Sunday, March 25, 2018

The river shall become blood upon the dry land



And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land. 
-Exodus 4:9

There were giants in the earth in those days (antediluvian); and also after that (postdiluvian), when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
-Genesis 6:4

Sunday, March 04, 2018

Vox Populi vs. You Tube Censors



Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. 

If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. 

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it." ― Salman Rushdie

"Being offended provides no objective indication of 'right' & 'wrong'. It's nothing more than a barometer of your own emotional control." ― Ricky Gervais

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.” ― Oscar Wilde

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]” ― Harry Truman