems adult
(I mean I try to wait for dark)
in order to push away
from the massive pain in sleep's
frail wicker coracle.

5     ONCE THERE WAS LIGHT

Once, in my early thirties, I saw
that I was a speck of light in the great
river of light that undulates through time.

I was floating with the whole
human family. We were all colors—those
who are living now, those who have died,
those who are not yet born. For a few

moments I floated, completely calm,
and I no longer hated having to exist.

Like a crow who smells hot blood
you came flying to pull me out
of the glowing stream.
"I'll hold you up. I never let my dear
ones drown!" After that, I wept for days.

6     IN AND OUT

The dog searches until he finds me
upstairs, lies down with a clatter
of elbows, puts his head on my foot.

Sometimes the sound of his breathing
saves my life — in and out, in
and out; a pause, a long sigh....

7     PARDON

A piece of burned meat
wears my clothes, speaks
in my voice, dispatches obligations
haltingly, or not at all.
It is tired of trying
to be stouthearted, tired
beyond measure.

We move on to the monoamine
oxidase inhibitors. Day and night
I feel as if I had drunk six cups
of coffee, but the pain stops
abruptly. With the wonder
and bitterness of someone pardoned
for a crime she did not commit
I come back to marriage and friends,
to pink fringed hollyhocks; come back
to my desk, books, and chair.

8     CREDO

Pharmaceutical wonders are at work
but I believe only in this moment
of well-being. Unholy ghost,
you are certain to come again.

Coarse, mean, you'll put your feet
on the coffee table, lean back,
and turn me into someone who can't
take the trouble to speak; someone
who can't sleep, or who does nothing
but sleep; can't read, or call
for an appointment for help.

There is nothing I can do
against your coming.
When I awake, I am still with thee.

9     WOOD THRUSH

High on Nardil and June light
I wake at four,
waiting greedily for the first
note of the wood thrush. Easeful air
presses through the screen
with the wild, complex song
of the bird, and I am overcome

by ordinary contentment.
What hurt me so terribly
all my life until this moment?
How I love the small, swiftly
beating heart of the bird
singing in the great maples;
its bright, unequivocal eye.

Russian historian and political figure, Iurii Afanasiev:

"We live in a country with an unpredicatable past."

Not only Russia methinks...

The Jane Kenyon one is  a bit weird Bruno.

Quote from: Icarus on November 11, 2017, 01:48:37 AM
The Jane Kenyon one is  a bit weird Bruno.

Yeah I can see that, especially if you haven't dealt with melancholy on a grand scale...did you listen to Amanda Palmer read the Jane Kenyon piece?

Seems more poetic when you hear it read rather than read it.

Old Git's use of the quotation:

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Intrigued me, made me curious. It is attributed to two women, Dorothy Parker and Ellen Parr. The former rang a bell so I looked her up. Great person for quote mining!

"I like to have a martini,
two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host."

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open, and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."

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QuoteThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I don't like that quote.  I don't know how or why it is now in my header - I'm sure I didn't ask for it.  In fact, I'd be grateful if Tank would remove it.

Quote from: OldGit on November 21, 2017, 10:13:45 AM

QuoteThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I don't like that quote.  I don't know how or why it is now in my header - I'm sure I didn't ask for it.  In fact, I'd be grateful if Tank would remove it.

Oops, sorry, OG. Thought quotes there were personal selections. I actually like it.

Quote from: OldGit on November 21, 2017, 10:13:45 AM

QuoteThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I don't like that quote.  I don't know how or why it is now in my header - I'm sure I didn't ask for it.  In fact, I'd be grateful if Tank would remove it.

It's a user rank header quote. The key to removing it is posting more. :grin:

http://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=3351.msg360834#msg360834 (http://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=3351.msg360834#msg360834)

Or getting Recusant or Tank to change it.

Quote from: OldGit on November 21, 2017, 10:13:45 AM

QuoteThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I don't like that quote.  I don't know how or why it is now in my header - I'm sure I didn't ask for it.  In fact, I'd be grateful if Tank would remove it.

Keep posting. It'll go away in due course.

"Knowledge is having the right answer.
Intelligence is asking the right question"

Not really a quote, but seems to fit this thread.

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"When ppl think your stupid and your not."
~Unknown.

Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 03:28:20 AM
"When ppl think your stupid and your not."
~Unknown.

:grin:

Quote from: hermes2015 on December 03, 2017, 03:32:15 AM

Quote from: Magdalena on December 03, 2017, 03:28:20 AM
"When ppl think your stupid and your not."
~Unknown.

:grin:

:grin:
Looks like something Trump would tweet at 3:00 AM.

From a sci-fi book ("Spinward Fringe: Broadcast 6" by Randolph Lalonde):

AI: "So you want me to act like a human?"

Captain: "That's right."

AI: "OK, should be easy. I'll speak more slowly and unecessarily add details about my personal life to the conversation while complaining about something I cannot change, like the weather or my height."

Quote from: Dave on December 09, 2017, 11:09:52 AM
From a sci-fi book ("Spinward Fringe: Broadcast 6" by Randolph Lalonde):

AI: "So you want me to sct like a human?"

