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Meaningful ideas and quotes
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'I own many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.' - Ron Burgundy

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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(June 12, 2019 at 1:51 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'I own many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.' - Ron Burgundy

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When I have a wood working project and need to buy supplies, I walk into the wood sales store and inhale deeply through my nose. The aroma of all those different species of wood is so enjoyable!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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(June 12, 2019 at 9:10 pm)Fireball Wrote:
(June 12, 2019 at 1:51 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'I own many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.' - Ron Burgundy

Boru

When I have a wood working project and need to buy supplies, I walk into the wood sales store and inhale deeply through my nose. The aroma of all those different species of wood is so enjoyable!

"Why do rooms of dead trees smell so much better than my room of dead people?"
- An unnamed Australian living in NZ
Dying to live, living to die.
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(June 12, 2019 at 9:23 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(June 12, 2019 at 9:10 pm)Fireball Wrote: When I have a wood working project and need to buy supplies, I walk into the wood sales store and inhale deeply through my nose. The aroma of all those different species of wood is so enjoyable!

"Why do rooms of dead trees smell so much better than my room of dead people?"
- An unnamed Australian living in NZ

Trees rot orders of magnitude more slowly than those gooey people.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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"Well, I think that ol' cuss of a preacher lied like Dixie when he said that God has fought all of our battles and won all of our victories for, if that were true, why was it NOT in the papers? And why has He NOT been promoted?" (Sgt. Albinus Fell, CSA)  Dodgy
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
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'Every person you will ever meet knows something you don't.' - Bill Nye

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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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(August 12, 2019 at 7:59 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: [Image: quote-he-who-wishes-to-revenge-injuries-...-56-96.jpg]

But what if it’s not done due to hate or spute, but simply because I want to?
Dying to live, living to die.
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'Wait...I drank WHAT?' - Socrates

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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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Quote:“I’ve never been worried about going beyond metaphysics or any death of philosophy. The function of philosophy, still thoroughly relevant, is to create concepts. Nobody else can take over that function. Philosophy has of course always had its rivals, from Plato’s “rivals” through to Zarathustra’s clown. These days, information technology, communications, and advertising are taking over the words “concept” and “creative,” and these “conceptualists” constitute an arrogant breed that reveals the activity of selling to be capitalism’s supreme thought, the cogito of the marketplace. Philosophy feels small and lonely confronting such forces, but the only way it’s going to die is by choking with laughter.”
— Deleuze, “On Philosophy,” Negotiations, p. 136

Like it or not, when our values are no longer decided by religion and philosophy, the work is mostly taken over by capitalism.

"Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for "vulgarity"; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful."

-- Leo Strauss
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