X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=infobase%2Ffortunes.dat;h=3bce328c517d4a0699da8d0690d5579a66f7529b;hb=9a05fd81ce1b19b89d221c4fb04cf6b3010a7f8e;hp=2a4ea6244ecd740ec98abff5be75519898476b3f;hpb=542207be5648668169f6647428ca3ee1127e3610;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 2a4ea624..3bce328c 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -2695,14 +2695,6 @@ it's a depression when you lose yours. Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman, 1959 ~ -A little more moderation would be good. Of course, -my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. - -- Donald Trump, in "Time", 16 January 1989 -~ -I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking -anything, you might as well think big. - -- Donald Trump, in "Time", 16 January 1989 -~ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu @@ -17813,7 +17805,7 @@ for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. -- Epicurus ~ -Singing and danching are the voice of dharma. -- Hakuin +Singing and dancing are the voice of dharma. -- Hakuin ~ All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw ~ @@ -22719,7 +22711,7 @@ powerlessness make you pure? ~ Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. - -- Ofden Nash + -- Ogden Nash ~ Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -- Jules de Gaultier @@ -43854,4 +43846,140 @@ This is what yogis must recognize. -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: The Trilogy of Rest, Volume 1", translated by Padmakara Translation Group, published by Shambhala Publications +~ +The purpose of a knife is much like the purpose of the brain, and that is to +stop being used. Just as the brain should do some computation and then desist +from functioning for a while to rest and relax, so too should one stop using a +knife as soon as the purpose for which the knife was picked up is achieved. +If it seems like it's fun to play with a knife or if one feels that the knife +is an extension of one's penis, then that is not a very good reason to pick up +a knife; one should probably put the knife right back down in those degenerate +(in the mathematical sense) cases. #WhatILearnedFromTheBoyScouts + -- fred t. hamster +~ +Full of trust you left home, +and soon learned to walk the Path-- +making yourself a friend to everyone +and making everyone a friend. + +When the whole world is your friend, +fear will find no place to call home. + +And when you make the mind your friend, +you'll know what trust +really means. + +Listen. + +I have followed this Path of friendship to its end. +And I can say with absolute certainty-- +it will lead you home. + + -- from "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns", + by Matty Weingast +~ +If we are honest with ourselves, we know from our own experience that the more +we try to find solutions to our problems through thinking about them, the more +we start going around in circles, sometimes interminably. Buddhism counsels +us to resist being abused by our conflicting emotions and to let go of +excessive thinking. Emotions can be expressed in an unhealthy, self- +destructive manner or in a healthy and constructive fashion. Similarly, we +can think in a self-destructive, confused way, which reinforces our negative +habits, or we can think in a constructive way. Buddhism emphasizes that +overindulgence in conflicting emotions and distorted forms of thinking only +reinforces our old habits, which solidifies our karmic tendencies even +further. + -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "Mind at Ease: Self-Liberation through Mahamudra + Meditation", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +ACHTUNG! +ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! +DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! +ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN +MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. +IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN +DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. +ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN. +~ +ATTENTION +This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. +Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for +die experts only! +So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von +here working intelligencies. +Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! +Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. +~ +Naval Lint! Belly up to the finest barnacle scrub on the market, and have +your teams boat bright as a button! +Only $9.99 a bottle, sold at all Ben Franklin Department Stores. + -- fictional product developed due to misspelling of navel lint +~ +(a missing phone haiku) + +tech disconnection +no friends, no spam, brain at peace +must log back in now! + + -- fred t. hamster +~ +Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the +truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, +or for being years ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, +speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the +truth is still the truth. + -- Mahatma Gandhi +~ + The sky is pure, open space, free from all obstructions. The nature of +our mind is similar: the afflictions, self-centered attitude, and other +obscurations are not in its essential nature. Just as clouds may temporarily +obscure the open sky, anger, attachment, and confusion can temporarily obscure +our mind. When they do, the pure, open nature of the mind still remains; we +just can't see it at the time. + By generating the wisdom realizing the emptiness of inherent existence, we +will be able to eradicate obscurations from our mind forever and enjoy the +sky-like spaciousness of a purified mind. + -- Thubten Chodron, from "Awaken Every Day: 365 Buddhist Reflections to + Invite Mindfulness and Joy", Shambhala Publications +~ +i buy all my hats +at interdimensional +pancake restaurant + -- fred t. hamster +~ +Love is about finding something pleasant in everyone. It can't be external +appearance, or what the person is engaged in at the moment; it has to be just +the fact that this is a sentient being who wants happiness and does not want +suffering and who has been the best of friends at some time in the limitless +past. A Tibetan definition of love is that the person pleasantly comes to +mind (yid du 'ong ba). Rather than pushing people away, you experience a core +similarity and closeness in them that makes you receptive to their basic +being, regardless of the problem--regardless of how distorted their current +attitudes and behavior are. That's how strong spiritual love is. + -- Jeffrey Hopkins, from "A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for + Connecting with Others", Shambhala Publications +~ +this is not confirmed yet, but UVa is changing the name of its funding tokens. +UVa is moving away from the PTAO payment codes (Project, Task, Award, and +Organization) to a new acronym using "Cost center, Activity, Program, Spend +category" or... CAPS!!! +finally all my hard work in fallout new vegas will be paying off. +~ +Rob's Meeting Mantra: + +Is what I am thinking necessary to say? +Is it necessary for this to be said by ME? +Is it necessary for me to say this RIGHT NOW? + + -- Rob Diethorn +~ +fred's chow mantra: + just eat when you're hungry, + and be sure you're hungry and not just sating an appetite, + because scheduled food times are irrelevant to your body, + and can lead to overfeeding unless you're malnourished; + so let the body decide when to eat, + and use your brain to decide what you feed it. + -- fred t. hamster +~