13-01-2022, 11:05 AM
'Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.'
Seneca the Younger
"Everybody does the best with what they have to work with.
Some don't make it as far as others do.
It is not failure, it is life."
Anon
"I think we should maybe have the courage to identify ourselves with & humanise the torturer. Maybe we should look at ourselves, instead of saying ÔÇ£never againÔÇØ, which does not work. We could maybe try to ask a new question, as well as a very old one: ÔÇØhow is it possible?ÔÇØ
We may find the answers in ourselves."
Francois Bizot, ethnologist captured by the Khmer Rouge in 1971 & author of the memoir The gate.
ÔÇ£There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholesÔÇØ
James Morrow
"Come to bed."
"I can't - someone is *wrong* on the internet"
- paraphrasing Randall Munroe
Seneca the Younger
"Everybody does the best with what they have to work with.
Some don't make it as far as others do.
It is not failure, it is life."
Anon
"I think we should maybe have the courage to identify ourselves with & humanise the torturer. Maybe we should look at ourselves, instead of saying ÔÇ£never againÔÇØ, which does not work. We could maybe try to ask a new question, as well as a very old one: ÔÇØhow is it possible?ÔÇØ
We may find the answers in ourselves."
Francois Bizot, ethnologist captured by the Khmer Rouge in 1971 & author of the memoir The gate.
ÔÇ£There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholesÔÇØ
James Morrow
"Come to bed."
"I can't - someone is *wrong* on the internet"
- paraphrasing Randall Munroe
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)