Favourite Quotes

[NYC5IKH5jabi]

another one I would care to add. if we all followed this one, adultery and sexuality and all the damage it causes to society both would be eliminated.

there are 3 relations a man can have with a woman
if she is of his mothers age he must regard himself her son
if she is of his sisters age he must regard himself her brother
is she is of his daughters age he must regard himself her father
by the grace of god, the one and only exception is the woman you take before the lord as your wife.

flip it up vice vera and the same quote applies to women and their relations with men.
I realize this is far and away prudish by todays standards but imagine the benefit to society should we see premarital or extramarital relations as complete incest? stds, divorce, even murder could be lessened or eliminated. think about it guys, monks and nuns live just find without sexuality or any kind, hetero or homo. so why exactly do we continue to destroy our own sanity by allowing lust to damage our lives?

 

[Philreal187]

"Who ever controls the media controls the mind" Jim Morrison

To me this was honestly the quote that helped open my eyes to this matrix that is all around us. I read that Morrison quote when I was in 8th grade (2005) around the time me and my friends starting to experiment with bud. These words helped me see the ideals and images that is pushed into Americans heads via cable TV (modern day nanny) Music, Movies, Magazines, Advertising and every other angle they could. There seems to be an agenda that runs effortlessly through media to destroy the family, community, and collective consciousness. People don't talk to each other with sincerity, its hi, how are ya..? hows things..? good to hear take care. Everyone is too busy for with everything in there life that they seem to lose reality with the life around them. People complain these never enough time (myself included), but when u really focus on whats important everything seems to come along and get done just as needed. Im really off topic with media but to bring it full cipher people don't live there own life anymore. Everything they worry, talk, think, eat, say and do seem to follow the same destructive path that the media shows. Are we imitating media or is the media imitating life? I believe at the start of 1900 most forms of media have already started to be corrupted but was all very young so most media was a reflection of life around. At some point there was a huge switch and I believe it was after the 60's sometime that most people just reflected what they viewed at normal via media. Buy fast cars, smoke cigs, eat burger, doing drugs, having sex, and so on and so on this living seems very destructive to us as a whole. After 2001 (post 9/11) Everyone was in line like sheep to hear what they should think, speak and eat, this was the last switch to full blown façade to get my generation on to a whole new level of media imitation. I can seen trends among such large groups of people and use to think how all the flock is doing the same thing, until I realized they r just doing what they r told. Most of yins reading will probably view this opinion as exaggerated, but I know 100 percent what is going on is this world today is not by mistake its a long time in the making. This goes with out saying for with out evil is there any such thing as good..? there is a true balance to life u cant have one with out the other, in order to become free people we will have to learn what it means to be under control. Most people don't realize that just about everything they do is not free will and they r manipulated on a vast scale. We have come to such major cross roads in this society and I cant believe its my generation with the ball in our court. They have started the trend of an uprising, rebellion all through movies, music, cable, even fashion in a way to get people to think this is what they must do. For those that have read the hunger games this author focuses on the idea of attacking the system through media and taking over and this is pretty accurate and again is putting this at the fore front of blockbuster movies and best selling books to get people read for something..?.. or r the people saying they r tired of the same old and r ready for this change. Either way I believe every single form of media is out there aid this agenda of control over the masses and believe if we cant unplug from this matrix at all levels we will be the cause of the greatest oppression in this worlds history. All of the earths people, animals, plants, and natural resources will be controlled by they few with only there interest at hand not the greater good. Very Important times we live, I hope we can all come together one day as a world wide united community and feed the hungry, clothe the needy and shelter the homeless but I will not trust Monsanto to feed us or our leaders to lead us... The UN is not hear to help us its to help the nations leaders. We r considered to be useless feeder to the world leaders including our own prez, most of our jobs should have been taken over by robots by now if they didn't fear our minds figuring the truth to the deception. As long as we remain distracted by one thing or another we can never think to hard about real issues we all face on a grand scale. I believe non violent protest of all kinds help open minds, but most important I encourage everyone to vote with there dollar, only support what u believe. We have a long road a head but I believe we have some really great things to accomplish along the way.

