Voltaire also said " what is not is not and can not be;
what is is and can not not be. Had he ' thought ' that over he would
have realized how " empty " his words were. 'Thought' ( itself ) both
is and is not. We all experience " thought " and are aware of it but
no one is able to see it , only its affects. One may be coy & shrewed
with his words but he can not change reality.
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On Jun 21, 8:56 am, Doc Holliday <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peace picks no sides; PERIOD!
>
> The destroyers of the old are the creators of the new.
>
> As time sweeps on the old passes away and the new in its turn becomes
> old.
>
> There is in the intellectual world, as in the physical, decay and
> growth, and ever by the grave of buried age stand youth and joy.
>
> The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of
> infidels, political rights have been preserved by traitors, the
> liberty of mind by heretics.
>
> To attack the king was treason; to dispute the priest was blasphemy.
>
> For many centuries the sword and cross were allies. Together they
> attacked the rights of man. They defended each other.
>
> The throne and altar were twins -- two vultures from the same egg.
>
> James I. said: "No bishop, no king." He might have added: "No cross,
> no crown." The king owned the bodies of men; the priest, the souls.
> One lived on taxes collected by force, the other on alms collected by
> fear -- both robbers, both beggars.
>
> These robbers and these beggars controlled two worlds. The king made
> laws, the priest made creeds. Both obtained their authority from God,
> both were the agents of the Infinite.
>
> With bowed backs the people carried the burdens of one, and with
> wonder's open mouth received the dogmas of the other.
>
> If the people aspired to be free, they were crushed by the king, and
> every priest was a Herod who slaughtered the children of the brain.
>
> The king ruled by force, the priest by fear, and both by both.
>
> The king said to the people. "God made you peasants, and He made me
> king; He made you to labor, and me to enjoy; He made rags and hovels
> for you, robes and palaces for me. He made you to obey, and me to
> command. Such is the justice of God."
>
> And the priest said; "God made you ignorant and vile; He made me holy
> and wise; you are the sheep, I am the shepherd; your fleeces belong to
> me. If you do not obey me here, God will punish you now and torment
> you forever in another world. Such is the mercy of God."
>
> "You must not reason. Reason is a rebel. You must not contradict --
> contradiction is born of egotism; you must believe. He that hath ears
> to hear let him hear." Heaven was a question of ears.
>
> Fortunately for us, there have been traitors and there have been
> heretics, blasphemers, thinkers, investigators, lovers of liberty, men
> of genius who have given their lives to better the condition of their
> fellow-men.
>
> It may be well enough here to ask the question: What is greatness?
>
> A great man adds to the sum of knowledge, extends the horizon of
> thought, releases souls from the Bastille of fear, crosses unknown and
> mysterious seas, gives new islands and new continents to the domain of
> thought, new constellations to the firmament of mind. A great man does
> not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to
> happiness, and what he ascertains he gives to others.
>
> A great man throws pearls before swine, and the swine are sometimes
> changed to men. If the great had always kept their pearls, vast
> multitudes would be barbarians now.
>
> A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon: in superstition's
> night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
>
> Greatness is not the gift of majorities; it cannot be thrust upon any
> man; men cannot give it to another; they can give place and power, but
> not greatness.
>
> The place does not make the man, nor the scepter the king. Greatness
> is from within.
>
> The great men are the heroes who have freed the bodies of men; they
> are the philosophers and thinkers who have given liberty to the soul;
> they are the poets who have transfigured the common and filled the
> lives of many millions with love and song.
>
> They are the artists who have covered the bare walls of weary life
> with the triumphs of genius.
>
> They are the heroes who have slain the monsters of ignorance and fear,
> who have out-gazed the Gorgon and driven the cruel gods from their
> thrones.
>
> They are the inventors, the discoverers, the great Mechanics, the
> kings of the useful who have civilized this world.
>
> At the head of this heroic army, foremost of all, stands Voltaire,
> whose memory we are honoring tonight.>end
>
> Peace,
> Doc
>
> On Jun 20, 12:05 pm, mouslim girl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thank you for your interest and your response on the issue
> > But it must be pointed out that Iran did not represent true Islam
> > Since they belong to the Shiites and the teams outside of Islam
> > It calls for violence, in contrast to the true Islam
> > Islam is a religion of tolerance and peace- Hide quoted text -
>
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