Maybe Philosophy, Maybe Madness, Or Maybe just the Meme Quotes....

[Gorth]

Why is common sense so uncommon?

[Raithe]

[Raithe]

[Raithe]

[Malcador]

On 1/9/2022 at 7:37 PM, Gorth said:

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Because everyone thinks they're smarter than they are.

[Raithe]

[Raithe]

[Guard Dog]

3 hours ago, Raithe said:

Hey you're right! It takes FOUR books! 

[Keyrock]

3 hours ago, Raithe said:

If you're looking for answers on numbers then Cinco has you covered:

 

Edited February 7, 2022 by Keyrock

[ShadySands]

Ken Ham, lol

[Guard Dog]

[Raithe]

 

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[Raithe]

https://rodserling.com/rod-serling-rips-loyalty-oaths-the-vietnam-war-and-social-inequity/

From back in 1968. For the opening excerpt:

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There seem to have arisen some complications relevant to my appearance here this evening that should be clarified before I begin. Plainly and simply. I refused to sign a loyalty oath which was submitted to me as a prerequisite both for my appearance and my pay. I gather that your local newspaper and some of its readers read dire and menacing implications in this refusal of mine, and I broach the whole thing only by way of a kind of personal disclaimer.

Number one, I have no interest in overthrowing the government of the United States and number two, to the best of my knowledge I have not or am not now a member of a subversive organization whose aims are similar. I know there are many of you out there who’ve put me in a genetic classification of someplace between a misanthropic kook and an ungracious dope. Actually, I’m neither. I did not sign the loyalty oath and I waived my normal speaking fee, only because of a principle. I think a requirement that a man affix his signature to a document, reaffirming loyalty, in on one hand ludicrous—and on the other demeaning.
There seem to have arisen some complications relevant to my appearance here this evening that should be clarified before I begin. Plainly and simply. I refused to sign a loyalty oath which was submitted to me as a prerequisite both for my appearance and my pay. I gather that your local newspaper and some of its readers read dire and menacing implications in this refusal of mine, and I broach the whole thing only by way of a kind of personal disclaimer.

Number one, I have no interest in overthrowing the government of the United States and number two, to the best of my knowledge I have not or am not now a member of a subversive organization whose aims are similar. I know there are many of you out there who’ve put me in a genetic classification of someplace between a misanthropic kook and an ungracious dope. Actually, I’m neither. I did not sign the loyalty oath and I waived my normal speaking fee, only because of a principle. I think a requirement that a man affix his signature to a document, reaffirming loyalty, in on one hand ludicrous—and on the other demeaning.
I would rather have a son or daughter of mine march through the streets of Chicago protesting injustice—than I would siring a Chicago policeman who’ll club anyone who’ll get in his way—and that includes sixteen-year-olds, newspaper photographers, and senior citizens.

And if anyone wants to raise the spectre of “provocation”—I say this categorically. There is no provocation extant short of a motive of self defense to excuse a representative of law and order wading in with a billy-club under the pretense of saving the sovereign city of Chicago. Of the four hundred young people currently held under arraignment for so-called assault and battery, half of them are under eighteen and half of those under a hundred and twenty pounds.

Suddenly we are a nation whose new battle slogan is law and order. Last year it won countless numbers of elections. It’s the great new American euphemism. Law and Order. It is now interchangeable with God, Motherhood, the Constitution and the Holy Grail. But how empty and how suspect is this sloganry when it points up the incredible selectivity on the part of America’s citizenry—how picky and choosey they are when it comes to moral outrage.

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Edited February 10, 2022 by Raithe

[Raithe]

[Gorth]

One of my favourites...

 

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

 

Edit: It just appeals to my inner anarchist for some reason

[Raithe]

[rjshae]

[Raithe]

"Although just saying, everyone that confuses correlation with causation eventually ends up dead."

[Raithe]

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[Keyrock]

19 hours ago, Raithe said:

"Although just saying, everyone that confuses correlation with causation eventually ends up dead."

In fairness, everyone eventually ends up dead anyway.

[Amentep]

On 2/20/2022 at 11:34 AM, Keyrock said:

In fairness, everyone eventually ends up dead anyway.

"Life is the leading cause of death, scientists say"