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`A liberal is someone who only wants to be free from the consequences of freedom.' —Mike Adams
 
`A liberal is someone who only wants to be free from the consequences of freedom.' —Mike Adams
 
`Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.' —GK Chesterton
 
 
   
 
   
 
`Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.' —Bruce Lee
 
`Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.' —Bruce Lee
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`I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another.' —Socrates
 
`I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another.' —Socrates
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`Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.' —GK Chesterton
  
 
`Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.' —William Blake
 
`Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.' —William Blake

Revision as of 16:33, January 15, 2013

welcome... me.. just a sinner.. a listener, an observer, a thinker, an admirer... I am an Orthodox Catholic Christian interested in computers, electronics, automation, soccer, life, love, Truth, The Holy Church, The Holy Trinity, The Holy Bible, ethics, morality, philosophy, religion, spirituality, and pro-life.

The Holy Orthodox Church in America received me into membership by Chrismation by Fr. Rev. E.A. (Simeon) Weare, memory eternal, in the parish St. Nicholas the Wonder-Maker in 1992.

Favorite Quotations: `The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.' —Edmund Burke

`The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.' —Bill Watterson

`The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.' — Friedrich Hegel

`Political correctness is tyranny with manners.' —Charlton Heston

`You were born an original. Don't die a copy.' —John Mason

`The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.' —Russian Proverb

`Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' —Napoleon Bonaparte

`Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.' —Friedrich Nietzsche

`Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.' —Plato

`Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.' —John W. Gardner

`A liberal is someone who only wants to be free from the consequences of freedom.' —Mike Adams

`Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.' —Bruce Lee

`Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.' —Bruce Lee

`Simplicity is the key to brilliance.' —Bruce Lee

`The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.' —Nelson Henderson

`The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.' —K'ung Fu-Tzu (Confucius)

`If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.' —K'ung Fu-Tzu (Confucius)

`I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another.' —Socrates

`Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.' —GK Chesterton

`Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.' —William Blake

`We walk by the light we are given.' —Frank Shaeffer

`Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.' —William James

`Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.' —Albert Einstein

'If everyone has his own truth, then where is falsehood?' —Archbishop Stephan (Kalaidjishvili)

"He is 'the same yesterday and today and forever' (Hebrews 13:8). Orthodox Christians are committed to the truth claim of the Christian Faith not as ideology but as an expression of holiness." —Rev. Dr. George C. Papademetriou

`God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.' —C.S. Lewis

“Through [Communion] the Church fulfills herself, accomplishes our communion with Christ and with his love, so that in participating in it, we comprise ‘out of many, one body’” —Schmemann, The Eucharist, p. 138

`War in the name of religion is war against religion.' —His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople

`And so it is incumbent upon us to strive, rather, to correct our faults and to improve our behavior.' —St. John Cassian

`If we have obtained the grace of God, none shall prevail against us, but we shall be stronger than all who oppose us.' —St. John Chrysostom

`In imitation of the method of the bee, I shall make my composition from those things which are conformable with the truth and from our enemies themselves gather the fruit of salvation. But I shall reject all that is worthless and falsely labeled as knowledge.' —St. John the Damascene

`Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you.' —St. Pachomius

`Humility consists, not in condemning our conscience, but in recognizing God's grace and compassion.' —St. Mark the Ascetic

`Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.' —St. Augustine

`If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.' —Proverbs 29:9

`There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.' —C.S. Lewis