Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Print this Page [626-650] of 1398Posts from Waffler, Smith, ArkansasWaffler, Smith, Arkansas Previous 25 Next 25 Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/13/08 re: Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi quote Warren today you win the prize for succinctness, congratulations! Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/13/08 re: Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi quote Truth and revelation comes in stages and is additive. To be aware of various and if possible of all perspectives is the the great thing. Thus the waning and waxing moon are all true but the complete truth is to be aware of the whole picture. That is what education is all about. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/13/08 re: John Gilmore quote Good Logan but I am not sure that I side with the "newly defined" terms. I have felt that the difference in many folks political outlook (and between the political parties) is primarily their tendency to accept change or new ways of doing things. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/13/08 re: Abba Eban quote I liked this guy. I don't why but I always felt hat he was well maybe a small great spirit. Here he is paraphrasing "Necessity is the mother of invention." The issue is some have a different idea of what is necessary or when it is necessary. As a cynic friend of mine told me, "Nature will take care of all of our problems of global warming, overpopulation etcetera." When questioned he said he meant that "nature will kill us and starve us back to reasonableness and responsibility." Why should intelligent beings live cynically? The fact that they do is probably proof that they are not intelligent at all. 1Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/13/08 re: Rebazar Tarzs quote As they say in the hood, "Get real man get real". We will be in the grasp of climate change whether or not we embrace its truth. If we embrace its truth we may be able to escape some of its wrath. We choose and hold on to the illusions that are convenient to our short term happiness rather than to those inconvenient truths that are vital to our long term happiness and to the happiness of those who will be born 100 years from now. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/13/08 re: Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi quote This definition of truth appears to be a subjective one compared to the objective ones we were discussing yesterday. My heart may tell me that Al Gore is a devil because he is a Democrat and that T. Boone Pickens is an angel because he is a Republican. But objective truth will tell me that since both are proclaiming the same thing, the thing may be truer than I once thought. And my heart should tell me that I should reconsider my judgement of persons opinions based upon some lable I attach to them and that maybe just maybe I should be a better listener and give more respect to the opinions of others. The "heart" should tell us of the truth of things like inalienable rights, innate equality etcetera, fairness and conscience etc. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/12/08 re: Thomas Paine quote Archer I was quoting Ben Stein in reference to Clinton and his Secretary of The Treasury Robert Rubin. What is the point of me writing carefully if you are going to read carelessly? 3 Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/12/08 re: Albert Einstein quote Ken great spirits also know that if you don't get the economics right good ideas will die on the vine, just like good wine without a properly planned harvest and crushing. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/12/08 re: Elbert Hubbard quote "Truth" and its "recognition" or popularity, its convenience or inconvenience, are in fact two different things. 62Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/12/08 re: Albert Einstein quote Great spirits are wired differently than most of us and mediocrities try to knock them off of their pedestals. Great spirited individualis are a rare breed and should be treasured. I think of guys like Ghandi for example. Truth as discussed above is static and useless without great spirits to move it forward. Look at T. Boone Pickens and Al Gore's Ten Years to energy independence plans. Great spirits say "Never make any small plans." Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/12/08 re: John Gilmore quote Robert I think you may be wrong about two plus two equaling four. I have been led to believe that mathematics is a language for human understanding. If man seizes to exist so does his languages, including the mathematics one, and mental processes. Again I may be wrong. 2Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/12/08 re: John Gilmore quote Sometimes on rare occasions government speaks truth and it is ignored due to inconvenience. Who of us could grasp the truth in the early '60's that "we will land a man on the moon in this decade" or the new truth that we can power are electric needs with solar and wind power. Many truths are like bridges you can't know them until you get there. If only we could know them in advance what a world we would have. I give it a thumbs down because just this morning I read that the US Gov. is sponsoring the search for truth in the area of thermoelectrics to capture the heat energy of auto exhaust. So the outlawed by government remark is a bombastic lie. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/12/08 re: Thomas Paine quote Archer even if you accept the bible as a book written by men Nehemiah seems to be on to something. The myths of the bible about the six day creation and the seventh day rest are about as clear a teaching as the bible has but even those who espouse the bible do not follow these teachings. It is a paramount example of man's penchant to "evelope truth" in whatever manner suits his purpose. To know when we are being deceitful or even deceiving ourselves that is a goal for which to strive. 1Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/12/08 re: Thomas Paine quote Books can carry spirit Warren but yeah if everything is destroyed, I guess intelligence and the ensuing spirits will have to start all over again. I intuited your meaning Ken and just wanted to expand upon it. Archer I was just trying to give some real life examples among many that may be possible. Do you have any Sir? 1Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/12/08 re: Thomas Paine quote Archer I did not say that, quit speaking for others, I said ones world view affects ones reason. 1Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/11/08 re: Thomas Paine quote Ken, God is not a "fictious non-entity" He is a concept or spirit just like Freedom, and Liberty. Some think Sprits like Liberty, Freedom and God are more real than the physical world. Biological life and even material things will some day cease to exist but some think that concepts will go on for ever. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/11/08 re: Thomas Paine quote The prophet Nehemiah says "the heart and mind of man is deceitful above all things". Look at how those who claim to be Bible readers and believers do to the fourth commandment of the self same book to know that Nehemiah is correct. Truth gets morphed by a phenomenon called cutural syncretism. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/11/08 re: Thomas Paine quote Honesty and courage, Lincoln squarely facing the issues of his day. Read a piece by Ben Stein yesterday he said Bill Clinton and Robert Rubin were the only leaders who faced natioal economics, taxes and budgets with an honest, reasonalbe adult mentality. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/11/08 re: Thomas Paine quote Beats the heck out of politics and kissing a@# but not sure it always works especially on this site with some people. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/9/08 re: Eric Hoffer quote Archer there is an area of philosophy that says mankind is a co-creator of reality out of the imaginings of his own mind. Man has a tremendous impact on the earth and is not just an observer and object of earths naturalness. So I suggest that there is something to be said for Kevins oft repeated phrase. Kevin can you expound on your use of the phrase for us and give us some further clues. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/9/08 re: Eric Hoffer quote PS: Questions often need to be addressed from different disciplines and one will then come up with different and seemingly opposite answers. From a spiritual standpoint simplifying the tappings of life can be rewarding and fulfilling. This site generally purports to address the issue of Liberty and Freedom and thus from a politcal pholosopy point of view again I agree with Logan and Jim. In addition ones selection among many possible spiritual choices is also a question of Liberty and Freedom. 4Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/9/08 re: Alexander Solzhenitsyn quote Mike, Mike, Mike it has nothing to do with politics or political philosophy. Get a grip man and then get a life. It has everything to do with economics which I feel positive that you must be unaware is the science of scarce resources. And all resources are becoming scarcer and scarcer with the success of one only one species (homo sapiens) and the relative demise of all of the others. Mike you talk garbage as usual "We The Individual People" is truly the most oxymoronic garbage I have ever seen in print. "We" is a plural pronoun, "Individual" refers to a single person, "People" is a plurar or collective noun. Only you Mike could f$#% up this badly. I am sure you are to uneduacted or unthinking to have ever heard of wars over scarce resources such as water rights out west etcetera ad infiitum. These things have nothing to do with your BS warped ideas of politics or freedom and everything to do with economics pure and simply. But I expect no better from you now or in the future. In the quote concerning never getting enough of what we don't need you showed your true colors, you may not consider yourself a left wing dictator just a right wing one but in any event willing to dictate to people what they need and how much of it they need. I really don't why I hang it there. This is so intellectually disapponting. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/9/08 re: Eric Hoffer quote Logan and Jim for once I am with you guys 100%. Life would be a bore if we only had what we need. The commune can take care of all of that for us ("to each according to his need") and to hell with individuality and personal desire. I am shocked that more on this site did not catch the danger of this quote as you have. Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/8/08 re: Groucho Marx quote Yup, always be sincere even if you have to fake it! Reply Waffler, Smith, Arkansas 8/8/08 re: Edward Dahlberg quote It has been said that the more we know the more we realize how little we know. This quote takes that principle to its ultimate end it seems. Previous 25 Next 25 SaveOk2 Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print