PeterS

This applies to every conservative/Christian out there.

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Hahahahaha....... actually that applies to every darkie and undesirable person of color......... and apparently every blue gum democrat loser.... nice group, Petey

Your hypocrisy blinds you old man....

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Good quote

How about this one

Rose42

Lol. Both are good

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

No, not all of them...................just the most ignorant, loud and obnoxious bunch.

Ronald Hatt Loc: Lansing, Mich

You being anything "but" Conservative Christian....how would "YOU" know anything about *fairness, *constructive criticism, *integrity, *honor, *God, & country, Patriotism, family values, & even common decency?

Bach

Emerson was a nut. Why waste the time?

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Ah, yes, Ralph Waldo, helluva guy, him and Henry Thoreau. The Transcendentalists.

We studied those two gents in college. Read almost everything they wrote.
They often wrote about the qualities and character of their friendship.

They had a deep and abiding friendship that is often compared to the friendships among Jesus' disciples.
Jesus taught that lovingkindness is the hallmark of a cherished friendship.

Thoraeu wrote: “Emerson has special talents unequaled. His personal influence upon young persons is greater than any man’s. In his world, every man would be a poet, Love would reign, Beauty would take place, Man and Nature would harmonize.”

Emerson's essay Self-Reliance was my favorite. He wrote on human attributes that l*****ts find abhorrent and condemn.

Things like - Self-reliance - and rugged individualism and non-conformity and love of yourself and your fellow man. With love as your guide - not government or society's norms - to do for yourself and others what is right and good.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

And,

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”


It is shamefully dishonest of you, Peter, to cherry pick a quote from this great and loving man and use it as a political weapon to hammer those you h**e.

"These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Self-reliance is its aversion."
Emerson: Self-reliance

Bach

Go ahead. Wallow in it!