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But was the bum skeptical of the flames?



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Yes he doubted the flames very much, and that's probably the only reason I'm still alive.



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*high fives vagabond for being in the hobos murderers' club*

You're alright. I'll call off the lynch mob.




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Truthists--People who want to figure out truth at all costs but ignore the clear and present danger. Truth seekers tend to either be right or conspiracy theorists who are ignored.



When is it dangerous to figure out the truth? Is this an Oedipal thing?



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Radiation is deadly. That's a pretty dangerous truth. All objects fall at the same rate - very dangerous if you're one of the objects.




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I'm very skeptical of the "falling at the same rate one", which I'm pretty sure is why I haven't broken my neck or legs yet.



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People who claim they have the truth are more dangerous. They are the ones who end up blowing people up and doing the most insane things because of their religious beliefs.

Same goes for atheists like Stalin.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

The Ghost of RubangB said:
@appolose, Nietzsch never claimed he had the truth. He was a philosophical rabble-rouser who attacked all truth claims, but never acted like he knew any better. In fact, he told people to disregard everything he ever said and deconstruct the truth on their own. Asking people to question the truth is not at all similar to asking people to kill people who claim the truth. Questions don't hurt anybody. Question everything ever. Over and over. It works for me, and I haven't killed anybody yet.

Which is why Nietzsche is amazing.  He is like the existentialists in that he actually expects you to take responsibility for yourself and make your own "truth" rather than borrow someone else's.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

akuma587 said:

People who claim they have the truth are more dangerous. They are the ones who end up blowing people up and doing the most insane things because of their religious beliefs.

Same goes for atheists like Stalin.


Yeah but Stalin wasn't committing mass murder in the name of Atheism.  He killed for power and for control, and wanted to be treated like a G-d.  It's a kind of fascist/nationalist religion that he and other "communist" leaders usually establish under the guise of "communism."