Practical Value - People don't just share things that make them look good, they share things that help others and make others better off.
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Because having access to something that not everyone else has made you
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Trying to make people think
In 1979, "You've got to remember that Christianity in America is mainly about sex; they are so deeply uncomfortable about every aspect of sex that they don't much care about wars or destroying the environment or financial corruption but anything to do with sex sets them off and it's because these people are operating at a very, very, low level of mental health they are incapable of understanding the teachings..Understand, the majority of the religious reaction against the film was from people who hadn't seen the film this is what makes me crazy is this ability to just close, say no, don't even look at that, don't even think about it, that's a way of keeping people ignorant, under control, and not thinking...I think it's extraordinarily rare for the religious to be funny or to be funny about their religions or even about anybody else's. I think there is a great humor vacuum at the heart of all religions. |
I don't think you ever wanted to hurt anyone's feelings but sometimes you know as with the Islamic world now there are certain things they believe in which are quite contrary to what we believe and I don't really think our values are less important than theirs so I guess you just have to have a clash and says that's the way it is...It is entirely legitimate to criticize religions. it has to happen we must be allowed to do it we can't fall silent just because it's become more politically difficult. I think if you have a religion that can't bear being made fun of or laughed at or even attacked viciously then it's not a bunch of a religion. when you suddenly have to think to yourself now can I write this because it might maybe I'll be offending somebody some of religious susceptibilities or racial septum susceptibilities I mean it's ridiculous...I don't understand well I do understand but I don't want to accept a world of such parody of such thin-skinned and of such that offense is the causing offense is the greatest crime you can do to somebody...Free speech is really under attack at the moment in a very devious way."
Watch the full, free movie The Secret Life Of Brian: Documentary on the Monty Python film
Watch the full, free movie The Secret Life Of Brian: Documentary on the Monty Python film
General Douglas MacArthur
“Duty, Honor, Country” May 12, 1962; West Point, New York The 35 Greatest Speeches in History General Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army and a man who fought in three wars, knew something of “Duty, Honor, Country.” In 1962, MacArthur was in the twilight of his life and came to West Point to accept the Sylvanus Thayer Award and participate in his final cadet roll call. His address reflects upon and celebrates the brave and courageous men who came before, men he personally led, men who embodied “Duty, Honor, Country.” |
"You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation’s destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.
This does not mean that you are war mongers. On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished, tone and tint. They have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly, but with thirsty ears, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42_aLGkRpg Read full text of speech here. Listen to the speech. |
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The Art of Influence
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