Show threadWelkin5d ago

@hszakher @dalfen @Rastal @killbait
If that comes to pass then the #IranWar would be justified as a War or #Necessity and not of War of Choice. That changes the entire equation. Entire group of countries who have hitherto silently opposed #IranWar and carried out actions which limit #US options will shift into silent support or active help.

That is not the worse part, #Israel might push for a balkanisation of #Iran and have its way.

RoundSparrowMar 23

#Necessity #Necessities
#RelationshipMisunderstandings

1. Love is not optional in #Democracy

2. A #DemocraticSociety that worships hate and prizes hate is a society #DeathCult

3. #TooPreachy you need to be preaching love. We all do.

Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏Mar 12

"Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do."

~ Hercule Poirot
(Agatha Christie, 1935)

#quote #quotes #quotation #psychology #necessity #agathachristie

WIST QuotationsFeb 11

A quotation from James Howell

Necessity never made good bargain.

James Howell (c. 1594 - 1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “New Sayings,” 3rd Century (1659)

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/16348/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #bargain #desperation #necessity #need #requirement #tradeoff

Howell, James - Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, "New Sayings," 3rd Century (1659) | WIST Quotations

Necessity never made good bargain. See Franklin (1735).

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WIST QuotationsFeb 3

A quotation from Oscar Wilde

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)

More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift

Wilde, Oscar - Essay (1891-02), "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns) | WIST Quotations

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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Hermetic LibraryJan 30
Unicursal ALL WILL NECESSITY Propaganda from the Office of the Ministry of Information at Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/information/all-will-necessity/index

#propaganda #thelema #AleisterCrowley #all #will #necessity #swerve #ultimately #UltimatelyImpossible #impossible #seek #suffer
Hermetic LibraryJan 30

Unicursal ALL WILL NECESSITY Propaganda from the Office of the Ministry of Information at Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/information/all-will-necessity/index

#propaganda #thelema #AleisterCrowley #all #will #necessity #swerve #ultimately #UltimatelyImpossible #impossible #seek #suffer

WIST QuotationsJan 20

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The price for absolute freedom from necessity is, in a sense, life itself, or rather the substitution of vicarious life for real life. […] The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the “easy life of the gods” would be a lifeless life.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Human Condition, Part 3 “Labor,” ch. 16 (1958)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10515/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #effort #life #living #meaningoflife #necessity #pain #struggle #survival #suffering

Arendt, Hannah - The Human Condition, Part 3 "Labor," ch. 16 (1958) | WIST Quotations

The price for absolute freedom from necessity is, in a sense, life itself, or rather the substitution of vicarious life for real life. [...] The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in…

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Wisdom in SpaceJan 3

Beings ought not to be multiplied except out of necessity. (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.)
-- William of Occam (14th Century CE)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamofOccam #Necessity #Parsimony #ProblemSolving

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

MidgePhotoNov 14

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/115547499309561097

#necessity has #inventions for daughters.
To reduce the use of #oil as fuel in the #UK reduce the amount of oil entering the country.
Most effectively done by reducing the rate it enters, close a berth or a port, turn down the pumps and taps on pipelines, accept deliveries only on weekdays, etc.
(And increase the amounts we store, and the places we store it in, and the actual volume between import and end-user, for security).

Then we shall work with less of it and feel clever.