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"On an away mission..."

Saint Simons Island, GA, USA
male, age 37
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Speaks: English, Icelandic, Sign Language (Other)
Joined Jun 10, 2005

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The Voices In My Head Agree...
Jesus is still a Liberal! Food Force

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Hometown	Björk Land, Iceland
Homepage	http://google.com/profiles/Laurent.Aquitain e
Birthday	Jan 02, 1976
Languages	English, Icelandic, Sign Language (Other)
About Me	I am an open-minded Christian and a reader of The Urantia Book. I am Liberal and Progressive, an Avowed Socialist and Non-Violent Anarchist... just like Jesus. I adhere to the teachings of Jesus, and I do not believe in organised religion. I also share in King Arthur's vision of a United Kingdom of Earth, incorruptible, where all people are free and equal... and regardless of one's status in life, all are guaranteed the 7 basic Human rights of: quality food and water (which includes a clean environment), adequate housing, proper clothing, excellent healthcare, superb education, infallible safety, and uncompromised security. One race - Human, one nation - Earth, one destiny - Our Future. Resistance is futile, live long and prosper... in the Light. I hate alcoholics and most (but not all) republicans, and I loathe everything redneck. My IQ is 142... yay! I am smart and socially-retarded. And I actually have an attention span. But I am moody at times. I also have mild autism and occasional synesthesia. I am a lightning rod of controversy and a legend in my own mind. It was once said of me: "Republicans and scoundrels alike shall rue the day you become an omnipotent power." Cool, eh? I respect and trust the principled ethics of dedicated Scientists, Diplomats and Philosophers, more so than the feigned morality of religious zealots and other right-wing nutjobs who are nothing more than greedy, corrupt, money-whoring, corporate-fascist, control freaks. Until WE ALL successfully address the issues of global climate change and Human rights, EVERYTHING else is just trivial details. "The oil business and the arms business are the same business." "If you want to know where the apathy is, you're probably sitting on it." ~ Florynce R. Kennedy "At first life was a struggle for existence; now, for a standard of living; next it will be for quality of thinking, the coming earthly goal of Human existence." ~ The Urantia Book (page 910) "Civilisation is never really jeopardised until able leadership begins to vanish. And the quantity of such wise leadership has never exceeded one per cent of the population." ~ The Urantia Book (page 911) -------------------------------------------
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Lifestyle
Pets	2 dogs: 1 Pomeranian and 1 mixed breed
Activist Aspirations	Casual
Political Leaning	Very Liberal
Religions	Christian - Other
Eating Habits	Parvenu Lacto-Vegetarian and Fruitarian
Wild Fact About Me	I never kiss-and-tell. ;) -------------------------------------------
My Philosophy	The Urantia Book, the teachings of Jesus. God is love. Love is the desire to do good to others. Love one another. Love without rules. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Resistance is futile, live long and prosper... in the Light. Comprenez-vous ? "God's Infinite Power: Light, that is, light without heat, is another of the nonspiritual manifestations of God. And there is still another form of nonspiritual energy which is virtually unknown on Earth; it is as yet unrecognised." ~ The Urantia Book (page 47) "Progressive Civilisation: Idealism can never survive on an evolving planet if the idealists in each generation permit themselves to be exterminated by the baser orders of Humanity. And here is the great test of idealism: Can an advanced society maintain that military preparedness which renders it secure from all attack by its war-loving neighbours without yielding to the temptation to employ this military strength in offensive operations against other peoples for purposes of selfish gain or national aggrandisement? National survival demands preparedness, and religious idealism alone can prevent the prostitution of preparedness into aggression. Only love, brotherhood, can prevent the strong from oppressing the weak." ~ The Urantia Book (pages 804-805) "Cleansing The Temple: To the amazement of his apostles, standing near at hand, who refrained from participation in what so soon followed, Jesus stepped down from the teaching platform and, going over to the lad who was driving the cattle through the court, took from him his whip of cords and swiftly drove the animals from the temple. But that was not all; he strode majestically before the wondering gaze of the thousands assembled in the temple court to the farthest cattle pen and proceeded to open the gates of every stall and to drive out the imprisoned animals. By this time the assembled pilgrims were electrified, and with uproarious shouting they moved toward the bazaars and began to overturn the tables of the money-changers. In less than five minutes all commerce had been swept from the temple. By the time the near-by Roman guards had appeared on the scene, all was quiet, and the crowds had become orderly; Jesus, returning to the speaker's stand, spoke to the multitude: "You have this day witnessed that which is written in the Scriptures: 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den of robbers.'" This cleansing of the temple discloses the Master's attitude