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The America I'm most familiar with
posted about 1 year ago | 8 comments
News break: Congresswoman shot in head, critically wounded at Arizona event; aide killed.
There's no doubt in my mind that the orientation of many in the "Tea Party" was instrumental in this tragic event. I also associate it with calling the Const...
There's no doubt in my mind that the orientation of many in the "Tea Party" was instrumental in this tragic event. I also associate it with calling the Const...
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posted about 1 year ago | 5 comments
"Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men wh...
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posted about 1 year ago | 6 comments
To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house."
Lycurgus - Source: in Plutarch's "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders"
Our real enemies are the people who ma...
Lycurgus - Source: in Plutarch's "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders"
Our real enemies are the people who ma...
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posted about 1 year ago | 2 comments
"Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang" Benjamin Franklin to Benjami...
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posted about 1 year ago | 2 comments
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and...
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posted about 1 year ago | 2 comments
"The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the bo...
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posted about 1 year ago | 5 comments
"The goal of a good society is to structure social relations and institutions so that cooperative and generous impulses are rewarded, while antisocial ones are discouraged. The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: ...
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posted about 1 year ago | 3 comments
Brahmanism:
This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517
Christianity:
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12
Islam:
No...
This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517
Christianity:
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12
Islam:
No...
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posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably."
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher
"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of ...
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher
"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of ...
What Love means
posted over 2 years ago | 5 comments
The following has been an email circulating the web for some time. I would guess that members of Eons have received it a number of times. I received it again today. After participatng in a group discussing "love". The timing brought on a question ...