Sorry, I did not for see this being such a long post to express my opinion but enjoy it for what it is, one of my favorite things to do is share opinions with people to learn from one another, everyone is unique no one can ever think what u think or do what u do, be an individual

 

[arf777]

Uncle Al:

And the entire Heart Sutra (Prajnaparamita Hridaya Sutra:

When Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara practised the deep Prajnaparamita, he saw that the five skandhas were empty; thus he overcame all ills and suffering.

"O Sariputra! Form does not differ from the void, and the void does not differ from the form. Form is the void, and the void is form. The same is true for feelings, conceptions, impulses and consciousness.

O Sariputra, the characteristics of the void is not created, not annihilated, not impure, not pure, not increasing, not decreasing.

Therefore, in the void there are no forms and no feelings, conceptions, impulses and no consciousness: there is no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mind; there is no form, sound, smell, taste, touch or idea; no eye elements, until we come to no elements of consciousness; no ignorance and also no ending of ignorance, until we come to no old age and death; and no ending of old age and death.

Also, there is no truth of suffering, of the cause of suffering, of the cessation of suffering or of the path. There is no wisdom, and there is no attainment whatsoever. Because there is nothing to be attained, a Bodhisattva relying on Prajnaparamita has no obstruction in his heart. Because there is no obstruction he has no fear, and he passes far beyond all confused imagination and reaches Ultimate Nirvana.

All Buddhas in the past, present and future have attained Supreme Enlightenment by relying on the Prajnaparamita. Therefore we know that the Prajnaparamita is the great magic Mantra, the great Mantra of illumination, it is the supreme Mantra, the unequaled Mantra which can truly wipe out all suffering without fail."

Therefore, he uttered the Prajnaparamita mantra, by saying:

"Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasemgate Bodhi-svaha!"

And good ol Karl:
Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. Thus integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds...The expropriators are expropriated. (Capital, vol. 1)

 

[arf777]

Forgot to include the translation of the Prajnaparamita Hridaya mantra - "Gate, Gate, Paragate, parasemgate Bodhi-svaha" = "Going, going, going on beyond, always going on beyond, always awakening Bodhi-nature (becoming Buddha)"

 

[NYC5IKH5jabi]

I could not agree more with sticks. the society has an ever changing model of what you need to live like, look like and think like. it is all the more reason I believe in my heart that Sikhism is the key to humanities future. specifically because we don't proselytize, our mission is to better humanity through showing them that we are all a single entity in innumerable forms. 50 years ago people acted as they learned. today people act as they learn from. the important thing is that they need to learn from only that and those which only seek to empower them. that has traditionally been the parents or religion. these two entities do not change in their form or function no matter how far back you go. what changes is humanity and their actions. in the end, if you truly want to accept the truth, you are just a pet, a domesticated animal to those who are feeding you information.

this is also why I get enraged when people very confidently feel religion has no use in todays society. it is the only link you truly have to your ancestors. the history books are full of half truths and lies. you have no one else to receive this empowerment from other than a human being who already has been empowered or the source of empowerment (truth). sadly today, empowered human beings are less than 1% of this world. 99% have embraced the ego, desire, and most of all ENTERTAINMENT. in 200 short years, we have gone from starvation and lack of power being the prime motive behind our actions to now being fed a false reality where democracy has "empowered" us already even though we haven't actually done anything, nor been taught the true function of it. and so with this false security and sense of accomplishment we further drink the kool aid that the media and government feed us that tells us to just work harder then others and use the little "temporary strength"(money/currency) we do earn to not further our goal of true empowerment (knowledge & a sense of conscience that is probably what the other 80% of our dormant brain is made for) but instead to go out and spend on materials WE DO NOT NEED AND ENTERTAINMENT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO EVEN KEEP WITH US FOREVER. seriously, how many things have we enjoyed soo much that today is not enjoyable? how many of us have "grown" past sexual desire only to be told theres something wrong with us, that we are totally supposed to take Viagra. that we need to add sex toys and more spice to keep up our sex lives otherwise our relationship will go down the drain. seriously, people need to open their eyes and start reading the messages our body and nature send us. examine human suffering and you will see that the cause of it all is ego. the media and government know this, and by keeping this truth from the general public, they remain in power.