toward commercialising the practices of religion as well as his detestation of all forms of unfairness and profiteering at the expense of the poor and the unlearned. This episode also demonstrates that Jesus did not look with approval upon the refusal to employ force to protect the majority of any given Human group against the unfair and enslaving practices of unjust minorities who may be able to entrench themselves behind political, financial, or ecclesiastical power. Shrewd, wicked, and designing men are not to be permitted to organise themselves for the exploitation and oppression of those who, because of their idealism, are not disposed to resort to force for self-protection or for the furtherance of their laudable life projects." ~ The Urantia Book (pages 1,890-1,891) "The Profit Motive: Present-day profit-motivated economics is doomed unless profit motives can be augmented by service motives. Ruthless competition based on narrow-minded self-interest is ultimately destructive of even those things which it seeks to maintain. Exclusive and self-serving profit motivation is incompatible with Christian ideals---much more incompatible with the teachings of Jesus. In economics, profit motivation is to service motivation what fear is to love in religion. But the profit motive must not be suddenly destroyed or removed; it keeps many otherwise slothful mortals hard at work. It is not necessary, however, that this social energy arouser be forever selfish in its objectives. The profit motive of economic activities is altogether base and wholly unworthy of an advanced order of society; nevertheless, it is an indispensable factor throughout the earlier phases of civilisation. Profit motivation must not be taken away from men until they have firmly possessed themselves of superior types of nonprofit motives for economic striving and social serving---the transcendent urges of superlative wisdom, intriguing brotherhood, and excellency of spiritual attainment." ~ The Urantia Book (page 805) "As Jesus Passed By: Jesus was never in a hurry. He had time to comfort his fellow men "as he passed by." And he always made his friends feel at ease. He was a charming listener. He never engaged in the meddlesome probing of the souls of his associates. As he comforted hungry minds and ministered to thirsty souls, the recipients of his mercy did not so much feel that they were confessing to him as that they were conferring with him. They had unbounded confidence in him because they saw he had so much faith in them. He never seemed to be curious about people, and he never manifested a desire to direct, manage, or follow them up. He inspired profound self-confidence and robust courage in all who enjoyed his association. When he smiled on a man, that mortal experienced increased capacity for solving his manifold problems. Jesus loved men so much and so wisely that he never hesitated to be severe with them when the occasion demanded such discipline. He frequently set out to help a person by asking for help. In this way he elicited interest, appealed to the better things in Human nature. The Master could discern saving faith in the gross superstition of the woman who sought healing by touching the hem of his garment. He was always ready and willing to stop a sermon or detain a multitude while he ministered to the needs of a single person, even to a little child. Great things happened not only because people had faith in Jesus, but also because Jesus had so much faith in them. Most of the really important things which Jesus said or did seemed to happen casually, "as he passed by." There was so little of the professional, the well-planned, or the premeditated in the Master's earthly ministry. He dispensed health and scattered happiness naturally and gracefully as he journeyed through life. It was literally true, "He went about doing good." And it behooves the Master's followers in all ages to learn to minister as "they pass by"--to do unselfish good as they go about their daily duties." ~ The Urantia Book (pages 1,874-1,875) -------------------------------------------
What Gives Me Hope	God, Life, Light, 47, Thursdays -------------------------------------------
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by	Executing most (but not all) republicans (just kidding... sort of). Definitely giving the Death Penalty to the traitor Karl Rove (Death by Swine), as well as to the War Criminals George Bush I and George Bush II. Extraditing all of Bush's thugs and cronies (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, etc.) to The Hague to stand trial in International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of War Crimes, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Murder, Terrorism, Treason, Torture, Violation of International Treaties, Illegal Spying and Unlawful Domestic Surveillance, Corruption, Theft, Fraud, Money-Laundering, Embezzlement, Manipulation, Elections Fraud, Dereliction of Duty, Failure of Oath of Office, and Betrayal of Public Trust. FOREVER putting an end to all forms of corruption by making "Betrayal of Public Trust" a crime punishable by death, NO EXCEPTIONS. "Crimes Against Humanity" and "War Cimes", as well as so-called "white collar crimes", all punishable by immediate death, also with no exceptions. Passing stronger legislation banning hydrogenated oils, refined sugars, and rednecks everywhere. Abolishing the 'Corporate Entity' "personhood" as a legal status, as well as putting an end to corporate dresscodes and piss tests... freedom of expression and what a person does on their own time, as long