The worse the conditions of life the more productive the work, always provided you remember the work.
- Gurdijeff
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Precisely that Self which I haven't thought up is who I really am.
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The Bible tells us to be like God, and then it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behaviour of Western Civilisation.
- Robert Anton Wilson
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal
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Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.
- George W. Bush
(This one is amazing.)
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Remember yourSelf always and everywhere.
- Gurdijeff
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The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.
- Terry Pratchett
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The chief means of happiness in this life is the ability to consider externally always, internally never.
- Gurdijeff
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
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There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.
- Donald Rumsfeld
(This was used as a 'justification' for the formation of the "Coalition of the Willing". But if you can ignore that, the existential value of the Truth being elucidated, is immeasurable.)
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I teach that when it rains the pavements get wet.
- Mullah Nassir Eddin
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In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply.
- Rockefeller Foundation Director of Charity, Frederick Gates, 1913
(Literally oh.my.god. This is what I've been talking about, vassals.)
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Do not love art with your feelings.
- Gurdijeff
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Conscious love evokes the same in response. Emotional love evokes the opposite. Physical love depends on type and polarity.
- Gurdijeff
(This one is great. I don't know if any of you vassals are even bright enough to understand the genius I write; but when I rant against "love", I am ranting against your horrifying religious version of it.)
Learn to want what you need, rather than to need what you want.
- Gurdijeff
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What this country needs - what every country needs occasionally - is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
- Ambrose Bierce
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
- Will Rogers
(Nigger knew.)
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Brain: An apparatus with which we think we think.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Doubt - Indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
- Ambrose Bierce
(Perfect.)
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
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Those who understand others are intelligent
Those who understand themselves are enlightened
Those who overcome others have strength
Those who overcome themselves are powerful
Those who know contentment are wealthy
Those who proceed vigorously have willpower
Those who do not lose their base endure
Those who die but do not perish have longevity
- Lao Tzu
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An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me...It is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride and superiority. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith. This same fight is going on inside of you and every other person too.”
They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied..“The one I feed.”
(I'm brighter than the Cherokee, because he got a few of those wrong. It is very wrong to be Zen when your situation calls for Anger. Arrogance is an invention of those who cannot make a counter-argument. Pride in oneSelf when one has done something worth doing is perhaps the purest form of remuneration. Love is the exploitation of the circumstances which can be betrayed. Benevolence and Generosity are lies sold to one's Self when one dabbles in Self-interest that simultaneously serves the interests of another. Faith is a worm-eaten crutch leaned upon by beleaguered and lazy minds.)
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- Mohandas Ghandi
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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
- John James Ingalls
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
- Vonnegut
(Wisdom is very nearly interchangeable with Happiness.)
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
- Nicola Telsa
(I literally said exactly this to Tapper in another thread this morning.)
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News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.
- former NBC news President Rubin Frank
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We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may enter their minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be complete.
- Virginia House of Delegates 1832, regarding slaves
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Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
- George Orwell
In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all, security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished most was freedom of responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free.
- Sir Edward Gibbon
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A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
- Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World
(Though you imbeciles probably didn't read it on account of your illiteracy, in another thread I told a story about my baby sister saving me from the Sickness which infects the minds of those who control your lives. During that time, I read "A Brave New World" and - though it's incomprehensible to me now - I couldn't understand why people thought it was satirical or ominous. To my mind, it was fantasy or even Utopian. I was pretty ill, but in my 'defence', you're a bunch of snivelling little rats. Offence intended, if you feel offence. Where I was going wrong in the processing was entirely due to my failure to appreciate you were not born this way; but made to be the way you are by those too stupid not to love, who were made to be stupid by those too damaged not to hate.)
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You never hear of any disturbances in Northern Luzon [Philippines]... because there isn't anybody there to rebel. That country was marched over and cleared out.... The good lord in Heaven only knows the number of Filipinos that were put under the ground; our soldiers took no prisoners; they kept no records; they simply swept the country and wherever or however they could get hold of a Filipino they killed him.
- a Republican member of Congress in an eyewitness report on the US invasion of the Philippines, 1899
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People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
- Nicolas Murray Butler
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It was the cleverest protection racket since men convinced women that they needed men to protect them, for if all the men vanished overnight, how many women would be afraid to walk the streets?
