BROTHER GIOVANNI’S JOURNAL………….
View from the main chapel window, Pizzaonian Monasteries, Pizzaonia
RANDOM QUOTES FROM PIZZAONIUS WHILE GOING FROM HERE TO THERE……….
What better way to gain political credibility than to destroy a financial system and then blame those who try to fix it for creating the problem. One caveat: before you destroy the system make sure you get your cash out first. Wow, this is so farfetched nothing like this could ever happen.
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Who needs a revolution in a democracy when you can buy it?
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The best way to sell something to the masses is make it seem exclusive. The rich won’ touch it, but ordinary people will endure endless discomfort and cost to be seen with it.
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On being tolerant: It is important to believe in something, but not to the extent that it might offend other people.
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The danger in being a Christian is that sooner or later you might have to take it seriously.
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If you are going to gossip, make sure what you are saying does not appear to be gossip.
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Take the credit for all the good things that happen in your life, for all the else, blame heredity.
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On friendship: “I do desire we be better strangers.” Shakespeare How often would you have liked to say this?
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Happiness is not a state of mind it is a process that you cultivate as you would any good habit. It consists of making the best of any situation, particularly those situations you can do nothing about.
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RANDOM OBSERVATIONS WHILE TRAVELING FROM EAST TO WEST……….
In any democratic system the rich will always support public education as long as it remains vocational training. That support will end the minute it begins to educate the masses.
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To allow opposing beliefs to coexist freely with yours is not tolerance, unless you also believe that beliefs that oppose yours are also equal to yours.
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Perhaps randomness is not so bad after all. Just think what trouble we would be in if our political leaders were capable of actually executing their ideas.
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Trying to find common ground with everyone you meet is like water skiing with sandals. Unless you have incredibly large feet it doesn’t work.
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What every demagogue has figured out: You don’t have to solve people’s problems – you simply must create hatred for a supposed enemy that gives meaning to their otherwise hopeless lives.
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We meet reality twice in a lifetime, at birth and at death. Everything in between is an illusion created by the culture you were born into.
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You should always preach forgiveness. Just be very careful to whom you extend it to.
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SOME CLOSING THOUGHTS……….
If you have gotten this far, by now you have noticed a great deal of cynicism in the above thoughts. I sometimes think cynicism gets a bad rap. For those of us, and I include myself, a dose of occasional derision that attacks ideas we hold sacred might be mentally helpful. This is particularly true for the idealist.
As the Pizzaonian Spelunker has been heard to say, “Idealism is only for those who have always been poor and the very rich.”
Not that I agree with this, but a dose of the other side of our optimistic reality might have some benefit for us idealists who fall somewhere in the middle of the Spelunker’s criteria.
Till next time ………
Brother Giovanni
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