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QUOTE OF THE DAY

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FAITH: A Light in a Dark Fun-House of Mirrors

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

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Last week I experienced a loss which represented a part of my existence for the last fifteen years. The loss doesn’t matter now as much as the sadness and grief currently experienced. A door has been closed. Others will open someday, but that can’t be adequately processed right now.  Sadness and grief are inherent to the human endeavor. This too, shall pass.

In my own experience, transitions are valleys and mountain-tops; hallways and doors. I don’t understand – and yet I realize every experience I ever had, and every choice I ever made, put me right here in this place.  What does one do when they don’t know what to do?  Sit and stew? React? Find peace?  Some words come to mind that are a minor variation from a poem I once wrote during a transition of long ago:

 

……Do you see and hear, then use your reason?

For everything, a time and a season

Do you fight with your might and exercise your will?

Or stay quiet and peaceful and just be still?

All of these contain blessings and each one’s a curse

And if time were money they’ll empty your purse…..

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

The State is a device for taking money out of one set of pockets and putting it in another.

Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire
Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Voltaire

 


QUOTES OF THE DAY

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion. Voltaire

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. Voltaire

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Voltaire

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Voltaire

Prejudices are what fools use for reason. Voltaire

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. Voltaire

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. Voltaire

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value —- zero. Voltaire