read it.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nadir_of_western_civilization_to?utm_source=a-section
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Thanks for the Inspiration, bro (yea, it's you, Adam).
Some (translated) Einstein quotes to think about.
"A: There is a very simple answer. If we have courage to decide ourselves for peace, we will have peace.
Q: How?
A:By the firm will to reach agreement. This is axiomatic. We are not engaged in a play but in a condition of utmost danger to existence. If you are not firmly decided to resolve things in a peaceful way, you will never come to a peaceful solution. (Albert Einstein, U.N. Radio Interview, 1950)"
"Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap."
"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. "
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
---note---
I added this quote because i find it quite funny, but since i included it, i should include this one also, lest any of you get the wrong idea of my good friend.
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. "
---end note---
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
"A: There is a very simple answer. If we have courage to decide ourselves for peace, we will have peace.
Q: How?
A:By the firm will to reach agreement. This is axiomatic. We are not engaged in a play but in a condition of utmost danger to existence. If you are not firmly decided to resolve things in a peaceful way, you will never come to a peaceful solution. (Albert Einstein, U.N. Radio Interview, 1950)"
"Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap."
"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. "
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
---note---
I added this quote because i find it quite funny, but since i included it, i should include this one also, lest any of you get the wrong idea of my good friend.
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. "
---end note---
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
Lifegiver
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein
---
If a War were to destroy everything, really everything, what would the recovery look like (assuming that Humanity found a way to survive)? Sure, the individuals may have all sorts of knowledge, but in a world with nothing but dirt, water, debris, and hands, what can be done? It seems foolish to think that a World resembling what we have Today could be recreated with any sort of haste. The Creating of even the things that we think of as mundane would, i believe, be unimaginable for our pitiable Friends, were such a case as i am writing come to be. Everything we have and do and think relies on our current World as a base. We are continually building and evolving an infrastructure that allows our "progressions". If this great infrastructure that we both give life to and are sustained by were to come to an end...
...part of me thinks starting over wouldn't be such a bad idea at all.
Albert Einstein
---
If a War were to destroy everything, really everything, what would the recovery look like (assuming that Humanity found a way to survive)? Sure, the individuals may have all sorts of knowledge, but in a world with nothing but dirt, water, debris, and hands, what can be done? It seems foolish to think that a World resembling what we have Today could be recreated with any sort of haste. The Creating of even the things that we think of as mundane would, i believe, be unimaginable for our pitiable Friends, were such a case as i am writing come to be. Everything we have and do and think relies on our current World as a base. We are continually building and evolving an infrastructure that allows our "progressions". If this great infrastructure that we both give life to and are sustained by were to come to an end...
...part of me thinks starting over wouldn't be such a bad idea at all.
I love reddit.
"I'm standing in line at the bank earlier today. There is a big plasma tv with the news on and a blurb about the murder of Dr. Tiller. A guy a few places in front of me in line says "Good. Filthy murderer got what was coming to him." At which point a guy standing between the two of us, with a perfect imitation of the Church Lady from SNL says "Oh no, why it looks like someone forgot to put on their What Would Jesus Do bracelet this morning! Heavens sake!" and then follows it up by switching back to his, apparently normal, heavily british accent and firing off "I'll tell you what he'd do, he'd tell you to go bloody fuck yourself and your pathetic justifications. Fuck sake." The original guy, apparently used to just throwing out his declarations without being told that Jesus wants him to go fuck himself, just turned around and tried to be as inconspicuous as possible for the rest of the time we were in line."
-- ReverendDizzle
-- ReverendDizzle
02 June 2009
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