%%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Every night and every morn, Some to misery are born. Every morn and every night, Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. -- William Blake (1757-1827) Auguries of Innocence, from the Pickering MS, ca. 1803 -- quoted in Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Mc Copies & D. Stribute 2125//2128//2129 =================================================================== This, too, will pass. =================================================================== %%% http://wda.tradivarium.at/words1.txt - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EXPECT THE BEST, PREPARE FOR THE WORST. Aldous Leonard Huxley (1864-1963) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% edited by: a00@gmx.net - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - basic principles: RESPECT YOUR BODY. FOCUS YOUR MIND. LOVE YOUR HEART AND COOPERATE WITH ANYONE WHO DOES THE SAME. laura huxley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% Korrekturen, Verbesserungsvorschlaege, Kommentare willommen! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RELIGION IS FOR PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN HEAVEN OR HELL SPIRITUALITY IS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THERE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% text-only. fixed-font-formatted !!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WAR IS PEACE ! FREEDOM IS SLAVERY ! IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH ! STAYING APART KEEPS US TOGETHER PROTECTIONISM IS FREE TRADE ! PROTECTIONISM IS FREE TRADE ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHANGE BELIEF-SYSTEMS INTO SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% 7 ****************************************************************** aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : * WEISSE MAEUSE IN VERSCHIEDENEN FARBEN ZU HABEN * NICHT-EKELIG, NORMAL-EKELIG, UNGEMEIN-EKELIG, GRAUENHAFT-EKELIG, UNVORSTELLBAR- EKELIG * MYSTIK DER IDIOTIE * EXISTENZFOTOGRAFIE * FERNOST- SURREALISMUS * GRENZBEREICHE DER CHINESISCHEN ETHIK * GESCHICHTE ALS FOLGE VON: STATISTIK * in den GRAUZONEN DER SPIELTHEORIE * POESIE DER GEOMETRIE * IM RAUSCH DER AXIOME * BILLIGE, PRACHT= VOLLE EGOPATHEN * 50 DOKTORARBEITEN MACHEN CA. 1 LAUFMETER IM REGAL NATURKATASTROPHE MENSCH * " ... alles ehrbare Gemueter. Gehirn wie gehabt. Fuer Erdarbeiten hervorragend geeignet [und auch das jetzt kaum noch -- wda (201x)]." -- Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) * IDIOTIE + INTELLIGENZ = IDEOLOGIE ****************************************************************** %%% 8 ****************************************************************** aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : speisekalte: chinesisches tagesgelicht: ATS 65.- huehnelspiesschen mit ananas und leis: ATS 75.- chinesische fleischbaellchen mit leis: ATS 85.- --- * there is (KHK's) 3 ways to ruin a cooperation completely: 1) women (the most exciting one) 2) gambling (the fastest one) 3) computers (the safest one) --- parts of the vehicle were made out of artificially grown bone tissue, a material with excellent regenerative properties. ****************************************************************** %%% ****************************************************************** aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : * GADAFFI LIVE ON STAGE ! * VOLLWERT-OPTIMISMUS * BILLIGHEIM - HEIMSHEIM - WEINHEIM - STEINHEIM - ALZHEIM - MARIENHEIM - REIZHEIM - HEILHEIM - REINHEIM - SCHLEIMHEIM - OHEIM - GEIZHEIM - WERTHEIM - EIGENHEIM - KLAMMHEIM - MANNHEIM. NATURKATASTROPHE MENSCH Brigitte und Otto NORMALVERBRAUCHER sind derartige VERDRAENGUNGSKRAFTMASCHINEN, dass nur noch eine >>> QUARTALSPFLICHTVERSCHREIBUNG <<< (etwa von 3 mal 100 plus einmal 250 microgramm) helfen koennte. ****************************************************************** %%% ******************************************************************** aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : * HEAST, BIST TEPAT ? * STUPID STUDIOS LTD. * ERSATZLEITMOTIV * gesucht wird: ZUVERLAESSIGE PORNOTYPISTIN * MAMMADEAUS * GURKMUSIK * ER SAEGT SICH GERADE SEINEN KAFFEE AB. * DIESER EINDRUCK IST RICHTIG, WENN AUCH FALSCH. * KARDINAL DER HEILIGEN VERSANDKIRCHE KALIFORNIENS * alkoholfreies bier mit alkoholfreiem wodka aufbessern * KAPEX-Kapitalistischer Existenzialismus: "I SHOP. THEREFORE I AM" * Kritik an eines YES-platte: "NO" (das war zwar alles, ist dafuer aber schon lange her) * AGENTUR FUER BEWEISE ALLER ART, Inhaber: Prof. Dr. WEIBEL * LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS FROM OUTER SPACE: ein wucherndes, quasibiologisches System ******************************************************************** %%% ********************************************************************* aus KARL HEINZ KOLLER's Komp(l)ott im PhrasenSpeicher : Zen fuer Holzfaeller. Zerospace, Zenspace, Yenspace. Ah su kitzlar! (tuerk.: Oh, diese Frauen) - Neuronenbombe - Hellseh-Satelliten - Psychedelisches Apostolat - Recycling of Satan - Taoide Systeme - BRDigung - Grosze Chancen Drohen - Normmensch: maennlich, nichtschwanger, ca. 35 Jahre - Waffenschlussverkauf - Weltuntergangsbesoffenheit - Zensur nur noch mit Raketen moeglich. ********************************************************************* %%% 12 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WHEN I BECOME DEATH - DEATH IS THE SEA FROM WHICH I GROW (?Burroughs) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% -------------------------------------------------------------------- T H E P R O D U C T I S: Y O U The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, Naked Lunch, 1958 -------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NO MORE SECRETS NO MORE LIMITS NO MORE EXCUSES (loompanics catalog, http://www.loompanics.com) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% ===================================================================== Our task must be to free from this prison [our illusion as a separate entity in this world] by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ===================================================================== %%% --------------------------------------------------------------------- A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. sHe experiences hirself, his/her thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) --------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I hope to see the development of a technique of >Applied Mysticism< - a technique for individuals to get the most out of their transcendental experience and to make use of the insights from the >Other World< in the affairs of >This World<. (Meister Eckhart wrote that 'What is taken in by contemplation must be given out in love'.) This is what must be developed - the Art of giving out in love and intelligence what is taken in from vision and the experience of self-transcendence and solidarity with universe. Aldous Leonard Huxley (1864-1963) 1962 Johannes 'Meister' Eckhart (?1260-?1327) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FASCHISMUS - das sind nicht nur die Tonton Macoute (oder SS), sondern vor allem auch jene, die sich allzu leicht unterdruecken lassen und dafuer ihrerseits die naechst-schwaecheren unterdruecken. -- ein Haitianer in einem Radiointerview (in der Vor-IN-Zeit) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE LARGER THE ISLAND OF KNOWLEDGE - THE GREATER THE SHORELINE OF WONDER. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHANGE YOUR MIND - AND MIND YOUR CHANGE ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world. -- James M. Fitch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AVOID HANGOVER - STAY DRUNK ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SAVE A MOUSE - EAT A PUSSY ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SOME PEOPLE, WHO ARE -NOT VERY BRIGHT, CLOSE THEIR MINDS TO NEW INFORMATION. SOMETIMES OUT OF LOYALTY TO OPINIONS THEY'VE HELD FOR A LONG TIME. BUT THE REAL LOYALTY WE OWE IS - TO TRUTH. (bongwater : the power of pussy) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ABOLISH FEAR - ESTABLISH TRUST - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% -------------------------------------------------------------------- business as usual, 2015 ... The global inequality crisis is reaching new extremes. The F.richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest. -- https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/economy-1 ...2010... The three F*richest men in the world own more than the forty-nine poorest countries together. F*richest ::= *Financially* richest, as these is virtually always the morally poorest and spiritually poorest, thus should not be called only 'rich'. (and if anyone should read F.rich as F*g rich Fascists, that would in no way be inappropriate, either.) business as usual, 1995 ... The poorer 10 % of all employees get only ca. 1.5 % of all earnings, and their part has been decreasing constantly. The richer 10 % of all employees take ca. 25 % of the total income, a share which has been increasing constantly for years. The F*richest thousand now own more than the poorest BILLION(S). *** PECUNIA OLET *** -------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ by sylvia nasar, new york times service international harald tribune, friday, march 6, 1992 Q: WHERE DID ALL THAT 1980's WEALTH GO ? A: M A I N L Y TO THE RICHEST 1% OF AMERICANS. -------------------- The richest thousand now own more than the poorest BILLION(S). $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - KEEP YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND - BUT KEEP REACHING FOR THE STARS! -- Only from the Heart can you touch the sky. -- Rumi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NATURE CAN SATISFY THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE, BUT NOT THE GREED OF PEOPLE. Mahatma Gandhi THE WORLD - SHE HAS ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY'S NEEDS. BUT MAN HAS ALWAYS KILLED - TO SATISFY THE GREED. Public Enemy - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% -------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate ! -------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% *************************************************************** Reality is the crutch for those who can't face imagination. *************************************************************** %%% -------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't smoke pot... ...when you're stoned! You won't get much higher, but lower on dope. -------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ It's a fucking sad, - god damned beautiful world. -- "Down by Law" by Jim Jarmusch ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ LOVE, WORK, AND KNOWLEDGE ARE THE WELLSPRINGS OF OUR LIFE. - THEY SHOULD ALSO GOVERN IT. LIEBE, ARBEIT UND WISSEN SIND DIE QUELLEN UNSERES LEBENS. - SIE SOLLTEN ES AUCH BEHERRSCHEN. -- Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) Arbeit ist sichtbar gewordene Liebe. Work is Love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, It is better that you should leave your work And sit at the gate of the temple And take alms of those who work with joy. -- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) "Der Prophet" / "The Prophet" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ************************************************************************* * The essential need is to seek, preserve, and transmit knowledge. * IDRIES SHAH's "Thinkers of the East" : applied specific experientialism topics include: the 'Sufi Secret' - nonlinear thinking - use and abuse of literature - the work of the people called 'The Designers' - reasons for 'selling knowledge' - subtle communications - real and imagined desire. ************************************************************************* %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Doubt may be an uncomfortable condition. But surety is ridiculous. The True Philosopher thinks,-- in order to change. -- Francois-Marie Arouet 'Voltaire' (1694-1778) Kein Zweifel, kein Erwachen / No doubt, no awakening. -- Po Shan ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ================================================================== PROHIBITION KILLS! Free drug users, help abusers...decriminalize & watch drug lords weep! (T.Green, the millennium whole earth catalog) In every moment, the only choice we make is love or fear. Be still and observe your choice. (David and Kay Hines, ibid.) It doesn't matter what happened, it's how you handle it. (~Jim A. Sanders, ibid.) AID YOUR LOVES / IGNORE THE REST. (Alex Funk, ibid.) LOVE IT, LEAVE IT, OR CHANGE IT. ================================================================== %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ \ | / I hear the sound of marching feet, down Sunset -- ¨ ¨ -- / Boulevard to Crescent Heights and there at Pandora's --uUU---U---UUu-- Box we are confronted with a vast quantity of plastic people. -- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) === There's a lot of empty shells around today. At first sight they look like human beings, but go a bit closer and you'll see that they are not people but empty shells, with all the goodness inside eaten away. -- ?? in ADBUSTERS #33 (Jan/Feb.2001) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 39 ****************************************************************** Love, Work, and Knowledge are the Wellsprings of our Life. -- They should also govern it! Wilhelm Reich ****************************************************************** %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE WORLD - SHE HAS ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY'S NEEDS. BUT MAN HAS ALWAYS KILLED - TO SATISFY THE GREED. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NO MORE SECRETS NO MORE LIMITS NO MORE EXCUSES (loompanics catalog) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% 42 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE LARGER THE ISLAND OF KNOWLEDGE - THE GREATER THE SHORELINE OF WONDER. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHANGE YOUR MIND - AND MIND YOUR CHANGE ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% 44 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from: hyperreal.com/drugs/misc/drug_use.sta Estimated Per Capita Death Rates by Drugs ------------------------------------------------------------- Drug Users Deaths per Year Deaths per 100,000 ------------------------------------------------------------- Tobacco 60 million 390,000 650 Alcohol 100 million 150,000 150 Heroin 500,000 400 80 (400) Cocaine 5 million 200 4 (20) Pot X0 million 0 0 (zero) ------------------------------------------------------------- traffic deaths in 1991: 41,500 Mc Copies & D. Stribute 96/10 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx %%% xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from: hyperreal.com/drugs/misc/drug_use.sta For your perusal -- U.S. Surgeon General's Actuarial info The following is a list of deaths by substance for 1990. Tobacco . . . . . . . . . . . . 360,000 [legal] Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,000 [legal] Prescribed drugs . . . . . . . 18,675 [legal] Caffeine . . . . . . . . . . . 5,800 [legal] Cocaine . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,390 [illegal] Heroin . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,147 [illegal] Aspirin . . . . . . . . . . . . 986 [legal] Marijuana . . . . . . . . . . . 0 [illegal] Mc Copies & D. Stribute 96/10 Traffic Deaths (1991) . . . . . 41,500 Killed by guns (1997) . . . . . 34,000 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx %%% 46 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Common people have problems; A Warrior knows only of challenges. Gewoehnliche Menschen haben Probleme - Ein Krieger hingegen kennt nur Herausforderungen. EinE KriegerIn betrachtet ihr|sein Leben und jede Handlung darin als ihren|seinen letzten Tanz auf Erden. (nach C. Carlito's Don Juan) ---------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 47 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) " A U N A P R E N D O " labeled GOYA his 'portrait of the artist as an old man' schrieb GOYA in kraeftiger Handschrift unter sein 'Selbstbildnis als Greis' Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, 1746-1828 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 48 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There was an old lady of liger Who went riding on the back of a tiger. They came back from the ride With the lady inside, And a smile on the face of the tiger. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The thinking human must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethic which will include the animals also. Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), physician/Nobel Laureate. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- How many Pentium programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Only three: One to hold the ladder and one to turn the bulb. -- Why did Intel name the Pentium Pentium and not '586 ? Well, they let the chip calculate: 486 plus 100, and it returned: 585.9999..; so they called it Pentium, 'cause that sounds better. ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 51 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * EVERY MAN AND EVERY WOMEN IS A STAR * -- Aleister Crowley, Liber AL, 1904. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 52 ----------------------------------------------------------------- DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW ! THOU HAST NO RIGHT BUT TO DO THY WILL. -- Aleister Crowley, 1904. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- INVOKE ME UNDER MY STARS ! *** LOVE IS THE LAW, LOVE UNDER WILL. *** I GIVE UNIMAGINABLE JOY ON EARTH: CERTAINTY, NOT FAITH,.. SING THE RAPTUROUS LOVE-SONG UNTO ME! BURN TO ME PERFUMES! WEAR TO ME JEWELS! DRINK TO ME, FOR I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! I AM THE BLUE-LIDDED DAUGHTER OF SUNSET; I AM THE NAKED BRILLIANCE OF THE VOLUPTUOUS NIGHT-SKY. Aleister Crowley, Liber AL, 1904. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 54 ----------------------------------------------------------------- There is no word in the English language that cannot be verbed. +++ Richard J H Warren +++ Verben skurrilt die Sprache. +++ Calvin & Hobbes +++ Verbing weirds language. / Verbing drollifies language. Hobbes' answer: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 55 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime. John Philpot Curran (1759-1817) Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 56 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - %%% 57 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Curiosity perhaps ? These days, we're getting a lot of advice on how to live longer, but amazingly little on WHY. -- Harold Emery ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 58 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A U N A P R E N D O Goya I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 59 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The future may teach us to exercise a direct influence, by means of particular chemical substances, on the amount of energy and their distribution in the mental apparatus. It may be that there are still undreamt-of possibilities of therapy. -- wrote Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) in 1938 Unbeknownst to Dr. Freud, LSD was first synthesized in 1938. Psychedelic experience can lead us to the deepest depths and the highest heights, to the boundaries of that which humankind is capable of experiencing. -- DDr. Albert Hofmann (1906-2008) (1996) MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES MAPS VI.3 http://www.maps.org info@maps.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 60 ------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. hehehehehehe... William James, under nitrous oxide, 1882; quoted in PIKHAL ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 61 ----------------------------------------------------------------- He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light, than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all. William Blake (1757-1827) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 62 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Now I a fourfold vision see, And a fourfold vision is given to me; 'Tis foufold in my supreme delight And threefold in soft Beulah's night, And twofold Always. May God us keep From single vision and Newton's sleep! William Blake, in a letter to Thomas Butts 22 November 1802 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 63 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Children of the future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Love ! sweet Love ! was thought a crime. William Blake, A Litte GIRL Lost, Songs of Experience, ca. 1790 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 64 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Children of the future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time Dope ! sweet Dope ! was thought a crime. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 65 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Children of a future Age Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time A path to God was thought a crime. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 66 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. -- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell etched 1790-3 (plate 14) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 67 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Youth is wasted on the young -- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Youth is a gift of nature, age is a work of art. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 68 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Theoretically there's no difference between theory and praxis, whereas practically there's often a big difference. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 69 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- . "We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems" . . --- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- %%% 70 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nasrudin got a job at a busy granary, loading sacks onto trucks to be taken to market. The foreman, who was keeping an eye on the workers, soon came over to speak to him. "Why is it that you carry only one sack at a time while the other workers all carry two?" asked the foreman. Nasrudin looked around and said, "I suppose that they are too lazy to make two trips the way I do." ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 71 ----------------------------------------------------------------- One day, as Nasrudin was getting dressed, his wife said to him, "Mullah, you always put on your right shoe first. Why is that?" Nasrudin answered, "Wouldn't it be foolish to put on the wrong shoe first?" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 72 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mullah Nasrudin was sowing seed in his garden. His wife noticed that the further he went, the faster he sowed. "Mullah," she called out to him, "why are you scattering the seed so fast? It would be better to sow it more slowly and carefully." "I can't," Nasrudin called back as he rushed by. "There isn't much seed left and I want to get the job finished before it runs out." ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 73 ----------------------------------------------------------------- UUXIIIIINNNFTWYYYYZV VVVNNNFTWYYYYZPPPXUU UXXXPPLNNFFFTWWYZZZV VLNNFFFTWWYZZZPPXXXU UUXPPPLLLLFTTTWWZVVV VLLLLFTTTWWZIIIIIXUU ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 74 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Instead of all this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war? -- DDr. Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. (1906 - 2008) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 75 ----------------------------------------------------------------- TRADITION - das ist fuer die einen das Aufbewahren der Asche; fuer die anderen: das Weitergeben des Feuers. -- Karl Kraus (1874-1937) TRADITION - for some this means worshipping the ashes; for the others: passing on the Fire. (my transl.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 76 ----------------------------------------------------------------- My philosophy : Don't get caught with a fixed philosophy, a set of safe beliefs, a particular way of life. Experiment! With live, with love. Run an exploration of the real and the true degrees of freedom of life, of love, of the human condition, inside self and in one's style of life. Move! Into new spaces beyond one's present concepts of possible/ probable/certain real spaces. Far vaster than I now know are the innermost/outermost realities. Far more interesting than I now feel are the deeps of the space, the beyond within, the infinite without. Love and loving are basic. Hostility is redundant. Fear is non-sense. "Death" is a myth. I am I. -- John C. Lilly ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 77 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The task of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive authority with as much integrity as possible. The task of an activist is to confront and take down these systems of oppressive authority. -- Lierre Keith, quoted by Derrick Jensen e.g. in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnX2753q03g ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 78 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) in "The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies" Speech, Canandaiuga, NY, August 3, 1857 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 79 ======================================================================== " Das Wenige, was in Tibet verblieben ist, muss geschuetzt werden, und es muessen Anstrengungen unternommen werden, um die Umwelt wieder in ihr Gleichgewicht zu bringen." " Mein Traum ist es, die gesamte tibetische Hochebene in ein freies Sanktuarium umzuwandeln, in dem Menschen und Natur in Frieden und Harmonie miteinander leben koennen. Tibet waere ein Ort, an dem Menschen aus aller Welt nach der wahren Bedeutung des inneren Friedens suchen koennen, fernab von der Hektik und den Spannungen des groessten Teils der uebrigen Welt. Tibet koennte in der Tat ein kreatives Zentrum fuer die Foerderung und Entwicklung des Friedens werden." Seine Heiligkeit, der XIV. DALAI LAMA, Tenzin Gyatso, ? anlaesslich der Entgegennahme des Friedensnobelpreises, 1989 ? ======================================================================== %%% 80 Ph'nglai mglw'nefh Cthulhu R'lyah wguh'nagl fhtagn! %%% 81 ======================================================================== Es ist richtig und heilsam auch von den unfasslichen Dingen zu reden. Die Menschen bilden sich ein, nur das zu sein, was sie von sich wissen! Nur wenn ich weiss, dass das Grenzenlose das Wesentliche ist, verlege ich mein Interesse nicht auf Futilitaeten. -- C.G.Jung (1875-1961) ======================================================================== %%% 82 ==================================================== LICHTUNG Manche meinen, Dass man Lechts und Rinks Nicht velwechsern koenne. Werch ein Illtum ! Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) ==================================================== %%% 83 ======================================================================== All religions carry same message. Message of love, compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment, self-discipline. I think we need these qualities, irrespective of whether we are believer or non-believer, because these are the source of a happy life. -- Tenzin Gyatso, H.H. XIV. Dalai Lama, in "Rad der Zeit" (2003) ======================================================================== %%% 84 ======================================================================== Wer kaempft, kann verlieren, wer nicht kaempft, hat schon verloren ! Anyone who fights may lose, who does not fight has lost already ! ======================================================================== %%% 85 ======================================================================== When lions become historians, hunters will cease being heroes. ======================================================================== %%% 86 ======================================================================== The illiterate of the year 2000 will not be the individual who cannot read and write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler (1928--2016) ======================================================================== %%% 87 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift, that's why we call it 'The Present'. -- Babatunde Olatunji (1927-2003) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 88 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The point is to realize that by virtue of what you always are, have been and will be, there is no need whatsoever to defend yourself or prove yourself. -- Alan Watts foreword to The Secret Oral Teachings of Tibet ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 89 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Try to believe three impossible things before breakfast every day! Robert Anton Wilson ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 90 ----------------------------------------------------------------- We can do no great things -- only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 91 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I don't take your words merely as words; far from it. I listen to what makes you talk -whatever that is- and what makes me listen. Shinkichi Takahashi ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 92 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [W]e die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. -- Dag (Hjalmar Agne Carl) Hammarskjold (1905-61) - Markings (UNSecGen 1953-61, Nobel Peace Prize 61) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 93 ----------------------------------------------------------------- People are unreasonable, illogical and self centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 94 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone of us has a unique talent; however we do not own it but serve as trustee; our talent must be used as much for the sake of others as for ourselves. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 95 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Miracles are not contrary to Nature but only contrary to what we know about Nature. -- Saint Augustine in 353 A.D. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 96 ----------------------------------------------------------------- BUTTERFLY EFFECT n. the idea that a very small difference in the initial state of a physical system can make a large difference to the state at some time later. 20th Cent.: from the theory that a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world might ultimately cause a hurricane in another part of the world. (1994) Collins ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 97 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 98 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Why does not government legalize marijuana? Because this would be the sane thing to do! --- Not only do I think marihuana should be legalized - I think it should be mandatory ! -- Bill Hicks (1961-1994) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 99 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn, 1693 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 100 McCopies & D.Stribute ! 1998 updated 10/011 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Facing the worst -- until laughter burst. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 101 Make Copies & Distribute ! 1999 -- 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------- furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no otono Shizukasa ya Stille...! iwa ni shimi-iru Tief bohrt sich in den Fels semi no koe Das Sirren der Zikaden... Basho (Matsuo Munefusa, 1644-1694) Stille the stillness - in den Felsen dringend seeping into rock Zikadenzirpen circada's screech (M.Ueda) Guenter Wohlfahrt "Zen und Haiku" (reclam) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 102 http://wda.tradivarium.at/words2.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wer in weltlichen Angelegenheiten ein Hindernis fuer seine UEbung sieht, weiss nur, dass es keinen Weg in weltlichen Dingen gibt, waehrend sier zugleich verkennt, dass es so etwas wie weltliche Dinge, die vom Weg unterschieden werden koennten, nicht gibt. Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253): Shobogenzo Bemuehe dich um eine Gesinnung, die danach strebt, die Quelle der Guete auf dem Berg der Guete zu mehren. -- Dogen ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 103 edited by wda@nachhaltig.at ----------------------------------------------------------------- Besuchen wollt' ich die Blueten - schon dunkelt es zwischen den Baeumen; FUJIWARA MASATSUNE Da, unerwartet, der Mond (1170-1221) ueber der Berge Gipfel! Shinkokinwakashu (1205) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 104 Korrekturen, Verbesserungsvorschlaege, Kommentare willommen! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wie vieler Jahre Fruehlinge haben das Herz mir bluten lassen. FUJIWARA TOSHINARI Habt doch Mitgefuehl mit mir, (1114-1204) Kirschblueten von Yoshino! Shinkokinwakashu (1205) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%%105 text-only. fixed-font-formatted. tanka: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die gestern ich sah, die Menschen: was ist mit ihnen? so fragt man erstaunt. Erzbischof Ji'en Daisojo Nun, einer endlos langen Nacht (1155-1225) Traum hat uns umfangen. Shinkokinwakashu (1205) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 106 haiku: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Der Pflumenbluetenzweig gibt seinen Duft dem, der ihn brach. Chiyo-ni (?1707-1775) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 107 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Asagao ni Von der Winde Oh die Winde! tsurube torarete des Zieheimers beraubt: des Zieheimers beraubt morai-mizu. geschenktes Wasser. borge ich Wasser. Eine bluehende Winde hat sich In Windenranken verstrickt um meinen Brunneneimer gerankt. der Brunneneimer. Ich schoepfe das Wasser beim Nachbarn. Drum gib mir Wasser! Frau Kaga no Chiyo (?1702-1774) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 108 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die Trichterwinde im hohen Foehrenwipfel mit einer Bluete Shiki (1866-1902) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 109 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Im Mondlicht sehen die Vogelscheuchen wie Menschen aus: erbarmenswert. Shiki (1866-1902) Nunmehr sehen auch im Sonnenlicht die Vogelscheuchen wie Menschen aus: erbarmenswert. wda (2011) Wo ich lebe gibt's Vogelscheuchen Chasei (1777-1846) mehr als Menschen. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 110 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ein Bluetenblatt, das zurueckkehrt an seinen Zweig? - Ein Schmetterling! Als ob zum Zweige Im Fall die Bluete heimkehrt ... Es ist ein Falter! -- Arakida Moritake 1473-1549 (Shinto Priester) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 111 ==================================================== A VIDA E CURTA. A MORTE E CERTA. ==================================================== %%% 112 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wann soll er hoffen, wann soll er etwa jammern, wo doch die Dinge der Zukunft unbekannt sind dem Menschen, der vergaenglich ! Moench SAIGYO Shinkokinwakashu (1205) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 113 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die Katze hat geschlafen. Sie streckt sich, gaehnt und geht auf Liebe aus. -- Issa, Kobayashi Yataro 1763-1827 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 114 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Langsam laesst sie das Kleid von ihren blassen Bruesten sinken. Ganz langsam. unbekannter Dichter, Japan 18.Jhdt. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 115 ----------------------------------------------------------------- In Windenblueten trat heute mir vor Augen --Arakida Moritake 1473-1549 das eigene Leben. Shinto Priester ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 116 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die Windenbluete ging ganz gelassen auf im Winde morgens. Domei ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 117 ----------------------------------------------------------------- NO CONCESSIONS FOR STATEMENTS AND CONFESSIONS. ERSATZ -- NEIN DANKE. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 118 ----------------------------------------------------------------- MEME n. Information (idea, attitude, song, notion, concept, image, technique, belief, ...) lodging in our minds and capable of changing us. 20th c. ~ "mental gene" NOT in my 1994 Collins nor in my 2001 Pons MEME WARFARE -- World War III is a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. -- H. Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 119 ----------------------------------------------------------------- E A T F A S T -- D I E Y O U N G ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 120 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To become an adept it is necessary to balance each thought and each motion with it's opposite. A. Crowley (1875-1947) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 121 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ein ehrlicher Mensch kann hier kaum ein paar Saetze von sich geben, ohne sich Feinde zu machen. -- Hermann Hesse (1877, Calw/Wuerttemberg - 1962) You cannnot even utter a few honest sentences here without making enemies. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 122 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Radwechsel: Ich sitze am Strassenhang. Der Fahrer wechselt das Rad. Ich bin nicht gern, wo ich herkomme. Ich bin nicht gern, wo ich hinfahre. Warum sehe ich den Radwechsel mit Ungeduld? Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 123 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Eines Tages wird es gleichgueltig sein, ob wir gluecklich oder ungluecklich sind, weil wir fuer keines von beiden Zeit haben. One of these days it won't matter whether we are happy or sad, because we won't have time to be/feel one or the other. (my tentative transl.) Thomas Lanier 'Tennessee' Williams (1912-1983) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 124 ----------------------------------------------------------------- We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 125 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A snowflake is one of the most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! snowflakes-screensaver: 1.178.774 B win32-exe http://members.aon.at/maulehla/snowfl.exe ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 126 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The only time you cannot afford to fail is the last time you try. Charles Kettering ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 127 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 128 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Be braver. -- You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 129 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 130 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A thousand mile journey begins with the first step. Migthy rivers can easily be leaped at their source. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 131 words2.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shakespeare: (around 1600) To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. -- Hamlet II.2 How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naugthy world. -- The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice V.1 90 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 132 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Gagehot Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out ?! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 133 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything at all. Edward John Phelps ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 134 ----------------------------------------------------------------- We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 135 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Be grateful for luck, but don't depend on it! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 136 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Always be determined to make a difference. The world is changed by the power of individuals. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 137 ----------------------------------------------------------------- DON'T FIND FAULT, FIND A REMEDY ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 138 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Better to face a danger once than be always in fear. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -- Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- To err is human. But to really foul things up requires a computer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -- Helen Keller (1880-1968) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. -- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- No man is free who cannot control himself. -- Pythagoras ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- The reward of suffering is experience. -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- PRACTISE RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS AND ACTS OF SENSELESS BEAUTY ! No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop (620-564 BC) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 150 ------------------------------------------------------------------ to be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just like everybody else - is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting. -- e.e. cummings (1894-1962) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 151 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eines Tages wird es gleichgueltig sein, ob wir gluecklich oder ungluecklich sind, weil wir fuer keines von beiden Zeit haben. -- Thomas Lanier 'Tennessee' Williams (1912-1983) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 152 ------------------------------------------------------------------ A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime of things that are not crime. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th US president) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 153 ------------------------------------------------------------------ WAR IS PEACE ! FREEDOM IS SLAVERY ! IGNORANCE IS BLISS ! STAYING APART KEEPS US TOGETHER ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 154 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE mehr und mehr verdienen fuer ein besseres leben und es es dabei mehr und mehr verlieren -- h. seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg.43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE Manche Tierarten sind noch nicht so vom Aussterben bedroht, um sie davor zu schuetzen dass die es bald werden. ein "text zum pfluecken" helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg.43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE und ohne werbung wussten sie nicht wie sie leben muessen was sie denken sollen wen sie waehlen wollen sie lebten - dachten - waehlten so wie es ihnen gezeigt wurde und als es wieder soweit war merkten sie keinen unterschied helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE wer sich oft fuegt ueber den wird immer oefter verfuegt. helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE wenn alle das machen das alle machen kann es wieder passieren dass einer mit allen alles macht helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE Die besten Sklaven sind die die sich selber welche halten duerfen. helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ die schlimmsten sklavenhalter die effektivsten sklavenhalter sind die sind die die ihre sklaven die ihre sklaven sklaven halten lassen sklaven halten lassen helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ wer will schon BESSERUNG des systems solange er sich BESSERN darf/kann im system helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ solange alle allen alles nachmachen machen einige allen alles vor helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ je mehr (wieder) die waffen sprechen umsomehr koennen viele dem entsprechen das sie am besten koennen weil sie sonst nichts koennen gewalttaetig sein helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1404. Denk-Zettel Immer mehr Leute verschulden sich. Immer mehr verdienen daran die Banken. So haben die einen ohne zu arbeiten immer mehr Geld, waehrend die anderen immer mehr arbeiten und doch immer mehr neue Schulden machen, weil die Zinsen der alten immer mehr werden. helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ nur denen die nicht allen alles nachmachen kann keiner etwas vormachen helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE wenn alle das machen das alle machen bleibt niemand der sie davor warnt helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ wieder sind viele nachgewachsen und dressiert fuers naechste grosse toeten und getoetet werden helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Texte fuer DENKENDE gegen das DENK-ENDE sie verhalten sich ruhig um in ruhe leben zu koennen und werden dann so (be)ruhig(t) dass sie nichts mehr vom leben spueren helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Da geht uns Stueck fuer Stueck verloren. Da fehlt uns bald soviel, dass wir unfaehig werden, zu erkennen, wieviel uns fehlt. Nur denen die merken, dass immer mehr fehlt, fehlt noch nicht alles. helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ wird man immer wohlhabender will man ausser weiterem wohl wohl nichts haben helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ weil alle das machen das alle machen macht man es auch und wird bald so wie alle anderen denen es nicht gelingt etwas eigenes zu machen so ist dafuer gesorgt das alles mit allen gemacht werden kann helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ je mehr gewalt man uns zeigt umso gewalttaetiger zeigen wir uns je mehr moeglichkeiten gewalt auszuueben umso mehr folgen verursacht sie je mehr gewalt bewirkt umso mehr bewirkt sie weitere gewalt je mehr waffen umso mehr gebrauch davon so bewaffnen sich immer mehr immer mehr so fuehlen sich immer mehr immer mehr im recht waffen zu gebrauchen helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dream as if you'd live forever Live as if you'll die today ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso (*1935), XIV. DALAI LAMA ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 175 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. -- Gladys Browyn Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ And whatever I do will become forever what I've done. -- Wislawa Szymborska (*1923) Nobel Prize for Literature-Poetry 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Goals that are not written down are just wishes. A goal without a plan is merely a wish. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1.? / 2.: DJ anarcho..violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. Marcus Aurelius (161-180) I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. -- Martha Washington ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% from http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~kshaul/quotes4.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. -- Frank Tyger ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ People change and forget to tell each other. -- Lillian Hellman ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. -- Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. -- Anne Frank (1929-1945) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Our enemies are innovative and resouceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. -- G. W. Bush (POTUS 2001-2009) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at56A5eg3vs ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ================================================================== What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. -- Thomas Sprat (1635-1713) ================================================================== %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. -- Mary Pickford (1892-1979) Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Rollo May ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The best things in life aren't things. Art Buchwald ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% =================================================================== To know others is wisdom; to know oneself is enlightenment. Who knows others is clever; Who knows hirself has discernment. Tao Te Ching XXXIII ================================================================== %%% =================================================================== Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment. Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self requires strength. SHe who knows sHe has enough is rich... To die but not to perish is to be eternally present. Tao Te Ching, 33 ================================================================== %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life. Samurai maxim ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Silence. We need to find God, and sHe cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Nobel peace prize 1979) A Gift for God, "Willing Slaves to the Will of God." (1975) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ****************************************************************** When the sun rises, I go to work, when the sun goes down, I take my rest I dig the well from which I drink I farm the soil that yields my food I share creation. Kings can do no more. Ancient Chinese Saying ****************************************************************** %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (1890-1977) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you'll get the best. Begin to live as you wish to live. Unknown It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% from http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~kshaul/quotes4.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Faust: Wie das Geklirr der Spaten mich ergetzt! ... Ja! diesem Sinne bin ich ganz ergeben, Dies ist der Weisheit letzter Schluss: Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben, Der taeglich sie erobern muss. Und so verbringt, umgeben von Gefahr, Hier Kindheit, Mann und Greis sein tuechtig Jahr. Solch ein Gewimmel moecht ich sehn, Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn. Zum Augenblicke duerft ich sagen: >> Verweile doch, du bist so schoen! Es kann die Spur von meinen Erdentagen Nicht in Aeonen untergehn.-- << Im Vorgefuehl von solch hohem Glueck Geniess ich jetzt den hoechsten Augenblick. He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 198 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. NOW. Joan Baez (*1941) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 199 edited by wda@nachhaltig.at ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 200 McCopies & D.Stribute ! 1999-08-17 corr. 2001-09-09 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. Rita Mae Brown ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 201 Mc Copies & D. Stribute ! 2128-2137 ----------------------------------------------------------------- When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies." -- Aristotle (384-322 BC) A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. -- Bernard Meltzer (1916-1998) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% edited by a00@gmx.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Verbesserungsvorschlaege, Kommentare, etc. herzlich willkommen ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber (1894-1961) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% if you spot an error, please let me know ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th US president) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% text-only. fixed-font-formatted !! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- und ist ein krieg beendet geht er trotzdem weiter. alles mit gewalt geloeste bleibt ungeloest. solange waffen entscheiden ist nichts entschieden. was nuetzt gewalt die noch mehr gruende bringt fuer weitere gewalt. wenn waffen frieden schaffen gibt es nur eine zwischenkriegszeit. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Und die, die verlernt haben, auf sich selber zu hoeren, merken nicht mehr, wie sehr ihr Leben denen gehoert, die dafuer sorgen, dass man verlernt, auf sich selber zu hoeren. Und die, die verlernt haben, auf sich selber zu hoeren, verstehen nicht, wie man auf sich selber hoeren kann. Denn sie glauben, du bist so leer wie sie. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ 142. Denk-Zettel Die, die uns Feindbilder einreden, verhindern, dass wir unsere wirklichen Feinde erkennen: Die, die uns Feindbilder einreden. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ und es gibt immer mehr, das uns davon ablenkt, dass es eigentlich immer weniger gibt. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ WAS WIRD BLEIBEN, DAS UNS DAS BLEIBEN MOEGLICH MACHT, WENN UNSERE MACHT UNS DAS BLEIBEN UNMOEGLICH MACHT? -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 212 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase REVERENCE FOR LIFE. -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 213 ------------------------------------------------------------------ sHe did each thing as if sHe did nothing else. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 215 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. NOW. Joan Baez (*1941) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle (384-322 BC) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wisdom begins in wonder. -- Socrates (?470-399 BC) -- Perplexity is the Beginning of Knowledge. -- Khalil Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) -- -- quoted in "Anatomy of a Great Deception" (2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Self-love is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Henry V, II.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Grown men may learn from little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. -- Black Elk, Schwarzer Hirsch (1863-1954) Ogalala-Lakota(Sioux) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 220 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. == Die wirkliche Entdeckungsreise besteht nicht darin, neue Landschaften zu erforschen, sondern darin, mit neuen Augen zu sehen. -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the rules. Then break some. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Achte auf Deine Gedanken, denn sie werden zu Worten. Achte auf Deine Worte, denn sie werden zu Handlungen. Achte auf Deine Handlungen, denn sie werden zu Gewohnheiten. Achte auf Deine Gewohnheiten, denn sie werden Dein Charakter. Achte auf Deinen Charakter, denn er wird Dein Schicksal. -- Talmud Remember that your character is your destiny. -~ Herakleitos (around 500 B.C.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice. -- unknown Smile when sending meil, even if the recipient might not see it in your words ... --- wda 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trust in God. But lock your car. Or, as the Sufy used to say 1001 years earlier: Put your trust in Allah, but don't forget to tie up your camel! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Remember that -sometimes- silence is the best answer. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Love deeply & passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live your life completely. Be engaged at least six months before getting married. Believe in Love at first sight. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ When you realize that you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ When you lose, don't lose the lesson ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 232 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Galilei (1564-1642) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 233 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I G N O R A N C E is the opiate of the masses. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 234 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ES IST NICHT WAHR, DASS GEGEN DIE DUMMHEIT KEIN KRAUT GEWACHSEN IST. - WIR DUERFEN ES NUR NICHT ANBAUEN ! IT'S NOT THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE A HERB TO CURE STUPIDITY - WE'RE JUST FORBIDDEN TO GROW AND USE IT ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 235 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "What's important is beyond all understanding - that's the first thing you must understand" -- Ngarinyin elder David Mowaljarlai (from Harvey Arden, 'Dreamkeepers') ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 236 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wer die Gesundheit erhalten will, der muss sich von der Menge der Menschen trennen; denn die Masse geht immer den Weg gegen die Vernunft und versucht immer, ihre Leiden und Schwaechen zu verbergen. Lasst uns nie fragen: Was ist das Uebliche, sondern: Was ist das Beste ! -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 BC - 65 AD) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 237 ------------------------------------------------------------------- PANTA REI. / Nothing endures but change. -- Heraclitus (?535-?475 B.C.) (176) .. nihil es toto, quod perstet, in orbe. CUNCTA FLUUNT, omnisque vagans formatur imago. Es gibt im ganzen Weltkreis nichts bestaendiges. Alles ist im Fluss, und jedes Bild wird gestaltet waehrend es voruebergeht. -- Ovid (43 v.Chr. - ca.17 n.), Metamorphosen XV, Pythagoras the everchanging never changes. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 238 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 239 ------------------------------------------------------------------- I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living. -- Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 240 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Make your sword sharp on both sides of the blade ! ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- QUI TACET CONSENTIRE VIDETUR. Wer schweigt scheint zuzustimmen. ??? Wer schweigt wird als Zustimmender angesehen [behandelt]. Who is silent seems to agree. Who is silent is (mis)taken to agree. ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 242 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wenn man kein Geld hat, denkt man immer an Geld. Wenn man Geld hat, denkt man nur noch an Geld. -- Jean Paul Getty ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 243 ------------------------------------------------------------------- What's important is beyond all understanding - that's the first thing you must understand ! Ngarinyin elder David Mowaljarlai (from Harvey Arden, 'Dreamkeepers') ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 244 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Das nicht praktisch Brauchbare, das nicht Zweckgebundene, das ist das Eigentliche. Dort ist der Mensch Mensch. -- Nikolaus Harnoncourt (*1929) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 245 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Calvin & Hobbes, SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS GOES "BOINK" by Bill Watterson ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 246 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Be the change you wish to see in the world. You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 247 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. -- Laurens van der Post, 1958 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 248 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Be happy, things are getting worse ... ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my simple religion: There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -- Tenzin Gyatso (*1935), XIV. DALAI LAMA ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 250 ------------------------------------------------------------------- BE HAPPY, things will keep getting get worse ... ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- I know not with what weapons Wold War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and bones. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% May 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nothing is more profitable for international banksters than war. --Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 $+$++$+++$++++$+++++$++++++$+++++++$++++++$+++++$++++$+++$++$+$ Derrick Jensen's "A Language Older than Words"(NY.2000), p.223, quotes the Daily Sketch of October 26, 1939: New York Stock exchange had a boom yesterday following Von Ribbentrop's(*) speech at Danzig. Wall Street interprets the speech as meaning a long war. Stocks rose almost to the highest levels of the year. *) = Hitler's foreign minister $+$++$+++$++++$+++++$++++++$+++++++$++++++$+++++$++++$+++$++$+$ %%% 253 --------------------------------------------------------------- gegen manches kaempfen oft Goetter selbst vergebens, doch wer kaempft kann gewinnen, wer nicht kaempft hat bereits verloren. against some things the gods themselves may fight in vain but who fight may win who does not fight has already lost. --------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 254 --------------------------------------------------------------- Whoever uses machines does all work like a machine. sHe who does hir work like a machine grows a heart like a machine, and sHe who carries the heart of a machine in hir breast loses hir simplicity. It is not that I do not know of such things. I am ashamed to use them. -- Chuang Tzu (4th cent. B.C.) I know a lot of and about these things. I am not ashamed to use them (occasionally). I would be ashamed to ab/over-use them; and i think it's a huge shame how (much) they are ab/over-used. -- wda 2022 --------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 255 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mir schiene fuer sehr viele schwer seelenkranke Menschen der rasche Verlust ihres Vermoegens und die Erschuetterung ihres Glaubens durchaus kein Unglueck, sondern die sicherste, ja einzig moegliche Rettung zu bedeuten. Und ebenso erscheint mir inmitten unseres heutigen Lebens, im Gegensatz zum alleinigen Kultus der Arbeit und des Geldes der Sinn fuer das Spiel des Augenblicks, das Offenstehen fuer den Zufall etwas durchaus Wuenschenswertes, woran wir alle sehr Mangel leiden ... Wir sollten nicht aus der Vita activa in die Vita contemplativa fliehen, noch umgekehrt, sondern zwischen beidend wechselnd unterwegs sein, in beiden zuhause sein, an beiden teilhaben. -- Hermann Hesse, Das Glasperlenspiel (1943) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 256 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dance of World Destruction In order for us to maintain our way of living, we must...tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It is not necessary that the lies be particularly believable. The lies act as barriers to truth. These barriers to truth are necessary because without them many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. Truth must at all costs be avoided. ... And so we avoid these truths, these self-evident truths, and continue the dance of world destruction. -- Derrick Jensen, "A Language Older than Words", 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 257 ------------------------------------------------------------------- In fighting against nature, man can win every battle except the last. -- Thor Heyerdahl in Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 258 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Calvin: I wonder why man was put on earth. What's our purpose? Why are we here? Hobbes: Tiger food. Calvin & Hobbes, SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS GOES "BOINK" by Bill Watterson ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 259 ------------------------------------------------------------------- First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. .............Then you win." Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- ... die Kunst ist eine Tochter der Freiheit ... ... art is a daughter of freedom ... -- Joh. Ch. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 261 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear God, it is timely that we give thanks for the lives of all prophets, teachers, healers and revolutionaries, living and dead, acclaimed or obscure, who have rebelled, worked and suffered for the cause of love and joy. We also celebrate that part of us, that part within ourselves, which has rebelled, worked and suffered for the cause of love and joy. We give thanks and celebrate. Amen (anonymous) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 262 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside us while we live. -- Norman Cousins (1915-1990) --- Wenn jemand stirbt, nicht das allein ist Tod. Tod ist, wenn eine(r) lebt und es nicht weiss. Tod ist, wenn eine(r) gar nicht sterben kann. Vieles ist Tod, man kann es nicht begraben. In uns ist taeglich Sterben und Geburt. [my transl., draft:] If someone dies, not this alone is Death. Death is if someone lives and doesn't know. Death is if someone just can not die. A lot of things are Death, and you can't bury it. Death and Birth within us are, each and every day. -- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) -- -- zitiert von Rainer Taeni in "Latente Angst: das Tabu der Abwehrgesellschaft" (1976) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 263 ------------------------------------------------------------------- We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children. Native American saying ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 264 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have been teaching people revolution through my work with plants." 'As one Putumayo medicine man told Michael Taussig,' according to "Shamanism vs. Capitalism: The Politics of Ayahuasca" by Martin A. Lee, MAPS-post 26.07.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 265 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Renunciation is not giving up the things of the world, but accepting that they go away. (and, occasionally *enjoying* giving them away - wda) -- Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971) ... quoted in "on let ting go" (www.)adbusters(.org) #33 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 266 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Furu-ike ya Uralter Weiher. kawazu tobi-komu Ein Froeschlein springt vom Ufersaum, mizu-no-oto Im Wasser ein Ton. Der alte Weiher / Ein Frosch, der gerade hineinspringt Des Wassers Platschen. -- Basho (Matsuo Munefusa, 1644-1694) Uralter Weiher - Basho springt hinein - Im Wasser ein Platsch. ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 267 07.09.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 268 15.09.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Suffering in hopefulness is the eternalist. Suffering in hopelessness is the nihilist. Beyond both hopefulness and hopelessness is the Buddhist. -- Thinley Norbu, Magic Dance (1981) Hope and fear - they chase each other's tails. -- ancient Buddhist wisdom Klugheit: "Zwei der groessten Menschenfeinde, Furcht und Hoffnung, angekettet, halt ich ab." -- Goethe, Faust II.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 269 15.09.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so. -- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 270 16.9. ------------------------------------------------------------------- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) Unfortunately, they that are willing to give up essential freedom to obtain some illusion of safety (help) destroy liberty and safety not only for themselves but for all. -- wda 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 271 17.9. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact violence merely increase hate. So it goes... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness -- only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate -- only love can do that. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 272 7.10. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever building to the clouds, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy, tottering column. ... Sie bauen immer, bauen Bis in die Wolken, bauen fort und fort Und denken nicht daran, dass der schmale Grund Das schwindelnd schwanke Werk nicht tragen kann. Wallensteins Tod, 4. Aufzug Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hatred is the madness of the heart. Byron ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Sterben faellt leicht, wenn die Entfaltung taeglich gelingt. -- Peter Lauster in "Die Liebe - Psychologie eines Phaenomens" Ah! What a sign it is of evil life, when death's approach is seen so terrible! -- Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, 3.3 Wenn jemand stirbt, nicht das allein ist Tod. Tod ist, wenn eine(r) lebt und es nicht weiss. Tod ist, wenn eine(r) gar nicht sterben kann. Vieles ist Tod, man kann es nicht begraben. In uns ist taeglich Sterben und Geburt. -- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) -- -- zitiert von Rainer Taeni in "Latente Angst: das Tabu der Abwehrgesellschaft" (1976) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 276 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Just say know. -- Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 277 ------------------------------------------------------------------- A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandchild about how he felt about the ... tragedy. The grandfather said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one." The child asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?" The grandfather answered, "The one I feed." (author unknown) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 278 16.11.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- AN EYE FOR AN EYE HAS LEFT THE WORLD BLIND graffito on a wall in New York, October 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 279 25.11.2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------- When I fed the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked, 'why are they poor', they called me a communist. Brazilian arch bishop Dom Helder Camara (+ 27th.Aug'99) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 280 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Denn der Menschheit drohen Kriege, gegen welche die vergangenen wie armselige Versuche sind, und sie werden kommen ohne jeden Zweifel, wenn denen, die sie in aller OEffentlichkeit vorbereiten, nicht die Haende zerschlagen werden. -- Bertold Brecht (1898-1956) Friedenswerkstatt Linz http://www.friwe.at/ Die weltweiten Ruestungsausgaben sind von 1999-2001 um weitere 7% gestiegen, und betragen rund 1,000,000,000,000 E/$ jaehrlich. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute schwedisches Friedensforschungsinstitut, SIPRI http://www.sipri.org/ SIPRI: 2011 total world military spending = 1,74 T$ = 1,740,000,000,000 USDD = ~70 cents/day for every human alive ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 281 ------------------------------------------------------------------- When you tug at a single thing in nature, you will find it attached to the rest of the world. -- John Muir (1838-1914) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 282 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster... When you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 283 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. -- General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces 1943-45 34th US president (Rep.) 1953-1961; in his April, 1953 speech ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%% 284 ------------------------------------------------------------------- they who have put out die dem Volk the peoples eyes die Augen ausgestochen, reproach them zeihen es seiner Blindheit. of their blindness. -- John Milton (1608-74) 1642 as quoted in "Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media (-A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense)" (CAN 1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- "They say: Think globally, act locally," Locally is wherever you are. Local is your mind. You can clean up the environment in every way, but you also need to clean up your mind. In order to take global responsibility your mind must take local responsibility, for your own self." -- Ngawangthongup, quoted in Tibetan Elders, by Sandy Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 286 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Nobel peace prize 1979) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 287 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865; 16th US president) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 288 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If the words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. -- Terence Kemp McKenna (1946-2000) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 289 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ... buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization. -- Edward Bellamy "Looking Backward, 2000-1887" (1888) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 290 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Day dreamers grasp many things that escape those who simply dream at night. -- Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 291 2003-07-23 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Die wirkliche Entdeckungsreise besteht nicht darin, neue Landschaften zu erforschen, sondern darin, mit neuen Augen zu sehen. -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 292 203-08-25 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Popular Mechanics, March 1949: "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only one and a half tons." Thomas Watson, IBM Vorstand, 1943: "Ich glaube, dass es weltweit einen Markt fuer vielleicht 5 Computer gibt!" Bill Gates, Mega$hit, 1981: "640 K sollten wirklich fuer jeden ausreichend sein" ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 293 ------------------------------------------------------------------- *PRACTISE* conscientious consumerism objection ! K aufe ! O hne ! N achzudenken ! S innlos ! U nseren ! M ist ! resist fa$ci$m !!! don't buy U$ $hit !!! resist fa$hi$m !!! don't buy any $hit !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 294 ------------------------------------------------------------------ God must love stupid people. Otherwise she wouldn't have made sooo many of them. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 295 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ... So it happens that I am and look. Above me a white butterfly is fluttering through the air on wings that are its alone, and a shadow skims through my hands that is none other than itself, no one else's but its own. When I see such things, I'm no longer sure that what's important is more important than what's not. -- Wislawa Szymborska (*1923) Nobel Prize for Literature-Poetry 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 296 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Katatrophen des 20. Jahrhunderts: disasters of the 20th century: Hiroshima 45 Chernobyl 86 Windows 95 ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 297 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Die Zukunft ist eine undankbare Person, die grad' nur die quaelt, die sich recht sorgsam um sie kuemmern. -- Nestroy (1801 - 1862) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------- Die Zeit wird kommen, wo unsere Nachfahren sich wundern, dass wir so offenbare Dinge nicht gewusst haben. [ Times will come, when our descendants will be amazed that we were un-aware of such obvious things. ] -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 BC - 65 AD) ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 299 ------------------------------------------------------------------- F: Wieviele Windows-ProgrammiererInnen sind noetig, um eine kaputte Gluehbirne zu ersetzen ? A1: Etwa 100. Eine(r) wechselt die Birne, waehrend die anderen versuchen, die Fehlermeldungen wegzuklicken. A2: Keine(r); Microsoft erklaert einfach Dunkelheit zum Standard. == Q: How many M$-engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? A1: About 100: one to change the bulb, while the others try to click away the error messages. A2: None at all; micro$oft just has darkness declared as standard. ------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 300 last update: 2011-09 ------------------------------------------------------------------ wir sind die menschen auf den wiesen bald sind wir menschen unter den wiesen und werden wiesen und werden wald das wird ein heiterer landaufenthalt -- Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 301 Mc Copies & D. Stribute ! 2129 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Das ist eines der tragischen Missverstaendnisse unserer Zeit: Viele glauben, wenn etwas unzweifelhaft als falsch bewiesen ist, muesse das Gegenteil richtig sein. That's one of the tragic misunderstandings of our time: To think that because something has clearly been proven wrong it's 'opposite' must be right. (my transl. from Ger. transl.) -- Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 302 http://wda.tradivarium.at/words4.