12-23-2010, 05:28 PM | #41 (permalink) |
The Reforms
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This is a new page. (Today is a new day.)
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi |
12-24-2010, 05:09 AM | #44 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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many people are alive only because it's illegal to shoot them...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
12-25-2010, 04:25 AM | #46 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but neither does milk...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
12-25-2010, 07:25 AM | #48 (permalink) |
Asshole
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Location: Chicago
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If you have pop-up blockers on, you should occassionally check to see if you have any private messages because they may be, you know, important. Espeically if the person sending them did so about something you've done wrong.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin "There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo |
12-27-2010, 04:23 AM | #50 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
01-20-2011, 01:13 PM | #56 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
01-21-2011, 03:18 AM | #59 (permalink) |
comfortably numb...
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If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him dirty names...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
01-23-2011, 02:37 PM | #61 (permalink) |
follower of the child's crusade?
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always know how you will get quickly out of any room in your house in the event of a fire, especially upstairs bedrooms. Always have means for you and anyone who lives in your house who is old enough to understand to break and get out of the window if you need to. (rope ladders cost next to nothing)
might save your life one day, and if make sure all your kids do this, it might save one of their lives, or one of your grandkids, you get the idea...
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered." The Gospel of Thomas |
01-23-2011, 09:18 PM | #62 (permalink) |
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Those that don't demand their rights don't have any. -US Supreme Court
Delaying the decision is worse than making the wrong decision. You can usually fix wrong decisions. You can't fix indecision. Losers fail and quit. Winners fail until they succeed. Do or do not. There is no try. -Yoda |
01-24-2011, 03:29 AM | #63 (permalink) | |
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Location: Florida
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein
"Imagination is just madness wearing a nice shirt" -Me "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -Martin Luther King, Jr. Never let the world grind you down into homogeny, all greatness in this world has come from what was at the time considered madness. I don't mean the small-time crazy that lives in it's own little world inside someone's head... I mean the real stuff, I'm talking about the kind of crazy that stands up and says "No." and changes everyone ELSE'S world too. But even beyond that being mature, productive, or classy simply does not necessitate being boring and unhappy. Pay attention to children, they know the real priorities. I mean think about it... when was the last time you saw a butterfly? Do you even remember? Did you stop to watch? What about a four leaf clover, how recently have you combed over a clover patch looking for one? These are the simple things we lose when we become too concerned with great matters of consequence that are of no great consequence at all, and with their loss we also lose a very important spart that can lead to greatness in our lives. The guy that gets the promotion for coming up with the phenomenal solution is seldom the guy that never jumps in the fountain when it's 90 degrees and his bus home is late. Never let someone tell you that one person can't make a difference, that you can't change the world. The Jews say that he who destroys a life has destroyed an entire world... the same is true in reverse. When you change one life you have changed an entire world, their world. And perhaps yours as well. "We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." -the 14th Dalai Lama By that same token remember what else is really important in life. Spending too much time working to provide for your family isn't going to be worth anything if you lose your family for that very same reason. The same with your friends. Violence is the last resort of the unintelligent and the unimaginative If there's something wrong and you have the ability to take action then you have a responsibility to take action. "There is no justice, there's Just Us." Going back to the first point... it really does just take one person to change the world. One person to stand up and say "this is wrong", one to share a Dream, One person to ask if at long last someone has left no sense of decency, or One person to ask us to be their neighbor when we are all alone in the night.
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01-24-2011, 04:23 AM | #64 (permalink) |
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
01-24-2011, 06:51 AM | #65 (permalink) |
warrior bodhisattva
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In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualization will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance. —Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama |
01-24-2011, 05:57 PM | #67 (permalink) | |
The sky calls to us ...
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Location: CT
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People will go to a hotel bar with others for lots of reasons, but there's only one reason anyone goes to a hotel bar alone, and it's not the $14 martinis.
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01-25-2011, 04:47 AM | #70 (permalink) |
People in masks cannot be trusted
Location: NYC
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Time is fleeting, you will die, set goals, aspirations, and live life.
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Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. |
01-25-2011, 09:59 AM | #72 (permalink) |
Banned
Location: The Cosmos
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We are all dying, just at different speeds. Regardless of speed, live the same way.
(I made that one up I think). ---------- Post added at 10:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:58 AM ---------- "Always have a plan to kill anyone you meet." From one of my fav books. |
01-26-2011, 09:56 PM | #74 (permalink) | |
I Confess a Shiver
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior." - supposedly Confucius, seen upon a trailer on a Hawaiian beach
... "Sure, you can hide the bodies, but learning how to talk your way out of sticky situations means a lot less shoveling." - ? ... "You can try, but you can't live your life like you're limited to whatever you can carry." - somebody I need to prove wrong ... Quote:
No, but it ruins marriages. Last edited by Plan9; 01-26-2011 at 10:03 PM.. |
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01-27-2011, 03:43 AM | #75 (permalink) |
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"Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."
Henry Louis Mencken
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
01-30-2011, 09:16 AM | #77 (permalink) |
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Location: The Aluminum Womb
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before you die:
build a lego with a kid raise a puppy do something for a friend for no reason other than they put up with your shit love someone go fishing get VERY drunk (or get drunk first and then go fishing) fight someone finish a game of monopoly host a superbowl party hug a dying relative like you miss them already, then get them drunk and take them fishing get your heart broken pet the dog that you raised as a pup gently when it gets too old and has to be put down make an important 50-50 decision on the toss of a coin (hasn't failed me yet) talk to a veteran have children vote wipe after conducting business on the porcelain throne replenish the toilet paper if it runs out there are some more but i cant think of them
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02-01-2011, 03:51 PM | #79 (permalink) |
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don't spit into the wind...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
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