Post-Lupin
Prolific Poster 
Immanentizing the Eschaton
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jan 28, 2017 15:09:12 GMT -5
"I’ve been fighting this war for a very long time. Longer than you know. Over those years the war has taken a lot of different forms. Betrayal is not an uncommon occurrence. It is discouraging and it hurts, because the same optimism that gives us the will to fight also allows us to believe in the goodness of others.
It is a tactical error to accept our own faith as failing. That failure—the moral crime implicit in the betrayal—is owned entirely by those who betray our trust. By those who turn and stab the soldier fighting beside them. By those who take the sacred trust given them by the people they serve and use it as a sword against them.
We can sit here and feel foolish and stupid for not having seen it, or we can waste time being awed by the sophistication and subtlety of our enemy. Neither choice, however, helps us get back up off the mat. And I, for one, have never been comfortable on my knees.”
-Mr. Church, Kill Switch by Jonathan Maberry
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Feb 8, 2017 0:11:45 GMT -5
“If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going”
-R.I.P. Professor Irwin Corey, the World's Foremost Authority
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 8, 2017 22:27:15 GMT -5
“If you want a mouthful of seeds, apples are not the place to get it. It’s honestly so disappointing how much apple you have to eat just to get to the center, and then when finally you get there, there’s only, like, five or six. Whoever is growing apples—you are an idiot.” — Axl Rose |
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Feb 11, 2017 9:34:19 GMT -5
"now i will be the first to admit that im an irredeemable son of a bitch/.
however, i am also a piece of shit with no brain." - @dril
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 17, 2017 19:54:19 GMT -5
“And then God spoke to Moses and said, ‘Moses, behold! I will give you a brand new type of vegetable called a ‘fish,’ and a single fish fell from Heaven and began flipping around on the ground and spraying its eggs all over the desert, and the eggs got eaten by scorpions, and Moses said unto the Lord, ‘I know all about fish, my Lord. They have been around for a long time,” and the Lord said to Moses, ‘No, a fish is a new thing from just now. I had the idea to invent this amazing new vegetable called a fish earlier today while I was rolling around on the ground in Heaven,’ and Moses said unto the Lord, ‘God, it is very exhausting to be your friend’"
-Exodus 9:15
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Post by Powerthirteen on Feb 17, 2017 20:19:32 GMT -5
“And then God spoke to Moses and said, ‘Moses, behold! I will give you a brand new type of vegetable called a ‘fish,’ and a single fish fell from Heaven and began flipping around on the ground and spraying its eggs all over the desert, and the eggs got eaten by scorpions, and Moses said unto the Lord, ‘I know all about fish, my Lord. They have been around for a long time,” and the Lord said to Moses, ‘No, a fish is a new thing from just now. I had the idea to invent this amazing new vegetable called a fish earlier today while I was rolling around on the ground in Heaven,’ and Moses said unto the Lord, ‘God, it is very exhausting to be your friend’" -Exodus 9:15 Now, I have a master's in theology, and I think you may have mistranslated at least one word in this verse. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 17, 2017 21:06:58 GMT -5
“And then God spoke to Moses and said, ‘Moses, behold! I will give you a brand new type of vegetable called a ‘fish,’ and a single fish fell from Heaven and began flipping around on the ground and spraying its eggs all over the desert, and the eggs got eaten by scorpions, and Moses said unto the Lord, ‘I know all about fish, my Lord. They have been around for a long time,” and the Lord said to Moses, ‘No, a fish is a new thing from just now. I had the idea to invent this amazing new vegetable called a fish earlier today while I was rolling around on the ground in Heaven,’ and Moses said unto the Lord, ‘God, it is very exhausting to be your friend’" -Exodus 9:15 Now, I have a master's in theology, and I think you may have mistranslated at least one word in this verse. Are you sure that's not the correct translation? But also, on a more serious note, what was your theology thesis or dissertation or whatever sort of thing you have to write to get a masters in theology about? Ooh, was it about mocking Anselm's Ontological Argument for the existence of God? |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Feb 17, 2017 23:18:20 GMT -5
"A god that cannot make a soul that is not totally depraved, I respectfully suggest, should retire from the business. And if a god has made us, knowing that we would be totally depraved, why should we go to the same being for repairs?" --Robert Ingersoll |
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Post by Sanziana on Feb 18, 2017 10:44:59 GMT -5
“Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they’re special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.”
Amy Poehler
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Post by Sanziana on Feb 18, 2017 10:46:35 GMT -5
“Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.”
Patti Smith
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Feb 18, 2017 12:06:44 GMT -5
"Put your pants back on, Ben, the photographer is ready."
- Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin as they prepared for the portrait for the back of the two dollar bill
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Dellarigg
AV Clubber 
This is a public service announcement - with guitars
Posts: 7,634
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Post by Dellarigg on Feb 23, 2017 5:50:30 GMT -5
Misery does not want company - happiness does.
- Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 24, 2017 20:59:26 GMT -5
"I called up my boss and I said 'Here's a riddle for you: What's the difference between radishes and an angel that kisses my wife?' and my boss said 'What?' and I said 'I don't have any radishes in my garage,' and my boss said 'Never be part of my office anymore, ever again.'"
-A man talking about the first time he ran out of radishes
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Feb 24, 2017 21:25:45 GMT -5
The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles, those who are bound body and soul to some larger purpose, the nation, the "race", the "masses", the "brethren" whoever they may be. The faith they invoke, whatever it may be, is not large enough when it sets a frontier between the members and the non-members, the believers and the non-believers. In the heat of devotion to the larger but exclusive purpose there is bred the fanaticism that corrodes and finally destroys all that links man to the common humanity.
--Robert M. MacIver, "Moral Principles of Action"
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Feb 26, 2017 19:25:53 GMT -5
Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensations. What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, in the end, was a malady, or a madness, or both.
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Mar 1, 2017 21:32:06 GMT -5
I'm frequently asked, "Do you believe there's extraterrestrial intelligence?" I give the standard arguments--there are a lot of places out there, the molecules of life are everywhere, I use the word billions, and so on. Then I say it would be astonishing to me if there weren't extraterrestrial intelligence, but of course there is as yet no compelling evidence for it.
Often, I'm asked next, "What do you really think?"
I say, "I just told you what I really think."
"Yes, but what's your gut feeling?"
But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
--Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Mar 6, 2017 12:54:05 GMT -5
"Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die"
- Frank Zappa
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Mar 14, 2017 18:57:24 GMT -5
"You can sell anything on God's green earth if you can convince somebody it's stolen."
-Mordecai Jones
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Post by rainbowsherbert on Mar 20, 2017 19:13:40 GMT -5
"Don't forget to show my head to the people. It's well worth seeing."
-French Revolutionary Georges Danton, told to his executioner prior to his death.
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Mar 23, 2017 10:48:41 GMT -5
"We’re not going to win this by adhering to good manners. Once we stop caring about having good manners, what are they going to say? ‘You have bad manners’? Yeah, we do, fuck you! You can’t clutch your pearls. You have to scare them. You have to be meaner and broker than they are."
- Amber A'Lee Frost of Chapo Trap House
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Mar 23, 2017 11:21:43 GMT -5
“They say the purpose of life is the expansion of happiness—beautiful description of what it’s all about. It’s real simple. We’re not meant to suffer. We’re meant to be blissful and enjoy life and enjoy all diversity.””
-David Lynch
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Mar 25, 2017 20:01:18 GMT -5
"I wouldn't spit in his ass if his guts were on fire."
- My Dad, speaking of a co-worker
(This is the only really mean thing I ever remember him saying about somebody. That guy must have really pissed him off)
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 29, 2017 13:28:40 GMT -5
Σε ξένο κώλο, χίλια σκαντζόχοιρο αγκάθια
—Greek proverb
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dＬᵒ
Prolific Poster
𝓐𝓻𝓮 𝓦𝓮 𝓒𝓸𝓸𝓵 𝓨𝓮𝓽?
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Post by dＬᵒ on Mar 30, 2017 12:27:58 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Mar 30, 2017 12:58:46 GMT -5
"Are you kids having fun tonight?
Are you drinking your beer and taking your drugs?
You think I'm kidding?
My doctor, Dr. Bobby, says drugs are good for us.
He says drugs got us into this, and drugs will get us out."
-Commander Cody, at Panama Red's, Champaign Illinois, 1981
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Apr 9, 2017 16:29:28 GMT -5
"so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement" - dril
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Apr 9, 2017 18:46:06 GMT -5
"Pizza is good before, during, and after sex, but not instead of."
Ad for "Garcia's Pizza in a Pan, Home of the Flying Tomato Brothers"
in the Illini Tumor magazine
Champaign Illinois
published homecoming weekend, 1975
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Post by Celebith on Apr 9, 2017 20:39:14 GMT -5
"Pizza is good before, during, and after sex, but not instead of." Ad for "Garcia's Pizza in a Pan, Home of the Flying Tomato Brothers" in the Illini Tumor magazine Champaign Illinois published homecoming weekend, 1975 Sex Pizza is hereditary - if your parents never had it, you probably won't either. |
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Post by Sanziana on Apr 26, 2017 1:48:12 GMT -5
“Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.”
— Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
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Trurl
Shoutbox Elitist 
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Post by Trurl on May 1, 2017 13:20:26 GMT -5
"Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy."
- Spike Milligan
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