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Book by darkangel76

"For a book to survive a decade or more it should not be summarizable, and if summarized, no two summaries should be identical." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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I have a problem with Catholics complaining about bombings by Islamist's when they are ignorant of Vatican's role in prohibiting the prosecution of priests ('holy men') from being tried and prosecuted for child sex crimes. For more read, THE CASE OF THE POPE: VATICAN ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE. So long as one is a Catholic, one implicitly supports an organisation that does not allow child sex offenders to be prosecuted. 

"In his 2010 book, The Case of the Pope, Robertson claims that Pope Benedict XVI is guilty of protecting paedophiles because the church swore the victims to secrecy and moved perpetrators in Catholic sex abuse cases to other positions where they had access to children while knowing the perpetrators were likely to reoffend.[30] This, Robertson believes, constitutes the crime of assisting underage sex and when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, the retired pope approved this policy up to November 2002. In Robertson's opinion, the Vatican is not a sovereign state and the pope is not immune to prosecution.[31] Since Benedict XVI retired, Robertson stated in July 2013: "The committee's enquiries will inevitably lead it to conclude that the Vatican has broken multiple articles of the convention on a huge scale in many countries. The result in human suffering is incalculable. Francis's papacy could well be defined by the world's verdict on his response – more handwringing apologies or calls for a line to be drawn under the past will no longer wash. He will fail unless he initiates bold tangible actions, for example lifting the veil of secrecy that has protected so many clerical rapists, engaging secular authorities and offering rather than resisting appropriate compensation."[32]  - Link

http://www.amazon.com/The-Case-Pope-Vatican-Accountability/dp/0241953847

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility

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Sisyphus by mellapants

“The gods were so furious that, through all eternity, they required Sisyphus to roll a huge stone up a hill only to have it plunge back down once it reached the crest”- The Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus, translated by Justin O’Brien

Thus is our 'Absurd' life (our eternity), filled with meaningless, miserable difficult tasks till our end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

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The Partially Examined Life | A Philosophy Podcast and Philosophy Blog

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"Fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is there not here conceit of knowledge, which is a disgraceful sort of ignorance?" - Plato, Apology, 399 B.C.E

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“...live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”

Seneca

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The goal of all life is death

Freud, 1955, vol. 8; Freud

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What did Anglo-Saxons and the Samurai have in common?

Both honored women.

You can evidence this in the respective cultures' classical literature. In the case of the Japanese culture, one text is the Budoshoshinshu: of Daidoji Yuzann

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"One Arrow, One Life" by Mark Araujo

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Old Man by Lash-Upon-Lash

"An old man and his son lived in an abandoned fortress on the side of a hill. Their only possession of value was a horse.

One day, the horse ran away. The neighbours came by to offer sympathy. “That’s really bad!” they said. “How do you know?” asked the old man.

The next day, the horse returned, bringing with it several wild horses. The old man and his son shut them all inside the gate. The neighbours hurried over. “That’s really good!” they said. How do you know?” asked the old man.

The following day, the son tried riding one of the wild horses, fell off, and broke his leg. The neighbours came around as soon as they heard the news. “That’s really bad!” they said. “How do you know?” asked the old man.

The day after that, the army came through, forcing the local young men into service to fight a faraway battle against the Northern barbarians. Many of them would never return. But the son couldn’t go because he’d broken his leg.” - translated by Benjamin Hoff, Huai-nan-tse

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May you get what you want and may you live in interesting times

Chinese curse

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There are things you can never put in words; you can only feel them in your body

African traditional healer quoted by M. Vera Bührmann

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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

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The complete works of Baruch Spinoza

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pebble hand by alamouso

“Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.” ― Baruch Spinoza

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"...to the great pains you must go..."

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with a candle by redreddaisy

“...A lustful search in the dark is all you’ll ever come to know” - Donny Shankle