Captain: "That's right."

AI: "OK, should be easy. I'll speak more slowly and unecessarily add details about my personal life to the conversation while complainjng about something I cannot change, like the weather or my height."

Dave...this is great! Did you know you are the only other person I have ever met who has read any of these? I have only read "0" and "1", but keep meaning to read more!

How many have you read so far?

I also recommend if you like that series to give the following book a try (I actually recommend it to everyone here) it's called: God. Speak. by Frank Buchan


Cheers Mate ;D (Lifts imaginary glass of a locally brewed Double IPA into the air, clinks it with yours)

Quote from: Papasito Bruno on December 13, 2017, 03:05:56 AM

Quote from: Dave on December 09, 2017, 11:09:52 AM
From a sci-fi book ("Spinward Fringe: Broadcast 6" by Randolph Lalonde):

AI: "So you want me to sct like a human?"

Captain: "That's right."

AI: "OK, should be easy. I'll speak more slowly and unecessarily add details about my personal life to the conversation while complainjng about something I cannot change, like the weather or my height."

Dave...this is great! Did you know you are the only other person I have ever met who has read any of these? I have only read "0" and "1", but keep meaning to read more!

How many have you read so far?

I also recommend if you like that series to give the following book a try (I actually recommend it to everyone here) it's called: God. Speak. by Frank Buchan

Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.

Cheers Mate ;D (Lifts imaginary glass of a locally brewed Double IPA into the air, clinks it with yours)

In the process of re-reading the whole series, back up to "Broadcast 6" out of the 9 novels on my Kindle. Hsven't checked for any more yet.

"The day that you die will be like any other day...only shorter."

Samuel Beckett.

Among events which may occur, those which should be feared are human portents. When careless ploughing causes crops to suffer and those who weed leave weeds behind, when government is reckless and loses the support of the people- the fields unkempt, the crops meager, grain sold dear, and people starving, corpses lying in the road: These are what I mean by human portents.

Xun Quing, Treatise on heaven, Third century BC

Moved to Gtumpy thread, too far off this thread!

http://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=10438.new#new

We've mastered the face, neck, and chest, so it's only natural that the ear area would be next" - A dermatologist on the new "it" trend...earlobe fillers.

So natural.

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"Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking,

hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice."
--Charles Bukowski

"The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

If a bird watching physicist falls off a cliff, he does nor worry about his binoculars; they fall with him.       Sir Herman Bondi.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star: Paul Dirac

Your theory is crazy but it is crazy enough to be true: Niels Bohr

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Quote from: Dave on March 27, 2018, 04:07:42 PM
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That's not very poetic Dave; very true though

Not very poetic but still clever! :lol:

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Amen.

 "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming but on our readiness to receive him: Not on the chance of him not attacking but on the fact that we have made our position unassailable......Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win...............  Sun Tzu, sixth century BC

Quote from: Icarus on April 11, 2018, 03:11:44 AM
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming but on our readiness to receive him: Not on the chance of him not attacking but on the fact that we have made our position unassailable......Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win...............  Sun Tzu, sixth century BC

As all good barristers know, in court never ask a question to which you don't know the answer.

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hahaha

That's it! My hext tee-shirt slogan will be:

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OK, can anyone tell be why I can't seem to get large, coloured, centrered, bold text in any other font than standard to work?

Sure it was easy peasy before! And deja vu here as well.

"The trick is not to get lost in what you're doing."

Nah the trick is to know how to not get lost. My mind is always all over the place and it's hard to pay attention to any single thing at once.

"If you want it perfect, make it perfect."

- Brian Braezal

Quote from: Dave on May 29, 2018, 05:58:04 PM
That's it! My hext tee-shirt slogan will be:

Wierd can be
WONDERFUL!

OK, can anyone tell be why I can't seem to get large, coloured, centrered, bold text in any other font than standard to work?

Sure it was easy peasy before! And deja vu here as well.

Seems to work for me. Quote me to see how I did it. Looks like "center" has to be the outside one.

Quote from: Davin on May 29, 2018, 10:05:47 PM

Quote from: Dave on May 29, 2018, 05:58:04 PM
That's it! My hext tee-shirt slogan will be:

Wierd can be
WONDERFUL!

OK, can anyone tell be why I can't seem to get large, coloured, centrered, bold text in any other font than standard to work?

Sure it was easy peasy before! And deja vu here as well.

Wierd can be
WONDERFUL!

Seems to work for me. Quote me to see how I did it. Looks like "center" has to be the outside one.

There are some issues with the 'nesting' order of the BB code to get it to work correctly. Damn free software, it's never reliable!

Tanks, Tsnk.

Quote from: Dave on May 30, 2018, 06:39:49 AM
Tanks, Tsnk.

I think Davin is owed the thanks! :D

Quote from: Tank on May 30, 2018, 12:05:00 PM

Quote from: Dave on May 30, 2018, 06:39:49 AM
Tanks, Tsnk.

I think Davin is owed the thanks! :D

Oops, sorry, Davin. Too early am and brain less in gear than usual!

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"It takes a village to raise an idiot..."

Wait is that how it goes?

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I think that could be challenged.
I have a positive view of Mr Fox and no doubt he's suffered but others have suffered greater assaults to their dignity.

