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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 12-11-2022 “Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.” Richard Dawkins “He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” Zen Proverb "Its like any orthodoxy, let it run for a few centuries & what started as something that came from deep inside the human spirit turns into a set of holy texts that stultify thinking. Then people who yearn after the real experience as you do get palmed off with a set of rigid theological propositions - & all that's left to do is read it." Marion Molteno "Religion in general and Islam in particular can only be considered liberal and reformed (at face value at least if even that is possible) when it has been pushed in a corner and out of the public space – when it has been forced to run soup kitchens rather than courts and Islamic Assemblies. If you look at Christianity for example, it’s not that the tenets, dogma, and principles have changed; it has not become more humane since the days of the inquisition and witch burnings. What has changed is its social and political influence in today’s society, in people’s lives, in its relation with the state, the law and educational system. To the degree that it has become undermined and weakened, that is the degree that people have managed to free themselves from the clutches of religion, and in having happier lives and a better society. Progressive human values have been achieved at the expense of Christianity and religion." The Islamic Inquisition” Maryam Namazie RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 13-11-2022 "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." Buddha "Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to be able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard—or try to turn back—the measurable advances that we have made. Sometimes, true, it will artfully concede them. But this is to offer itself the choice between irrelevance and obstruction, impotence or outright reaction, and, given this choice, it is programmed to select the worse of the two. Meanwhile, confronted with undreamed-of vistas inside our own evolving cortex, in the farthest reaches of the known universe, and in proteins and acids which constitute our nature, religion offers either annihilation in the name of god, or else the false promise that if we take a knife to our foreskins, or pray in the right direction, or ingest pieces of wafer, we shall be “saved.” Christopher Hitchens "Man enjoys the great advantage of having a god endorse the code he writes; and since man exercises a sovereign authority over women it is especially fortunate that this authority has been vested in him by the Supreme Being. For the Jew, Mohammedans, and Christians, among others, man is Master by divine right; the fear of God will therefore repress any impulse to revolt in the downtrodden female." Simone de Beauvoir "One of Teresa’s most outspoken critics was the English journalist, literary critic and New Atheist Christopher Hitchens, who wrote the extended essay The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1995) and wrote in a 2003 article, “This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor. [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.” “I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn't just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.” Quentin R. Bufogle RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 14-11-2022 “Once asked why he was prepared to help Christians and Hindus alike, Edhi replied, “because my ambulance is more Muslim than you”. Abdul Sattar Edhi Oh god if I worship you for fear of hell ,burn me in hell. If I worship you in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship you for your own sake, grudge me not your everlasting beauty. Rabi ‘a-Adawiyya (Sufi) "The Hopi Indians thought that the world's religions each contained one spiritual thread, & that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history. More contemporarily, the Dalai Lama has repeated the same idea, assuring his western students repeatedly that they needn't become Tibetan Buddhists in order to be his pupils. He welcomes them to take whatever ideas they like out of Tibetan Buddhism & integrate these ideas into their own religious practices." Elizabeth Gilbert "There have been nearly 3,000 Gods so far but only yours exists. The others are silly, made-up nonsense. But not yours. Yours is real" Ricky Gervais RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 15-11-2022 "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further" Richard Dawkins “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.” Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader “I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.” Blaise Pascal “All the vital questions have been dumped in favour of half-baked, po-faced rituals which are basically a form of middle class rain dance. Still, it did give me the chapel scene in The meaning of life. John Cleese RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 16-11-2022 Here's what I think in a single sentence: I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible. All of which are egotistical attitudes. So how can you have an egotistical organization trying to teach a non-egotistical ideal? It makes no sense, unless you regard religion as crowd control. What I think most organized religion—simply crowd control. John Cleese The native American parable of the two wolves An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life: “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil–he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you–and inside every other person, too.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf will win?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.” “My dad was a Catholic, my mum was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I am married to a Muslim. So I never say anything about any religion .” Michael Caine RE: Sayings & Quotes - bestcampus - 16-11-2022 9082844 7516462 4132686 8065221 884226 542280 3449890 7254470 6745619 654734 1155276 8703345 5600085 458617 5745576 8412906 9814993 5811754 6541519 5545954 835644 2331408 7126570 7834132 8262751 3582057 2169124 8146530 1148329 3671828 6210480 2639033 6613299 3989285 2541304 6980024 6640661 91769 4703610 5185255 282329 9646021 590595 1955166 4749703 4764188 8457875 4639174 4605720 4800519 5341472 7162627 760263 8238209 820978 757422 3504993 4733348 1624932 8840335 6302271 917104 5031818 5898377 9539234 6055889 1537619 2693554 5975579 6160072 9756110 2663593 2095557 7625977 9035601 6842655 2091083 4021192 7734433 7152489 3689218 2091810 7650583 404169 7542611 5596623 7558266 7855858 4405604 8056343 1325206 7680642 6807347 8010080 8575121 163749 4454099 2877724 8378568 7994879 5061471 17675 8914994 6499952 4852713 6077997 8601942 1131890 5428777 8233252 6642579 2091963 6236811 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No one can & no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." Buddha “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over & over again.” Buddha RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 18-11-2022 “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” “Make the best use of what’s in your power and take the rest as it happens.” Epictetus RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 19-11-2022 “The whole life of a man is but a point in time; let us enjoy it.” “Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” “Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.” Plutarch RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 20-11-2022 “The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.” “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." Seneca RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 21-11-2022 “A gift consists not of what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.” “True happiness is… to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.” “Count each day as a separate life”. Seneca RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 22-11-2022 “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” “It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 23-11-2022 “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over the self.” Aristotle “Necessity is the mother of invention.” “Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil.” Plato RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 24-11-2022 "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world." "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." Voltaire RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 25-11-2022 "Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." “If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.” Voltaire RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 26-11-2022 “If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.” “The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.” “So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.” Voltaire RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 27-11-2022 “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” “The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.” “The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.” “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.” Voltaire RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 28-11-2022 “In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.” “Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.” “It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.” Voltaire RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 29-11-2022 “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.” “Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.” Voltaire RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 30-11-2022 "Love truth, but pardon error.: "Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day." "The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood." Voltaire |