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Aphorisms

jasperkent said:
Better than many, but not always accurate. I've seen several misattributed quotes in Goodreada. At the moment I can't recall the name of the really good site I found, but I'll try to find it and post it here.

No shit.
But who in the 1700s imagined a government that promised to "give you everything you want" ? No government ever did that nor did any government ever allege to do that. Nor did anybody expect or desire a government to do that.
Citizens expected government to defend against outside invaders, enforce certain laws & regulations, print currency, establish standards of weights & measures, and not much else except maybe invade new territory when it looked appealing.
The only government wherein someone got everything he wanted was a tyranny, and that someone was the tyrant.
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Political bs is far out dates the late 18th and early 19th century. There have been bs promises centuries before this by lesser nobles who promise the peasants bs to pacify them. And include other rulers prior to the late 1700's or early 1800's
 
Jnowhere said:
Political bs is far out dates the late 18th and early 19th century. There have been bs promises centuries before this by lesser nobles who promise the peasants bs to pacify them. And include other rulers prior to the late 1700's or early 1800's
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I stand by my assertion that  no government in the 18th century (or before) ever promised its citizenry "everything they wanted." Nor did anyone expect that from a government. Nor did anyone suggest such a thing.

If there's evidence to the contrary, I'd love to hear about it. Meanwhile, I'm just shooing fruit flies off my bananas.
 
jasperkent said:
I stand by my assertion that  no government in the 18th century (or before) ever promised its citizenry "everything they wanted." Nor did anyone expect that from a government. Nor did anyone suggest such a thing.

If there's evidence to the contrary, I'd love to hear about it. Meanwhile, I'm just shooing fruit flies off my bananas.
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French Revolution -1789 -1799 and bs promises predates.
Thomas Jefferson was president 1801-1809 and died in 1826.
I do not feel like going on big deep dive into my promises made to quell peasant unrest too gain favor through bs. Certain things are not new and bullshit from people in power, those seeking power, and a stronger way revolutionaries and revolutions the are nothing new not even for the last part of the 1700's to 1826 when Jefferson died. I am done and I stand by rulers giving bullshit promises now just as they have done long before.

I don't have time or patience but the French Revolution comes to mind and all shit around it, I am right and well, when he and if said it; it was being almost certainly being used as an exaggeration.
You are ruining almost empty stomach and the warm happy effects of my meds, which I have extra in case of a headache, it is gone and so am I, and bullshit promises are very old. Even older than than T.J., besides haven't you ever heard of exaggerating while going on a rant. Good night.
 
Atheïsme [but also about religion afaic, religion being a believe]

"Not many among the wise, have a Atheïsic head and a mood based on a believe."

Otto Weiss


ps this is the Aphorisme thread right ?
Bunch of derailer s trying to get to the bottom of it.
You got my blessing btw. The deeper the better.
Unlike sex were widht and movement matter.
According to 🚺
 
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Memento mori, ergo carpe diem.
(Remember you will die, therefore sieze the day)

Some scholars of Latin say that carpe diem is better translated as  pluck(as a ripe grape) the day. I dig that.

Have a juicy day!
 
My sig on a pocket knife forum (where people would argue endlessly over which was best) used to be

de gustibus non est disputandum
In matters of taste, there can be no disputes

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Illegitimi non carborundum
"Mock latin" for Don't let the bastards grind you down or
Don't let the bastards get you down

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“I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up”

Lenny Bruce
 
Cultivate critical thinking skills. Think free. Learn to spot propaganda.
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Focus on freedom more and not fear. For concise and apolitical answers.
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I don't know anything more than you do about what's going on. It might be theatrics.
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Enjoy nature and a fire and the influence of ancestors.
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Solve by solving. Focus on reality by changing your story to match.
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The sky is the limit for this conjecture. Stay grounded. Stay free.
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I'm taking notes on how to benefit from my aphorisms. So that one day I might just diversify and try again once more.
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I haven't learned the AI and chat box too well and don't quite know how to even start. I'm slow but making trail.
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And I'm fine. I'm just trying trying to be sober.
 
jasperkent said:
Appreciate others. Self-sufficiency is great, but we're all interdependent to some degree. Even the most isolated hermit probably goes into town for supplies or tools every once in a while.
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All your 'non named' quote s i assume were your s.
Like em a lot, if they are when i quote one i can add the maker.

Or add writer 'unknown'. Whatever you prefer.
Woke my interest in Twain along the way too.
A for me till now unknown, never read anything of him.
 
What a fantastic thread.

I thought I'd link to the cover of the first edition of the journal Nature from 1869, full of beautiful aphorisms by Goethe on the theme of nature. A higher quality PDF is available here with all three pages of aphorisms.

page23-989px-Nature_-_Volume_1.pdf.jpg
 
After invading Greece.
Philip turned his attention to Sparta and asked menacingly,
whether he should come as friend or foe.
[and met the laconic phrase]

The reply was "Neither."

Losing patience, he sent the message:
"If I invade Laconia, I shall turn you out."

The Spartan ephors again replied with a single word:

"If."
 
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