Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Skacore, snowcore, hardcore, homocore, albacore...
I can't take it any more!

My core, your core, this core, that core, one core...
I can't take it!

Search your date of birth (not the year) on Wikipedia and then choose three events, two births and a death.

Events:
1268 - The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Battle of Antioch; Baibars' destruction of the city of Antioch was so great as to permanently negate the city's importance.

1803 - ( Read more... )

all theories
like clichés
shot to hell,
all these small faces
looking up
beautiful and believing;
I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.
we have narrowed it down to
the butcherknife and the
mockingbird.
wish us
luck.

I was outflanked by the carpenter ( Read more... )

The Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, defines dread as the knowledge of what you must do to prove you’re free, even if it will destroy you. His example is Adam in the Garden of Eden, happy and content until God shows him the Tree of Knowledge and says, “Don’t eat this.” Now, Adam is no longer free. Thee is one rule he can break, he must break ( Read more... )

Hell is empty, all the devils are here!

si vis pacem, para bellum

(if you want peace, prepare for war)

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church ( Read more... )

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