Thought For the Day

[Gullscorer]

'I have got two men. When the enemy were giving us trouble we set an ambush - which also gave us a chance of getting our breath back - and we killed some of them, and made up our minds to take a few alive for this very reason, to have the services of guides who know the country.'

At once they brought the two men and questioned them separately, to see if they knew of any other road apart from the obvious one. One of the two, although he was threatened in every kind of way, said that he did not know of any other road. Since he said nothing that was of any help he was killed, with the other man looking on. The survivor then said that the reason why the other man had denied knowledge of another road was that he happened to have a daughter who had been married to somebody in that direction.

Xenophon: The Persian Expedition (394 BC)

[PhilGull]

They might want to check the tax revenues before they look at changing things. I happen to know (no, not in that way!) an 'Escort' who is registered for and pays tax on her 'earnings'. I am sure there are lots that do and at a couple of hundred pound an hour thats gonna be a significant amount of tax revenue!

[Gullscorer]

'What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy.'

[Gullscorer]

Referring back to the posts on the previous page regarding 'victimless crime', here's a link to the actual Moral Maze programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03y15hy

A few minutes in, you'll hear the exchanges about prostitution between Claire Fox (brilliant) of the Institute of Ideas, Michael Portillo (equally so) and Dr Finn Mackay (ludicrous) the feminist from the University of the West of England, Bristol, who exposes feminism for the Fascist ideology it is (she even mentions 'the Patriarchy' and the coming revolution!) by claiming all (female) prostitutes are victims and all their clients (only men of course) should be criminalised.

I actually disapprove of prostitution but since it's unlikely to be eradicated it must be closely monitored and controlled. Mackay's demands, however, to criminalise one party to a transaction but not the other, are patently ridiculous. Listen to her speak: you need no further proof that Women's or Gender Studies are not a true academic discipline, but a political indoctrination process.

[RussianGull]

Thought for the day: The Spanish dominance of football is weakening

[Gullscorer]

A woman can run a lot faster with her dress up than a man can with his pants down..

[Gullscorer]

The case for anonymity: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking ... ative.html

[Gullscorer]

Indifference, especially indifference towards other people, is one of the worst defects we can have.

Dalai Lama

[Gullscorer]

'Hate speech':

Nobody would approve of speech which is intended to inflame violence or to promote discrimination, and there are already laws against this, but the introduction of legislation to ban and censor ‘hate speech’, whether on the internet or in society generally, without a careful and meticulous defining of the term, is the beginning of a dangerous downhill road to totalitarianism.

Expressing hatred is not the same as inciting it, and expressing a criticism of anything or anyone is not the same as expressing hate. Hate: to dislike intensely; to detest.

Exempting an entire group or demographic from criticism (or even from hatred, the simple expression of which, as I've said, is not the same as inciting it) could give immunity to individuals within that group or demographic from receiving strident condemnation when it is genuinely warranted.

Anyone who does not understand that such anti-‘hate speech’ legislation can be used as a weapon to censor and punish those who dare to express unapproved opinions, and to invoke fear of doing so, fails to fully grasp the lengths that ideologues are prepared to go in order to impose their own version of utopia on the rest of humanity.

[Gullscorer]

Are Shiite fighters really shite fighters..??

[Gullscorer]

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/06/ra ... ocent-men/

[Gullscorer]

Those who give little thought to the past are very likely to have little thought for the future.

[Gullscorer]

If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow—in some parts a very paradise on earth—I should point to India.

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant—I should point to India.

And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life—again I should point to India.

F. Max Muller; from a lecture in Cambridge to candidates for the Indian Civil Service (1882)

Transcendental meditation man..

[Gullscorer]

You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.

But, since first impressions are often quite misleading, it really doesn't matter.

[Gullscorer]

Is it so small a thing
To have enjoyed the sun
To have lived light in the spring
To have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Matthew Arnold