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Blister desired death so I'll be taking over. Proverbs 12:1 "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is STUPID."

I feel like this and the render unto Caesar thing, and the my kingdom is not of this world thing, is why Christianity is such a good fit with western liberalism, constitutional republics, secular governments and all that. Probably comes from the fact that early Christians had to exist under a government that wanted no part of them. All religions leak into government, but Christianity can thrive without doing so, and a lot of other religions cannot.

Cool! New thread!

"I have a dream."

I feel like everyone knows this quote, but in a quote thread you need it.

I did that speech in elementary school. Getting the right amount of inflection and almost musical quality is tough.

" 'One day, you′ll leave this world behind
So live a life you will remember' "

   - The Nights, by The Wellermen

I'm reading Crime and Punishment right now and came across this little speech:

"You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing, too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account!

"Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird.

"And what are we doing now? In science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aims, liberalism, judgment, experience and everything, everything, everything, we are still in the preparatory class at school. We prefer to live on other people's ideas, it's what we are used to!"

*Note: "liberalism" had a very different meaning in 1860s Russia than it does in the US today, lol

*Overly long pause*

"Never, ever, ever, give up."

*walks away*

-Winston Churchill

@RKrallonor has a quote of his he really likes too!

A quote from Winston Churchill? I think I saw the name mentioned somewhere before.

EDIT: Fun fact, I learned both of my quotes from school. It's not totally bombing my education.

Here's my "favorite" quote by Winston Churchill: "I hate Indians... They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."

Great historical figures often have both wonderful and terrible aspects within them, inextricably linked, and when trying to determine their legacy, it is hard to reconcile the incredible things Churchill did with his deplorable viewpoints.

I'm sorry, I don't think I understand.

He hated the people of India and viewed them as subhuman. Pretty racist guy.

He's considered a controversial figure these days. He was undeniably pivotal in leading the UK during WWII but also yeah, did a lot of harm in India and didn't seem to regret it. (India was under British rule at the time.)

Most historical figures are complicated that way though, humans are complex. Even Gandhi was known to be an asshole at times. (You probably don't know who Gandhi is. Relates to India though and it's a little like not knowing who Martin Luther King Jr is, so look him up: https://www.britannica.com/)

Even MLK was a huge womanizer. This is definitely known.

There's been some other shit that's come out about him though, but it's one of those things where you sort of have to make your own judgment call that he was just fucking around on his wife all the time or he was approaching freak level with the sex shit.

Nowhere near Diddy level of course, but there's a bit going on that he knew about some rape shit that his fellows were involved with and not only did he not try to stop it, he was egging them on.

Is it true or is it just the FBI making up shit? Well again that's what you gotta decide, along with if something like this cancels out all the other stuff he did.

Never heard anything about rape, but I think it's pretty well known by now he was screwing around.

Of course that's mostly known because the FBI was spying on him lol. My own hot take head canon at one point actually was that he might have arranged his own assassination when he realized they were about to come out with all his dirty laundry and undermine the movement, knowing a lot as he did about how public opinion worked. (Yes I know the prevailing conspiracy theory is that the government did him in, but why would they make a martyr when they had all this other info that was even better?)

Basically the rape thing was another FBI spy job. Here's a bit of it.

Guess more might be mentioned of it in a couple years.

They should've released that ten years ago if they wanted everyone to believe it, AI is too good now and the FBI right now is the most scuffed it's ever been.

Slightly unrelated fun fact: Christianity existed in India before the British ever set foot on our shores. Many believe that the apostle St. Thomas first spread the word when he reached the coast of south west India. European missionaries were in turn, quite surprised when the "savages" had their own version of the Christian faith. I wonder what Churchill would think about that.

"That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind." -Neil Armstrong

that's my quote for today. I want to do one a day, I wonder when I'll run out...

“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.

   - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

     Why are people taking so many quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I know some parts are kinda good, but I'd think we'd get some more variety. Not blaming anyone of anything, don't take it the wrong way.

If you read it, you'd understand.

I did. Well, listened to it.

Acoustic media?????? But that's really bad, or something!

It's just an adiobook... I like to listen to them while I draw.

Oh avo, Mizal is making a reference to this other commenter we had who used to talk about the differences in media between consuming visual media and acoustic. He was really particular about how what you read is better than what you hear. Just wanted to fill you in so you weren’t confused!

Oh. And "Oh avo"? That sounds condescending but I'm sure that's unintentional.

I apologize, wasn’t my intention. I sometimes type how I talk, but thank you for pointing it out. I’ll work on that!

Oh RK, always apologizing.

I guess I was worried I offended Avo, but I think she understood it wasn’t my intention to be condescending

I'm not offended at all.

No prob. When people say Oh, [insert name] it's usually in a bad way which is why I mentioned it.

That's a very kind way of putting it, RK means to say he was an delusional schizo. :)

Yeah, he became kind of strange in the end. Which was weird because he was making some really quality games before he had his “enlightenment phase”

"When you said that you hate yourself, it made me want to tell you all the wonderful things I know about you." - Rem

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."
--Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died."

- George W. Cecil

"if you are going through hell, keep going" Winston Churchill

I'm not a huge churchill fan or anything, it's just that most of the quotes I know come from him.

“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.” - Hayao Miyazaki

"If you want something done right, do it yourself." -Charles-Guillaume Étienne

Well, I feel like I've exhausted The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, so time to move on to another book!

“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”

   - Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

I like ready player one. Is there a ready player two? I think there is.

We don't talk about ready player two. What ready player two? It doesn't exist. I have no clue what you are talking about!

What, is it bad?

In my opinion, it is a steaming pile of... male cow excrement... compared to the original. The first book didn't need a sequel in the first place, and while a second one might have worked out if it was done well, this one was not. It's like Pacific Rim, from what little I know about the original and sequel movies.

Whenever someone makes a good book and attempts a series, it always seems to go badly. Every time, as far as all the books I've read.