Thought of the Day

[DaZahroJaam.]

A man will struggle and fight all his life. He will fight with all his might to the point where his hands are chopped for writing poems that compare "revolutionaries" to flags of pride that are hanging from poles when they are charged by the principles of "treason" until the last bit of their so called "freedom" is drained out of their throats like blood sprouting out from the necks of slaughtered pigs. He calls himself an "optimist". Should you have a fancy for a clear sight of duely served "justice", watch out for that *******. He has been paid his dues and rightly so.

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[Manzareh]

same old sh*t

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"The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself, it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds."

[DaZahroJaam.]

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I am willing to trade 25% of my soul for a decent plant of Arabian jasmine. 27 if it's a blossoming, matured and healthy looking one.

[DaZahroJaam.]

if writing a poem for a woman is such a direct threat to your manliness then perhaps you should not develop such a severe attachment to your mustache.
happy ****ing valentine's day, everyone.

**slams the door and stomps off**

[marwat]

there were little post on my wall who were actually about wishing valentine day. most were actually about defending it rather than celebrating it.

[DaZahroJaam.]

The greatest civilization before ours was the Greek. They, too, lived in a dangerous world. They were a little, highly civilized people, surrounded by barbarous tribes and always threatened by the greatest Asian power, Persia. In the end they succumbed, but the reason they did was not because the enemies outside were so strong but that their spiritual strength had given way. While they had it, they kept Greece unconquered and they left behind a record in art and thought which in all the centuries of human effort since, has not been surpassed.

Basic to all Greek achievement was freedom. The Athenians were the only free people in the world. In the great empires of antiquity--Egypt, Baybylon, Assyria, Persia-- splendid though they were, with riches and immense power, freedom was unknown. The idea of it was born in Greece, and with it Greece was able to prevail against all the manpower and wealth arrayed against her.
At Marathon and at Salamis overwhelming numbers of Persians were defeated by small Greek forces. It was proved there that one free man was superior to many submissively obedient subjects of a tyrant. And Athens, where freedom was the dearest possession, was the leader in those amazing victories.

Athens was not only the first democracy in the world, it was also at its height an almost perfect democracy in the world. The governing body was the Assembly, of which all citizens over 18 were members. The Council of Five Hundred, which prepared business for the Assembly’s decisions, was made up of citizens chosen by lot. The chief magistrates and the highest officers in the army were elected by the Assembly. Freedom of speech was prized.

There was complete political equality. Not only did all free men share the government; the love of the beautiful and the desire in having a part in creating it were shared by the many, not by a chosen few. That has happened in no other state.

Just what the teaching in the schools was which laid the foundation of the Greek civilization, we do not know in detail. But we do know that the children were taught to think. The Greeks had a passion for using of the mind. On every street corner and every Athenian equivalent of the baseball field, Socrates found people who were caught up by his questions into the world of thought--that is, to be educated.

We know the remarkable results of Greek thinking. A Greek said that the earth went around the sun 16 centuries before Copernicus thought of it. A Greek said, if you sailed out of Spain and kept to one latitude, you would come at last to land, 1700 years before Columbus did it. Darwin said, “We are mere schoolboys in scientific thinking compared to old Aristotle.” And the Greeks did not have a great legacy from the past as our scientists have; they thought science out from their imagination.

The same is true of politics. They thought that out, too, and gave all the boys a training to fit them to be thinking citizens of a free state that had come into being through thought.

Ideals have enormous power. They stamp an age. The Greek ideals have had a power of persistent life for 2500 years.

Greek rose to the very height, not because she was big, she was very small; not because she was rich, she was very poor; not even because she was wonderfully gifted. So doubtless were others in the great empires of the ancient world who have gone their way, leaving little for us. She rose because there was in the Greeks the greatest spirit that moves in humanity, the spirit that sets men free.

[DaZahroJaam.]

However,

"..civilizations are divided into three phases. The first phase is barbarism, a time when people believe that the laws of their own village are the laws of nature, as George Bernard Shaw put it. The second phase is civilization, where people continue to believe in the justice of their ways but harbor openness to the idea that they might be in error. The third phase, decadence, is the moment in which people come to believe that there is no truth, or that all lies are equally true.”

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Fire has no shadow.

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"There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia."

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"Man should not live beyond the age when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life, has weakened.."

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