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What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 9, 2016 at 4:12 am
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2016 at 4:25 am by Heat.)
This is a forum game type of thread, in a way. Basically your post should include a quote directly from yourself, no other person, one that you created/invented yourself. I hope this will be something along the lines of an inventive life advice quote, or saying, anything about morality, truth, logic, etc. basically make it have a deep message.
Rules are simple:
1. No retarded posts, this should be a serious thread, not looking for cheap laughs(there's plenty of other places to do that).
2. Quote has to be from you, any quote from someone else other than yourself should be removed by mods preferably.
3. Quote should include -[yourname] to credit yourself with the quote.
I'll start with expanding on something I made up two seconds ago:
Quote:Any truly strong position someone takes on a claim will not appear so, the free thinkers who think they know exactly what they believe are full of it. Any real strong position on a socially controversial topic will analyze the opposing position more than his or her own, it is the weak thinker who has trouble considering the opposing claim as having ability to be true, it is the weak thinker who enters the cellar where his thoughts dwell, and comes out thinking he knows the world is so. It is he who is ignorant, who can think he knows truth. - Heat
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
The choice is yours.
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RE: What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 12, 2016 at 6:41 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2016 at 6:45 am by ApeNotKillApe.)
Don't think I shall; I prefer to keep my masturbation private.
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RE: What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 12, 2016 at 6:45 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2016 at 6:45 am by Alex K.)
(January 12, 2016 at 6:41 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Don't think I shall; I prefer to keep my masturbation private.
Is that your best quote or meta-commentary?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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RE: What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 12, 2016 at 6:46 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2016 at 6:46 am by ApeNotKillApe.)
(January 12, 2016 at 6:45 am)Alex K Wrote: (January 12, 2016 at 6:41 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Don't think I shall; I prefer to keep my masturbation private.
Is that your best quote or meta-commentary?
Yes.
I am John Cena's hip-hop album.
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RE: What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 12, 2016 at 6:55 am
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RE: What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 12, 2016 at 7:37 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2016 at 7:46 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(January 9, 2016 at 4:12 am)Heat Wrote: This is a forum game type of thread, in a way. Basically your post should include a quote directly from yourself, no other person, one that you created/invented yourself. [...]
Can I just use a post, where - instead of "inventing" anything - I describe, say, Socratic Ignorance, but in a convoluted and pretentious way? You know - like a cross between teenage girl's poetry and first year philosophy student's chat-up line?
(January 9, 2016 at 4:12 am)Heat Wrote: Quote:Any truly strong position someone takes on a claim will not appear so, the free thinkers who think they know exactly what they believe are full of it. Any real strong position on a socially controversial topic will analyze the opposing position more than his or her own, it is the weak thinker who has trouble considering the opposing claim as having ability to be true, it is the weak thinker who enters the cellar where his thoughts dwell, and comes out thinking he knows the world is so. It is he who is ignorant, who can think he knows truth. - Heat
Oh, I can? Sweet... 
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RE: What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 12, 2016 at 7:42 am
Quote:You expect me to be serious? Me? - Aoi
Quote:To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
- Lau Tzu
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RE: What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 12, 2016 at 7:50 am
I was always quite proud of this one:
(February 25, 2012 at 3:29 pm)I once Wrote: Using fiction to argue points of archaelogical history with an archaeological historian is like using a baked ham to attack a tiger. Choose your battles and your weapons more carefully, is basically what I'm advising.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 12, 2016 at 8:41 am
Can I provide a quote form my stepdad?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
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RE: What is your personal best quote you can give?
January 12, 2016 at 8:45 am
(January 12, 2016 at 7:50 am)Stimbo Wrote: I was always quite proud of this one:
(February 25, 2012 at 3:29 pm)I once Wrote: Using fiction to argue points of archaelogical history with an archaeological historian is like using a baked ham to attack a tiger. Choose your battles and your weapons more carefully, is basically what I'm advising.
I don't mean to p*ss on your parade, but couldn't one poison the ham, in which case it wouldn't seem like a bad strategy?...
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