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[ida pingala]

Wasn't he supposed to have a knee operation?

-Christopher Nolan Inception

[barracuda]

"Young love has to run enough hazards without the fear of a hairy weirdo hammering on the windshield."

- John A. Keel

[Bruce Dazzling]

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.

~Evel Knievel

[ida pingala]

9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people,
and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot
against them, and that I may consume them: and I will
make of thee a great nation.
11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD,
why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou
hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great
power, and with a mighty hand?
12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For
mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the
mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?
Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against
thy people.

Exodus 32:9-12.

[barracuda]

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- MLK

[ida pingala]

Look what I've been building... We're building a house of clay.

-Inception

[brainpanhandler]

everyone can’t simultaneously spend less than their income – Paul Krugman

[Alf]

"In the middle of this work I finished my fourth year in this place, and kept my anniversary with the same devotion, and with as much comfort as ever before; for, by a constant study and serious application of the Word of God, and by the assistance of His grace, I gained a different knowledge from what I had before. I entertained different notions of things. I looked now upon the world as a thing remote, which I had nothing to do with, no expectations from, and, indeed, no desires about. In a word, I had nothing indeed to do with it, nor was ever like to have; so I thought it looked, as we may perhaps look upon it hereafter, viz., as a place I had lived in, but was come out of it; and well might I say, as Father Abraham to Dives, 'Between me and thee is a great gulf fixed.'"
- Daniel Defoe, The life & adventures of Robinson Crusoe

[ida pingala]

12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear
received a little thereof.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep
sleep falleth on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my
bones to shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh
stood up:
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an
image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard
a voice, saying,
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be
more pure than his maker?
18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he
charged with folly:
19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before
the moth?
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they
perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away?
they die, even without wisdom.

Book of Job 3:12-21.

[Elihu]

32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

32:4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

....

33:8 "You have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard your very words.
33:9 You said, 'I am pure; I am without sin; I am innocent; I have no guilt.
33:10 God is picking a quarrel with me, and he considers me his enemy.
33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks and watches my every move.'
33:12 "But you are wrong, and I will show you why. For God is greater than any human
33:13 So why are you bringing a charge against him? Why say he does not respond to people's complaints?
33:14 For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.
33:15 He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds.
33:16 He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings.
33:17 He makes them turn from doing wrong; he keeps them from pride.
33:18 He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death.
33:19 "Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds, with ceaseless aching in their bones.
33:20 They lose their appetite for even the most delicious food.
33:21 Their flesh wastes away, and their bones stick out.
33:22 They are at death's door; the angels of death wait for them.
33:23 "But if an angel from heaven appears— a special messenger to intercede for a person and declare that he is upright—
33:24 he will be gracious and say, 'Rescue him from the grave, for I have found a ransom for his life.'
33:25 Then his body will become as healthy as a child's, firm and youthful again.
33:26 When he prays to God, he will be accepted. And God will receive him with joy and restore him to good standing.
33:27 He will declare to his friends, 'I sinned and twisted the truth, but it was not worth it.
33:28 God rescued me from the grave, and now my life is filled with light.'
33:29 "Yes, God does these things again and again for people.
33:30 He rescues them from the grave so they may enjoy the light of life.
33:31 Mark this well, Job. Listen to me, for I have more to say.
33:32 But if you have anything to say, go ahead. Speak, for I am anxious to see you justified.

[Alf]

"I believe Plato when he asserts that there are certain divine powers holding a position and possessing a character midway between gods and men, and that all divination and the miracles of magicians are controlled by them. Moreover it is my own personal opinion that the human soul, especially when it is young and unsophisticated, may by the allurement of music or the soothing influence of sweet smells be lulled into slumber and banished into oblivion of its surroundings so that, as all consciousness of the body fades from the memory, it returns and is reduced to its primal nature, which is in truth immortal and divine; and thus, as it were in a kind of slumber, it may predict the future."
- Apuleius, Oratio de magia

[Allegro]

I just finished Deep Green Resistance and am more impressed than ever with Keith's analysis and vision: Power in all it's versions - the arrogant, the sadistic, the stupid - is poised to kill every last living being. If we falter, it will win. Gather your heart and all its courage; fletch love into an arrow that will not bend; and take aim.

[Elihu]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes:
In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes:
There also exists another alliance -- at first glance a strange one, a surprising one -- but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes:
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes:
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes:
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes:
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes:
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes:
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

[Elihu]

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
You may not be interested in war, but war is very interested in you.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
Hypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
The misapprehension springs from the fact that the learned jurists, deceiving themselves as well as others, depict in their books an ideal of government -- not as it really is, an assembly of men who oppress their fellow-citizens, but in accordance with the scientific postulate, as a body of men who act as the representatives of the rest of the nation. They have gone on repeating this to others so long that they have ended by believing it themselves, and they really seem to think that justice is one of the duties of governments. History, however, shows us that governments, as seen from the reign of Caesar to those of the two Napoleons and Prince Bismarck, are in their very essence a violation of justice; a man or a body of men having at command an army of trained soldiers, deluded creatures who are ready for any violence, and through whose agency they govern the State, will have no keen sense of the obligation of justice. Therefore governments will never consent to diminish the number of those well-trained and submissive servants, who constitute their power and influence.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
I know that most men -- not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems -- can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty -- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi quotes:
The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

[Elihu]

Karl Marx quotes:
There are....eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

Karl Marx quotes:
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.

Karl Marx quotes:
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism.