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markkur
Honorable
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posted July 06, 2013 08:41 PM |
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you gotta live like your on vacation
Kiss
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"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" yeah, and when you get there, you have to mow it too
Markkur, back when he pushed a lawn-mower.
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DagothGares
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
No gods or kings
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posted July 12, 2013 04:48 PM |
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"Note that when scienticians talk about, say, the increase in alcoholism, they never go back before WWII, otherwise they'd have to label most ancient Greeks, all Vikings and everyone in colonial America as alcoholics. "Well," they'll explain, "it wasn't until then we started rigorously treating people as data points." While I'll accept that an amount of alcohol does the same damage to your innards regardless of what kingdom you're born in, there's something sneaky about the current kingdom getting to be the sole judge of what is addiction and what isn't, but we rarely complain unless the addiction is the internet and the kingdom is China; and the reason we don't complain is that the system has cleverly made it very easy for us to abuse it selfishly when we want to, which was the plan all along. But it doesn't make it right. Sorry, wildman, you can't judge a person based on two generations of observation of a single culture that happens to be driven by TV."
- Alone
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Tsar-Ivor
Promising
Legendary Hero
Scourge of God
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posted July 12, 2013 04:53 PM |
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"See, in this world there are two kinds of people my friend, those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig." ~ Blondie
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"No laughs were had. There is only shame and sadness." Jenny
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JoonasTo
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
What if Elvin was female?
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posted July 12, 2013 05:08 PM |
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But for me, it's a dream that won't come true, or maybe it's a dream because it won't come true.
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DON'T BE A NOOB, JOIN A.D.V.E.N.T.U.R.E.
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mvassilev
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 12, 2013 06:14 PM |
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"Here is a well-known trajectory: You begin with a heartfelt desire to help other people and the conviction, however well or ill founded, that your guild or club or church is the coalition that can best serve to improve the welfare of others. If times are particularly tough, this conditional stewardship - I'm doing what's good for the guild because that will be good for everybody - may be displaced by the narrowest concern for the integrity of the guild itself, and for good reason: if you believe that the institution in question is the best path to goodness, the goal of preserving it for future projects, still unimagined, can be the most rational higher goal you can define. It is a short step from this to losing track of or even forgetting the larger purpose and devoting yourself singlemindedly to furthering the interests of the institution, at whatever costs. A conditional or instrumental allegiance can thus become indistinguishable in practice from a commitment to something 'good in itself'. A further short step perverts this parochial summum bonum to the more selfish goal of doing whatever it takes to keep yourself at the helm of the institution ('who better than I to lead us to triumph over our adversaries?')
We have all seen this happen many times, and may even have caught ourselves in the act of forgetting just why we wanted to be leaders in the first place." - Daniel Denett
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted July 14, 2013 08:34 PM |
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And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. - Simon Peter
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Horses don't die on a dog's wish.
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mvassilev
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 14, 2013 10:16 PM |
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"The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations." - David Friedman
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Eccentric Opinion
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DagothGares
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
No gods or kings
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posted July 14, 2013 10:25 PM |
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"Violence is an admission of failure." - K.J. Parker
"I don't know, but I've watched them here for twenty years and i've seen the change. They used to rush through here, and it was wonderful to watch, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now, they're hurrying because they're afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear. They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape. They don't look at one another. They jerk when brushed against. they smile too much, but it's an ugly kind of smiling: it's no joy, it's pleading. I don't know what it is that's happening to the world. Oh, well, who's John Galt." - Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged
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Tsar-Ivor
Promising
Legendary Hero
Scourge of God
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posted July 21, 2013 12:45 AM |
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"Feed a man for a day and he'll be back the next day asking for more. Feed him a bullet and you won't have to hear from him again."
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"No laughs were had. There is only shame and sadness." Jenny
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Fauch
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 21, 2013 01:49 AM |
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We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
Buckminster Fuller
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mvassilev
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 21, 2013 02:12 AM |
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"Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch – or build a cyclotron – without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think." - Ayn Rand
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Fauch
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 21, 2013 03:34 AM |
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And to think that the sons of the heroes of the Terror have allowed themselves to be degraded by the religion of work, to the point of accepting, since 1848, as a revolutionary conquest, the law limiting factory labor to twelve hours. They proclaim as a revolutionary principle the Right to Work. Shame to the French proletariat! Only slaves would have been capable of such baseness.
Paul Lafargue
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mvassilev
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 22, 2013 04:16 PM |
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"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." - Ayn Rand
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Drakon-Deus
Undefeatable Hero
Qapla'
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posted July 22, 2013 05:17 PM |
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I am wondering who actually wrote these...
Can you go years without talking to another human being? What about untold months snatching your meals from the forest floor and sleeping in muddy pits? Sanity is a spider clinging to a fluttering thread of web unaware of the fingers reaching for it, catching it, plopping it in my mouth...
When the Universe chooses you to be part of its plan, you'd better hold on and take what you can get because your ride will surely be over before you know it!
Why can't everyone see the inherent goodness in destruction? Or the evil in creation? A forest cannot live without the nutrients provided by the destructive force of a forest fire. And if I am wrong, then why is lifeblood of creation - water - the most destructive force on the planet?
So, what is the point if I am but an insignificant pawn of the Universe?
Knowledge! To know the Universe is to transcend it. Destruction, creation, good, and evil; the grand scheme of things they are just the masks we use to understand that which we cannot grasp. Well, here is my hand. Show me your secrets. I am not afraid!
I have struggled to understand a Universe that allows the destruction of an entire planet. Which will win this endless conflict - destruction or creation? The only thing I know for certain is never to place your faith entirely on one side. Play the middle if you want to survive.
Everyone else is a fanatic.
I am Gauldoth Half-Dead. Your savior.
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master_learn
Legendary Hero
walking to the library
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posted July 28, 2013 12:03 AM |
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"If a woman sleeps alone, it puts a shame on all men."
"A man needs a little madness, or else...he never dares cut the rope and be free. "
"To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble."
"We'll pull our pants up and make a pile of money. "
"You think too much.That is your trouble.Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything. "
Zorba the Greek
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"I heard the latest HD version disables playing Heroes. Please reconsider."-Salamandre
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mvassilev
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted July 28, 2013 01:11 AM |
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"Consider our world as it would be if the cost of moving from one country to another were zero. Everyone lives in a housetrailer and speaks the same language. One day, the president of France announces that because of troubles with neighboring countries, new military taxes are being levied and conscription will begin shortly. The next morning the president of France finds himself ruling a peaceful but empty landscape, the population having been reduced to himself, three generals, and twenty-seven war correspondents." - David Friedman
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RedSoxFan3
Admirable
Legendary Hero
Fan of Red Sox
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posted July 31, 2013 02:17 AM |
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"I'll take Anal Bum Cover for 400."
"That's An Album Cover."
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Go Red Sox!
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mvassilev
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted August 22, 2013 04:45 PM |
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"Individualists believe in individualism precisely because we believe that human beings can and should be both social and civilized to each other at the same time - that community and social life don’t require shoving people around or bullying them into following one big plan... [W]e can peacefully, freely, and naturally form communities, institutions, and invisible social bonds as we make our way through the world." - Charles Johnson
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master_learn
Legendary Hero
walking to the library
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posted August 23, 2013 01:44 PM |
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"Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel? "
The Prophecy
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"I heard the latest HD version disables playing Heroes. Please reconsider."-Salamandre
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted August 29, 2013 05:14 AM |
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from "Titus Andronicus":
Lucius:
Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?
Aaron the Moor:
Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,—
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.
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