as no others are being harmed, ARE NONE OF YOUR DAMNED BUSINESS. GET OVER YOURSELF, HYPOCRITE! Making "Universal Healthcare" actually available and applicable to ALL, and fully-funding stem cell research IMMEDIATELY. Also fully-funding the research of Dr. Ronald Mallett, architect of the blueprint for time-travel. Fully-funding the research of Canadian inventor Troy Hurtubise, thereby saving countless lives now and in future. Fully-reversing the "dumbing-down of America" that Ronald Reagan started, which created the idiotic "Me Generation", by FULLY-FUNDING EDUCATION IMMEDIATELY and raising the requirements and the standards of education for teachers and for students. Mandatory foreign language requirements from pre-school/kindergarten through college; beginning in 6th grade, studying a foreign language of one's own choosing, and requiring "Competent Fluency" in that language before being permitted to graduate from high school. A 2nd foreign language, of one's own choosing, to study in college, with "Competent Fluency" required before graduation from college. Higher-standard English requirements throughout all of one's education... ef u kant spel er speek "Proper English", u b faled! 'Nuff sed. Getting rid of school dresscodes everywhere, they do not solve anything and they only make problems worse. Requiring Geography in the curriculum from 1st grade through college. If you cannot find Russia, Europe, or Africa, or some other obvious location on a map, you will be sent back to 1st grade to start over again regardless of your age ("That wood be kewl, Beavith!" "You sed WOOD, Butt-Head, he-he."). Requiring "Competency in Science" in order to graduate from high school and from college, even if one chooses not to pursue a career as a scientist. Physical education requirements daily, beginning no later than 3rd grade, and continuing through high school and college. Lowering the voting age to 16 years old, while at the same time implementing a "Wisdom Scale Ballot" (i.e., the wisest citisens get 10 ballots to cast, whilst the intellectually-inferior citisens receive less than 1 whole ballot; and the rest of the population receives between 1 and 9 ballots, commensurate to the individual's experience and intelligence). Campaigning will be reduced to only the 2 weeks prior to elections, and elections will be held for 10 consecutive days beginning on the 2nd Tuesday of November, thereby allowing everyone ample opportunity to vote (I bet the republicans hate that one!). Any "mud-slinging" or lies during campaigning will result in the immediate ending of that particular candidate's campaign, although said candidate will still remain eligible for election. Abolishing the Electoral College completely and forever; COUNTING AND VERIFYING every single ballot in every election, without exception. Allowing UN Monitors to observe all elections for irregularities, no exceptions. Abolishing the two-party system, and allowing any and all parties who wish to participate. Issuing driver's licences and marriage licences to no one under the age of 25 years old, with mandatory one-year certified training before being allowed to acquire a driver's licence or a marriage licence. Also mandatory one-year parental training for anyone who wishes to have a child. And allowing no one to have a child until they ADOPT AT LEAST ONE CHILD, no exceptions. Fully-implementing the Millennium Development Goals and ACTUALLY rigorously pursuing them. Making housing affordable for ALL. If you do not like it, you are more than welcome to LEAVE... go to a foreign land, murder the natives, claim the land for yourself, form your own government, uhmm... no, wait a minute, that has already been done before. Shutting down all credit card companies immediately, and abolishing credit cards forever. Get over it. Banning ALL commercial advertising on TV and radio everywhere, and replacing it with public service announcements/news you can use/and educational information only. Forcibly SHUTTING DOWN ALL DRUG COMPANIES, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY; confiscating all of their research and profits, and handing all of it to every one of the doctors and scientists who have always maintained their professional integrity, ethical standards, and academic honesty. Giving Dr. Andrew Weil a lifetime appointment to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and tasking him to restore its scientific integrity and credibility. Appointing Ralph Nader and Al Gore to jointly-head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and charging them to restore its scientific integrity and credibility. Appointing Dr. Larry Dossey and Dr. Deepak Chopra to take charge of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Medical Association (AMA), and tasking them to whip these organisations into shape once and for all. Passing legislation making organ donation mandatory upon death of medically-acceptable individuals, with no exceptions. Anyone not wishing to be buried or cremated, may have their remains donated to medical science for research or educational purposes. Putting all automobile manufacturers and oil companies On-Notice: "Eco-friendly NOW, or get shutdown!" And making the Kyoto Protocol, as well as any post-Kyoto treaty, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. Putting all cell phone companies, internet service providers (ISPs), cable companies, telephone and long-distance companies On-Notice: "Higher Quality and Lower Rates NOW, or get shutdown!" Then changing my official title to "His Royal Majesty, King Lawrence of Canadia". Oh, and