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High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Jul 19, 2010 - 09:46pm PT

"If we differ on ultimates, then we are ultimately different. If you have one vision of ultimate reality and value, and I have another, then we have nowhere to go when we encounter deep conflicts of interest. If we lack a shared orientation in nature and history, and if we lack a common understanding of who we are and what we should strive for together, then we lack the means to transcend our differences when the soical chips are down. We will be left to think that the other just has it wrong."

Loyal Rue, Religion is Not About God, 2005

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Jul 19, 2010 - 10:22pm PT

"Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them."

-Thomas Jefferson

re: god concepts, too:

Jehovah: God of Moses; God of Abraham; God of the ancient Hebrews; God of modern Jews, Christians and Muslims
Hypercrates: personification of the ultimate force, or ultimate forces, controlling the Cosmos and the lives, nature and history of living things
Diacrates: hypothetical Intelligence many, including Einstein, speculated about as a possibility

The Chef

climber

Topsfield Ma

Jul 20, 2010 - 12:24am PT

"Men hang out their signs indicitive of their respective trades. Shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch; even a dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the Franconia Mountains God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that in New England He makes men" Daniel Webster, 1831

"Put a cast on your pussy bone and do it" Joseph Re, 2009

"Every day I go to the paper to check the Obituaries. If I'm not in there, it's a good day" George Carlin, 19??

Joe.

Daphne

Trad climber

Mill Valley, CA

Jul 20, 2010 - 12:29am PT

"Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now."

BooDawg

Social climber

Paradise Island

Jul 21, 2010 - 01:53am PT

Mono Lake lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert eight thousand feet above the level of the sea…

…its sluggish waters are so strong with alkali that if you only dip the most hopelessly soiled garment into them once or twice and wring it out, it will be found as clean as if it had been through the ablest of washerwomen’s hands…

…This water is not good for bruised places and abrasions of the skin. We had a valuable dog. He had raw places on him. He had more raw places than sound ones. He was the rawest dog I almost ever saw. He jumped overboard one day to get away from the flies. But it was bad judgment. In his condition, it would have been just as comfortable to jump into the fire. The alkali water nipped him in all the raw places simultaneously, and he set out for shore with considerable interest. He yelped and barked and howled as he went – and by the time he got to shore there was no bark to him – for he had barked the bark all out of his inside, and the alkali water had cleaned the bark all off his outside, and he probably wished he’d never embarked on any such enterprise…

A white man cannot drink the water of Mono Lake for it is nearly pure lye. It is said that the Indians in the vicinity drink it sometimes, though. It is not improbable, for they are among the purest liars I ever saw.

-Mark Twain, Roughing It

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Aug 16, 2010 - 03:38pm PT

re: the slander and hostility posted on the forum of supertopo

"It all starts with snarky, condescending comments by these Christian freaks on their religious threads."

Pate
August, 2010

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Aug 16, 2010 - 06:00pm PT

Good one, Daph!

Srbphoto

climber

Kennewick wa

Aug 23, 2010 - 05:22pm PT

"Golf is now more bad ass than trad climbing!"

John Bachar - "Doug Robinson, Sean Jones, rap bolt South face of Half Dome!" thread on the Taco.

MisterE

Social climber

Bouncy Tiggerville

Aug 23, 2010 - 08:04pm PT

Another bumper sticker:

Can you fix my husband? He says he's broke

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber

Full Silos of Iowa

Sep 25, 2010 - 05:25pm PT

"They're pussies. [Democrats] are the worse salesmen in the world - they could not talk Lindsey Lohan into a rum and coke."

Bill Maher
Real Time, Sept 24, 2010

bergbryce

Mountain climber

Oakland

Nov 12, 2010 - 11:00pm PT

"Fart Proudly"

On ugly women...

"It's all the same once you blow the candle out"

I know for certain Benjamin Franklin said the first one and I believe I read the second one in the same book of BF quotes. Man was not only a genius, but practical.

http://www.amazon.com/Fart-Proudly-Writings-Benjamin-Franklin/dp/1583940790

Brokedownclimber

Trad climber

Douglas, WY

Nov 12, 2010 - 11:18pm PT

You can't fool all the people all the time....that's why there are 2 political parties...
Bob Hope

This is one of my favorites when surfing the political threads here, and reading Dr. F's rants.

MisterE

Social climber

Bouncy Tiggerville

Nov 14, 2010 - 07:59pm PT

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

MisterE

Social climber

Bouncy Tiggerville

Nov 14, 2010 - 08:03pm PT

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams

Maysho

climber

Soda Springs, CA

Nov 14, 2010 - 08:46pm PT

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

Aung San Suu Kyi

And she was freed yesterday after 15 years of being detained by the government of Burma!

Peter

MisterE

Social climber

Bouncy Tiggerville

Nov 14, 2010 - 09:56pm PT

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

Aung San Suu Kyi

And she was freed yesterday after 15 years of being detained by the government of Burma!

Peter

Perfect, Peter.

Thanks.