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ryoung
name: robert
gender: male
golo member since: October 17, 2007
about ryoung
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, les we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The Truth will be phased out of our society, almost unnoticed, in less than a generation. It will become a curio like the two-dollar bill. Probably, there will be museums where samples of The Truth will be displayed for the benefit of curious children who want to know what it was like. One can only hope that the curators of these Truth Museums will have the good taste not to fake the exhibits. --Allan Sherman, 1973
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.”
—Robert Anton Wilson
“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.”
—Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.”
—Robert A. Heinlein
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favorite music: classic
favorite movies: man on fire
favorite hobbies: programming
favorite tv shows: south park
favorite restaurants: dan thai
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Reporter: So you believe in social Darwinism?
Protester: Darwinism!?! Heck no I don't believe in evolution. It is that way because that is the way God wants it.
(News Flash - Jesus was a Liberal) (He healed people for free)"
Brilliant.
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September 15, 2009 12:57 p.m.
I guess anything is possible! The respect is mutual and we already know each other pretty well - it would perhaps be "staged dialectic" for the benefit of others. If we do it I would suggest 2 interview blogs. We could each submit 5 or 6 questions to the other and create response blogs which we could post at whatever times would make the most sense. Feasable?
That or we compile the whole back & forth into 1 big blog. If it wasn't too huge that might be simpler. I don't know though, I can be verbose at times! :) It's a fun idea, at any rate. I always enjoy our conversations.
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September 11, 2009 12:00 p.m.
heheh... I have been carrying around an HP 2133 which is a "mini" netbook. It's a very portable wireless-capable computer but it *will* make you squint. No Crackberry, er ..Blackberry yet though. :) Careful! I hear they are addictive.
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