Wednesday, August 27, 2008
I believe in answers supported by evidence, experiments, observations, measurements and finally proof.
I believe that natural laws, both known and some yet undiscovered, allow for the existence of the universe and everything within it, including life. No magic required.
I believe that all of the finer abstract values of human beings such as love, tolerance, patience, forgiveness, charity, generosity, honesty and (fill in the blank) were woven into the God concept by His authors, because they hoped-like-hell that He would have those qualities. Once everyone took this concept to heart, the authors said "If everyone believes it, it must be true."
I believe that religion is very important and worthwhile. It teaches morality when all else fails. If believers must pay their tithes, and live in fear of God, then they accept this as the price of a safety net after death, just in case.
I believe that others who understand the roots and branches of religion enjoy examining it as I do. Religion is more revealing of human nature than any other field that I have studied.
I believe that true believers will consider my views with sincere interest, as I do theirs.
KC -Kerry Cort- Eons.com
I believe that natural laws, both known and some yet undiscovered, allow for the existence of the universe and everything within it, including life. No magic required.
I believe that all of the finer abstract values of human beings such as love, tolerance, patience, forgiveness, charity, generosity, honesty and (fill in the blank) were woven into the God concept by His authors, because they hoped-like-hell that He would have those qualities. Once everyone took this concept to heart, the authors said "If everyone believes it, it must be true."
I believe that religion is very important and worthwhile. It teaches morality when all else fails. If believers must pay their tithes, and live in fear of God, then they accept this as the price of a safety net after death, just in case.
I believe that others who understand the roots and branches of religion enjoy examining it as I do. Religion is more revealing of human nature than any other field that I have studied.
I believe that true believers will consider my views with sincere interest, as I do theirs.
KC -Kerry Cort- Eons.com
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
"Nothing builds confidence like accomplishment." -Thomas Carlyle
Sunday, August 24, 2008
"To see is to know"
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Saturday, August 23, 2008
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves." --E.M. Forster
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Mahatma Ghandi
("Gandhi ranked Thoreau among the greatest of several influences in his life. He admired his courage and practical ideals, his virtue, and refers to them often in his own writings." Michael J. Frederick)
Mahatma Ghandi
("Gandhi ranked Thoreau among the greatest of several influences in his life. He admired his courage and practical ideals, his virtue, and refers to them often in his own writings." Michael J. Frederick)
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ~Emily Dickinson
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. ~E.V. Lucas
DustyJewel
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
ON Censorship:
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers
Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ~Walt Whitman
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ~Voltaire
I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~Nancie J. Carmody
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty,
1859
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ~Abbott Joseph Liebling, "Do You Belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 4 May 1960
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus
To reject the word is to reject the human search. ~Max Lerner, 1953,
on book purgingNature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ~Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823
Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The paper burns, but the words fly away. ~Akiba ben Joseph
Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?" ~Joseph Henry Jackson
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught. ~Harold R. Medina
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture. ~Theodore Schroeder
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Rejected Statement, Part I," The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, 1911
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~Dick Cavett
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~David Ben-Gurion
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. ~John Aikin
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ~Claude-Adrien Helvétius
Censorship offends me. ~Author Unknown
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ~Rebecca West
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! ~Thomas Carlyle
Books won't stay banned -Ideas won't go to jail.~Alfred Whitney Griswold
You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire
LLL- Eons
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ~Henry Steele Commager
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ~Tommy Smothers
Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ~Walt Whitman
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ~Voltaire
I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~Nancie J. Carmody
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty,
1859
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 24 February 1959
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ~Abbott Joseph Liebling, "Do You Belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 4 May 1960
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus
To reject the word is to reject the human search. ~Max Lerner, 1953,
on book purgingNature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ~Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823
Every burned book enlightens the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The paper burns, but the words fly away. ~Akiba ben Joseph
Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?" ~Joseph Henry Jackson
If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught. ~Harold R. Medina
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind, and hence cannot be defined in terms of the qualities of a book or picture. ~Theodore Schroeder
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ~George Bernard Shaw, "The Rejected Statement, Part I," The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, 1911
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~Dick Cavett
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~David Ben-Gurion
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list. ~John Aikin
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ~Claude-Adrien Helvétius
Censorship offends me. ~Author Unknown
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ~Rebecca West
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! ~Thomas Carlyle
Books won't stay banned -Ideas won't go to jail.~Alfred Whitney Griswold
You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 3 October 1988
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire
LLL- Eons
Friday, August 01, 2008
“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
- Dag Hammarskjold
- Dag Hammarskjold
