It’s true too.
Zoot Allures:I’m scrolling a thread at a forum where a bunch of hyper-european hardons are all sitting around the campfire bashing the middle east and then suddenly I see this:
Phoneutria:Have you any idea of how much philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, economy, etc, was brought to us by the muslim world? They were dressing themselves in silk before europeans even knew better than to get off their horses to take a shit.
… and I almost fell out of my chair. You know that sound when the record player needle scratches across the record. That’s what I heard. I’m still wiping off the coffee I spit all my computer screen.
It’s not just that the comment was funny, but the entire context in which it was said. You literally see everybody drop their beers and stare at her in silence. Oh my god that was funny.
The middle east used to be the factory of mathematics, until some Muslim arch-bishop-type got it into his head that mathematics was the devil. Ever since, theyve become mathematically inept.
Al Ghazali. He introduced coercive religion to the Arabic. They have not recovered since.
“Humans are the devils of the earth, and animals the tormented souls." ~Schopenhauer
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Warning issued to Quantum, and irrelevant posts deleted.
A Man Can Conquer The Whole World But His Greatest Victory Will Be Against Himself
I never follow the above one
-quantum
The middle east used to be the factory of mathematics, until some Muslim arch-bishop-type got it into his head that mathematics was the devil. Ever since, theyve become mathematically inept.
They should all become accountants, and put mathematics back on the Middle-Eastern map!
“If we are not a little bit uncomfortable everyday,we are not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone”-Jack Canfield
This quote really inspired me.Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Hard work is the key to success. A happy childhood isn’t always the best preparation for a successful and enjoyable adult life.
“If we are not a little bit uncomfortable everyday,we are not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone”-Jack Canfield
This quote really inspired me.Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Hard work is the key to success. A happy childhood isn’t always the best preparation for a successful and enjoyable adult life.
Let us not throw the baby out with the bathwater, Jack Canfield.
Some of that good stuff is still within our comfort zone.
But I realize what he meant.
Die moderne Welt … wird sich als eine Zeit erweisen, in der die Wünsche durch ihr Wahrwerden das Fürchten lehren.
My translation: “The modern world … will turn out to be a time in which the wishes teach fear when they come true.”
Am Ende hängen wir doch ab, von Kreaturen, die wir machten.
My translation: “At the end, nevertheless, we depend, on the creatures which we made.”
Der Mensch ist ein Tier, was eine Erziehung nötig hat.
My translation: “The human is an animal that needs an education.”
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius
Aye!!!
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius
Aye!!!
Arc : may PM something pressing re: Marcus Aurelius in the near future. It may be beyond the scope of posting here, and irrelevant objectively.
“We know more then we can tell”
Michael Polanyi
“I dont sing because Im happy, Im happy because I sing.”
(William James)
Arcturus Descending:We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Marcus Aurelius
Aye!!!
Arc : may PM something pressing re: Marcus Aurelius in the near future. It may be beyond the scope of posting here, and irrelevant objectively.
I await it with bated breath, Meno.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
- Epicurus