of course outlawing war, genocide, hate, poverty, homelessness, hunger, pollution, and Global Warming, and making STUPIDITY a crime punishable by being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, as well as sterilising all stupid people so that they cannot procreate, ever. And forcing the U.S. Government to pay all of its debts, as well as pay all of its dues to the United Nations, IN FULL WITH INTEREST; FIRING Congress if the budget is not balanced at the end of every fiscal year. Then adopting the Euro as the national currency, and abolishing the "minimum wage" and replacing it with a "Livable Wage". Permanently abolishing all income tax, while legalising and decriminalising marijuana. Allowing all Canadian scientific research of lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD or "acid", to be made freely available and easily-accessible to scientists and to the American public. Declaring Bastille Day and Boxing Day as national holidays. Also making March 8th, September 8th and September 21st national holidays. And finally, giving Angelina Jolie a life-time appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. And it is all but a day's work, do it well. Afterwards, travelling the world and personally selecting candidates for my Royal Harem... it is good to be king. :) -------------------------------------------
What/who changed my life and why	1. The Urantia Book. 2. The murder of my best friend, Ross Harper. -------------------------------------------
What Bugs Me	The so-called Religious Right, Conservatism [a.k.a. Fascism], Science Illiteracy, Greed, Corruption, Ignorance, Stupidity, Apathy, Cognitive Laziness, Violence, War, Superstitious Fear, Pervasive and Ubiquitous State of Denial
Passions	Truth, Beauty, Goodness
Inspirations	Love and Friendship
What Scares Me	Failure, Rejection, Death, Life, Intimacy, Success, Public Speaking
Favorites
Role Models	Jesus, King Arthur, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Archimedes, Henry Rollins, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie, Rachel Weisz, Roger Bannister, Gene Roddenberry, Dr Edgar Mitchell
Quotation	Resist the urge to be stupid. "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." ~ Leo Buscaglia "Pleasure is a knowledge or feeling of perfection, not only in ourselves, but also in others, for in this way some further perfection is aroused in us." ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "Idealism can never survive on an evolving planet if the idealists in each generation permit themselves to be exterminated by the baser orders of Humanity. Only love, brotherhood, can prevent the strong from oppressing the weak." ~ The Urantia Book (pages 804-805) "Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." ~ Henry David Thoreau "War itself is the Enemy of the Human Race." ~ Howard Zinn "Whenever you kill a Human Being you are killing a source of thought too. A Human Being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas take moral precedence over a society. Ideas are patterns of value." ~ Robert T. Pirsig "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." ~ Stephen Jay Gould "Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow..." ~ Abraham Lincoln, November 21, 1864 "In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citisenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defence with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together." ~ President Dwight Eisenhower "The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right." ~ Donella Meadows, Environmental Scientist, Teacher and Writer (1941-2001) "Diversity raises the intelligence of groups." ~ Nancy Kline "No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No enemy is more harmful than ignorance." ~ Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Harithi al-Baghdadi al-Mufid "The cruelty of most people is lack of imagination, their brutality is ignorance." ~ Kurt Tucholsky "The most violent element in society is ignorance." ~ Emma Goldman "Few people are capable of expressing, with equanimity, opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment, most people are incapable of forming such opinions." ~ Albert Einstein "When fifty per cent of a nation is inferior or defective and possesses the ballot, such a nation is doomed. The dominance of mediocrity spells the downfall of any nation." ~ The Urantia Book (page 818) "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction." ~ Albert Einstein "Knowing what to do is wisdom, knowing how to do it is skill; doing it is virtue." "No one can terrorise a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." ~ Ed Murrow "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither." ~ Benjamin Franklin "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." ~ Tacitus "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." ~ George Bernard Shaw "Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters." ~ Frederick Douglass "It is better to be a Human Being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." ~ John Stuart Mill "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." ~ Sinclair Lewis "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." ~ William O. Douglas, Longest-Serving Justice (36 years), United States Supreme Court "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket that is fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those that are cold and not clothed." ~ President Dwight Eisenhower "For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you did not take me in, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me. Then