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From Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton, Talking in our beds for a week. The newspapers said, "Say, what you doin in bed?" I said, "We're only trying to get us some peace". Christ you know it ain't easy, You know how hard it can be. The way things are going They're going to crucify me. Saving up your money for a rainy day, Giving all your clothes to charity. Last night the wife said, "Oh boy, when you're dead You don't take nothing with you But your soul – think!" John Lennon, who, with his wife Yoko Ono Lennon, commenced a 'bed in' for peace to protest the Vietnam War, at the Amsterdam Hilton on March 26, 1969; Ballad of John and Yoko People want peace. And you've got to sell it and sell it and sell it. So we do the bed-ins and they say, "What? They're in bed? What's this?" And all we're doing really is donating our holiday. We get tired and it's ... more convenient for us to stay in one spot than go around doing press conferences. John Lennon If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. John Lennon |
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wonsaponatime therewas two Ballons called Jock and Yono. They were strictly love-bound to happen in a million years. They were together man. Unfortunatimetable they both seemed to have previous experience -- which kept calling them one way or another.(you know howitis). But they battled on against overwhelming oddities, includo some of there beast friends ... Being in love they cloong even the more together man -- but some of the posionessmonster of outrated buslodedshithrowers did stick slightly and occasionaly had to resort to the drycleaners. Luckily this did not kill them & they werent banned from the olympic games. They lived hopefully ever after, and who could blame them.
John Lennon
Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms, and said,
"We didn't get a wonderful world of just flowers and peace and happy chocolate, and it won't be just pretty and beautiful all the time," and just like babies everyone went back to their rooms and sulked.
"We're going to stay in our rooms and play rock and roll and not do anything else, because the world's a horrible place, because it didn't give us everything we cried for." Right?
John Lennon
We've been on our peace gig, as we call it, for a year solid. And people say,
"Do you think it's having any effect?" I can't answer that. It's like asking me in the Cavern,
"Are you gonna make it?" In the back of my mind I thought, I'm gonna make it, but I couldn't lay it on the line. And I think that peace is more tangible than Beatles.
John Lennon
It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was
"all you need is Love." This year, it's "all you need is Love and peace, baby." Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.
John Lennon
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon
I shall hear in heaven.
Last words of the deaf composer, Ludwig van
Beethoven, who died on
March 26, 1827
The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
Louise Otto-Peters, German feminist, born on March 26, 1819
The religion of one age is often the poetry of the next.
WEH Lecky, Anglo-Irish historian, born on March
26, 1838
Whenever the
clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were
Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.
WEH Lecky; from Ira
D Cardiff, What Great Men Think of Religion, quoted from James A Haught,
ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.
WEH Lecky; ibid
The period of Catholic ascendancy
was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the
human mind.... The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and
deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease
that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe
passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan
science, and clasical free thought, and industrial independence broke
the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe
begin.
WEH Lecky; History of European Morals, Ch. IV, quoted in
Margaret Knight, 'Christianity: The Debit Account' (1975), reprinted
in Annie Laurie Gaylor, ed., Women Without Superstition, p. 453
Positive Atheism's Big List of WEH Lecky Quotations
The difference between the age of individualism and that of concert was well characterized by the fact that, in the nineteenth century, when it rained, the people of Boston put up three hundred thousand umbrellas over as many heads, and in the twentieth century they put up one umbrella over all the heads ...
Edward Bellamy, American utopian novelist, born on March 26, 1850; Looking Backward
If I could only write it, there is a poem to
be made out of the back-country. Some man will come yet who will be able to
grasp the romance of Western Queensland … For there is a romance, though a grim
one – a story of drought and flood, fever and famine, murder and suicide,
courage and endurance … I wonder if a day will come when these men will rise up
– when the wealthy man … shall see pass before him a band of men – all of whom
died in his service, and whose unhallowed graves dot his run – the greater
portion hollow, shrunken, burning with the pangs of thirst.
Barcroft Boake, Australian poet born on March 26, 1866
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
AE Housman, English poet and scholar, born on March 26, 1859
The anarchist bases society neither upon the law nor upon economics. Good citizen, good bureaucrat, good producer, good consumer – this flour-spattered meal-trough has no message for him.
Ernest Armand, French anarchist author, born on March 26, 1872; 'Anarchist Individualism As Life And
Activity' (1907)
We dance round in
a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost, American poet, born on March 26, 1874; 'The Secret Sits'
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
Robert Frost
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
Robert Frost, American poet, born on March 26, 1874
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Robert Frost; 'Mending Wall'
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost; 'The Road Not Taken'
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryan Conant, chemist and politician, born on March 26, 1893
I think his fate is rather like Humpty Dumpty's, quite as tragic and quite as impossible to put right.
