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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

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Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 19:34

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter Revelation 1:18-19

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44

I believe that every human being with a physically normal brain can learn a great deal and can be surprisingly intellectual. I believe that what we badly need is social approval of learning and social rewards for learning.We can all be members of the intellectual elite and then, and only then, will a phrase like "America's right to know" and, indeed, any true concept of democracy, have any meaning.

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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24

There is no one at the Communion table who retains against you even the least of your sins, no one, unless you yourself do it. So cast them away from yourself, and the recollection of them, lest in it your retain them; and cast the recollection of your having cast your sins away, lest in it you retain them.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. 13:52 (KJV)

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 01:04

Moreover, there is a victory and defeat, the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeat, which each man gains or sustains at the hands, not of another, but of himself; this shows that there is a war against ourselves going on within every one of us. Book I Sometimes paraphrased as "The first and best victory is to conquer self".

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

[T]he kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves. 18:23

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Mon, 4 Aug 2025 - 01:59

In his seminar on The Ethic of Psychoanalysis, Lacan speaks of the role of the Chorus in classical tragedy: we, the spectators, came to the theatre worried, full of everyday problems, unable to adjust without reserve to the problems of the play, that is to feel the required fears and compassions - but not problem, there is a chorus, who feels the sorrow and the compassion instead of us - or, more precisely, we feel the required emotions through the medium of the chorus: 'You are then relieved of all worries, even if you do not feel anything, the Chorus will do so in your place.'

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 18: 36, (KJV)

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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24

If one prefers to have little with blessing, to have truth with concern, to suffer instead of exulting over imagined victories, then one presumably will not be disposed to praise the knowledge, as if what it bestows were at all proportionate to the trouble it causes, although one would not therefore deny that through its pain it educates a person, if he is honest enough to want to be educated rather than to be deceived, out of the multiplicity to seek the one, out of abundance to seek the one thing needful, as this is plainly and simply offered precisely according to the need for it.

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Thu, 9 Oct 2025 - 21:42

Caring about others....all you need to know....

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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

This opinion... appears to be ancient... that the one, excess and defect, are the principles of things... It is not... probable that there are more than three principles... [E]ssence is one certain genus of being: so that principles will differ from each other in prior and posterior alone, but not in genus, for in one genus there is always one contrariety, and all contrarieties appear to be referred to one. That there is neither one element, therefore, nor more than two or three, is evident.

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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 01:04

Some say that the body is the "tomb" of the soul, their notion being that the soul is buried in the present life; and again, because by its means the soul gives any signs which it gives, it is for this reason also properly called "sign". But I think it most likely that the Orphic poets gave this name, with the idea that the soul is undergoing punishment for something; they think it has the body as an enclosure to keep it safe, like a prison, and this is, as the name itself denotes, the "safe" for the soul, until the penalty is paid, and not even a letter needs to be changed.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

Virtue (or the man of virtue) is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

The majority of mankind and people who lack refinement conceive it to be pleasure, and hence they approve a life of sensual enjoyment.

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Mon, 4 Aug 2025 - 01:48

This is probably the fundamental dimension of 'ideology': ideology is not simply a 'false consciousness', an illusory representation of reality, it is rather this reality itself which is already to be conceived as 'ideological' - 'ideological' is a social reality whose very existence implies the non-knowledge of its participants as to its essence -that is, the social effectivity, the very reproduction of which implies that the individuals 'do not know what they are doing'. 'Ideological is not the false consciousness of a (social) being but this being itself in so far as it is supported by "false consciousness"'. Thus we have finally reached the dimension of the symptom, because one of its possible definitions would also be 'a formation whose very consistency implies a certain non-knowledge on the part of the subject': the subject can 'enjoy his symptom' only in so far as its logic escapes him - the measure of the success of its interpretation is precisely its dissolution.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44

Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead. Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984), p. 49; comparable to "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Jesus on usury from the Sermon on the Mount, Luke 6:34-35

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Thu, 20 Nov 2025 - 03:32

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.

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Thu, 20 Nov 2025 - 03:32

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

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Thu, 20 Nov 2025 - 03:19

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

Chi Wan thought thrice, and then acted. When the Master was informed of it, he said, "Twice may do."

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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: Here you see what it is to be a human being; but he adds: Take care, for I am also God - blessed is he who takes no offense at me. As translated by Howard V. Hong and EdnaH. Hong (1980) Variant translation; Out of love, God becomes man. He says: "See, here is what it is to be a human being."