they also will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' Then will he answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me." ~ Jesus (Matthew 25:42-45) "It will not be possible to beat poverty without fighting corruption." ~ Bob Geldof, Live Aid Founder "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped." ~ Calvin Coolidge "Money is like manure, it should be spread around." ~ Brooke Astor "He who dies rich, dies disgraced." ~ Philanthropy "Greed has got to stop. If all people lived like the Americans, we'd need 5 more planets." "I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version." ~ Don DeLillo "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between." ~ Oscar Wilde "Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up." ~ Thomas Nagel "Liberals love America like grown-ups. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow." ~ Al Franken "80% of Republicans are just Democrats who don't know what's going on." ~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "I'm not partisan, I'm just right." ~ Me "Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist." ~ Anwar al-Sadat "George Bush is a Son of a Bitch." ~ Paul Hackett, Marine Officer, Combat Veteran of the Iraq War, and Trial Lawyer "The only Bush I trust is my own." ~ Bumper Sticker "I'd rather fuck who I want than kill who I'm told." ~ Peaches "Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity!" ~ Protester's Sign "Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "Peace cannot be kept by force. It is only achieved by understanding." ~ Albert Einstein "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." ~ George W. Bush, 13 September 2001 "I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." ~ George W. Bush, 13 March 2002 "God told me to invade Iraq." ~ George W. Bush, LIAR, War Criminal, Terrorist, Murderer, Dictator, Billionaire Oil Family Brat, Cocaine Abuser, Alcoholic, Business Failure, Frat Boy College Drop-Out, Convicted Felon, Mediocre-IQ Racist, Corporate Fascist Elitist, and a Pathetic Excuse for a Human Being. A DISGRACE to the Male Gender, to the White Race, and to all of Humankind, and an OFFENCE to all True Christians... "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ~ Voltaire "In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." ~ George Orwell "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." ~ Albert Einstein "We operated on the best available intelligence, gathered over a period of years from within a totalitarian society ruled by fear and secret police." ~ Dick Cheney, The Criminal Mastermind Behind 9/11, War Criminal, Terrorist, Murderer, Money-Whore, Animal Abuser, and Neo-Nazi Dick without Balls "Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of." ~ Bill Moyers "What good fortune for governments that the people don't think." ~ Adolph Hitler, Friend of George W. Bush's Grandfather "They're doing well; after all, these are underprivileged people." ~ Her Highness Barbara Bush, Former First Lady, Racist Bitch, and a Despicable Human Being, Speaking in an Interview on Emergency-Sheltered Victims of Hurricane Katrina "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." ~ George W. Bush "The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself." ~ Marcel Pagnol "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" ~ George W. Bush "If one man gains spiritually, the whole world gains with him, and if one man fails, the whole world fails to that extent." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself." ~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi "All are one... and when one is hurt, we all are hurt." "Greatness lies not so much in possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such strength." ~ The Urantia Book (page 557) "A true pacifist is one who is capable of dealing immeasurable damage but chooses not to when confronted with provocation." ~ Morihei Ueshiba "Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people... it is true that most stupid people are conservative." ~ John Stuart Mill (1806-1871) "Hated by fools, and fools to hate, be that my motto and my fate." ~ Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) "It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not." "Patriot: the person who can holler loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." ~ Mark Twain "Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having an opinion." ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy, Jr. "Nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know." ~ Michael de Montaigne "The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." ~ Garrison Keillor "Never judge a book by the cover." ~ Wisdom "Fear, envy, and conceit can be prevented only by intimate contact with other minds." ~ The Urantia Book (page 1,776) "By careful manipulation of his environment, Man is able to accomplish his goals." ~ On Edge of Waking Dream "Only boring people get bored." ~ Me "Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together." ~ Vincent Van Gogh "To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction." ~ Theodore Zeldin "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." ~ James A. Baldwin "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 "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer "He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth." ~ Friedrich von Schiller "All great truths begin as blasphemies." ~ George Bernard Shaw "Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." ~ Albert Einstein "A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets." ~ Sir Arthur C. Clarke "Faith is a charisma not granted to all; instead Man has the gift of thought, which can strive after the highest things." ~ Carl Gustav Jung "Great minds discuss ideas, concepts. Average minds talk about events. And small minds, about other people." "Great minds think alike." "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." ~ Albert Einstein "Fearful people do stupid things." "Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed." "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." ~ Leonardo da Vinci "There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." ~ John F. Kennedy "The intellect is part of life -- not its counterpart." ~ Kurt Tucholsky "Freedom is always and exclusively the freedom for the one who thinks differently." ~ Rosa Luxemburg "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." ~ Henry Ford "Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas." ~ José Ortega y Gasset "Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything." ~ Jules Henri Poincaré "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind." ~ Albert Einstein, Quoted by Dr. Per Stig Møller, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, in a Speech given at Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century Conference "Today's problems cannot be solved if we still think the way we thought when we created them." ~ Albert Einstein "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases in knowledge increases in sorrow." ~ Ecclesiastes 1:18 "Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among friends, and an armour against enemies." ~ Ahmad ibn Hanbal "For knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements." ~ Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (Jewish Philosopher and Physician in Egypt, 1135-1204 C.E.), From the "Prayer of Maimonides" "Knowledge is power." "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ~ Albert Einstein "Those who abandon their dreams will discourage yours." "To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe." ~ Anatole France "It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." ~ Virginia Woolf "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." ~ Henry David Thoreau "Dreams are the most powerful motivators of all." ~ Nick Thornely "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~ Johann von Goethe "The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things." ~ Plato "Knowledge is possessed only by sharing; it is safeguarded by wisdom and socialised by love." ~ The Urantia Book (page 557) "Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?" ~ Natalie Clifford Barney "Your ignorance is their power." "Things only have the value that we give them." ~ Molière "What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things." "I've got places to be, people to do, and things to see." "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. And fuck like you're being filmed." "I wish you were a door so I could bang you all day long." ~ Austin Powers "I'm a bird watcher and I'm looking for a Big Breasted Bed Thrasher. Have you seen one?" ~ Austin Powers "God bless the whole world. No exceptions." "Feed Karl Rove to the swine." ~ Me "Cubicles and factories are irrefutable proof of the existence of Hell." "The road to Hell is paved with Republicans." "If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor." ~ Haitian Proverb "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte "Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens." ~ Jimi Hendrix "I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed." ~ Bruce Lee "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." ~ Socrates "There would be no civilisation without wing-nuts and sporks." "All your base are belong to us." "All your feta are belong to us. The chai, too." ~ Kyrene Ariadne "A Human Being is part of the whole... a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts, and feelings as something separate from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein "Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, Man will not himself find peace." ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer "The love of one's country is a natural thing. But why should love stop at the border?" ~ Pablo Casals "Nothing is so hard to understand as that there are Human Beings in this world besides one's self and one's own set." ~ William Dean Howells "Cooperation, and not competition, ensures survival of the species. Competition guarantees eventual extinction." "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or of the one." ~ Vulcan Logic "We all do better when we ALL do BETTER!" ~ Paul Wellstone "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love." ~ Leo Tolstoy "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." "God is love. Love is the desire to do good to others." ~ The Urantia Book (page 648) "The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow Human Beings." ~ Dalai Lama "Love is the greatest refreshment in life." ~ Pablo Picasso "The love we give away is the only love we keep." ~ Elbert Hubbard "Friendship enhances the joys and glorifies the triumphs of life. The presence of a friend enhances all beauty and exalts every goodness." ~ The Urantia Book (page 1,776) "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ~ Anaïs Nin "A friend in need's a friend indeed, A friend with weed is better.... And when she's pressed she will undress, And then she's boxing clever...." ~ "Pure Morning" by Placebo "Families are temporal, friendships