13-01-2022, 11:11 AM
"A case of law is a chess game for those who make their living at it, & a great sorrow for those who get caught up in its web."
Sharyn McCrumb. The ballad of Tom Dooley
"Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality."
"Those who do not see money as a tool, but as an objective, will soon find themselves as its tool."
"Deities are invented by fallible & finite beings in the hope & desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators & inspire their followers to similar imperfections.
Human religions are based upon the twin assumptions that physical corporeality is a weakness & that an intelligent noncorporeal deity would provide superior guidance. Both assumptions are wrong."
L E Modesitt, The Elysium commission
"It was like somebody had thrown a bucket of iced water over me, & I had woken up in shock, seeing things clearly for the first time. The truth was obvious to me now but I had never seen it before. Previously, every newspaper story, every piece of gossip or suggestion of priests being involved in anything sexual had hit a spot within me & bounced off. Now I could accept it & act.
But my old view bothered & embarrassed me. For some time, I looked inward at this gaping & ridiculously childish fault in my thinking’ this black hole in my adult logic & common sense. I thought long & hard about the defects that limited my seeing the possible reality of sex & priests."
Hell on the way to heaven, Chrissie Foster with Paul Kennedy
"From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge & that is ignorance. I do not need to be comfortable & I will not take refuge. I demand to know."
Thirteen, Richard K Morgan.
"Don’t we all deal with life the way we do our military service? Doing what we can, while we wait either to be demobbed or do battle? Some will clean up the barrack-room, others will skive off, or spend their time playing cards, or trafficking, or plotting something. Officers command, soldiers obey, but no one’s fooled by this comedy behind closed doors: one day, you’ll have to go out & die, officers & soldiers alike, the morons along with the crafty ones who smuggle toilet paper or deal in cigarettes on the black market."
The elegance of the hedgehog, Muriel Barberry.
Sharyn McCrumb. The ballad of Tom Dooley
"Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality."
"Those who do not see money as a tool, but as an objective, will soon find themselves as its tool."
"Deities are invented by fallible & finite beings in the hope & desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators & inspire their followers to similar imperfections.
Human religions are based upon the twin assumptions that physical corporeality is a weakness & that an intelligent noncorporeal deity would provide superior guidance. Both assumptions are wrong."
L E Modesitt, The Elysium commission
"It was like somebody had thrown a bucket of iced water over me, & I had woken up in shock, seeing things clearly for the first time. The truth was obvious to me now but I had never seen it before. Previously, every newspaper story, every piece of gossip or suggestion of priests being involved in anything sexual had hit a spot within me & bounced off. Now I could accept it & act.
But my old view bothered & embarrassed me. For some time, I looked inward at this gaping & ridiculously childish fault in my thinking’ this black hole in my adult logic & common sense. I thought long & hard about the defects that limited my seeing the possible reality of sex & priests."
Hell on the way to heaven, Chrissie Foster with Paul Kennedy
"From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge & that is ignorance. I do not need to be comfortable & I will not take refuge. I demand to know."
Thirteen, Richard K Morgan.
"Don’t we all deal with life the way we do our military service? Doing what we can, while we wait either to be demobbed or do battle? Some will clean up the barrack-room, others will skive off, or spend their time playing cards, or trafficking, or plotting something. Officers command, soldiers obey, but no one’s fooled by this comedy behind closed doors: one day, you’ll have to go out & die, officers & soldiers alike, the morons along with the crafty ones who smuggle toilet paper or deal in cigarettes on the black market."
The elegance of the hedgehog, Muriel Barberry.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)