"If death is the unequivocal and permanent end of our existence, the question arises whether it is a bad thing to die." (Thomas Nagel)
Free Press
"In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell." Justice Black.
Support our Troops?
"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about." (Noam Chomsky)
Schizophrenia
"Schizophrenia used to be a new name for dementia praecox - a slow, insidious illness that was supposed to overtake young people in particular, and to be liable to go on to a terminal dementia.
Perhaps we can still retain the now old name, and read into it its etymological meaning: Schiz - 'broken'; Phrenos - 'soul or heart'.
The schizophrenic in this sense is one who is broken-hearted, and even broken hearts have been known to mend, if we have the heart to let them." (R.D. Laing)
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 2:59 pm
all of these pictures simbolize suttin and there all right in thier own way>……..
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 3:10 pm
very good