Meaningful ideas and quotes

[downbeatplumb]

My advice for avoiding debt, don't buy shit you can't afford.

[Expired]

"Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out" -James Conant

[Ivan Denisovich]

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Karl Marx.

[Mystic]

A person who is deluded is wretched in this world, and is duped in the next world because he has sold what is better for what is baser. Do not admire yourself. Sometimes you may be deceived by your property and your bodily health into supposing that you will last forever. Sometimes you are deceived by your long life, your children and your friends into thinking that you will be saved by them. Sometimes you are deceived by your beauty and the circumstances of your birth, which bring you your hopes and desires so easily that you think that you are truthful and successful in achieving your goal.

Sometimes you are deceived by the regret you show people for your shortcoming in worship, but Allah knows the opposite of that is in your heart. Sometimes you make yourself worship in a spirit of reluctance; but Allah desires sincerity. Sometimes you imagine that you are calling on Allah when you are calling on another. Sometimes you imagine that you are giving good counsel to people, while your real desire is that they bow to you. Sometimes you blame yourself when you are really praising yourself.

Know that you will only emerge from the darkness of delusion and desire by sincerely turning in repentance to Almighty Allah, and to whatever you know about Him, and to recognize the faults in your self which are not consistent with your intellect and knowledge, and which the faith, the law and the customary practices of the Holy Prophet and the Imams of guidance do not tolerate.

If you are content with your present condition, there is no one more wretched than you in knowledge and action, nor anyone with a more wasted life. You will inherit grief on the Day of Resurrection.

Reported from Imam Jaffar (as) to one of his students.

[*Deidre*]

A person who is deluded is wretched in this world, and is duped in the next world because he has sold what is better for what is baser. Do not admire yourself. Sometimes you may be deceived by your property and your bodily health into supposing that you will last forever. Sometimes you are deceived by your long life, your children and your friends into thinking that you will be saved by them. Sometimes you are deceived by your beauty and the circumstances of your birth, which bring you your hopes and desires so easily that you think that you are truthful and successful in achieving your goal.

Sometimes you are deceived by the regret you show people for your shortcoming in worship, but Allah knows the opposite of that is in your heart. Sometimes you make yourself worship in a spirit of reluctance; but Allah desires sincerity. Sometimes you imagine that you are calling on Allah when you are calling on another. Sometimes you imagine that you are giving good counsel to people, while your real desire is that they bow to you. Sometimes you blame yourself when you are really praising yourself.

Know that you will only emerge from the darkness of delusion and desire by sincerely turning in repentance to Almighty Allah, and to whatever you know about Him, and to recognize the faults in your self which are not consistent with your intellect and knowledge, and which the faith, the law and the customary practices of the Holy Prophet and the Imams of guidance do not tolerate.

If you are content with your present condition, there is no one more wretched than you in knowledge and action, nor anyone with a more wasted life. You will inherit grief on the Day of Resurrection.

Reported from Imam Jaffar (as) to one of his students.

This is interesting, I like it, MK. I think that when I was an atheist, I perceived delusions differently. Maybe we are deluded in our own ways? 

But, having come back to faith, I don't consider myself deluded, but some who don't believe as me, might consider me as such. I think at the end of the day, we're all just trying to find peace and contentment in a tough world.

[Edwardo Piet]

"Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out" -James Conant

My neck is often sticking out. Especially when I make mayo.

[*Deidre*]

"Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out" -James Conant

My neck is often sticking out. Especially when I make mayo.

lol you're so weirdddd!! 

[Edwardo Piet]

Nah. Just (t)horny.

Haven't made mayo in 2 days.

The (t)horns are sticking in my side and they're awful prickly...

[Expired]

"Behold the turtle, he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out" -James Conant

My neck is often sticking out. Especially when I make mayo.

I put this on for you...

[Edwardo Piet]

Yay!