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Jan 7, 2024 18:25:35 GMT
Post by Admin on Jan 7, 2024 18:25:35 GMT
"SOCIAL MANIACS A suppressed and desperate cry surges through humanity. People shriek, "How can I make sense of human events?" You can't. The actions of lunatics in an insane asylum never make sense. Society is a mad-house occupied by frenzied maniacs who think they are sane. Sigh with relief. You don't have to try to figure it out any more. You can see through sick society, which means you are not part of it, which means you are sane. And now your life makes perfect sense." SOLVED The Mystery of Life, p. 185
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Jan 15, 2024 12:36:11 GMT
Post by Admin on Jan 15, 2024 12:36:11 GMT
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. ” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. - Charles-Louis de Secondat
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.” - Pierce Brown, Red Rising
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” - Robert F. Kennedy
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” - Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
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Jan 15, 2024 18:02:06 GMT
Post by Admin on Jan 15, 2024 18:02:06 GMT
" It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. " --FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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Jan 16, 2024 18:46:20 GMT
Post by Admin on Jan 16, 2024 18:46:20 GMT
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost with anything that happens. ~Zhuang Zhou - 4th Century BC
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Jan 16, 2024 18:47:48 GMT
Post by Admin on Jan 16, 2024 18:47:48 GMT
EXPLANATION MAKES YOU WEAK It's the cave of guilt and shame. When you come in to explain you feel weaker, more guilty, more embarrassed. Don't give it to her. Sometimes you don't have to give explanations Life becomes easier when you stop explaining yourself unnecessarily. You don't always have to explain your choices. You don't always have to explain your preferences. You don't always have to explain your lifestyle. You can make decisions without answering questionnaire. You can do what you love without making excuses. You can live however you want without explaining why. Stop explaining yourself to people who don't deserve it. Dare you to say "no thanks" and that's it. Dare you to say "because it's what I prefer" without going further into the topic. Dare to walk away from people who question you only to judge or to know. Live a little light. Live on purpose. Live without making unnecessary explanations. Juan Carlos.
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Jan 19, 2024 23:04:19 GMT
Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2024 23:04:19 GMT
Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light. — C. G. Jung
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Jan 28, 2024 22:27:03 GMT
Post by Admin on Jan 28, 2024 22:27:03 GMT
"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists". ~ Nikola Tesla
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Jan 29, 2024 21:35:16 GMT
Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2024 21:35:16 GMT
“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”Morpheus, The Matrix
“What the herd hates the most is the one who thinks differently. It is not so much the opinion itself, as the audacity of wanting to think for themselves. Something they do not know how to do.” Schopenhauer
“To be an enemy to America can be dangerous, but to bea friend can be lethal.” Henry Kissinger
"We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons." Theodore C. Sorensen
"We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't." Audre Lorde
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Feb 1, 2024 21:55:27 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2024 21:55:27 GMT
“You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.” Alan Watts
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Feb 5, 2024 14:10:40 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2024 14:10:40 GMT
"Those who claim that they are ‘serving’ the public; they are the ones who should be ignored, shunned, ridiculed, and if necessary, tarred and feathered, and run out of town. They deserve nothing less.” - - Gary Barnett
“The next time any of you walk or ‘crawl’ into a secret voting booth, behind dark curtains, alone and without being driven by force, consider that you are just voluntarily choosing a master selected for you, and in that process, you have become a slave to the state.” - Gary Barnett
“You all have the same god, and its name is ‘government.’ You’re all members of the most evil, insane, destructive cult in history. If there ever was a devil, the state is it. And you worship it with all your heart and soul.”- Larken Rose, The Iron Web
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurptions.” - James Madison
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” - Khalil Gibran - The Prophet
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Feb 8, 2024 0:08:53 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2024 0:08:53 GMT
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.” Aristotle
“The biggest danger to the security of a nation’s citizens in the modern age is NOT a military invasion by an army of foreign soldiers. It’s an infiltration of their government by an army of foreign and domestic billionaires sending handpicked soulless bureaucrats to get control of key offices in their nation’s capital. And when they’re done infiltrating and getting control of a country’s government, they move to take over the military and the major news media outlets as well.” Brian Cates
“Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.”Elizabeth Wurtzel
"I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism." Stanley Hauerwas
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.” Aristotle
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Feb 8, 2024 20:43:20 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2024 20:43:20 GMT
“I allow myself to hope that the world will emerge from its present troubles, that it will one day learn to give the direction of its affairs, not to cruel swindlers and scoundrels, but to men possessed of wisdom and courage. I see before me a shining vision: a world where none are hungry, where few are ill, where work is pleasant and not excessive, where kindly feeling is common, and where minds released from fear create delight for eye, ear and heart. Do not say this is impossible. It is not impossible. I do not say it can be done tomorrow, but I do say that it could be done within a thousand years, if only men would bend their minds to the achievement of the kind of happiness that should be distinctive of man.“ — Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954), Part II: The Conflict of Passions, Ch. X: Prologue or Epilogue?, p. 238
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Feb 9, 2024 1:24:54 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2024 1:24:54 GMT
“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ” - Paulo Freire
“God scoffs at (smiles at) those he sees denouncing the evils of which they are the cause.” - Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity" - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can’t act on knowledge, then we can’t survive without ignorance.” - Ruth Ozeki
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Feb 9, 2024 19:10:18 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2024 19:10:18 GMT
The Oneness of Humanity Many of the problems we face today we bring upon ourselves because we focus on these secondary differences between us. We cling to the idea of my nation, my religion, my community, that we are rich while they are poor. This creates a strong sense of 'us' and 'them'. The only remedy is to remind ourselves that we are all the same as human beings. We need to remember the oneness of humanity. ~H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama
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Feb 10, 2024 18:42:58 GMT
Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2024 18:42:58 GMT
"no wonder we seldom sing day or noon or night the useless wars the useless years the useless love... Christ should have laughed on the cross, it would have petrified his killers now there are more killers than ever and I write poems for them." -- Charles Bukowski
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