lovehonk wrote:
Even though it's a bit of a struggle for me to relate spiritually esoteric relevance to a movie psychopath quoting scripture, especially from the Old Testament, I totally understand the wretched context and accept the challenge. The movie is brilliant in its depiction of violent and interwoven victimate. Ultimately, like that word, obsolete. The projection of retribution should be a bit more of an elegant suggestion if virtue is already a lost cause, so as to relate to the most base instincts and desires. If those instincts are rotten it won't be so difficult to treat the desire to dispatch with dispatch. 

I read it on a cereal box...

As an aside, the ancient Ammonites referred to by Ezekiel were reputed to be regularly engaged in sacrificing children, so there you have it...

 oldviolin wrote:

Fast forward to 5:27 timestamp. 

 R_P wrote:
Is this meat and potatoes or just desserts?


I would think that a true advocate for change can find ways to productively advocate outside of the noise of the perpetual dead ends disguised as righteous ideals in search of progress.
Frustrating for sure, but only on the survival level of existence.
Notions of comfort aside, indifference won't survive. Nor will evil men.

 R_P wrote:
Wir fahrn fahrn fahrn auf der Autobahn...

 oldviolin wrote:
Hmm, depends. How were the eggs cooked?

"You want a hit, don't you? Just put some fiddles on it!"

John Lennon to Joni Mitchell as recalled by her

"There is absolutely nothing to see here. And, I've come to see it anyway. Because, y'know, sometimes, you just gotta come stand with the ghosts."

Three eggs, two slices of toast, a cup of coffee, an episode of Mr. Ed, a Violin, and a bowl of fruit. What else does a man need? - 

Stanley Victor Paskavich

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

 oldviolin wrote:
Indeed.  

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde

Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Arlo Guthrie

 oldviolin wrote:

reminds me of

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is so he sees." 
William Blake

“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”



“The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore. The laws by which the winds blow, and the tides of the ocean, like a vast clepsydra, measure, with inimitable exactness, the hours of ever-flowing time; the laws by which the planets roll, and the sun vivifies and paints; the laws which preside over the subtle combinations of chemistry, and the amazing velocities of electricity; the laws of germination and production in the vegetable and animal worlds, — all these, radiant with eternal beauty as they are, and exalted above all the objects of sense, still wane and pale before the Moral Glories that apparel the universe in their celestial light. The heart can put on charms which no beauty of known things, nor imagination of the unknown, can aspire to emulate. Virtue shines in native colors, purer and brighter than pearl, or diamond, or prism, can reflect. Arabian gardens in their bloom can exhale no such sweetness as charity diffuses. Beneficence is godlike, and he who does most good to his fellow-man is the Master of Masters, and has learned the Art of Arts. Enrich and embellish the universe as you will, it is only a fit temple for the heart that loves truth with a supreme love. Inanimate vastness excites wonder; knowledge kindles admiration, but love enraptures the soul. Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light, has found the lost paradise. For him, a new heaven and a new earth have already been created. His home is the sanctuary of God, the Holy of Holies.”



“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

― Horace Mann

 black321 wrote:

 oldviolin wrote:

I like that one

"Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."
MWS