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nature as the normal man.
--Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
_Reflections_ [1974], #114
--
Steve
H.P. Huey
"Is it right to laugh at someone's pain?
You'll chuckle at the answer!"
~ Stephen Colbert
--
HellPope Huey
Gonorrhea sounds more like
a Yugoslavian economy car than a disease.
"If I could afford a real snake,
I sure wouldn't be working HERE."
~ "Blade Runner"
"Benzodiazapene, Xanax & gin,
somebody's feelin' no pain..."
~ Leo Kottke, "Mob On The Hill"
George Carlin Vs. Fred Phelps & The Man
http://acksisofevil.org/audio/inner185.mp3
SteveMR200
<vYUak.13940$mh5....@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com>:
> "Is it right to laugh at someone's pain?
> You'll chuckle at the answer!"
> ~ Stephen Colbert
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road of life?
Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other,
In blackness of heart--that we war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife.
--Joaquin Miller (1841-1913)
_Is it Worthwhile?_
--
Steve
H.P. Huey
"Its faith... you're not supposed to understand it...
... you're just supposed to have it."
- "Justice League"
--
HellPope Huey
My dog needs his methadone, won't you please help?
"If he'd pulled over, it would all have been forgiven."
~ "Apocalypse Now"
"He just held out his fist and I knew what that meant."
~ A kid named Robbie,
upon "bumping fists" with the Prez
SteveMR200
<Dpebk.13077$uE5....@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com>:
> "It's faith... you're not supposed to understand it...
> ... you're just supposed to have it."
> - "Justice League"
After describing many of history's variant readings
of Jesus, for example, [James Carse] points out
that "about the man Jesus, much is believed, almost
nothing is known." More than that, it is intrinsic
to the meaning of Jesus that he can and should
never be known.
Those who claim to know "the 'real' Jesus" are in
fact, in the very act, denying the mystery and
unknowability of a figure who has meaning and
force only if he can never be fully grasped.
The true believer, who feels that Jesus has divinity
as well as humanity inside him, often, in that very
conviction, fails to acknowledge that she, being
only human, can never truly understand him.
--Pico Iyer (1957- )
(In a review of James P. Carse's
_The Religious Case Against Belief_ [2008])
_The New York Review of Books_ [June 26, 2008],
"Holy Restlessness"
--
Steve
SteveMR200
presumptive vice presidential nominee included
a frank interview with People magazine in which
Palin wore "ruby-red platform heels with a pink
French-style pedicure"; disclosed that she doesn't
sleep much at night because she's usually alternating
between a Blackberry for work and a breast pump for
her infant son, Trig; and said her favorite meal
at home is moose burgers and caribou sausages.
She's "not wired normal," her husband, Todd, told
the magazine.
--Bob Drogin, L.A. Times Staff Writer
_Los Angeles Times_ [August 31, 2008],
"She Starts Making U.S. Rounds"
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-campaign31-2008aug31,0,2674475.story
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Steve
Betty
> she's usually alternating
> between a Blackberry for work and a breast pump for
> her infant son, Trig; and said her favorite meal
> at home is moose burgers and caribou sausages.
Don't talk down to me, John McCain. A few years ago I was head of the
PTA and now I'm the freaking Governor of Alaska. I didn't get there by
just eating moose burgers and popping out kids.
~Lisa Nova as Palin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
[Moose] tastes very much like ground beef, but it's a very mild, very
lean meat. I've made moose Wellington, moose meatballs, moose spaghetti
sauce and T-bone moose steaks.
~ Laraine Derr, of the Chez Alaska cookery school in Juneau
--
//Betty xx
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SteveMR200
<tC8wk.34181$IK1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
>On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:06 -0700, SteveMR200 wrote in message:
><hq4nb4dc764m26rv9...@4ax.com>:
>
>>[Alaska Governor Sarah] Palin's . . . usually alternating
>> between a Blackberry for work and a breast pump for
>> her infant son, Trig; and said her favorite meal
>> at home is moose burgers and caribou sausages.
>> --Bob Drogin, L.A. Times Staff Writer
>> _Los Angeles Times_ [August 31, 2008],
>> "She Starts Making U.S. Rounds"
>__________________________________________
>
>Don't talk down to me, John McCain. A few years ago I was head of the
>PTA and now I'm the freaking Governor of Alaska. I didn't get there by
>just eating moose burgers and popping out kids.
>~Lisa Nova as Palin
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
John McCain and Sarah Palin began their post-
convention tour of battleground states Friday
in the small Wisconsin town of Cedarburg. But
although Palin's biggest task in the coming months
will be trying win over the Lower 48, she's not
about to abandon her Alaska roots.
