Thought for tomorrow
“Champion your mistakes. Don’t let them determine you.” – the infamous Captain Walker (May 2015)
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Thought for tomorrow
“Understanding how much one has learned is also about appreciating how much one has forgotten.“ – Captain Walker, March 2014.
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“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
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“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more ...
What if?
What if you speak a truth that is so unpalatable to the rest of the human race? What does that mean? The current status quo dictates that you are marked for ‘exclusion’. Who do you think you are? The ‘establishment’ shall not be disturbed. Now bugger off and think about it (or not).
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. – Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde
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“It’s been said that rules are made for fools. Even so, fools are made by rules.” – Captain Walker (June 2013)
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“A moral fire is sometimes uncontrollable by the law.” – Captain Walker (June 2013)
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‘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 ...
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“When status is sufficiently important relative to intrinsic utility, many individuals conform to a single, homogeneous standard of behaviour, despite heterogeneous underlying preferences. They are willing to conform because they recognise that even small departures from the social norm will seriously impair their status. The fact that society harshly censures all nonconformists is not simply ...
The idiot’s prayer
“I did not know what to do!!! I asked you for help. You did not help me. You are selfish and unhelpful!” – by Captain Walker
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“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
A Slave’s Prayer
“I wish to remain a pawn – a mere cog – a mechanism in a massive machinery, shaped and predestined by my ‘owners’, who allow me a small amount of freedom and pleasure to cherish, who serve me chemicals designed to numb my pain…so I can work harder and die younger. I worship my masters ...
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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)
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“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 ...
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“..If you just sit and observe you would see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only just makes it worse. But in time it does calm. And when it does there is room to hear more subtle things. That’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you see things ...
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“Be thou not a brick. Instead embrace self-awareness and the discomfort associated with self-directed change.”
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“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 ...
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“Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.” – Anon (probably Arabian in origin).
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“How do you lose friends and infuriate people? Simple – undress the truth down to its bare bones!” Captain Walker – March 2011
When is the whole truth not to be told?
“…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 ...
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“The history of madness is the history of power. Because it imagines power, madness is both impotence and omnipotence. It requires power to control it. Threatening the normal structures of authority, insanity is engaged in an endless dialogue—a monomaniacal monologue sometimes—about power’.“ – Roy Porter in A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane, ...
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“Collective ignorance is a superior inertial obstacle against the potential of knowledge to cause movement. Those who think otherwise are deluded!” – Captain Walker 2012
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“Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to distorted, ego-centred versions of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be ...
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“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
