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THEN THERE IS SOME HOPE IN THAT
MESSAGE, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU
THINK IF YOU JUST ACCEPTED
PEOPLE THE WAY THEY ARE THEY
WOULD BE HAPPY U.S. NO THEY
WOULDN'T BECAUSE THEY HAVE
NOTHING TO SHOOT FOR, PEOPLE WHO
HAVE NOTHING TO SHOOT FOR ARE
NOT HAPPY, HAPPY IS A
CONSEQUENCE OF MOVING TOWARDS
SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE AIMING
FOR. SO, NO AIM, NO HAPPINESS,
THAT IS ANOTHER GOOD THING FOR
YOUNG PEOPLE TO KNOW IS TO HAVE
A GOAL. TECHNICALLY, TECHNICALLY
HAPPINESS OCCURS WHEN YOU SEE
YOURSELF MOVING TOWARD A VALUED
GOAL, THAT IS HOW IT WORKS
NEUROPSYCH LOGICALLY,
CHEMICALLY. SO, THE HIGHER YOUR
GOAL, THE HIGHER YOUR
POSSIBILITY FOR HAPPINESS EVEN
THOUGH YOU HAVE TO SUFFER FROM A
DISTANCE.
In the insecurity that we have about a prior life or an afterlife, God, I hope there is a God, if he does exist he's got a rather weird sense of humor however. But if there's a process that will allow us to live our days, that will allow that degree of equanimity, towards the end, looking at that black, implacable wall of death, that will allow us that degree of peace, that degree of non-fear, I want in.
1. Wokeism is a social justice movement that aims to address sytemic inequalities. The movement encourages individuals to examine their own biases and privleges and actively work towards creating a more just and equitable society.
2. Wokeism places a strong emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion and recognizes the importance of representation and equal opportunities for marginalized groups in all areas of society. The movement involves a wide range of practices and strategies, including community organizing, activism, allyship, and education, all aimed at advancing social justing goals.
3. Wokeism is based on social conflict theory, which asserts that society is divided by power struggles between different social groups, and that these struggles are the driving force behind social change. The movement seeks to challenge and dismantle systems of oppression, including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination.
There are many ways to describe and speak of divine love. One of the terms we hear often today is that God’s love is “unconditional.” While in one sense that is true, the descriptor unconditional appears nowhere in scripture. Rather, His love is described in scripture as “great and wonderful love,”3 “perfect love,”4 “redeeming love,”5 and “everlasting love.”6 These are better terms because the word unconditional can convey mistaken impressions about divine love, such as, God tolerates and excuses anything we do because His love is unconditional, or God makes no demands upon us because His love is unconditional, or all are saved in the heavenly kingdom of God because His love is unconditional. God’s love is infinite and it will endure forever, but what it means for each of us depends on how we respond to His love.
When I was a boy I used to uh... I used to read all about Edison and the Wright brothers, Mr. Ford, they were my heroes. Rags to riches, that's not just the name of a book, that's what this country was all about. We invented the free enterprise system where anybody, no matter who he was, where he came from, what class he belonged to, if he came up with a better idea about anything, there's no limit to how far he could go. I grew up a generation too late, I guess, because now the way the system works, the loner, the dreamer, the crackpot who comes up with some crazy idea that everybody laughs at, that later turns out to revolutionize the world, he's squashed from above before he even gets his head out of the water, because the bureaucrats they would rather kill a new idea than let it rock the boat. If Benjamin Franklin were alive today he would be thrown in jail for sailing a kite without a license. It's true. We're all puffed up with ourselves now 'cause we invented the bomb. Dropped the... Beat the daylights out of the Japanese, the Nazis. But if big business closes the door on the little guy with a new idea, we're not only closing the door on progress but we're sabotaging everything we fought for, everything the country stands for. And one day we're going to find ourselves at the bottom of the heap, instead of king of the hill having no idea how we got there, buying our radios and our cars from our former enemies. I don't believe that's going to happen. I can't believe it because if I ever stop believing in the plain ol' common horse sense of the American people there'd be no way I could get out of bed in the morning.
"I knew that Humbolt would die soon, because I had seen him on the street two months before. And he had death all over him. He didn't see me. He was gray stout sick dusty, he had brought a pretzel stick and was eating it. His lunch."
James Atlas (Biographer): Delmore Schwartz was born in 1913 in New York, and was appraised by T.S Elliot as the poet of his generation. This amazing, sudden, precocious recognition. But Delmore also became a symbol of the artist in America who's doomed by the pressures of capitalism and has to be crazy because he's a poet.
Saul Bellow: People like that have no proper place in American life. They just don't. This is a high tech, high finance, rationally organized kind of society in which people normally don't have such motives as Humbolt had. They just don't. He himself looks upon himself as an alien object, because he was aware that he does not guide his life by the standards that prevail. But in his saner moments, I would have thought that he would say that art was something that life couldn't do without. Uh, there was not this sort of divorce at at all. But that um, um, art was one of the powers that made life life. I think we all believe that. I think I still do.
President Dedmon: Well, Jack, I haven't heard anything positive back yet. And I think I've done everything I can. Maybe we need more time. I don't know.
Jack Lengyel: Time's the only thing we don't have, Don. I mean, hell, it's already April. Time is not our friend. Let me ask you a question. Now, are you married?
President Dedmon: Yes, I am. 25 years in May.
Jack Lengyel: Twenty-five years. I am willing to bet that you didn't propose over the phone.
President Dedmon: No, I didn't.
Jack Lengyel: Okay. And I know damn well that she didn't say yes in a letter. Huh?
President Dedmon: Jack?
Jack Lengyel: Doc?
President Dedmon: No, Jack. I know...
Jack Lengyel: Yes. Doc? You can do it. You're an outlaw. Pioneer. Gunslinger. This is a whole new game, doc. (whstles). You. There's a first time for everything, Don. And if we're gonna survive, this has to be one of those first times. And you're the only man who can do it.
I have a human right. The beautiful thing about the Constitution and the bill of rights is, this was just codified human rights. It doesn't grant any government any type of power. The framers of this place just said, these are human natural rights that you are born with and we as a nation are going to recognize it. So me personally, I don't care if people want to say they want to repeal the second amendment. You know, it's always very interesting to me the people saying they want to appeal it, and they have the process of doing it. They could get two-thirds of congress to ratify it. It's out there. The issue to me is these are the same people that if you ask them, if you say "Ok. Cool. Your security detail and law enforcement which are American citizens, are you ok with those people being subject to those same rules and restrictions as well? Then you'll get a resounding well, well, well, it's gotta be different. It's gotta be different. The police have to have a firearm because there's bad guys out there. Well, that's the same reason why I carry a firearm. And again, these are codified human and natural rights, and I don't care what the unconstitutional statute would attempt to tell me. These things are a list of checks on government, not the other way around. So there will never be a time in American history when the American people will not own firearms. How are you going to get them from us?
Interviewer: Your dad said said to you, you must never look startled.
John Cleese: That's right because he had been in India, mixing with the upper-middle classes. And he noticed how they behaved. It's really baboon behavior. If you want to see how to behave as an upper-class person, go and watch the baboons. They're not startled. They move very slowly all the time.
Interviewer: The number one rule is not to be embarrassing or to be embarrassed.
John Cleese: Yes. So if you look at the royals, what they do is they keep these cheek muscles completely rigid all the time. It enables them to move their mouths around like this, rather in a sort of humorous way. And all the emotion is you, completely, uh, you know, superfluous, and unnecessary. It's a straight-jacket. That's upper class behavior.