------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Menschheit ist die Dornenkrone der Schoepfung. ( Humankind is the Crown of Thorns of creation. ) -- Hagen Rether, Mitternachtsspitzen 19.10.2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnaikz6Yk9c ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 701 ------------------------------------------------------------------ People are but a component of the vast Creation. Some say we are even the youngest child of Creation. -- Words that Come Before All Else Environmental Philosophies of the Haudenosaunee wda would even say, "We are merely the youngest (and severely misbehaving) child of Creation." ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 702 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 703 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nada hay mas surreal que la realidad. There is nothing more surreal than reality. -- Salvador Dali (1904-89) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 704 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are two reasons why people don't mind their own business. One is that they haven't any business, and the other that they don't have any mind. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 705 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- R. A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love" (1973) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 706 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Das Menschenpack fuerchtet sich vor nichts mehr als vor dem Verstand. / Of nothing the human vermin is more afraid of than of the intellect. (my transl.) -- Goethe (1749 - 1832) in "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" (1795) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 707 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 71% rated their psychedelic experience as one of the most significant experiences of their lives. 79% said it increased and sustained well being. -- John Hopkins University School of Medicine ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 708 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Meine Welt, die Erde, ist eine Ruine. Ein von Menschen zerstoerter Planet. Wir haben uns vermehrt, haben geprasst und gekaempft, bis nichts mehr uebriggeblieben war, und dann sind wir gestorben. Wir haben weder unserem Appetit noch unserer Gewalt- taetigkeit Zuegel angelegt; wir haben uns nicht angepasst. Wir haben uns selbst vernichtet. Aber zuerst haben wir unsere Welt zerstoert. Auf der Erde gibt es keine Waelder mehr. Die Luft ist grau, der Himmel ist grau, es ist immer heiss. Sie ist bewohnbar, sie ist immer noch bewohnbar -- aber nicht so wie diese Welt. Dies [Urras] ist eine lebendige Welt, eine Harmonie. Meine Welt ist eine Dis-harmonie. Ihr Odonier habt die Wueste gewaehlt; wir Terraner schufen die Wueste ... -- Ursula K. LeGuin (*1929) in "Planet der Habenichtse" ("The Dispossessed" 1974) My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and gobbled and fought until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. There are no forests left on my Earth. The air is gray, the sky is grey, it is always hot. It is habitable, it is still habitable, but not as this world [Urras] is. This is a living world, a harmony. Mine is a discord. You Odonians chose a desert; we Terrans made a desert ... -- Ursula K. LeGuin in "The Dispossessed" (1974) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 709 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he's the one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. -- Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 710 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. -- William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 711 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at [irrational(*)] authority. -- Christpher Hitchens (BBC Newsnight Special 2010-11-20) *) as distinguished from rational authority; see e.g. Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion (1950) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 712 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso (HH. XIVth Dalai Lama) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 713 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are so many people who are sick in the same way that [all too many] accept it as normal. -- Matthieu Ricard (as quoted by Sharon Begley in "Train your Mind, Change your Brain" 2007) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 714 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die gefaehrlichste aller Weltanschauungen ist die Weltanschauung der Leute, welche die Welt nicht angeschaut haben. [ The most dangerous of all world-views is the world-view of people who haven't viewed the world ] -- (Baron Friedrich Heinrich) Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 715 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Frueher zeichnete man auf Reisen, um sich erinnern zu koennen, wo man war. Heute filmt man auf Reisen, um zu erfahren, wo man gewesen ist. -- Albert Camus (1913-1960) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 716 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I have been and still am a seeker, but i have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. -- Hermann Hesse (1977-1962) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 717 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die letzte Stimme, die man hoert, bevor die Welt explodiert, wird die Stimme eines Experten sein, der sagt: 'Das ist technisch unmoeglich!' -- Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) The last voice anyone will hear before the world explodes will be that of an expert telling us: 'This is technologically impossible.' [my transl.] ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 718 ----------------------------------------------------------------- You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. -- Ursula K.LeGuin (*1929) in "The Dispossessed" (1974) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 719 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 720 ----------------------------------------------------------------- After what I have seen in Spain I have come to the conclusion that it is futile to be 'anti-Fascist' while attempting to preserve capitalism. Fascism after all is only a development of capitalism, and the mildest democracy, so-called, is liable to turn into Fascism. -- George Orwell (1903-1950) -- in a private letter in September 1937 Fascism is capitalism in decay. -- 'Lenin' (1870-1924) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 721 ----------------------------------------------------------------- All humor is gallows humor. -- Steppenwolf (1974) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 722 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. -- Bono ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 723 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Resistance is fertile! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 724 ----------------------------------------------------------------- God is gone. Even Satan is obsolete. There's only us. -- Parke Godwin in "STROKE OF MERCY" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 725 ----------------------------------------------------------------- An 'exemplary person' is one who keeps trying, though sHe knows there is no hope. -- Confucius (551-479 BC), Analects You must know things are hopeless, and do everything to change them. -- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 726 ----------------------------------------------------------------- There is no way to Happiness - Happiness is the way. -- Buddha Siddharta Gautama (563-483 BC) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 727 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Q. What did the fish say when she swam into the wall? A. Dam! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 728 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A very important non-A, non-el fact should be noticed. Since the organism works as-a-whole, [what was called, in the elementalistic language of the Aristotelian paradigm] 'mental' components should be considered in connection with sex life. -- A. Korzybski in "Science and Sanity" (1933) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 729 ----------------------------------------------------------------- And therefore, ... , for the time I study, Virtue and that part of philosophy Will I apply that treats of happiness By virtue specially to be achieved. -- "The Taming of the Shrew" (1623) 1.1.17 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 730 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Fuer jemanden, der praktiziert und sich vorbereitet hat, kommt der Tod nicht als Niederlage, sondern als Triumph - als glorreichster Augenblick und Kroenung des Lebens. For someone who has practiced [dharma] and prepared hirself death comes not as defeat but as triumph - as the most glorious moment and high point of life. -- Sogyal Rinpoche (*1947) -- http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3502625824/zenguide-21 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 731 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The semantic sources of un-sanity are not only defended but are actively sponsored by organized ignorance and the power of merchants, state, and church. -- A. Korzybski in "Science and Sanity" (1933) ch. XIX, p.295 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 732 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The map is not the thing mapped. THE MAP IS *NOT* THE THING MAPPED. -- E. T. Bell in "Numerology" (Baltimore yyyy?), as quoted by A. Korzybski in "Science and Sanity" (1933) Ch. XVIII ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 733 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not normal; i don't want to be, won't pretend to be; i am ME. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 734 ----------------------------------------------------------------- sHe who eats many, many things sees. -- Bernardino de Sahagun, Historia de las Casas de Nueva Espana Nothing that the mushrooms show should be feared. -- Maria Sabina (~1894-1985) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 735 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, for 'tis the *mind* that makes the body rich, and as the sun brakes through the darkest clouds, so honour appeareth in the meanest habit. -- Skaespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew" (1594/1623) IV.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 736 ----------------------------------------------------------------- If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 738 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Perplexity is the Beginning of Knowledge. -- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Am allerwichtigsten in diesem Leben ist der Tod, und auch der ist nicht wirklich wichtig. [finnische] VOLKSWEISHEIT -- Arto Paasilinna in "Der wunderbare Massenselbstmord" The most important thing in this life is Death, and even that is not really important. [finnish] folk wisdom ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 740 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance.. ..it is the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel J. Boorstin, in "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself" -- quoted in "Occupation 101" (2006) http://youtu.be/8twvXHUNrXY http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807956 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Children lack moderation and a semantic sense of proper evaluation. ... .. . The whole life of a nation may be coloured by such semantic attitudes. ... .. . The childish pleasure of defeating an adversary accounts for national crazes, like racing, boxing, football, baseball, and similar sports, which often overshadow in public attention all really important issues. -- A. Korzybski in "Science and Sanity" (1933) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 742 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I caused men to no longer foresee their death. I planted firmly in their hearts blind hopefulness. -- Aeschylus' Prometheus ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 743 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sufismus heisst: Nichts besitzen und von nichts besessen sein. -- Summnun Sufism means: Possess nothing and be possessed by nothing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 744 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [LSD] is a psychic energizer ... it releases the subconscious. It makes you see all your guilts, fears, repressions and insecurities. It MAKES YOU FREE. -- Cary Grant (1904-1986) (MY caps) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- It matters not how long we live, but how. -- Philip James Bailey (1816-1902) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 746 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated ... -- Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- We need Nature, but She doesn't need us at all. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 748 ----------------------------------------------------------------- If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. -- Florynce Rae "Flo" Kennedy (1916-2000) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo (1584-1642) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 750 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thinking is very upsetting. It tells us things we'd rather not know. -- "the small society," a Brinkman cartoon, as quoted by Prof. A.A.B. in his brilliant presentation "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 752 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I want to succeed, I do everything possible to succeed, but that is not finally what's important. It's important that you resist. Because, if you don't resist you ARE complicit. -- Chris Hedges in "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself (1/3)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7oWKl04mGc ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- === The voices of sanity have been shut down. === The $y$tem is irredeemable. Any attempt to work within or with the $y$tem is a waste of time. We don't have time anyway. Everything we can do now must be directed to overthrow the $y$tem, to overthrow corporate power. And if we don't overthrow it soon, we're going to have to begin to discuss the extinction of the human species ... -- Chris Hedges in "Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio w/ C. H." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOMiMVXQCZs 2015-06 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 754 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Given what's happening to the planet, we don't have any time left. Even if we stopped carbon emissions today, our future will be very grim. ... predicted this will be the hottest year in history ... summer arctic sea ice disappearing by 2020 ... and we're sitting here and being shorn like sheep. We have no time left. We have to stand up and break corpoRATs power NOW; we have to radically reconfigure our relationship to each other and to the eco-system, *NOW!* And the longer we're essentially entranced ... by electronic hallucinations ... the longer we're rendered passive, the more fatal is what comes. -- Chris Hedges in "Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio w/ C. H." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOMiMVXQCZs 2015-06 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- If psychedelics don't ready you for the great beyond, then i don't know what really does. And we're all under sentence of 'moving up' at some point in our lives. -- Terrenece McKenna (1946-2000), Dec 1999, Esalen Institute ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 756 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mega$hit-software *never* has bugs! It only tends to develop random features. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- I don't fight the fascists because [i know, believe, assume, or hope] i'll win. I FIGHT THE FASCISTS BECAUSE THEY ARE FASCISTS. -- C.H. in "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt - Chris Hedges on RAI" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWvzgLqdP8 I want to succeed, I do everything possible to succeed, but that is not finally what's important. It's important that you RESIST. Because, if you don't resist you *are* complicit. -- Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges (*1956), ibid. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 758 ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you don't resist you *are* complicit. IF YOU DON'T RESIST YOU *ARE* COMPLICIT. *** IF YOU DON'T RESIST YOU *ARE* COMPLICIT. *** I want to succeed, I do everything possible to succeed, but that is not finally what's important. It's important that you RESIST. Because, if you don't resist you *are* complicit. -- Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges (*1956) in "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself (1/3)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWvzgLqdP8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- All the exercise a person needs can be had in bed. -- Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 760 ----------------------------------------------------------------- They [psychedelics] are spiritual tools. If they are properly used, they open spiritual awareness. They also engender ecological sensitivity, reverence for life, and capacity for peaceful cooperation with other people and other species. I think, in the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity into this direction might well be our only real hope for survival. I believe that it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis we are in. Dr. Stanislav Grof, interviewing Dr. Albert Hofmann at Esalen, 1984; first published in MAPS vol. XI., number 2, fall 2001 http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v11n2/11222gro.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wenige glauben, dass ihr eigener Geist der Buddha ist. Die meisten nehmen dies nicht ernst und leben deshalb unter Zwaengen. Sie sind umringt von Einbildungen, Begierden, Hass und anderen Plagen, weil sie einfach die Hoehle der Unwissenheit lieben. -- Fenyang ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 762 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ASS-JERKS of the world ... unite ... and DIE OUT !!! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Buddhisten sprechen aus eigener Anschaung ueber die Erkundung des Geistes. Seit Jahrhunderten ueben wir uns darin, unsere Achtsamkeit zu schulen. Wir wenden Techniken der Selbsterforschung, Innenschau und Kontemplation an, die im Laufe der Jahrhunderte verfeinert wurden. Die Meditation steht im Zentrum. Es handelt sich dabei keineswegs um eine religioese Praktik, sondern um ein strenges Training zur Schaerfung der Achtsamkeit und zur Bewusstseinserweiterung. -- Tenzin Gyatso, H.H. XIV. Dalai Lama gelesen von Joerg Pohl auf "Wir erklaeren den Frieden" (CD) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 764 ----------------------------------------------------------------- When people ask me about my religion I simply say: My religion is loving kindness. Gefragt nach meiner Religion sage ich einfach: Meine Religion ist Guete und Mitgefuehl. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso, H.H. XIV. Dalai Lama ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- I find that most of the insights I achieve when high are into social issues, an area of creative scholarship very different from the one I am generally known for. ... I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with Cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, unavailable to us without such drugs. ... The illegality of Cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world. -- Carl Sagan (as "Mr. X") (1994) in "Marihuana Reconsidered" by Lester Grinspoon, M.D. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 766 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Activism is not a sprint. It is a lifelong marathon. - Fong Tran in ADBUSTERS #121 (Sep/Oct 2015) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Be "Selfish": Really care about others! Sei "Eigennuetzig": Empinde tief fuer andere! -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso (HH. XIVth Dalai Lama) in Berlin == Altruismus ist der Egoismus der (Intelligent+feinfuehlig)eren. -- wda 199x ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 768 ----------------------------------------------------------------- In order to rationalize our industrial-military complex, we have to destroy our capacity to see clearly any more what is in front of, and to imagine what is beyond, our noses. Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste to our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s, if possible. -- Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- BE HONEST. BE BRAVE. CHANGE THE WORLD. -- ADBUSTERS -- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 770 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The price of every product in the global marketplace is a lie. Every purchase made pushes us inexorably towards an apocalyptic future. adbusters.org manifesto for word revolution pt. 4 Sep/Oct 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- T H E E M P I R E I S D Y I N G -- Isaac Asimov, "Foundation" (1951; 4 stories written 1942-1944) and --double fun!-- this time it's a global(ized) empire. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 772 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The probable fate of our species is extermination by poisoning. -- Rosalie Bertel (epidemiologist) -- -- quoted in "Wings of Death: Nuclear Pollution and Human Health" (1990) by Prof. Chris Busby ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die Flamme des Scheiterhaufens hat hier Buecher und Menschen verschlungen; Die Glocken wurden gelaeutet dabei Und Kyrie Eleison gesungen. -- Heinrich Heine (1997-1856): D., Ein Wintermaerchen ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 774 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stop polluting the Earth with these creatures, who have no future. They have no future! Have you pictured what this planet is going to be like in 40-50 years? It's going to be a big smoking ball of shit! -- George Carlin (1937 - 2008) z.B. in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIXlwYoOV9k ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- The world is going down the toilet because of the U$A [pet puppy of which the UK is], or rather...of who's running the show there. -- Prof. Chris Busby, 12/2015 in Chris Busby on British-US atomic bomb. Hydrogen bomb. 3/3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afG2M379IQU ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 776 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Offene Weite - nichts von heilig. -- Bodhidharma ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- It's been used by human beings since the dawn of time. Early man's diet undoubtedly included Cannabis, since it grew prolifically in Africa and Asia and was highly nourishing with its protein and omega-3 content. Marihuana may well have been the first cultivated plant. -- What if Cannabis Cured Cancer (2010) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638943/quotes ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 778 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- Francois-Marie Arouet 'Voltaire' (1694-1778) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- You can never find yourself until you face the truth. -- Pearl Bailey ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 780 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of 9/11; the malicious Lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty. -- George W. Bush, POTUS 2001-2009 The U.S. should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself, to the people who are part of the U.S. $ystem, but are dissenting against it, or those who are working for some other sy$tem, persons who want to make the present century a century of conflict between islam and christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country or ideology could survive. -- Osama bin Laden, CIA transcript 2001-09-24 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- DIE KUNST DES PFEIFFENS ... Drum hab ich laengst mir innigst vorgenommen, in dieser Kunst von Grad zu Grad zu reifen und hoffe, endlich dahin noch zu kommen, auf mich, auf Euch, - auf alle Welt zu pfeifen! -- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), ca. 1928, in "Stufen" -- zit. in Hesse Between Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpvVARhKV_U ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 782 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wir reden ueber alles Moegliche, nur nicht darueber, dass wir seit Jahrzehnten in unser Wohnzimmer urinieren, und nicht etwa unsere Lebensweise hinterfragen, sondern allein ueber die Saugfaehigkeit des Teppichs diskutieren. We talk about lotsa things. Only thing we never mention is that we have been pissing into our living-room for decades, but we never ever question our life-style, and keep discussing only the absorptive capacity of our carpet. [my transl.] -- Dirk C. Fleck (2016) in "...ueber den Ernst der Stunde und das Ende der Zivilisation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAK36SuxZ5s ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- HIER+JETZT ! Das Tao liegt direkt unter unseren Fusssohlen. Mach