- William Blum, Rogue State (on the scam that was the Cold War)
(Though the suggestion had only once been made to me [by a freakishly brilliant Russian Naval cadet who may have saved my life in 2001 in Annapolis, Maryland], I had not really comprehended it so much as been confused by his flippant comment [which I instantly dismissed, imagining I had misheard]. But in 2005, I landed in Moscow airport excited about Russian girls. Though it might have been the furthest thing from my mind, upon emerging from the Aeroflot deathtrap the first impression which overwhelmed everything was the recognition of the painfully-evident reality. The Iron Curtain wasn't drawn to prevent the Russian public from looking out; they closed the blinds to prevent the American public from looking in [almost certainly, at the insistence of the US racketeers]. I have no idea if anything has changed, but had you landed in Moscow prior to 2005 you would have understood.
Instantly, I realised the Cold War was a lie.
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Fear: a club used by priests, presidents, kings and policemen to keep the people from recovering stolen goods.
- Elbert Hubbarb
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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
- Aldous Huxley
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These are a few of the ways we can practice Humility: Speak as little as possible of oneself. Mind one's own business. Avoid curiosity. Do not want to manage other people's affairs. Accept contradiction and correction cheerfully. Pass over mistakes of others. Accept blame when innocent. Yield to the will of others. Accept insults and injuries. Accept being slighted, forgotten, and disliked. Be kind and gentle even under provocation. Do not seek to be specially loved and admired. Never stand on one's dignity. Yield in discussion even though one is right. Choose always the hardest.
- Mother Theresa
(Though she was undoubtedly a victim, it's still stunning that people would think this vile whore was a decent person. If you're confused, it might help to imagine how 'convenient' the above advice would be for pedophiles who were brazenly molesting human children.)
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If someone was committing your body to any person who meets you, you would be vexed. But that you commit your own mind to anyone who chances upon you, so that, if he abuses you, it is agitated and disturbed, are you not ashamed of that?
- Epictetus
(Epictetus was warning against Catholicism.)
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anaïs Nin
(Unbelievably, I realised this for the first time in my life aged 29 in a filthy 'recovery' club in Bangkok at 10am, mere moments from a certain death. As my mood plummeted from a ludicrously artificial high [love, in denial] to a ludicrously artificial low [when the denial is shattered], I watched reality change in front of my eyes. Beautiful people became ugly. Buck teeth I had not noticed suddenly appeared on the face on a pretty girl. Filth and grime and dirt I had been oblivious too covered the walls and tables and carpet on which I had collapsed. The DJ I had been impressed with suddenly sounded amateurish, and incompetent. Happy faces turned desperate all around me. The laughs I had thought joyful suddenly sounded forced and awkward.
Instead of having fun as I had imagined, I realised everyone was merely pretending [and doing a poor job of it].
I thought, "That's interesting."
Except for a few months after DELL reached out and slapped me for abusing their services, I've been thinking a great deal more intelligently ever since.)
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The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.
- Mark Twain, Roughing It
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Even if the government collapsed and disappeared overnight, good people would still do what good people do, and bad people will still do what bad people do.
- Mark Twain
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With or without religion, good people would still do good things, and evil people would still do evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
- Claudius Claudianus
(Brainwashing children to 'please' is a good way to kill their sense of Self.)
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
- Victor Hugo
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
- Oscar Wilde
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This above all: to thine own Self be true. It must follow that you cannot then be false to any man.
- Shakespeare
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
(You're all effectively a bunch of glorified Jews, feeding on your own and believing you're Chosen or Special somehow. You need to get your 7 billion options back from those who have taken them from you.)
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
- Marianne Williamson
(It's funny, I hated the first two lines of this passage more than any filthy poisonous creepy quote I'd ever heard in my life. One day I Googled it in fury, and cracked up laughing. Of course it's Christian. It's so utterly Christian, it's hilarious. It's how they made narcissists out of the entire world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate or that we are powerful beyond measure. What filthy drivel. Our deepest fear is that we are exactly as powerful as we are, in reality. But how 'convenient' to imagine otherwise. That way, we can imagine we have immense power without the 'uncomfortable' hassle of actually applying our ludicrously limited power to speak out against insanity. You have the power to be audible. You have the power to write letters to Editors that, if they were any good, would be censored. You have the power to learn.
Or you can wallow in filthy Christian delusions and wistfully long for your imagined [unrealised] spectacular 'potential' by idiotically buying into this poisonous 'feel-good' tripe. Real talk.)