 

[StickyShisha2]

"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
- Terence McKenna

 

[NYC5IKH5jabi]

open minds, but most important I encourage everyone to vote with there dollar, only support what u believe.
this is the key to defeating and destroying capitalism. only buy what you need or want. do not buy something because it is new, popular, cheaper, more available. for example, my father is a cheap ass, but he never buys cheap shit. he seldom shops until he needs something, and when he buys something ex; a sofa he would rather spend twice as much on a sturdy strong one then to be cheap at that purchase. he respects his money too much to waste it by spending it on unneccesary or 2nd rate things. our a/c for example is like 10 years old. he will not buy another until that one croaks. my father never took us out to eat at restaraunts, only a few times when we vacationed. otherwise it would be home cooking or to order take out. the atmosphere of the home has always been valued far above the outside world in my home as I grew up and therefore I am completely not materialistic. if something is nice and I have en emotional connection to it, like a vape or a car (one day) or nice sneakers I WILL BUY IT. but I will never spend money for the sake of spending money. also I feel spending on a luxury car is not excess if you earned the money for that car through honest means, because unlike jewelry it does actually serve a purpose, same thing for shoes, albeit expensive they serve a purpose. but I wouldn't be one of those people who won the lottery and would go buy 3 more cars. or 2 extra mansions.

what im saying is, I know what I want and nobody influences me anymore. in fact nowadays, ive gotten so fed up with internet and tv commericials that I have decided to sabotage marketing. if I see an add for detergent and it was literally bugging me when I was online, next time I need to buy detergent I WILL NOT BUY THAT BRAND. I feel marketing should be kept to mediums where we choose to be exposed, like billboards or signs. when you force me to devote my time to your "information" I feel violated. I turned on the tv to watch something, not to make a mental shopping list. and yet, until I realized the sanctity of my mind was being violated, I would go buy that new candy bar or new toy as soon as I saw the commercial. nowadays its different, for example, the other day I saw a commercial for vitamins, all I could think is, I know where to find vitamins, I don't need you bombarding my mind with your sales pitch. next time I buy vitamins, I sure as hell wont buy your brand unless I have no choice.

if everyone starting thinking like this, marketing and its trillion dollar economy would crumble. imagine those big shot corporate morons, having to actually find meaningful work instead of the worthless garbage they contribute to society.

once human beings begin to see their money and possessions as the true living embodiment of their karma(sum total of lifes thoughts actions & words) they shall be empowered to not steal nor seek money through ill means nor to squander said money on worthless things.

 

[arf777]

I agree with a lot of what NYC5IKH5jabi says, but have two notes.
One, though most Sikhs I have known sound a lot like him, my ex-wife and her family, Sikh's all, were some of the most arrogant, anti-Semitic, pro-capitalist people i have ever known (ex father-in-law teaches business and capitalist econ at Columbia and refused to pay for my ex's MS treatment as long as she was married to me, the "dirty Jew"). All religions have hypocritical pricks, unfortunately.

And karma only means what you say it means -"karma(sum total of lifes thoughts actions & words)" - in classical Hindu sanskrit. In Prakrit and Buddhist Hybrid sanskrit, it often just means 'cause and effect', period.

Thich Nhat Hanh - "This is like this, because that is like that" - for any value of 'this' or 'that'.

 

[NYC5IKH5jabi]

I agree with a lot of what NYC5IKH5jabi says, but have two notes.
One, though most Sikhs I have known sound a lot like him, my ex-wife and her family, Sikh's all, were some of the most arrogant, anti-Semitic, pro-capitalist people i have ever known (ex father-in-law teaches business and capitalist econ at Columbia and refused to pay for my ex's MS treatment as long as she was married to me, the "dirty Jew"). All religions have hypocritical pricks, unfortunately.

And karma only means what you say it means -"karma(sum total of lifes thoughts actions & words)" - in classical Hindu sanskrit. In Prakrit and Buddhist Hybrid sanskrit, it often just means 'cause and effect', period.

Thich Nhat Hanh - "This is like this, because that is like that" - for any value of 'this' or 'that'.

