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How Civilisations Die

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by chelloveck, Jun 21, 2024.

chelloveck Diabolus Causidicus

How civilisations die....according to Arnold Toynbee

Rules are for the guidance of the wise, and the blind obedience of fools. - unsourced

To deny your oppressor's, or your own humanity is to descend into barbarism. - V. Chelloveck

Survival is a battle for the mind...mainly one's own. - V. Chelloveck

A beautiful idea founded on faulty reasoning is like a turd wrapped in gold foil, tinsel and glitter. Neither are wholesome if swollowed whole! - V. Chelloveck

What is a religion, but a cult with a larger following and a veneer of respectability. - V.C.

chelloveck, Jun 21, 2024

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Bandit99 Monkey+++ Site Supporter+

...or you can simply read the news every day.

"An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject." - John Adams
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Goethe
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." - Thomas Paine
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."- Thomas Paine
"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it." - Mark Twain
"To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the law abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless." - Lysander Spooner

Bandit99, Jun 21, 2024

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Bandit99 said: ↑

...or you can simply read the news every day.
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Minister of Misinformation, Misdirection and just plain missing.

VisuTrac, Jun 21, 2024

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Minister of Misinformation, Misdirection and just plain missing.

VisuTrac, Jun 21, 2024

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chelloveck Diabolus Causidicus

VisuTrac said: ↑

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Rules are for the guidance of the wise, and the blind obedience of fools. - unsourced

To deny your oppressor's, or your own humanity is to descend into barbarism. - V. Chelloveck

Survival is a battle for the mind...mainly one's own. - V. Chelloveck

A beautiful idea founded on faulty reasoning is like a turd wrapped in gold foil, tinsel and glitter. Neither are wholesome if swollowed whole! - V. Chelloveck

What is a religion, but a cult with a larger following and a veneer of respectability. - V.C.

chelloveck, Jun 21, 2024

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