Quotes- Any quotes

[Emman_Jumpsong1]

[Eerie_Coppernight]

[Danyul_Braziervest]

I would love to learn more about Margaret Thatcher. any good biography recommendations anyone?

[Emman_Jumpsong1]

Not that I’m aware of man. Sorry.

[Emman_Jumpsong1]

[Spector_Otterquill]

I personally think the best revenge is to do nothing while living your best life and watch the innumerable errors in people's way compound on them in a way that slowly crushes their soul and will to live; Totally share Jesus with people.

[caleb_Larkmagnet1]

That would be the worst revenge, brother. Not the best.

[Spector_Otterquill]

It's the best because you're not actually getting revenge which is wrong and at least for me it can be satisfying to see all the things you told someone were going to cause problems cause problems.

[Danyul_Braziervest]

Am I the only one freaking out over "Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time." Like this sentence for example, I am making it up as I go, but....

This sentence was destined to come into existence since eternity past before God started His Creation.

_{excuse me while I go have a minor existential crisis while curled up in a ball.}

[Levi_Orangeburst]

at least for me it can be satisfying to see all the things you told someone were going to cause problems cause problems.

I feel like the Bible also says something about wanting the best for people or sum... so technically wanting to watch someone hurt is just as much a sin as hurting them... right?

[Spector_Otterquill]

Yes you are correct. However, I sadly am not at a point in my spiritual journey where I can want good for everyone, so I abstain from doing harm.

[Eerie_Coppernight]

A wise decision. If you can't force yourself to do good, at least try not to cause unnecessary misery.

[Levi_Orangeburst]

However, I sadly am not at a point in my spiritual journey where I can want good for everyone

I am sorry, I should have phrased that better. I, by no means, have mastered what I said.

[Hanna_Brassheart]

"Wide learning is both of great advantage and great disadvantage to its possessor. It benefits the person of skill, it damages the person who lightly says anything in any company. You must know the limits of the appropriate moment. That is the definition of wisdom. Those who make speeches at the wrong moment, even if they are full of sense, are not counted wise and have a reputation for folly." —Anaxarchus, On Sovereignty

[Hanna_Brassheart]

"Whatever is not sought for in its own way cannot be completely tracked down." —Unknown, from Institutes of Divine and Secular Learning

[Sierepica_Fuzzywalker]

but I am analyzing your every move though. not to criticize or anything, but just because I want to know who you are.

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"Either the universe has gone insane or I have. I vote for the universe." -Toa Vakama, Time Trap by Greg Farshtey (page 34)

"It is a new experience, I welcome it" -Patrick Jane, The Mentalist

"Indeed, knowledge can only be complete knowledge if it is experienced by the total personality." -Poetic Truth, Robin Skelton, page 21

Quotes by me:

"I don't understand people." (circa 2014)

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder only after you've put in the work to grow a fanbase to a certain size."

"Patience is waiting 24 hours for people to respond to something."

"Anyone who reads my posts anywhere will know that I'm a practiced and evidenced skeptic. Once you get in the habit, it's really hard to get rid of it."

"People have a right to dislike stuff. As one wise person put it: 'it is not an [error] to stop liking.'"

"Rule of thumb: if there is something to complain about or a flaw to point out, humans will always find that first, and tend to fixate on it until it becomes boring."

"It is my belief that people suffer so much on trying to avoid the possibility that something might be true. Then, when they are finally forced to accept the fact that it is true, they find that the avoidance of the truth was the most painful thing of all."

But really, living your life by preference is extremely limiting. One of my favorite authors loves to say that the number one reason that we don't get what we want is because we aren't open to the all the possibilities of the ways in which to get there. Not only do we prefer this outcome, we also prefer this method of getting there, and refuse to open our minds to other, more effective methods of action that would cause less pain, less strain, and might even produce a better outcome than we thought! If I merely follow the method I prefer, how do I know that I'm not wasting my time?

By extension, if I follow the theory I prefer, how do I know that I'm right? Does my preference make it right? Nope. Does my preference make it wrong? Nope.

Preference is independent of truth. (Popularity, by extension, is also independent of truth, being merely a group preference.)

"Technology? Peanut brittle."

"I think having an explanation is better than having no explanation - much as understanding is better than not understanding, having truth is better than not having it, feeling good is better than not. But I guess that's a taste thing where stories are concerned. shrugs"

You know what, [forget] explanations. If I'm wrong here, I'm wrong. If the only thing that comes out of this discussion is I WAS WRONG in big bold red letters, then I'm posting them. I do agree that taking down what I've said is counterproductive, because many others have posted similar things. But if I'm WRONG, I want to Shut. It. Down. I will type a response to that topic that rips into what I said previously like a groomer into Siamese poodle hair. And frankly, if I don't get an explanation about why I was wrong from you, I will hunt the explanation down and post it. I cannot abide the thought. To quote my dad: "I have zero tolerance for lies."

"Evidence-based-objective truth is actually one of the most creative things in the known universe."

"I still don't understand why we are arguing. I don't have a problem with anything you're saying."

"Living by yourself tends to bring yourself out - show all of your qualities off in an even deeper light. Even the ones you don't like. I lived by myself for a year, and I went from weird to weirder. Like really weirder. All these preferences I didn't know existed slowly appeared. It was crazy."