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Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

1952

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Endogen

RID: ZB3S279001R

Database: Homo sapiens Non-RefSeq protein

           448,380 sequences; 156,709,324 total letters

Query= pol _ 2087..5098 _ ABI30941.1_ GI:113171671

Length=1003

                                         Score Query cov.  E-value

CAM91208.1

  unnamed protein product [Homo sapiens] 1751   100%         0.0

CAF05618.1

  unnamed protein product [Homo sapiens]  902    55%         0.0

AAM81188.1

  pol protein [Homo sapiens]              276    80%         6e-73

>emb|CAM91208.1|  unnamed protein product [Homo sapiens]

Length=1014

 Score = 1751 bits (4536),  Expect = 0.0, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.

 Identities = 846/1010 (83%), Positives = 932/1010 (92%), Gaps = 7/1010 (0%)

>emb|CAF05618.1|  unnamed protein product [Homo sapiens]
Length=576
 Score =  902 bits (2332),  Expect = 0.0, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
 Identities = 468/579 (80%), Positives = 500/579 (86%), Gaps = 22/579 (3%)
>gb|AAM81188.1|  pol protein [Homo sapiens]
Length=863
 Score =  276 bits (705),  Expect = 6e-73, Method: Compositional matrix adjust.
 Identities = 256/865 (29%), Positives = 398/865 (46%), Gaps = 98/865 (11%)

Armed pacifists.

Gandhi was a great man, but we know of him only because he was fortunate enough to use his nonviolent methods against the British. Had he tried them on a more brutal foe, he would have wound up in a forgotten grave. Indeed, Gandhi advised the Jews not to resist the Nazis — perhaps the worst advice in history. Pacifists must choose their opponents with care.

Pacifists narcissistically assume everyone is like them, open to reason. They lack the imagination to see that some people do not use violence as a last resort, when other methods fail, but enjoy violence — revel in it. They cannot imagine that there are people who enjoy killing, and even some who look forward to dying themselves if enough "others" die also.

Many pacifists are zealous in protecting criminals’ rights, but they forget the rights of victims. Some time ago, a black store owner was robbed at gunpoint. He identified the robber, who threatened to kill him. The store owner applied for a gun permit but was denied. Later he used an unregistered gun to shoot the robber, who had been released from jail and tried to carry out his threat. The store owner was given a year in jail. Sympathy was used up on the robber — none was left for the store owner.

The word "peacemaker" has two basic meanings. The first refers to one who tries to calm hostility. The second refers to the Colt .45 revolver, which may be required if the first approach fails. Both types of peacemaker are needed to keep peace in the world.

Pacifists declare, "All life is precious," but what does this mean? I have seen the police photographing a corpse on a sidewalk, and two coyotes tearing apart a cat on a Los Angeles street. Every year coyotes kill many pets and occasionally attack a child, yet hunting or trapping them is illegal. In practice, "all life is precious" means that the life of a murderer is more precious than that of his victim, and the life of a coyote is more precious than that of a cat or dog. Pacifists stand aside in self-satisfied neutrality while predators roam free.

Pacifism is a luxury. Like golf, it can be enjoyed by a fortunate few, while most of us face a harsher reality. Pacifists often live in safe suburbs or gated communities, so they cannot understand why anyone feels the need for self-defense. They rarely work or live in high-crime areas, as do many poor people and minorities. They need not dirty their hands with weapons; gun oil has a pleasant smell with which they are unfamiliar. They depend on the police and military to keep them safe — and then look down with contempt on their protectors, while cutting their funding and hampering them with unrealistic rules.

As has been said, it doesn’t matter how many resolutions the sheep pass in favor of vegetarianism; the only thing that matters is whether the wolves are hungry. The world is full of hungry wolves. Sheep are too stupid to know this, so sheepdogs protect them. But what if the sheep were just smart enough to muzzle the sheepdogs, because the growls disturbed their peaceful slumbers? 

From: "The Ugly side of Pacifism", 

David C. Stolinsky, 2001

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Wondering

I'm wondering how much more stupidity one can wade thru with its zippered & knifed tattered wide-leg gym pants before passing out on her Lavender-scented bed.

Donnie: "Are they Nazis, Dude?"
The Dude: "No Donnie, they're nihilists."
Walter Sobchak: "Nihilists? Fuck meeee... these Germans..They never learn. At least, national-socialism had an ethos...And I..."
The Dude: "Shut the fuck-up Walter! They said they would cut-off my Johnson! And I need it!"
Donnie: "What do you need it for, Dude?'"

The unbearable lightness of being

I've always liked to compare the head of a person in certain situations with a washer, centrifuging thoughts at thousand miles per hour. Occasionally this personal condition can be listened from a considerable distance. I consider mysfelf a huge fan of social experiments. Here's one fictional example.




I saw this film for the first time to years ago now. Two minutes later I fell in love with Juliette.

Absent meets presence

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