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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2009 : 03:09:43 [Permalink]
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A couple of comments.
First, this is a take-off on a quote attributed to Jimi Hendrix: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Bumper stickers have been made, using the quote. Now, Jimi was a wonderful rock musician, but I don't turn to him for practical wisdom outside his field of expertise. I consider this quote to be vacuous and pretentious, typical 1960's tripe.
Second, I don't oppose peace. But I see too many silly and useless sentiments about it. I prefer practical suggestions.
(BTW, the photograph used on my sticker is a mug shot of a criminal suspect.)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 01/01/2009 03:13:13 |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 01/01/2009 : 07:50:46 [Permalink]
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| I actually like the quote. It's pretty vacuous, but it is a funny enough little play on words... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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"Peace" aphorism bumper sticker
