quite an insight

"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God."






(sir Winston Churchill)?????...recently I came across this quote attributed to GK Chesterton
...so I looked it up...and sure enough ... I swear that the site I lifted this quote from indicated Churchill....but i'll go with Chesterton
















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as the dust settled

Well, what happened there is, of course—now all of you must adjust your brains—the biggest work of art there has ever been. The fact that spirits achieve with one act something which we in music could never dream of, that people practice ten years madly, fanatically for a concert. And then die. [Hesitantly.] And that is the greatest work of art that exists for the whole Cosmos. Just imagine what happened there. There are people who are so concentrated on this single performance, and then five thousand people are driven to Resurrection. In one moment. I couldn't do that. Compared to that, we are nothing, as composers. [...] It is a crime, you know of course, because the people did not agree to it. They did not come to the "concert". That is obvious. And nobody had told them: "You could be killed in the process."




.......Karlheinz Stockhausen










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the new tautology...as social policy

Persecution of suicide bombers should be limited to incorrigibles.










////////////    Craig of the Intense INane








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in case you haven't noticed

All the world is full of inscape
              and chance left free to act
                    falls into an order
                              as well as purpose.






GM  Hopkins














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the moral imperative

Let your credo be this:  Let the lie come into the world,
 let it even triumph. But not through me.






--------------Alexander Solzhenitsyn












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the message of old - kensington runestone

“Eight Götalanders and 22 Northmen
 on (this?) acquisition journey
from Vinland far to the west.
We had a camp by two (shelters?)
 one day’s journey north from this stone.
 We were fishing one day.
 After we came home, found 10 men
red from blood and dead.
Ave Maria save from evil.
There are 10 men by the inland sea
to look after our ships
fourteen days journey
from this peninsula (or island). Year 1362”




























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human chaos theory

Violence is frequently called irrational. It has its reasons, however, and can marshal some rather convincing ones when the need arises […] When unappeased, violence seeks and always finds a surrogate victim […] chosen only because it is vulnerable and close at hand.








Rene' Girard








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I learned while scoping out this quote that rene'  girard passed on to his eternal reward on Nov 4.  2015      ///      may he know the peace he so longed to find