are eternal." "In the face of Eternity, you are eternally young." "Life is but a day's work, do it well..." ~ The Urantia Book (page 556) "May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future." "The destiny of Eternity is determined moment by moment by the achievements of the day by day living. The acts of today are the destiny of tomorrow." ~ The Urantia Book (page 557) "Resistance is futile, live long and prosper... in the Light." "Nationalism means war." ~ François Mitterand "Man must put an end to war or war will put an end to Man." ~ John F. Kennedy "'An eye for an eye' makes the whole world blind." ~ Gandhi "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~ Quoted from Edmund Burke, in the Film "Tears Of The Sun" "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not - the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on', has solved and always will solve the problems of the Human race." ~ Calvin Coolidge "There is no happiness without intelligent effort." ~ The Urantia Book (page 556) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead, Anthropologist (1901-1978) "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Never underestimate the power of prayer." ~ Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan "Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or an animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." "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 "We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep." ~ Carl von Ossietzky "Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~ Albert Schweitzer "Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice to the act." ~ The Talmud "To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." ~ Confucius "It is not by spectacular achievements that Man can be transformed, but by will." ~ Henrik Ibsen "The more we realise our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what Human Beings have achieved." ~ Bertrand Russell "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." ~ Confucius "The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured." ~ Dean Acheson "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." ~ Matthew 5:9 "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." ~ A. J. Muste "Peacekeeping may be expensive, but try war, it's a lot more expensive." ~ Ross Mountain, UN's Democratic Republic of Congo Mission "The bond of our common Humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes... and we must." ~ Jimmy Carter "Peace is much more precious than a piece of land." ~ Anwar al-Sadat "Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere." ~ Yehuda Amichai "He who bears the interests of Humanity in his breast, that man is blessed." ~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi "The idea of duty signifies that you are servant-minded and hence are missing the mighty thrill of doing your service as a friend and for a friend. The impulse of friendship transcends all convictions of duty, and the service of a friend for a friend can never be called a sacrifice. The Master taught the apostles that they are the sons of God. He called them brothers, and then, before he left, he called them his friends." ~ The Urantia Book (page 1,945) "Be not discouraged; Human evolution is still in progress, and the revelation of God to the world, in and through Jesus, shall not fail." ~ The Urantia Book (page 2,097) "To have a job where you can make things better for people? That's a blessing. Why would I do anything else?" ~ Marla Ruzicka (December 31, 1976 - April 16, 2005), Founder of CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims In Conflict) "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." ~ Winston Churchill "If you want to have what you've never had, then you must do what you've never done." "A person who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." ~ Albert Einstein "Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure." ~ Robin Sieger "The law of the universe is: Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find." ~ The Urantia Book (page 1,838) "Anything containing energy can warp space-time." "What we think, we become." ~ Buddha "Mind is the builder; physical is the result." ~ Edgar Cayce "Be the change you want to see in the world." ~ Gandhi "See the change you want to be in the world." ~ Me "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." ~ Albert Einstein "Thank you for sharing Time with me, see you in Eternity." ~ Me "The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running." "When your earthly course in temporary form has been run, you are to awaken on the shores of a better world..." ~ The Urantia Book (page 1,237) "Excelsior!" ~ Stan Lee "The goal of Eternity is ahead! The adventure of divinity attainment lies before you! The race for perfection is on! Whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every Human Being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Fragment of God and on the guidance of that Good Spirit of the Universe Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh." ~ The Urantia Book (page 365) "Success is to stand in the presence of God unashamed." ~ Source Unknown "Science will save us. And remember, God is the greatest Scientist of all." "God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen." ~ Stephen Hawking "The world of poetry, mythology, and religion represents the world as a man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it." ~ Joseph Wood Krutch "All of us, when we are born, receive this great world as a gift. Sadly, most of us never