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footfootfoot 11-01-2010 09:48 AM

The map is not the territory, however without a map it will take a long ass time to familiarize yourself with the territory.

Czarina369cz 11-01-2010 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 691822)
Sure, having some experience helps evaluate, and perhaps better understand, what you read., But I don't think lack of experience precludes learning something from books, otherwise we wouldn't use them to teach.

I can live with that.:)

classicman 11-11-2010 03:47 PM

The Master gives himself up
to whatever the moment brings.
He knows that he is going to die,
and he has nothing left to hold on to:
no illusions in his mind,
...no resistances in his body.
He doesn't think about his actions;
they flow from the core of his being.
He holds nothing back from life;
therefore he is ready for death,
as a man is ready for sleep
after a good day's work.
-Tao te Ching

footfootfoot 11-11-2010 09:00 PM

When the weather's hot and sticky
That's no time for dunkin' dicky.
But when the frost is on the pumpkin
That's the time for dicky dunkin'

xoxoxoBruce 11-12-2010 02:34 AM

Wow, that's deep.


I some cases.

xoxoxoBruce 11-12-2010 07:02 AM

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There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is- particularly the artist- particularly myself!

— Hermann Hesse

skysidhe 11-12-2010 10:04 AM

OPPORTUNITY is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

Lamplighter 11-15-2010 10:20 PM



A comment from one viewer of this Monty Python skit:

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You know what this scene taught me as a kid;
never give a permitable reason for violence or the violent will exploit that societal permission.
I would like to call this the "low fat pringles" scenario;
you feel guilty eating something fattening, but then you find a version of it with 1/3 the fat,
so you eat 5 times more of it some twisted indulgent logic.

Give people a permissible instance for antisocial behavior and there will be mobs of fools who just wanted a reason to do it

skysidhe 11-16-2010 11:05 PM

I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde

footfootfoot 11-17-2010 08:51 AM

Well, if we're going to trot out Wilde...

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Lady Bracknell: To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

fo0hzy 11-24-2010 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 694676)
Well, if we're going to trot out Wilde...

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

classicman 01-03-2011 07:31 PM

"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed,
lest Rome fall."
Marcus Tullius Cicero 55 B.C.

ZenGum 01-05-2011 06:37 AM

John Sattler, as captain of his rugby league team, 13 minutes into the grand final, having just received a punch that broke his jaw in two places:

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Help me stand up so they don't know I'm hurt
He played the rest of the game, refused treatment at half time, threatened violence at any of his team mates who tried to cut him out of the play, led his team to victory ... and then made the after-match speech:

Quote:

Whu, ue puae eeuh ooh, uh, uoo ree-ih oo ee o-ho-hi-hon, ehh aeve ih eeai ehhs ooht...

casimendocina 01-05-2011 09:00 PM

"Whatever you do, marry a woman, become a priest, you stay because it's a choice that you keep on making." (Milos Forman's character in Keeping the Faith).

casimendocina 02-09-2011 05:06 AM

In reference to Phil Collins:

"His music was always a middle-aged Thatcherite moan. Even in its most joyous moments it was a self-inflicted wound."

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...t-phil-collins

toranokaze 02-09-2011 06:55 AM

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Sometimes I wonder if what we are doing is right.
Don't worry the world will probably end by then.

safira218 02-25-2011 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Torrere (Post 248563)
I'm not brutal enough to use that as my answering machine message, but it'd be true.

We are born astride the grave ' . In Waiting for Godot somewhere . I forget if it was Vladimir or Estragon .

Clodfobble 02-25-2011 11:16 PM

It was Vladimir. "Astride of a grave, and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps."

(I played Estragon.)

Gravdigr 12-19-2011 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 713387)
..."Astride of a grave, and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts a roach on the forceps."...

FIFY.

Moving on:
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"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required." ~Dave Barry

JBKlyde 12-19-2011 02:03 PM

teach a child to love and he will love to obey - Tim Boone

classicman 12-19-2011 03:59 PM

Thats the second time you've quoted that. Its a truly frightening quote.
Inspirational? :headshake

JBKlyde 12-19-2011 06:19 PM

I don't believe sex you mind as well just chop of my penis and shove it in my ear.

jimhelm 12-19-2011 06:27 PM

Are you saying that you don't believe in sex, and we might as well chop off your penis and shove it in your ear?