How can we tell? Follow the tracks. Moosetracks,
that is. That's the ice cream flavor she chose when
she, McCain and Cindy McCain made a stop at a
Cedarburg sweets shop before their campaign
appearance. The new vice presidential nominee
ordered a large scoop of moosetracks--vanilla ice
cream with peanut butter cups and fudge--served
in a waffle cone.
Palin's affinity for all things moose is well
documented. Indeed, the Republicans seem to be
touting her moose-hunting skills as one of her
qualifications for vice president.
During his GOP convention speech, former Sen. Fred
Thompson called her "the only nominee in the history
of either party who knows how to properly
field-dress a moose . . . with the possible
exception of Teddy Roosevelt."
And Cindy McCain, in her speech, said, "John has
picked a reform-minded, hockey-mommin',
basketball-shooting, moose-hunting, salmon-fishing,
pistol-packing mother of five for vice president."
Palin, it seems, likes moose best when they're on
her plate. She has said that her favorite meal is
moose stew.
Her propensity for hunting has alarmed some
environmental activists. "Her philosophy, from our
perspective, is cut, kill, dig and drill," John
Toppenberg, the director of the Alaska Wildlife
Alliance, told the Associated Press. Some
Republicans would take that as a compliment.
Sen. McCain also had a scoop. His order? Watermelon
sorbet. We're not quite sure what that reveals, but
we welcome interpretations.
--Kate Linthicum, L.A. Times Staff Writer
_Los Angeles Times_ [September 6, 2006],
"Sarah Palin Sticks To Her Moose Roots"
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trailmoose6-2008sep06,0,4726831.story
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Steve
SteveMR200
never be obviously provocative, nor say anything
about murder. They should be rather indirect
and neutral, but the form of words should be
a little unusual.
--Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
_Letter to Dale Warren_ [October 2, 1946]
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<cvevb5523iqqho2tc...@4ax.com>:
The writer's problem is, how to strike the balance
between the uncommon and the ordinary so as on
the one hand to give interest, on the other to
give reality.
--Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
_Notebook_ [July 1881]
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<cvevb5523iqqho2tc...@4ax.com>:
>I have peculiar ideas about titles. They should
All the greatest things we know have come to us
from neurotics. It is they and only they who have
founded religions and created great works of art.
--Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
_Remembrance of Things Past_ [1913-1927],
"The Guermantes Way," Part I
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<cvevb5523iqqho2tc...@4ax.com>:
>I have peculiar ideas about titles. They should
"You," said Sally Mills, "are very strange."
"Only," said Dirk, "as strange as I need to be."
--Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
_The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul_ [1988]
--
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SteveMR200
are satisfied to blend in with the majority.
There aren't many magnets on earth stronger than
peer pressure. Even though all of us have only a
few years to spend on this little planet in space,
rare are the ones who decide to ignore the "average"
and fight against the pull of the mediocre magnet.
Face it--it's tough!
As a familiar motto goes, "It's hard to soar like
an eagle when I'm surrounded by so many turkeys!"
--Charles R. Swindoll (1934- )
_Living Above the Level of Mediocrity_ [1987]),
"It Costs Your Commitment"
--
Steve
David C Kifer
:-)>
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
--Winston Churchill, quoted in Peter McWilliams, _The Life 101 Quote Book_
--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
Kevin G. Barkes
-John Benfield
Leaders are like eagles. We don't have either of them here.
-Larry Kersten, PhD
Regards,
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SteveMR200
<nnrv78tltn15dhqrd...@4ax.com>:
>Being different is costly, especially when most
>are satisfied to blend in with the majority.
>There aren't many magnets on earth stronger than
>peer pressure. Even though all of us have only a
>few years to spend on this little planet in space,
>rare are the ones who decide to ignore the "average"
>and fight against the pull of the mediocre magnet.
>Face it--it's tough!
> _Living Above the Level of Mediocrity_ [1987]),
> "It Costs Your Commitment"
or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good
to do so; do only that which you must do and which
you cannot do in any other way.
--"Sparrowhawk"
(A character in Ursula K. Le Guin's
_The Farthest Shore_ [1972], "Magelight")
--
Steve
SteveMR200
William James--lives that don't reflect our real
ability. One reason we do: It's more comfortable not
to try hard. But life is, or should be, a struggle:
Comfort should make us uncomfortable; contentment
should make us discontented.
Runners embrace that philosophy. In common with
most practicing athletes, we are responding to a
basic trait in nature--to be number one. And in
this regard also, the struggle is all. I am not
deterred in my pursuit of excellence by the fact
that hundreds of other runners beat me. It's the
race that challenges me, not the finish line.