Quote from: Bad Penny II on June 06, 2018, 10:33:36 AM

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I think that could be challenged.
I have a positive view of Mr Fox and no doubt he's suffered but others have suffered greater assaults to their dignity.

That's probably true. But if you take his name off the bottom what is written is no less true.

Quote from: Tank on June 08, 2018, 07:57:28 AM

Quote from: Bad Penny II on June 06, 2018, 10:33:36 AM

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I think that could be challenged.
I have a positive view of Mr Fox and no doubt he's suffered but others have suffered greater assaults to their dignity.

That's probably true. But if you take his name off the bottom what is written is no less true.

Dignity, it's a state that humans may attain and disease will take away, no arguments entered into.
You've got no brain any more, how are you going to enter into?

It's American be positive bullshit.

Would you put it to a death camp survivor?
The woman who has been pack raped, left naked and bleeding?

Quote from: Bad Penny II on June 08, 2018, 03:51:42 PM

Quote from: Tank on June 08, 2018, 07:57:28 AM

Quote from: Bad Penny II on June 06, 2018, 10:33:36 AM

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I think that could be challenged.
I have a positive view of Mr Fox and no doubt he's suffered but others have suffered greater assaults to their dignity.

That's probably true. But if you take his name off the bottom what is written is no less true.

Dignity, it's a state that humans may attain and disease will take away, no arguments entered into.
You've got no brain any more, how are you going to enter into?

It's American be positive bullshit.

Would you put it to a death camp survivor?
The woman who has been pack raped, left naked and bleeding?

I just came from looking at Edward Snowden stuff so this might be in my head. But I would tell them to NOT let their dignity be taken away. I have a rare but famous illness that many people associate with murderers, psychopaths, multiple personalities, and in my case that it makes me stupid and random to the point where I am too difficult to deal with and that they just walk away from me when they see me. I've been molested by a girl younger enough than me so that I cannot press charges. I've been beaten up as a child by other kids so much to the point where I just let it happen because it was such a common occurrence. And at the end of the day, I still speak my mind. I still want people to know my struggle and that it should not happen again. And so to that women who is a death camp survivor, I would tell them the same thing. And in the one shooting not long ago, a survivor went on to start an organization for gun reform so that nobody will be through that again. And to her I applaud that because of those things.

Sure it might be an American thing. But if someone steps on your toes, do you just let it continue to happen? No. You say, "Hey you just stepped on my toes again. Can you stop?"

Quote from: Bad Penny II on June 06, 2018, 10:33:36 AM

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I think that could be challenged.
I have a positive view of Mr Fox and no doubt he's suffered but others have suffered greater assaults to their dignity.

Like Donald Trump?

Quote from: Tom62 on June 09, 2018, 08:38:19 AM

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I think that could be challenged.
I have a positive view of Mr Fox and no doubt he's suffered but others have suffered greater assaults to their dignity.

Like Donald Trump?

Not sure if it is valid to have "Donald Trump" and "dignity" in the same sentence without "has no" between them.

:grin:

Seriously, I respect the dignity of anyone who has a constant and condidered opinion and behaves in a dignified manner (which need not mean weakly), though I may vehemently disagree with them. I feel Trump is a travesty, a facade, a farce of a national leader who, inevitably, does some good as he sees things (few can get everything wrong, not even Boris Johnson) but I do not think he derserves overall respect or being treated with dignity.

Quote from: Arturo on June 09, 2018, 01:32:02 AM

Quote from: Bad Penny II on June 08, 2018, 03:51:42 PM

Quote from: Tank on June 08, 2018, 07:57:28 AM

Quote from: Bad Penny II on June 06, 2018, 10:33:36 AM

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I think that could be challenged.
I have a positive view of Mr Fox and no doubt he's suffered but others have suffered greater assaults to their dignity.

That's probably true. But if you take his name off the bottom what is written is no less true.

Dignity, it's a state that humans may attain and disease will take away, no arguments entered into.
You've got no brain any more, how are you going to enter into?

It's American be positive bullshit.

Would you put it to a death camp survivor?
The woman who has been pack raped, left naked and bleeding?

I just came from looking at Edward Snowden stuff so this might be in my head. But I would tell them to NOT let their dignity be taken away. I have a rare but famous illness that many people associate with murderers, psychopaths, multiple personalities, and in my case that it makes me stupid and random to the point where I am too difficult to deal with and that they just walk away from me when they see me. I've been molested by a girl younger enough than me so that I cannot press charges. I've been beaten up as a child by other kids so much to the point where I just let it happen because it was such a common occurrence. And at the end of the day, I still speak my mind. I still want people to know my struggle and that it should not happen again. And so to that women who is a death camp survivor, I would tell them the same thing. And in the one shooting not long ago, a survivor went on to start an organization for gun reform so that nobody will be through that again. And to her I applaud that because of those things.

Sure it might be an American thing. But if someone steps on your toes, do you just let it continue to happen? No. You say, "Hey you just stepped on my toes again. Can you stop?"

A quick Googling for the words:

QuoteOne's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Dignity can be taken, Alzheimer's will take it unless you do what Terry did.