Intermarriage is a big no no in India. I wont try to explain because everyone has andifferent interpretation for the meaning of marriage, my absolute uneducated guess is that it has alot more to do with your wife going against her family then it had to do with you specifically. I could ofcourse be completely wrong for which I apologize in advance, I just thought you would appreciate my point of view seeing as I know plenty of fake Sikhs. in fact, I believe just as my religion teaches me, 99% of people who wear a religious label do not reap the benefits of the actual lifestyle. I truly believe that Sikhism is free of all defects. it is a complete theology that time nor any government has been able to alter.

I think this particular quote will comfort you in being happy that you are a proud jew.
guru nanak the founder of Sikhism "the colors of religion wash off this soul as it makes it journey to its eternal home"

after guru nanaks "transfiguration for lack of a better word" he stayed silent for the first 3 days as all the people came to see him. some witch doctors diagnosed him with a spiritual ailment. others felt he was possessed. for 3 days he sat in a corner in his room staring right through the wall or anyone who came before him. he did not eat, drink or talk. on the 4th day he spoke. and what he spoke was his first teaching/truth for humanity to follow forever and ever.
"na koi hindu na koi musalman"
there is no hindu nor is there any muslim
the meaning of this beautiful quote is that beyond labels only our karma "the sum total of our words, actions, thought" is what we are judged on. god is blind to what faith you follow, however the faith you follow shall modify your karma to where you can find god. there is no value in just assuming a title. you must strictly follow the lifestyle to fit that title. a son of a musician is not a musician by birth. a son of a king is not a king by birth. guru nanak demands that you see prayer/remembrance of god & karma both as a way to maintain spiritual vitality. just as diet and exercise together form a synergy to bring about wellness. BOTH INWARD PRAYER & CONTEMPLATION ALONG WITH YOUR KARMA ARE ALL THAT TRULY EXIST. LABELS BE DAMNED!

 

[arf777]

Intermarriage is a big no no in India. I wont try to explain because everyone has andifferent interpretation for the meaning of marriage, my absolute uneducated guess is that it has alot more to do with your wife going against her family then it had to do with you specifically. I could ofcourse be completely wrong for which I apologize in advance, I just thought you would appreciate my point of view seeing as I know plenty of fake Sikhs. in fact, I believe just as my religion teaches me, 99% of people who wear a religious label do not reap the benefits of the actual lifestyle. I truly believe that Sikhism is free of all defects. it is a complete theology that time nor any government has been able to alter.

I think this particular quote will comfort you in being happy that you are a proud jew.
guru nanak the founder of Sikhism "the colors of religion wash off this soul as it makes it journey to its eternal home"

after guru nanaks "transfiguration for lack of a better word" he stayed silent for the first 3 days as all the people came to see him. some witch doctors diagnosed him with a spiritual ailment. others felt he was possessed. for 3 days he sat in a corner in his room staring right through the wall or anyone who came before him. he did not eat, drink or talk. on the 4th day he spoke. and what he spoke was his first teaching/truth for humanity to follow forever and ever.
"na koi hindu na koi musalman"
there is no hindu nor is there any muslim
the meaning of this beautiful quote is that beyond labels only our karma "the sum total of our words, actions, thought" is what we are judged on. god is blind to what faith you follow, however the faith you follow shall modify your karma to where you can find god. there is no value in just assuming a title. you must strictly follow the lifestyle to fit that title. a son of a musician is not a musician by birth. a son of a king is not a king by birth. guru nanak demands that you see prayer/remembrance of god & karma both as a way to maintain spiritual vitality. just as diet and exercise together form a synergy to bring about wellness. BOTH INWARD PRAYER & CONTEMPLATION ALONG WITH YOUR KARMA ARE ALL THAT TRULY EXIST. LABELS BE DAMNED!

You again bring up what i LOVE about Sikhism. It truly does recognize the truth value in multiple traditions. I think it combines the best of the theistic traditions and the non-theistic self-discipline traditions. If I ever leaned towards theism again, I might very well go Sikh. The Buddha dharma is fine for me now though.

And you are almost certainly right - my wife's family had all sorts of marriage plans for her and she ignored them. It was one of those deals where it was fine for me to be a friend - I actually was introduced to her by her father, who asked me to 'check in' on his daughter, who was in undergrad where I was in grad school.

