User:Giovanni33
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As events past into history, they settle and compose themselves in larger context. We forget urgent crises and all-encompassing issues and the rhetoric which, keyed profoundly to time and place, made them seem urgent and all-encompassing. And as the whole context shrinks in the distance of time, the main outlines draw together surprising new shapes, exposing relationships between things which sometimes seemed absurdly alien to each other during the passage of the events themselves. To new and better things as progress marches forward, with us not trailing too far behind the most advance elements, given new syntheses of objective and subjective conditions as they manifest themselves in our dynamic interaction with the dialectical interplay of this matter-in-motion. Giovanni33 06:40, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
"To strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an “objective” news story, “value-free” social science, or a “free” economy. A “laissez faire” group is about as realistic as a “laissez faire” society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others. This hegemony can so easily be established because the idea of “structurelessness” does not prevent the formation of informal structures, only formal ones. . . . Thus structurelessness becomes a way of masking power, and within the women’s movement it is usually most strongly advocated by those who are the most powerful (whether they are conscious of their power or not)." See Democratic structuring.Giovanni33 08:09, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
| Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. — Jimbo Wales [1] "Through no fault of our own, and by dint of no cosmic plan or conscious purpose, we have become by a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life’s continuity on earth. We did not ask for this responsibility, yet it is ours. " S. J. Gould |
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I've posted my friendster profile, for those whose inquisitive minds extends beyond my edits themselves, and perhaps even borders on the snoopy side. May it satiate your curiosities. [2]
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  This is my current home, Planet Earth. I am its citizen. Its the only home I have. I have no loyalty to any Nation State. The very idea is repugnant.[6]
Here is your chance to try to create God. The one I created was at least plausible, although would not be "God" by most conceptions: http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/whatisgod.htm Next, try this one and see if you can make it across an intellectual battleground without harm! Logic and rational consistency is all you need to make it. I was able to make it without taking a single hit, or scratch. Tread carefuly:http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm [edit] QuotesMeant to stir thinking, but also for humor. First let a classic thought by the great Epicurus: "God either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can. If he wants to and cannot, he is weak -- and this does not apply to god. If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful -- which is equally foreign to god's nature. If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful and so not a god. If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?" -Epicurus (from "The Epicurus Reader", translated and edited by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson, Hackett Publishing, 1994, p. 97) "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained. Mohandas Gandhi "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."C Hitchens "If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades." – Che. "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." Che Guevara "As long as some specialized class is in a position of authority, it is going to set policy in the special interests that it serves. But the conditions of survival, let alone justice, require rational social planning in the interests of the community as a whole, and by now that means the global community." Noam Chomsky "If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all." Noam Chomsky "The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." Ferdinand Magellan "The most important issue that faces us is the survival of the planet's ecology. If that struggle fails, then everything else we do will be nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the "Titanic"." Michael Parenti "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully when they do it from religious conviction." Blaise Pascal "Facts are stupid things." Ronald Reagan Source: His address to the Republican National Convention, 1988 "The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way." Arundhati Roy. "Confronting Empire," Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1/28/2003 "There can be no real freedom or democracy until the men who do the work in a business also control its management." Bertrand Russell "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there." George W Bush January 21, 2000 Iowa Western Community College George W. Bush "If you read the Bible, say, you find that it is one of the most genocidal texts in our literature." Chomsky. Companion Book to the film Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 156 "For my part I would as soon be descended from a baboon...as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies...treats his wives like slaves...and is haunted by the grossest superstitions." Charles Darwin "Facts are not ethical principles, but they tend to form or revise our moral ideas by making it harder to believe nonsense." Bertrand Russell "Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes!" Lenin "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian archbishop. "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please..." Karl Marx; 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge." Steven Hawking
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