I used to have these in the sidebar, but they’ve kind of expanded a bit too much for that. So these are some of my favourite quotes, I mostly agree with what they say, not always of course, and not every word, but most of it.
Click on the name for the quote:
Thomas Jefferson - Self Actualisation
Jean Meslier was an 18th century French priest. After he died, his last testament was published. This testament is amongst the most militantly atheist documents of all time. His signature quote is:
«Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.»
It was translated to me in school as: “Man will not be free until the last king is strangled with the guts of the last priest”.
Ayn Rand was a 20th century American writer. She believed that everything you do flows from an iron faith in an egotistical morality. When I was poor and living on the downtown eastside of Vancouver, I would go to the library and read her. She spoke to me - and what she told me was this:
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Alexander Muir was the writer of “The Maple Leaf Forever”, which was the unofficial anthem of English Canada. Attend a Remembrance Day ceremony and you’ll hear the biggest cheer reserved for that song. Contrast the verse below with any part of O’Canada.
At Queenston Heights and Lundy’s Lane,
Our brave fathers, side by side,
For freedom, homes, and loved ones dear,
Firmly stood and nobly died;
And those dear rights which they maintained,
We swear to yield them never!
Our watchword evermore shall be,
The Maple Leaf forever!
I don’t need to explain who Jesus was. I’ve given some thought to this and I think that if I ever met Jesus, I would probably hate him. Anyways, here is my favourit quote from him - talking about ‘peace’:
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
What do you want from me? I’m born and raised on the west coast - yeah I’m a Tory, but some hippie concepts like ’self-actualisation’ are going to stick. So there you are. Here’s where the Tory kicks in though. For hippies, self-actualisation means getting high and bitching, for us right-wingers it means this, from Thomas Jefferson:
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
My Obama blog is a total joke. Don’t take it seriously, I’m just trying to make fun of the messianic element of the Obama people. Personally, I think Obama is a crypto-fascist, all the talk of hope and change is such transparent crap. But you see that too don’t you? Or else you wouldn’t have been pissed off enough to click through.
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