Just to be clear, I'm a lot more moderate than I used to be, and not as much of an asshole.
Nice to have you back. Somehow your presence escaped my notice, although my participation has been sporadic as of late. Anyway, I hope that we can leave our distant past behind us and start anew.
-bdw
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Just to be clear, I'm a lot more moderate than I used to be, and not as much of an asshole.
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four
True dat!
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
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good to be back Brent... even though some of the scum still hasn't been cleaned out in my absence... on the whole, this is a very nice place to be, even with the occasional e-peen packing stalkers.
When did you move to Mexico?
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -O'Brien, Nineteen Eighty-Four
BRUTALITOPS (04-22-2013)
we promised my daughter that we would stay in Maine until she graduated from college, which she did in May of 2011. We put our house on the market in April and we closed with the new owner in late August of that same year. We drove away from the closing, stopped by Bank of America to deposit the proceeds from the sale, and kept on driving, with two dogs and a cat in the car with us, for the next ten days until we reached our final destination here in Mexico. I hesitate to say which city because the previous poster searched me out and threatened to come accost me at my home in Maine... I don't want to give him an easy path to come to Mexico to carry out his new threat to cut my throat in the night while I sleep here in paradise.
What I miss is posts from Joseph the Prophet...
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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