Clodfobble 12-19-2011 07:19 PM

Schizophrenic men often have no sex drive:

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Whereas men with schizophrenia frequently lose their sexual drive early in the course of illness and are not likely to be sexually active if their illness is severe, this is generally not true for women. They continue to be interested in relationships and to engage in sexual intercourse.

jimhelm 12-19-2011 07:51 PM

you're gonna hafta cut and paste that article. it wants a log in.

Clodfobble 12-19-2011 10:50 PM

Interesting, that's one of those cases where getting the link from a Google search result will get you the content without a login. Anyway, it was just an abstract, all it said was:

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Whereas men with schizophrenia frequently lose their sexual drive early in the course of illness and are not likely to be sexually active if their illness is severe, this is generally not true for women. They continue to be interested in relationships and to engage in sexual intercourse. Because women with chronic psychosis are seldom employed or well off, their financial need may also lead to the exchange of sex for money. The relative passivity and isolation that accompany schizophrenia are fertile ground for sexual victimization. For these reasons, women with schizophrenia are at special risk not only for unwanted pregnancy but also for sexually transmitted disease. Counseling around these issues is essential.
If you want the whole thing you've gotta get a login to some place that gives access to medical journals: Seeman MV. Women and Schizophrenia. MedGenMed 2(2), 2000.

JBKlyde 12-19-2011 11:23 PM

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Are you saying that you don't believe in sex, and we might as well chop off your penis and shove it in your ear
yes that's what I meant..

and it's not that I don't have a sex drive, it's that's I don't believe in it.. it's not that I've never had sex and it's not that I'll never have sex again.. It's just that never been with a woman who makes me want to make lover to her. I don't even know How to have sex.. I just point the pointer tor ward the hole and move it around the best way I know how.. honestly I'd rather masturbate..

classicman 12-19-2011 11:25 PM

lol - she said Seeman

monster 12-20-2011 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 781552)
yes that's what I meant..

and it's not that I don't have a sex drive, it's that's I don't believe in it.. it's not that I've never had sex and it's not that I'll never have sex again..

um......

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It's just that never been with a woman who makes me want to make lover to her. I don't even know How to have sex.. I just point the pointer tor ward the hole and move it around the best way I know how.. honestly I'd rather masturbate..
^^^that there is pretty much EXACTLY the definition of no sex drive. Wanking is not sex.

monster 12-20-2011 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 781394)
teach a child to love and he will love to obey - Tim Boone

The biggest google hit for Tim Boone is a Urologist. Thank goodness you have no sex drive because you are NOT parent material. You are scary material. You also have no sense of logic which is, I guess, why you ask so many stupid questions. Get the fuck back on your medication and stay away from kids.

JBKlyde 12-21-2011 01:42 PM

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The biggest google hit for Tim Boone is a Urologist. Thank goodness you have no sex drive because you are NOT parent material. You are scary material. You also have no sense of logic which is, I guess, why you ask so many stupid questions. Get the fuck back on your medication and stay away from kids.
He was a navy seal during veitnam.. and you notice how your hateing.. you have no idea of love or obediance,, read the bible you idiot, that's where love and obediance come from..

Lamplighter 12-21-2011 03:13 PM

Good on you, JB

sexobon 12-21-2011 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 781948)
... read the bible you idiot, ...

Oh no! You called another Cellar dwellar a bad name! You called our eeny meeny miney monster an idiot! LUMP OF COAL FOR YOU this Christmas Mr. Jethro Bodine Klyde.

Don't let Lamplighter encourage you, he got his name by carrying Satan's fire to fan flame wars between dwellars. When you used a bad word you invited him in. Denounce him and repent!

Gravdigr 12-21-2011 03:57 PM

Throw salt over your shoulder...you'll be fine.

Lamplighter 12-21-2011 05:12 PM

:D

Griff 12-21-2011 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 781394)
teach a child to love and he will love to obey - Tim Boone

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 781948)
... you have no idea of love or obediance,, read the bible you idiot, that's where love and obediance come from..

