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Typhoon wrote:
[Unlike Christmas Eve, which has become marketed as Valentine's day for the young and analogous to Thanksgiving for families,
Japanese companies have no idea how to market Easter.]
Odd. Secular, Western Easter is the most kawaii holiday imaginable.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”

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“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”

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Worst doomer porn headline I have seen today..... but then, I've only been up for a couple hours

HUBBLE SEES SOMETHING HUGE COMING OUT OF URANUS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjU8Kzxhjg
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Typhoon wrote:What are the odds?
Blowfish.
“Christ has no body now but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks among His people to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses His creation.”

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As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."


— An old Jew of Galicia
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Simple Minded wrote:As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."


— An old Jew of Galicia
The old Jew of Galicia was spot on.
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Typhoon wrote:.
Simple Minded wrote:.

As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."


— An old Jew of Galicia

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The old Jew of Galicia was spot on.

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Seconded .. and .. learned a lesson, Simple Minded :D


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Heracleum Persicum wrote:
Typhoon wrote:.
Simple Minded wrote:.

As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."


— An old Jew of Galicia

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The old Jew of Galicia was spot on.

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Seconded .. and .. learned a lesson, Simple Minded :D


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Nothing is more human than mistaking all we see, or all we choose to see for all that exists. :o

Kinda ironic that you had to learn that from one of the Elders of Zion, huh? :D
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Simple Minded wrote:As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."


— An old Jew of Galicia
I searched on that and found it was a preface to polish poets Czesław Miłosz book.

turns out he is quite the goldmine of amusing quotables.
“Learning

To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”

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“The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.”

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“The true enemy of man is generalization.”

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“All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.”
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noddy wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:As i read this quote, I thought of OTNOT for some odd reason.....

"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God.

But what’s to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he’s 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal."


— An old Jew of Galicia
I searched on that and found it was a preface to polish poets Czesław Miłosz book.

turns out he is quite the goldmine of amusing quotables.
“Learning

To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”

-----

“The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.”

-----

“The true enemy of man is generalization.”

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“All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.”
An inspiration to all of us OTNOTers. The reason we (OTNOTers) can see farther, is cause we're standing on Czesław Miłosz's shoulders.
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Indeed.

Milosz was a titan of literature. The Captive Mind is one of the most remarkable and enlightening books that I have read.
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which one was a picture of simplemindedstan ?
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How People In Science See Each Other

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Amusing and rather accurate.
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