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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

coluber2001 wrote:

As my sixty-seventh birthday approaches (or I approach it in the sense that a fellow jumping from the top of the Empire State approaches the sixty-seventh floor)."
--Saul Bellow

Boo-hoo. Try your 79th birthday.

You too? My 79th comes in September.

My 85th came 9 days ago!

The aches in the morning are getting real! I've had to cut down on my golf.

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@Frank Apisa,

I take a cane with me on my walks. And I use it. I tried knee braces but on me they inflict more damage than good. A consequence of 23 years of running all day on concrete and moving heavy objects over stairs.

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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

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Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.
-- Nikita Khrushchev

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“Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually. Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, ‘The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through.’” – ‘Interview’ magazine, November 1995
Leonard Cohen

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Deschedule Weed
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Fish 1: Damn, this water seems to have been poisoned.

Fish 2: Yet you're obviously swimming in it you ******* hypocrite.

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“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
― Albert Einstein

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“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert

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“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling

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“A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

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“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.

I'm not saying you're more intelligent than Aristotle, or wiser. For all I know, Aristotle's the cleverest person who ever lived. That's not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.”
― Richard Dawkins

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“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.”
― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart

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“Mainstream “science” is not the pursuit of knowledge overwhelmingly, it is about defending a rigid belief system and repelling all information that would demolish the foundations of those rigid beliefs.”
― David Icke, I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom

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@edgarblythe,

David Icke, really?

This is the same David Icke who said Cuba would sink beneath the waves before the end of 1999. He has also claimed that the Queen is a shape shifting lizard, the illuminati rule the Earth, the moon landings never happened and that he is Jesus Christ.

He’s Builder’s go to source for bollocks.

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@izzythepush,

I don't know Icke because I don't follow the people that follow him, apparently. I do subscribe to the quote, just not some idiot's interpretation of what it means.

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@edgarblythe,

You’re not British, you didn’t witness Icke’s complete meltdown.

Just before the 97 general election which Labour won, the Greens were riding high in the polls. Icke was a prominent member already having a profile as a BBC sports commentator.

Then he proclaimed he was Jesus Christ and the Greens were dead in the water.

It was later on that he appeared on Wogan and predicted that Cuba was about to do an Atlantis.

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@edgarblythe,

“Mainstream “science” is not the pursuit of knowledge overwhelmingly, it is about defending a rigid belief system and repelling all information that would demolish the foundations of those rigid beliefs.”

What is this information that Icke's referring to, "alternative facts," à la Kellyanne Conway?

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

You’re not British, you didn’t witness Icke’s complete meltdown.

Just before the 97 general election which Labour won, the Greens were riding high in the polls. Icke was a prominent member already having a profile as a BBC sports commentator.

Then he proclaimed he was Jesus Christ and the Greens were dead in the water.

It was later on that he appeared on Wogan and predicted that Cuba
was about to do an Atlantis.

I can only repeat that I don't subscribe to the man, just agreed with an isolated quote.

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