Quote of the Day: 17 January 2025 #QotD

“He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.” -Pollyanna Whittier, Pollyanna
[Things certainly seem better when you're focused on the positive aspects of things.]

Quote of the Day: 16 January 2025 #QotD

“You can’t escape the past, Lukan. It’s our lifelong companion, always at our side.” -Shafia, The Silverblood Promise
[Rather self explanatory. We all have pasts. And they travel with us. But they don't define who we can become. Only where we have come from.]

Quote of the Day: 15 January 2025 #QotD

“The confiscation and redistribution of wealth—whether on a moderate or a comprehensive scale—is at the heart of the social justice agenda. While social justice advocates stress what they see as the desirability of such policies, the feasibility of those policies tends to receive far less attention, and the consequences of trying and failing often receive virtually no attention.” -Thomas Sowell
[Probably because the consequences are largely unimportant to those who would like to implement the policies. They're more interested in the emotional catharsis of getting the policy passed.]

Quote of the Day: 14 January 2025 #QotD

“Moral pluralism is true descriptively. As a simple matter of anthropological fact, the moral domain varies across cultures.” -Jonathan Haidt
[This is just a statement that different cultures have different moral frameworks. It says nothing about which moral framework, if any, is correct.]

Quote of the Day: 13 January 2025 #QotD

“Do you ever feel like we aren’t getting the future we were promised, but we are getting the one we were threatened with[?]” -Rick, Basic Instructions
[Frankly, yes. And I'm not a big fan of some of it. The rest is alright.]

Quote of the Day: 12 January 2025 #QotD

“Fill your life with positive, righteous ideas; be joyful; have fun but avoid foolishness. There is a difference.” -Quentin L. Cook

Quote of the Day: 11 January 2025 #QotD

“[C]leverness kills wisdom; that is one of the few sad and certain things.” -G. K. Chesterton
[There are so many instances of clever people falling in love with foolish ideas because they appear clever. Never mind the ideas that have already been shown to be failures that these folks are convinced should be possible anyway.]