آتش درون

When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

- Stars, "Your Ex-Lover is Dead"

* In protest of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, Palach, a 20-year-old university student from the former Czechoslovakia, set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in the city of Prague on January 16, 1969. His funeral turned into a major protest against the Soviet occupation.

Every single time

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

قدم آخر

We all are atheists to most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one God further!

- Richard Dawkins

Afters.e.x

Science is like s.e.x: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

- Richard Feynman

محدودیت منابع

Sometimes it's a good idea to remind men that God gave them a pe.nis and a brain, and only enough blood to run just one at a time!

- Robin Williams

نفسی، نه فقط برای بودن

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

- Sherlock Holmes; Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

مردی که طاقت حماقت را نداشت

جورج کارلین، خفنترین کمدین تاریخ، بدون هیچ شکی، یکی از قهرمانان زندگی من است. سه سال بیشتر نیست که می‌شناسمش، اما نحوه نگاهش به زندگی، زبان و انسان، در بینش من آنقدر تأثیرات ژرف داشته است که بتواند به یک قهرمان بلامنازع تبدیل شود. ماجراجویی‌های این استاد در ارتباطات کلامی، دلیل اصلی‌ای است که باعث شده گاهی از من جملات عجیبی بشنوید! او مردی بود که انسان‌ها را دوست داشت، اما تنها برای مقاطعی کوتاه! خانه‌ی ُپرش یک دقیقه، یک دقیقه و نیم! او هم مانند این شیفته‌اش، تحمل حماقت آدمیزادگان میانمایه را نداشت. و یکی از معدود انسان‌های تریاکی‌ای در جهان که من عمیقاً تحسین می‌کنم.

خوب شد که از نارسایی قلبی مرد. مرگی یک‌ضرب، بدون اینکه غرور و آبروی انسان، با دردی طولانی و بدنی خرد شده خدشه‌دار شود. مرگی عاقلانه و مهربان، برای مردی که مهربانیش عاقلانه بود!
با مرگش، یکی از دلایل مهم من برای دیدن آینده، از میان رفت. چند نقل قولش را می‌گذارم شاید کنجکاو شوید و بروید شو‌هایش را ببینید:

I can't understand why prostitution is illegal: selling is legal, fu##ing is legal! why isn't selling fu##ing legal? In the army they give you a medal for spraying napalm on people, in civilian life you go to jail for giving someone an or.ga.sm!


Why is it, that most of the people who are against abortion, are the people you wouldn't wanna fu## in the first place?


How come when it's us, it's an abo.rtion, but when it is chicken, it's an Omelet? When did we pass chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chicken. See? Nobody can do it!


Hey, if you read history, you'll see that God has been one of major causes of death. Hindus, [...], Jews, Christians all taking turns killing each other just because God told them that it was a good idea!

- You believe in God?
- No
- Doof, dead!

- You believe in God?
- Yes
- You believe in my God?
- No
- Doof, dead! My God has a bigger Di.ck than your God!


To me, war is a prick waving Di.ck-fight! Men are insecure about the size of their Di.cks, so they go to war over it. You don't need to be a historian or a political scientist to see the foreign Di.ck policy at work. It works like this: "What?! They have bigger Di.cks? Bomb them!" And of course, all bombs and the bullets are shaped like Di.cks! It's a subconscious need to project the pen.is into other peoples affairs!


Now that I've come off as a complete pig up here, let me ask a question from men: Are you able to watch a woman eating a Banana, and not thinking about a bl.ow job? I can't! And I know, I'm a sick evil fu##! I know that! I accept that! But I can't do it!


It's the old American double standards, you know: Say something, do something different! This whole country was founded on double standards! It's our history! This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free! So they killed all the white English people, in order to continue owning their black African people, so they can wipe out the rest of the red Indian people, and move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them place to take off and drop nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese People! You know what the motto of this country outta be? You give us a color, we'll wipe it out!


