OP, I know you're just trolling. But if you have ANY sort of real humanity. Read this book. And get a fukking clue.
We stumbled on in the darkness, over big stones and through large puddles, along the one road running through the camp. The accompanying guards kept shouting at us and driving us with the butts of their rifles. Anyone with very sore feet supported himself on his neighbor's arm. Hardly a word was spoken; the icy wind did not encourage talk. Hiding his hand behind his upturned collar, the man marching next to me whispered suddenly: "If our wives could see us now! I do hope they are better off in their camps and don't know what is happening to us."
That brought thoughts of my own wife to mind. And as we stumbled on for miles, slipping on icy spots, supporting each other time and again, dragging one another on and upward, nothing was said, but we both knew: each of us was thinking of his wife. Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread behind a dark bank of clouds. But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth--that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way--an honorable way--in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life, I was able to understand the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory."
In front of me a man stumbled and those following him fell on top of him. The guard rushed over and used his whip on them all. Thus my thoughts were interrupted for a few minutes. But soon my soul found its way back from the prisoners existence to another world, and I resumed talk with my loved one: I asked her questions, and she answered; she questioned me in return, and I answered...
My mind still clung to the image of my wife. A thought crossed my mind: I didn't even know if she were still alive, and I had no means of finding out (during all my prison life there was no outgoing or incoming mail); but at that moment it ceased to matter. There was no need to know; nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I still would have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of that image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. "Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death."
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06-11-2011, 05:51 PM #3180% of any success is your psychology, and 20% is the mechanics
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06-11-2011, 05:52 PM #32
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dumb **** OP. ignorance is bliss you dirty cocksucking, ass licking, gay *******.
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"I don't much care where ..." said Alice.
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06-11-2011, 05:53 PM #33
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Cliffs?
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06-11-2011, 05:54 PM #34
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06-11-2011, 05:55 PM #36I fall off the lifting wagon all the time but I'm still here lol
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06-12-2011, 06:41 PM #40
is this real life OP?
trolololol
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06-12-2011, 06:42 PM #41
was this guy green when he posted this?
so ****ing ridiculous
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06-12-2011, 06:45 PM #47
ITT: people over-react to some retardation
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06-12-2011, 06:45 PM #48
holocaust was terrible, but what we never hear about in american high school (at least I didn't)
was about the japanese atrocities, which seemingly went without punishment:
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06-12-2011, 06:47 PM #49
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06-12-2011, 06:47 PM #50
negged for stupidity
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then what deafness may we not all possess? ~ Dune
We need a new ideology with the core values of reason, honesty, science and secular progress over the older traditions of religion, superstition and dogmatic faith that have long defined humanity. We will never be free to progress and advance until the last stone from the last church is cast down onto the last priest. And every equivalent.
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06-12-2011, 06:48 PM #55
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lol
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06-12-2011, 06:49 PM #56
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06-12-2011, 06:49 PM #58
im opening up a summer camp for jewish people with ADD, i think i will call it a concentration camp.. this will be a camp where the jews will learn to concentrate, and if they cant i will simply gas them.
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06-12-2011, 06:49 PM #59
@ im12watisthis
Thats because Chinese don't look like "white people". We would never drop an ABOMB on "whites". //inbeforeracist.
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