Right behind you, I see the millions
On you, I see the glory
From you, I get opinions
From you, I get the story

- Peter Townshend

June Cleaver: If you can't say anything nice about someone; don't say anything at all.

Beaver Cleaver: I guess we can't talk about Ron Hubbard then.

"The road goes ever on and on..."

JRR Tolkien

(Especially on OTVII)

The Eyes of Truth are always watching you.
-Enigma

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G'nite all.
Cya later,
Flutterby

Paul Wilkens writes:

There's a similar one that goes something like "if what you have to say isn't as nice as silence, then don't say anything"

An alternative to June Cleaver's quote -

If you can't say something nice about someone come and have coffee with me.

"Doublethink means power of holding two contradictory belief's in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence guilt. Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc*, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw back from oblivion for just so long as needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take into account of the reality one denies--all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. Ultimately it is by means of doublethink that the Party has been able--and may, for all we know, continue to be for thousands of years--to arrest the course of history."

*English Socialism

-1984 by George Orwell

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Cya later,
Flutterby

The Truth will set you free.
Jesus.

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation."

-Jean Arp [1887–1948],
French-German artist, poet.


Source for quote:
The Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/
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G'nite/G'day everyone.
Cya later,
Flutterby

Nice one. I like the thingy about silence. So very true.. But we seem to prefer noise, fight, debate, action most of the time. Easier - and maybe avoid having to face ourselves?

Note that Scientology is mostly about "action" and "power". There isn't much room for silence and contemplation. Not "productive" enough...

"The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true."

Oscar Wilde
'The Picture of Dorian Gray'

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum -- whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

-The Devils Dictionary

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Flutterby

There is no sin except stupidity.
-Oscar Wilde

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Cya later,
Flutterby

Truth and the Traveler
An Aesop Fable

A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected. He inquired of her, "Who art thou?" "My name is Truth," she replied. "And for what cause," he asked, "have you left the city to dwell alone here in the wilderness?" She made answer, "Because in former times, falsehood was with few, but is now with all men."

"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for..."
-Thornton Wilder