nur deine Augen auf und sei gegenwaertig! Sei bewusst bei allem, was du tust, "jetzt-hier"! -- Zensho W. Kopp ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 784 ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you don't sin, I died for nothing! -- Jesus Christ Give a man a gun, and he might rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he'll rob the world. TERROR WAR ON YOU - F*cking News - 032616 ZENSORED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1DPZ1Kr_cg https://web.archive.org/web/20180422123954/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1DPZ1Kr_cg ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Little Star Journal : A journal of poetry and prose "Children of the Age" by Wislawa Szymborska We are children of our age, it’s a political age. All day long, all through the night, all affairs—yours, ours, theirs— are political affairs. Whether you like it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin, a political cast, your eyes, a political slant. Whatever you say reverberates, whatever you don’t say speaks for itself. So either way you’re talking politics. Even when you take to the woods, you’re taking political steps on political grounds. Apolitical poems are also political, and above us shines a moon no longer purely lunar. To be or not to be, that is the question. and though it troubles the digestion it’s a question, as always, of politics. To acquire a political meaning you don’t even have to be human. Raw material will do, or protein feed, or crude oil, or a conference table whose shape was quarreled over for months: Should we arbitrate life and death at a round table or a square one. Meanwhile, people perished, animals died, houses burned, and the fields ran wild just as in times immemorial and less political. translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh quoted in ADBUSTERS #124, 03-04/016 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 786 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ich bin ein freier Mensch. Man muss machen, was richtig ist. Wenn der Mensch nicht frei ist, stirbt alles ab. -- Georg Elser (1903-1945), Namste! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at mid- night, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business. -- ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/tit0le/tt1332128/quotes ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Profits are often highest in nations going to ruin. --- Adam Smith (1723-1790) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wer arbeitet, macht Fehler. Wer viel arbeitet, macht viele Fehler. Es soll Leute geben, die keine Fehler machen. Who works makes mistakes. Who works a lot makes a lot of mistakes. Allegedly there is people who do not make mistakes. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 790 ----------------------------------------------------------------- VERY STRANGE, THESE HUMANS. -- C. J. Cherryh ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- TRASH CRASH ! If we continue to operate our global economy on the neoclassical (neoclassical??? capitalFascist) paradigm, then this experiment of ours on planet Eaarth will experience the mother of all crashes and spiral inexorably into a very long [very] Dark Age. -- Kalle Lasn, ADBUSTERS #162, July/August 2016 Quite probably "we" don't have to continue anything and are hurling inexorably towards said Dark Age anyway. -- wda 07/016 All felicitous goddesses praised, i've already decided that this is none of my business, that i don't give a fuck, 'cause, much fortunately, i'm only passing through, on this PLANET OF MORONS. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 792 ----------------------------------------------------------------- THEY CALL US UGLY TO SELL US SHIT ADBUSTERS #162, July/August 2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- An insult to one is an injury to all. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 794 ----------------------------------------------------------------- They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality ... and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. --- Georg Orwell, "1984" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wenn du das Heilige liebst und das Gewoehnliche verachtest, duempelst du immer noch auf dem Meer der Verblendung. -- Lin-chi ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 796 ----------------------------------------------------------------- He realized that the possession of goods was not a means of getting happiness, but an effort to make up for a spiritually depauperate life: for Plato, happiness was what one would put into life and not what one could loot out of it; it was the happiness of the dancer rather than the happiness of the glutton. -- Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) in "The Story of Utopias," 1922 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Yard by yard, life is hard. Inch by inch, it's a cinch. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 798 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Insider 9/11 Plot Was The Highest Evil Because It Was * Premeditated * Based on a Hitlerian Scale Big Lie * Designed to kill Masses of Innocent Fellow Citizens * To Falsely Blame and Demonize Muslims Who COULD NOT Have and DID NOT Do It * To Justify the Invasion of Their Lands for Geopolitical Power, Oil and Israel. * The Illegal Aggressive '9/11 Wars' That Have Killed Hundreds of Thousands, Displaced Millions and Cost Trillions Are Based Entirely on Lies and Are THE Highest Crime under International Law and The Nuremberg Principle Which We Wrote As Victors OVER the Nazis in WW II. SATYGRAHA ! -- Barbara Honegger, 9/11 Truth Seattle, 2013-01-12 "9/11 Pentagon Attack - Behind the Smoke Curtain" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fvJ8nFa5Qk ---- i couldn't agree more, nor come up with a better explanation for my position, stated earlier: I'm --generally-- an outspoken opponent of capital punishment. In the specific case of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, ..., Kean, Zelikov, Hamilton, ... S.S.Sunders, J.Gross, ..., Z.P.Bazant, ..., however, i would --having studied the case thoroughly-- gladly volunteer to push the lever, throw the switch, pull the trigger, apply "enhanced interrogation" ad exitus, or do whatever it takes, myself. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 799 2016/07/29 continued in words9.txt ...