Ending the night with a cool quote.

aaharvel

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."

Barry Lopez from Arctic Dreams

PolkThug

"Liquor in the front, poker in the rear." -Anonymous

TroyD

We deal in lead, friend.

Zen Dragon

Life is not a mystery to be solved. It is a reality to be experienced.
Much more is learned by the question than the answer.

Don't make me dig out the henry David thoreau stuff. :-)

shack

It obiously IS time for you to get out of college and into the REAL world.....Where philosophical BS takes a backseat to living day to day.

neomagus00

so thought is prohibited in the 'real world'?

mrbigbluelight

neomagus00 wrote:

so thought is prohibited in the 'real world'?

Uhm.........yes.

Or, at the very least, highly discouraged and frowned upon.

And remember: the beatings will continue until moral improves.

bobman1235

"It's no matter
No distance
It's the ride."

- Crosby Stills & Nash

aaharvel

shack wrote:

It obiously IS time for you to get out of college and into the REAL world.....Where philosophical BS takes a backseat to living day to day.

i know plenty about the real world. More than most of you will ever know. :cool:

Demiurge

All I read was "I'm a big ****."

shack

neomagus00 wrote:

so thought is prohibited in the 'real world'?

No, but ideas such as the one quoted, while they sound very profound....are of little value.

aaharvel wrote:

i know plenty about the real world. More than most of you will ever know.

I have an advantage over you guy's...been there, done that. All this "deep though" is fine when you are young, going to college, getting started in life, etc... Then you realize it really just doesn't matter. Most philosophers are people with too much time on their hands and would be better served getting on with life, than trying to understand the deeper meaning of it.

aaharvel

Originally Posted by aaharvel
More than most of you will ever know.

not reflecting on anyone else's views, knowledge or experience, just my own. I think alot of people feel that way about life, as in that quote. Maybe not on this forum, but they are out there. They just don't have the ability to put it in that type of context. Myself included. I didn't mean anything personal by that comment, although I can definitely see how someone could take that as snobbish. Sorry.

aaharvel

Demiurge wrote:

All I read was "I'm a big ****."

ok. Where did you get the encryption from?!?
That was supposed to be a secret damnit!

Demiurge

I'm just playing around.

mldennison

an inspirational quote for the morning:

"If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not Chuck Norris."

markmarc

aaharvel:
keep posting them as you find them, some of us ain't brain dead yet!

I-SIG

mldennison wrote:

an inspirational quote for the morning:

"If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not Chuck Norris."

Or Jack Bauer!

Wes

audiobliss

I-SIG wrote:

mldennison wrote:

an inspirational quote for the morning:

"If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not Chuck Norris."

Or Jack Bauer!

Wes

Or Vin Diesel!

AndyGwis

mldennison, good quote. I love reading that site, makes me laugh out loud in my office everytime. . . my co-workers probably think I'm insane.

For anyone who hasn't already, give it a read:
http://www.4q.cc/index.php?pid=top100&person=chuck

steveinaz

"Don't sweat the petty stuff, just pet the sweaty stuff.." stephen rose

dylan

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

And finally:
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

steveinaz

"beer is good."

audiobliss

Give me my golf clubs, fresh air, and a beautiful partner, and you can keep my golf clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny

At one point we decided to fight fire with fire. Well, basically...your house burned even faster.
Anonymous firefighter

A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
Steven Wright

Helpful hint: You can remove ink stains from a silk dress with ordinary scissors.
Ron Dentinger

I'd rather be skating on thin ice than no ice.
John M. Shanahan

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
Robert Orben

I made quite a name for myself back home. I left when I found out what it was.
Herb Shriner

No one appreciates the value of constructive criticism more thoroughly than the one who's giving it.
Hal Chadwick

Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.
Billy Madison




And now for two good, serious quotes:

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness alone that gives everything its value."
Thomas Paine, Crisis Paper No. 1

"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams

PhantomOG

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief... all kill their inspiration, then sing about the grief.

name the song!

*edited for correctness, thanks neo

neomagus00

psychostick ^^(stevinaz) "beer is good! beer is good! beer is good!... and stuff!"
phantom - u2's the fly, from achtung baby, but it's "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief."

my personal favorites:
"No single raindrop is to believe it is to blame for the flood." (despair.com, take it how you will)
"Love to one, friendship to many, goodwill to all." (T.G.I.F. the restaraunt)
"Not all who wander are lost." (Tolkein, I think)

audiobliss

PhantomOG wrote:

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief... all kill their inspiration, then sing about the grief.

name the song!

*edited for correctness, thanks neo

The Fly - U2

Well, I came in too late on that one!

Zen Dragon

Demiurge wrote:

All I read was "I'm a big ****."

aaharvel wrote:

ok. Where did you get the encryption from?!?
That was supposed to be a secret damnit!

See that is part of the problem when trying to decode the ancient tongues.
I read it as "I eat big ****."

starchaser

Remeber this one?
"Horatio, Horatio... grapple onto thy friends with hoops of steel..."

when the class was asked what does this mean? A young lady fresh out of high school says... sounds like he wants his son to enjoy kinky sex with the use of hoops to hold you partner down! We laughed so hard we cried, yet..

perception is reality.

mrbigbluelight

Totally foreign concept to today's marketdriven I-Want-My-MTV crowd.