Thought provoking conundrum

[Nathan]

 

[officerripley]

"...people must be free to worship all the gods they want. But it’s only the secular spirit that will guarantee that freedom..."
~~Author Ian McEwan

 

[officerripley]

"We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both."
~~Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1916-1939)

 

[Nathan]

 

[Nathan]

 

[Disgustedman]

That's the impetus I have to continue to ignore a sibling. Thanks!

 

[officerripley]

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
~~Voltaire

 

[Nathan]

 

[horseless carriage]

 

[officerripley]

...[W]e--without ever quite intending to--have become the first humans to ever dismantle our tribes. As a result, we have been left alone on a savanna we do not understand, puzzled by our own sadness.

~~from Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression--and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari

 

[Feelslikefar]

 

[officerripley]

I never have much to say unless I’m in a library or a bookstore; and then I say too much. I never seem to get the talking thing right.
~~from Where We Belong by Catherine Ryan Hyde

 

[Bella]

 

[win231]

 

[Nathan]

 

[Nathan]