If someone has suffered brutal treatment and lost their dignity, a nice person would help and encourage them to rebuild.
They wouldn't go "oh well you shoulda been stronger, not surrendered your dignity."

If you're on the bus and someone tosses a racist slur your way, sure, fine, apply the Foxian wisdom.
If you're suffering a degenerative brain disease but can still manage quotable quip, pretend you have power over what's coming for you, Happy Delusions.

Quote"Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself."

Quote from: Bad Penny II on June 09, 2018, 03:10:09 PM

Quote"Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so." And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself."

Source of that please, Bad Penny.

1984

Quote from: Bad Penny II on June 09, 2018, 04:16:47 PM
1984

Ah... figures.

"May your next turd be a hedgehog!"

Traditional

Quote from: OldGit on June 09, 2018, 09:08:28 PM
"May your next turd be a hedgehog!"

Traditional

Going forwards or backing out?

"The only way to get power is to submit yourself to a greater one."

Me

Arithmetic is not an opinion.

The most significant thing I have ever heard anybody say:

"Houston, Tranquillity Base here, the Eagle has landed."

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
― Robert J. Hanlon

Quote from: Tom62 on June 14, 2018, 05:19:20 AM
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
― Robert J. Hanlon

I have so often used this example myself!

Quote from: Tank on June 14, 2018, 08:26:11 AM

Quote from: Tom62 on June 14, 2018, 05:19:20 AM
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
― Robert J. Hanlon

I have so often used this example myself!

That's a good quote.

Quote from: Arturo on June 14, 2018, 08:27:42 AM

Quote from: Tank on June 14, 2018, 08:26:11 AM

Quote from: Tom62 on June 14, 2018, 05:19:20 AM
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
― Robert J. Hanlon

I have so often used this example myself!

That's a good quote.

I've just printed it out and pinned it on the notice board behind my desk :D

Quote from: Tank on June 14, 2018, 08:28:43 AM

Quote from: Arturo on June 14, 2018, 08:27:42 AM

Quote from: Tank on June 14, 2018, 08:26:11 AM

Quote from: Tom62 on June 14, 2018, 05:19:20 AM
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
― Robert J. Hanlon

I have so often used this example myself!

That's a good quote.

I've just printed it out and pinned it on the notice board behind my desk :D

Hahaha nice  :thumbsup:

Quote from: Tank on June 14, 2018, 08:28:43 AM

Quote from: Arturo on June 14, 2018, 08:27:42 AM

Quote from: Tank on June 14, 2018, 08:26:11 AM

Quote from: Tom62 on June 14, 2018, 05:19:20 AM
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
― Robert J. Hanlon

I have so often used this example myself!

That's a good quote.

I've just printed it out and pinned it on the notice board behind my desk :D

Good one, Tank. Let us know what sort of reaction it gets - if any.

Quote from: Dave on June 14, 2018, 09:25:46 AM

Quote from: Tank on June 14, 2018, 08:28:43 AM

Quote from: Arturo on June 14, 2018, 08:27:42 AM

Quote from: Tank on June 14, 2018, 08:26:11 AM

Quote from: Tom62 on June 14, 2018, 05:19:20 AM
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
― Robert J. Hanlon

I have so often used this example myself!

That's a good quote.

I've just printed it out and pinned it on the notice board behind my desk :D

Good one, Tank. Let us know what sort of reaction it gets - if any.

It'll get one of the following reactions:
Ignored
Noticed and giggles by people who get it.
Noticed and frowns by people who don't get it.

    "It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last"

    —Willie Morris

I'm feeling negative right now  :sad sigh::

"Now, you know what they say about hopes — they're what we cling to when reality has left us nothing else."

--John Malkovich

(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trackie.com%2Ftrack-and-field%2Fimg%2Flayout%2Ficon_quote.jpg&hash=c5a9d5ac5c9c0366d813e18a50510fe9aa16bfc2)June Cleaver:
Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the beaver last night?

Quote from: Magdalena on December 31, 2019, 02:44:42 AM
I'm feeling negative right now  :sad sigh::

"Now, you know what they say about hopes — they're what we cling to when reality has left us nothing else."

--John Malkovich

But the Malkovich never had HAF hugs, who needs hopes when they have HAF hugs?
The frownier you look the huggier we get.

Quote from: No one on December 31, 2019, 04:13:38 AM
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Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the beaver last night?

:lol: Reminds me of my favorite Tom Swifty

"I'm coming!", Tom ejaculated.

Quote from: Bad Penny II on December 31, 2019, 02:20:29 PM

Quote from: Magdalena on December 31, 2019, 02:44:42 AM
I'm feeling negative right now  :sad sigh::

"Now, you know what they say about hopes — they're what we cling to when reality has left us nothing else."

--John Malkovich

But the Malkovich never had HAF hugs, who needs hopes when they have HAF hugs?
The frownier you look the huggier we get.

True.
:sad sigh:

Quote from: Magdalena on December 31, 2019, 06:57:43 PM

Quote from: Bad Penny II on December 31, 2019, 02:20:29 PM

Quote from: Magdalena on December 31, 2019, 02:44:42 AM
I'm feeling negative right now  :sad sigh::

"Now, you know what they say about hopes — they're what we cling to when reality has left us nothing else."

