Read any good quotations lately?
Written any good quotations lately?
Well, let's hear 'em...
"Love should have some kind of time limit...." DLOYS46
From Barbara Taylor
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." George McGovern
Anger proves you still believe in something...jmt
From Natalie Flowers...
....it occurred to me yesterday,
regarding other people's lives
and the situations they find themselves in, thinking that the grass is greener
on the other side, is that,
on either side, the grass still needs mowing.
Must we all be strangers, impervious
to the input of our mates?
Is that what its all about? Incapable of growth?
Resisting or oblivious?
Motivated only by fear?
Moved from the couch only by the threat of the coffin? .....jmt
American democracy ceases to
function when people blither their votes into ballot boxes on the basis of opinions
and ideologies that are swaddled in the beggar-rags of ubiquitous disinformation
and bewilderingly muddled cant, but such is now and has long been this nation's
common plight. - William Rivers Pitt in a TRUTHOUT editorial
From Keren Friedman
"I have a theory that everybody has an absolute age which he will always have. " dutch novelist Harry Mulisch.
From a conversation 091407............................................................................
You can't stand on the same place in a river...jmt
You can't motivate a rat that's full to eat some more......wyn elan
Identity is one's self-imposed protective custody...jmt
Its like sucking on a tit when noone is looking...wyn elan .................
An amazing paragraph...
Then birds flew up like a shower of sparks, I followed them with my eyes and saw how they rose in a single breath, until they seemed no longer to be rising but I to be falling, and holding fast to the ropes I began to swing a little out of faintness. Soon I was swinging more strongly as the air grew cooler and in place of the flying birds trembling stars appeared. Franz Kafka - Meditation
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating
yourself." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
from the web page of Prairie Winds Folk Music and Bluegrass Association
Letters/ Jasper Journal Tuesday February 13, 2007
Bring Our People Home
To the Editor:
I am a veteran of World War II. When the Japanese planes were advancing toward
Hawaii, it was reported by a person on "watch" that the planes were
approaching and that the warning was ignored by the officer on duty. I have
never heard any report that this was not true and neither have I ever heard
of anyone even being reprimanded for neglect of duty. Just think how different
things would have been if our planes had met the Japanese fleet far out to sea.
We would not have had the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. That was a sad day for America.
In my judgement, we had no justification for entering the Vietnam affair. Anyone
who was informed of the history of Vietnam should have seen the futility of
the endeavor. We reached the time to "tuck tail and run" like a whipped
dog. It was an embarrassing time for all Americans.
In my judgement, we had no justification for entering the South Korea affair.
I read reports of how our troops faced impossible odds and as they retreated
under fire, they kept suffering injuries and deaths. It was time to:
"throw in the towel." We have kept over 20,000 of our service people
over there to this day. Why not trust South Korea to protect their own. It was
an embarrassing time for Americans.
We have no justification for our involvement in the affair in Iraq. This conflict
should have never started. The politicians were in such a hurry to start that
they did not verify the information that was used. The information was later
checked out to be incorrect. Since then we have continually been informed that
Saddam had no "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and that the people of
Iraq are not a threat to the United States.
We are filling our cemeteries with the dead, our hospitals with the broken bodies
crippled for life.
It is time to bring out people home. It is time to bring ALL our people Home
where they belong. The 20,000 can be replaced by South Koreans. The Iraq people
can rebuild their own country with their own people or hire workers to come
to their aid.
I have suffered the hardships of the Great Depression, the dust storms of the
Midwest and World War II, and vicariously suffered through the Vietnam Affair,
the Korean Affair, and the numerous conflicts throughout the world. This war
in Iraq is the worst thing that has happened to our country in my experiences
and in my memory. The people of America are crying out: "Bring our people
Home!" NOW.
James L. Taylor/ Jasper, Tennessee
(my dad)
Creativity is always starting from scratch and never concidering that you are an expert on something.... Johnathan Dayton - CREATIVITY
HOW TO TAME A REBEL:
Put him in a position of authority.
From Peggy Ann Taylor
"The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this,unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word." Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil
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From Information Clearing House
The convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was composed of fifty-five members. A majority were lawyersnot one farmer, mechanic or laborer. Forty owned Revolutionary Scrip. Fourteen were land speculators. Twenty-four were money-lenders. Eleven were merchants. Fifteen were slave-holders. They made a Constitution to protect the rights of property and not the rights of man,: Senator Richard Pettigrew - Triumphant Plutocracy (1922)
From Keren Friedman
UNNAMED WORDS by Curtis Henderson
These unnamed words, these words I write about are something that everybody thinks they know the names of. But very few people do! These words that are round that everybody uses, like LOVE. It is turned around so much, people do not trust this word anymore. Or the word GOOD. Good for who? Or HATE. This is a very round word. People say that they HATE to get up in the morning. Such round words..... Lord, teach me the names of these words I can not name. These unnamed words. The ones that are shaped more like bricks. The words I can say to my friends. Words that will not roll around. Words that I can place one on top of the other and build lasting friendships.
Have these guys been comparing notes?
Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517
Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12
Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. Sunnah
Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18
Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a
Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23
Taoism: Regard your neighbors gain as your own gain, and your neighbors loss as your own loss.: Tai Shag Kan Ying Pien
Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5
...from INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE emailtom@cox.net
"America will always do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities." Winston Churchill
From Bret McCormick...
"The only way of discovering
the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
Jeff Prince offered this without attribution...
"Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off today."
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
from RANDY BROWN
"Avoid all endeavors requiring
new clothing." Henry David Thereau
"You can't fool me. Shoot is shit with 2 o's." George Carlin
Some days, I can't find my ass with both hands
behind me." Randy Brown
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the
world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
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"An 'Oops' is as good as a 'damn'." jmt
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"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life
which is required to be exchanged for it,
immediately or in the long run." -- Henry David Thoreau