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Post by Son of Persia on Oct 22, 2015 6:12:17 GMT 10
Specially to the people of middle east :
"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
Benjamin Franklin
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Post by Beefy Busch on Oct 23, 2015 6:03:57 GMT 10
A quote from one of my favorite writer's: -- Novalis --
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Post by seda on Oct 23, 2015 14:03:44 GMT 10
In the name of God, the Beneficent the Merciful
To the Youth in Europe and North America,
The recent events in France and similar ones in some other Western countries have convinced me to directly talk to you about them. I am addressing you, [the youth], not because I overlook your parents, rather it is because the future of your nations and countries will be in your hands; and also I find that the sense of quest for truth is more vigorous and attentive in your hearts.
I don’t address your politicians and statesmen either in this writing because I believe that they have consciously separated the route of politics from the path of righteousness and truth.
I would like to talk to you about Islam, particularly the image that is presented to you as Islam. Many attempts have been made over the past two decades, almost since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, to place this great religion in the seat of a horrifying enemy. The provocation of a feeling of horror and hatred and its utilization has unfortunately a long record in the political history of the West.
Here, I don’t want to deal with the different phobias with which the Western nations have thus far been indoctrinated. A cursory review of recent critical studies of history would bring home to you the fact that the Western governments’ insincere and hypocritical treatment of other nations and cultures has been censured in new historiographies.
The histories of the United States and Europe are ashamed of slavery, embarrassed by the colonial period and chagrined at the oppression of people of color and non-Christians. Your researchers and historians are deeply ashamed of the bloodsheds wrought in the name of religion between the Catholics and Protestants or in the name of nationality and ethnicity during the First and Second World Wars. This approach is admirable.
By mentioning a fraction of this long list, I don’t want to reproach history; rather I would like you to ask your intellectuals as to why the public conscience in the West awakens and comes to its senses after a delay of several decades or centuries. Why should the revision of collective conscience apply to the distant past and not to the current problems? Why is it that attempts are made to prevent public awareness regarding an important issue such as the treatment of Islamic culture and thought?
You know well that humiliation and spreading hatred and illusionary fear of the “other” have been the common base of all those oppressive profiteers. Now, I would like you to ask yourself why the old policy of spreading “phobia” and hatred has targeted Islam and Muslims with an unprecedented intensity. Why does the power structure in the world want Islamic thought to be marginalized and remain latent? What concepts and values in Islam disturb the programs of the super powers and what interests are safeguarded in the shadow of distorting the image of Islam? Hence, my first request is: Study and research the incentives behind this widespread tarnishing of the image of Islam.
My second request is that in reaction to the flood of prejudgments and disinformation campaigns, try to gain a direct and firsthand knowledge of this religion. The right logic requires that you understand the nature and essence of what they are frightening you about and want you to keep away from.
I don’t insist that you accept my reading or any other reading of Islam. What I want to say is: Don’t allow this dynamic and effective reality in today’s world to be introduced to you through resentments and prejudices. Don’t allow them to hypocritically introduce their own recruited terrorists as representatives of Islam.
Receive knowledge of Islam from its primary and original sources. Gain information about Islam through the Qur’an and the life of its great Prophet. I would like to ask you whether you have directly read the Qur’an of the Muslims. Have you studied the teachings of the Prophet of Islam and his humane, ethical doctrines? Have you ever received the message of Islam from any sources other than the media?
Have you ever asked yourself how and on the basis of which values has Islam established the greatest scientific and intellectual civilization of the world and raised the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals throughout several centuries?
I would like you not to allow the derogatory and offensive image-buildings to create an emotional gulf between you and the reality, taking away the possibility of an impartial judgment from you. Today, the communication media have removed the geographical borders. Hence, don’t allow them to besiege you within fabricated and mental borders.
Although no one can individually fill the created gaps, each one of you can construct a bridge of thought and fairness over the gaps to illuminate yourself and your surrounding environment. While this preplanned challenge between Islam and you, the youth, is undesirable, it can raise new questions in your curious and inquiring minds. Attempts to find answers to these questions will provide you with an appropriate opportunity to discover new truths.
Therefore, don’t miss the opportunity to gain proper, correct and unbiased understanding of Islam so that hopefully, due to your sense of responsibility toward the truth, future generations would write the history of this current interaction between Islam and the West with a clearer conscience and lesser resentment.
Seyyed Ali Khamenei
21st Jan. 2015
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Post by Rtoo on Oct 24, 2015 1:13:33 GMT 10
"Sex is like playing bridge- if you have a shitty partner, you better have a good hand" -fortune cookie from Shadow Warrior.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2015 2:44:48 GMT 10
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Post by Shiroyashi Nagateru on Oct 25, 2015 11:30:28 GMT 10
"Sex is like playing bridge- if you have a shitty partner, you better have a good hand" -fortune cookie from Shadow Warrior. Oh I know where you did found that one :The Fortune Cookies !! Lolz
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Post by seda on Oct 26, 2015 21:59:15 GMT 10
The one who teaches me but a single word makes me his servant.