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for astronomy." -- Dr. Stanislav Grof "I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision- inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonder child." -- DDr. Albert Hofmann, Ph.D. (1906-2008) "There will come a day when cannabis is recognized as a wonder drug just as penicillin was considered the wonder drug of the 1940s. Penicillin was considered a wonder drug for three reasons; it is inexpensive, unusually free of toxicity, and remarkably versatile. Cannabis, like few other drugs, shares these qualities." -- Dr. Lester Grinspoon ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 303 edited by o5@utanet.ats ----------------------------------------------------------------- Since I no longer think of reality as reality, what reason would I have to think of dreams as dreams ? Saigyo (quoted in Gretel Ehrlich, 'Islands, the Universe, Home') ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Verbesserungsvorschlaege, Kommentare, etc. herzlich willkommen ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste. If the obsession with the word 'upward' has become universal nowadays, isn't it largely because death now speaks to us at such close range? -- Milan Kundera (* 1929, Bruenn) in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% if you spot an error, please let me know ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- And still the Weaver plies his loom, whose warp and woof is wretched Man Weaving th'unpattern'd dark design, so dark we doubt it owns a plan. -- the Kasidah of Haji Abdu al-Yazdi -- quoted in P. J. Farmer's 'The Dark Design' ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% text-only. fixed-font-formatted !! ----------------------------------------------------------------- DIE GESELLSCHAFT IST ZUTIEFST KRANK. Ein junger Mensch erlebt tagtaeglich Gewalt, Hass, Angst und Unsicherheit und wird unweigerlich krank. ... Fernsehprogramme, Zeitungen und Illustrierte naehren nahezu ausnahmslos die Samen des Leidens in den Menschen. Wir fuehlen uns deswegen leer und versuchen dieses Vakuum mit Essen, Lesen, Reden, Rauchen, Trinken, Fernsehen, Ins-Kino-Gehen, ja sogar Uebearbeitung zu fuellen. -- Thich Nhat Hanh, "For a Future to be possible" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 307 2003-10-05 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ... every book is a period piece now -- since years or even weeks in America no longer resemble each other at all. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (*1922) 1965 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 308 ----------------------------------------------------------------- On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy? -- James P. Hogan "Outward Bound", 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 309 2004-01 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Das Ganze ist mehr als die Summe seiner Teile. -- Aristoteles (384-322 v.Chr.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 310 2004-02 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone who has accostomed himself to regard the life of any creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of the worthlessness of human lives. -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 311 2004-02-08 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They weren't created for humans more than black people were created for whites or women for men. -- Alice Walker (*1944) Anyone who has accostomed himself to regard the life of any creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of the worthlessness of human lives. -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 312 2004-04 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, universe is winning. -- Rich Cook ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 313 2004-04-10 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Der Wiener ist ein Mensch in Schleim gemeisselt. -- Nestroy Die Wiener gehen in die Oper wie die Bauern auf den Schweinemarkt: Um boesartigen Tratsch auszutauschen. -- Oscar Wilde ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 314 2004-04-14 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy. -- Martin Luther King ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 315 ----------------------------------------------------------------- A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military 'defense' than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. Martin Luther King Jr., "The Trumpet of Conscience", 1967 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 316 2004-05-09 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die Menschen sind nicht immer was sie scheinen. Doch selten etwas Bessers. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) - Nathan der Weise (1779) Nathan: .. mache, dass du bald In deine Wueste wieder koemmst. Ich fuerchte, Grad unter Menschen moechtest du ein Mensch Zu sein verlernen. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Klosterbruder: Nathan! Nathan! Ihr seid ein Christ! - Bei Gott, Ihr seid ein Christ! Ein bessrer Christ war nie! Nathan: Wohl uns! Denn was Mich Euch zum Christen macht, das macht Euch mir zum Juden! Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) - Nathan der Weise (1779) Laesst laechelnd wenigstens ihr einen Wahn, In dem sich Jud' und Christ und Muselmann Vereinigen; - so einen suessen Wahn! -- Und ich lass meinen Traum nicht nehmen mir, dass (jetzt, im Informationszeitalter, 100e Jahre nach der 'Aufklaerung', schoen langsam doch) die, die in ihrer Kindheit zum Jud' und Christ und Muselmann konditioniert worden sind, endlich erwachsen und vernuenftig werden, die Projektionen des menschliche Geistes als solche erkennen, und gemeinsam ueber ihre fruehere Borniertheit lachen und sich von dem Chauvinismus und Antirationalismus dieser Anschauungen (angeekelt) distanzieren. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 318 09.05.2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- chance favors the prepared mind. -- -- -- assumption is the mother of most fuckups. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 319 16.05.2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Der Ernst steht ja niemals soweit von uns und unseren Spaessen, als uns lieb waere. Earnestness never is as remote from us and our jokes as we'd like. (my transl.) -- Hermann Hesse (1877, Calw/Wuerttemberg - 1962) 1933 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 320 16.05.2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You can't change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails. -- Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 321 17.05.2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Das [ZWANGHAFTE] AUSWEICHEN VOR DEM WESENTLICHEN ist DAS Problem des Menschen. -- Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), "Christusmord" (1951), 1.Kapitel The [compulsory] evasion of the essential is THE problem of mankind. -- Wilhelm Reich, "The Murder of Christ" (1951), Ch.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 322 ----------------------------------------------------------------- i can't believe the news today but i can't close my eyes and let it go away U2 'Bloody Sunday' ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 323 ----------------------------------------------------------------- DON'T CURSE THE DARKNESS; LIGHT A CANDLE ! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 324 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. Die Tugend selbst entgeht nicht der Verleumdung. This above all - to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Dies ueber alles - sei dir selber treu. Und daraus folgt, so wie die Nacht dem Tage, Du kannst nicht falsch sein gegen irgendwen. -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 325 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. ...Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity - the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2 Behandelt jeden Menschen nach seinem Verdienst - Und wer ist vor Schlaegen sicher? Behandelt sie nach eurer eigenen Ehre und Wuerdigkeit - Je geringer ihr Verdienst umso mehr Verdienst erwirbt sich eure Guete. -- Those who are good I treat as good. Those who are not good I also treat as good. In so doing I gain in goodness. Tao Te Ching XLIX translated by D. C. LAU ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 326 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Baeume sind Heiligtuemer. Wer mit ihnen zu sprechen, wer ihnen zuzuhoeren weiss, der erfaehrt die Wahrheit. Sie predigen nicht Lehren und Rezepte, sie predigen -um das Einzelne unbekuemmert- das Urgesetz des Lebens. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach --undeterred by particulars-- the ancient law of life. -- Hermann Hesse (1877, Calw/Wuerttemberg - 1962) 1933 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 327 8.6.004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people Living for today... Imagine there's no country, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people Living life in peace... Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A sisterhood of man, Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You may say I'm dreamer But I'm not the only one, I hope some day you'll join us, And the world will live as one. John Lennon (1940-1980) & Yoko Ono, 1971 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 328 13.6.2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you knew the effects of generosity you would not miss out on one chance to share. Wenn ihr die Wirkung der Freigiebigkeit kennen wuerdet, so wuerdet ihr keine Gelegenheit mehr auslassen zu teilen. -- Buddha Siddharta Gautama (?563-483 BC) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 329 ----------------------------------------------------------------- - Warum geben sie soviel? Wieso dienen sie all diesen Menschen? - Ich gebe niemandem etwas, ich mache alles fuer mich selbst. - Why do you give so much? Why do you serve all these people? - I'm giving nothing to anyone, I'm doing it all for myself. Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 330 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Vom Verlangen angetrieben rennen die Wesen hin und her wie ein gehetzter Hase; von Fesseln und Haften umschlungen verfallen sie immer wieder und wieder dem Leiden. -- Buddha Siddharta Gautama (563-483 BC), Dhammapada, Vers 342 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 331 15.6.004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. William Blake, LONDON, Songs of Experience (ca. 1790) Tangerine Dream - Tyger (1987) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 332 1.7.004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Denn uns drohen Kriege, gegen welche die vergangenen wie armselige Versuche sind, und sie werden kommen ohne jeden Zweifel, wenn wir denen, die sie in aller OEffentlichkeit vorbereiten, nicht die Haende zerschlagen. Bertold Brecht (1898-1956) (geringfuegig veraendert) Friedenswerkstatt Linz http://www.friwe.at/ Die weltweiten Ruestungsausgaben sind von 1999-2001 um weitere 7% gestiegen, und betragen rund 1,000,000,000,000 E/$ jaehrlich. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute schwedisches Friedensforschungsinstitut, SIPRI http://www.sipri.org/ SIPRI: 2011 total world military spending = 1,74 T$ = 1,740,000,000,000 USDD = ~70 cents/day for every human alive ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 333 2.7.004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- For everything that lives is Holy. --William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, etched 1790-3 A Song of Liberty, Chorus (plate 27) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 334 3.7.004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ALL RELIGIONS are ONE. The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness ... the true method of knowledge is experiment ... ... the Poetic Genius is the true Man, and..body and outward form..is derived from the Poetic Genius. ..which by the Ancients was call'd an Angel & Spirit & Demon As all Men are alike in outward form, So (and with the same infinite variety) all are alike in their Poetic Genius. . . . As all men are alike (tho' infinitely various), So all Religions &, as all similars, have one source. [sic] The true Man is the source, ..being the Poetic Genius. -- William Blake, etched about 1788 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 335 3.7.004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- THE FLY Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee ? Or art not thou A man like me ? For I dance, And drink, & sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath, And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live Or if I die. -- William Blake, Songs of Experience (ca. 1790) Tangerine Dream - Tyger (1987) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 336 ----------------------------------------------------------------- In the 24 hours since this time ysterday, over 200,000 acres [..] of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been rleased into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died of starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant or animal species have been driven to extinction by the action of humans. (The last time there was such a rapid loss of species was when the dinosaurs vanished.) And all this just since yesterday. -- Thom Hartmann, The LAST HOURS of ANCIENT SUNLIGHT 1998; revised and updated edition 2004 it's more than 200 species (according to *conservative* etimates) now, ~ 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 337 ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Weep, weep!" cries a bird Lost somewhere in fog and mist. Sunrise with no sun. You speak to me of nationality, language, religion. These are nets I shall try to fly over. --James Joyce(1882-1941), A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 338 ----------------------------------------------------------------- In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- as quoted in R.A.Wilson's "TSOG the thing that ate the constitution" 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 339 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes Marijuana Is the Best Medicine. -- headline in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, thu. january 28th, 1993 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 340 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. -- UNESCO CHARTER -- as quoted in MAPS Bulletin 2.1 now why does our brave new corpormilitary compleXX wage an openly declared WAR against users of C E R T A I N drugs? -- jmhq, 2004. PEACE! assalam 'alaikum ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 341 28.7.2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- QUOTE OF THE WEEK, EarthNet News Aug. 4, 2004, http://www.envirocitizen.org ... --------------------------------------------------------- "U.S. annual plastic bag consumption requires an estimated 12,000,000 barrels of oil." -- From http://ReusableBags.com, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 342 4.8.2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. -- from the Great Law (or constitution) of the Iroquois Confederacy -- as quoted in Thom Hartmann's "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights" 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 343 8.8.2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. Irrsinn - eine voellig vernuenftige Anpassung an eine voellig irrsinnige Welt. -- Ronald David Laing (Schottland 1927-1989) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 344 20.8.2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Verstummte und Verdummte verstummen und verdummen auch dich. Sie koennen nicht zulassen, dass ein Nichtverst/dummter ihnen ihre St/Dummheit bewusst macht. Je mehr sie verst/dummen, umso mehr wollen sie, dass noch mehr verst/dummen. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 The silenced and stupidified silence and stupidify you, too. They can never let it happen that someone not so dumbed makes them aware of their own dumbness and stupidity. The more they get dumbed and stupidified the more they want everyone else dumbed and stupidified. ( my amateurish translation, for which any and all corrections or suggestions4improvement would be much appreciated, with thanks in advance. ) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 345 30.08.2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- "" Neugier ist nuetzlich; Angst nutzlos. "" "" Curiosity is helpful; Fear is useless "" " Der Menschheit gewidmet und der Hoffnung, dass der Kampf gegen die Dummheit eines Tages schliesslich doch noch gewonnen wird. " " To mankind, and the hope that the war against folly may someday be won after all. " -- Isaac Asimov (1920-92) - "The Gods Themselves" 1972 "Lunatico oder Die naechste Welt" D 1972 "" Gegen Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens. "" "" Against Stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain "" -- Schiller, Johanna von Orleans (3. akt, szene 6) -- as quoted in "The Gods Themselves" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 346 25.09.004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- das suchen nach mehr leben passt nicht ins system der immer weniger lebenden: das finden von mehr leben scheint wie ein verrat an/den nur ein bisschen lebenden aber jedes nur ein bisschen leben ist verrat am wirklichen leben -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 347 8.12.004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wir alle leben, wissen aber nicht, warum und wofuer. Wir leben alle mit dem Ziel, gluecklich zu sein, wir leben alle verschieden und doch gleich. ... Faulheit mag anziehend _scheinen_, Arbeit _gibt_ Befriedigung. --Annelies Frank (* Frankfurt, 12.6.1929 + KZ Bergen-Belsen, Maerz 1945) A'dam, Prinsengracht 81, Hinterhaus Tagebucheintrag vom Do., 6. Juli 1944 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 348 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Kein Tod sollte eine Tragoedie sein; und meiner wird ein Fest sein. No death should be a tragedy; and mine is going to be a festivity. (wahrscheinlich von) James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix (1942-70) -- zitiert in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 349 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jeder nach seinen Faehigkeiten, jedem nach seinem Beduerfnissen. -- Karl Marx (1818-1883), das Kommunistische Manifest (1847/8) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- Es war mir uebrigens im vornherein klar, dass die Werbung, die sich im Daseinskampf der Waren auf dem Markt immer mehr vervollkommnet, uns nicht durch die besser werdende Qualitaet der Waren, sondern durch die schlechter werdende Qualitaet der Welt unterjochen wird. It was clear to me from the outset, that marketing, which in the struggle for survival of products on the market is getting ever more perfect, would subjugate us not by the increased quality of goods, but by the decreasing quality of the world. (my transl., draft) --Stanislav Lem "Eine Minute der Menschheit" (Berlin, 1983-03) -- Advertising is heading us quite simply into a world, where the ad will become a substitute for the product and all the satisfactions will be derived informationally from the ad and the product will be merely a number in some file somewhere. -- who??? ... quoted in U2 - ZOO TV, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGXRBnQCn9s and on ADBUSTERS "live without dead time" CD -- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE90B9F68916047DC ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 351 2005-02 ----------------------------------------------------------------- year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept. Basho (Matsuo Munefusa, 1644-1694) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 352 205-02-26 ----------------------------------------------------------------- It seems, the biggest challenge we face is no longer the problem itself, but our inability to see it. -- Andy Johnston in (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org) #57, 2005/1+2 The later it gets, the more we have to distract ourselves from the fact, that soon it will be too late. -- Helmut Seethaler, 1200 Wien Das [zwanghafte] Ausweichen vor dem Wesentlichen ist DAS Problem des Menschen. -- Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), "Christusmord" (1951) 1. Kapitel ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 353 ----------------------------------------------------------------- All rationalism tends to minimize the value and the importance of life, and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. -- Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890-1937) (yeah. But so does irrationalism, only on a larger scale -- wda) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 354 ----------------------------------------------------------------- One Day I went fishing with Dad. As I was walking behind him I was dragging my spear on the beach which was leaving a long line behind me. He told me to stop doing that. He continued telling me that if I made a mark, or dig, with no reason at all, I've been hurting the bones of the traditional people of that land. We must only dig and make marks on the ground when we perform [rituals] or gather food. -- Galarrwuy Yunupingu, son of the Australian Aboriginal artist Munggurrawuy --as quoted in (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org) #57, 2005/1+2 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 355 2005-02-26 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SHe who knows how to go about it could live comfortably even in hell. is a very popular saying in Tibet [around 1900 gregor.] -- Mdme. Alexandra David-Neel "Magic and Mystery in Tibet" (F 1929, E 1932) "Heilige und Hexer" (D 1936) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 356 2005-02-27 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Der Geist denkt, das Geld lenkt. -- Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) Der Untergang des Abendlandes (1922) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 357 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Keines verbleibt in derselben Gestalt, und Veraenderung liebend Schafft die Natur stets neu aus anderen andere Formen, Und in der Weite der Welt geht nichts -das glaubt mir- verloren. NEC SPECIES SUA CUIQUE MANET, RERUMQUE NOVATRIX EX ALIIS ALIAS REPERAT NATURA FIGURAS, NEC PERIT IN TOTO QUICQUAM, MIHI CREDITE, MUNDO, SED VARIAT FACIEMQUE NOVAT, ... Kein Ding behaelt seine eigene Erscheinung, und die ewig schoepferische Natur laesst eine neue Gestalt aus der anderen hervorgehen, und - glaubt mir! - in der ganzen Welt geht nichts zugrunde, sondern es wandelt sich und erneuert sein Gesicht. -- D: Michael Albrecht -- Publius Ovidus Naso, 43 v.Chr. - ca.17 n. Metamorphosen XV, Pythagoras (252-255) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 358 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Das Gesetz sagt: Manchesmal siehst du die Sonne nicht, Manchmal ist die Sitte ohne Kraft, Manchmal ist die Liebe nicht zu spueren. Aber niemals kann die Nacht den Tag besiegen. aus: Das buddhistische Buch der Liebe zitiert in Ursache & Wirkung, http://www.ursache.at, #50, 4/2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 359 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ein Mensch ohne den Mut zur Wahrheit ist eine Karikatur seiner selbst. In der kapital[fasch]istischen 'Wohlstands'gesellschaft bilden die Selbst-Karikaturen des Menschen anscheinend die Mehrheit. Sonst haetten einfache Wahrheiten mehr Chancen. A human without the courage for truth is a caricature of hirself. It seems that in capital[fasc]ist[ic] 'affluent' societies these human caricatures-of-self are a majority. Otherwise simple truths would stand a better chance. (my transl., suggestions-4-improvement welcome.) --Johannes Heinrichs (*1942, ehemals Professor an der Jesuiten- hochschule in Frankfurt (St.Georgen)) "Sprung aus dem Teufels- kreis, Logik des Sozialen und [Silvio Gesell's] Natuerliche Wirtschaftslehre" VitaNuova (?2000) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 360 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Podran cortar todas las flores, Pero jamas detendran la primavera. Sie koennen alle Blumen abschneiden, Aber den Fruehling werden sie nie beherrschen. Pablo Neruda (Neftali Ricardo Reyes, 1904(Chile)-1973) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 361 06/2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dieselbe Strecke Landes, welche als Wiese, d.h. als Viehfutter, zehn Menschen durch das Fleisch der darauf gemaesteten Tiere aus zweiter Hand ernaehrt, vermag, mit Hirse, Erbsen, Linsen und Gerste bebaut, hundert Menschen zu erhalten und zu ernaehren. Wo ein Jaeger lebt, koennen zehn Hirten leben, hundert Ackerbauern und tausend Gaertner. --(Baron Friedrich Heinrich) Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 362 07/005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Buddhists teach to free yourself from the three great evils in life: greed -which means all kinds of craving- hatred, and delusion. But delusion is really the cause of the other two. -- James. P. Hogan, Paths to Otherwhere, 1996 Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything. -- ibid. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 363 3.7. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Man laesst uns nach Dingen greifen, die wir nicht brauchen, aber doch vermissen und immer mehr haben wollen, weil man uns staendig einredet, dass uns etwas fehlt, wenn wir sie nicht haben. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 364 9.7. ----------------------------------------------------------------- AKTUELLES konsumieren wir(*) wie Drogen immer suechtiger sind wir(*) nach neuen sensationen je mehr wir(*) von vielen kurzzeitig wichtig gemachten dingen abhaengig gemacht werden umso weniger wollen wir(*) von wirklich wichtigen wissen -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 *) bzw., genauer gesagt: die KonsumIdioten ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 365 13.7. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Es gibt keinen Gott ausser der Wirklichkeit Gott anderswo zu suchen ist der Suendenfall. --eine muendliche Ueberlieferung, die der (moeglicherweise mythischen) Sarmouni-Schule (der G.I.Gurdjeff moeglicherweise angehoerte) zugeschrieben wird -- zit. in Charles T. Tart, Hellwach.. (Waking Up) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 366 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wir leben in einer Gesellschaft der unerhoert florierenden Geistes- und Seelen-prostitution. Das ist keine Subkultur, wie das daneben noch harmlose sexuelle Prostitutionswesen, sondern eine Krankheit der Kultur selbst. --Johannes Heinrichs (*1942, ehemals Professor an der Jesuiten- hochschule in Frankfurt (St.Georgen)) "Sprung aus dem Teufels- kreis, Logik des Sozialen und [Silvio Gesell's] Natuerliche Wirtschaftslehre" VitaNuova (?2000) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 367 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Der Mensch ist eine Maschine. -- G. I. Gurdjeff (1877-1949) Maschinen sind laermende, schmutzige, geistlose Dinge, die eine stupide Aufgabe endlos wiederholen, von aussen kontrolliert werden, irgendwann kaputtgehen und dann unbrauchbar sind. -- Charles T. Tart, Hellwach.. (Waking Up; 1995) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 368 14.08.005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- "DORT OBEN, WO DAS KOENNEN DEM WOLLEN FOLGT" (Dante, um 1310) dort 'oben': weit, weit, immer weiter weg (wda, 2005) E il duca a lui: "Caron, non ti crucciare: Vuolsi cosi cola dove si puote Cio che si vuole, e piu non dimandare" [ Virgil fuehrt den Dichter durch die Unterwelt.. ] Da sprach zu ihm der Fuehrer: "Ruhig Charon! So will man es dort oben, wo das Koennen dem Wollen folgt, mehr sollst Du jetzt nicht fragen." Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) La Divina Commedia (?1309-?1320) INFERNO, canto terzo / die hoelle, 3. gesang (D von H. Gmelin, 1949) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 369 08/005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- S H O R T C U T S M A K E L O N G D E L A Y S . -- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Ch. IV ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 370 31/08/005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Finally] I grok people...so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts,.. because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. -- Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, 1961 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 371 01/09/005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Geld ermoeglicht eine neue Art der Herrschaftsbeziehung: anonym und unangreifbar. Money allows for a new kind of rule: anonymous and unassailable. -- geldMACHTwerte, radiokolleg ORF 1999 --- Money is a new form of slavery. Distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal, that there is no human relation between master and slave. -- attributed to Leo Tolstoi allegedly also tweeted by Noam Chomsky ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 372 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain ? Gegen Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens ? (Schiller, Johanna von Orleans, 3. Akt, Szene 6) ja, m a n c h m a l vergebens ! Aber wer nicht gegen die VERBLOEDETHEIT kaempft, hat mit Schuld daran, und hat dadurch mit Schuld an einem Grossteil des (selbstverursachten und somit unnoetigen) Leidens der Menschen ! (wda 2005) (mit "VERBLOEDETHEIT" [ 'Verblendung', 'Ignoranz'; skt.: mula] meine ich weniger einen Mangel an Wissen oder Bildung oder Intelligenz, sondern vielmehr jenen Zustand (der weitgehenden Unfaehigkeit zu lernen), in den sich viele Menschen durch (meist jahrelange, zwang+krampfhaft wiederholtes) 'Ueben' von Verdraengung, nicht-wahrhaben-wollen, Leugnen, Abwehren, Ablenkung, Zerstreuung, (Selbstbe-)Luegen und sonstigem schaedlichem Verhalten versetzen. (wda ? 2005) --- Buddhists teach to free yourself from the three great evils (mula) in life: greed [pali: lobha] -which means all kinds of craving- hatred [pali: dosa, skt.: dvesa], and delusion [moga]. [ Gier, Sucht; Hass, Zorn; Verblendung, Selbst-Taeuschung, Irrglaube ] But delusion [moha] is really the cause of the other two. -- James. P. Hogan, Paths to Otherwhere, 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 373 4.9.005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Good people and bad people have one thing in common: they both make mistakes. Only... good people can admit their mistakes and learn from them. Gute Menschen haben mit schlechten eines gemeinsam: beide machen Fehler. - Nur: gute Menschen geben ihre Fehler zu und lernen daraus. -- 'Vater, Otto Frank' in "Anne Frank", US 2001, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246430/ nach dem Buch: "Das Maedchen Anne Frank" von Melissa Mueller ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 374 ----------------------------------------------------------------- fortschritt ? progress ? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ein ehrlicher Mensch kann hier kaum ein paar Saetze von sich geben, ohne sich Feinde zu machen. Hermann Hesse (vor knapp 100 Jahren) H e u t e braucht ein ehrlicher Mensch nicht mal mehr den Mund aufzumachen, um sich Feinde zu machen! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. Die Tugend selbst entgeht nicht der Verleumdung. (Shakespeare, vor etwa 400 Jahren; Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 3) H e u t e ist BESONDERS die Tugend Ziel der Verleumdung. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Woran erkennt man bei einer Blondine / einem Politiker das sier luegt ? - der Mund bewegt sich. H e u t e brauchen die menschen den Mund nicht zu bewegen um zu luegen: Ihr s(ch)ein, gehabe, getue, und mimischer & koerpersprachlicher ausdruck sind LUEGE genug. ( wda o5@utanet.at 01/09/005 ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I am not what I am. ((Iago in) 'The Moor of Venice, 1.1) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - progressive deterioration !! fortschreitender zerfall !! ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 375 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Altruismus ist der Egoismus der (Intelligent+feinfuehlig)eren. -- wda 199x Egoismus ist Einsamkeit. -- Schiller -- [Eigennutz sollte nicht mit Selbstsucht verwechselt werden.] Der Kurzsichtige ist selbstsuechtig, der Weitsichtige wird in der Regel bald einsehen, dass im Gedeihen des Ganzen der eigene Nutz am besten verankert ist. -- Silvio Gesell, "Natuerliche Wirtschaftsordnung" (S.14) ---- zitiert in Johannes Heinrichs' "Sprung aus dem Teufels- kreis, Logik des Sozialen und Natuerliche Wirtschafts- lehre" VitaNuova, 2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 376 17.9.005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ich gebe den Schmerz nicht her, weil ich sonst auch das Goettliche hergeben muesste. -- Adalbert Stifter (1805-1858) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 377 18.9.005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Our] Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. -- Stanley Diamond (1922-91) "In Search of the Primitive" As much as on anything, our civilization is based on repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation of Reality. -- R.D.Laing (1927-89) "Politics of Experience" 1967 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 378 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Psychiatrist R. D. Laing formulated three rules, by which a pathological family [or society] -one plagued by..severe abuse- can keep its pathology hidden even from its members themselves: Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A does not exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of these rules. -- If the first rule of a dysfunctional system is "Don't talk about it," then our primary goal should be to tell the truth, to be as honest as we can manage to be. -- David Edwards (author of "Burning all Illusions") --quoted in Derrick Jensen's "The Culture of Make Believe" 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 379 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wir koennen nicht als freie Menschen unter den Weissen leben. Wir werden versklavt. Es ist besser zu sterben, als wie Hunde zu leben. We cannot live as free people under the white men. We are being enslaved. It is better to die than to live like dogs. -- Tatanka IYotaka (Sitting Bull), ca. 1870 as quoted on http://sopos.org/aufsaetze/3ae9e0ef0a1d8/1.phtml ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 380 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ETHIK IST WICHTIGER ALS RELIGION. Die Lehre des Buddhas ist, dass ich mein eigener Meister bin und alles von mir abhaengt. Das wirkliche Wesen des Geistes ist Licht; Verdunklung kann nur voruebergehend erscheinen. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso, XIV. DALAI LAMA ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 381 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [A]ll of life is a symphony of successive losses. You lose your youth, your parents, your loves, your friends, your comforts, your health, and finally your life. To deny loss is to lose it all anyway and to lose, in addition, your self-possession and your peace of mind. -- Isaac Asimov (1920-92), Nemesis (1989) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 382 11.12.005 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wer aber vom Kapitalismus nicht reden will, sollte auch vom Faschismus schweigen. -- Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) 1939 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 383 ----------------------------------------------------------------- isn't all we see and seem but a dream within a dream ? -- Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 384 16/01/006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The activities of our economic and social system are killing the planet. ... What i'm suggesting is: A RETURN TO HUMANITY. ... So...we need to get rid of civilization... and first...see civilization...and the inhumanity of our current system...for what it is. And we must speak out about it, [as] its first rule is: Don't [see|speak]. -- Derrick Jensen "The Culture of Make Believe", 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 385 22/01/006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Fantasie ist wichtiger als alles Wissen. Imagination is more important than all knowledge. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 386 05/02/006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I amar prestar aen. The world is changing. han mathon ne nen, I can feel it in the water, han mathon ne chae, I can feel it in the earth, a han noston ned. I can smell it in the air. Vieles, was einst war, ist verloren.... Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) -- *) und so die meisten, wenn nicht alle, Errungenschaften der Menschheit werden wohl auch bald (dh. in wenigen Jahrzehnten) im Arsch sein. -- wda 2019 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 387 12/02/006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Toete nicht den Boten ! ( Do not kill the messenger ! ) -- Sophokles (496-406 BC) Koenig Oedipus -- -- zitiert in Raumschiff Voyager ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 388 19.2. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman (1900-1981), Civil Rights Leader -- as quoted by http://www.PeacePilgrim.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 389 8.3. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Since you are mortal, don't prophesy the quality of tomorrow's dawn, and when you meet the man of the year, don't try to read his lifeline, for swifter even than a dragonfly, pfft a change. -- Simonides (?556-?468 BC) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 390 25.3. ----------------------------------------------------------------- SHORT CUTS OFTEN MAKE LONG DELAYS. Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) -- Umwege erweitern die Ortskenntnis. -- Kurt Tucholsky ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 391 25.3. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. -- Al Capone Kapitalismus ist der absurde Glaube, dass die uebelsten Menschen mit den uebelsten Motiven irgendwie zum allgemeinen Wohl arbeiten wuerden. Capitalism is the absurd belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. -- John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) KAPITALISMUS GEHT UEBER LEICHEN ! KAPITALISMUS IST ORGANISIERTE KRIMINALITAET ! -- Duesseldorfer ArbeitslosenInitiative e.V. KREBS IST GUT !! FUER BAYER & CO -- wda ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 392 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Es ist kaum uebertrieben zu sagen, dass im Augenblick die Menschheit als Gattung wahnsinnig ist und dass es keine dringendere Aufgabe fuer uns gibt als die Wiederherstellung des geistigen Gleichgewichts. Wir nennen ein Individuum wahnsinnig, wenn seine leitenden Ideen seinen Umstaenden so wenig angemessen sind, dass es fuer sich selbst und fuer andere zur Gefahr wird. Diese Definition des Wahnsinns scheint die ganze gegenwaertige Menschheit zu erfassen ... -- H.G.Wells (1866-1949), "Die Geschichte unserer Welt" Man and his society are mentally ill in the strictest psychiatrist sense of the word. -- Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), "People in Trouble" (1953) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 393 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Selbst wenn ich wuesste, dass morgen die Welt unterginge, wuerde ich heute ein Apfelbaeumchen pflanzen. -- Martin Luther (1483-1546) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 394 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Since you are mortal, don't prophesy the quality of tomorrows's dawn, and when you meet the man of the year, don't try to read his life line, for swifter than a dragonfly, pfft a change. -- Simonides (?556 - ?468 B.C.