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Post by Duragizer on Jan 6, 2020 2:42:25 GMT -5
"Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well."
— Elbert Hubbard
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Post by Duragizer on Jan 30, 2020 4:47:40 GMT -5
“Creation is, on God’s part, not an act of self-expansion, but a retreat, a renunciation. God and all his creatures are less than God alone. God accepted this diminishment. God emptied Himself of part of His being. God emptied Himself in the act of His divinity. This is why St. John says, ‘The Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.’ God permitted things to exist other than Himself and worth infinitely less than Himself. By the act of creation, God denied himself, just as Christ told us to deny ourselves. God denied Himself in our favour to give us the possibility of denying ourselves for Him. This response, this echo, subject to our refusal, is the only possible justification for the folly of love in the act of creation. Religions with this conception of renunciation, this voluntary distance, this voluntary effacement of God, His apparent absence and His secret presence here below … these religions are the true religion, translations of the Great Revelation into different languages. Religions that represent divinity as commanding wherever it has the power to do so are false. Even if they are monotheistic, they are idolatries.”
― Simone Weil
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 5, 2020 14:08:11 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 5, 2020 15:09:55 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember when I read Demon-Haunted World, sometime in the early '00s I think, that bit jumped out at me as well.
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 20, 2020 22:51:55 GMT -5
“The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
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Post by Duragizer on Mar 10, 2020 0:45:09 GMT -5
"I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman."
— Arnold Schwarzeneggar
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Post by Jesse on Mar 19, 2020 22:36:49 GMT -5
― Robert Allen Zimmerman
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 20, 2020 9:14:25 GMT -5
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Post by Duragizer on Apr 7, 2020 17:16:05 GMT -5
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself; I am large, I contain multitudes."
— Walt Whitman
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2020 9:06:30 GMT -5
"Remember, 'Less is more', I always said 'how can that be?' How could less be more? It's impossible. More is more" - Yngwie Malmsteen (or was it Nigel Tufnel?)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2020 23:48:33 GMT -5
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Post by Duragizer on Apr 23, 2020 18:27:24 GMT -5
"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on May 4, 2020 16:59:05 GMT -5
"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." — Martin Luther King, Jr. You know, as someone who for years blissfully went through life here in NZ completely and utterly oblivious to racism in our society, who (as friends of mine still do)thought it didnt really exist, I find these words to be as profound and relevant as if he had just written the letter. It took me becoming involved with my Oh So Better Half, who is half Rarotongan(Pacific Islander), to see just how overt it still is, and to see how I as the average white Kiwi Male had helped perpetuate much of the above. Seeing people do literal double-takes as you and your partner walk through town(multiple times, I thought I was over-reacting initially), or hearing the way other white people talked to her when unaware we were together disturbed me immensely, though walking into the conversation and putting them in their place is incredibly satisfying. Sorry for the ramble, but thank you so much for the quote. |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 4, 2020 21:10:27 GMT -5
"Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales.
Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Acceptance Speech for the Re-Nomination for the Presidency,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 5, 2020 8:15:55 GMT -5
"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." — Martin Luther King, Jr. You know, as someone who for years blissfully went through life here in NZ completely and utterly oblivious to racism in our society, who (as friends of mine still do)thought it didnt really exist, I find these words to be as profound and relevant as if he had just written the letter. It took me becoming involved with my Oh So Better Half, who is half Rarotongan(Pacific Islander), to see just how overt it still is, and to see how I as the average white Kiwi Male had helped perpetuate much of the above. Seeing people do literal double-takes as you and your partner walk through town(multiple times, I thought I was over-reacting initially), or hearing the way other white people talked to her when unaware we were together disturbed me immensely, though walking into the conversation and putting them in their place is incredibly satisfying. Sorry for the ramble, but thank you so much for the quote. While the woman the stars made for me is white like me, I dated several black women in my younger years and I can certainly attest to your sentiment with you and your lady. I too was a witness to such things when going on dates in public with someone of a different skin color. I myself even a victim of mistreatment just for being in the company of friends that were subject to racism from racists people of authority; police. Watching Straight Out of Compton with my wife, she was surprised that many of the treatments of black people depicted in that movie, were something I had gone through too just by association. So I grew up knowing racism exists and is rampant. Now living in another part of the country and married to a white woman I have to do the opposite and make sure that those experiences aren't forgotten because racism is still a problem unfortunatly. |
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