As the design innovator Buckminster Fuller wrote, "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

"The healthy-migrant effect is also called the “acculturation paradox”: the more acculturated one is, the less healthy one becomes."

That is, "It is not a sign of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society."

I am not generally a huge quote fan, but many of these are pretty good.

Please proceed to enjoy the Top 100 Quotes from fundamentalist christians. Although I am sure that some of these were probably written by sarcastic trolls, I have faith (haha) that most of them are 100% genuine. Back in the day, I was a heavy participant in some ecumenical (read: fundies talk with Catholics and atheists) forums and there were ( Read more... )

It isn’t that Bush can do anything and keep my support, it is that it is inconceivable he would do something so bad I would no longer support him. It would also have to be an aggregate of several bad things, or one really bad thing, for my position to change. With a man of character and vision like this President, that isn’t going to happen.Yes, ( Read more... )

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it solely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all one's lifetime." -- Mark Twain

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. - Herbert Alexander Simon

Marvelous.

Law and Order is coming to life.  Although according to Jason, for those of you who know who he is, the child molesters are always the ones who end up dead.  Apparently even the hardest of the hardened hate them.

In case you haven't seen it.It's sad when people are in denial like this.  There are plenty of accepting, liberal denominations of ( Read more... )

".....a bunch of naked men all huddled together...."