--John Malkovich

But the Malkovich never had HAF hugs, who needs hopes when they have HAF hugs?
The frownier you look the huggier we get.

True.
:sad sigh:

:hug:

(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trackie.com%2Ftrack-and-field%2Fimg%2Flayout%2Ficon_quote.jpg&hash=c5a9d5ac5c9c0366d813e18a50510fe9aa16bfc2) Aristotle:
The human brain is like a car with a stick, not everyone knows how to use it.

Quote from: No one on December 31, 2019, 10:55:31 PM
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trackie.com%2Ftrack-and-field%2Fimg%2Flayout%2Ficon_quote.jpg&hash=c5a9d5ac5c9c0366d813e18a50510fe9aa16bfc2) Aristotle:
The human brain is like a car with a stick, not everyone knows how to use it.

It's on the internet so it must be true.

- Nietzsche

Quote from: No one on December 31, 2019, 10:55:31 PM
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.trackie.com%2Ftrack-and-field%2Fimg%2Flayout%2Ficon_quote.jpg&hash=c5a9d5ac5c9c0366d813e18a50510fe9aa16bfc2) Aristotle:
The human brain is like a car with a stick, not everyone knows how to use it.

I do have to ask- who taught that car how to use that stick!? And how did it transfer that knowledge to us? :???:

Abraham Jefferson, the eleventeenth president. Abraham had detailed knowledge of the Transfer Case of the Covenant.

'This be the verse'

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin

This quote by my favorite author seems fitting these days.

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal". - John Steinbeck

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"You know enough about a subject to believe that you are right, but not enough about the subject to know that you are wrong": Neil DeGrasse Tyson

That is the long way of saying: " A little knowledge is dangerous".

I don't know who those people are, but I am a fan of the Steve Miller Band.

Egad. I suggest spoilering any further images of Mr Miller.  :maskwink:

"Reputation is the aggregation of ideas that have swarmed your body. Reputation is a list of your chronic afflictions."

— Nadia Eghbal

"If we take a knee, they're mad. If we speak up like I do, they're mad. If we protest like Martin Luther King Jr. taught us to do, they're mad. What is it that they expect us to do when police keep killing us?"
--Maxine Waters

"Stop that you little shit!"

Every dog owner.

Quote from: Tank on April 29, 2021, 07:34:39 PM
"Stop that you little shit!"

Every dog owner.

And cheeky parrot owner.

Quote from: Tank on April 29, 2021, 07:34:39 PM
"Stop that you little shit!"

Every dog owner.

And a couple when they start to hate each other.

Quote from: Magdalena on April 30, 2021, 05:08:11 AM

Quote from: Tank on April 29, 2021, 07:34:39 PM
"Stop that you little shit!"

Every dog owner.

And a couple when they start to hate each other.

How true and probably several other choice statements. :grin:

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
--Larry Elder

conservatives are just fine.  its american replubicans that have become.liars, kooks, and nazis.

the republican party has gone nuts. they have very little to do with conservatism anymore. its just a trump personality cult.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56963053.amp&ved=2ahUKEwjN3duUnqvwAhVEG80KHcjBAcEQFjAAegQIAxAC&usg=AOvVaw3YeXE3UG8yRzvV41kDF1pA&ampcf=1

Quote from: billy rubin on May 02, 2021, 03:35:11 PM
conservatives are just fine.  its american replubicans that have become.liars, kooks, and nazis.

the republican party has gone nuts. they have very little to do with conservatism anymore. its just a trump personality cult.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56963053.amp&ved=2ahUKEwjN3duUnqvwAhVEG80KHcjBAcEQFjAAegQIAxAC&usg=AOvVaw3YeXE3UG8yRzvV41kDF1pA&ampcf=1

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Quote from: Tom62 on May 02, 2021, 11:28:45 AM
Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
--Larry Elder

I didn't know who Larry Elder is (or didn't, until I saw this quote) but I would have laid down serious money and probably given odds that he considers himself a conservative. His thesis is fatuous bad-faith "I'm the real victim here!" bullshit, and I would have won that bet.

Quote from: Recusant on May 03, 2021, 09:13:43 AM

Quote from: Tom62 on May 02, 2021, 11:28:45 AM
Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
--Larry Elder

I didn't know who Larry Elder is (or didn't, until I saw this quote) but I would have laid down serious money and probably given odds that he considers himself a conservative. His thesis is fatuous bad-faith "I'm the real victim here!" bullshit, and I would have won that bet.

He is indeed a  conservative. A quite decent civilized guy though. And yes, they [the left] has called him very bad names,  like a traitor of his race, an Uncle Tom, an enabler of White Supremacy and other vile BS. BTW his documentary "Uncle Tom" is very worthwhile to watch (8.7 on IMDB and 96% on Rotten Tomatoes).

Quote from: Tom62 on May 02, 2021, 11:28:45 AM
Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.
--Larry Elder

Some conservatives consider liberals well intentioned but misguided. 
Some, many, conservatives seem to be very good and practiced haters.

"Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people."

