"Oh, He was really being charitable to us when He gave us pain! Why couldn't He have used a doorbell instead to notify us, or one of His celestial choirs? Or a system of blue and red neon tubes right in the middle of each persons forehead. Any jukebox manufacturer worth his salt could have done that. Why couldn't he?"
"People would certainly look silly walking around with red neon tubes in the middle of their foreheads"
-Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
"For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments"
-Grapes of Wrath
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the
people want. The most terrifying thing is what the people do want. -- Clive Barnes
Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. --Louise Beal
What are the 7 deadly sins of Christianity? Gluttony, avarice, sloth, lust... They are urges every man feels at least once a day.
How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once
a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin. -- Anton LaVey
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. --Mark Twain
"When I whet my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold in Judgement,
I shall take vengance upon mine enemies, and re-pay those who hate me.
Oh Lord, raise me to thy right hand, and count me among thy saints."
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Live every day like your first
(This message has been edited by widowmaker (edited 02-15-2001).)