Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Well, Jordan Peterson has his ‘12 Rules for Life‘. The Ferengi have their ‘Rules of Acquisition‘, so I just got a bee in my bonnet and created my 50 rules! Rule #1: “A closed mouth gathers no feet.” Rule #2: “Never trust anyone who says ‘trust me.'” Rule #3: “Efficiency is the highest form of ...
“Sympathy may twist logic but it cannot alter the laws of logic and the laws of physics.” – Captain Walker (July 2015).
“Champion your mistakes. Don’t let them determine you.” – the infamous Captain Walker (May 2015)
Even if you’re in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. – Mahatma Ghandi
I never read English Literature in my early days. That’s sad. It was a choice between ‘Sciences’ and ‘Literature’ – a very sad bifurcation over which I had no control. However, now in these later years I can appreciate what I missed. “To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler ...
“Let’s not be afraid of each other’s mortality – and in so doing avoid each other – we share the same end.” – Captain Walker – 2014-01-20
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. – Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde
“No one wants to spend whole mornings in committees whose conclusions will never be noticed, or will be overruled.” – Handy 1999 Attitude is “a mental and neural state of readiness to respond which is organised through experience and exerts a directive and/or dynamic influence on behaviour”. – Engel and Blackwell 1982
Where there is ‘smoke’ there may also be malicious trouble-makers – not necessarily ‘fire’. – Captain Walker (Aug 2013). p.s. It’s amazing how an image gets people thinking more than words – eh? Wow – now imaginations are gonna run wild – yuh know, as if the image has something to do with the quotation. ...
“It’s been said that rules are made for fools. Even so, fools are made by rules.” – Captain Walker (June 2013)
“A moral fire is sometimes uncontrollable by the law.” – Captain Walker (June 2013)
“That which makes us human, also makes us inhuman.” – Captain Walker (April 2013) Accepted human capacities fall in the following domains: Aggression & violence Jealousy Malice Greed Possessiveness Love Protection of loved ones Experience of pleasure Thinking Creativity and innovation Loyalty Understanding Adaptation Sentience .. and the list is by far incomplete but pretty ...
‘Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;So on the ocean of life we pass and speak once another,Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence.’ – HW Longfellow, ‘The Theologian’s Tale: Elizabeth’ in Tales of a Wayside ...
“We must believe in free will, we have no choice.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902 – 1991)
“The law is an ass. However, the size of and the numbers of asses who are average people make the law appear insignificant.” – Captain Walker (March 2013).
“If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.“ – Henry David Thoreau
“It is a myth that problems perpetuate themselves. It is people, in general, who perpetuate problems. People need to start thinking and activating themselves to solve their problems.” …. Captain Walker
“Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You” – Mardy Grothe
It is really quite simple – if you don’t manage your time, other people and circumstances will mismanage it for you. It’s not money. It’s not love. It’s not food. It’s not even air! Your most valuable asset – the most valuable asset for all sentient human life is ‘time’. All things in your frame ...
Restraint, balance and wisdom must prevail in the exercise of all power, lest the risks of chaos, abuse and suffering, materialise. – Captain Walker (August 2012)
“But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.” – Luke 12:48 – New King James Version of the Bible ...
“Be thou not a brick. Instead embrace self-awareness and the discomfort associated with self-directed change.”
“Throughout theological history we have been assured by religious leaders that if we perform certain rituals, repeat certain prayers or mantras, conform to certain patterns, suppress our desires, control our thoughts, sublimate our passions, limit our appetites and refrain from sexual indulgence, we shall, after sufficient torture of the mind and body, find something beyond ...
“Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.” – Anon (probably Arabian in origin).
“How do you lose friends and infuriate people? Simple – undress the truth down to its bare bones!” Captain Walker – March 2011
“…compassion is more important than the truth.. if I told him it would be devastating to him.” – Jackie Mason in Desert Island Disks on Radio 4 in interview with Kirsty Young (at the 17:25 min mark in the podcast but the context of the statement was most important). It resonates with me, because I’ve ...
“The statues of the morally invincible will stand tall and glorious even if a bit beaten for no one with our degree of sentience to admire – if we do not cross the ‘bridge’ called self-annihilation – before we reach it.” – Captain Walker
The survival of the human race is truly our collective ultimate right. Rights afforded by humanity ought not to be used for the total destruction of humanity. Those who use rights as shields under which they may safely conspire to effect such destruction, risk having their rights stripped from them. – Captain Walker, January 2012
“The truth is my primary true friend. He that is not also a friend of the truth is not a friend of mine.” – Captain Walker, January 2012.
