El Presidente Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 The truth will set you free .......but first it will piss you off Gloria Steinem 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notsocleaver Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 "To be young is to fear being thought stupid; to mature is to fear being stupid." Don Colacho’s Aphorisms #116 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 "Taking a few blows is the price for being in the arena" Steven Pressfield 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TobaccoRoad Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Then the definition of sanity must be, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results.- me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 "I'm not drunk. It's just the floor hates me, the tables and chairs are bullies, and the wall gets in the way." 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzboypro Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Early is on time, on time is late and late is unacceptable! - Eric Jerome Dickey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porkchop Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 "Two of the gravest general dangers to survival are the desire for comfort and a passive outlook" - US Army Ranger Handbook 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards" Soren Kierkegaard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mprach024 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Snakes slither in the same grass. --me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickey D Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 “A hand in the bush is better than two on the thigh.” ~ my dad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeypots Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 "Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell Why is money called dough? Because we all knead it. Money is like manure. Left in one big pile it stinks to high heaven, but spread it around and everything grows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cairo Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Terence McKenna has many mind-blowing quotes--here are a few: We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron. Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan. To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant. Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coercion, brainwashing, and manipulation. My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite. A secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told. All culture is a kind of con game. Society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity. No one knows enough to worry. Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition. You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVantes Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 Asking for a friend: 8 hours ago, Cairo said: We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything. Why is that the limit of credulity? Why is it not that we are asked to believe that there are "invisible waves" in the air, that we can manufacture, that carry "information" that allow us to slay orcs in real time with people on the other side of this planet? Why is it not that they ask us to believe that our GPS does not work without quantum mechanics? 8 hours ago, Cairo said: If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan. Even if you have a plan, you can be part of somebody else's plan. And try as you might, you may figure in no one else's plan at all - and that may be the greater tragedy. 8 hours ago, Cairo said: My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite. Alright, but are you convinced of anything? 8 hours ago, Cairo said: You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. But neither are you defenceless. You are still clothed in your compassion, your empathy, your hope, and armoured with your thirst for truth, your scepticism and your defiance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bijan Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 32 minutes ago, SirVantes said: Why is that the limit of credulity? Why is it not that we are asked to believe that there are "invisible waves" in the air, that we can manufacture, that carry "information" that allow us to slay orcs in real time with people on the other side of this planet? Why is it not that they ask us to believe that our GPS does not work without quantum mechanics? I can see it both ways. Your examples are useful and have practical applications that display their usefulness and prove their respective theories. What simpler explanation is there for wifi? Magic? Try to calculate position from GPS signals without relativity and see how far off your positions readings are. The big Bang theory doesn't predict much. And I'm not sure the evidence supports it besides that red shift in frequencies from more distant objects. There are other pieces of data that contradict it. To me it seems inspired by the desire to have a scientific creation story. It doesn't seem to contribute anywhere near the useful applications that come from invisible waves and GPS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVantes Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 9 minutes ago, Bijan said: I can see it both ways. Your examples are useful and have practical applications that display their usefulness and prove their respective theories. What simpler explanation is there for wifi? Magic? Try to calculate position from GPS signals without relativity and see how far off your positions readings are. The big Bang theory doesn't predict much. And I'm not sure the evidence supports it besides that red shift in frequencies from more distant objects. There are other pieces of data that contradict it. To me it seems inspired by the desire to have a scientific creation story. It doesn't seem to contribute anywhere near the useful applications that come from invisible waves and GPS. As Arthur C Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The disjunct is between the apparent readiness to accept, day to day, the absolutely incredible things that we (via science, exclusively) can do, and where some choose to apply the tag "obviously incredible". As regards the predictions and contributions of the Big Bang theory, I would say the hoary old tales about Michael Faraday being asked "What good is electricity?" apply - give it time. At this point, the theory is part of the Standard Model, and the latter has been pretty useful in particle physics and its applications. It may one day be disproved - great, bring it on, it's what science is about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bijan Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 @SirVantes don't disagree with your points but it seems we live in a world where easily explained science and clearly useful technologies are denied and disbelieved. In that respect the big Bang theory is on shaky ground by comparison and its being disproved would not affect the rest of the standard model theory much as far as my limited understanding of physics goes. Edit: specifically I mean that there are those that think the earth is flat while the ancient Greeks or maybe even earlier civilizations had proved the earth was round and that some believe vaccines can not work at all and not that this or that vaccine is not worth the risk in particular. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cairo Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 1 hour ago, SirVantes said: Asking for a friend: Unfortunately Terence is no longer with us to defend his quotes. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVantes Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 6 minutes ago, Bijan said: @SirVantes don't disagree with your points but it seems we live in a world where easily explained science and clearly useful technologies are denied and disbelieved. In that respect the big Bang theory is on shaky ground by comparison and its being disproved would not affect the rest of the standard model theory much as far as my limited understanding of physics goes. Edit: specifically I mean that there are those that think the earth is flat while the ancient Greeks or maybe even earlier civilizations had proved the earth was round and that some believe vaccines can not work at all and not that this or that vaccine is not worth the risk in particular. All agreed. I am not a science expert either. I can't fix a toaster, but there are guys who can, and who build things that fly. These same guys (well, not the exact same guys, but guys from the same clan) tell me their best guess is such and such. I am inclined to nod, maybe ask some questions, and let them try to show me how it works. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVantes Posted June 12, 2021 Share Posted June 12, 2021 1 minute ago, Cairo said: Unfortunately Terence is no longer with us to defend his quotes. 🙂 My kind of fight 😁💪💪 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meklown Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Sometimes, there's nothing you can do, you have to keep pace with 'progress' - Serge, Whiskyfun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porkchop Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 “Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.” - William Faulkner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyfromiranny Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. David Mccullough, Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Presidente Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 “I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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