Showing posts with label Aphorisms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aphorisms. Show all posts
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Aphorism XV
Contra Voltaire, it is to the living that we owe truth; to the dead we owe only respect.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Aphorism XIV
I have never met an anti-dogmatist, but I have met people who are opposed to anyone other than themselves making ex cathedra statements.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Aphorism XIII
Anyone who tells you the Gospel is about love is speaking the truth; but anyone who says the Gospel is about love and defines love simply as warm, fuzzy feelings is a fool or a liar and should be instructed, admonished or ignored as necessary.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Friday, November 07, 2008
Aphorism XI
Marxist argumentation: When logic and reality are against you, accuse your opponent of a pathology.
EDIT:
Or, to put in the terms of the Underpants Gnomes...
Argument Plan:
Phase 1: Accuse your opponent of a pathology.
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Victory!
See how simply it is?
EDIT:
Or, to put in the terms of the Underpants Gnomes...
Argument Plan:
Phase 1: Accuse your opponent of a pathology.
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Victory!
See how simply it is?
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Aphorism VIII
"Equality" means that every member of society can have the aristocratic vices of Imperial Rome.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Aphorism VII
The modern world is only semi-Nietzschean; it has all of Nietzsche's vices but none of his virtues.
Aphorism VI
Electoral politics in the modern United States is the result of turning the fallacy of the false dilemma into a way of life.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Aphorism III
When modern man says, "That is not realistic," what he truly means is, "That is not easy."
Monday, April 14, 2008
Aphorism I
When attempting to understand an otherwise incomprehensible event in the modern world, hold to these two principles: Cherchez la femme et cherchez l'argent.
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