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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Nov 30, 2016 - 11:04am PT
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"Life is hard, no wonder people are corrupted by it." -Jordan Peterson
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perswig
climber
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Nov 30, 2016 - 11:36am PT
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Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left.
Dale
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Good one, Dale.
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This ain't a favorite but it is instructional...
"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry. -Carl Panzram
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Someone asked John Bachar: Why do you climb?
He replied: There's nothing better to do.
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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"Obama is a little girl who soiled his panties."
And in response to someone else saying Obama is the man! :
"So is his wife."
 the righteous stand-up "white daddy knows best" white father role model of a black daughter
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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... hard-on for Obama?
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Nah, I don't think so. Trump's quotable role modelling seems to be more about having a hard-on for his own daughter.
But I think the white father of a black daughter choosing to call a black woman role model "a man" is about something else.
The quote from the other side Is "When they go low, we go high." But maybe that's not the lesson that he wants a black woman role modelling for his black daughter.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Random fights to prove worthless points. That's what it means being an American Republican these days...
Now they rule...
All you need is a bunch of money, a bunch of lawyers ...
and a well chosen sortiment of prejudices to attract the mob...
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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re: predation and human evil
"but we can certainly talk about it in practical darwinian terms..."
"You better know what's after you. And the worst thing that can possible be after you is a fully motivated and completely malevolent human being. It's like skull crushing cats be damned. All they want to do is eat you. They're not going to torture you. Whereas if you fall into the hands of the wrong human being, you can be in excruciating pain for the next 20 years. People are very imaginative when they figure out how to hurt someone, and they can keep it up for a long time. And they are fully motivated to do so under some conditions. So you really have to watch out for that."
Jordan Peterson
Maps of Meaning
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What we haven't heard in a church sermon at least not very much...
"If you're wrong about something and you fall into a pit then you should let go of what you're wrong about so that something new can arise." -Jordan Peterson ala the myth of the Phoenix
Re beauty and beast myth...
"The best thing you want is a civilized bad guy. It's like that's what you want. Well no wonder. Because it's only a civilized bad guy that's going to be capable of dealing with the dragons."
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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"We didn't come here to check them out, we came here to check them off."
Really a fantastic quote. I didn't hear him say it, but I believe I heard who did.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Byran
climber
Half Dome Village
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If we are awed by the powers of man, the learned animal, we must also be appalled that he has been such a slow learner. And there has been no greater obstacle to his learning than the stock of accumulated learning that he has made for himself with his illusions of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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his illusions of knowledge...
Indeed, and no finer example than in the case of the Abrahamic revelations. (To any educated, nonreligious person, how absurd from the perspective of the modern age.)
But the good news: Albeit slowly we are updating our cultural knowledge systems and beliefs. And millenials value this (evidence-based) updating better than previous generations. Therein is the hope.
First they have to get past the social-media driven challenges of "fake news" and "post-truth" bs though.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2016 - 04:35pm PT
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The only church that illuminates is a burning church. -- Buenaventura Durruti
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Dec 26, 2016 - 08:15am PT
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"Not my circus, not my monkeys."
A Polish proverb that I plan to use often in 2017.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 26, 2016 - 09:03am PT
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"The whole modern conception of the world is founded on the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena." Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jan 29, 2017 - 10:15am PT
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. "
Desmond Tutu
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"Sure, Atlanta's up big now, but wait until the Comey letter drops in the 4th quarter"
Hans Noel
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Feb 10, 2017 - 11:29am PT
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"Contrary to popular lamentation, humans are getting better and better at getting along." -Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes
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