"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you’re right. Have fun."
Keanu Reeves

 black321 wrote:

lol. perfecto

 oldviolin wrote:

 black321 wrote:

And yet, the stewards flounder through and founder into composite conundrums and squirrel away in the empty shells of selfish reason. Pride for breakfast while suppers beckon the eggs.

 oldviolin wrote:
Reminds me of something a physicist said—though I can’t recall their name. We live on this small blue dot, orbiting a star, positioned so precisely that if it were just 10% closer or farther, we’d either burn or freeze. That star is one of billions in our galaxy, which itself is one of billions in the universe. The profound contradiction in our condition: we are physically insignificant in scale, yet this may be the only planet where matter has become conscious of itself (or even where there is life). Atoms, aware they are atoms. The importance of preserving this world is galactic, universal.

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake

"If something feels too hard to start, 
it just means the first step isn't small enough."
a second grade teacher

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

George Santayana

 black321 wrote:

But Confucius did author the Analects.

God is not the author of confusion, 
but of peace. 

Politicians are a lot like diapers.
They should be changed frequently and for the same reason. 

 JimTreadwell wrote:

Terror ... often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

— Stephen King

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

Joseph Campbell

“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Religion is a defense against having a religious experience. 

thinking is difficult,
that’s why most people judge. 

"Everyone has a photographic memory, some people just never have any film".  
- Fortune Cookie

"A sandwich is just a sandwich... 

but a manwich is a MEAL!"

"I fear that one day man will travel to distant planets. 
And then he’ll take his lethal mixture of vice, greed, 
violence and ignorance to those planets too—turning 
them barren and ravaged as we are already doing with Earth." 
— Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)