Originally Posted by
ZappasGuitar
Perhaps you missed the portion of my post where I stated I had read PORTIONS of the book.
Maybe you hadn't realized yet, but one need not read every single word of a book to form an opinion of it.
Oh no. I wasn't saying anything bad about you personally, I was just informing you that you now know everything, because Beck is just that good. I know when comparing yourself to Glenn Beck that almost everybody finds themselves wanting in every category (except the weird religion that is) but you shouldn't take what I said as something bad about you. Glenn Beck is who Chuck Norris calls on when he needs somebody to have an intellectual butt-kicking...
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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