even remove the wrap." ~ Anonymous "You are a powerful spiritual Being of Light having a Human experience." "Do more, complain less, and worry not at all." ~ Me "Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come." ~ The Urantia Book (page 557) "I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why." ~ Bernard Mannes Baruch "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." ~ Albert Einstein "While you have assembled some beautiful melodies on Earth, you have not progressed musically nearly so far as many of your neighbouring planets in your local system. If Adam and Eve had only survived, then would you have had music in reality; but the gift of harmony, so large in their natures, has been so diluted by strains of unmusical tendencies that only once in a thousand mortal lives is there any great appreciation of harmonics. But be not discouraged; some day a real musician may appear on Earth, and whole peoples will be enthralled by the magnificent strains of his melodies. One such Human Being could forever change the course of a whole nation, even the entire civilised world. It is literally true, "melody has power a whole world to transform." Forever, music will remain the universal language of men, angels, and spirits. Harmony is the speech of Heaven." ~ The Urantia Book (page 500) "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." ~ Thomas Jefferson "The biggest inspiration for me is the possibilities of the future because that is where I am going to spend the rest of my life." ~ Robert J. Sawyer, Author "I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts." ~ Albert Einstein "Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high risk activity." ~ Edward Hoagland "The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as now they look upon the murder of men." ~ Leonardo da Vinci "Only until all of Mankind lives in harmony with Nature can we truly decree ourselves to be an intelligent species." ~ Genelle Holdane "I am in favour of animal rights as well as Human rights. That is the way of a whole Human Being." ~ Abraham Lincoln "Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." ~ St. Francis of Assisi "Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless Human lives." ~ Albert Schweitzer "We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant "Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the Earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." ~ Mark Twain "How arrogant and presumptuous we are, we who impose our will on the so-called lower animals, as if we have some sacred right to poison, mutilate, and kill our fellow creatures so that we ourselves may benefit." ~ Robert de Ropp "Spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants." ~ Gandhi "Of all the creatures, Man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that Man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." ~ Mark Twain "As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings, he will never know health or peace. For 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 "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "Today, after more than three decades of experience with marine mammals in captivity, we DO know better. Yet we continue to catch them, confine them, and display them for profit." ~ Jean-Michel Cousteau "Beginning reform is beginning revolution." ~ Duke of Wellington "Upon this Earth that we walk on, no one can sell it." ~ Tasunke Witko, "Crazy Horse", Bear Butte 1875 "We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." ~ Native American Proverb "That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics." ~ Aldo Leopold "The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality." ~ Herbert Spencer "Living well is the best revenge." "Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food." ~ Hippocrates "Nothing will benefit Human health and increase chances of survival for life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." ~ Albert Einstein "In the 24th century, there will be no hunger, and there will be no greed, and the children will know how to read." ~ Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991), Author, Creator of "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation", and Reader of The Urantia Book "Star Trek retains its core values - still very much needed in our sadly divided and quarrelling world." ~ Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Speaking on the 40th Anniversary of "Star Trek" "The events of the last ten years have not resolved, but sharpened, the three great challenges I spoke of � an unjust world economy, world disorder, and widespread contempt for Human rights and the rule of law. As a result, we face a world whose divisions threaten the very notion of an international community, upon which this institution stands. And yet this is happening at the very time when, more than ever before, Human Beings throughout the world form a single society. So many of the challenges we face are global. They demand a global response, in which all peoples must play their part. Yes, I remain convinced that the only answer to this divided world must be a truly United Nations." ~ Former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Farewell Address to the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 19 September 2006 "The message is more important than the messenger." "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." ~ Gandhi "Love one another even as I have loved you." ~ Jesus -------------------------------------------
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