Quotes, opinions and links
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- No Strings -
"To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never
get used to the unspeakable violence and
the vulgar disparity of life around
you.
To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never
simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.
To respect
strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never
look away.
And never, never, to forget."
Isaac Asimov on population...
Bill Moyers: “What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if this population growth continues at its present rate?”
Isaac Asimov: “It will be completely destroyed. I like to use what I call my bathroom metaphor: If two people live in an apartment and there are two bathrooms, then both have freedom of the bathroom. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want to, stay as long as you like for whatever you need. But if you have twenty people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person; you have to bang on the door, “Aren’t you done yet?” In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive. Convenience and decency can’t survive. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies, the more people there are, the less one person matters."
Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes
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In a nation whose defining document begins, "We the People," I find
that it is we the people who constitute the greatest threat to the
future of America. It is not through the force of our actions, but rather
the vacuum created by our inaction and apathy, a vacuum all too readily
filled by those who would have us exchange our hard-fought freedoms for
a gilded cage of market-driven consumerism.
-- Scott Ritter
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur
when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed
incorporations. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies.
-- Pres. Thomas Jefferson
Great Transitions
An interesting departure from the world of new age mysticism...
an article by Karla McLaren (a bit of a guru writer in the new age world)
written for the Skeptical Inquirer when she originally decided to leave the
community of woo.
Skeptical Inquirer article
And here's a great letter from Karla about her time since then...
Where's Karla?
Quick Quotes....
Civilization is the limitless
multiplication
of unnecessary necessities.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society.
- J. Krishnamurti
Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr Seuss
Culture is not truth. Culture is other people's trash,
you know, the detritus of thousands of years of mistakes,
that's what culture is...
- Terrance McKenna
Work like you don't need the money,
love like you've never been hurt,
and dance like no one is watching.
--- Satchel Paige
"the First Amendment rests on the
assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse
and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public, that a free
press is a condition of a free society."
- Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black