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  1. Wexler Gadfly Registered Senior Member

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    What do you say?
     
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  3. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    There's this Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman..
     
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  5. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    A nuclear bomb is being discharged over your city as we speak...
     
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  7. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s

    Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
    and remember what peace there may be in silence.

    As far as possible, without surrender,
    be on good terms with all persons.
    Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
    and listen to others,
    even to the dull and the ignorant;
    they too have their story.
    Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
    they are vexatious to the spirit.

    If you compare yourself with others,
    you may become vain or bitter,
    for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
    Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
    Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
    it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

    Exercise caution in your business affairs,
    for the world is full of trickery.
    But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
    many persons strive for high ideals,
    and everywhere life is full of heroism.
    Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
    Neither be cynical about love,
    for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
    it is as perennial as the grass.

    Take kindly the counsel of the years,
    gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
    Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
    But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
    Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

    Beyond a wholesome discipline,
    be gentle with yourself.
    You are a child of the universe
    no less than the trees and the stars;
    you have a right to be here.
    And whether or not it is clear to you,
    no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

    Therefore be at peace with God,
    whatever you conceive Him to be.
    And whatever your labors and aspirations,
    in the noisy confusion of life,
    keep peace in your soul.


    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
    it is still a beautiful world.
    Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
     
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  8. shichimenshyo Caught in the machine Registered Senior Member

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    I would show them my sack
     
  9. skaught The field its covered in blood Valued Senior Member

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    Can I see can I see?!!!!
     
  10. shichimenshyo Caught in the machine Registered Senior Member

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    if your good
     
  11. Wexler Gadfly Registered Senior Member

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    Thanks!
     
  12. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Another one would be:

    United States Declaration of Independence

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
     
  13. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    Talk about the matrix scene with:
    Why ? Mr Anderson ?

    Anderson can apply to any of us. We all do inexplicable things. But what matters not is why we do these things, but what we do afterwards.

    Noli nothis permittere te terere.

    The good of the many, outweigh the good of the few.

    Ask ourselves. Will Humanity really survive ?

    Oh, and some generic blame america points just to get targeted by Fox news (for sheer novelty and Political impact).
     
  14. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member

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    I wouldn't need 5min.

    "Take a look around, your all a bunch of fucking slaves".
     
  15. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    Zeitgiest I presume ?
     
  16. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member

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    Simple Observation. Small things, actually. Driving in traffic, Listening to people talk about "gotta pay the mortgage" "omg gas is so expensive" "Obama is gonna save us!" " If I lose my job , i'm fucked!"

    Indentured servants is more appropriate, however the average Pleb only understands small words like "slave".
     
  17. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    95% of your audience would spontaneously vomit if you read them that. Me not only included, but first.
     
  18. visceral_instinct Monkey see, monkey denigrate Valued Senior Member

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    I'd turn round and moon.
     
  19. skaught The field its covered in blood Valued Senior Member

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    Good idea man!
     
  20. kmguru Staff Member

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    I have the song (Desiderata) and I listen to it when I am down...that helps to connect me to the Universe....

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    especilly the part....

    You are a child of the universe
    no less than the trees and the stars;
    you have a right to be here.
    And whether or not it is clear to you,
    no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
     
  21. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Nothing.
    If I had to, I would tell them to go fuck themselves

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  22. shichimenshyo Caught in the machine Registered Senior Member

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    Thats why we are internet friends

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  23. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    That's up to you to do in a free country however many countries today aren't free and that would be a good thing to say to anyone trying to overcome a corrupt government anywhere.
     

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