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    Some errors in judgment.
    It’s a big error to assume that the revolutionary war caused Americans not call themselves British. They saw themselves as British a-priori. They called the redcoats regulars. The issue in those days was to determine who would rule the colonies. When the revolution ended and the independence was declared, the Americans still thought of themselves as British. Not much really changed in that regard until much later, and that was because USA became a land of the free and the home of the brave through multiple migrations.
    Another error occurs regarding calling people Protestants. I do not know any protesters or Protestants after the reformation was established. Only the Roman Catholics, not willing to admit having been finished by the reformers, still insist that they are protesters. But think about carefully: how could the victors be protesting? Ridiculous.
    Still another error is to think that by using the word Catholic (meaning worldwide, or universal) we are automatically referring to the Roman Catholics. But there is the Episcopal Catholic Church, and the Anglican Catholic Church. The members of this two churches combined are about a tenth of the members of the Roman Catholic Church. If you look at the numbers, and you are naïve, you could think of the Roman Catholics as more powerful. But the power of the other two Catholic Churches is far far greater in ruling the world through democracy. I thought I’d provide this thoughts in the appropriate timeframe of Independence Day.

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    Understanding the meaning of morals requires the following thoughts.

    We invented the word immorality to hide from ourselves a clear understanding of morals. Naturally we then think of bad morals as immoral. But morals are a gift of pre-eminence, a-priori. This gift lets us judge what's convenient or inconvenient to us, that is, good or bad morals. You may consider this a gift of God or not. I prefer to look at it that way, but it is irrelevant in the actual context. Bad morals are the ones of a criminal. They are simply not convenient morals. Good morals are the ones of a law-abiding citizen. They are simply convenient morals. And in this regard, if you grasp this, the word "immorality" in contrast to "morality" loses the feigned meaning and disappears as such. Also in knowing this, any "amorality" becomes impossible, for a moral judgment is always imperative in behavior calls. Hope you get this. It's the way it ist, ex-ist, and makes sense at once. ~ C A Cafolini
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    The answer to the question of death is not "nothing." The answer is "who knows?" ~ C A Cafolini

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    Quote Originally Posted by papillondemai View Post
    Here's one by Charles Baudelaire from the prose poem Be Drunken.

    "Be drunken, always. That is the point; nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weigh you down and crush you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry or with virtue as you please. But be drunken"
    That quote is awesome. I put up a couple Baudelaire gems a few pages or so back and almost added that one as well. The greatness of it is that he isn't merely referring to alcoholic inebriation but rather to intoxication of all kinds, including that of poetry, which alongside music I consider the highest of all.
    “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”

    - Kurt Vonnegut

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy88 View Post
    That quote is awesome. I put up a couple Baudelaire gems a few pages or so back and almost added that one as well. The greatness of it is that he isn't merely referring to alcoholic inebriation but rather to intoxication of all kinds, including that of poetry, which alongside music I consider the highest of all.
    Poor Baudelaire. What a meaningless, desperate time he must have had.

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    Look at it go! - Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

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    The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action. ~ Luanne Rice

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    Aside from the quote in my signature, probably "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." - William Faulkner. It's on the back of my copy of The Bear.
    La felicidad es interior,
    no exterior; por lo tanto,
    no depende de lo que tenemos,
    sino de lo que somos.

    - Pablo Neruda

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    The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. ~ Harper Lee

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    my fav quot is from hamlet>>" to be or not to be that is the question"

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    Cool ...very true

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    "If you can't run with the big dogs stay on the porch." I probably like it because I can be pretty competitive at times.
    There must be a poem in here somewhere.

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    “Sometimes it's more generous to take than give,
    he said.

    "How?" Caroline asked.

    "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.” ~ Luanne Rice

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    The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. ~ Harper Lee

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