Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see. . . all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.
Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, the re-re-re-re-rewritten again. . . all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened. . to people who didnt know how to write. . . so. . .
I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative
You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.
The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!
In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes. . . you have to decide, immediately, you have to go "Ohmigod. Do I look at the most beautiful woman in the world or the craziest guy in the world?"
I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
In the midst of this enormous economic crisis, I think Canada has shown itself to be a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we always - haven't always been here in the United States.
The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.