As a liberal who admires Greta Tintin Thunberg, I abhor the creeps that put her down.
As a conservative who'd prefer less refugee/general immigration I'd be deplored by liberals.
They'd take the high moral ground but I'd ask, "what about the wombats?"
They'd talk of a fairy land where more people and wombats can coexist.

I also admire Greta, BP.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

- David Hockney

Quote from: hermes2015 on May 05, 2021, 04:22:28 AM
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

- David Hockney

:rofl:

"much study is a weariness of the flesh. Ecclesiastes 12:12......."let us now praise famous men" Ecclesiastes 44:1...............

OK I will start with Carl Sagan and go from there.  I kinda' like Neil DeGrasse Tyson too.  Mitch McConnel not so much.

Well. There is famous for the wrong reasons. I worked for a major aerospace company where one of the techs was giving a lecture on use of some equipment. At one point, he mentioned that doing something that trashed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware will "make you famous".  :D

^ Trashing hundreds of thousands of equipment would make you famous but also dispensable

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

~Sharon Begley

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. "
---Oscar Wilde.


:picard facepalm:
Fuck!
Is that how that works!?

From the book, "Paradise", by Toni Morrison

QuoteBut can't you even imagine what it must feel like to have a true home? I don't mean heaven. I mean a real earthly home. Not some fortress you bought and built up and have to keep everybody locked in or out.... Not some place you went to and invaded and slaughtered people to get. Not some place you claimed, snatched because you got the guns. Not some place you stole from the people living there, but your own home, where if you go back past your great-great-grandparents, past theirs, and theirs, past the whole of Western history ... back when God said Good! Good!—there, right there where you know your own people were born and lived and died.

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction is holding me fast
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

floyd

The war would never have happened if I was President: D.J. Trump :snicker:

Quote from: Icarus on March 14, 2022, 03:53:14 AM
The war would never have happened if I was President: D.J. Trump :snicker:

A very narcissistic claim indeed but lots of seemingly crazy stuff that Trump said, turned out to be true. Trump was perceived internationally as an unpredictable, unconventional, potentially dangerous and crazy president. Not to be fooled around with. Biden on the other hand is regarded as a weak, old, senile, naive, corrupt and incompetent moron.

putin didnt need to go war. trump was giving him most of what he wanted in ukraine.

Quote from: billy rubin on March 14, 2022, 10:59:20 AM
putin didnt need to go war. trump was giving him most of what he wanted in ukraine.

Putin dreams of recreating the USSR. First step was annexing Crimea under  Obama/Biden, then waited till Biden became president and now he continues annexing the Ukraine. Seems to me that Trump cannot be blamed for the failures of Democratic presidents.

What nonsense. Putin is doing the invading. Neither Biden nor Obama have anything to do with it.

Did you hear about this?

Did you all know that half of low-paid workers in the UK are given less than a week's notice of their shifts, according to a study highlighting an "insecurity premium" for employees paid close to the minimum wage.
The Living Wage Foundation said 50% of people earning less than £9.90 an hour around the UK or £11.05 in London were told details of their work schedules with less than seven days before they were due to begin.
Lower-paid workers were therefore more likely to pay a financial price – an "insecurity premium" – because of the added costs of childcare and travel when shifts were cancelled or changed at short notice.

Thanks a lot Obama!

Biden may not be the senile old fool that you think he is.  Biden continues to say that we do not want a nuclear war with Russia or anyone else.  He has also affirmed, repeatedly, that if the Russians set foot on any NATO nation's soil, think Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the war has begun.

Is it possible that the seasoned, old, weak, and senile president may be lowballing the crazy man in the kremlin? 

Putin knows damned well that we have Tactical nukes too. We also have ICBM nukes. We also have the NATO nations behind us.  Not inconsequentially, we have the largest and best equipped fighting force in the world. In addition, our famously divided congress has miraculously come together with a posture that is militant.  Even our peaceful Morman senator Romney, has loudly urged: send the  MIGS.

I am not the only Angry American who does not wish to endure the sacrifices of human and treasure that war will bring. I am certainly not the only American who is emotionally crushed by the senseless destruction of Ukrainian schools, hospitals, homes, apartment buildings, museums, roads, bridges, utility facilities, airfields............and human beings that we are seeing.

I am waiting to exhale.  I am a very old guy who does have much to lose if a terrible war breaks out. I am surely nearing the end of my life so what does it matter to me? Well, it matters a hell of a lot to me. Those are real people out there who are being tortured by fear and hunger and cold. How would Ukrainians' be able to afford to rebuild from all that destruction?  How long would it take to restore a civilized nation to it's former self?  How long will it take to recover from the vaporization of our Pentagon or their Kremlin?  A hundred years, A thousand years?

Biden is not stupid. I pray to the God that I do not believe in, that this humanitarian crisis can be resolved with some degree of wisdom.

Agreed. Biden is faced with a very difficult task, but he knows his first obligation is to keep us safe. He had to repair the damage done to NATO by Trump, and then unite them against the Russian aggressor. He has done a good job in that department. NATO has kept us safe for over 70 years, and Biden knows that it is our best assurance of standing against a country that has a long history of expansionism. We would all love to see Putin go down in flames, but sanctions and provision of arms and money to Ukraine is as far as we can go. If we try to create a no-fly zone will come into direct contact with Russian planes, and that could easily lead to nuclear escalation. Nobody wants that.