And I do know her family is not typical - they are filthy rich, and got so by working with the British for generations. The Sikh separatists actually tried to kidnap my ex right before the assassination of Indira Gandhi. We Jews have a seriously ugly word for people who work with their own oppressors - collaborator. Just about the worst thing a Jew can call anybody. They actually wanted my wife to marry a Brit of some ilk. Not another Sikh, Indian, what have you, but an upper-class British dude. They didn't care who.

Strangely didn't help that I'm a little part British (had a great-grandma born there before relocating to the US). I'm from a poor, though well-educated, family, and the poor part didn't help. They just kept calling me 'the Jew' and 'dirty Jew' and 'hippy Jew'. They even objected to my long hair and beard and penchant for knives (I collect), despite the Sikh traditions on all of that, and that her father had longer hair and beard than me. But as we say in Yiddish, so nu?

EDIT - Forgot to mention, I have never heard a quote from Guru Nanak that didn't speak to me on some level. The man was brilliant.

 

[Enchantre]

Could we NOT have a religious debate in the favorite quotes thread?

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi

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[z9]

Could we NOT have a religious debate in the favorite quotes thread?

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi

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- Enchantre

 

[NYC5IKH5jabi]

You again bring up what i LOVE about Sikhism. It truly does recognize the truth value in multiple traditions. I think it combines the best of the theistic traditions and the non-theistic self-discipline traditions. If I ever leaned towards theism again, I might very well go Sikh. The Buddha dharma is fine for me now though.

And you are almost certainly right - my wife's family had all sorts of marriage plans for her and she ignored them. It was one of those deals where it was fine for me to be a friend - I actually was introduced to her by her father, who asked me to 'check in' on his daughter, who was in undergrad where I was in grad school.

And I do know her family is not typical - they are filthy rich, and got so by working with the British for generations. The Sikh separatists actually tried to kidnap my ex right before the assassination of Indira Gandhi. We Jews have a seriously ugly word for people who work with their own oppressors - collaborator. Just about the worst thing a Jew can call anybody. They actually wanted my wife to marry a Brit of some ilk. Not another Sikh, Indian, what have you, but an upper-class British dude. They didn't care who.

Strangely didn't help that I'm a little part British (had a great-grandma born there before relocating to the US). I'm from a poor, though well-educated, family, and the poor part didn't help. They just kept calling me 'the Jew' and 'dirty Jew' and 'hippy Jew'. They even objected to my long hair and beard and penchant for knives (I collect), despite the Sikh traditions on all of that, and that her father had longer hair and beard than me. But as we say in Yiddish, so nu?

EDIT - Forgot to mention, I have never heard a quote from Guru Nanak that didn't speak to me on some level. The man was brilliant.

now I feel upset. its very sad how people sell out their own for money and power. Indians with affluence took over the industry when the british left. the coal mines, power plants, etc etc. overnight these politicians became billionairs, scions to a nation bigger than almost all of Europe. I will say that anyone who wants to understand the Sikh seperatists, need to reexamine the black panthers. the seperatists were a victim of a smear campaign just as the black panthers were. anyone who goes against the government, even if it is to aid all of humanity Is branded a terrorist by the government because of the intense absolute grip on power they will not fork over. your ex father in law seems like a real &(&^*(&^*(&

my father grew up sharing a one room hut with his mother, daughter, a cow and animals while his father was in the indian army. it also why my father has no patience for the separatist movement, he has seen abject poverty, and he knew that no matter what the outcome, his people would suffer. he actually witnessed a drive by when he was in college. this was during the height of the Sikh struggle. a cop was purchasing food at a road side stand right next to my father. right before his eyes, two youths his age came up on a motorcycle and shot the cop, took his gun and took off. things were bad back then, police were very corrupt, they would go around looking for innocent kids like my dad to punish as a cover for "war" the government was winning. many people were framed as terrorists. ofcourse my dads experience proves that just like the black panthers, there were youths in the Sikh movement who forgot the entire purpose of what they were fighting for. anyways, after college my dad hopped across the world before getting into America through mexico =D today the dude has a house, car, business. and things aint so bad, compare that to your ex father in law, I bet you he is a fake Sikh, because those times were way too painful to forget. another true link I have to the entire situation was my best friend. I met him here in nyc when I was 10. his father was from a village not far from ours. he was a hindu and a cop. he till this day has a hand written letter purported to be from the leader of the Sikh movement, indias #1 terrorist Bhindrawala. ofcourse, we will never know if the letter really was from him, I doubt it. the letter implored this cop to give up his support of the cruel police who killed and framed the same children he grew up with. it was a direct threat to quit his job as a cop or face execution. chilling times. real chilling. ofcourse things today are like Germany, nobody really talks about it as if there wasn't anything to learn from it all. racism is alive and well in india, Sikhs face the brunt of it. we make up 2% of the population yet we make up 50% of the armed forces. without us, india would get eaten alive by Pakistan, this is the true reason why india would never allow us to separate. religion is just a vehicle of manipulation.