--George Sheehan, M.D. (1918-1993)
_Personal Best_ [1989], "Fitness for Living:
Beating the Odds"
--
Steve
SteveMR200
issues of Superman comics. The inhabitants of
Bizarro World did everything in reverse--walked
backward, drove backward, switched televisions off
when they wanted to watch and on when they didn't,
drove through red lights but stopped at green ones,
and so on.
Bizarro World bothered me enormously because it was
impossibly inconsistent. The people didn't actually
speak backward, but just talked in a kind of
primitive caveman "me no like him" type of English,
which was not the same thing at all.
Anyway, living backward simply couldn't be made to
work. At the gas station they would have to take
fuel out of their cars rather than put it in, so how
would they make their cars go?
Eating would mean sucking poo up through their anus,
sending it through the body and ejecting it in mouth-
sized lumps onto forks and spoons. It wouldn't be
satisfactory at all.
--Bill Bryson (1951- )
_The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid_ [2006], Chapter 9
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Steve
SteveMR200
lived with an auntie, Mimi. Mimi told me my parents
had fallen out of love. She never said anything
directly against my father and mother. I soon
forgot my father. It was like he was dead.
But I did see my mother now and again and my feeling
never died off for her. I often thought about her,
though I'd never realized for a long time that she
was living no more than five or ten miles away.
There were five women that were my family. Five
strong, intelligent, beautiful women; five sisters.
One happened to be my mother. My mother just
couldn't deal with life. She was the youngest and
she couldn't cope with me and I ended up living with
her elder sister. . . .
The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of
realizing your parents do not need you in the way
you need them. When I was a child I experienced
moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not
wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love
went into my eyes and into my mind.
I was never really wanted. The only reason I am a
star is because of my repression. Nothing would
have driven me through all that if I was "normal."
--John Lennon (1940-1980)
(In _The Beatles Anthology_ [2000], "John Lennon")
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<eh29c8ldm04g0f03s...@4ax.com>:
>I was never really wanted. The only reason I am a
>star is because of my repression. Nothing would
>have driven me through all that if I was "normal."
> --John Lennon (1940-1980)
> (In _The Beatles Anthology_ [2000], "John Lennon")
answered. "Different is dangerous. It might kill you.
That was true to your animal ancestors and your
nearest animal relatives. And it's true for you."
--Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)
_Dawn_ [1987]
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<uhhki8l1sf0mntpvd...@4ax.com>:
strength of character has abounded; and the amount
of eccentricity in a society has generally been
proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor,
and moral courage it contained.
That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief
danger of the time.
--John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
_On Liberty_ [1859], Chapter 3
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Steve
SteveMR200
--Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
_The True Believer_ [1951], Chapter 51
--
Steve
Kevin G. Barkes
--Sam Harris
Regards,
KGB
SteveMR200
message:
<b41b5ab5-7ba1-4508...@googlegroups.com>:
>It is merely an accident of history that it is considered
>normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the
>universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of
>mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you
>by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.
>--Sam Harris
ward takes on the richness and density of a novel,
embracing a Chekhovian cast of characters--the staff,
the other patients on the ward. He sees a highly
disturbed, obviously psychotic young Hasidic man,
whose family will not accept that he is ill:
"He has achieved devaykah," says his brother,
"the state of constant communion with God."
--Oliver Sacks (1933- )
(In a review of Michael Greenberg's
_Hurry Down Sunshine_ [2008])
_The New York Review of Books_ [September 25, 2008],
"A Summer of Madness"
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<8ui0s8dchm913kfk9...@4ax.com>:
>Eccentricity has always abounded when and where
>strength of character has abounded; and the amount
>of eccentricity in a society has generally been
>proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor,
>and moral courage it contained.
>
>That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief
>danger of the time.
>
> --John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
> _On Liberty_ [1859], Chapter 3
was peculiar, that was probably why she loved me,
but that one day I might disgust her for the
very same reason.
--Albert Camus (1913-1960)
_L'Etranger_ [1942]
--
Steve
Kevin G. Barkes
--Sargent Shriver
SteveMR200
message:
<4d5c9569-151b-437c...@googlegroups.com>:
>My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain
>all of my peculiarities.
>--Sargent Shriver
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
--Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
_This Be The Verse_ [1974]
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<nnrv78tltn15dhqrd...@4ax.com>:
> "It Costs Your Commitment"
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the
battle to be just you.
--Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
_Speaking Of Love_ [1980]
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<v8bo64tdeacuulsfe...@4ax.com>:
>On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:20:44 -0500, H.P. Huey wrote in message:
><vYUak.13940$mh5....@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com>:
>
>> "Is it right to laugh at someone's pain?
>> You'll chuckle at the answer!"
>> ~ Stephen Colbert
>
>Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother,
>Bearing his load on the rough road of life?
>Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other,
>In blackness of heart--that we war to the knife?
>God pity us all in our pitiful strife.
> --Joaquin Miller (1841-1913)
> _Is it Worthwhile?_
and laugh at them in our turn?
--Jane Austen (1775-1817)
_Pride And Prejudice_ [1813], Chapter 57
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<8ui0s8dchm913kfk9...@4ax.com>:
--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
_The Crack-Up_ [1936]
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<8ui0s8dchm913kfk9...@4ax.com>:
>Eccentricity has always abounded when and where
>strength of character has abounded; and the amount
>of eccentricity in a society has generally been
>proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor,
>and moral courage it contained.
>
>That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief
>danger of the time.
>
> --John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
> _On Liberty_ [1859], Chapter 3
Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy.
Speak your mind and fear less the label of
"crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
--Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874-1956)
(In George Blair's and Sandy Meadows'
_A Real-Life Guide to Organizational Change_ [1997])
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<uhhki8l1sf0mntpvd...@4ax.com>:
>"Different is threatening to most species," Nikanj
>answered. "Different is dangerous. It might kill you.
>That was true to your animal ancestors and your
>nearest animal relatives. And it's true for you."
> --Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006)
> _Dawn_ [1987]
until they're removed.
--"Jeanine Matthews" (Kate Winslet)
(In the film _Divergent_ [2014]; written by
Veronica Roth, screenplay by Evan Daugherty
and Vanessa Taylor)
Watch the YouTube video clip here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sutgWjz10sM
00:02:06
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Steve
SteveMR200
<boh6ea9lgurqia5cn...@4ax.com>:
--Andre Gide (1869-1951)
_Journals_ [June 10, 1891]
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<boh6ea9lgurqia5cn...@4ax.com>:
normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't
have had good scientific ideas if I had thought
more normally.
--John Forbes Nash, Jr. (1928-2015)
_IrishTimes.com_ [April 8, 2005],
"Glimpsing Inside A Beautiful Mind"
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/glimpsing-inside-a-beautiful-mind-1.430289
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<4kvoead16n93hkkr5...@4ax.com>:
this and look out at all of these disconcertingly
attractive faces--and I do. And that's the most
unfair thing I think I've ever heard.
So in this brief time here, what I want to use it
to do is say this: When I was sixteen years old, I
tried to kill myself because I felt weird, and I
felt different, and I felt like I did not belong.
And now I'm standing here, and so I would like for
this moment to be for that kid out there who feels
like she's weird, or she's different, or she doesn't
fit in anywhere: Yes, you do. I promise you do.
You do.
Stay weird, stay different, and then when it's your
turn and you are standing on this stage, please pass
the same message to the next person who comes along.
--Graham Moore (1981- )
(Acceptance speech for Best Adapted Screenplay,
"The Imitation Game" at the 87th Academy Awards
presentation in Hollywood, CA; February 22, 2015)
Click here to watch his acceptance on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNJq90t0Wk
00:02:08
--
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SteveMR200
<6ofhoahie4spvdhtt...@4ax.com>:
>[...]
>And now I'm standing here, and so I would like for
>this moment to be for that kid out there who feels
>like she's weird, or she's different, or she doesn't
>fit in anywhere: Yes, you do. I promise you do.
>You do.
>
>Stay weird, stay different, and then when it's your
>turn and you are standing on this stage, please pass
>the same message to the next person who comes along.
>
> --Graham Moore (1981- )
> (Acceptance speech for Best Adapted Screenplay,
>
>Click here to watch his acceptance on YouTube:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNJq90t0Wk
>00:02:08
you have done something strange and extravagant,
and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
(In William Safire and Leonard Safir's
_Words of Wisdom_ [1989], "Individuality")
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<agoonapgf7gvkvdnj...@4ax.com>:
>I can see there's a connection between not following
>normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't
>have had good scientific ideas if I had thought
>more normally.
> --John Forbes Nash, Jr. (1928-2015)
> _IrishTimes.com_ [April 8, 2005],
> "Glimpsing Inside A Beautiful Mind"
--"Grandma Maureen" (Carol Burnett)
(In the film _Post Grad_ [2009],
written by Kelly Fremon)
00:35:00
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Steve