Constance Wilde writing on March 26, 1897 about her husband
Oscar Wilde's arrest
and imprisonment
So little done, so much to do.
Last words of Sir Cecil
Rhodes (b. 1853), British colonial administrator, who died on March 26, 1902
The truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.
Joseph Campbell, American mythologist and folklorist, born on March 26, 1904
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts - but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message. Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. Myth tells you what the experience is.
Joseph Campbell; The Power of Myth
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins, British biologist, born on March 26, 1941
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.
Richard Dawkins; The Selfish Gene
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at
all?
Richard Dawkins
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Richard Dawkins
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Richard Dawkins
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
We are all atheists about most of the
gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god
further.
Richard Dawkins; A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays by Richard Dawkins,
Wiedenfield & Nicholson, London, 2003, p. 50
Are science and religion converging?
No.
Richard Dawkins;
ibid, p. 146
Scientists have calculated that in each glass of
water we drink, at least one molecule has passed through the bladder of
Oliver Cromwell.
Richard Dawkins on homeopathy;
Enemies of Reason
More quotes at Positive Atheism's Big List of Richard Dawkins Quotations
Richard
Dawkins quotations
at Wikiquote
Dawkins quotes ay his own
site
There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.
Tennessee Williams, born on March 26, 1911; from Elia
Kazan's autobiography
A Life, 1988
I believe that women are the more spiritually advanced sex.
Erica Jong, American misandrist author, born on March 26, 1942;
Washington Post, December 6, 1992
Planet Earth about to be recycled. Your only
chance to survive – leave with us.
Marshall
Applewhite (b. 1931) leader of Heaven's Gate suicide cult of March 26,
1997
Whether Hale-Bopp has a "companion" or not is irrelevant from our perspective. However, its arrival is joyously very significant to us at "Heaven's Gate." The joy is that our Older Member in the Evolutionary Level Above Human (the "Kingdom of Heaven") has made it clear to us that Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker" we've been waiting for -- the time for the arrival of the spacecraft from the Level Above Human to take us home to "Their World" -- in the literal Heavens. Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion -- "graduation" from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave "this world" and go with Ti's crew.
If you study the material on this website you will hopefully understand our joy and what our purpose here on Earth has been. You may even find your "boarding pass" to leave with us during this brief "window."
We are so very thankful that we have been recipients of this opportunity to prepare for membership in Their Kingdom, and to experience Their boundless Caring and Nurturing.
From the homepage of the Heaven's
Gate website
It has always been our way to examine all
possibilities, and be mentally prepared for whatever may come our way. For
example, consider what happened at Masada around 73 A.D. A devout Jewish
sect, after holding out against a siege by the Romans, to the best of
their ability, and seeing that the murder, rape, and torture of their
community was inevitable, determined that it was permissible for them to
evacuate their bodies by a more dignified, and less agonizing method. We
have thoroughly discussed this topic (of willful [sic] exit of the body
under such conditions), and have mentally prepared ourselves for this
possibility (as can be seen in a few of our statements). However, this act
certainly does not need serious consideration at this time, and hopefully
will not in the future.
From 'Our
Position Against Suicide'; Heaven's
Gate website
March
26
is
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day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (86th in leap years), with 280
days remaining.
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Woman Ploughing, by Venetsianov
Day for goddess Mata Syra
Zemmlija (Mata Syra Zemlya/Zemlia; Matisyrazemlia)
This is ploughing day. As
'Moist Mother Earth' (which is what Mata Syra Zemlya means;
less a name than a title), is
pregnant until
March 25, it is a sin to strike the Earth with iron
(that is, plough) until this day.
"As the water goddess of the Atharvan the knowledge of herbs and plants was attributed to her. Her name is reminiscent of the Iranian form Ardvi Sura Anahita. She is also identified with another Russian goddess of the name Mokushkha, whose name means moist. In depictions of Mokushkha she may be show flanked by two horsemen, who appear to be Slavic remnants of the twin ashvinau of the Hindu world." Source
"Ever fruitful and powerful, Mati Syra Zemlia was worshipped well into the twentieth century. Mother Earth was an oracle whom anyone could consult without any need for a priest or shaman as a go-between. The Slavs felt the profoundest respect for Mother Earth. Peasants settled property disputes by appealing to Mother Earth to witness the truth of their claims, and oaths were sworn in her name." Source
"Moist Mother Earth was prayed to by digging a hole in the earth and speaking into it, or in times of plague by cutting a furrow around the home village being trouble so that Her power would be released and drive the demons of illness away." Source
Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen? A Political History of Women in Russia
March
hare breeding, England
Breeding traditionally begins today. A hare's foot has long been considered a lucky charm to carry, but only if it contains jointed bones. It was once considered a remedy for gout, stomach pains and insomnia.
Khordad
Sal, 
