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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 11, 2015 - 03:39pm PT
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"Words are supposed to hurt.
That's considered a legitimate way of fighting things out. And what did it replace in the historical scene? It replaced actual violence.
Words are supposed to be free so we can actually fight things out, in the battleplace of ideas, so we don't end up fighting them out in civil wars.
If we try to legitimately ban anything that can hurt someone's feelings, everyone is reduced to silence."
Greg Lukianoff
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 15, 2015 - 11:44pm PT
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"Justin Bieber is an elite alpinist."
--scrubbing bubbles
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 16, 2015 - 11:30am PT
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"Men are born to be bad, and men are born to be good.
In the meanwhile, neither saints nor sinner are made by good or bad advice."--Will Henry
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Aug 16, 2015 - 12:06pm PT
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"Wasn't my first mistake, probably won't be my last."
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 16, 2015 - 12:22pm PT
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"pull down, not out"
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Aug 16, 2015 - 12:29pm PT
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Look before you leap
or
He who hesitates is lost.
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Aug 16, 2015 - 06:24pm PT
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"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" -Abraham Lincoln, 1864
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Aug 17, 2015 - 08:29am PT
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To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting.
It's like advising a starving man to eat less.
Oscar Wilde
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 17, 2015 - 08:36am PT
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The 16 year old George Washington's #11 of his Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior:
Shift not yourself in the Sight of others nor Gnaw your nails.
Clearly the young George didn't play baseball.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 17, 2015 - 07:12pm PT
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"Of all human inventions,the most worthless is an excuse."
M.S.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Aug 17, 2015 - 07:20pm PT
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You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 17, 2015 - 07:24pm PT
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hey there say... well, from a quick look, here's one fave:
"... I'm no good, I cracked under pressure just as surely as thin-ice, fails a horse."
quoted from Stoney Holton:
(created character, in the jake-smith-ranch-series short-stories- collection--book 5, ~Wavering on the Treshold~ story 8, chapter 3,
...by neebeeshaabookway) ...
(yep his name is spelled, stoney, not stony) ...
:)
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Aug 17, 2015 - 07:54pm PT
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On my (DJ) brother's beat up VW bug for a station promotion back in 80's
Seattle:
"Honk if you're Jesus"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 18, 2015 - 06:27am PT
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"I have an I.Q. of 70. I am on welfare. I have a perpetual boner. I have nothing better to do than f*#k lots of other ugly stupid people like myself, and rob your houses while you work. I have enough offspring to fill a Jerry Springer studio. I reproduce like the mighty cockroach, my descendants will inherit the earth.WAHAHAHAHA!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icmRCixQrx8
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Faith means belief without – and, increasingly these days, against – evidence. Faith, therefore, is intellectually dishonest. Faith creates a false certainty, which subjugates rationality. It makes good people do evil things and it makes otherwise intelligent people say and do senseless things. It forces its influence where it has no business. It flies airplanes into buildings."
"Faith is arrogant. It places humanity at the center of the universe and each believer as the apple of the creator’s eye. It makes Republican presidential candidates, our governor included, trade power of prayer stories at a Christian breakfast while rescue workers in Nepal search for thousands of missing people who just had their rickety roofs dropped on them by “an act of God.” Faith of this kind has long kept itself immune from critical discourse, often with violence. No more."
"I hope to maybe plant the seed of doubt in someone’s mind, the way it was planted in mine, and possibly move another person away from superstition and tribalism toward reason and acceptance of the beautiful and humbling fact that we are of the cosmos, not the point of it."
http://www.milwaukeemag.com/2015/08/17/faith-no-more/
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 18, 2015 - 01:26pm PT
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" I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy,as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
Thomas Jefferson
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Aug 18, 2015 - 01:27pm PT
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Whenever my wife gets an Etsy sale:
"Yay! The glowing box brought me money!"
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 19, 2015 - 10:56am PT
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Eighth Tao
The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places that men reject and is like the Tao.
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.
In action, watch the timing.
No fight: No blame.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2015 - 11:51pm PT
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A plane load of tourists going to see the Great Pyramids burn more enrgy than it took to build them.
Khun Duen Baad
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 21, 2015 - 01:16am PT
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
" It is so big, the mind can't hold it"
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