For all man are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall -1Peter 1:24

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Unbias Bab~

ill found anger

His cause was just, his purpose true. His anger mighty, his warcries bellowed deep.
"How dare the pale one be so bold!" The pale one who now trespasses his soil, who points a finger at his pride.

The pale one must pay! The tribe stands ready, his fist points the way. HE who is the light of the land, HE who bears the mark of the greater beaver, HE the servant of the peaceful hammer, who must now deal justified violence, for the greater good...

Meanwhile on the other side>
Harri simply didn't understand what the fuss was all about, he only wanted to borrow a pencil...


“A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment.
An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
- George Bernard Shaw

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Eric Hoffer -The Desire For Substitutes

  • There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization appeal to self-interest. A mass movement, to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self.
  • We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility
  • They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints. Actually, their innermost desire is for an end to the "free for all." They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society.
  • Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
  • The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds;It penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients. The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and passions already simmering in the minds of his hearers. he echoes their innermost feelings. Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already "know."
  • A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.
  • It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Another monkey bites the dust

the stillness of remorse was all that remained

His cold stiff body was discovered slumped over the desk, the constant hum of a still functioning low noise laptop grimly loud in the glowing silence. sound effects from an ironic graveyard screen saver periodically interrupts the peace, reinforcing that morbid reminder of the harsh realities facing modern day hunters...