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One who asks questions learns.
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Every thing is good when it is new but friends who are good when they are old.
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Don’t speak when you find it untimely.
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The best of all men is one who is the most useful to the people.
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If you love God clear from your heart the love of the world.
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Don’t close a door that you are unable to open.
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One who is content with little needs not much.
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A true believer will not eat fully as long as his brother is hungry.
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How can you be happy in this life than grows shorter with the passage of every hour?
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The one who is unable to keep his own secrets will never be able to keep the secrets of others.
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Be in such term with your friend as if he may turn against you one day and treat your enemy as if he may become a friend one day.
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Entrust your friend with anything but your secrets.
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Don’t let God see you away from His obedience and occupied with sins; and, consequently hate you.
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Fear God who hears when you speak; and knows what you think.
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By thinking you can find the way and by negligence you lose it.
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One who gives advice and does not practice it himself is like a bow without string.
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How bad it is to have a troublesome neighbor.
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Health cannot be obtained expect by abstinence
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All people are defective and deficient except those whom God saves.
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Live in peace with people so that you may a peaceful life.
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Jealously cannot enter the heart of a pure-hearted person.
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1400 years ago
*Imam Ali*
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Post by Shiroyashi Nagateru on Oct 26, 2015 23:22:49 GMT 10
My favorite quotes from various people :
- My religion is very simple. My religion is my kindness.
- Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- True tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
- If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
- Life is too short to worry about anything. So, enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
- My silence is just another word for my pain.
- Educate yourself, not with school teachers, but with the books they wanted to destroy.
Also, from my sister (though its someone's) :
- Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
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Post by LuciaGTAVI on Oct 27, 2015 2:24:16 GMT 10
- Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. + Not enough for those who train.
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Post by Beefy Busch on Oct 27, 2015 5:27:39 GMT 10
More Novalis quotes, kinda wish I could find the original German.
"We dream of a journey through the universe. But is the universe then not in us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. Inward goes the secret path. Eternity with its worlds, the past and the future, is in us or nowhere."
"The first step is to look within, the discriminating contemplation of the self. He who remains at this point only half develops. The second step must be a telling look without, independent, sustained contemplation of the external world."
A quote from his text, Heinrich von Ofterdingen:
"I too can believe everything now, and I feel so clearly a quiet flame within me; who knows whether it will not transfigure us and gradually dissolve all our earthly ties. Only tell me, Heinrich, whether you too already have that boundless faith in me I have in you. "
--Mathilda--
Novalis. Henry Von Ofterdingen: A Novel. Trans. Palmer Hitly. New York: The Frederick Ungar Publishing. Company, 1964. Print. pg 118.
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Post by Ryou on Oct 28, 2015 17:08:28 GMT 10
My first and ever made quote,
"Life is scripted !" -Ryou
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Post by Shiroyashi Nagateru on Oct 29, 2015 1:05:47 GMT 10
This is my and the only reason why I never commit myself a japanese :
Even though I love to see and going around Japan, but that doesn't means I don't know what happened in their past life.
Horrible.. And this is my message to everyone there, "Don't kill yourself only to get rid of your shame, do whatever it takes to overcome your shame."
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Post by verdugo7 on Nov 3, 2015 9:02:32 GMT 10
Chris Redfield Logic: "Don't break anybody's heart,they have only 1.Break their fucking bones! They have 206" Anonymous Tag: Shiroyashi Nagateru and Beefy Busch
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Post by Shiroyashi Nagateru on Nov 5, 2015 23:02:22 GMT 10
To every "living" haters out there,
Your name means nothing but, "H.A.T.E.R.S" - Having Anger Toward Everyone Reaching Success
Ridiculous unless you get paid for it..
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Post by Overseer on Dec 22, 2015 4:51:31 GMT 10
- "People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’."
- "I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."
- "You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don’t know."
- "I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person."
- "Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss."
- "I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer."
- "Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself."
- "No, I didn't imagine my being alone with you the way you do. If I want the impossible, I want it in it’s entirety. Entirely alone, dearest, I wanted us to be entirely alone on this earth, entirely alone under the sky, and to lead my life, my life that is yours."
- "As he went up he disturbed a large group of children playing on the stairs who looked at him as he stepped through their rows. “Next time I come here,” he said to himself, “I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with."
― Franz Kafka
- "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
- "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- "Man is the cruelest animal."
- "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler."
- "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
- "The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."
- "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
― Friedrich Nietzsche
- "We will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other."
― Mary ShelleyJust a few of my favourites.
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