"A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect."
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie


"You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No."
― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea



I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. [...] Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person, the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We could prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen."
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ—but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone—look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.

~Rod Serling~

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Penis penis penis penis penis

Quote from: No one on April 09, 2022, 08:41:53 PM
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Penis penis penis penis penis

;D

阴茎 阴茎 阴茎 阴茎 阴茎

QuoteIf you a scared motherfucker go to church.

--Ice Cube.

(https://www.trackie.com/track-and-field/img/layout/icon_quote.jpg)Raps 247:
I've come here to chew bubble gum, and educate you sexist, prejudice pricks. And I'm all out of bubble gum!

Quote from: No one on August 06, 2022, 10:14:02 PM(https://www.trackie.com/track-and-field/img/layout/icon_quote.jpg)Raps 247:
I've come here to chew bubble gum, and educate you sexist, prejudice pricks. And I'm all out of bubble gum!

I don't know what this means. I'm sorry.

Wait.
Is this something Jesus said?
:notsure:

Quote from: Magdalena on August 06, 2022, 11:09:57 PM

Quote from: No one on August 06, 2022, 10:14:02 PM(https://www.trackie.com/track-and-field/img/layout/icon_quote.jpg)Raps 247:
I've come here to chew bubble gum, and educate you sexist, prejudice pricks. And I'm all out of bubble gum!

I don't know what this means. I'm sorry.

Wait.
Is this something Jesus said?
:notsure:

Apparently it is a quote from Raps 2:47.

Here's another one:

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Does this mean that god is evil-ier than the devil? Which I find...disturbing.
Or ...
That god, despite showing us how insignificant we are to him over and over again, ( documented in the bible), his, "love" for us...will miraculously appear, and protect us from the devil...just like that...after being absent for 2022 years?

And, "joined" doesn't mean god automatically accepted you in the club to fight the devil...Does it?

Asmo, help me here.

Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on August 06, 2022, 11:14:12 PM

Quote from: Magdalena on August 06, 2022, 11:09:57 PM

Quote from: No one on August 06, 2022, 10:14:02 PM(https://www.trackie.com/track-and-field/img/layout/icon_quote.jpg)Raps 247:
I've come here to chew bubble gum, and educate you sexist, prejudice pricks. And I'm all out of bubble gum!

I don't know what this means. I'm sorry.

Wait.
Is this something Jesus said?
:notsure:

Apparently it is a quote from Raps 2:47.

You guys are funny. ;D

I'm glad to be here, with the white and the gray. ;D

Well my dear raps, you came to chew bubble gum, and educate misogynistic, bigoted asshats, but you don't have any bubble gum left, the only thing to do now is drop a world of knowledge on the willfully ignorant cro magnons.

Quote from: No one on August 06, 2022, 11:49:52 PMWell my dear raps, you came to chew bubble gum, and educate misogynistic, bigoted asshats, but you don't have any bubble gum left, the only thing to do now is drop a world of knowledge on the willfully ignorant cro magnons.

QuoteThe misogynistic, bigoted asshats,... the willfully ignorant cro magnons.

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All I see is decent men.

I was referring to the scumbags who often infuriate you young lady.

I am far from decent.

But I sincerely appreciate your vote of confidence.

Quote from: No one on August 07, 2022, 02:31:54 AMI was referring to the scumbags who often infuriate you young lady.

...

Ah.
Well...
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 :levitate:

Quote from: Magdalena on August 06, 2022, 11:16:17 PMAsmo, help me here.

Joined here obviously refers to a... Thumb, let us call it, of one person, being medically stuck up God's sphincter.

If you make the Devil laugh, suddenly he's much less scary. And if anything would...

There. Prayer answered. Now, to Luxembourg! :cartoonviking:

Quote from: Papasito Bruno on March 08, 2016, 10:38:04 PMA place to post quotes we love, find most inspirational, or even live by.


"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did, in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."

Bob Monkhouse

~and~

"Too fucking busy. And vice versa."

Dorothy Parker, in response to nagging by her publisher to produce more work while on her honeymoon.

It's no joke! My wife's maternal grandfather was a London bus driver and he died of a heart attack while driving his bus. Nobody was hurt they recon he realised what was happening because the bus braked and rolled to a halt finally stopping when it hit a lamp post. He took out the electricity to Lewisham and made the papers next day and not just in the obituaries.

Quote from: Asmodean on August 08, 2022, 07:33:25 AM

Quote from: Magdalena on August 06, 2022, 11:16:17 PMAsmo, help me here.

Joined here obviously refers to a... Thumb, let us call it, of one person, being medically stuck up God's sphincter.

...

;D
Assuming, of course, that the omnipotent has one of those.

If the xtian god does exist, he's all asshole.

Why is it assumed that the almighty creator has a tallywhacker?

Quote from: No one on August 08, 2022, 07:45:25 PMWhy is it assumed that the almighty creator has a tallywhacker?

