useful maxims
All of these have been written by me, NeoWayland. I keep getting into the same conversations with different people. After four or five times, I started refining the language. After thirteen times, it got pretty good. This is the page where I keep some of my best stuff in no particular order so I can find it easily.As time permits, I am making each of these maxims in the Quotes & Thinkums category. You can find my pagan related maxims at Technopagan Yearnings.
What you think you know is not what you need to know. Where you are is not where you need to be. Who you believe you are is not who you were meant to be.
The universe is written in mathematics. The Mystery is written in poetry. We're born where the two meet. At the crossroads.
If you choose to do something, that's freedom. If you're compelled to do something, that's coercion.
A choice that is imposed is no choice. Religion imposed in the name of “freedom and decency” will be neither free nor decent.
I’ve long since concluded that no one has all the answers or even most of the questions.
Humanity is a colony organism.
People cherish their passions.
Competition breeds progress and encourages honesty.
In the absence of understanding, triviality dominates.
Seek paradox for truth.
Resist dogma for growth.
Beware anyone who offers an absolute.
The people who pay attention to laws are not the ones you have to worry about.
I could care less what faith my neighbor is, but I do care if she lets her dog do it's thing on my lawn.
If I can be moral without your faith, why do you wish to bind me to your faith?
If I have a single issue, it's less government and more freedom.
I've taken stands for gun rights, alternative sexual practices, the value of the family with men and women role models, religious choice, the free market, and good movies.
Do you really want pagans and heathens begging government for table scraps that they might give us? If we're really REALLY good and cute enough?
If you never leave the echo chamber, you never learn to defend your arguments.
It's a big reason why libertarians are better than average at debating on certain subjects. Nobody agrees with us entirely and we get plenty of practice.
Common sense means ideas that work on their own without constant fiddling and tweaking.
If you won't honor someone's religious choice, why should they honor yours?
If you are not willing to live with those of other faiths, why should they give way and not you?
Parity. The Golden Rule. It's in your own teachings if you look hard enough.
It was never, ever about tolerance.
It was always, always about control.
Free speech does not mean shutting the other guy up. It means you talk. It means sometimes you yell at each other and wave your fingers in each other's faces. It means you argue. It means you sit down over drinks and try to understand why they won't listen. It means giving the other the same respect you expect for yourself. At least until they show they don't deserve the respect. Even then, they get to talk.
The virtue or vice is not in the title. It's in the individual.