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Meijer for entrapping and arresting a disabled employee

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Meijer

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An autistic 16 year old was taking food from the deli over 3 months. They tracked how much he took, and when he had crossed a certain threshold, the had him arrested. There was another employee who was also part of the entrapment scheme.

The general vibe around the boycott is, these are poor workers, scraping by on minimum level wages. The multi billion dollar corporation follows the law absolutely when it comes to you, but we all know it's not so cut and dry at the top.

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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24

So it happens at times that a person believes that he has a world-view, but that there is yet one particular phenomenon that is of such a nature that it baffles the understanding, and that he explains differently and attempts to ignore in order not to harbor the thought that this phenomenon might overthrow the whole view, or that his reflection does not possess enough courage and resolution to penetrate the phenomenon with his world-view.

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Mon, 4 Aug 2025 - 02:01

Canned laughter: After some supposedly funny or witty remark you can hear the laughter and applause included in the soundtrack of the show itself - here we have the exact counterpart of the Chorus in classical tragedy; it is here that we have to look for 'living Antiquity.' That is to say, why this laughter? The first possible answer - that it serves to remind us when to laugh - is interesting enough, because it implies the paradox that laughter is a matter of duty and not of some spontaneous feeling; but this answer is not sufficient because we do not usually laugh. The only correct answer would be that the Other - embodied in the television set - is relieving us even of our duty to laugh - is instead laughing for us. So even if, tired from a hard days stupid work, all evening we did nothing but gaze drowsily into the television screen, we can say afterwards that objectively, through the medium of the other, we had a really good time.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
...and woe betide fateful curiosity should it ever succeed in peering through a crack in the chamber of consciousness, out and down into the depths, and thus gain an intimation of the fact that humanity, in the indifference of its ignorance, rests on the pitiless, the greedy, the insatiable, the murderous clinging in dreams, as it were, to the back of a tiger.
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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

Follow the seasons of Ha,Ride in the state carriage of Yau,Wear the ceremonial cap of Chan,Let the music be the Shiu with its pantomimes.

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Mon, 11 Aug 2025 - 02:58

Think differently, but know when it's your duty to think the same...

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. Exodus 20:14, Seventh Commandment Matthew 5:27-30 (NKJV)

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Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 03:04

The infinite... happens to subsist in a way contrary to what is asserted by others: for the infinite is not that beyond which there is nothing, but it is that of which there is always something beyond. ...But that pertaining to which there is nothing beyond is perfect and whole. ...that of which nothing is absent pertaining to the parts ...the whole is that pertaining to which there is nothing beyond. But that pertaining to which something external is absent, that is not all ...But nothing is perfect which has not an end; and the end is a bound. On this account... Parmenides spoke better than Melissus: for the latter says that the infinite is a whole; but the former, that the whole is finite, and equally balanced from the middle: for to conjoin the infinite with the universe and the whole, is not to connect line with line.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? 22:42 (KJV)

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

For by the hands of the Father, that is, by the Son and the Holy Spirit, man, and not [merely] a part of man, was made in the likeness of God. For by the hands of the Father, that is, by the Son and the Holy Spirit, man, and not [merely] a part of man, was made in the likeness of God. Against Heresies: Book V, Ch. Chapter VI.—God will bestow salvation upon the whole nature of man, consisting of body and soul in close union, since the Word took it upon Him, and adorned with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, of whom our bodies are, and are termed, the temples.

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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24

Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die – but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.

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Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 03:18

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:11
What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him even concerning his own body in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key.
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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44

There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil.

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Tue, 11 Nov 2025 - 02:01

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

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Mon, 10 Nov 2025 - 02:44

It is an odd fact that anyone who wishes to start a war must always make it appear that he is fighting in a just cause even if the real motive is naked aggression. Fortunately for the would-be aggressor, a "just cause" is very easy to find.

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Tue, 18 Nov 2025 - 01:07

When the Superior Man (Junzi) eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."

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Mon, 4 Aug 2025 - 01:58

Tibetan prayer wheels: you write a prayer on a paper, put the rolled paper on a wheel, and turn it automatically, without thinking. In this way, the wheel itself is praying for me, instead of me - or more precisely, I myself am praying through the medium of the wheel. The beauty of it all is that in my psychological inferiority I can think about whatever I want, I can yield to the most dirty and obscene fantasies, and it does not matter because - to use a good old Stalinist expression - 'whatever I am thinking, objectively I am praying.'

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? 20:22 (KJV)

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Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 03:58

For he must rule as king until God has put all enemies under his feet. And the last enemy, death, is to be brought to nothing. Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 15: 25-26, NWT

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Thu, 6 Nov 2025 - 23:24

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

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