Favorite Quotes

[InfiniteNow]

"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings."

~Victor Stenger

[Turtle]

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. ~Benjamin Disraeli

[Michaelangelica]

"We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry."

 

- John Webster, Brittish playwright.

[Turtle]

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ~Æsop

[Turtle]

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. ~Francis Bacon

[Michaelangelica]

Be a Lamp

 

You must be your own lamps,

Be your own refuges.

Take refuge in nothing outside yourselves.

Hold firm to the Dharma as a lamp and a refuge.

Do not look for refuge to anything besides yourselves.

— From the Nirvana Sutra

http://www.gakkaionline.net/Myths/Lamp.html

or to de Budify it

 

You must be your own lamps,

Be your own refuges.

Take refuge in nothing outside yourselves.

Do not look for refuge to anything besides yourselves.

— From the Nirvana Sutra

[Turtle]

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers, but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. ~ Daniel Boorstin

[Michaelangelica]

i like that Mr. T. I have sent it on though the ether.

 

Funny I just found this quote after giving a $1 to the Royal Flying Doctor (I really can't even afford that!!)

 

 

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.

Do what you can."

 

- Sydney Smith

[Michaelangelica]

What has been is what will be,

and what has been done is what will be done;

there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it is said,

“See, this is new”?

It has already been,

in the ages before us.

The people of long ago are not remembered,

nor will there be any remembrance

of people yet to come

by those who come after them.

Ecclesiastes 1 : 2–11.

urticator.net - Nothing New Under the Sun

[Turtle]

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~Buddha

[InfiniteNow]

Religion is not the opiate of the masses. It is the placebo of the masses.

~ House

[Buffy]

Everyone should be abstinent, but it's just not realistic at all.

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-- Bristol Palin

 

We support doubling abstinence education funding. We oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and related services for contraception and abortion, :)

Buffy

[Turtle]

Your Their stomachs are too young, and abstinence engenders maladies. ~William Shakespeare

[Michaelangelica]

Religion is not the opiate of the masses. It is the placebo of the masses.

~ House

To me those sentences say differnt things.

The first an addictive drug that takes you from reality, numbs you to any external stimuli.which is i think what marks meant. It stops you from thinking.

 

The second means it works, better than anything else we have even if based on a sugar pill story.

House scriptwriters being too clever by far?

 

"It is better to live a year as a tiger, than a hundred years as a sheep."

-Madonna

[Michaelangelica]

Religion is not the opiate of the masses. It is the placebo of the masses.

~ House

To me those sentences say differnt things.

The first an addictive drug that takes you from reality, numbs you to any external stimuli.which is I think what Karl meant. It stops you from thinking about the realities and injustices of society. So you can offer up you pain, discomfort, poverty, exploitation to get a better spot in the "after-life".

 

The second means it (religion) works, better than anything else we have, even if based on a sugar pill story.

 

House scriptwriters being too clever by far?

 

"It is better to live a year as a tiger, than a hundred years as a sheep."

-Madonna

[InfiniteNow]

The second means it (religion) works, better than anything else we have, even if based on a sugar pill story.

 

House scriptwriters being too clever by far?

I would have to call into question your definition of a placebo, Mike. It's not that it works "better" than other things, it's just that it works w/o any reason to other than psychological. I may get my body to heal a cut faster if I think that the sugar water I put on it is medicine, but that doesn't mean it works better than something like Neosporin in a controlled test.

 

Either way, yes... I found that line from the House scriptwriters VERY clever, indeed.... which is why I posted it here. :teeth:

 

 

 

""Gotta let the phone ring more than four times when you're calling a cripple."

[Buffy]

No discussion in the Quotes thread! Thwap!

 

She has God inside her. It would have been easier to deal with a tumor, :phones: :cheer: :phones:

Buffy