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Resist resisting resisting resisters. #resistresistance

A Benefit of Making Enemies

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."  ~Antisthenes

Philosophy

Question everything, including that you should question everything.

Eye for an Eye: Whole World Blind?

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.  But pacifism makes the whole world full of bad guys and corpses of good guys.  Better blind than dead.

Of course there's a via media which I've alluded to before.

More Philosophy Sayings

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• We have to be realistic about how realistic we can be.
• The unlived life is not worth examining.
• The statue and the clay, one, and yet not one.
• Act so as to make the world the way you ought to want it to be.
• Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.  I teach ethics.
• Coercive paternalism: it's not as bad as it sounds.
• A Philosopher is someone who worries that what works in practice will not work in theory.

"Oh, you're a philosopher. What is one of your sayings?"

Occasionally the dreaded small talk arises and I am asked what it is that I do by someone I do not know.  I usually try to avoid having this question come up because it almost always leads to awkward silence, or even more awkward small talk, or friendly abuse.  So if I can't get away with saying "I'm a father" or "I'm a teacher," I will say that "I'm a teacher; I teach philosophy classes."

"Live as if You Are Going to Die Tomorrow, Study as if You Were to Live Forever" ~Erasmus

From a book I'm reading: The Life of Thomas More.

Tomorrow is the Best Day to Start a Diet

Don't dish it unless you can take it. (Matthew 7:1)

Look bros, the real reason most of y'all shouldn't teach is because your feet would burn when held to the fire. (James 3:1)

Computer Generated Voicemail Saying #1

This is my first post on voicemail turned into text by a computer.  I have recently been struck by the enigmatic and--dare I say--prophetic qualities of the texts I receive from a computer translating the audible voice into the risible visible.  I'm not sure what to make of this, but it's at least as profound as it is disgusting (i.e., it's my kind of aphorism!)

 Everybody's got messes in-the-showcase because we're all human supper.

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Ecclesiastes 10:2

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.