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"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." —Marcus Aurelius (predates Pascal's Wager by 1600 years).

Basicaly the antipode?

Quote from: MrBogosity on October 11, 2010, 06:58:09 AM"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." —Marcus Aurelius (predates Pascal's Wager by 1600 years).
Thereby pwning Pascal.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

"Many leftists falsely believe that governments are somehow better than corporations, not realizing that there's a reason corporations have to enter government to get the guns and protectionism in the first place." --Michael Shanklin

"This video leaves out what I think is by far the greatest cost of all: the souls and minds of the young.

Ever since the Prussian model was adopted, no significant progress has been made in the process of education. If anything, schools are worse now than they were a hundred years ago. A nation that could once absorb Locke can now barely read at all, and fully one third of all schoolchildren have to be kept drugged, so as not to constitute a physical danger to themselves or others."--PanzerDivisionBOM
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

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Finally, some people are waking up to Tf00t's behavior.

The creepy part is when Coughland is forced into the role of being a voice of reason in a sea of madness.

"But then again, Keynes said alot of things." -my macro teacher. (In a bit of a dismissive tone.)

It may not seem that funny right here, but in context, it was hilarious.

October 20, 2010, 09:49:31 AM #533 Last Edit: October 20, 2010, 10:18:19 AM by surhotchaperchlorome
http://xkcd.com/808/
And the mouse-over text.
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

October 20, 2010, 02:09:33 PM #535 Last Edit: February 06, 2011, 12:01:01 PM by surhotchaperchlorome
One of these things is not like the others; one of these things is (intellectually) dead:
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537

"Everyone should debate with a post-keynesian at least once, but try to keep it limited to that. It's a very... 'different' perspective." (My macro teacher, trying to be PC)

(After a bit more prodding from other students.) "No, I don't go out and debate with post-keynesians. It's like debating with a conspiracy theorist."

Interesting bit: There were some post-keynesians who predicted the housing bubble as well as the Austrians. Strangely enough, they cited something called Credit Cycle Theory, emphasized by post-keynesians, as the reason for their belief that there was a housing bubble. Guess what the progenitor of Credit Cycle Theory was? It begins with an A and ends with a TBC. =P

And one difference was that they dropped the preceding expansion of credit as a contributing factor in favor of the animal spirits somehow causing a rise in irrational lending. Cuz, you know, saying 'just cuz' is such an appropriate explanation. Might as well claimed it was done by pixies.

    "It is about .00001% of the human population that causes 99.99999% of the world's problems.  And that tiny percent, it's not the world jewish banking conspiracy, it's not the asylum seekers, it's not the secret homosexual conspiracy running hollywood, it's not even the scientologists.  It's the leaders.  What we need is an administration at most.  We don't need people to boss us about." - Alan Moore

Don't know the guy well but I like him already upon hearing that quote.
I recently heard that the word heretic is derived from the greek work heriticos which means "able to choose"
The more you know...

"The Living-constitution preamble: We the Oligarchy of the US, in Order to form a more perfect central government, establish only criminal Justice, insure controlling Tranquility, provide for the common redistribution, promote social Welfare, and secure Liberty to the Oligarchy and their Posterity, do establish this erratic unpublished constitution for the US." --YouTube user Mike10four, on this video

Don't forget the part right after that: "As for the people, they are on the road to serfdom."
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537