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Here’s a simple test. If it’s soothing or comforting, if it makes you feel warm and fuzzy; if it’s about getting into pleasant emotional or mental states; if it’s about peace, love, tranquility, silence or bliss; if it’s about a brighter future or a better tomorrow; if it makes you feel good about yourself or boosts your self-esteem, tells you you’re okay, tells you everything’s just fine the way it is; if it offers to improve, benefit or elevate you, or if it suggests that someone else is better or above you; if it’s about belief or faith or worship; if it raises or alters consciousness; if it combats stress or deepens relaxation, or if it’s therapeutic or healing, or if it promises happiness or relief from unhappiness, if it’s about any of these or similar things, then it’s not about waking up. Then it’s about living in the dreamstate, not smashing out of it.
On the other hand, if it feels like you’re being skinned alive, if it feels like a prolonged evisceration, if you feel your identity unraveling, if it twists you up physically and drains your health and derails your life, if you feel love dying inside you, if it seems like death would be better, then it’s probably the process of awakening.
- Jed McKenna
(This is why MLK was a nigger.)
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Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had not jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man's worth could not be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn't cheat. We really were in a bad way before the white man came, and I don't know how we managed to get along without the basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized society. But now visible progress is everywhere - jails all over the place, and we know those jails are for us Indians. What a pity that so many of us don't appreciate them!
- Leonard Crow Dog
(This is what I've been trying to say about Law. The law has never deterred those who cannot act in their own best interests, and who go about committing 'crimes' of passion or those who seek to advantage over others, unfairly. All the law does is legalise crimes it fails to include, like the Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Rape.
The law creates rules to be broken. It suggests that doing what is against the Law is in your best interests (for it were not, what possible utility is there in outlawing the actions of the compulsively insane). Law is derived from the Bible, which creates this ludicrously illogical illusion of Good v Evil when there is no such thing. It's Sane v Insane and those who have lost their sense of Self commit 'sin' as a result of their corruption which human children are infected with via the suggested horror that Law and the Bible are obsessed with - partially - Prohibiting. They get away with this horrifying insanity with the patronisingly demented and horrifyingly transparent guise of "just trying to help".)
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(It's actually four stages. Schopenhauer missed the first stage, where it is ignored.)
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At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
- Aldous Huxley
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Hank Paulson has admitted that he kept in touch with "market participants" on Wall Street when he was Treasury secretary. But did the former head of Goldman Sachs use his government position to enrich his friends during one of the most tumultuous times in US financial history? Paulson's phone logs, which I obtained after a Freedom of Information Act request, show that the Treasury chief kept in frequent touch with a virtual Who's Who of Wall Street's power players. But a half- hour block of time could prove to be the most intriguing bit of non-information in his schedule.
– Bob Chapman
(I can tell you who he was meeting with during those unattributed half-hour blocks of time. They're the reason the US is fighting a war in Mexico against cartel competitors. They're the reason Obama - and no President until Americans stop being demented vassals - will ever bring Change to the lobbyist-infected and special-interest dominated buildings in Washington, DC.)
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If the people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
- President Thomas Jefferson
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An invisible hand is guiding the populace.
- LaFayette
(With the corrupted root-kits that are Christian emotions.)
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The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.
- George Orwell, 1984
(They're all distributions of the same open-source code for the exploitation of humans, written by Moses aka the JEALOUS LORD.)
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- President Thomas Jefferson
(It's truly remarkable how many statesmen the US has placed in the White House. The truths spoken by FDR and Eisenhower are stunningly brilliant and foreboding. Of course, no one listened to them. Which is why you've been made to be rats.)
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- President Thomas Jefferson
(It's unbelievable that a government leader would say such blistering truths. This is what I've been trying to say about Power and "Might is Right" insanity. Might is never right; if it were, it would have no use for power. Truth persuades. Power compels. One is how you convince humans to act in their own best interests. The other is how you force slaves to act in the imagined 'interests' of the insane.)
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
- Feodor Dostoevsky
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had mens views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
- Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913)
Yes. Those who believe there is value in discussing the election chances of a man who may or may not believe he wears magic underpants, should take note. A clue to the source of that power can be found in this image.
Power that destroys all powers that rose up against it for 1500 years doesn't just fade away. You'd have to be clueless about power to even imagine such a ludicrous thing.
