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These aphorisms have been submitted by users but are not (yet) included in the official collection.

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tiny.ag/iw24t5gu  ·  submitted 2001

Those who worship human knowledge and reason have a village idiot for a god.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/7dx4iucg  ·  submitted 2001

The atheist may not worship God, but he certainly worships something. He worships human knowledge, human reason-- of which he considers himself the supreme example because he does not believe in God. In short, he worships himself.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/vhxzyp83  ·  submitted 2001

The war between the philosophers and the bean counters is over. The bean counters won.

Unknown

tiny.ag/vjo14nno  ·  submitted 2001

Primitive man's real relationship with the spirits of Nature generally consisted of: "Oh, mighty Jaguar God, would you be so kind as to please not eat us today ?"

RHJunior

tiny.ag/f9ligbpm  ·  submitted 2001

Yes, primitive man was at one with Nature. And as the well-fed lion would tell you, generally from the inside.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/5uj3b7il  ·  submitted 2001

In ten thousand years, nothing has changed. The high priests and priestesses are still ordering the peasants to sacrifice their gold, their crops, their land, and their children to the Nature Goddess, or the Nature Goddess will destroy them. The only difference is that nowadays they call it "Environmentalism."

RHJunior

tiny.ag/3atbn8jv  ·  submitted 2001

The secret to ruling the world is supposedly to tell people exactly what they want to hear. I say that the trick before THAT is to convince them that what you want to say is what they want to hear.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/rvtqbwos  ·  submitted 2001

"Open your mind" is the pathetic bleat of those who have no mind of their own.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/dtrzxqv2  ·  submitted 2001

This is the paradox of our times: we claim proudly to live in a country founded and run by "the common man"-- yet we dismiss, out of hand, the insights of the common man into his own society if he is not a lettered celebrity. If we have a question about agriculture or land laws, we'll ask a politician, a bureaucrat, a famous "researcher" or a hollywood activist for their insights-- but we would never stoop to asking a farmer.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/8msxikod  ·  submitted 2001

"Anecdotal." I always wonder why liberals, who claim to care about the individual, always dismiss the stories of real flesh and blood people as "merely anecdotal." I wonder if they would feel themselves to be "merely anecdotal" if their own experiences and concerns were so brusquely dismissed from consideration.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/hzq6q18i  ·  submitted 2001

Hollywood types and Washington babies are all for freedom of the press-- so long as they think only the "right" kind of people will be able to afford it.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/vuetswcz  ·  submitted 2001

The creation of the internet was the creation of our politicians' and media moguls' worst nightmare-- a cheap, easy-to-use, and truly global medium that they can neither shout down nor of which they can gain exclusive control....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/m0obweiq  ·  submitted 2001

The real reason that the aristocracy of Hollywood and Washington D.C. fear and hate the internet has nothing to do with loving concern for me and you, and everything to do with the fact that they cannot personally control it.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/qpszxtlb  ·  submitted 2001

Funny how the people who can't seem to comprehend the legal definition of pornography have no trouble actually finding it.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/bik2t7ui  ·  submitted 2001

Look to Japan and Holland and other nations which have cast off even the limited moral restraints of our own society. They have fewer sex crimes on the books-- but only because many of the obscene assaults we condemn in America are no longer sex crimes in those lands. They have not seen a reduction in those behaviors, they have merely seen fewer of them actively condemned as crimes.... Fewer still are those that are reported to authorities--- why should a civic force which has loosened moral strictures across the board care about your "minor" problem, after all?--- and a higher percentage of the remaining forms of sexual assault are increasingly degrading and violent.....

RHJunior

tiny.ag/ryuqx7qp  ·  submitted 2001

Conviction is cheap in a world that doesn't value morals.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/3la9eb5p  ·  submitted 2001

I am only right in that time which I agree with God.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/eeht1kjg  ·  submitted 2001

Yes, animals in the wild engage in apparent homosexual behavior. Animals in the wild also sleep naked in trees and eat their own poop. You'll pardon me if I think neither behavior is worthy of emulation.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/gspxjvfm  ·  submitted 2001

How far can porn possibly go? I've seen people peddling every possible and impossible fetish imaginable-- stuff so grotesque, so bizarre it defies description.... Sooner or later they're going to reach a point where they're not going to think they got their porn-dollar's worth till they see someone literally turn inside out and explode.

RHJunior

tiny.ag/dcazqfq0  ·  submitted 2001

The reason liberals are throwing such a screaming fit over standardized testing in public schools is obvious: Nothing infuriates a man intent on cheating you more than using a ruler and a scale to measure his product.

RHJunior

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