“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Category Archives: Quotes
Living Life
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski, Life Magazine, December 1988
9/11
“The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not ‘cowards,’ as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.”
Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Making Claims
A quote for the religious among us…”The next time believers tell you that ‘separation of church and state’ does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using the word ‘trinity.’ The word ‘trinity’ appears nowhere in the bible. Neither does Rapture, or Second Coming, or Original Sin.
If they are still unfazed (or unphrased), by this, then add Omniscience, Omnipresence, Supernatural, Transcendence, Immaculate Conception, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Methodist, Purgatory, Penance, Transubstantiation, Excommunication, Dogma, Chastity, Unpardonable Sin, Infallibility, Inerrancy, Incarnation, Epiphany, Sermon, Eucharist, Sunday School, Morality, Ethics, Patriotism, Education, Apostasy, Capital Punishment, Monogamy, Abortion, Pornography, Homosexual, Lesbian, Fairness, Logic, Republic, Democracy, Capitalism, Funeral, Decalogue, or Bible.”
Freedom From Religion Foundation, Co-President Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith
“It was my luck…
“It was my luck to have a few good teachers in my youth, men and women who came into my dark head and lit a match.”
-Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Capitalism and Jesus
“The final clash between our current economic morality and the ethic of Jesus is over the nature of man. The capitalist economy rests on the hypothesis that man is a creature who prefers material comforts to moral values, who would rather have an increase in goods than in the quality of existence. The only future it can offer man is one in which he will get more conveniences but less freedom, justice and fellowship… The ethic of Jesus rejects this estimate of human nature; insists moreover that the very making of it is the negation of personality, whose essence lies in the making of choices and whose development consists in preferring moral satisfactions to material… The central issue in the conflict between our economic morality and the ethic of Jesus is this difference of judgment concerning the capabilities of man.” -Harry F. Ward, Our Economic Morality
The disparity between that of the worker and our capitalistic structures continues to grow ever wider. What will it take to restore the middle class and its subjugation to that of those in positions of control over their destiny?
Jobs
I’m watching for those naysayers, those pessimists, who predicted doom for our economy. Oh yes, I forgot, it’s not over… Jobs, yes, jobs, for the average American. Could we have some of that money corporations are putting away for a rainy day? How about sharing the wealth? Is it possible that those who work to make you money could share in your “success”?
Evolution and Lunch
“I don’t think we’re here for anything, we’re just products of evolution. You can say, ‘Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose,’ but I’m anticipating a good lunch.” -Dr. James Watson
Conservatives and Progressives
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”
-G.K. Chesterton
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