You own wisdom thread --- say something quotable about whatever you want.

[Ratman]

Life is like climbing a mountain,  You have ropes on you and you may fall but you always have help if you reach for it. Once you reach the top, it dosen't matter what's on the other side.

[rickymooston]

I'd say the insult is more of a stereotype than an indication of sexism. It assumes guys are sensitive about their penis size. If you want to insult someone, you go after something they're sensitive about. Like you said, "kick 'em where it hurts". Nothing inherently sexist about that.

[rickymooston]

Religion adapts to a changing culture.  God's Word is a Rock.

You dropped the initial "c" from that last word.

[Codswallop]

I had no idea I was so quotable.

[rickymooston]

Let the Large Hadron  Collider work on this question for the next 15 years and I believe we will be much closer to that answer---or dead.

[rickymooston]

We really value our intelligence and it certainly makes sense that we think we're superior to other species because of our superior intelligence, but I can't help but notice that we aren't the fastest species, or the strongest, or the best suited for flight. We don't live the longest, we aren't in the best physical shape. Not to mention our suicide rate is much higher than in other species, so I imagine we're not in the best mental shape either. So maybe there's a little bias going on here when we talk about how superior we are.

[Ratman]

Okay I have thought of this one for a long time:  If a woodchuck could chuck wood how much would a woodchuck chuck?

also if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how could he have picked a peck of piclked peppers?  I mean who pickled them before he picked them.

the only I can see clearly is She sells sea shells by the seashore.

If a woodchuck could chuck would , a wood chuck would chuck a chuckload of wood.

Jack and Jill picked pickeled peppers when they were tumbling down the hill to fetch a pail of water.  That's where the ring around the rosey comes from.  Itsy bitsy spiders have been eating curds and whey ever since, except when it rains.

Hey David M. Thanks for the quote I feel so special.

[rickymooston]

If certain animals turn out to be too dangerous even to those who normally interact with it, such as trainers, feeders, etc., then perhaps they could be placed on a wildlife refuge.  There are alternatives to killing innocent animals.

[Ratman]

If you tip do it on Credit Card so they cant lie it out of Taxes.

I disagree with this one.  I say hand it to them under the table so they can get as much as they can.

[Ratman]

On complaining about my weight my youngest son replied;

You don't have to worry about being fat because you're really really old.
-age 8

Ouch Sky I hope your okay after that comment.

[rickymooston]

I don't believe in marriage.

[ReasonIsOutToLunch]

Sometimes simple questions stump great minds.

[hypsell]

How about simple machines?

[eramthgin]

I heard this on a forum once:

"Man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day."

[rickymooston]

The reason you think it's meaningless is because you're misusing the word "eye-witness". It doesn't apply to just anyone who claims to have knowledge about something. An eye-witness is someone who actually observed the event in question.

[rickymooston]

My brain says, in the situation outlined in the OP, where God revealed the objective truth of his existence to me, I should, logically, trust God. But as a result of trusting God, since you've presented trusting your brain and trusting God as mutually exclusive alternatives, I don't trust my brain, which tells me to trust God, so I don't trust God, which means I now trust my brain again, which means I should trust God...
and so on, forever.

[ReasonIsOutToLunch]

How about simple machines?

Sometimes simple machines stump great minds.

[rickymooston]

When it's perfectly obvious that God doesn't exist then being an agnostic is simply daft.

[rickymooston]

I believe there is morality in the written Bible but the book is not the only source of morality. Many times it seems difficult to understand divine ( X-tian ) morality when the supposed creator of said morality breaks its own commandments which would make the creator's morality subjective by creator's actions. Whereby the creator's actions determin what it considers moral at any particular circumstance and time.

Christianity does not have a corner market on morals.

[rickymooston]

I don't know. That's why I can't rule it out.

[rickymooston]

My approach to any set of "moral codes", regardless of origin, is not so much a set of rules as it is something implanted in the soul by the Spirit.  Perhaps it is like some sort of "microchip" implanted in the man that we came with when we were brought into existence. 

When I speak of soul and spirit, is it possible for all of us to agree that we at least have that much in common regardless of how we came to have it?

[rickymooston]

I think it's irrational that you believe that I'm trolling, for one.

[rickymooston]

What makes a martyr

Death.

[SkunkButt]

Good wisdom is wisdom that works.


Great wisdom is wisdom that works good.


Absolute wisdom is an oxymoron.

[energy]

God helps those who help themselves....
So you just do it all yourself and it gets the job done.

[hypsell]

Does God help himself?

[rickymooston]

Is there physiology to pain felt in dreams?

[hypsell]

I never felt pain in a dream.I have had weird dreams then wake up to find myself in pain,but never pain that was actually part of the dream.In fact I never heard of that before.

[rickymooston]

Arrogant is what jealous wrong people call people who are right.

[Codswallop]

Arrogant is what jealous wrong people call people who are right.

(Reminds me of G. B. Shaw: “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”)