Principled Man Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 (edited) You are what you know. Fifteenth-century Europeans ‘knew’ that the sky was made of closed concentric crystal spheres, rotating around a central earth and carrying the stars and planets. That ‘knowledge’ structured everything they did and thought, because it told them the truth. Then Galileo’s telescope changed the truth. -- James Burke Edited August 25, 2018 by Principled Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowdogged Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” ― Brooke Shields 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalformedEarthborn Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 "The bad news is, love has turned the world into a sewer. The good news is, people have learned to love the smell of shit." - Boyd Rice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
condemned2bfree Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 “The area dividing the brain and the soul Is affected in many ways by experience --Some lose all mind and become soul:insane.Some lose all soul and become mind:intellectual.Some lose both and become:accepted.” ― Charles Bukowski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
condemned2bfree Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 “when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted: to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable. we can’t cheat death but we can make itwork so hardthat when it does takeus it will have known a victory just asperfect asours” ― Charles Bukowski 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 "If you want to kick a tiger in the ass, you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth." Tom Clancy I remember reading that and thinking "what a lame statement"...sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalformedEarthborn Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 "If you want to kick a tiger in the ass, you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth." Tom Clancy I remember reading that and thinking "what a lame statement"...sorry. He just rephrased "mess with a bull, get the horns" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." ― C.S. Lewis (1952) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Here is wishing you the bluest skiesHoping something better comes tomorrowHoping all the verses rhymeThe very best of choruses tooFollow all the doubt and sadnessI know that better things are on their wayHere is hoping all the days aheadWon't be as bitter as the ones behind youBe an optimist insteadAnd somehow happiness will find youForget what happened yesterdayI know that better things are on their way http://images.45cat.com/the-kinks-better-things-mono-1981-2-s.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weakly Criminal Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Inspired by the poetry appreciation thread I thought I would start one for quotations. Post quotations here that you like, find inspiring, uplifting, or what-have-you. They can come from literature or public figures. Here are a bunch that I like, and I think they go a long way towards describing me: "One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long."― John Steinbeck “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”― Neil deGrasse Tyson "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."― Kurt Vonnegut "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."— Abraham Lincoln "Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."— Cree Prophecy "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."— Anatole France "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein "A happy ecosystem is the basis for a happy human being. If it goes wrong, everything goes wrong."— Sir David Attenborough "Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."— H.L. Mencken I have a problem with just two of those quotes. First, science has been overturned many times and will continue to be if true science prevails. Second, do unto others as you would have them do unto you doesn't sound too authoritarian to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaportrailer Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 The term monster is often applied to human beings who have, by their own horrific actions, abdicated their humanity...Everyone has the potential to become monstrous. - Stephen Asma "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears" "Me abdicate my humanity! Cookies better than humanity!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Principled Man Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”― Neil deGrasse Tyson First, science has been overturned many times and will continue to be if true science prevails. Tyson could have worded that much better. Science is not a person, place or thing. Science is not a religion. Science is a method of understanding how something in the natural world works. On countless occasions, researchers' findings have been critiqued and ultimately disproven, which is a fundamental part of the scientific method. I would have said, "The good thing about the scientific method is that it works exactly as it should, whether you believe it or not." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbanezJem Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”― Neil deGrasse Tyson First, science has been overturned many times and will continue to be if true science prevails. Tyson could have worded that much better. Science is not a person, place or thing. Science is not a religion. Science is a method of understanding how something in the natural world works. On countless occasions, researchers' findings have been critiqued and ultimately disproven, which is a fundamental part of the scientific method. I would have said, "The good thing about the scientific method is that it works exactly as it should, whether you believe it or not."Christopher Hitchens wrote "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence". I love the simplicity. One can simply be disregarded and the other - albeit fluid - needs to be accepted as the basis of argument and fact, even if it changes. The ability to add and develop is what helps science to be real and useful and true and religion damaging, nonsensical and anachronistic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 "Blue Highway?" Heroin?? Yes! Heroin for my ears baby!! -Earl (14 March 2019 - 04:52 AM) http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6a/c5/04/6ac504779aaed5d2926ebdaec63b94e8.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 "I asked my parents where God was. If he was up in the sky, how come we couldn't see him? It would be a question that would plague me for the rest of my life." (Billy Idol, from his autobiography, "Dancing with Myself" 2014) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 "If you want to kick a tiger in the ass, you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth." Tom Clancy I remember reading that and thinking "what a lame statement"...sorry. He just rephrased "mess with a bull, get the horns" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaportrailer Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 (edited) Something literary from ol' JJ: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r5Ltg__LBMc/VihA-xfzCkI/AAAAAAAAYq4/RcyKl6YjgS0/s1600/j-jonah-jameson.png Edited March 26, 2019 by vaportrailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat 3 Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..." (Nicholas Sparks "The Notebook") 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Cat 3 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 "Never wanted to be the boy next doorAlways thought I'd be something moreBut it ain't easy for a small town boyIt ain't easy at allThinkin' it right and doin' it wrongIt's easier from an arm chair..." -Roger Taylor ("Drowse") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken hawk Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 "Your wedding day will come and go, but may your love forever grow." anonymous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 “Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.” ― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 I find no absolutionIn my rational point of viewMaybe some things are instinctiveBut there's one thing you could doYou could try to understand meI could try to understand you 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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