An honest reading of the first quote reveals some truth. If you love your children, they will trust you. If you are worthy of a child's trust his/her default position will usually be to obey.

Love and obedience pre-date the bible which has often been used to force obedience with little love.

JBKlyde 12-21-2011 05:50 PM

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Love and obedience pre-date the bible which has often been used to force obedience with little love.
I'm a christian, so the bible is the ultimate authority, Christ made the ultimate sacrifice and that's the love I see, I may not be completely educated in that love but I'm educated enough to obey the 10 commandments which can be summed up with the one quote "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

monster 12-21-2011 09:20 PM

I have read the bible, I am not an idiot. Blunt, unforgiving and intolerant of twerps like you, yes. I'm interested to see the logical progression to your conclusion that I have no idea of love or obediance. Oh wait.....

...oh and, is obediance a good trait in a human? I'mm'a suggest that without such a wilingness to obey without question, there would be fewer malevolent dictatorships, child molestors, and general abuses of human rights...?

JBKlyde 12-21-2011 09:39 PM

whatever, I don't need your approval to speak my mind.. your just proving my point when you talk about being unforgiving and intolerant, lets see "twerp" that sounds like 7th grade language.. grow up dude there are better things to do that fight over words on the internet.. how old are you maybe you'd per fer a spanking, over education to love..

Flint 12-22-2011 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 782086)
whatever, I don't need your approval to speak my mind..

Nope, but you should expect that the critical-thinking adults in this community will question your words and expect you to be capable of backing up glib proclamations with solid reasoning. You don't get a free "say crazy shit but nobody can disagree with me" card--here, or anywhere else. The internet, and this community, is not a street corner for your lunatic ravings. You will be required to defend your positions, or face the ridicule deserved by a sloppy thinker. Do you feel the collective pressure of these expectations?

This isn't the result of you being the lone right-thinker in a crowd of dolts.

bard3579 12-22-2011 02:46 AM

Wait, wasn't this thread about quotes?

"you haven't had enough coffee until you are able to thread a moving sewing machine needle". Jeff BezoS

Gravdigr 12-22-2011 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 782086)
...maybe you'd per fer a spanking...

Don't tease her.

Or us.

:spank:

ZenGum 12-22-2011 06:11 AM

Crikey, there's an image ... :lol:

monster 12-30-2011 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 782083)
I have read the bible, I am not an idiot. Blunt, unforgiving and intolerant of twerps like you, yes. I'm interested to see the logical progression to your conclusion that I have no idea of love or obediance. Oh wait.....

...oh and, is obediance a good trait in a human? I'mm'a suggest that without such a wilingness to obey without question, there would be fewer malevolent dictatorships, child molestors, and general abuses of human rights...?

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 782086)
whatever, I don't need your approval to speak my mind.. your just proving my point when you talk about being unforgiving and intolerant, lets see "twerp" that sounds like 7th grade language.. grow up dude there are better things to do that fight over words on the internet.. how old are you maybe you'd per fer a spanking, over education to love..


sweetheart...

um.....

of course you don't need my approval.... but -if you wish to be taken seriously- you do need to back up your claims about me, and that you have failed to do. So far. You may be right, but if I were the gambling type, I'd place my bets on not.......

;)

monster 12-30-2011 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 782127)
Crikey

:lol:

Takes be back to my childhood.....

Griff 12-30-2011 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 782106)
...a street corner for your lunatic ravings.

reminds me of this:

Gravdigr 01-14-2012 07:35 AM

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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt/April 1899

classicman 01-14-2012 11:51 AM

Excellent!

classicman 02-21-2012 10:08 PM

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Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents
to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
>>Gerald Ford March 31, 1974 <<

Lamplighter 02-21-2012 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 796970)
>Never again must America allow an arrogant, downward mobile generation of xenophobic fundamentalists
to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.<

>John Andrew Boehner, Nov 7, 2012<


Well what did you all expect --- an irresistible temptation.

classicman 03-27-2012 12:27 PM

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair

classicman 04-08-2012 07:43 PM

"Worrying is stupid. it's like walking around with an umbrella, waiting for it to rain"
-Wiz Khalifa


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