tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498120352601868144.post7408897201489550716..comments2024-03-18T20:38:51.670+11:00Comments on steadyaku47: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498120352601868144.post-81977074899915085522009-09-28T19:48:43.338+10:002009-09-28T19:48:43.338+10:00More gems from Mencken ....
No government, of its...More gems from Mencken ....<br /><br />No government, of its own motion, will increase its own weakness, for that would mean to acquiesce in its own destruction ... governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself. <br /><br />-----------------------------------<br /><br />All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. <br /><br />—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), “Breathing Space”, The Baltimore Evening Sun, 1924-08-04. Reprinted in A Carnival of Buncombe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498120352601868144.post-33245104712146006772009-09-28T18:30:55.155+10:002009-09-28T18:30:55.155+10:00Dear HH,
Powerful words...So meaningful, so poigna...Dear HH,<br />Powerful words...So meaningful, so poignant yet so sad that we need permission to do something so right, so noble...<br />Thanks for sharing,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8498120352601868144.post-81741330242274216542009-09-28T13:48:54.582+10:002009-09-28T13:48:54.582+10:00That's exactly I'm doing to my children.
...That's exactly I'm doing to my children.<br /><br />When come to religion, try to look at the bigger picture. If in doubt, refer to the sacred book, the Al-Quran, seek opinion from learned ones, not just from the ustaz or imam, but to also articulate what was discussed. It could be time consuming, but it sure not putting them into the cow-herd mentality. Never to take statement blindly from just one person including me as it could be biased from culture and the way i was brought-up.<br /><br />So, my tag-line to my children, do good unto people as you wanted people to do good unto you for God will always be with you from here to thereafter. While the tag-line is borrowed from somewhere, it also server to remind me of the borrowed time I have here on earth.Xforgetnoreply@blogger.com