Daily quotes

[Angrboda]

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes.
-- Salman Rushdie

Paraphrasing, "Now what do I mean by ritual purity? Let's say that I'm at a restaurant eating a salad. I pick up some lettuce dripping with dressing on my fork and bring it to my mouth. By accident, it falls and lands on my tie. On my tie, the lettuce becomes 'dirt' or pollution; on my plate, on the fork, in my mouth — not dirt. On my tie? Dirt. This shows how purity is about context...." (recent documentary)

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"The real war is the war on consciousness. It's very important to always remember that ... Mind control is ubiquitous. It's almost a question of who is not mind controlled, as opposed to who is mind controlled. It's just a difference in degree. The whole question of what is consciousness and how it can be manipulated is one of the most crucial questions of our time."

— blurb for the documentary Architects Of Control (Program One)

[Angrboda]

"Stupidity must have some heretofore unknown adaptive value, because the human genome has an incredible capacity
to produce it in an endless variety of forms and in seemingly limitless quantity..."

(just a random thought)

[Minimalist]

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

--Emo Phillips

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." - Woody Allen

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ -- but it was only for three days.
-- Lenny Bruce,

[Angrboda]

"It is an insult to a starving people to offer them religion; it is an insult to a starving man to teach him metaphysics."

— Swami Vivekananda, "Religion not the Crying need of India"

[Angrboda]

"It's not so much that I suck as it is that the atmosphere in here blows."


I thought of adding this to my sig, but I like the simplicity of my current one. So I'm punting it here.

[Minimalist]

“You Can Safely Assume You’ve Created God In Your Own Image When It Turns Out That God Hates All The Same People You Do.”

-- Anne Lamott

[Angrboda]

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
Cyril Connolly

[Angrboda]

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

Aldous Huxley

[Angrboda]

"The first session I attended was on talking to the dead. Of course, anyone
can talk to the dead — it's getting the dead to talk back that is the hard part."

— Michael Shermer, "The Believing Brain"

[Something completely different]

"There is no right life in the wrong"

- out of Theodor Adorno`s "Minima Moralia"