“Haeresis est maxima, opera maleficarum non credere” ~Malleus Maleficarum
(The greatest of all heresies is the disbelief in witchcraft)
“My goal is to always come from a place of love, but sometimes I just have to break it down for a motherfucker.” ~RuPaul
“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” ~Jacqueline Bisset
…(although with all due respect to the ever wonderful Ms. Bisset, I’d say the same holds true for men as well ~ Geoffrey)
“Keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever towards it;
let nothing stop you or turn you aside.”
~From The Charge of the Goddess by Doreen Valliente
“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”
— Barry Hughart (Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was)
“Science is a method of talking about the Universe in terms that bind it to a common reality. Magick is a way of speaking to the Universe in words that it cannot ignore.” –Neil Gaiman
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Don’t be pushed by your problems…be lead by your dreams” ~ Unknown
“In the Midst of Winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible Summer.” ~ Albert Camus
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
(NOTE: There is, at best, dark irony embodied in this quote given it’s source was a slave-holder. The sentiment remains true however. It is only by confronting the complexity and truths and folly’s and tragic failings of the past that we are able to learn from it move forward from it and appropriately engage with it and with our Ancestors and their legacies.)
“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.” ~ Alfred Adler
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.” ~ Goethe
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
-William Ellery Channing
“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment.” – Emerson
Chrysalis 
The quote’s why I clicked in. *grins* Yes, I know it. No, I’m not going to answer here. I think those who *don’t* know it, should go find it and then watch the show it comes from.
I am signed up for several social media sites, but I’ll be perfectly honest, I don’t think I like any of them except, possibly, Twitter.
Google Reader is my favorite service, because I do enjoy blogs.
Facebook is a time waster. MySpace is just a way to keep track of bands. YouTube crashes my router.
I don’t think of Hulu or blogs as “social media”. I think that’s a difference from the video. I consider Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Triibes, Ning, etc. etc. as social media. Basically anything where the main thrust is to meet, greet and network with people is social media. I would, summarily throw all of them out for one service that actually *worked*, didn’t annoy me with badgering requests and stupid applications, and let me modify it to display it in a format that works for me. (Hmmm… sounds like I should get a programmer on that.)
Everything else internet related is a service, despite votes, rankings, or comments sections. Comments sections are no different than gathering around the water-cooler and kvetching about the article.
I suppose the situation is thus: I dislike networking and talking to people face to face. I’m an introvert and a bit of a misanthrope. And it makes me happy, so I don’t plan on changing.
So it’s incredibly strange that I’ve just spent this much time to enter a comment on a four minute video.
Yes, but that’s the insidious thing about the Internet… you can encounter and interact with like minded fellow introverts and misanthropes… before you know it your socializing on a regular (if virtual basis) its a PLOT I TELL YOU!!! (sips his coffee, mellows out)
I still delight in e-mail and in older formats like the Yahoogroups… but as someone who has been involved in volunteer and community work in the past, I am beginning to get it in regards to some of the new social media formats…
I can see using it in a volunteer or business setting. I think it’s useful for long-distance organizing and political movements.
And Facebook has found at least one long-lost friend and my (estranged from the family) cousins.
However, I think I’m still more prone to one-on-one communications, even when in a public forum such as this. (I was hit once to often with flames when I was a newbie on the net *far* too many years ago.)
Look at that! See what you’ve made me do? You’ve made me respond to a comment. You must be in on the conspiracy. *eyes narrow*
Mwa-ha-ha-ha!!
Babylon 5, of course! And I think it was Sinclair that said it?
I’m looking forward to meeting the Minbari 😉
As far as I know, no. Sorry. Although I agree the Minbari would be cool.
Peace,
Pax
Really nice posts. I will be checking back here regularly.