Friday, 22 September 2023

Quotations



"Strive not to be a success but rather of value".
Albert Einstein

"There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things."
Jon Ronson (The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry)

"Never hide your weirdness. It scares off the boring people and it's like a beacon to your fellow weirdos."
Anonymous
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
C.S. Lewis

5 comments:

  1. There was more terrific news this week — this time, about something that didn’t happen.

    On Monday and Tuesday, the United Nations was poised, literally on the brink, with no further action required, of approving a gigantic international agreement packed with horrifying, civilization-wrecking, dystopian measures collectively called “Agenda 2030,” which included marxist bon mots like Smart Cities (*formerly known as ’15-minute cities’), farming reductions to save the climate at humankind’s expense (i.e., kill the Kulaks), draconian limits on fishing, family-abolishing trans policies, Orwellian “emergency pandemic health powers,” and more.

    Tellingly, comrade Zelensky — Slava Ukraini! Sig heil!— attended the Agenda 2030 Summit. Himself, in the flesh. It’s not like his country might not even be around in 2030 unless he wins a war or anything.

    It was all arranged. The cowards in our collective governments organized a vote by silence. Agenda 2030’s massive collection of marxist policies, that would have instantly affected every man, woman, and child on Earth, was to be approved by “non-objection.” That is, the ‘package’ was dropped off with member states on Monday morning. To approve it, all the officials had to say was: nothing.

    Once regular folks like us realized what had just happened, and the fur started to fly, it would be too late. There would have been nobody to blame. There would have been no record of an affirmative vote by anybody. It just happened! Don’t blame us, WE didn’t vote for it. True, they didn’t vote for it. No vote was going to be taken at all.

    But late Tuesday, at nearly the last minute, eleven countries out of 160 filed a formal opposition to the pending proposal to accelerate Agenda 2030. They complained about “unilateral coercive measures,” human rights issues, lack of transparency (secret agendas), and procedural complaints (rushing it through).

    Now, take a look at which countries stopped Agenda 2030, the unlikeliest group of countries to which you’d think we’d ever owe a major debt of gratitude:

    The Russian Federation, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Eritrea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nicaragua, the Syrian Arab Republic, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.

    Now the globalists are wringing their hands about the dastardly eleven. They’ve extended the Summit through the end of the week. Heated discussion is underway about how the UN can still push its Agenda 2030 plans through anyway.

    But their anonymous non-voting process is probably completely off the table now, though.

    In the meantime, it’s fair to say the WEFfers are very disappointed.

    We just collectively dodged a United Nations-sized bullet. Thanks, dissenting nations.

    Jeff Childers
    https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/border-wars-thursday-september-21

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  2. Yesterday at a classified briefing over Ukraine, it became clear that America is being asked to fund an indefinite conflict with unlimited resources.

    Enough is enough. To these and future requests, my colleagues and I say: NO.

    J.D. Vance
    U.S. Senator for Ohio
    https://x.com/JDVance1/status/1704836926212022346?s=20

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  3. “Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.”
    G.K. Chesterton

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    1. You're right:

      It seems to be an anonymous quote that has been attributed to different people over time.
      Bing AI

      I'll never repost a quote without a source.

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