"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Nietzsche
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Churches and Taverns
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
-Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814-1876)
Russian anarchist and political theorist who opposed Karl Marx
-Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814-1876)
Russian anarchist and political theorist who opposed Karl Marx
Monday, April 11, 2011
Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living
At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
1. Respect for self
2. Respect for others
3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to
enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
1. Respect for self
2. Respect for others
3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to
enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
militant pacifist
“I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. . . . Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?”
—Albert Einstein
—Albert Einstein
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Nietzsche
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
Sunday, April 3, 2011
My plan for global domination
Ok, so I recently learned of a mythical animal from South America...the Lightning-Breathing Ocelot!
How is this significant you ask?
You team the suckers up with flying monkeys! Yes, the infamous flying monkeys, woefully under utilized by the Wicked Witch of the West...I mean seriously, you have an army of fricking flying monkeys and you can't take out a Kansas farm girl in a dress with a stupid little dog? WTF???
So anyway, I digress...
Imagine teaming up lightning-breathing Ocelots with winged monkeys....
Visualize this scene, military base in the middle of the night, guards are bored and sleepy, and everyone else is out cold. Several squadrons of winged monkeys bearing the 82nd Airborne equivalent of Lightning-Breathing Ocelots crosses the wire at tree-top level and drop their load of Ocelots silently into the base (Ocelots always land on their feet of course) and then all hell breaks loose! Ocelots laying waste to everything around them with their Godzilla-like lightning breath, Flying Monkeys providing close air support (dive-bombing pockets of resistance with flying-monkey poop). It would be a massacre!
Now visualize that whole scene again set to Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner
or O Fortuna by Carl Orff (slightly modified by Therion)!
Can you say total global domination? I love the smell of flying monkey poop in the morning. It smells like victory!
How is this significant you ask?
You team the suckers up with flying monkeys! Yes, the infamous flying monkeys, woefully under utilized by the Wicked Witch of the West...I mean seriously, you have an army of fricking flying monkeys and you can't take out a Kansas farm girl in a dress with a stupid little dog? WTF???
So anyway, I digress...
Imagine teaming up lightning-breathing Ocelots with winged monkeys....
Visualize this scene, military base in the middle of the night, guards are bored and sleepy, and everyone else is out cold. Several squadrons of winged monkeys bearing the 82nd Airborne equivalent of Lightning-Breathing Ocelots crosses the wire at tree-top level and drop their load of Ocelots silently into the base (Ocelots always land on their feet of course) and then all hell breaks loose! Ocelots laying waste to everything around them with their Godzilla-like lightning breath, Flying Monkeys providing close air support (dive-bombing pockets of resistance with flying-monkey poop). It would be a massacre!
Now visualize that whole scene again set to Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner
or O Fortuna by Carl Orff (slightly modified by Therion)!
Can you say total global domination? I love the smell of flying monkey poop in the morning. It smells like victory!
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