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High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 11, 2015 - 03:39pm PT
"Words are supposed to hurt.

That's considered a legitimate way of fighting things out. And what did it replace in the historical scene? It replaced actual violence.

Words are supposed to be free so we can actually fight things out, in the battleplace of ideas, so we don't end up fighting them out in civil wars.

If we try to legitimately ban anything that can hurt someone's feelings, everyone is reduced to silence."

Greg Lukianoff

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 15, 2015 - 11:44pm PT
"Justin Bieber is an elite alpinist."
--scrubbing bubbles
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 16, 2015 - 11:30am PT
"Men are born to be bad, and men are born to be good.
In the meanwhile, neither saints nor sinner are made by good or bad advice."--Will Henry
MisterE

Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
Aug 16, 2015 - 12:06pm PT
"Wasn't my first mistake, probably won't be my last."
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Aug 16, 2015 - 12:22pm PT
"pull down, not out"
pud

climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
Aug 16, 2015 - 12:29pm PT
Look before you leap
or
He who hesitates is lost.

MikeMc

Social climber
Aug 16, 2015 - 06:24pm PT
"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" -Abraham Lincoln, 1864
FRUMY

Trad climber
Bishop,CA
Aug 17, 2015 - 08:29am PT
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting.
It's like advising a starving man to eat less.

Oscar Wilde
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 17, 2015 - 08:36am PT
The 16 year old George Washington's #11 of his Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior:

Shift not yourself in the Sight of others nor Gnaw your nails.

Clearly the young George didn't play baseball.
o-man

Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
Aug 17, 2015 - 07:12pm PT
"Of all human inventions,the most worthless is an excuse."
M.S.
anita514

Gym climber
Great White North
Aug 17, 2015 - 07:20pm PT
You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Aug 17, 2015 - 07:24pm PT
hey there say... well, from a quick look, here's one fave:

"... I'm no good, I cracked under pressure just as surely as thin-ice, fails a horse."


quoted from Stoney Holton:
(created character, in the jake-smith-ranch-series short-stories- collection--book 5, ~Wavering on the Treshold~ story 8, chapter 3,
...by neebeeshaabookway) ...

(yep his name is spelled, stoney, not stony) ...
:)
Winemaker

Sport climber
Yakima, WA
Aug 17, 2015 - 07:54pm PT
On my (DJ) brother's beat up VW bug for a station promotion back in 80's
Seattle:

"Honk if you're Jesus"
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 18, 2015 - 06:27am PT
"I have an I.Q. of 70. I am on welfare. I have a perpetual boner. I have nothing better to do than f*#k lots of other ugly stupid people like myself, and rob your houses while you work. I have enough offspring to fill a Jerry Springer studio. I reproduce like the mighty cockroach, my descendants will inherit the earth.WAHAHAHAHA!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icmRCixQrx8

.....

Faith means belief without – and, increasingly these days, against – evidence. Faith, therefore, is intellectually dishonest. Faith creates a false certainty, which subjugates rationality. It makes good people do evil things and it makes otherwise intelligent people say and do senseless things. It forces its influence where it has no business. It flies airplanes into buildings."

"Faith is arrogant. It places humanity at the center of the universe and each believer as the apple of the creator’s eye. It makes Republican presidential candidates, our governor included, trade power of prayer stories at a Christian breakfast while rescue workers in Nepal search for thousands of missing people who just had their rickety roofs dropped on them by “an act of God.” Faith of this kind has long kept itself immune from critical discourse, often with violence. No more."

"I hope to maybe plant the seed of doubt in someone’s mind, the way it was planted in mine, and possibly move another person away from superstition and tribalism toward reason and acceptance of the beautiful and humbling fact that we are of the cosmos, not the point of it."

http://www.milwaukeemag.com/2015/08/17/faith-no-more/
o-man

Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
Aug 18, 2015 - 01:26pm PT
" I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy,as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
Thomas Jefferson
MisterE

Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
Aug 18, 2015 - 01:27pm PT
Whenever my wife gets an Etsy sale:

"Yay! The glowing box brought me money!"
o-man

Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
Aug 19, 2015 - 10:56am PT
Eighth Tao

The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places that men reject and is like the Tao.

In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.
In action, watch the timing.

No fight: No blame.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Aug 20, 2015 - 09:47am PT
ummmm, junior high here? lol
rockermike

Trad climber
Berkeley
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2015 - 11:51pm PT

A plane load of tourists going to see the Great Pyramids burn more enrgy than it took to build them.

Khun Duen Baad
StahlBro

Trad climber
San Diego, CA
Aug 21, 2015 - 01:16am PT
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"

" It is so big, the mind can't hold it"
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