Meaningful ideas and quotes

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I can't read thru all these pages. How many Hunter S Thompson quotes have been posted?

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I can't read thru all these pages. How many Hunter S Thompson quotes have been posted?

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”

Here’s another: 

‘I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.’

Boru

[Carl Hickey]

I started a thread on TTA with the same concept, but not sure how many here post over there. So, here is the same thread for AF. The one on TTA has been going well, it's interesting to see what ideas, and quotes move people.

I'll start...

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” ~Plato

''If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.'' ~ Einstein

KISS principle: Keep it simple, stupid!

I would say: Keep it simple-stupid.

[Carl Hickey]

''If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.'' ~ Einstein

That's going straight into my lexicon.


"In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
- Immanuel Kant

A good name would be "Can't too" - Kant_2

Kant: (1) how mind (consciousness) works; (2) how society works.

Others followed that path too.

[Carl Hickey]

Seven deadly sins (the capital vices):

1. gluttony;

2. lust/prostitution/fornication;

3. avarice (greed);

4. envy, sadness at another's good fortune/despair;

5. wrath/anger/rage;

6. acedia/dejection/sloth;

7-8. boasting/vainglory/pride

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The Aristotelian Virtues

ACTIVITY OR EMOTION   DEFICIT - MEAN - EXCESS

Fear and Confidence        Cowardice - Courage - Rashness

...

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Let's see what Eric Berne (Transactional analysis) has to say:


 The types of hunger:

    food-hunger;

    stimulus-hunger;

    recognition-hunger;

    structure-hunger.

/stated in Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relationships/
/at the beginning/
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Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (one of the world's Seven Wonders). The conclusion prompted the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. Wikipedia

One philosopher pointed out that one could not blame Herostratus before one had not seen the temple. (corruption, wasted public money, ...
probably the temple was a joke and deserved burning. Burning was a political act. Herostratus was tortured and executed - History is written by the victors)

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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles (the man who started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis, including the Parthenon)

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Some homes do not have tv-sets, people do not have mobile phones, ...

An warfare is going on. Call it ideological, religious, ... whatever. Just because you do not take an interest in it doesn't mean it isn't waged against/upon you.


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On Shoutbox:

KerimF Nay_Sayer, I am afraid that the logical answer to your question depends on how you define the word 'god'.

1st: except definition there is equivalence (both expressed by be in a "sentence");

2nd: consciousness is built in a certain way. So, God is not only the space (a space is a thing) but a Space is equivalent to a Set of Rules (Commands). There is a Space = there are Commands; there are Commands = there is a Space. 
God/Commands/Space/Creation-Annihilation/... = Admin/Rules/Forum/Creation-Annihilation/...

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...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Seven deadly sins:

1. gluttony;

2. lust/prostitution/fornication;

3. avarice (greed);

4. envy, sadness at another's good fortune/despair;

5. wrath/anger/rage;

6. acedia/dejection/sloth;

7-8. boasting/vainglory/pride

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The Aristotelian Virtues

ACTIVITY OR EMOTION   DEFICIT - MEAN - EXCESS

Fear and Confidence        Cowardice - Courage - Rashness

As the Good Book says, 'When a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.'

Boru

[Carl Hickey]

Religions, States, Families, ... politicians (mothers, fathers, relatives, distant relatives, priest, clerks, ..., enemies)
/organisations, authorities/

Politics/Power: who is to live - who is to work.

People are all about power. A man, a woman, a person (PC) is made in a simple way.
Life is just plain simple: to live is to eat; to eat is to have; to feed is to work (to be haved).

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Religions, States, Families, ... politicians (mothers, fathers, relatives, distant relatives, priest, clerks, ..., enemies)
/organisations, authorities/

Politics/Power: who is to live; who is to work.

People are all about power. A man, a woman, a person (PC) is made in a simple way.
Life is just plain simple: to live is to eat; to eat is to have; to feed is to work.

Why would anybody steal a groundhog?

Boru

[Carl Hickey]

Religions, States, Families, ... politicians (mothers, fathers, relatives, distant relatives, priest, clerks, ..., enemies)
/organisations, authorities/

Politics/Power: who is to live; who is to work.

People are all about power. A man, a woman, a person (PC) is made in a simple way.
Life is just plain simple: to live is to eat; to eat is to have; to feed is to work.

Why would anybody steal a groundhog?

Boru

Okay, a bunch of good boys and girls who are ashamed of being good boys and girls.

Girls like bad boys. Bad means power/FREEDOM. Girls like power.


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The four states of I (Ego) to the other, according to Eric Berne:

- I am Okay - You are Okay;

- I am Okay - You are not Okay;

- I am not Okay - You are Okay;

- I am not Okay - You are not Okay.

[Carl Hickey]

I do not know what happened.


I did not have a Malicious Intent.


Malicious Intent meaning

To understand the phrase malicious intent from a legal perspective, we must understand the terms “malicious” and “intent”.

Malicious (or malice) is a legal term used to refer to a party’s intent to do harm (the desire to cause prejudice or damages).

From a legal point of view, malice can be expressed or implied when the conduct or the actions of a party denotes malice and desire to cause injury.

Intent (or intention) is a person’s state of mind.

If a person’s intention (or state of mind) was to cause damages on purpose or for evil reasons, we say that the person’s intention was malicious (or there was malicious intent).

In a court of law, malicious intent can be proven directly or imputed to the defendant using circumstantial evidence. 

Essentially, a person aware of the potentially harmful consequences of his or her actions to another is said to have developed mal intent.