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 395 29.5.006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Arbeite, als wuerdest du kein Geld brauchen. Liebe, als haette Dich noch nie jemand verletzt. Tanze, als wuerde keiner hinschauen. Singe als wuerde keiner zuhoeren. Lebe, als waere das Paradies auf Erden. wird unter anderem zugeschrieben: -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), -- Mark Twain, William Purkey, Satchel Paige ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 396 1.6.006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Do you spend more time watching nature programs than experiencing the real thing? More time laughing at tv jokes than joking around yourself? More time watching tv sx than making love yourself? Then there's something you are missing. Television isn't real. But the addiction is. a message from the media foundation (ca. 2002) www.adbusters.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 397 ----------------------------------------------------------------- das sind die wahren wunder der technik: dass sie das, wofuer sie entschaedigt, auch ehrlich kapputtmacht. -- Karl Kraus (1874-1937) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 398 ----------------------------------------------------------------- We are often unable to tell people what they n e e d to know, because they w a n t to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said. -- George McDonald, LILITH (1895) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 399 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ALLES WAS MAN SAGT, KOENNTE MAN AUCH NICHT SAGEN. -- Reden ist Entweihung, Schweigen ist Irrefuehrung. Jenseits von Schweigen und Reden fuehrt ein Weg hinauf, doch mein Mund ist nicht gross genug, um ihn euch zu weisen. -- I-tuan; aus: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3897675617/zenguide-21 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 400 17.06.2006; last update: 2011-04 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ich fuer meinen Teil war von Beginn..dieser Ansicht, dass der Kopfsturz der Menschenwuerde von einem Gehirnbazillus verursacht wird, dem nur die ihm selbst verfallene Wissenschaft bislang nicht auf die Spur kommen konnte. I, for one, have always held this opinion, that the headcrash of human dignity is caused by a mind-bug, which science has been unable to trace only because it is itself infected. (my transl.) .. die Unvorstellbarkeit der taeglich erlebten Dinge .. -- Karl Kraus (1874-1937) (doku, 3sat) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 401 17.6.2006 Mc Copies & D. Stribute ! 2133 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ES GIBT NICHTS SELTENERES ALS DAS EINFACH RICHTIGE. Ich kann es mir nicht versagen, ein treffendes Wort Carl Spittelers zu zitieren. "Kein gewissenhafter Schriftsteller strebt jemals nach Originalitaet. Hat einer eine bedeutende Persoenlichkeit, so wird er schon von selber origineller geraten, als ihm und seinen Lesern lieb ist. Wo nicht, so gibt es keinen besseren Weg zu einer gesunden Originalitaet, also zu einer besonderen Eigenart, als jeweils seine Sache Recht zu machen. Wer nur immer das tut, also zum Beispiel in Prosa vernuenftig und schlicht schreibt, unterscheidet sich schon gewaltig von der grossen Mehrzahl, denn es gibt ja nichts Selteneres als das einfach Richtige." -- Karlheinz Deschner (1924-2014) in "Kitsch Konvention und Kunst" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 402 26.7.20076 aus Haiku - Neue Folge, Reclam 9690: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Am Neujahrstag selbst Steht dort doch unveraendert Der Lumpensammler! Als Kronjuwelen Zum Jahresanfang wieder - Die alten Laeuse! -- Issa (1763-1827), D.v. Jan Ulenbrook ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 403 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dem Flurenbuddha Das rosarote Kaeppchen Die Pflaumenbluete -- Issa (1763-1827), D.v. Jan Ulenbrook ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 404 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nach solchem Regen Wie immer unausweichlich Die Kuckucksrufe. -- Issa (1763-1827) Orangenbaeume Und hier und dort im Felde Der Ruf des Kuckucks. -- Basho Matsuo Munefusa (1644-1694) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 405 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Der schoenste Drachen War in die Luft gestiegen Vorm Haus des Bettlers! -- Issa (1763-1827), D.v. Jan Ulenbrook ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 406 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Against Stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain. Gegen Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens. (Schiller, Johanna von Orleans, 3. Akt, Szene 6) - nicht zuletzt wohl deswegen, weil sie von allzuvielen Menschen beharrlich und oft krampf- und zwang-haft verteidigt wird ! (wda) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 407 16.9.006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Does one really have to fret About enlightenment? No matter what road I travel I am going home. -- a simple haiku(??) from Shinsho (?) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 408 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. -- Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 409 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. -- Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Freude ist an und fuer sich nicht schlecht, sondern gut; Traurigkeit hingegen ist an und fuer sich schlecht. -- Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), "Ethik" (Ethica, 1677) -- -- zit. in E.Fromm, "Die Seele des Menschen" (1964), S.44 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 410 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Worldly ups and downs Should be treated As lightly as clouds Gathering and breaking up. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 411 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Maggiore fretta, minore atto. Je mehr Hast, desto weniger Schnelligkeit. ( The more hurry, the less swiftness. ) (?) -- (zit.in) Mark Twain Samuel Langborne Clemens (1835-1910): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) & Huckleberry Finn (1885) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 412 26.7.2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [UE]berall verzeiht man dem Naechsten seine Fehler eher als seine Vorzuege. -- K. H. Waggerl (1897-1973) [E]verywhere people forgive another's faults more readily than hir merits/virtues. [my transl.] --- GEISTIGE UEBERLEGENHEIT IST..DAS VERHASSTESTE AUF DER WELT. In all the world people hate nothing more than intellectual superiority. [my transl.] -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Popularitaet und hohe Auflagen sprechen gewoehnlich aber weniger fuer als gegen einen Autor. Denn der mittelmaessige Schrift- steller findet in der Regel mehr Leser, weil es auch mehr Menschen seines Schlages gibt. Je bedeutender dagegen ein Buch, um so geringer im allgemeinen die Zahl seiner Interessenten. Schopenhauer betont, dass Quantitaet und Qualitaet des Publikums eines Werkes meist im umgekehrten Verhaeltnis stehen und zumindest die Wirksamkeit eines Schriftstellers dadurch bedingt sei, dass er den Ruf erlange, man muesse ihn lesen. "Diesen Ruf nun aber werden, durch Kuenste, Zufall und Wahlverwandtschaft, hundert Unwuerdige schnell erlangen, waehrend ein Wuerdiger langsam und spaet dazu kommt. Jene naemlich haben Freunde; weil das Pack stets in Menge vorhanden ist und eng zusammenhaelt: er aber hat nur Feinde; weil geistige Ueberlegenheit, ueberall und in allen Verhaeltnissen, das Verhassteste auf der Welt ist." Alles was der Philosoph ueber "Urteil, Kritik, Beifall und Ruhm" schrieb, ist heute so aktuell wie damals. Denn wie er ganz richtig prophezeit: "Man denke nur nicht, dass es mit diesem Gang der Dinge sich jemals bessern werde. Die elende Beschaffenheit des Menschengeschlechts nimmt zwar in jeder Generation eine etwas veraenderte Gestalt an, ist aber zu allen Zeiten dieselbe." -- Karlheinz Deschner (1924-2014) in "Kitsch Konvention und Kunst" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 413 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sucht nicht nach den Spuren der Alten, sucht wonach die Alten suchten ! -- Basho Matsuo Munefusa (1644-1694) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 414 13.8.2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Du musst dich anpassen, sagt man." "Nie! ... wenn ich anfange mich anzupassen, wird meine Seele sterben. Lieber will ich wie ein Strassenhund leiden, als weniger empfindsam zu werden." -- Klaus Kinski, in 'Ich bin Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes' (1979) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 415 16.8.006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- but magic is no instrument: magick is the end. -- buffy sainte-marie, illuminations ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 416 12.9.006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wenn die Menschen jemals freiwerden, das heisst dem Zwang entrinnen sollen, die Industrie durch pathologisch uebersteigerten Konsum auf Touren zu halten, dann ist eine radikale Aenderung des Wirtschaftssystems vonnoeten: dann muessen wir der gegenwaertigen Situation ein Ende machen, in der eine gesunde Wirtschaft nur um den Preis kranker Menschen moeglich ist. Unsere Aufgabe ist, es, eine gesunde Wirtschaft fuer gesunde Menschen zu schaffen. -- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) Haben oder Sein - Die seelischen Grundlagen einer neuen Gesellschaft (1976) If human beings are ever to become free and to cease feeding industry by pathological consumption, a radical change in the economic system is necessary: we must put an end to the present situation where a healthy economy is possible only at the price of unhealthy human beings. The Task is to construct a healthy economy for healthy people. -- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) To Have or to Be? A new blueprint for mankind" (1976) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 417 24.10.006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jeder Fanatismus legt den Verdacht nahe, dass er dazu dient, andere, und gwoehnlich die entgegenegesetzten, Impulse zu verdecken. -- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) in "Haben oder Sein - Die seelischen Grundlagen einer neuen Gesellschaft" (1976) S.104 All fanaticism suggest the suspicion that it serves to cover other, and usually the opposite, impulses. -- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) in "To Have or to Be..." p.89 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 418 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Technocratic fascism must necessarily lead to catastrophe. Dehumanized Man will [has] become so mad that he will not be able to sustain a viable society. -- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) in "To Have or to Be..." (1976) Der technokratische Faschismus muss zwangslaeufig zu einer Katastrophe fuehren. Der ent-humanisierte Mensch wird so verrueckt werden, dass er nicht imstande sein wird, eine lebensfaehige Gesellschaft aufrechtzuerhalten... -- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) Haben oder Sein - Die seelischen Grundlagen einer neuen Gesellschaft (1976) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 419 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Es ist Aufgabe der Intellektuellen, eine Luege als solche zu erkennen und sie durch die Wahrheit zu ersetzen. -- Noam Chomsky (zitiert in ORF:Kunststuecke) It is the Responsibility of Intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies. -- ISBN 162097343X ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 420 ----------------------------------------------------------------- If the Nuremberg priciples were applied, then every post-war american president would have been hanged. -- Prof. Noam Chomsky - Talk at St. Michael's College, Vermont, around 1990 the biggest international terror operations that are known are the ones that are run out of Washington - quoted in "Noam Chomsky and the Media (A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense)" (CAN 1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 421 ----------------------------------------------------------------- modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. the driving force of modern industral civilization has been individual material gain ... now it's long been understood -very well- that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time. it can only persist -with whatever suffering and injustice it entails- as long as it's possible to pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited, that the world is an infinite resource, and that the world is an infinite garbage can. at this stage of history... either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community issues guided by values of solidarity, and sympathy, and concern for others, or -alternatively- there will be no destiny for anyone to control. -- Prof. Noam Chomsky speech (?whenwhere?) quoted in Noam Chomsky and the Media (-A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense)" (CAN 1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 422 ----------------------------------------------------------------- There exists no more difficult art than living. For other arts and sciences, numerous teachers are to be found everywhere. Even young people believe that they have aquired these in such a way, that they can teach them to others: throughout the whole of life, one must continue to learn to live, and, what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die. -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 BC - 65 AD) -- quoted by Erich Fromm in "The Sane Society" (1955) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 423 14.11.006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Do not confuse 'duty' with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. -- Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 424 7.12.006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- So wie der Krieg das denkbar groesste Gewaltverbrechen ist und der Zins die groesste vorstellbare Ausbeutung, so kann man die Inflation ohne Uebertreibung als den groessten denkbaren Betrug bezeichnen. --Helmut Creutz ( *1923 ) Wirtschaftsanalytiker und Publizist ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 425 8.12. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bieten euch nicht alle diese zahllosen Erscheinungen der Natur ein Tor zur Erleuchtung? -- Pen-hsien Wer weiter nichts als die Kreaturen erkannte, brauchte an keine Predigt zu denken, denn jegliche Kreatur ist Gottes voll und ist ein Buch. -- Meister Eckhart (von Hochheim, 1260-1328) * Wer alle Dinge empfangen will, muss auch alle Dinge hergeben. In der echten UNIO MYSTICA repraesentiert das Besondere das Allgemeine nicht als Traum und Schatten, sondern als lebendig- augenblickliche Offenbarung des Unerforschlichen. -- Goethe * Man suche nur nichts hinter den Phaenomenen; sie selbst sind die Lehre! ( ZEN := Stetige Uebung in Selbstbesinnung Muga := voellige Selbstvergessenheit ) zitiert in "Haiku - japanische Dreizeiler" von Jan Ulenbrook 1995 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 426 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Von Windenblueten / Das Tiefblau eine Zeitlang Ein Spiel von Schatten. -- Sojo In Windenranken / verstrickt der Brunneneimer - Drum gib mir Wasser. -- Chiyo-ni (?1702-1774) Den Trichterwinden / Die Blaetter fortgerissen Vom ersten Herbststurm. -- Shiki (1866-1902) Von Windenblueten / das tiefe BLAU dort drueben Im Lauf der Tage. -- Hakyo (*1913) (( blau !! also nicht die weiss(rosa) ackerwinde ! )) Vor jedem Hause / Die Windenbluete aufging Im Blaettermonde. -- Ryota (1718-87) "Haiku - japanische Dreizeiler" von Jan Ulenbrook 1995 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 427 23.12.006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Eine Tugend gibt es, die liebe ich sehr, eine einzige. Sie heisst Eigensinn.- Von den vielen Tugenden, von denen wir in Buechern lesen und von Lehrern reden hoeren, kann ich nicht soviel halten. Und doch koennte man alle die vielen Tugenden, die der Mensch sich erfunden hat, mit einem einzigen Namen umfassen. Tugend ist: Gehorsam. Die Frage ist nur, _wem_ man gehorche. Naemlich auch der Eigensinn ist Gehorsam. Aber alle andern, so sehr beliebten und belobten Tugenden sind Gehorsam gegen Gesetze, welche von Menschen gegeben sind. Einzig der Eigensinn ist es, der nach diesen Gesetzen nicht fragt. Wer eigensinnig ist, gehorcht einem anderen Gesetz, einem einzigen, unbedingt heiligen, dem Gesetz in sich selbst, dem >Sinn< des >Eigenen<. -- Hermann Hesse (geboren in Calw am 2.7.1877, "gegen das Ende der Neuzeit, kurz vor der beginnenden Wiederkehr des Mittelalters") in einem Brief ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 428 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Alles Leid der Welt entspringt dem Wunsch, selbst gluecklich zu sein. Alles Glueck der Welt entspringt dem Wunsch, andere gluecklich zu sehen. -- Shantideva ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 429 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wenn Dir das Wasser bis zum Hals steht - Lass den Kopf nicht haengen ! -- -- In a world of shit hold your nose and keep swimming. -- The Cynic's Book of Wisdom ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 430 2007 01 20 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ich bin nicht nur Pazifist, ich bin militanter Pazifist. Nichts wird Kriege abschaffen, wenn nicht die Menschen selbst den Kriegsdienst verweigern. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 431 2007 02 06 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die hoechste Stufe des Sehens ist Liebe. Umgekehrt kann Liebe definiert werden als die hoechste Stufe des Sehens. Albert Hofmann (11. 1. 1906 - 29. 4. 2008) LOB DES SCHAUENS (Nachtschatten 2002) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 432 2007 02 10 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Es ist eine weitverbreitete Meinung, das objektive, materielle Weltbild der Naturwissenschaften und die mystisch-religioese Welterfahrung wuerden sich widersprechen. Das Gegenteil ist wahr. Sie ergaenzen sich zu einer umfassenden Einsicht in ein und dieselbe geistig-materielle Wirklichkeit. DDr. Albert Hofmann (*1906 Baden im Aargau, CH; +2008) in LOB DES SCHAUENS (Nachtschatten Verlag 2002) It is a commonly held opinion that the 'objective', materialistic world-view of (natural)Science and the mystic-religious world- experience would contradict each other. The opposite is true. They supplement each other to form a comprehensive deeper insight into one and the same spiritual-material reality. -- my (amateur.) translation (for which corrections or suggestions 4 improvement would be gratefully appreciated ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 433 ----------------------------------------------------------------- "...LSD IS A CATALYST or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry." -- Dr. Stanislav Grof, LSD Psychotherapy (epilogue), 1979 "In one of my early books i suggested that the potential significance of LSD and other psychedelics for psychiatry and psychology was comparable to the value the microscope has for biology or the telescope has for astronomy. My later experience with psychedelics only confirmed this initial impression. These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the cathexis (energetic charge) associated with the deep unconscious contents of the psyche and make them available for conscious processing. This unique property of psychedelics makes it possible to study psychological undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviours to a depth that cannot be matched by any other method and tool available in modern mainstream psychiatry and psychology. In addition, it offers unique opportunities FOR HEALING of emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for POSITIVE PERSONALITY TRANSFORMATION, AND CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLUTION." -- Dr. Stanislav Grof, October 2005, in the foreword to the MAPS edition of Dr. Albert Hofmann's "LSD: My Problem Child" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 434 ----------------------------------------------------------------- What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Langborne Clemens, 1835-1910) -- quoted in "An Inconvenient Truth", 2006, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 435 ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEVER GIVE UP. GIB NIEMALS AUF. Change only takes place through action. Veraenderung geschieht nur durch Handeln. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso (*1935), XIV. DALAI LAMA If you do nothing, nothing happens. If you do something, something good might happen. -- Mike Gravel, on 9/11-Truth, in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePnO9AT7c04 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 436 23.3.007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? -- Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert, 1960 -- quoted by robert wolff in http://www.opednews.com/articles/ life_a_robert_w_070324_sailing_to_the_moon.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 437 25.3. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Es nutzt nichts: Auch wenn Du tausend Mal an der Olive zupfst - Sie wird deshalb keine Minute frueher reif. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 438 16.4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sometime in the next year or two, a woman will give birth in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, a young man will flee his village in west Java for the bright lights of Jakarte, or a farmer will move his impoverished family into one of Lima's inumerable pueblos jovenes. The exact moment is unimportant and it will pass unnoticed. Nonetheless it will constitute a watershed in human history, ... FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY THE URBAN POPULATION WILL OUTNUMBER THE RURAL. -- Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, 2007 ---- quoted in (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org) #71 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 439 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [ there seems to be a consensus emerging, that ] the Arctic has quite likely passed a critical climatic tipping point, beyond which the ice cap will disappear in its entirety, whatsoever we do with greenhouse gas emissions. e.g.: Mark Lynas in (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org) #71 (may/june 2007) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 440 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 'Privatization' does not mean you take a public institution and give it to some nice person; it means you take a public institution and give it to an unaccountable tyranny. Public institutions have many side benefits ... ==> http://wda.tradivarium.at/noaccess.htm Wenn ein oeffentlicher Dienst 'privatisiert' wird, geht er nicht auf irgendeinen netten Menschen ueber. Man ueberlaesst ihn vielmehr einem tyrannischen Besitzer, der niemandem Rechenschaft ablegen muss. Ein staatlicher Betrieb hat viele Vorteile ... -- Prof. Noam Chomsky in The Corporation (Can. 2003), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 441 6.5.2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Da Liebe in jeder Religion einen zentralen Platz einnimmt, kann man sagen, dass Liebe eine universelle Religion ist. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso (*1935), XIV. DALAI LAMA ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 442 20.5.007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor. Ich sehe das Bessere und heisse es gut, dem Schlechteren folge ich. -- Verwandlungen, 7, 20-21, Publius Ovidus Naso, 43 v.Chr. - ca.17 n. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 443 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hishuk ish ts'awalk. -- Nuu.ChahNulth, Vancouver Island -- -- zit. von Frank Schaetzing in "Der Schwarm" 2004 .. it all coheres. -- R.A.Wilson, Nature's God, 2001 . . . ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 444 2007 05 28 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ich gebe den Schmerz nicht her, weil ich sonst auch das Goettliche hergeben muesste. -- Adalbert Stifter (1805-1858) "Du musst dich anpassen, sagt man." "Nie! ... wenn ich anfange mich anzupassen, wird meine Seele sterben. Lieber will ich wie ein Strassenhund leiden, als weniger empfindsam zu werden" -- Klaus Kinski, in 'Ich bin Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes.' (1979) ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 445 007-07-27 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Modernes Materl Den unbenannten Stunden, die im Zeitkrieg von Microsoft gegen Millionen von Usern vorsaetzlich verschossenen schweren Ausnahmefehlern und vorhersehbaren Abstuerzen zum Opfer fielen. R. I. P. -- Erwin Heller in Zeitpresse ( www.zeitverein.at ) winter 06/07 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 446 29.7. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Peace can not be kept by force, it can only be achieved through understanding. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- -- used as closing quote in Paul Chafe's "Destiny's Forge" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 447 25.9. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Schluss mit einem Theater, das die Realitaet nur interpretiert; es ist an der Zeit, sie zu veraendern! -- Augusto Boal ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal ) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 448 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PEOPLE ARE STUPID, THEIR REASONS ARE DUMBED. -- minus delta t, Opera Death ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 449 6.11.2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- K O Y A A N I S Q A T S I ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. crazy life 2. life in turmoil 3. life out of balance 4. life desintegrating 5. A STATE OF LIFE THAT CALLS FOR ANOTHER WAY OF LIVING. Translation of the Hopi Prophecies sung in the film: "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster." "Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky." "A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans." KOYAANISQATSI (Life Out of Balance), music by PHILIP GLASS http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 450 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PLASTIC, ... => Dioxin, ... => CANCER, ... -- CANCER-EPIDEMIC No less than one out of two men and one out of three women get cancer in their lifetimes (in U$A). -- "The Corporation" (2003), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225 [and since women live longer than man this is obviously not predominantly caused just by people living longer -- wda] ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 451 12.11.007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 'SOCIALISM' collapsed because it did not allow prices to tell the economic truth. CAPITALISM will collapse because it does not allow prices to tell the economic truth. THE RICH, as Voltaire said, REQUIRE AN ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF POOR. -- ADBUSTERS #74, www.ADBUSTERS.org 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 452 6.12.007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- THE SOCIETY THAT ABOLISHES EVERY ADVENTURE MAKES ITS OWN ABOLITION THE ONLY POSSIBLE ADVENTURE. -- Situationist slogan, graffiti scrawl, Paris 1960s -- -- ADBUSTERS #74, www.ADBUSTERS.org 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 453 6.12. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Are you willing ... to own, that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness ... to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings ...? -- Henry van Dyke, Keeping Christmas, http://www.appleseeds.org/xmaskeep.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 454 28.12.2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------- N A T U R K A T A S T R O F E M E N S C H -- KarlHeinz Koller (ca. 1990) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 455 1.2.2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wir sind nicht zu schwach, um alles zu aendern. Wir werden nur von denen geschwaecht, die Angst vor unserer Staerke haben. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 We are not too weak to change it all. We are only weakened by those who are afraid of our strength. McCopies & D.Stribute 2135 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 456 9.2.008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ach, Sex ist heute anders: wir haben da keinerlei Probleme mehr, hier sind naemlich alle frigide. Sex is different now. There are no more problems. Everyone is frigid now. -- Woody Allen 1973, Sleeper / Der Schlaefer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070707/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 457 3.3.2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- the little monk: Why have we all left the world? the young monk: It's because in the world, there is no peace or freedom of the heart. the little monk: Why? the old monk: Because people haven't enough heart to put in all the things of the word. In fact, they have enough heart, but it's full of the idea of Self. -- Yong-Kyun Bae, Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun / Warum Bodhidharma nach Osten aufbrach / Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? Suedkorea 1989, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097195/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 458 14.3.008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The american people are completely hung up... Die Amerikaner sind voellig fixiert auf materiellen Besitz, auf Macht und Krieg; es ist eine kranke Gesellschaft. -- Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-1996) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 459 16.3.008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be determined by the way it treats its animals. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) As long as people think that animals don't have feelings, Animals will have to feel that people cannot think. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 460 26.3.008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -- Thomas Paine One can reason with ignorance, But it is futile to argue with stupidity [and, even more so, with hostility masked as stupidity]. -- Ed Fitch Unwissenheit laesst sich beheben, aber Argumente sind wirkungslos gegenueber der Verbloedetheit. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 461 30.3.008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, You cannot get back to seeing the part as the whole. -- Ursula K. LeGuin (*1929), "Four Ways to Forgiveness" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 462 1.4.2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- All humans can have a connection with all-that-is. The Connection is within us. -- robert wolff, ''hope lies in our ability to bring back to awareness WHAT IT IS TO BE HUMAN'' (1994) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 463 ----------------------------------------------------------------- One day we may put our bulldozers in museums, permanently locked in concrete. -- robert wolff, ''hope lies in our ability to bring back to awareness WHAT IT IS TO BE HUMAN'' (1994) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 464 5.4.2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -- Governor George W. Bush "The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country." -- George W. Bush ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 465 8.4.2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- EAT FAST - DIE YOUNG Die [U$]amerikaner geben fuer fast food mehr Geld aus, als fuer Filme,Buecher,Zeitschriften,Zeitungen,Videos,Musik zusammen! -- Sonnenzeitung, Rezension von "Die Fast Food Gesellschaft" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 466 12.4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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) ---- Der Anblick eines faehigen Kopfes ist ein Aergernis fuer die Banausen... es ist das Kennzeichen der Gemeinen, dass sie den Hoeherstehenden, an den sie sonst nicht herankommen, mit ihrer Gehaessigkeit verfolgen. -- Saadi (1190-1283), Gulistan - Rosengarten, 8. Pforte D von Rudolf Gelpke HAT VIELLEICHT JMD. DEN GULISTAN AUF EN ? ---- [UE]berall verzeiht man dem Naechsten seine Fehler eher als seine Vorzuege. -- K. H. Waggerl (1897-1973) [E]verywhere people forgive another's faults more readily than hir merits/virtues. [my transl.] ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 467 13.4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain. -- Saadi (1190-1283) Es isst und spricht der Einsichtsvolle dann nur, wenn er sieht dass durch Fasten oder Schweigen ihm und andern Leid geschieht. -- Saadi (1190-1283), Gulistan - Rosengarten, 3. Pforte D von Rudolf Gelpke ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 468 17.4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Handle an mir, wie es deiner wuerdig ist, nicht wie es meiner wuerdig ist. -- Saadi (1190-1283) Der Rosengarten (Gulistan), 2, Vom Wesen der Derwische Behandelt jeden Menschen nach seinem Verdienst - Und wer ist vor Schlaegen sicher? Behandelt sie nach eurer eigenen Ehre und Wuerdigkeit - Je geringer ihr Verdienst umso mehr Verdienst erwirbt sich eure Guete. Use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity -- the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. -- Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet, 2. Akt, 2. Szene ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 469 24.4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ich halte den Gang fuer das Ehrenvollste und Selbstaendigste und bin der Meinung, dass alles besser gehen wuerde, wenn man mehr ginge. [I consider walking the most honorable and independent, and I think that everything would run better, if people only would walk more.] -- Spaziergang nach Syrakus im Jahre 1802 Fahren zeigt Ohnmacht, Gehen Kraft. [Driving demonstrates impotence, walking strength.] So wie man im Wagen sitzt, hat man sich sogleich einige Grade von der urspruenglichen Humanitaet entfernt. [As soon as one sits in a vehicle, one has removed oneself several levels from one's original humanity.] -- Mein Sommer, 1805 -- (Namste!) Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 470 27.4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wer den Tod fuerchtet, hat das Leben verloren. -- Apokryphen, S. 1303 Who is afraid of Death, has forfeit hir life. Einige leben vor ihrem Tode, andere nach ihrem Tode. Die meisten Menschen leben aber weder vor noch nach demselben; sie lassen sich gemaechlich in die Welt herein und aus der Welt hinaus vegetieren. -- Apokryphen, S. 1314 Some live before their death, some live after their death. But most people live neither before nor after it; they only let themselves leisurely vegetate into the world and out again. -- Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 471 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Alles, was man in dieser Zeit fuer seinen Charakter tun kann, ist, zu dokumentieren, dass man nicht zur Zeit gehoert. -- Apokryphen Man darf die meisten Dinge nur sagen, wie sie sind, um eine treffliche Satire zu machen. -- Apokryphen, S. 1359 -- Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 472 28. 4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- We are now products of $500 billion of advertizing each year. -- David Orr in "The 11th Hour" (2007) Twentieth-century advertising is the most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history and its cumulative cultural effects, unless quickly checked, will be responsible for destroying the world as we know it. -- Sut Jhally, in (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org) #76, 2008/3+4 Propaganda-industry is now, 2010, > $ 1000 billion / year. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 473 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Generally, sure enough, the wise people of all times have been saying the same, and the fools - i.e. the overwhelming majority - of all times have been doing the same, that is to say the very opposite; and that's also how it's going to stay. [my amateurish translation] Im allgemeinen freilich haben die Weisen aller Zeiten immer dasselbe gesagt, und die Toren, d.h. die unermessliche Majoritaet aller Zeiten, haben immer dasselbe, naemlich das Gegenteil getan; und so wird es denn auch ferner bleiben. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 474 29. 4. von HH ----------------------------------------------------------------- Es kann der Froemmste nicht im Frieden bleiben, Wenn es dem boesen Nachbar nicht gefaellt. -- Tell in Wilhelm Tell, IV, 3 Joh. Ch. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 475 29. 4. von HH ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wer den Tod fuerchtet, hat das Leben verloren. -- Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 476 1.5. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The sexiest thing is trust. -- Tori Amos, "Jamaica Inn" e.g. on "The Beekeeper" 2005 It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity. -- Dr. Stanislav Grof in 'The Cosmic Game - Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness' (1997) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 477 3.5. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Laughter is better than pills for whatever ails you. -- J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5, #2.6 -- [L]ove and laughter break through all rigid conditioning. -- Joos Merloo, "Rape of the Mind" (1956) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 478 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Es gibt nichts ausser diesem: das Leben gut und gluecklich leben! Folge deinem Herzen, auch wenn es vom Pfade aengstlicher Seelen wegfuehrt. -- Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 479 14.5.008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Man and his society are mentally ill in the strictest psychiatrist sense of the word. -- Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), "People in Trouble" (1953) Es ist kaum uebertrieben zu sagen, dass im Augenblick die Menschheit als Gattung wahnsinnig ist und dass es keine dringendere Aufgabe fuer uns gibt als die Wiederherstellung des geistigen Gleichgewichts. Wir nennen ein Individuum wahnsinnig, wenn seine leitenden Ideen seinen Umstaenden so wenig angemessen sind, dass es fuer sich selbst und fuer andere zur Gefahr wird. Diese Definition des Wahnsinns scheint die ganze gegenwaertige Menschheit zu erfassen ... -- H.G.Wells (1866-1949), "Die Geschichte unserer Welt" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 480 ----------------------------------------------------------------- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -- Isaac Newton (1643-1727) -- quoted by Wilhelm Reich in "People in Trouble - Vol. 2 of The Emotional Plague of Mankind", 1976 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 481 17.5.008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Die sich abloesenden Generationen werden immer schlechter. Es wird die Zeit kommen, in der sie so boese geworden sind, dass sie die Macht anbeten; Macht wird dann Recht fuer sie sein, und die Ehrfurcht vor dem Guten wird aufhoeren. Zuletzt, wenn niemand sich mehr ueber Untaten empoert oder angesichts der Ungluecklichen Scham empfindet, wird Zeus auch sie vernichten. Und doch koennte selbst dann noch etwas dagegen getan werden, wenn sich nur das einfache Volk erheben und die Tyrannen stuerzen wuerde, die es unterdruecken. -- Griechischer Mythos ueber das Eiserne Zeitalter -- -- Zitiert von Erich Fromm (1900-1980) in "Anatomie der menschlichen Destruktivitaet" (1973) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 482 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wenn ich mir die Geschichte ansehe, bin ich Pessimist..., aber wenn ich mir die Vorgeschichte ansehe, bin ich Optimist. -- J. C. Smuts (1870-1950) -- -- Zitiert von Erich Fromm (1900-1980) in "Anatomie der menschlichen Destruktivitaet" (1973) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 483 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Einerseits ist der Mensch mit vielen Tierarten insofern verwandt, als er mit seinen eigenen Artgenossen kaempft. Andererseits jedoch ist er unter den Tausenden von Arten, die Kaempfe ausfechten, der einzige, bei dem diese Kaempfe zerstoerend wirken. Die menschliche Spezies ist als einzige eine Spezies von Massenmoerdern, und der Mensch ist das einzige Wesen, das seiner eigenen Gesellschaft nicht angepasst ist. -- Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988) -- -- Zitiert von Erich Fromm (1900-1980) in "Anatomie der menschlichen Destruktivitaet" (1973) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 484 18.5.008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Insanity is part of the times. You must learn to embrace the madness. Let it fire you. -- JMS & L. G. DiTillio; Babylon 5, #2.17 I like to think about it as the FreakShow. I like to say: When you're born in this World, you're given a ticket to the FreakShow; when you're born in America, you've got a front row seat. -- George Carlin (1937 - 2008) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 485 20.5.2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Das Schoenste, was wir erleben koennen, ist das Geheimnisvolle... Wer es nicht kennt und sich nicht mehr wundern, nicht mehr staunen kann, der ist sozusagen tot und sein Auge erloschen. -- Albert Einstein -- zitiert in Stanislav Grof's "Kosmos und Psyche" (1987) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 486 18.6.008 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Denn ich wurde bereits einmal Knabe, Maedchen, Pflanze, Vogel und flutentauchender, stummer Fisch. -- Empedokles (494-434 v. Chr.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 487 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing is higher than these mysteries. They have sweetenend our character and softened our customs; they have made us pass from the condition of savages to true humanity. They have not only shown us the way to live joyfully, but they have taught us to die with hope. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero describing the Eleusinian Mysteries in "De Legibus" quoted by Stan Grof in "The Ultimate Journey" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 488 ----------------------------------------------------------------- " Among our people, we maintain that wisdom consists in recognizing the extent to which one is prone to error. " -- Alien Ambassador, in Jack McDevitt's "A Talent for War" 1989 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 489 2008-06-26 ----------------------------------------------------------------- THE LAW AGAINST MARIJUANA IS IMMORAL IN PRINCIPLE AND UNWORKABLE IN PRACTICE. Full page advertisement in a British newspaper, July 24, 1967, paid for by *The Beatles*, calling for the legalization of marijuana possession, release of all prisoners on marijuana possession charges and government research into medical uses. ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 490 2008-07-18 ----------------------------------------------------------------- There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Time Must Have a Stop (1944) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 491 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Kluge Menschen suchen sich die Erfahrungen selbst aus, die sie zu machen wuenschen. -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) EEEEE ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 492 2008-07-19 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Words have meaning. And Names have power. The universe began with a word, you know. But which came first? The word or the thought behind the word? -- J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5, #4.2 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 493 -22 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wer durch des Argwohns Brille schaut, sieht Raupen selbst im Sauerkraut. -- Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 494 2008-08-06 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ars longa, vita brevis. Ach Gott! die Kunst ist lang! Und kurz ist unser Leben. (Faust I, 358) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 495 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Kaiser: [dem der Kanzler das "Papiergespenst der Gulden" erklaert] Ich ahne Frevel, ungeheuren Trug! ... Mephisto: Ein solch Papier, an Gold und Perlen statt, Ist so bequem, man weiss doch, was man hat! Man braucht nicht erst zu markten noch zu tauschen; Kann sich nach Lust in Lieb und Wein berauschen. -- Faust II, 1. Akt, Kaiserliche Pfalz ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 496 ----------------------------------------------------------------- None can usurp this height... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest. Nur denen ist die hoechste Hoehe erreichbar, die das Elend der Welt elend macht und nicht ruhen laesst. -- Keats (1819) The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream, Canto I, l. 147 ---------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 497 ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/TimesAd.html >> THE TIMES MONDAY JULY 24 1967 This advertisement is sponsored by SOMA, and THE BEATLES the law against marijuana is immoral in principle and unworkable in practise "All laws which can be violated without doing anyone any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of man that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts toward these very objects; for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden. ...He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it." -- Spinoza (1632-1677) ... signed, amongst others, by Graham Greene and R. D. Laing ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 498 16.8. ----------------------------------------------------------------- " According to some estimates we cannot track 2.3 trillion Dollars in transactions. " ( that's Trillion, no typo; repeat: 2,300 Billion Dollars, several times the annual U$ 'defense' budget ) -- Secretary of '''Defense''' Donald Rumsfeld, 2001-09-10 -- -- quoted in 911video.de -- -- and, e.g.: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 499 ----------------------------------------------------------------- REBUILDING AMERICA'S DEFENSES, Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century Report of The Project fo the New American Century September 2000 "And advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." http://www.NewAmericanCentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20020715000000*/http://www.NewAmericanCentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf 09/2000 PNAC page 60 (pdf: "72 of 90") http://tinyurl.com/wdaPNAC archived copy ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 500 9-1, 2008, 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [not only] AMERICA'S SLIPPERY SLOPE We recognize the debasement of standards, we see the sighs of intellectual decay. Yet we do nothing. And our inaction is our complicity. Each time we shrug helplessly in the face of diminished expectation, we are greasing the slope of an already rapid collective decline. -- Sarah Nardi -- (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org), Journal of Mental Environment, #78, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 501 3.9.2008 Mc Copies & D. Stribute ! 2135 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If we want to save the planet Earth, to save live and humanity, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system. If we do not put an end to the capitalist system, it's impossible to imagine that there will be equality and justice on Earth. This is why I believe that it is important to put an end to the exploitation of human beings and to put an end to the pillage of natural resources; to put an end to destructive war for raw materials and for the market; to the plundering of energy, particularly fossil fuels, excessive consumption of goods and the accumulation of waste. The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. -- Evo Morales, Socialist, President of Bolivia -- (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org), Journal of Mental Environment, #78, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 502 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. -- Walter Benjamin, in the 1930s -- (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org), Journal of Mental Environment, #78, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 503 ------------------------------------------------------------------ INFORMATION WANTS TO BE AD-FREE The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we can see, we cannot think. -- Thomas Merton -- (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org), Journal of Mental Environment, #78, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 504 ------------------------------------------------------------------ No wise man ever wished to be younger. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -- Plato (428-348 B.C.) -- -- quoted by Robert J. Sawyer in "rollback" (2007) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 505 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in bear it that th'opposed may beware of thee. -- Hamlet Never start a fight - but always finish it. -- J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5, #3.10 and #5.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 506 30.10.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ein Anleger fragt seinen Anlageberater: "Ist jetzt wirklich all mein Geld weg? Alles weg?" -- "Aber nein, das ist doch nicht weg. Es gehoert jetzt nur jemand anderem!" -- Client: "So my money is really all gone? All of it gone?" -- Investment advisor: "Why no, of course it's not gone. It just belongs to someone else now!" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 507 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. -- General Omar Bradley (1893-1981) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 508 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. -- Samuel P. Huntington (1927-2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 509 7.11.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power. -- (probably not) Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) https://politicalresearch.org/2005/01/12/mussolini-corporate-state Fascism is capitalism in decay. -- 'Lenin' (1870-1924) (WO?) Der Kapitalismus ist in seiner Funktionslogik ein extrem autoritäres und zu einer totalisierenden Entgrenzung drängendes System. -- Rainer Mausfeld, "Hybris und Nemesis" (2003), K. 5.5, S. 307 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 510 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Luxury spending in the U$ is growing more than four times as rapidly as spending overall. -- from "Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway train" by Brian Czech, 2000 In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but in his face. -- Diogenes (412-323 BC) -- -- adbusters #80 ( www.adbusters.org ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 511 12.11. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don't take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed. -- Dr. Timothy Leary (1920-1996) in Documentary CBC: "How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis" (1966) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 512 22.11.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT THERE IS IS ALL THERE IS WHAT THERE IS IS ALL THERE IS LEFT -- robert wolff https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wildwolff.com, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 513 24.11. ------------------------------------------------------------------ They used to say that a child conceived in love has a greater chance of happiness. They don't say that anymore. -- G A T T A C A http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 514 26.11.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) (All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.) Fuer den Triumph des Boesen reicht es, wenn die Guten nichts tun. -- Hitler-Aufstieg des Boesen, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346293 (probably mis-)attributed to Edmund Burke (1729-97), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 515 27.12.008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Neo-'liberalism' is an economic theory that liberates corporate power from any kind of state control, [and thus] justifies corporate plunder of the environment, corporate poisoning and exploitation of consumers, and corporate exploitation and spiritual and physical mutilation of workers. -- Christian Parenti in "The Pie's the Limit" (2000) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242778/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivwzbZlN-hE ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 516 10.1.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. -- William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818) -- quoted in "DEAD MAN" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/ I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -- Gandhi ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 517 18.03.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeder zweite Raucher stirbt an den Folgen des Rauchens. Jeder Zweite. Das ist also wie russisches Roulette...aber mit drei Kugeln. --Prof. Peter Drings, AErztlicher Direktor der Thoraxklinik Heidelberg (wo jeden Tag etwa ein Raucher an den Folgen seiner Sucht stirbt) => Allein in D > 300 Mio Evro/Jahr fuer TabakWerbung <= ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 518 20.03.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those, who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their 'neutrality'. -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) If you are 'neutral' in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. -- Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu (*1931) We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -- Elie Wiesel (*1928) I don't believe it's possible to be neutral. The world is already moving in certain directions. And to be neutral, to be passive, in a situation like that, is to collaborate with what is going on. And I, as a teacher, I don't want to be a collaborator. -- Howard Zinn (1922-2010) in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416825/ You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 519 10.4.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ What seems to me a - in a sense - very terrifying aspect of our society, and of other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe such events. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler or LeMay or other that crops up. These people would not be able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity. And therefore I think that it's in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who share a very serious burden of guilt, which they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme or more violent. -- Prof. Noam Chomsky in "Manufacturing Consent.." (1992) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 520 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.3 TRILLION DOLLARS === 2,300,000,000,000 $$ $ 2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon (!!!) "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," (Secretary of WAR) Rumsfeld admitted, on 2001-09-10 (!!) ... just google: '2.3 trillion dollars' ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 521 ------------------------------------------------------------------ OWNING IS OWING; HAVING IS HOARDING. -- Ursula K. LeGuin (*1929), where? -- as quoted by robert wolff in 'Realities' Original was: http://www.wildwolff.com/essays/realities.pdf https://www.scribd.com/document/47114948/REALITIES-Robert-Wolff-ebook ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 522 20.4.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In the words of the old African proverb, WHEN YOU PRAY, MOVE YOUR FEET ! -- An Inconvenient Truth, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116 Man kann nicht sagen, Gebete nuetzen nichts; nur muessen ihnen auch Handlungen folgen! [You shouldn't say prayers don't help; they only must be followed by deeds.] -- Ringu Tulku Rinpoche in "Buddhismus aktuell" 3/2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 523 22.4. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies ... -- Harold Pinter (1930-2008) in his acceptance speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 524 12.5. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Loesung heisst: T E I L E N . The solution is: S H A R I N G . http://www.Momentaufnahme.at ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 525 25.05. ----------------------------------------------------------------- One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available. -- Stephen William Hawking (1942–2018) in "The 11th Hour" (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492931/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 526 21.06.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You are lost when you forget that the fruits belong to everyone and the Earth to noone. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), - Discours -- -- quoted in http://www.Momentaufnahme.at (2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 527 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Women perform 66% of the world's work and get 5% of the income. -- http://www.Momentaufnahme.at (2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 528 22./30.06.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Glueck gehabt Schon gut, dass Neid keinen Durchfall verursacht, sonst wuerden 70% der Deutschen 24 Stunden am Tag auf dem Klo zubringen. -- Ulli Stein "Normal ist das nicht! - Tagebuch II" 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 529 11.7.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Optimismus ist eine entfremdete Form des Glaubens, der Pessimismus eine entfremdete Form der Verzweiflung. Die Pessimisten unterscheiden sich im Grunde kaum von den Optimisten... und fuehlen sich genausowenig engagiert... Waehrend ihr Pessimismus weitgehend die Funktion erfuellt, durch den Gedanken, dass man nichts machen kann, vor der inneren Forderung zu schuetzen, etwas zu unternehmen, verteidigen sich die Optimisten gegen die gleiche innere Forderung, indem sie sich einreden, alles gehe schon seinen rechten Weg, so dass man nichts zu machen braucht. -- Erich Fromm, "Anatomie der menschlichen Destruktivitaet" 1973 Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of dispair. ... The 'pessimists' are really not very diferent from the optimists... and are just as little engaged... And while their pessimism functions largely to protect the pessimists from any inner demand to do something, by projecting the idea that nothing can be done, the optimists defend themselves against the same inner demand to do something by persuading themselves that everything is moving in the right direction anyway, so nothing needs to be done. -- Erich Fromm "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" (1976) 577-8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 530 10.9.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you. -- Mahabharata 5:1517 Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. -- Matthew 7:12 Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. -- Sunnah Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. -- Udana Varga 5:18 Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary. -- Talmud, Shabbat 31:a Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. -- Analects 15:23 Taoism: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. -- T'ai Shag Kan Ying P'ien Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself. -- Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5 ALL THE REST IS COMMENTARY --robert wolff, https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wildwolff.com, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 531 10.9.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I've seen spirits, I've met angels, touched creations, beautiful and wondrous I've been places where I question all I think I know I believe, I believe, I believe is good for you to go. ... The world is our temple, the world is our church, heaven's here on Earth. If we ... ... this could be heaven here on Earth. -- Tracy Chapman "New Beginning" (1995) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 532 13.08.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. Evil is essentially stupid. -- R. A. Heinlein (1907-1988), "Gulf" (1949) in "Assignment for Eternity" (1953) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 533 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GIER ZU KULTIVIEREN IST GEMEINGEFAEHRLICH. [ Cultivating greed is a threat to public safety. ] -- Axel Koehler-Schnura (Vorstand der CBG, www.cbgnetwork.org ) in der Hauptversammlung der BAYER-AG, 2009 -- -- laut SBW (Stichwort Bayer) Nr. 2/2009 (27.Jahrgang) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 534 19.08.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GOD CAN ONLY WORK THROUGH OUR HANDS. -- Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food 5. 6. 2007, at the opening of the Alternative Summit in Rostock -- -- quoted in www.Momentaufnahme.at (AT, 2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 535 21.8.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLIDARITY / SOLIDARITAET Solidaritaet (abgeleitet vom lateinischen solidus fuer gediegen, echt oder fest; Adjektiv: solidarisch) bezeichnet eine, zumeist in einem ethisch-politischen Zusammenhang benannte Haltung der Verbundenheit mit - und Unterstuetzung von - Ideen, Aktivitaeten und Zielen anderer. Sie drueckt ferner den Zusammenhalt zwischen gleichgesinnten oder gleichgestellten Individuen und Gruppen und den Einsatz fuer gemeinsame Werte aus. -- de.Wikipedia Solidarity: unity of interests, sympathies, etc., as among members of the same class. -- 1994 Collins Eine von Ausrottung bedrohte Verhaltensweise, deren Foerderung und aus-Uebung ich gerade deshalb fuer besonders wichtig halte. A kind of behavior threatened by extinction, which is why i consider promoting and practicing it especially important. -- wda ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 536 29.8.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Being considered 'crazy' by those who are still victims of cultural conditioning is a compliment. -- Jason Hairston (1971-2018) ---- It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) -- -- quoted in Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 537 04.09.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -- Sri Chinmoy Ghose -- -- quoted in Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 538 04.09.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In an individual selfishness uglyfies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. -- David Mitchell, CLOUD ATLAS, © 2004 -- -- quoted by robert wolff, http://www.wildwolff.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 539 from rwolff's longing... ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Christian religion is a parody of the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun. -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- -- quoted in Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 540 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Christianity, along with all other theistic belief systems, is the fraud of the age. It serves to detach the species from the natural world, and likewise, each other. It supports blind submission to authority [and promotes double-think]. -- Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 541 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... to understand is to transform what is. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) -- -- archive footage in ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) full quote: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128/quotes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 542 ------------------------------------------------------------------ My country is the world... and my religion is to do good. -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- -- quoted in Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 543 ------------------------------------------------------------------ War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It's going to take the redesign of our culture and values. -- Jacque Fresco in ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 We must declare Earth as the common heritage of all the world's people. -- Jacque Fresco ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 544 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Corruption is not some by-product of monetary-ism, it is it's very foundation. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 545 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The world is being taken over by a hand-ful of business powers who dominate the natural resources we need to live, while controlling the money we need to obtain these resources. The end result will be world monopoly based not on human life but financial and corporate power. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 546 09.09.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Niemand ist hoffnungsloser versklavt, als jene, die glauben frei zu sein None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsly believe they are free. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Wahlverwandschaften (Elective Affinities) 1809, II.5 -- -- zit. in ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 547 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Menschheitsgeschichte wird mehr und mehr zu einem Rennen zwischen Aufklaerung und Katastrophe. H. G. Wells (1866-1949) Bomben gegen Terror... ...ist wie ficken fuer die Jungfraeulichkeit. www.solid-bw.de Nur tote Fische schwimmen mit dem Strom. geklaut von http://upstar.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/zitate-spruche-die-ich-mag ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 548 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Do not hate your oppressors. They need to be liberated just as you do. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) -- -- quoted in ZEITGEIST: Activist Orientation Guide http://www.flexform.de/ptupoeei ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 549 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ihr gebt nur wenig, wenn ihr von eurer Habe gebt. Wahrhaftig gebt ihr erst, wenn ihr von euch gebt. Denn was ist eure Habe anderes als Dinge, die ihr aus Furcht, ihr koenntet sie morgen benoetigen, aufbewahrt und bewacht? -- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) "Der Prophet" You only give little, if you give of your possessions. You only give truly when you give of yourself. For what are your possessions but things that you keep and guard out of fear that you might need them tomorrow? [my amateurish translation] The only gift is a portion of thyself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 BC - 65 AD) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 550 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The end of the Earth is not near, but the days of those who would trample upon and mock the Sacred Earth are surely numbered. --Rabbi Matthew S. Kent, President of the Peyote Way Church of God http://www.peyoteway.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 551 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Being wrong is erroneously associated with failure, when, in fact, to be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it elevates someone to a new level of understanding. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. -- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 552 13.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Physical slavery requires people to be housed and fed. Economic slavery requires people to feed and house themselves. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 553 13.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I refuse to live in a country like this, and I'm not leaving. -- Michael Moore in "Capitalism: A Love Story" (2009) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232207/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 554 14.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) -- -- quoted in ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 555 23.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You must keep the Koan between your teeth even if you fall into a furnace. The one who has decided to solve the Koan must go to the end. When you reach Enlightenment you will find freedom like the breeze on the mountaintop and a peace unshakable like a rock in a storm. The Place where you stood today can be the Land of Perfect Bliss itself. -- "Hyegok (the old monk)" in WARUM BODHIDHARMA ... Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun (1989) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097195/quotes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 556 23.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When it comes to bullshit, big-time major-league Bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: - Religion. Think about it! Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'till the end of time! - - But He *loves* you. -- George Carlin (1937 - 2008) in Zeitgeist (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166827/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 557 556 23.11.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Gewalt ist niemals eine Antwort oder eine Loesung. Wer glaubt, unbedingt Pflastersteine schmeissen zu muessen, sollte sich ein Ziel waehlen, dessen Zerstoerung garantiert einen langfristigen Erfolg und persoenlichen Entwicklungsschub garantiert. Und das ist nicht der Helm eines Jungbullen oder die Fensterscheibe einer Bank, sondern die Bildroehre des eigenen Fernsehers. -- M. A. Verick in " DAS MEDIEN MONOPOL - Gedankenkontrolle und Manipulationen " http://wda.tradivarium.at/das-medienmonopol.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 558 28.11. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die gefaehrlichsten Massenvernichtungswaffen sind die Massenmedien. Denn sie zerstoeren den Geist, die Kreativitaet und den Mut der Menschen, und ersetzen diese mit Angst, Misstrauen, Schuld und Selbstzweifel. The most dangerous Weapons of Mass Destruction are the Mass Media. For they destroy the people's spirit, creativity and courage, replacing them by fear, mistrust, guilt and self-doubt. -- M. A. Verick in " DAS MEDIEN MONOPOL - Gedankenkontrolle und Manipulationen " http://wda.tradivarium.at/das-medienmonopol.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 559 29.11. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Who's ruling the world? This is, of course, the oligarchy of the international financial capital. A child that dies of starvation today is being murdered. There is no reason for dying. It is the world order that kills. -- Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food in "Der Geist des Geldes" (2007) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233200 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 560 13.12. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Gut, dass die Amerikaner unser Banken- und Waehrungssystem nicht verstehen; denn verstuenden sie es, dann haetten wir wohl eine Revolution, noch bevor der morgige Tag anbricht. -- Henry Ford (1863-1947), US-Autobauer $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Wenn das amerikanische Volk jemals privaten Banken die Kontrolle ueber das Ausstellen des Geldes gibt, werden die Banken und Unternehmen, die um sie herum wachsen, erst durch Inflation und dann durch Deflation, die Leute all ihres Besitzes berauben, bis ihre Kinder obdachlos erwachen auf dem Kontinent, den ihre Vaeter eroberten. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Gruendungsvater $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ geklont von: http://zeitgeist.ask-gaia.org/user/115 (009/12/13) %%% 561 13.12. ------------------------------------------------------------------ In Zeiten universeller Taeuschung ist das Aussprechen von Wahrheit ein revolutionaerer Akt. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell (1903-1950) -- -- quoted in Aaron Russo's "America: Freedom To Fascism" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772153 ---- The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. -- George Orwell (1903-1950) -- quoted in "9/11: 15 Years of Lies An Cover-up" (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7904298/quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBqNdjxp-Xc ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 562 25.12. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The banksters own Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear,for this would be a happier and better world to life in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money. -- Sir Josiah Stamp (1880-1941) director of the Bank of England -- -- quoted in Aaron Russo's "America: Freedom To Fascism" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772153 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 563 ------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT WE DO FOR OURSELVES DIES WITH US. WHAT WE DO FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL. -- Albert Pine (+1851) -- -- quoted on http://zday2010.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 564 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If we're ever to find a way out of this mess, we have to start by telling each other the truth. -- The March (1999), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165382/ --- http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=866A737D87E1D816 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 565 27.12.009 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If God were alive today, he would be an atheist. -- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) IMAGINE a World without religion ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzbb4Bm_doI ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 566 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Todo lo que nos rodea es falso e irreal. Es falsa la historia que nos ensenjaron, Falsas las creencias economicas con que nos imbuyeron, Falsas las perspectivas mundiales que nos presentan, y las disyuntivas politicas que nos ofrecen. Irreales las libertades que los textos aseguran (...) VOLVER A LA REALIDAD ES EL IMPERATIVO INEXCUSABLE. -- Raul Scalabrini Ortiz (1898–1959) 1940 Argentine writer, journalist, essayist, and poet -- -- quoted in ZEITGEIST ARGENTUM Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcmQiU9muSQ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 567 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are all one people, a collective consciousness that is beginning to wake up from its long slumber. Let us help awaken this sleeping Giant ! -- www.thezeitgeistmovement.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 568 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso (*1935), XIV. DALAI LAMA -- In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. -- Karl Reiland ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 569 ------------------------------------------------------------------ An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 570 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) who launched his non-violent resistance movement on 9/11 1906 -- -- quoted by Dr. Steven Jones in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8eYPZfEqzQ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 571 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Truth only hurts when it should. -- Paul Chafe (in "Destiny's Forge", 2007) " Truth hurts. Lies Kill " ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 572 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Francois-Marie Arouet 'Voltaire' (1694-1778) Questions sur les miracles (1765) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 573 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Psychoanalyse ~~ ~ Methode der Aufdeckung und des Kaempfens gegen den Widerstand ~ .. zur Foerderung seelischen Wachstums und der Selbstentfaltung Wer Anstrengung fuerchtet, ja sogar wer Frustration oder Leiden fuerchtet, der wird nie etwas erreichen... Who is afraid of effort, or even afraid of frustration or suffering, will never achieve anything (in self-analysis)... (m.t.) -- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) in "Psychologie fuer Nicht-Psychologen" (Vortrag am 1. 11. 1973) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1B89527566DB21E3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 574 16.03.2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Some men see things as they are and ask 'Why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'Why not?' --Robert F. Kennedy; South Africa, 1968 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 575 ------------------------------------------------------------------ " DEATH WILL HAVE NO STING " -- Schaeffer Cox (5:20...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guPm6-ueKjY ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 576 25.3.2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a human stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice sHe sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest wall of oppression and resistance. -- Robert F. Kennedy; South Africa, 1966 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 577 ------------------------------------------------------------------ NECK DEEP IN DENIAL We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), The Sun, March 2004, 48 -- quoted by Derrick Jensen in "ENDGAME Vol.I: The Problem of Civilization" (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 578 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Virgin places don't mean a thing to people who never bring their hearts along. -- Buffy St. Marie "Coincidence and Likely Stories - Disinformation" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 579 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Scientists say that hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe. They are wrong. There is far more stupidity than hydrogen. -- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) There are only two things in the Universe that are infinite: Space and human stupidity. And I'm not certain about the former. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 580 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 581 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear. When this happens the Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. -- [paraphrasing] Chief 'Seattle' Si'ahl (1780 - 1866) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 582 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -- Epicurus ( Samos, 341 BC - Athens, 270 BC ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 583 05.07.010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Believe those who are seeking truth. Doubt those who find it. -- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 584 09.07.010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wer Kirchengeschichte nicht als Kriminalgeschichte schreibt, ist Mittaeter. -- Karlheinz Deschner (1924-2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 585 ------------------------------------------------------------------ No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. -- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela [Xhosa] (1918-2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 586 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I have, from an early age, renounced eating meat: The time will come when we will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of humans. -- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 587 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I think that somehow, somehere inside of us, we must be similar if not the same. -- Suzanne Vega "left of center" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 588 ------------------------------------------------------------------ For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating her to death. -- Tom McMillan (*1945, Canada) -- -- quoted in Francesca Lyman, "The Greenhouse Trap" 1990 Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of humankind. -- Carl Sagan (1934-1996) What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? -- (?) Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 589 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. -- From the great law of the Iroquois Confederacy ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 590 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. -- Stephen William Hawking (*1942) [S]entience without individual and societal self-mastery enables destruction more readily than creation. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr. in "Soarer's Choice" (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 591 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have been too kind to those who are destroying the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. -- Derrick Jensen (*1960), www.derrickjensen.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 592 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You know, economists are, in fact, not economists at all, they are propagandists of money value. -- Zeitgeist(3): Moving Forward (2011) 'Wirtschaftsexperten' ... ... was Bloederes finden Sie in keinem Tierpark ! ... da haben sie intelligentere Lebensformen auf ihrem Duschvorhang zuhause! -- Volker Pispers, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csuqZHLbGdg , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApGSSdCnFyw links fukkkkked, courtesy of ()frack!->) ooogle 'economists' ... ... something even more stupid you couldn't find in all the zoos of the world ! ... you have more intelligent lifeforms in your home, growing on your shower curtain ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 593 2010-10-09 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The media generally say there's only one superpower left --obviously the U$A-- but don't let that fool you, 'cause really there's another one: WORLD PUBLIC OPINION. -- Noam Chomsky (WHERE? When ?) -- -- quoted in "John Pilger on propaganda disguised as journalism 2/2", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-UrQ1IxE4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 594 2010-10-31 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. -- Albert Camus (1913-1960) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 595 2010-11-03 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 596 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If voting changed anything, it would be illegal. -- We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT. -- Dr. Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski (*1942) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 597 2010-11-05 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Education is the most powerful weapon...for World Change. -- Nelson Mandela (*1918) Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children ! -- Tatanka IYotaka (Sitting Bull) (ca. 1830-1890) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 598 from Ben O.'s ------------------------------------------------------------------ The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. -- Nelson Henderson ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 599 from care2, 2010-12-09 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience. -- Aldous Huxley, 1949, in a letter to George Orwell Bereits in der naechsten Generation werden die Herrschenden der Welt feststellen, dass fruehkindliche Konditionierung und Narko- hypnose als Herrschaftsinstrumente sehr viel effizienter sind als Schlagstoecke und Gefaengnisse, und dass Machthunger sich nicht nur dann befriedigen laesst, wenn man die Leute zum Gehorsam pruegelt, sondern ebensogut, wenn man sie mittels Suggestion dazu bringt, ihr Sklavendasein zu lieben. (D. von M. Fienbork) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 600 from www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wx7px3k_Gk ; 600 .... 12.02.2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases (which) we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution, but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and the education of the billions who are its victims. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) -- both quoted by Prof. Albert A. Bartlett in his presentation on "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoiiVnQadwE .. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 601 from www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wx7px3k_Gk ; wiki ------------------------------------------------------------------ They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one. They promised to take our land, and they took it. -- Mahpiya Luta, Red Cloud (1822-1909) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 602 600 .... 12.02.2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wenn du das Heilige liebst und das Gewoehnliche verachtest, duempelst du immer noch auf dem Meer der Verblendung. -- Linji Yixuan, Lin-chi I-hsuean, Jap.: Rinzai Gigen (+866) Wer in weltlichen Angelegenheiten ein Hindernis fuer seine UEbung sieht, weiss nur, dass es keinen Weg in weltlichen Dingen gibt, waehrend sier zugleich verkennt, dass es so etwas wie weltliche Dinge, die vom Weg unterschieden werden koennten, nicht gibt. Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253): Shobogenzo ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 603 05/011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The only way of achieving Sustainability would be to transform the very idea and institution of money itself. -- Prof. Alf Hornborg (quoted in ADBUSTERs #95, may 2011) Corruption is not some by-product of monetary-ism, it is it's very foundation. ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM (2008) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 604 ------------------------------------------------------------------ People who are violent to animals rarely stop there. As long as men massacre animals they will kill each other, indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. -- Pythagoras (~570-495 BC) Solange es Schlachthaeuser gibt, wird es Schlachtfelder geben. As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be slaughter- fields (aka. "battle-fields"). -- Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910) Source: On Life and Essays on Religion ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 605 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sometimes I wonder whether the World is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Langborne Clemens, 1835-1910) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 606 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. -- Malcom X (1925–1965) ---- Wer nur Zeitungen liest, sieht die Dinge wie ein Kurzsichtiger ohne Augenglaeser. =~ Who reads only newspapers sees things like a myopic without glasses. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 607 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Governments around the world no longer represent the interests of the people but are now in thrall to a powerful group of energy companies and the ideology of growth fetishism they embody. -- Clive Hamilton in "Requiem for a Species" 2010 -- -- quoted in (www.)ADBUSTERS(.org) #? ?Nov. 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 608 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Es gibt Menschen mit der verworrenen Vorstellung, die hoechste Vollendung bestehe im ruhigen Dasitzen mit voellig entleerten Geist, wobei kein einziger Gedanke erlaubt ist. Das wirkliche Nicht-Denken besteht darin, an alle Dinge zu denken, ohne sich von ihnen infizieren zu lassen. -- Hui-neng (638-713) Pinyin: Dajian Huineng, Jap.: Daikan Eno, Korean: Hyeneung the 6th and Last Patriarch of Chan Buddhism ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 609 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The first duty of government is to protect the powerless against the powerful. -- The Code of Hamurabi, oldest legal code, ca. 1700 B.C. The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to assure the unhindered development of the individual. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 610 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction... The chain reaction of evil --hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 611 ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMAGINE ..... a world without cages. (a) IMAGINE ..... a world without locks or keys. (b) -- (a) inspired by R.J.Sawyer's "Illegal Alien" (1998) -- (b) inspired by TAHCA USHTE aka. Lame Deer (+1971) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 612 ------------------------------------------------------------------ It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. -- Albert Einstein, 1946 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 613 ------------------------------------------------------------------ People who are violent to animals rarely stop there. Fur coats are worn by beautiful animals, and ugly, deranged people. Only animals and sluts wear fur. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 614 ------------------------------------------------------------------ A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 615 von kenny (muggrat) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss or tranquility, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes. -- Choegyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 616 from rwolff's 07/011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man's worth couldn't be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn't cheat. -- TAHCA USHTE, Lame Deer (+1971) in -- -- "Seeker of Visions" (1972) by Richard Erdoes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 617 from rwolff's 07/011 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. -- Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 618 from utu maple1255 's ------------------------------------------------------------------ V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Who looks inside, awakens. -- C. G. Jung (1875-1961) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 619 from utu maple1255 's ------------------------------------------------------------------ No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. -- Ojibway saying ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 620 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The natural consequence of carrying capacity overload is population crash. -- William R. Catton Jr. -- -- quoted by Derrick Jensen in "Dreams" (2011) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 621 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The consumer is the eternal suckling crying for the bottle. For the first time in history the physical survival of the human race depends on a radical change of the human heart. However, a change in the human heart is possible only to the extent that drastic economic and social changes occur... -- Erich Fromm in " To Have or To Be ? - A new blueprint for mankind " 1976 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 622 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. -- Marty Feldman (1934-1982) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 623 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. -- Howard Zinn (1922-2010) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 624 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Lord is not my Shepherd - for I am not a sheep. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 625 10/011 from c2.David_B's ------------------------------------------------------------------ The most moral question you can ask is: IS the world (the *physical* world) a better place because you were born, because of your actions ? -- DJ in "Derrick Jensen Speaks with Ecolutionist -- -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikcyn5DcRLc The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well [which is also what tends to give real happiness -- wda] -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 626 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 627 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man muss das Wahre immer wiederholen, weil auch der Irrtum um uns immer wieder gepredigt wird und zwar nicht von einzelnen, sondern von der Masse, in Zeitungen und Enzyklopaedien, auf Schulen und Universitaeten. UEberall ist der Irrtum obenauf, und es ist ihm wohl und behaglich im Gefuehl der Majoritaet, die auf seiner Seite ist. [T]ruth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side. - Goethe zu Johann Peter Eckermann, 16. Dezember 1828 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 628 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 629 ------------------------------------------------------------------ " The truth is extreme. To make it moderate is to lie. " -- Recipe for a Revolution (A Sobering Warning) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zav_wgk_W4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 630 ------------------------------------------------------------------ No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies. Salvador de Madariaga - (1886-1978 ), Spanish writer, diplomat, and historian, noted for his service at the League of Nations ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 631 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is NO God higher than Truth. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 632 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. -- Alexander Hamilton (~1755-1804) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 633 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Activism is my rent for living on the planet. -- Alice Walker (*1944) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 634 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start to open windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 635 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The (XIV.) Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered: "Man. Because he sacrifices health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived." ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 636 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dieses taugleiche Leben kommt uns leicht abhanden, die Zeit vergeht wie im Flug. Verwickelt euch in eurem kurzen Leben nicht in andere Dinge, sondern widmet euch einfach dem Erlernen des Weges. -- Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 637 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Do you hate people?" "I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around." -- Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), Barfly --- "I don't hate humans, i hate what humans have become in their addiction to this technologized death-machine [aka. industrial 'civilization']" -- Derrick Jensen in "civilisation OR survival" http://tinyurl.com/DJ-survival ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 638 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The old Lakota were wise. They knew that human hearts away from nature become hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. -- Ota Kte aka. Mochunozhin or Luther Standing Bear (1868-1939) Anyone who has accostomed himself to regard the life of any creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of the worthlessness of human lives. -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 639 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. -- Plato (428-348 B.C.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 640 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. UEberzeugungen sind gefaehrlichere Feinde der Wahrheit als Luegen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) I, Aph. 83 Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it. -- Edward Abbey (1927-1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 641 22.06.012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Humor und Tod ergeben eine gute Mischung. -- Soji Enku Humor and Death make a good blend. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 642 Zen-Wahrheit vom: 20.07.2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "What must I do to win salvation?" "Above all else, never lie to yourself." -- Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), 'The Brothers Karamazov' ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 643 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Auch wenn du heute lebst, geh nicht davon aus, dass du morgen leben wirst. -- Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 644 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others. -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 645 9.9.012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Actions speak louder than words. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 646 1.10.012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The distinction is not between violence and nonviolence. The distinction is between doing something and doing nothing, between fighting power and submitting to power. -- Lierre Keith in "Earth at Risk" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 647 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of humankind. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 648 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 649 21.10.2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I cannot solve planetary problems but cannot NOT observe the insanity of my kind. -- robert wolff in "REFLECTIONS ON LEARNED SKILLS" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 650 3.11.012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -- T.S. Eliot (1888- 1965) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 651 ------------------------------------------------------------------ What in America they call "SOCIALISM" --a word that means abhorrent-- to me is no "ism". It is what humans do. We have always known that we have TO TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER. We would not have survived for a hundred and more thousand years if we hadn’t taken care of each other. [my CAPS] -- robert wolff ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 652 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Although German Fascism has been defeated by military power, the fascistic human structure continues to thrive in Germany, Russia, America, everywhere. -- Wilhelm Reich, July 1944 ( see http://wda.tradivarium.at/wreich.rtf ) When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) 1935 East of the Atlantic, these days, it's adorning itself with stars. -- wda, ca. 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 653 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trees are poems that Earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptyness. -- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. -- Sara Ebenreck ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 654 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Is ja nur ein bisschen Natur das taeglich zerstoert wird. Die Summe aller Bisschen ist bald das Ganze. -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 It's only a little bit of Nature which is destroyed every day. But soon these small bit(e)s will add up to the whole of it. (my amateurish translation) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 655 ------------------------------------------------------------------ CONSUMPTION IS A TREATABLE DISEASE -- Tibor Kalman (1949-1999) -- -- quoted in ADBUSTERs No. 26 (Jul/Aug 1999) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 656 ------------------------------------------------------------------ All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed, the trees towering and the walls built low. And in the valley, people as strong and varied as the land. The houses welcoming all who knock and a sense of boundless offering in all relations and in you and me. No yearning for an afterlife, no looking beyond, no belittling of death, but only longing for what belongs to us and serving earth, lest we remain unused. -- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) The Book of Hours II,25 translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 657 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a persistent mental crouch. -- Robert Anton Wilson, "Prometheus Rising" (1983) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 658 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You were much safer falling into the hands of the Cynics. The Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. The Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. -- Robert Anton Wilson, "Schroedinger's Cat" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 659 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way. -- Malcolm Glaswell "BLINK - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 660 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The ideal condition would be, I admit, That man should be right by instinct; But since we are all too likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC), Antigone translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 661 29.1.2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. -- E. B. White (1899-1985) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 662 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 663 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one 'falls into' if one is lucky? -- Erich Fromm "The Art of Loving" ISBN 978-006-112973-5 p.1 Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love. -- ibid p.43 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 664 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man, and from nature. -- Erich Fromm "The Art of Loving" ISBN 978-006-112973-5 p.79 The principle underlying capitalistic society and the principle of love are incompatible. -- ibid p.121 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 665 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ich habe dieses kleine Etwas weggeworfen, das man "Ich" nennt, und ich bin die unendliche Welt geworden. I threw away that tiny thing called 'me' and i became the great wide world. -- Soseki ( Muso Soseki; 1275-1351 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 666 26.2.013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [T]hose who rule the symbols, rule us. -- Alfred Korzybski, "Science and Sanity" (1933) p.76 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 667 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The view that all mental processes are necessarily physical processes [=~'Physicalism'] is a metaphysical assumption, not a scientific fact. -- Tenzin Gyatso (HH. XIV. Dalai Lama) "The Universe in a Single Atom" (2005) ISBN 076792066X, p.128 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 668 03/013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great deal of their time not on the spot, not here and now in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevenat other worlds of sport and soap-opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantacy [and recently playing with their i(diot)- gadgets], will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it. " --Aldous Huxley, foreword to the 1946 edition of 'Brave New World' ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 669 ------------------------------------------------------------------ seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here ~ E.E. Cummings ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 670 23.3.013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Und wenn sie uns alle mit in den Strudel reissen? Dann will ich zugrundegehen im Bewusstsein: Ich habe mein Leben gelebt, ich habe es nicht den Idioten und Kriminellen ueberlassen. Ich habe mich gewehrt bis zuletzt. -- Hans A. Pestalozzi "Auf die Baeume ihr Affen" [Up into the Trees You Apes]" (1989) ISBN 3729603132 S.346 And what if they take us all down with them? Then I will perish in the awareness: I have lived my life, I did not surrender it to the idiots and criminals. I will know that i have fought them to my last breath. (my transl.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 671 ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is true I've always loved the daring ones Like the black young man Who tried to crash All barriers at once, wanted to swin At a white beach (in Alabama) Nude. -- Alice Walker (*1944) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 672 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. ... [I]f we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. -- Howard Zinn (1922-2010) in "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train - A Personal History of Our Times" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 673 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Church has said that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow upon the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. -- Ferdinand Magellan (1519-1522), whose expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 674 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Glaube nicht an die Macht von Traditionen, auch wenn sie ueber viele Generationen hinweg und an vielen Orten in Ehren gehalten wurden. Glaube an nichts, nur weil viele Leute davon sprechen. Glaube nicht an die Weisheiten aus alter Zeit. Glaube nicht, dass deine Vorstellungen dir von einem Gott eingegeben wurden. Glaube nichts, was nur auf der Autoritaet deiner Lehrer oder Priester beruht. Glaube das, was du durch Nachforschungen selbst geprueft und fuer richtig befunden hast und was gut ist fuer dich und fuer andere. -- Buddha Siddharta Gautama (563-483 BC), Kalama Sutra (aus dem Anguttara Nikaya III.65) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 675 ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE GRASS IS GREENER where you water it -- Neil Barringham ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 676 ------------------------------------------------------------------ An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -- Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 677 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served. -- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 678 -- from DJ's anarchism_and_the_politics_of_violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ A person's heart away from Nature becomes hard ... Lack of respect for growing, living things soon leads to a lack of respect for humans too. -- Standing Bear, Ota Kte, Mochunozhin (1868-1939) Oglala chief ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 679 -- from c2: Lynn P.'s ------------------------------------------------------------------ Today we have a temporary aberration called 'industrial capitalism' which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital: the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. -- Amory Lovins (*1947) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 680 ------------------------------------------------------------------ As environmentalists all our defeats are permanent and our victories are temporary. -~ David Brower (1912-2000) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 681 from DJ orion/email 10.6.013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BEAUTY OF GENEROSITY It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome... Children must early learn the beauty of generosity They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving... Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have - to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return. -- Ohiye S’a Charles Alexander Eastman (Santee Dakota, 1858-1939) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 682 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live ... You are captives and you have made a captive of the world itself. -- Daniel Quinn (*1935) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 683 DJ politics of violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ DOING NOTHING IS OBEYING A DEADLY ORDER ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 684 http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17008-three-things-young-people-should-know-to-save-the-world ------------------------------------------------------------------ Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent discussion is apt to become worse than useless. -- Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 685 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 686 DJ anarcho...violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ We, civilized people, think we're greatly superior. And yet, they, so-called primitive, live totally sustainably and they are joyful. We have neither. What we have is gadgets and worry. -- robert wolff (c) late june 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 687 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Warriors to us are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights. Warriors are ones who sacrifice themselves for the good of others. The warrior’s task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity. -- often (probably MIS-) attributed to Tatanka IYotaka (Sitting Bull) (ca. 1830-1890) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 688 DJ anarcho...violation ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other. -- Katherine Hepburn (1907-2003) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 689 c2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Superstition brings bad luck. (my transl.) Aberglauben bringt Unglueck. -- Raymond Smullyan, 5000 B.C., 1.3.8 -- -- Umberto Eco "Il pendolo di Focault" (1988) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 690 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lass uns eine Welt ertraeumen, die den Krieg nicht kennt, wo man Menschen aller Laender seine Freunde nennt. Wo man alles Brot der Erde teilt mit jedem Kind, wo die letzten Diktatoren Zirkusreiter sind. Lass uns eine Welt ertraeumen, wo man singt und lacht, wo die Traurigkeit der andern selbst uns traurig macht. Wo man trotz der fremden Sprache sich so gut versteht, dass man alle schweren Wege miteinander geht. Lass uns eine Welt ertraeumen, wo man unentwegt Pflanzen, Tiere, Luft und Wasser wie einen Garten pflegt. Wo man um die ganze Erde Liebesbriefe schreibt und dann lass uns jetzt beginnen, dass es kein Traum bleibt. -- Gerhard Schoene (*1952) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 691 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear. When this happens the Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. -- [paraphrasing] Chief 'Seattle' Si'ahl (1780 - 1866) Warriors know from birth that their life is a bulwark against injustice, that their life may end early, that their days are numbered and their honor will never allow them to shy away from duty. -~ DGR, http://www.deepgreenresistance.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 692 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Warriors know from birth that their life is a bulwark against injustice, that their life may end early, that their days are numbered and their honor will never allow them to shy away from duty. -~ DGR, http://www.deepgreenresistance.org Do not confuse 'duty' with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. -- Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 693 ------------------------------------------------------------------ language is a form of music Alle Wesen sind Blumen bluehend in einem bluehenden Universum. -- Nakagawa Soen (1907–1984) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 694 ------------------------------------------------------------------ A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. -- Jack London (1878-1916) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 695 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [G]ood intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. -- Albert Camus (1913-1960) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 696 27.7.013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. ~- William Blake (1757-1827) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 697 ------------------------------------------------------------------ You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. -- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 698 erowid exttracts #24 07/013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ZU RISIKEN UND NEBENWIRKUNGEN VON RECHTSPOPULISMUS LESEN SIE EIN GESCHICHTSBUCH ODER FRAGEN SIE IHRE GROSSELTERN! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 699 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Know that Death is your ally. Ana T. Forrest in "Fierce Medicine" (2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 700 09/013 Dr.A.B. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) (WO?) Der Kapitalismus ist in seiner Funktionslogik ein extrem autoritäres und zu einer totalisierenden Entgrenzung drängendes System. -- Rainer Mausfeld, "Hybris und Nemesis" (2003), K. 5.5, S. 307 ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 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" YT OAK36SuxZ5s ... 07/023 "nicht [mehr] verfuegbar" ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Profits are often highest in nations going fastest to ruin. -- Adam Smith, as quoted by Michael Hudson in "Killing the Host" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 800 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm not anti-management, i'm anti-idiot; but as the two groups intersect so often, i use the terms interchangeably. -- Dilbert ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 801 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nothing he's got he really needs - 21st century schizoid man. -- King Crimson, "In the Court of the Crimson King" (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtwtrsVmOjY The NOTHING MAN ... is packed, educated, and processed ... he screws, but he does not love ... he hates hates hates HATES! ... he lives on you and me -- The Deviants, "PTOOFF!" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AkehG9Zh4c&t=14m25s ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 802 08/016 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mit dem klassischen Liberalismus hat der neo-'Liberalismus' nichts zu tun, ausser Missbrauch des Namens. Neo-'liberalism' has nothing to do with classical liberalism, except abuse of the name. [my transl.] -- -- Prof. Rainer Mausfeld, im Gespraech mit KenFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRNpeWj5Cs (( eeendlich jemand, der dies klar zum Ausdruck bringt, was ich auch schon seit Jahren "predige" )) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 803 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ We live here in the United States of Amnesia. No one remembers anything before Monday morning. Everything is a blank. They have no history. -- Gore Vidal in "WHY WE FIGHT" (2005) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 805 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true. -- Soren Kierkegaard ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Action is the antidote to dispair. -- Edward Abbey (1927-1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ "In a gentle way, you can shake up the world." Mahatma Gandhi ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 808 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Anger is more useful than despair. -- ancient wisdom; quoted e.g. in Terminator-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Capitalism means: buying things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't like. Kapitalismus heisst: Man kauft Dinge, die man nicht braucht, mit Geld, das man nicht hat, um Leute zu beeindrucken, die man nicht leiden kann. -- Volker Pispers ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 810 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [S]hort of setting fire to a forest, flying is the single worst thing an ordinary individual can do to cause climate-change. -- Lisa Guy in "The Age of Stupid" (2009), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563 FLYING == (contribution to) MASS MURDER For years now well-known: many more people are injured+killed by pollution from planes (same for cars, of course) than by accidents. And this is killed NOW, NOT taking into account long-term effects (like the ongoing Environmental Holocaust) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Once weapons were manufactured to fight wars. Now wars are manufactured to sell weapons. -- Arundhati Roy (*1961) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 812 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If micosoft would run restaurants ... the waiter would sneeze and drool on your plate and charge you extra for each of that. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ "The junk dealer" e.g. MICRO$OFT "does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the victim." ~~ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, in Naked Lunch, 1958 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 814 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Political Correctness" is Fascism masquerading as manners. Fascism is capitalism in decay. -- 'Lenin' (1870-1924) (WO?) Der Kapitalismus ist in seiner Funktionslogik ein extrem autoritäres und zu einer totalisierenden Entgrenzung drängendes System. -- Rainer Mausfeld, "Hybris und Nemesis" (2003), K. 5.5, S. 307 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ CAPITALISM - Where you can ENSLAVE fellow humans and RAPE the planet - and be praised for your GOOD busines sense. -- FKNZ, the Fucking Newz, 10/016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wct86VOw7uY Dieses Video ist nicht mehr verfügbar ZENSUR ist DAS '''argument''' der (Kapital)Faschisten ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 816 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Vivere tota vita discendum est et, quod magis fortasse miraberis, tota vita discendum est mori. -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 BC - 65 AD) Leben musst Du das ganze Leben lang lernen, und -- darueber wirst Du Dich vielleicht noch mehr wundern -- auch Sterben musst Du das ganze Leben lang lernen. (The art of) Living you have to learn all life long, and -- which may amaze you even more -- all life long you have to learn (the art of) dying. (my [attempt at at] translation) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ It isn't hope that keeps me going. It's that not going on just isn't an option. -- Tanya Huff, "Heart of Valor" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 818 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The whites carry the greed disease ... They need to be cured, but they usually don't mind their disease, or even recognize it, because it's all they know and their leaders encourage them in it, and many of them are beyond help. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) (*1941) as quoted in "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism" by Jack D. Forbes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Speculators in the 17th century were hanged. Today they receive billions in taxpayer dollars and huge bonuses. -- Chris Hedges in "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (2010) p. 152 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 820 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The [US] porn industry [is] now bigger than Hollywood and pro sports combined. -- Douglas Haddow in www.ADBUSTERS.org #83, June 2009 -- According to the Internet Filter Review, worldwide porn revenues ... topped 97 G$ in 2006. That is more than the revenues of Mega- $hit, oogle, ebay, yahoo, apple, netflix, and earthlink combined. -- Chris Hedges in "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (2010) p. 58 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -- Derrick Jensen in Deep Green Video "003 Pull the Fucking Plug" (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWnHFkQEOSY ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 822 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When the oppressors give me two choices, I always take the third. -- Meir Berliner (who killed an SS Scharfuehrer at KZ Treblinka) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ DER MEISTER IN ALLEM "Wo werde ich einen Meister finden, wenn ich in meine Heimat zurueckkehre?" - "Es gibt keinen einzigen Augenblick, in dem du ohne einen bist." - Der Schueler war irritiert. - "Beobachte einfach deine Reaktion auf alles - einen Vogel, ein Blatt, eine Traene, ein Lachen -- und du wirst in allen Dingen deinen Meister finden." -- Anthony de Mello: "Eine Minute Unsinn", ISBN 3451056585, S. 38 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 824 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Never underestimate the power of people to be swayed by what they want to hear. -- C.J. Cherryh in "Protector" (2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man sollte sich nicht unbedingt auf die Worte alter Meister verlassen, sondern an das denken, was wirklich wahr ist. -- Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 826 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Klugheit: Zwei der groessten Menschenfeinde, Furcht und Hoffnung, angekettet, halt ich von der Menge ab. (FAUST II) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Denn jeder, der sein innres Selbst Nicht zu regieren weiss, regierte gar zu gern Des Nachbars Willen ... (FAUST II) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 828 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In bunten Bildern wenig Klarheit, Viel Irrthum und ein Fuenkchen Wahrheit ... (Goethe - FAUST; ca. 1809) Bright pictures, but obscure their meaning, A ray of truth through error gleaming ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [Always] fiddling with their phones, unable to endure five undistracted seconds. - Scott Westerfeld, "Zeroes" (2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 830 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just do not dare express themselves as we did. -- Sophie Scholl (1921-1943), The White Rose Society -- as quoted by Derrick Jensen in "Deep Green Resistance" https://deepgreenresistance.net/preface/copyright-authors-note/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ You can't be an environmentalist and [buy and] eat animal products. Period. Kid yourself, if you want. If you wanna feed your addiction, so be it. Just don't call yourself an environmentalist! -- Howard Lyman in "Cowspiracy" (2014) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302820/quotes?item=qt3281837 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 832 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wer baute das siebentorige Theben? In den Buechern stehen die Namen von Koenigen. Haben die Koenige die Felsbrocken herbeigeschleppt? [oder auch nur einen?] [...] Der junge Alexander eroberte Indien. Er allein? Caesar schlug die Gallier. Hatte er nicht wenigstens einen Koch bei sich? -- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Da hab ihr's: Mit Narren sich beladen, da kommt sogar der Teufel selbst zu schaden. -- FAUST II He is not a fool that the fool is, but he that with fools deals. If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 834 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Annual Income of [F.]Richest 100 People Enough to End Global Poverty Four Times Over" -- Oxfam.org, 2013 https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2013-01-19/... ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonalds cannot flourish without MacDonald Douglass. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps [and even more hidden: CIA, JSOC]. -- Thomas Friedman (*1953) as quoted in -- -- DGR, "The Efficiency Conundrum: False Solutions in the Environmental Movement" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6G2HHeQMbc&t=25m20s ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 836 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Researchers in the 1970s found that roughly 18 M people die every year due [only] to these uneven [(socio)economic] distributions [brought about by capitalism]." -- J.Mertus & J.W.Helsing, "Human Rights and Conflict," 2006, 72 -- -- quoted by P.Joseph in "The New Human Rights Movement" (2017) === [L]ets not 'forget'/repress/deny: The Fourth Reich -- i.e. the current globalized-on-gun-and-cruise-missile-point Empire of a capitalFascist $y$tem -- is [correction, 2021: WAS already even before the Coronoia] easily murdering more people PER YEAR (even not counting e.g. deaths from Cancer, (radioactive) poisoning, or those inflicted on future generations, e.g. by GW, and such) than the Third Reich in all the years of its sorry existence; and that's *human* people, let's not even start thinking about what it is doing to our sister&brother-species! -- Recommended: "The Cult[ure] of Makebelieve" by Derrick Jensen -- wda, ca. 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The 15 largest ships on the ocean today create more pollution than all of the cars in the world. And that [was] about 800 mio cars [in 2013]. -- The Efficiency Conundrum: False Solutions in the Environmental Movement -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6G2HHeQMbc -- http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create... Pollution from shipping and the military are NOT INCLUDED in the "Paris accords" HOMO DODO. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 838 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Not only does structural violence kill more people [currently only dozens of thousand a day -- wda] than all the behavioral violence put together, structural violence is also the main cause of behavioral violence. -- Dr. James Gilligan in "Zeitgeist(3): Moving Forward" (2011) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have been too kind to those who are destroying the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. -- Derrick Jensen (*1960), www.derrickjensen.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 840 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1986 | AD SPENDING PER PERSON in $ | 2016 | major media spending per capita | ---------+-----------------------------------+---------- 276 | U$A | 604 0.09 | China | 43 30 | worldwide | 78 -- ADBUSTERS Vol. 25, No. 3, may/june 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. -- Voltaire (1694-1778), "Candide" (1759) 1991 Dover edition of anonymous English version ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 842 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Action is the antidote to dispair. -- Edward Abbey (1927-1989) Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Politik ist die Unterhaltungsabteilung der Ruestungsindustrie. -- Frank Zappa Politics is the entertainment department of the military-industrial[-financial] complex. (my transl.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 844 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... the true art of shamanism is not about tripping out into other realms but about bringing the healing insights and energies of those realms back into this world ... -- Ritual Approaches to Working with Sacred Medicine Plants An Interview with Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., by Timothy White SHAMAN'S DRUM #51, spring 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ White: I agree that it is most useful to set one's intent or purpose when working with [entheogenic] medicines. However ... the spirits of medicine plants have wills of their own and may override our conscious intentions. They have a tendency to say, "You were looking for something you wanted, but I'm going to show you what you really need to see." [and to sometimes take you by the scruff of your neck and rub your nose in your dirt or to provide you with a good kick in the behind, if need be.] Metzner: Psilocybin mushrooms are [especially] great at doing that sort of thing. [Indeed. As many have found out.] -- Ritual Approaches to Working with Sacred Medicine Plants An Interview with Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., by Timothy White SHAMAN'S DRUM #51, spring 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 846 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In Europe in the late 14th century the Black Death killed a third of the populace in four years. In the immediate wake of the conquest the death rate in Peru was two and a half times as great. -- Wade Davis, Ph.D., in "San Pedro, Cactus of the Four Winds" reprinted from W.D., SHADOWS IN THE SUN (1998, Island) in SHAMAN'S DRUM #52, summer 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ About Psychoactive Molecules ... GOOD DRUGS ... HEMP: Goddess weed, a time-honored Middle-Eastern euphoriant, euphodisiac, relatively benign passages to borders of the red, green, and gold realm. Not recommended for those content with consensus trance. -- Doctor Jabir 'abd al-Khaliq, Ph.D. [Nick Herbert] in ISLAND VIEWS 1.2, winter/spring 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 848 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Forsche nicht, was morgen sein wird. - Horaz Denn von den Gedanken nimmt die Seele ihre Farbe an. - Marc Aurel Ruhe aus! Ein Feld, das geruht hat, traegt herrliche Ernte. - Ovid ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Ich hasse den Poebel und distanziere mich von ihm. I hate the rabble, and i distance myself from them. -- Horaz, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.), Carmina 3.1.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 850 ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is the way of heaven to take from what has in excess in order to make good what is deficient. The way of man is otherwise. It takes from those who are in want to offer this to those who already have more than enough. -- Tao Te Ching LXXVII, translated by D. C. Lau ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Glueck entsteht oft durch Aufmerksamkeit in kleinen Dingen, Unglueck oft durch Vernachlaessigung kleiner Dinge. -- Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 852 ------------------------------------------------------------------ All institutions of the American government are essentially a gangster syndicate; and everybody knows this. -- Francis Richard Conolly in "JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick" (2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Anpassung ist manipuliertes Dahinsiechen. -- Peter Lauster, "Ausbruch zur inneren Freiheit", 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 854 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeder Mensch ist etwas Persoenliches und Einmaliges, und an Stelle des persoenlichen Gewissens ein kollektives setzen zu wollen, das heisst schon Vergewaltigung und ist der erste Schritt zu allem Totalitaeren. -- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), WO??? zitiert in Peter Lauster, "Ausbruch zur inneren Freiheit", 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Umsonst ist jedes Werk, das Du hervorgebracht, wenn Du nicht selbst zum Kunstwerk dich gemacht. Der Adler fliegt allein, der Rabe scharenweise; Gesellschaft braucht der Tor, und Einsamkeit der Weise. -- Weisheit der Brahmanen (von Friedrich Rueckert) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 856 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Since LSD opens up what Aldous Huxley called "the Doors of Perception", it ENHANCES the fields of CREATIVE ACTIVITY. ... LSD [can] provide the user with A NEW CONCEPT OF LIFE, and this new way of looking at life is opposite to the officially accepted view. ... In the future, I hope that LSD provides to the individual a new word view which is harmony with nature and its laws. -- DDr. Albert Hofmann, interviewed by David Jay Brown, 2006 in MAPS, VOL. XVIII, Nr. 2, Summer 2008 http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n2/v18n2-16.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless. -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Source: On Life and Essays on Religion ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 858 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Free inquiry requires that we tolerate diversity of opinion and that we respect the right of individuals to express their beliefs, HOWEVER UNPOPULAR THEY MAY BE ... (MY caps) -- Paul Kurtz (1925-2012) in "A Secular Humanist Declaration" 1980 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated and great lies become accepted, unequivocally, as great truths. -- Simon Heffer in the Daily Mail of 7 June 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 860 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is a familiar checklist for extinction; we are ticking off every item on it. -- Chris Hedges in "Stop Fascism" (Oregon, 017-05-26) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2klcRVZs0g ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tell no lies. Claim no easy victories. -- Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (1924-1973) quoted by Norman Finkelstein at UoCopenhagen, 02/017 in "50 years of occupation – What now?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bvfKAL7lKk ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 862 ------------------------------------------------------------------ That justice is a blind goddess Is a thing we poor are wise; Her bandage hides two festering sores That once, perhaps, were eyes. -- Lagston Hughes, as quoted by Christian Parenti in "Lockdown America" (1999) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The road to hell is paved with corporate profits and compromised NGOs. -- http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 864 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. -- Arundhati Roy (*1961) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ In the land of the pigs the butcher is king. -- MeatLoaf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 866 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Our way of living - industrial civilization - is based on, requires, and would collapse very quickly without persistent and widespread violence. -- Derrick Jensen in "ENDGAME Vol.I: The Problem of Civilization" (2006) as PREMISE III ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ TELEFONANIE [There is] a danger common to all inventions: a tendency to use them whether or not the occasion demands. -- Lewis Mumford in "Technics and Civilization," 1934 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 868 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ah, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! -- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), "Marmion" XVII (1808) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [I]t is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked. -- Hermann Goering in a conversation with Gustave Gilbert, 18.4.1946 during the Nuremberg trials G. M. Gilbert, "Nuremberg Diary," p.278 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man ging dabei von dem sehr richtigen Grundsatze aus, dass in der Groesse der Luege immer ein gewisser Faktor des Geglaubtwerdens liegt, da die breite Masse eines Volkes im tiefsten Grunde ihres Herzens leichter verdorben als bewusst und absichtlich schlecht sein wird, mithin bei der primitiven Einfalt ihres Gemuetes einer grossen Luege leichter zum Opfer faellt als einer kleinen, da sie selber ja wohl manchmal in kleinen luegt, jedoch vor zu grossen Luegen sich zu sehr schaemen wuerde. Eine solche Unwahrheit wird ihr gar nicht in den Kopf kommen, und sie wird an die Moeglichkeit einer so ungeheuren Frechheit der infamsten Verdrehung auch bei anderen nicht glauben koennen, ja selbst bei der Aufklaerung darueber noch lange zweifeln und schwanken ... -- Hitler: "Mein Krampf", Vol. I, Kap. 10, S. 252, (c) 1925 ... in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility ... in the primitive simplicity of their minds the broad masses more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 871 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein. Frei uebersetzt: Die Welt, in der wir leben, ist ein gefaehrlicher Ort - nicht (so sehr) wegen einiger gemeiner Menschen, sondern (v.a.) wegen der Leute, die nichts dagegen machen [und dann sagen 'Wir haben nichts gewusst; wir koennen NIX dafuer!']." ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of hir political rights. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. -- George Orwell, 1984 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 874 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If people could choose their parents, most of the world would be childless. -- The Cynic's Book of Wisdom (S.A.Swann, 1996) If your dreams turn to shit, just pass them on to your children! -- Teemu Maki (ca. 1990) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ We should remember H. L. Mencken's philosophy. He believed that it is the nature of humans to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting. -- Prof. A.A. Bartlett in his presentation on "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3319144/quotes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Things are always darkest just before they go completely black. -- The Cynic's Book of Wisdom (S.A.Swann, 1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 877 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ich spuere physischen Ekel vor der ordinaeren Menschheit, die im uebrigen die einzige ist, die es gibt. Und manchmal ueberkommt mich Lust ... durch die Strassen zu schlendern und Satzfetzen anzuhoeren ... [um] diesen Ekel zu vertiefen, so wie man ein Erbrechen hervorrufen kann, um den Brechreiz loszuwerden. -- Fernando Pessoa: "Das Buch der Unruhe", S.82 (1982, D 1987) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wenn Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht! (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.) -- Bertold Brecht (1898-1956) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The most incredible aspect of all: these totalitarian elements(*) will not be forced on people, the people will demand [&buy] them. -- ZEITGEIST (2007) *) like idiot-gadgets which (now, 2017) monitor details like the victims' error-rate, response-time, scroll-speed, ... (soon: eye movement, ...); "Alexa/Siri" '"service"'; ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 880 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [S]entience without individual and societal self-mastery enables destruction more readily than creation. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr. in "Soarer's Choice" (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Grosse Streit der Religionen ================================ ist 2x2 = 5 oder 2x2 = 5.732 oder 2x2 = sqrt(-1/i) ? TOETET ALLE ANDERS- und UN-GLAEUBIGEN !!! == Oh Edelgeborene(r)! ... ERKENNE DIE PROJEKTIONEN DEINES EIGENEN GEISTES! -- Das Bardo Thoedol, in ~jedem Kapitel (meist mehrmals) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 882 wda 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wer den Dollar nicht ehrt, wird mit Bomben bekehrt! ~ W.E. Kurtz ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSBqeOLs_ds ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The most basic commandment of our [i.e. the globalized "Western", meganeurotic] culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong. -- Derrick Jensen in "Language Older than Words," Ch. 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Screen-culture is not only addictive, it's obsessive-compulsive addictive. -- Katina Michael in "Stare...my pretties" I think we are becoming more and more stupid. -- Dominic O'Brien (Eight time World memory Champion), ibid. == == == sHe did each thing as if sHe did nothing else. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) == == == Today, over 3.8 billion people are online. 2 billion active facebook users, every month. Average adult spends 8+ hours a day with screens. - More time than sleep... Within 15 minutes of waking up, 4 out of 5 'smartphone' users are checking their phones. By the time the average person reaches 70, they will have spent the equivalent of 10 to 15 years of their life watching TV. - 4+ years just watching the ads... -- "Stare Into the Lights My Pretties" (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7762882/quotes https://stareintothelightsmypretties.jore.cc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 883 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Each hour, some 600,000 trees are cut down. -- Derrick Jensen in "Bright Gren Lies" (upcoming) 3.5 billion to 7 billion trees are cut down per year. -- https://www.ran.org/how_many_trees_are_cut_down_every_year ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Industrial humans produce about as much plastic each year as the weight of all humans combined. -- Derrick Jensen in "Bright Green Lies" (2021) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The number of lives that will be lost because of the damaging impacts of climate change is in the hundreds of millions - to me, it's not just a crime against humanity, it's a crime against the planet. -- Michael Mann, in "The Doubt Machine" (2017), as quoted in P.D.Garter & E.Woodworth's "Unprecedented Crime" (2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 886 ------------------------------------------------------------------ every minute... ... ... 20 tons of plastic waste are being dumped into the ocean ... 380 tons of fish are being caught - 1/3 of it being uselessly killed "by-catch" ... ... 70 acres of forest are being cleared worldwide ... 42,000 tons of CO2 are being blown into the atmosphere ... ... human population increases by ~ 150 ... -- Momentaufnahme/Snapshots (AT 2008; 16 min) http://www.MOMENTAUFNAHME.at ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% happy "world ocean day" 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wenn du imstande bist, dem Leben ins Gesicht zu lachen, erhaeltst du Macht ueber die Welt - genau wie alle, die darauf vorbereitet sind, zu sterben. -- Anthony de Mello, "Eine Minute Unsinn" (1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ There's a myth, online, that what we are doing is 'free'. But all that's happened is that the place, where revenue and value is extracted from us, has been shifted. -- Douglas Rushkoff in Stare Into the Lights My Pretties (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7762882/quotes https://stareintothelightsmypretties.jore.cc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 889 ------------------------------------------------------------------ HOME wherever the place I'm in. -- Gentle Giant, "Octopus" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ I know that we won't see a revolution, 'cause if people pay for water in a plastic bottle, they're going to suffer any indignity. -- Derrick Jensen in "How many environmentalists does it take to change a lightbulb" YT BrvfTpWP-g8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 891 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Instead of Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, this new generation will know Blizzard, Flood, Heat and Fire. -- "New seasons with new names" by Roger Ebert; suntimes.com, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 892 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Join in the battle, wherein no man can fail. For whoso fadeth and dieth, yet his deeds shall still prevail. -- William Morris quoted in "Land and Freedom" (1995) imdb.com/title/tt0114671 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools. -- King Crimson (1969) "In the Court of the Crimson King" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 894 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Heuchelei gehoert bis heute zu den widerlichsten, doch wesentlichsten Charakterzuegen des Christentums. Hypocrisy until today remains one of the most disgusting, but most fundamental traits of christianity. (my transl.) -- Karlheinz Deschner in "OPUS DIABOLI - 15 unversoehnliche Essays ueber die Arbeit im Weinberg des Herrn" (1987), S. 94 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man kann dem Christentum vieles und Ungeheuerliches vorwerfen, man muss es, und es gibt keine Entschuldigung dafuer. Unter allen Vorwuerfen der schwerste aber ist der: es hat die Menschen nicht gluecklicher, es hat sie ungluecklicher gemacht. -- Karlheinz Deschner in "OPUS DIABOLI - 15 unversoehnliche Essays ueber die Arbeit im Weinberg des Herrn" (1987), S. 114 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 896 ??? ------------------------------------------------------------------ The plebeians of the world are compelled by force of arms to follow the law. Operatives of the Global Gangster Network are protected by the "unholy trinity" [sensu John Ralston Saul] of corruption, violence, and impunity. -- Doug Mackenzie ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 899 ca. 1.10.018 continued in words0.txt .... ------------------------------------------------------------------ True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) 1955 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 900 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ABROGATE ARE ALL RITUALS, ALL ORDEALS, ALL WORDS AND SIGNS! -- Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), Liber AL, 1904 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ich kann gar nicht soviel fressen, wie ich kotzen moechte. (I can't stuff down as much food as I want to throw up.) -~ Max Liebermann (1847-1935), 1933 Ein Ruelpser sagt oft mehr als 100 Worte. (wda 2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Instead of having an ever-adapting civilization-wide consensus reality, we have become a [world] of insane people able to see the madness only in the other side. -- Orson Scott Card in "Empire" (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 903 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I think often of a line by psychiatrist R. D. Laing [1927-1989], "FEW BOOKS TODAY ARE EXCUSABLE." He wrote this, I believe, because we have become so very alienated from our own experience, from who we are, and this alienation is so destructive to others and ourselves that if a book [film, painting, song, ..., relationship, life, ...] does not ... work towards rectifying it, we'd all be better off looking at blank pieces of paper. -- Derrick Jensen in "Calling All Fanatics" re-published in "Voices of Resistance" (2018) Of course, ever more films, books, ... not only don't work towards rectifying this alienation - or, in W.R.'s words, the Emotional Plague - but are actively promoting it, and often promoting it to an extent that makes me wonder if the perpetrators are merely totally imbued with the Plague or if it is done intentionally. --wda ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 904 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The worst-case scenario is more or less the path we're on. -- Ron Sutherland, talking about red wolves (in USA); but his observation seems to have more or less general applicability, these days. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 2018-11-01 ------------------------------------------------------------------ A WORLD WITHOUT IDIOTS WOULD BE LONELY. Orson Scott Card - Ender in Exile (2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it. -- Howard Zinn (1922-2010) in "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" (2004) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416825/quotes/qt0534553 -- [H]istory is not merely one subject among many... EVERY subject has a history, including biology, physics, math... Thus I would recommend that every subject be tought AS history. -- Neil Postman in "Technopoly" (1992) ISBN 0679745408, p.189/90 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wer Kirchengeschichte nicht als Kriminalgeschichte schreibt, ist Mittaeter. -- Karlheinz Deschner (1924-2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man darf die meisten Dinge nur sagen, wie sie sind, um eine treffliche Satire zu machen. -- Apokryphen, S. 1359 [ You only have to describe things as they are to make the most felicitous satire. (my transl.) ] -- Johann Gottfried Seume (1763-1810) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [W]herever one goes on this earth, all things are spoiled by ['civilized'] men." -- Gore Vidal (1925-2012) in "Creation" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 910 01/019 ------------------------------------------------------------------ RECTIFY THE LANGUAGE! When Confucius was asked what would be the first thing he would do if he were to lead the state ... he said, RECTIFY THE LANGUAGE. This is wise. This is subtle. As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action ... -- Gore Vidal, "The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas" in The Nation, Jan. 11, 1986 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viele Menschen glauben lieber, dass unser Hang zur Gewalt und zur atomaren Auseinandersetzung auf biologische Faktoren zurueckzufuehren ist, die sich unserer Kontrolle entziehen, als dass sie die Augen aufmachen und erkennen, dass die von uns selbst verursachten sozialen, politischen und oekonomischen Umstaende daran schuld sind. Erich Fromm, "Anatomie der menschlichen Destruktivitaet" 1977 Original: "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" 1973 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 912 02/019 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The [U$] "'Defense'" Department owns land equivalent in area to the state of Ohio. (MY "''") -- Gore Vidal, "The New World Review of Books," 1973-10-18 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Above all be sensitive, in the deepest areas of yourselves, to any injustice committed against whoever it may be anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful chracteristic of a revolutionary. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967) as quoted in "Make Rojava Green Again" (2018) by The Internationalist Commune of Rojava censored/impounded by Germoney's PTB 02/019 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 914 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. –– Noam Chomsky, The Common Good, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Knowledge never injures the soul. It only purges that which encrusts and saps the soul. -- Robert Silverberg (*1935) in "A Time of Changes" (1971) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 916 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Progress is a sort of madness that is a god to people. Decent people commit horrible crimes that are acceptable because of progress. -- Linda Hogan (*1947) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on *not* understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair, "I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked" (1935), 109 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 918 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FORTSCHRITT ... Kein Mensch weiss wohin, Hauptsache fort! -- Ruediger Dahlke in "Kriege in Medizin und Koerper, wie wir uns dagegen wehren" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-8rxhPvufo&t=14m8s ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Das Christentum gab dem Eros Gift zu trinken – er starb zwar nicht daran, aber entartete, zum Laster. -- Nietzsche in "Jenseits von Gut und Boese" (1886) Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, but degenerated, to Vice. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 920 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Und wann soll deiner Meinung nach dieser "Zusammenbruch" kommen? Du siehst nicht, wie er voranschreitet? ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ All times in this book are given in Babylonian mathematics (based on 60), which was invented by Iraqis some 10,000 years before the founding of the United States of America. -- Rowland Morgan in "Voices" (2010) tinyurl.com/RM-2010-Voices ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 922 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I think often of a line by psychiatrist R. D. Laing [1858-1940], "FEW BOOKS TODAY ARE EXCUSABLE." He wrote this, I believe, because we have become so very alienated from our own experience, from who we are, and this alienation is so destructive to others and ourselves that if a book [film, painting, song, ..., relationship, life, ...] does not ... work towards rectifying it, we'd all be better off looking at blank pieces of paper. -- Derrick Jensen in "Calling All Fanatics" re-published in "Voices of Resistance" (2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trying is the first step towards failure. -- Homer Simpson ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 924 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "No matter what you do, it will never amount to anything more than a single drop in a limitless ocean." "What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?" -- Cloud Atlas (2012) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ A lie can run round the world before the truth gets its boots on. -- Terry Pratchett in "The Truth" (2010) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 926 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In Myanmar, their Internet is the Farcebook. Most of the people, they don't even know what is e-mail. -- Nay San Lwin (Blogger, Bangladesh/Myanmar) in "The Cleaners" (2018) -- Websites operated by just four corporations account for 50.4 % of the time that US users of the Web are spending online. -- Jupiter Media Mix, quoted in ADBUSTERS #38 (Nov/Dec 2001) ... today? ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wer die Wahrheit nicht weiss, ist bloss ein Dummkopf. Aber wer sie weiss und sie eine Luege nennt, der ist ein Vebrecher! -- Bertold Brecht (1898-1956), "Leben des Galilei" (1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 928 2020-04-20 '''Corona'''krise ------------------------------------------------------------------ Es ist als haetten alle den Verstand verloren, sich zum Niedergang und zum Verfall verschworen, und ein Irrlicht ist ihr Leuchtfeuer geworden. -- Reinhard Mey, Narrenschiff (1999) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The "'WarOnTerror'" and the "'WarOnDrugs'" are ... like siamese twins. -- Douglas Valentine (The CIA as Organized Crime) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 930 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ETHIK IST WICHTIGER ALS RELIGION. -- Geshe Tenzin Gyatso, XIV. DALAI LAMA ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Diet, injections and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. (p.45) ... A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organised insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton. (p.46) -- Bertrand Russel, The Impact of Science on Society (1952) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 932 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... the claim that underlies ... Science is being corrupted by the influence of corporate money. This corruption is leading directly to our poor health, whether it be the epidemic of obesity; neurological diseases like autism, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and multiple sclerosis; the explosion of cancers; or mental problems among the young, including school shooters. -- Judy Mikovits, PLAGUE OF CORRUPTION - Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science (2020) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ You're still laboring under the notion that people take power. Nobody takes power. They're given power, by the rest of us, because we are stupid or afraid, or both. The Germans in 1939, the Russians in 1917, [worldwide in 2020] they handed over power to people they thought could settle scores, 'get the trains running on time,' restore their prestige [, or save humankind from the deadly killer-HORROR-virusz]. -- JMS, Babylon 5 4.16, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0517700/quotes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 934 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Onkel: Glubst Du an Gott? Kind: Nein. Gott ist nur ein Weihnachtsmann fuer Erwachsene. -- Marie Curie [The Courage of Knowledge] (2016) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. nicht nur die Abschaffung der Grundrechte [und] Rechts- sicherheit, sondern DER TOTALE ZUSAMMENBRUCH DER VERNUNFT. D.h., man gewoehnt die Leute daran, einfach voellig irrsinnigen Befehlen zu gehorchen. Ohne zu fragen... Und das ist natuerlich besonders gefaehrlich. -~ Gerhard Wisnewski (anlaesslich der Coronoia-2020) in New Normal Order - Gerhard Wisnewski im NuoViso Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NavmiXaYHc&t=18m25s ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 936 ------------------------------------------------------------------ repraesentative "'Demokratie'" ... Staubsaugervertreter verkaufen Staubsauger, Versicherungsvertreter verkaufen Versicherungen, Volksvertreter ... siehe z.B. Toronto Board of Health Motion on Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy April 8, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whl9V9n0c4w ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dort, wo man Buecher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen. -- Heinrich Heine, "Almansor" (1821) Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 938 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Letzlich sind den meisten Menschen Bequemlichkeit und 'Sicherheit' wichtiger als Freiheit und Unabhaengigkeit. Damit wissen sie ohnehin nichts anzufangen. -- Marc Elsberg ZERO, ISBN 9783837124965, ch. 51 In the end, for most people convenience and 'security' are more important than freedom and independence. Which they wouldn't know what to do with anyway. [my transl.] ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep the light of science bright, care for it and use it right, lest it became a fire fall to consume us all, to consume us all. -- (Brecht's) Galileo (1968) imdb.com/title/tt0062998 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 940 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Menschen wurden erschaffen, um geliebt zu werden. Dinge wurden geschaffen, um benutzt zu werden. Der Grund, warum sich die Welt im Chaos befindet ist, dass Dinge geliebt und Menschen benutzt werden. -- Tenzin Gytso, XIV. Dalai Lama, zu lesen auf einer Tafel auf dem Weg nach "Klein Tibet im Zillertal" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Unsere gemeinsame Mutter Natur zeigt ihren Kindern immer deutlicher, dass ihr Geduldsfaden gerissen ist. -- Tenzin Gyatso, XIV. Dalai Lama ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 942 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are none so blind as those who will not see. -- John Heywood in 1546; possibly inspired by Jeremiah 5:21 There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know. -- Jonathan Swift in "Polite Conversation," 1738 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [U]nless men increase in wisdom as much as in knowledge, increase of knowledge will be increase in sorrow. -- Bertrand Russel, The Impact of Science on Society (1952), p.88 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 944 ------------------------------------------------------------------ My view is this: The good live is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. -- Bertrand Russel, "What I Believe" (1925) -- reprinted in "Why I Am Not a Christian," (c) 1957 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Diet, injections and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. (p.45) ... A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organised insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton. (p.46) -- [U]nless men increase in wisdom as much as in knowledge, increase of knowledge will be increase in sorrow. (p.88) -- Bertrand Russel, The Impact of Science on Society (1952) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 946 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wer es - anstatt "Corona-Skandal" oder "Verbrechen der Coronafaschisten" oder "the Great Panic of 2020 (COVID-mania)" oder "[die MassenAngstPsychose] Coronoia" - immer noch "Pandemie" nennt ist Mittaeter. -- wda, 2021-10-10 Who (as of Oct., 2021) still calls it a ''pandemic'' instead of a scandal, a SCAMdemic, Covid-MANIA, or "the Great Panic of 2020", or, maybe best: "the crimes against humankind of the coronafascists" is complicit in said crimes. --- Diese Daten sind eindeutig. Wir hatten keine Pandemie, wir hatten einen Völkermord. Und wir müssen es als das benennen, was es ist. -- Dr. David E. Martin, 13.9.2023 im EU-"Parlament" https://transition-news.org/wir-hatten-keine-pandemie-wir-hatten-einen-volkermord ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. -- Notorious d.e.b. @debihope ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 948 ------------------------------------------------------------------ zahl der haustiere wird groesser / sie dienen gegen depressionen fuer abreaktionen als dekorationen haustierindustrie wird groesser / verfuettert millionen tiere an tiere besorgt alles / was millionen degenerierte wesen taeglich brauchen es geht dir besser wenn es deinem tier gut geht das lenkt ab wenn es dir schlecht geht haelt ab zu sorgen dass es weniger gruende gibt die es dir und deiner mitwelt nicht gut gehen lassen -- helmut seethaler 1200 wien wasnerg. 43/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fear is like radioactivity: once released it filters into everything. -- DDr. Simone Gold in "I Do Not Consent - My Fight Against Medical Cancel Culture" (2020/10) ISBN 9781642938906, p.72 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 950 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Luege wird zur Weltordnung gemacht. -- Franz Kafka in "Der Prozess" zit. in https://www.rubikon.news/artikel/totalitarer-moralismus http://www.digbib.org/Franz_Kafka_1883/Der_Prozess_.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana, "The Life of Reason, or: The Phases of Human Progress" vol. 1 (1905), 284 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 951 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. 1984 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 952 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wo Unrecht zu '''Recht''' wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht. -- alte Weisheit ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 953 2021-01-01 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Das wahre Wunder besteht nicht darin, in der Luft zu schweben oder auf dem Wasser zu wandern, sondern darin, auf der Erde zu gehen. -- Lin-chi ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Vergesst nicht, dass ein jedes Volk diejenige Regierung verdient, die es ertraegt! Die Weisse Rose, 1. Flugblatt, Juni 1942 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 955 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep people alarmed and eager to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of Hobgoblins. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen, ich war ja kein Kommunist. Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen, ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat. Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen, ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter. Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte. -- Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984) http://tinyurl.com/mniemoeller dzt. (2020/21) werden wieder Lager vorbereitet, diesmal in DE fuer '''Quarantaeneverweigerer''' und den USA hat die FEMA ja schon viele schoene grosze Lager bereit ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 23.1.2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie. -- Pamela Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 958 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Every word man speaks is a plagiarism. -- Joost A.M. Meerloo, MD, "The Rape of the Mind" (1956) [W]ealth - both material and spiritual wealth - is a natural phenomenon - offspring of the marriage of Time and human Toil [and this] wealth at any given time is almost wholly the *inherited* fruit of time and the labor of the dead... To whom does the inheritance rightly belong? Does it of right belong to Smith and Brown? ... Or does it of right belong to ... humanity? ... And what does "humanity" include? Only the living, who are relatively few? Or both the living and unborn? -- A. H. Korzybski, "Manhood of Humanity" dedicated to "the quick and the dead" (C) 1921, 1951; 4th printing 1993, p. 197 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Glauben sie auch an Corona oder denken sie noch selbst? -- wda 02/2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 960 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "An intricate web of Lies, delivered in stages, designed to ensure the cooperation of the condemned ..." Each measure, each restriction on their rights and freedoms was sold to them as for their own good. They were told that the restrictions were temporary, that the government only wanted what was best for them, and that, if they followed the orders, no further harm would come to them. ~- Andy Andrews, 2012, in "How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters..." as quoted and summed up by .... WHO WHERE was that ? ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Most dangerous lie is the one we force ourselves to believe. -- The Cynics Book of Wisdom (S.A.Swann) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 962 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There can be no real peace when living with someone who has already declared war. No peace, but only capitulation, and even that, as we see around us, doesn't lead to further peace, but to further degradation and exploitation. We're responsible not only for what we do, but also for what is in our power to stop. Before we can speak of peace, we have to speak honestly of the war already going on, and we have to speak honestly of stopping - by any and all means possible - those who have declared war on the world and on all of us. Those who destroy won't stop because we live peacefully, and they won't stop because we asked nicely... The point is, that we're all in a room with a cannibal, with a mass murderer, and we need to figure out what to do about it. -- Derrick Jensen in "A Language Older than Words" (2000) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Er nennts Vernunft und brauchts allein, nur tierischer als jedes Tier zu sein. - Goethe, Faust I, Prolog ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 964 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Apotheker und Pharma wollten schon immer nur user Bestens. Unser Geld. -- Gerd Reuther, "Heilung Nebensache" -- -- https://www.rubikon.news/artikel/erregende-medizingeschichte Apothecaries and pharma* always only want our very best ... Our money. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Und denn, man muß das Wahre immer wiederholen, weil auch der Irrthum um uns her immer wieder gepredigt wird, und zwar nicht von Einzelnen, sondern von der Masse. In Zeitungen und Enzyklopädien, auf Schulen und Universitäten, überall ist der Irrthum oben auf, und es ist ihm wohl und behaglich, im Gefühl der Majorität, die auf seiner Seite ist. – Oft lehrt man auch Wahrheit und Irrthum zugleich und hält sich an letzteren. -- GOETHE (in seinem 80. Lebensjahr) gegenüber ECKERMANN (Gespraeche mit Goethe von Johann Peter Eckermann, 16.12.1828 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 966 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Vergesst nicht, daß ein jedes Volk diejenige Regierung verdient, die es ertraegt! -- Die Weiße Rose, 1. Flugblatt, Juni 1942 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eine Stunde der Idiotie Wenn ich den Leuten gesagt hätte, springt aus dem dritten Stock des Columbushauses, sie haetten es auch getan. -- Goebbels, 18.2.1943, nach seiner Rede im Berliner Sportpalast ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 968 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "[D]as Volk kann ... immer dazu gebracht werden, den Befehlen der Fuehrer zu folgen. Das ist ganz einfach. Man braucht nichts zu tun, als dem Volk zu sagen, es wuerde angegriffen, und den Pazifisten ihren Mangel an Patriotismus vorzuwerfen und zu behaupten, sie braechten das Land in Gefahr. Diese Methode funktioniert in jedem Land." -- Hermann Goering im Gespräch mit G. M. Gilbert, "Nuernberger Tagebuch – Gespraeche der Angeklagten mit dem Gerichtspsychologen" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Now, he's hell-bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill All he believes are his eyes And his eyes, they just tell him lies. -- Bob Dylan, License to kill (1983) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 970 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The fashion of speech tells its truth, spells its falsehoods. -- L. E. Modesitt in "Imager" ch. 68 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is often easier to fool people than to get them to admit that they have been fooled. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 970 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mit entsprechendem Profit wird Kapital kuehn. 10 Prozent sicher, und man kann es ueberall anwenden; 20 Prozent, es wird lebhaft; 50 Prozent, positiv waghalsig; für 100 Prozent stampft es alle menschlichen Gesetze unter seinen Fuss; 300 Prozent und es existiert kein Verbrechen, das es nicht riskiert, selbst auf die Gefahr des Galgens. -- Karl Marx, "Das Kapital" Band 1 (MEW Bd.23, S.788, Fussnote 250); Marx zitiert den englischen Gewerkschaftsfunktionaer Thomas Joseph Dunning ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lustig gelebt und selig gestorben heißt dem Teufel die Rechnung verdorben. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 972 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Nazis could never have done what they did without a lot of help from German citizens. And the German citizens who helped the Nazis weren't rabid Nazis, nor were they rabid Jew-haters. They were just people who'd go along to get along... When you're putting that mask on, you're helping them. It's a sign of submission, that's what they want you to do. -- Pam Popper in Planet Lockdown (2021) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13819486/quotes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ BOY: Dad, I'm considering a career in Organized Crime. DAD: Good choice. Pays well. Government or private sector? ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 974 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99 percent vote. -- Marvin Simkin, LA Times, 1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Une petite pandemie permettra d'instaurer un gouvernment mondial! [Eine kleine Pandemie würde es erlauben eine Weltregierung zu installieren] -- Jaques Attali im Mai 2009 anlaesslich der '''Schweinegrippe''' -- -- zit. in Wolfgang Wodarg, "Falsche Pandemien" (06/2021) S.14 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 976 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1(1) Die Wuerde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Sie zu achten und zu schuetzen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 978 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Once our authoritarian technics consolidates its powers, with the aid of its new forms of mass control, its panoply of tranquilizers and sedatives and aphrodisiacs, could democracy in any form survive? That question is absurd: life itself will not survive, except what is funneled through the mechanical collective. -- Lewis Mumford, Authoritarian and Democratic Technics, Technology and Culture, Winter 1964 -- -- quoted in BRIGHT GREEN LIES (2021) by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Propaganda for the "new" does little beyond offering old wine in new barrels. Real new thoughts donot announce themselves as such; new ideas first grow in hding... New thoughts and feeling cannot be imposed. -- Joost Meerloo, "Delusion and Mass Delusion" (1949) p.79/80 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 980 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The totalitarian potentate, in order to break down the minds of men, first needs mental chaos and verbal confusion, because both paralyze his opposition ... From then on he can start to build up his system of conformity. -- Joost Meerloo in "Rape of the Mind" (1956) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [R]esitance [is] the art that will set us free. -- Tori Amos, "resistance" (2020) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Der Mensch auf dem Weg in den Faschismus trägt seine rote Linie mit sich wie einen Spazierstock - Schritt für Schritt." (Markus Herrmann) -- zitiert in https://www.rubikon.news/artikel/die-rote-linie People marching into fascism carry their 'red line' like a walking-stick - step by step. [my transl.] ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Complying with lockdowns is a sure-fire way to get more of them. -- Alex Jones Covid-19 is the greatest fraud ever pushed on mankind. It is not about a virus. -- Bill Sardi -- -- both in COVIDLAND (2021) – Episode 1: The Lockdown https://www.bitchute.com/video/KjDcFPd2739p/ * RECMMENDED VIEWING * : McCopies & D.Stribute ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 984 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Vaccination (pre-2015): Injection of a killed or weakened infectious organism in order to PREVENT the disease. Vaccination (2015-2021): The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce IMMUNITY to a specific disease. Vaccination (Sept. 2021): The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce PROTECTION to a specific disease. (my CAPS) -- (US) CDC WAR=PEACE, FREEDOM=SLAVERY, and STAYING APART KEEPS US TOGETHER ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Was aber tut das deutsche Volk? Es sieht nicht und es hört nicht. Blindlings folgt es seinen Verführern ins Verderben. -- 5. Flugblatt der Weissen Rose (Namaste!) Jaenner 1943 And what is the German people doing? It doesn't see and doesn't hear. Blindly it is following its seducers into perdition. (my transl.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 986 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Our civilisation is under threat. We have a choice. Be pushed off the cliff or push back? -- Nick Hudson, co-founder of PANDA "Men ... go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." -- Charles MacKay, as quoted in -- The UGLY truth about the Covid 19 Lock downs ... https://www.bitchute.com/video/vypsBO6DmsWY/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 987 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "50 % der Dinge, die der Handel anbietet, braucht kein Mensch. Aber 80 % des Geldes werden dafür ausgegeben." -- RegioPlan Consulting (Vortrag) 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Diese Daten sind eindeutig. Wir hatten keine Pandemie, wir hatten einen Völkermord. Und wir müssen es als das benennen, was es ist. These data are unequivocal. We didn't have a pandemc, we had a genocide. And we have to call it what it is. -- Dr. David E. Martin, 13.9.2023 im EU-"Parlament" https://transition-news.org/wir-hatten-keine-pandemie-wir-hatten-einen-volkermord --- Wer es jetzt (gegen Ende 2021 immer noch "CoronaKRISE" nennt, anstatt "CoronaSKANDAL" (oder "Machtübernahme der Corona= Faschisten", o.ä.) ist Mittäter. -- wda 2021-10-10 Anyone who still calls it (e.g.) "pandemic" or "Corona Crisis" instead of (e.g.) "pLandemic", or "Corona Scam", or "global coronafascist coup" is complicit. -- wda 2021 --- "The Corona-Fraud Scandal, which has meanwhile unfolded into probably the greatest Crime against Humanity ever committed." -- Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, https://rumble.com/embed/vnks1w ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 989 ------------------------------------------------------------------ WER DEN SCHMAEH KRITISIERT, WIRD VOM STAATSFUNK DIFFAMIERT. - Coronoia 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ WER DEN IRRSINN KRITISIERT, WIRD VOM STAATSFUNK DIFFAMIERT. - Coronoia 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 991 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nie haben die Massen nach Wahrheit geduerstet. Von den Tatsachen, die ihnen missfallen, wenden sie sich ab und ziehen es vor, den Irrtum zu vergoettern, wenn er sie zu verfuehren vermag. Wer sie zu taeuschen versteht, wird leicht ihr Herr, wer sie aufzuklaeren sucht, stets ihr Opfer. -- Gustave Le Bon (1841 - 1931), Psychologie des foules (1895) Psychologie der Massen (D von Rudolf Eisler, 1912) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The hardest thing about this two-week shitdown "just to flatten da curve" were the first 600 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 993 ??? 999 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die PharmaMafia (von manchen leider immer noch ~Industrie genannt) ist an Gesundheit genau so interessiert, wie die Ruestungs'industie' an weltweitem Frieden. The pharmaMAFIA (by some, alas!, still called an 'industry') is interested in your health exactly as much, as the arms- 'industry' is interested in worldwide peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ HAVE A MERRY CRISIS AND A HAPPY NEW FEAR ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 995 ??? ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMMER WENN WIR ETWAS NICHT SEHEN WOLLEN, GIBT ES DAS TROTZDEM. -- Lisa Fitz, "Hey Du! Wach auf!" zB. YT P8od_SlMyXQ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1000 12/021 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are about 2 million dams in the US alone. ... EVERY DAM IN THE WORLD WILL FAIL. And every dam in the world must fail for those rivers to survive. This is something we all need to recognize, and that from the perepective of the world this is short-term habitat loss and long-term habitat gain. [Which, of course, also applies to] highways, cities, ... these are blights on the planet ... AND THE SOONER THEY DISAPPEAR THE MORE LIFE IS LEFT ON THIS PLANET. -- Derrick Jensen in "Dam Failure" (8:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fXPJNculM0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1001 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 (MY caps) ( http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3897674084/zenguide-21 ) The Tao lies immediately under the soles of our feet. Just open your eyes and be present! Be (conscious?) aware (attentive?) in everything you do, "HERE and NOW" ! -- Zensho W. Kopp (MY caps, my transl.draft) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1002 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Ereignisse von 1933 bis 1945 haetten spaetestens 1928 bekaempft werden müssen. Spaeter war es zu spaet. Man darf nicht warten, bis der Freiheitskampf Landesverrat genannt wird. Man darf nicht warten, bis aus dem Schneeball eine Lawine geworden ist. Man muss den rollenden Schneeball zertreten. Die Lawine haelt keiner mehr auf. Sie ruht erst, wenn sie alles unter sich begraben hat. -- Erich Kaestner (1899-1974), "Ueber das Verbrennen von Buechern" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ MEDICUS CURAT, NATURA SANAT. (God heals, the doctor takes the fees.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1004 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Aber der Staat luegt in allen Zungen des Guten und Boesen. Und was er auch redet: Er luegt. Und was er auch hat: Gestohlen hat er's. -- Nietzsche (1844-1900) in "Also sprach Zarathustra" (1885) -- -- ISBN 1508718202, S. 38 -- -- zitiert in "Pflicht zur Impfung gegen COVID-19", apolut.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it. -- George Carlin (1937 - 2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1006 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Es herrschen haeufig die schlechtesten, unbedeutendsten, grausamsten, sittenlosesten und besonders die verlogensten Menschen. -- Tolstoj, Leo N. (1983): Rede gegen den Krieg, Seite 74 -- -- zitiert in https://www.rubikon.news/artikel/erziehung-zum-untertanen ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ "The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered with an occasional assassination." -- VOLTAIRE (1694-1778), as quoted by -- -- S. Andrew Swann in "Hostile Takeover" (1995) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [F]ear can unite people behind the most unsuitable of leaders, especially when that fear is strong and targeted at a common enemy or those who are different, or sometimes both. When people are fearful, the last thing they want to hear is that their fears are unreasonable or unjustified. ... Concerns by their nature are reasoned. Fears are not. -- L. E. Modesitt Jr., "Outcasts of Order" (2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 4.4.022 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Nationalsozialismus zielte nicht darauf, die Menschen kognitiv zu ueberzeugen, sondern sie emotional einzubinden: Er lebte von der narzisstischen Beduerftigkeit und Abhaengigkeit seiner Anhaenger, von ihren Schamgefuehlen, Kriegstraumata und fruehkindlichen Erloesungsphantasien. -- Stephan Marks in "Warum folgten sie Hitler? Die Psychologie des Nationalsozialismus" (2007) Auffallende Parallelen zum Coronafaschismus existieren selbstverstaendlich ausschließlich in der Fantasie von rechtsradikalen kommunistischen Gedankenverbrechern. -- wda, 2022/05 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Today everything serves war. There is not one discovery which the military does not study with the aim of applying it to warfare, not one invention which they do not attempt to turn to military use. -- Nikolai Fyodorov, "Philosophy of the Common Cause," 1891 To fight the bug, we must understand the bug. -- Starship Troopers = opening quotes of Yasha Levine, "Surveillance Valley" (2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [T]he internet was developed as a weapon and remains a weapon today. [US] American military interests continue to dominate all parts of the network, even those that supposedly stand in opposition. -- Yasha Levine, NY 12/2017, "Surveillance Valley," p. 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [G]lobalized neoliberal capitalism ... is doing away with outmoded concepts like the nation state and national sovereignty and restructuring the world into one big marketplace where "Chinese" investors own "American" companies that manufacture goods for "European" markets by paying "Thai" workers 3 dollars a day to enrich "American" hedge fund crooks whose "British" bank[st]ers stash their loot in numbered accounts in the Cayman Islands while "American" taxpayers pay their taxes so that the "United States" can give billions of dollars to "Israelis" and assorted terrorist outfits in the Middle East to open up markets for the capitalist ruling classes, who have no allegiance to any country, and who couldn't possibly care less about the common people who have to live there. -- CJ Hopkins in "Goose-stepping Our Way Toward Pink Revolution" 2017-02-21 in "Trumpocalypse" (2019) ISBN 9783982146409, p.75 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ NEVER FORGET The people who hid and helped (e.g.) Anna Frank were "criminals". The people who brought them to the KZ were law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1014 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 97% Of scientists agree with whoever is funding them. The other 3% are banned, censored, deplatformed or shut up e.g. by having the lifes of their families threatend. Gates Bless! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ NATIONALISM teaches you to be proud of things you haven't done and to hate people you've never met. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1016 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Who is easily offended probably ought to be offended for hir own good. -- wda 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The crime that was perpetrated during the p[l]andemic years of 2020-2022 was perhaps the greatest ever committed against humanity. And it is being perpetrated still. Naomi Wolf in "The Bodies of Others" (05/2022), 1737478560 p. 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1018 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Pharma-'Industrie' (bzw. -Mafia) ist an Gesundheit ganz genau so interessiert wie die Rüstungs-'Industrie' (bzw. -Mafia) an Frieden. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wie wird die Welt regiert und in den Krieg gefuehrt? Diplomaten beluegen Journalisten und glauben's wenn sie's lesen. -- Karl Kraus, 1914 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1020 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1021 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Des toidschen Volxkrankheit ist seine Folgsamkeit. -- Anny Hartmann in "Lobbyismus 2.0" YT 9ym_hqMuQ_s ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1022 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Einmal in mehreren Jahren zu entscheiden, welches Mitglied der herrschenden Klasse das Volk im Parlament niederhalten und zertreten soll – das ist das wirkliche Wesen des buergerlichen Parlamentarismus. -- W. I. Lenin, "Staat und Revolution" (1930), in: Ausgewaehlte Werke, Band II, Berlin 1970, S. 355 -- -- zit. in https://apolut.net/macht-euch-endlich-vom-acker-von-hans-juergen-muelln/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ But no one is so deaf as he who will not hear. -- Lenin (), "State and Revolution" (1917), ISBN 0781614271925, p.46 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1024 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and oppress the people through parliament - this is the essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics. -- Lenin(1870-1924), "State and Revolution" (1917), ISBN 0781614271925, p.40 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steh zu den Dingen, an die du glaubst, auch wenn du alleine dort stehst. -- Sophie Scholl (1921-1943) zugeschrieben. WO? ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1026 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I identify as a Conspiracy Analyst. My pronouns are Told/You/So. ----------------- If someone accuses you of wearing a tinfoil hat... remind them it's better than a blindfold. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ready or not, computers are coming to the people. That's good news, maybe the best since psychedelics. -- Steward Brand, "SPACEWAR," 1972 -- -- as quoted in Yasha Levine, "Surveillance Valley" (2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1028 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The phrase "conspiracy theory" is one of those that's constantly brought up, and I think it's effect simply is to discourage institutional analysis. -- Chomsky, "Manufactoring Consent" (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104810/quotes/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [C]ivilization ... does not tend to produce psychologically healthy people. -- Lewis Mumford, Technics and Human Development The Myth of the Machine (1966), p. 226 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1030 ------------------------------------------------------------------ around 2020, approx. 51 G$/y are spent for construction and maintennace only, and 150 G$/y total (incl. personnel) for US military bases; 30 G$/y would be sufficient to end world hunger (UN estimate) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The aim of the Western ""Defense"" Alliance is "to keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down." -- Lord Ismay, 1st Secretary General, NATO ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1032 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Breaking the Sound of Silence And on the evening news i saw ten million people, maybe more, people jabbing without thinking, people aping without listening, people spewing hate that famous voices shared But [nearly] noone dared disturb the sound of silence. -- Sound of Silenced Science (2023) The Adverse Events featuring the Spike Girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2LaDrDL4g4 (03/023) In restless dreams ... i saw ... ten thousand people, maybe more, people talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, people writing songs that voices never share, as [nearly] noone ever dares disturb the sound of silence. -- The Sound of Silence, Simon And Garfunkel (1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUOACGtGfA (03/023) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1033 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Do not think in haste. Do not talk in haste. Do not act in haste... It will save you much grief. -- S.A.Swann, Broken Crescent (2004) p. 126 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1034 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice ... Name your genocide -- it was not a mistake. That includes the Great Democide of the 2020s. To imply otherwise is to give Them the out they are seeking. ... Don’t let Them get away with it. Don’t let Them get away with it. Don’t let Them get away with it. -- Margaret Anna Alice, 1.1.2023 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueUXNL-A3Zg https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The NOTHINGMAN ... is packed and inspected is educated and processed, he's hygienic and sterile, and he watches as the ancient story and the knowledge of former days are burned in public celebration -- The Deviants, PTOOFF! (1967) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1036 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The capitalist scheme of values in fact transformed five of the seven deadly sins of christianity - pride, envy, greed, avarice, and lust - into positive social values, treating them as incentives to all economic enterprise; while the cardinal virtues, beginning with love and humility, were rejected as 'bad for business,' except in the degree that they made the working classes more docile and more amenable to cold-blooded exploitation. -- Lewis Mumford in "Technics and Human Development - The Myth of the Machine" (1966) p. 277 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ich kann nicht halb soviel saufen wie ich heulen möchte. I can't quaff half as much as i'd want to weep. -- wda, 2023-06-04 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1038 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Politics is a circus designed to distract you from what is really going on. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wenn du gehst, dann gehe. Wenn du sitzt, dann sitze. Und vor allem: Schwanke nicht. -- Yun-men When you walk, then walk. When you sit, then sit. And, most of all, don't stagger?waver ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1040 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The solution for toppling tyranny is highly visible acts of disobedience. -- James Corbett, corbettreport.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Moments of beauty must sustain us through long times? aeons? eternities? of ... (a few years ago i'd said: hardship) ... horror. (wda 11/023, inspired by Brent Weeks' Black Prism) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1042 ------------------------------------------------------------------ War is the Health of (Our Enemy,) the [totalitarian] State. ( Namaste Albert Jay Nock + Randolph Bourne! ) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Je gefaehrlicher ein Virus ist, desto einfacher ist es, seine Ausbreitung zu verhindern. Man isoliert die Patienten. Je ungefaehrlicher ein Virus ist, desto effektiver wird es sich in der Bevoelkerung verbreiten und desto unnoetiger ist es, ueberhaupt etwas zu unternehmen. Das Immunsystem ist naemlich gegen dieses Virus gewappnet, eben deshalb ist es ungefaehrlich. Dagegen etwas unternehmen zu wollen, ist nichts als Dummheit. Wo kein Problem ist, bedarf es auch keiner Problemloesung. Die angeblichen und oft als alternativlos gepriesenen Loesungen von nicht-existierenden Problemen sind heutzutage die eigentlichen Probleme unserer Gesellschaft. -- Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, "Der Weg der Wahrheit" (6/2023) S. 91 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1044 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Who still calls them "fact checkers" instead of "fact chokers" is complicit. Words do | used to ? have meaning. wda 12/23 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viel schlimmer als die globale Erwaermung ist die globale Verbloedung. Weil zweitere ja auch die erstere bedingt. -- Lisa Fitz ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1046 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wenn sie dich dazu bringen koennen, die falschen Fragen zu stellen, brauchen sie sich ueber die Antworten keine Sorgen zu machen. -- Thomas Pynchon (WO?) -- -- zit. in Rainer Mausfeld, "Hybris und Nemesis: Wie uns die Entzivilisierung von Macht in den Abgrund führt - Einsichten aus 5000 Jahren" (2023) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die USA mit weniger als 5 % der Weltbevoelkerung verbraucht ... ... 33 % des Papiers der Welt, ... 23 % der Kohle ... 27 % des Aluminiums und ... 19 % des Kupfers ... ... und sie erzeugt 50 % des globalen Muells -- Scientific American, September 2012 -- -- as quoted by Prof. Rainer Mausfeld in "Die Angst der Machteliten vor dem Volk", Rumble v3g4gty ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1048 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout history orators and poets have extolled liberty, but no one has told us why liberty is so important. Our attitude toward such matters should depend on whether we consider civilization as fixed or as advancing. ... In an advancing society, any restriction on liberty reduces the number of things tried and so reduces the rate of progress. In such a society freedom of action is granted to the individual, not because it gives him greater satisfaction but because if allowed to go his own way, he will on the average serve the rest of us better than under any orders we know how to give. -- Henry Bayard Phillips (?), "On the Nature of Progress," American Scientist 33, 1945 -- -- quoted e.g. in On Liberty – John Stuart Mill https://academyofideas.com/2013/08/john-stuart-mill-on-liberty/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. -- Edward Snowden ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1050 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die EU ist in ihrem Design und von ihren Intentionen her eine radikal antidemokratische Institution... -- Rainer Mausfeld, "Hybris und Nemesis" (11/2023) Kapitel 5.4, S. 305 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [D]ie Massenkommunikationsmittel [koennen] zu den respektablesten und effizientesten sozialen Betaaeubungsmittel gezaehlt werden. Sie koennen so wirksam sein, dass sie den Suechtigen davon abhalten, seine eigene Krankheit zu erkennen. -- P. Lazarsfeld & R.K. Merton in "Mass communication, popular taste, and organized social action" in "The Communication of Ideas", 1948, p. 104 (zit. in Mausfeld, "Hybris...", 2023) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1052 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. -- Howard Zinn (1922-2010) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1053 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men. -- Primo Levi -- -- quoted in "Das radikal Böse" (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3358086 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1055 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1056 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1058 PRACTISE ======== random acts of kindness and acts of senseless beauty ! McCopies & D.Stribute 2145 !