Value Your Enemies
I value my enemies because they make me better. My friends only make me feel better.
Lying
The closer to the truth, the better the lie. And the very best lie of all is to tell the truth -- unconvincingly.
Paraphrased from They by Heinlein: "The surest way to lie convincingly is to tell the truth unconvincingly."
Excellence
One of the easiest ways to excel is to volunteer for an unpopular job.
Lessons from the Navy
Innocent
An innocent man is ... someone who bleeds a lot.
Deuteronomy 19:10
- That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Deuteronomy 19:13
- Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deuteronomy 21:8
- Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
Deuteronomy 21:9
- So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
1 Samuel 19:5
- For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
1 Kings 2:31
- And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
2 Kings 21:16
- Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings 24:4
- And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
Psalms 94:21
- They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psalms 106:38
- And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Proverbs 1:11
- If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs 6:17
- A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Isaiah 59:7
- Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Jeremiah 7:6
- If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Jeremiah 22:17
- But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Jeremiah 26:15
- But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
Joel 3:19
- Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Jonah 1:14
- Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
Matthew 27:4
- Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
Matthew 27:24
- When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
King James Bible
Faith-based reality
Thoughts manifest in action are called "faith." Thoughts not manifest in action are called "wishful thinking." Reality is based on faith, not wishful thinking.
redevelopment
Redevelopment: compulsory economic displacement, i.e. the forced exchange of undesirable (poor) for more desirable (wealthy) people.
This is often referred to as "clean-up" and is accomplished through condemnation and grants.
World Wide Web
The Web is like Usenet, but the elephants are untrained.
(with apologies to Gene Spafford)
Subsidy
Subsidy perpetuates inferiority.
The surest way to keep a man down is to pay him to stay that way.