They want to tell you what you can say on radio and television! The FCC (The federal communication commission, an appointed body, not elected, answerable only to the president) decided all by itself that the radio and the television were the only two parts of the American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution. I'd like to repeat that because it sounds vaguely important! [he repeats it] Why did they decide that? Because they got a letter from a reverend from Mississippi! A reverend Donald Wildman from Mississippi heard something on the radio that he didn't like! Well reverend, did anyone tell you that there are two knobs on the radio? Of course I'm sure reverend is uncomfortable with anything that has two knobs on it! But hey, there are two knobs on the radio: One of them turns the radio off, and the other one, changes the station! Imagine that reverend, you can ACTUALLY change the station! It's called freedom of choice, and is one of the principles this country was founded upon; Look it up in the library reverend, if you have any of them left when you finished burning all the books!

تقدیم به هاله‌ی نوری که نموده ما را

Get on!

You think you see me, in the glass
You think you hear me, better listen fast
I think I see you, gone to seed
I think your reason, is your guilt and greed

You're out there on your own
Your face is turned to stone
What ever happened to your life?
Stone dead forever
All right!

You're a financial wizard, yeah, a top tycoon
You're a sweet long lizard, with a silver spoon
You know you've never had it, quite so good
And you didn't know, that you even could

Your time has come to own
Your touch turned to gold
What ever happened to your life?
Stone dead forever
All right!

It's been a long time, it's been a long long wait
And you caught your fingers, in the pearly gates
You better leave your number, and we'll call you
You know your problem, ain't exactly new

Your time has come today
Your face has turned to hay
What ever happened to your life?
Stone dead forever
That's right!

- Stone dead forever, by Motörhead (covered by Metallica, 1998, in Garage Inc.)

I'm a modern man

I'm a modern man,
A man for the millennium,
Digital and smoke free.
A diversified multicultural postmodern deconstructionist,
Politically anatomically and ecologically incorrect.

I've been up-linked and downloaded.
I've been inputted and outsourced.
I know the upside of downsizing.
I know the downside of upgrading.
I'm a high tech lowlife.
A cutting edge state-of-the-art bicoastal multi-tasker,
And I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond.

I interface from a database,
And my database is in cyberspace,
So I'm interactive,
I'm hyperactive,
And from time-to-time,
I'm radioactive.

I'm on point,
On task,
On message,
And off drugs.

A raging workaholic.
A working ragaholic.
Out of rehab,
And in denial.

You can't shut me up,
You can't dumb me down.
'Cause I'm tireless,
And I'm wireless.
I'm an alpha male on beta blockers.

I'm a non-believer and an over-achiever.
Laid back but fashion forward.

Up front,
Down home,
Low rent,
High maintenance.
Super size,
Long lasting,
High definition,
Fast acting,
Oven ready,
And built to last.

But I'm feeling,
I'm caring,
I'm healing,
I'm sharing.
A supportive bonding nurturing primary care giver.

I read junk mail,
I eat junk food,
I buy junk bonds,
I watch trash sports.
I'm gender specific,
Capital intensive,
User friendly,
And lactose intolerant.

I like rough se.x.
I like rough se.x.
I like tough love.
I use the f word in my email,
And the software on my hard drive is hard c.o.re, no soft p.orn.

I've been pre-washed,
Pre-cooked,
Pre-heated,
Pre-screened,
Pre-approved,
Pre-packaged,
Post-dated,
Freeze-dried,
Double-wrapped,
Vacuum-packed,
And I have an unlimited broadband capacity.

I'm a rude dude,
But I'm the real deal.
Lean and mean.
Cocked, locked and ready to rock.

I'm hanging in,
There ain't no doubt.
And I'm hanging tough,
Over and out.

- George Carlin

Religion

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

- Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The singing bird will come

Keep a green tree in your heart,
and perhaps the singing bird will come.


Chinese proverb