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A cabal of neo-feudal lords have taken over the government which they then use to control their subjects.
(Nonsense. Government is the creation of the Holy Roman Emperor who made 'sovereigns' out of bloodthirsty butchers and warlords, and divided up the world's vassals into illusionary nation-states.)
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.
- Robert Heinlein
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.
- H.L.Mencken
(Because the 'government' is an invention of Catholicism. And aside from some baffling US statesmen, and perhaps Disraeli, almost every government leader since Westphalia has been a sociopath warlord.)
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In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
- President Dwight Eisenhower
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For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.
- President John F. Kennedy Waldorf-Astoria Hotel New York City, April 27, 1961
(It should be instantly obvious he's not talking about Communism.)
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I was born a Heretic. I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
- Susan B. Anthony
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The best way to control the opposition is to lead it.
- Lenin
(Every time I see Democrats fighting with Republicans, I shake my head at ludicrous capacity of humans to be stupid.)
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(For Mike.)
As I began to love mySelf I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.
Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".
As I began to love mySelf I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.
Today I call it "MATURITY".
As I began to love mySelf I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm.
Today I call it "SELF-CONFIDENCE".
As I began to love mySelf I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm.
Today I call it "SIMPLICITY".
As I began to love mySelf I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.
Today I know it is "LOVE OF ONESELF".
As I began to love mySelf I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.
Today I call this connection "WISDOM OF THE HEART".
We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others.
Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born.
Today I know that is "LIFE"!
- Charlie Chaplin, As I Began to Love Myself
(Charlie Chaplin was a great man, but he was oblivious to the dark truths of Religion and he failed to understand that WWII was the product of emotional corruption, not intellect. Aside from those small faults, the speech he gave in "The Last Dictator" was the finest speech ever given in all of human history. It was the first time he ever spoke in a movie.)
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
- Buddah
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Can death be sleep when life is but a dream,
and scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasures as a vision seem,
and yet we think the greatest pain's to die.
How strange it is that man on earth should roam
and lead a life of woe, but not forsake his rugged path;
nor dare to view alone his future doom,
which is but to awake.
- Keats
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There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
- Walter Lippmann
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Scientific research in a given special field should be linked to related fields . . . it should proceed from basic premises to knowledge wider in scope, to a point at which we pass from an unidimensional “I know†to a multidimensional “ I understand.†Knowledge is usually unidimensional and understanding multidimensional; knowledge is based on perception and judgment, understanding involves also experience and intuition which add a depth to the perception and judgment.â€
- Dabrowski
(In the same vein as what I was explaining to Tapper about Catholic Toddlers and it's tied into the horror of Law. In the Philippines they have a coded legal system even more horrifying than "common law". The book of coded laws is ridiculously thick. It's just This is Allowed. This is Prohibited. It's a corruption of the corruption that is Law, and it is used to corrupt imbeciles who are already corrupted by Catholicism.
There is no understanding, because that is the enemy of Catholicism. It's the same in the Bible, with Thou Shalt Not Kill demented insulting insanity [that's it, no logic but then - in the entire Bible - you will never find a single example of logic; prove me wrong!]
Thou Shalt Not Kill, but who cares about why? No one, if it were up to Religion and the State. That way, you would kill whomever they order to you to kill; and fail to kill those who you really should have killed a long time ago. And would have, if you weren't snivelling rats.)
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
- Robertson Davies
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
- Thomas Szasz
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(This is tight, even though I disagree with it; as did Rumi, it would seem?)
Those who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,
let them sleep.
This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that old trickery and hypocrisy.
If you want to improve your mind that way,
sleep on.
I've given up on my brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it away.
If you're not completely naked,
wrap your beautiful robe of words
around you,
and sleep.
- Rumi
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(For Gambowl.)
If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?
- Dave McGowan
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
(The dark reality of the Golden Rule.)
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If it is not only power and coercion that enslave people, then there must be something in their nature that contributes to this downfall; since this is so, the state is not our first and only enemy, but we human beings ourselves harbor an "enemy within".
(Yes. It's called the religious corruption of emotion. I might be one of most insightful people alive. You moreoffs* should engage the things I write about, challenge the assertions I make, counter the logic; alternatively, you can continue to be rats.
*More off than on. [Nelson Algren, The Man With The Golden Arm])
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