 

[arf777]

Back to a more entertaining quote:

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die."

And from the same feller (HP Lovecraft), my fave quote in a fake language, often shortened simply to 'Cthulu fhtagn':

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" [In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu lies dreaming]

And a bit from the Brag of the Subgenius:

I PICK THE GOD DAMN terror of the fucking gods out of my nose!

The Devil's hands are my ideal playground!

I think backwards! I do it for fun!

 

[grokit]

"We're all in the same game; just different levels.
Dealing with the same hell; just different devils."

~ Lizard King

 

[Philreal187]

"Everybody is worried about time, I just keep that shit off my mind. People living on 24 hour clocks, we're on a ride that never stops"
Ziggy Marley

 

[macbill]

I've used this one a couple time in eulogies.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

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[NYC5IKH5jabi]

I've used this one a couple time in eulogies.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rabindranath_tagore.html#x0FuZbPP66EoWuvZ.99

tagore is a great man. he renounced his knighthood after the massacre at jallianwala bagh. what a great man, far more smarter then ghandi.

Tagore renounced his knighthood, in response to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919. In the repudiation letter to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, he wrote[1]

“The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in the incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part, wish to stand, shorn, of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who, for their so called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings

So I repeat we never can have a true view of man unless we have a love for him. Civilisation must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity.-tagore

 

[NYC5IKH5jabi]

"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it." -George Orwell

"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter." --Max Planck in 1944, indicating that he believed in God
Planck regarded the scientist as a man of imagination and faith, "faith" interpreted as being similar to "having a working hypothesis". For example the causality principle isn't true or false, it is an act of faith. Thereby Planck may have indicated a view that points toward Imre Lakatos' research programs process descriptions, where falsification is mostly tolerable, in faith of its future removal.[20] He also said: "Both Religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view"

 

[arf777]

The RaMBaM (Maimonides):
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/maimonides184452.html#kvypr3SZOMKbTrBH.99

 

[arf777]

"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it." -George Orwell

"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter." --Max Planck in 1944, indicating that he believed in God
Planck regarded the scientist as a man of imagination and faith, "faith" interpreted as being similar to "having a working hypothesis". For example the causality principle isn't true or false, it is an act of faith. Thereby Planck may have indicated a view that points toward Imre Lakatos' research programs process descriptions, where falsification is mostly tolerable, in faith of its future removal.[20] He also said: "Both Religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view"

Lakatos is the shit (sorry for the unscientific phrasing). IMHO, more important than Popper or Kuhn.

 

[Dr. Plutonious]

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. "

-Theodore Roosevelt

As a practitioner of MMA, this is a core belief of mine.

 

[mvapes]

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

Robert Bloch

 

[NYC5IKH5jabi]

‘I would never ever go back now and remove my facial hair because it’s the way God made me and I’m happy with the way I am,’ Ms Kaur, from Slough, said

Check out this link if you would like to be educated on why Sikhs do NOT believe in cosmetic enhancements, hair grooming nor such fads as hair dye, implant surgery, cosmetic surgery, or tattoos. So next time you se a Sikh and wonder why he chooses to look "just like Osama". You will now know that the reason beyond the beard is a principle that has nothing to do with how long or short ones hair is. A principle only those who accept initiation into the khalsa MUST follow(male or female for the rest of your life). The rest of the world is supposed to be inspired by the khalsa to accept themselves as god made them instead of following societies ever changing ideal of what is acceptable and what should be condemned or ridiculed.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/17/sikh-woman-ditches-the-razor-to-embrace-her-beard-4307719/

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

Getting fooled gets you schooled.