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chachazoom
Jedi
The Spoon said:
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I'm not digging alot of this quote
Mountain Crown
The Living Force
chachazoom said:
I'm not digging alot of this quote
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I agree. As stated, without an exposition, this quote raises questions.
Psalehesost
The Living Force
Something to keep in mind regarding internal considering:
"If someone was committing your body to any person who meets you, you would be vexed. But that you commit your own mind to anyone who chances upon you, so that, if he abuses you, it is agitated and disturbed, are you not ashamed of that?" - Epictetus
It seems to a apply a lot more generally than to petty tyrants - giving some perspective on what you "do" (happens with you) when your personality is offended by anything. In the absence of an abusive person, many are the times I've committed by mind to an abusive fantasy. Funny how self-destructive self-importance is.
EDIT: Of course, it should be understood that the "I" that does it is the predator's mind - though the real self plays a part in being hypnotized and giving part of itself up to be eaten...
"If someone was committing your body to any person who meets you, you would be vexed. But that you commit your own mind to anyone who chances upon you, so that, if he abuses you, it is agitated and disturbed, are you not ashamed of that?" - Epictetus
It seems to a apply a lot more generally than to petty tyrants - giving some perspective on what you "do" (happens with you) when your personality is offended by anything. In the absence of an abusive person, many are the times I've committed by mind to an abusive fantasy. Funny how self-destructive self-importance is.
EDIT: Of course, it should be understood that the "I" that does it is the predator's mind - though the real self plays a part in being hypnotized and giving part of itself up to be eaten...
Mountain Crown
The Living Force
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
Buddy
The Living Force
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.
Twain, from: - Roughing It
Even if the entire legal structure (government)
collapsed and disappeared overnight,
good people would still do what good people do, and
bad people will still do what bad people do.
Mark Twain (paraphrased)
...and then, someone modified it as...
"With or without religion, good people would still do good things, and evil people would still do evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." (Prof. Steven Weinberg)
_http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080424091508AAk2HIQ
_http://www.twainquotes.com/Government.html
Some of Twain's most hilarious comments (to me, at least) come from his exasperation trying to learn the German language.
See here: _http://www.twainquotes.com/German.html
Note: I happen to like the German language as well as some aspects of German culture. My real mom and all her family were German immigrants from WWII, so I have a natural affinity, still, some of Twain's comments could provoke emotional reactions for the unwary, as he can be quite caustic.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.
Twain, from: - Roughing It
Even if the entire legal structure (government)
collapsed and disappeared overnight,
good people would still do what good people do, and
bad people will still do what bad people do.
Mark Twain (paraphrased)
...and then, someone modified it as...
"With or without religion, good people would still do good things, and evil people would still do evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." (Prof. Steven Weinberg)
_http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080424091508AAk2HIQ
_http://www.twainquotes.com/Government.html
Some of Twain's most hilarious comments (to me, at least) come from his exasperation trying to learn the German language.
See here: _http://www.twainquotes.com/German.html
Note: I happen to like the German language as well as some aspects of German culture. My real mom and all her family were German immigrants from WWII, so I have a natural affinity, still, some of Twain's comments could provoke emotional reactions for the unwary, as he can be quite caustic.