Because guys wrote the book. It wouldn't possible for those guys living in that era to conceive of their deity being a woman.  ;)

Quote from: No one on August 08, 2022, 07:45:25 PMWhy is it assumed that the almighty creator has a tallywhacker?

And more important, if he does, what does he use it for?
Does god urinate or procreate with it?
:notsure:

Is it a sin to think/ask about this stuff?

Ezekiel 8:2
"I looked, and I saw a figure like that of a man.[a] From what appeared to be his waist down he was like fire..."

--Hot stuff.
Maybe that is where rain, hail, and lightning come from?
 :???:

"Christians are more susceptible to conspiracy theories because they have been groomed to accept ideas without evidence."  Anonymous

Why does the almighty have to be human like in any way, shape, or form?


I'd imagine Raps, if the tallywhacker hypothesis holds any water, said tallywhacker is used for probing Uranus.

I like Uranus jokes. ;D

Quote from: No one on August 08, 2022, 11:16:30 PMWhy does the almighty have to be human like in any way, shape, or form?

I'd imagine Raps, if the tallywhacker hypothesis holds any water, said tallywhacker is used for probing Uranus.

Yes.That's a mighty huge human looking god.  :-\

It would have to be a huge tallywhacker if it's probing Uranus.
Think about it...
Did you know that aroud 63 to 64 earths fit in Uranus?

 ;D

Quote from: Magdalena on August 08, 2022, 08:59:02 PMAnd more important, if he does, what does he use it for?

Rape. Or didn't you hear about how Jesus came to be? Yep. the prophet is an rape baby.

Quote from: No one on August 08, 2022, 11:16:30 PMWhy does the almighty have to be human like in any way, shape, or form?

The proper Almighty is gray and round-ish and has eyebrows sticking out and shall smite a Smart car with Luxembourg... In no particular order, see if He shall not! Mercedes-Benz displeased Him with it.

Quote from: Asmodean on August 09, 2022, 02:50:08 PM

Quote from: Magdalena on August 08, 2022, 08:59:02 PMAnd more important, if he does, what does he use it for?

Rape. Or didn't you hear about how Jesus came to be? Yep. the prophet is a rape baby.

I'll be god's attorney and I'll use the holy book to defend him.:studious:

He didn't rape her
because she didn't scream sufficiently.

If she was being raped and he succeeds in raping her, and she didn't scream, she bears at least some guilt.

-- Deuteronomy.

Besides, Gabriel warned her.
 :reading:   

So, god, bless his holy penis, is innocent.

Indeed. :smilenod:

Also, it was immaterial at the time, so totally nothing happened.

Quote from: Magdalena on August 09, 2022, 06:45:21 PMI'll be god's attorney and I'll use the holy book to defend him.:studious:

He didn't rape her
because she didn't scream sufficiently.

If she was being raped and he succeeds in raping her, and she didn't scream, she bears at least some guilt.

-- Deuteronomy.

Besides, Gabriel warned her.
 :reading:   

So, god, bless his holy penis, is innocent.

Some splendid ecclesiastic lawyering there. No jury of angels would vote to convict.  :lol:

Quote from: Recusant on August 10, 2022, 05:19:22 AM

Quote from: Magdalena on August 09, 2022, 06:45:21 PMI'll be god's attorney and I'll use the holy book to defend him.:studious:

He didn't rape her
because she didn't scream sufficiently.

If she was being raped and he succeeds in raping her, and she didn't scream, she bears at least some guilt.

-- Deuteronomy.

Besides, Gabriel warned her.
 :reading:   

So, god, bless his holy penis, is innocent.

Some splendid ecclesiastic lawyering there. No jury of angels would vote to convict.  :lol:

;D

Quote from: Asmodean on August 09, 2022, 06:50:47 PMIndeed. :smilenod:

Also, it was immaterial at the time, so totally nothing happened.

[Holy]--mother --fucker.

Poor Mary.
So she was fucked by the law, god, and the holy spirit.
Figuratively speaking. 
And literally, I think.
:notsure:

One more thing.

Quote from: Asmodean on August 09, 2022, 02:50:08 PM... Yep. the prophet is an rape baby.

And the "other holy prophet" was a child abuser/rapist.

QuoteWhat happened between Muhammad and Aisha?

Aisha, daughter of Abu-Bakr was a beautiful little girl. Muhammad married her when he was fifty-three years old and she was only six years old. He had intercourse with her when she was nine years old. (Wives of the Prophet, pages 57-61).

So much holiness, everywhere.

Quote from: Magdalena on August 10, 2022, 06:06:42 AMAnd the "other holy prophet" was a child abuser/rapist.

Indeed? :thoughtful:

...Why, yes! Oh, the implications!  ;D

Mary was asking for it. Everytime Peter used his peter, Mary called out
another's name.

Side note, jehovah suffers from premature ejaculation.

It may have taken 7 days to create the earth, it took less than 7 seconds to create Jesus.

I think we should create a "Blasphemous Sentiments" thread.
—You know, get it out of our system.
:notsure:

I run on blasphemy. I don't think I could ever get it out of my system.

Quote from: No one on August 10, 2022, 07:43:16 PMI run on blasphemy. I don't think I could ever get it out of my system.

Good.
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 ;)