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D.J. Grothe

About D.J.
"We're not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion. I just bought a Macintosh." — Randy Pausch

Into intellectual history, religion/followership, goethe/nietzsche/freud, x-men and the marvel universe, legerdemain, games, george carlin, and my partner (not always in that order).

"Embracing the whole calendar of sleights. . ." - Erdnase

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To those whose minds are not liberated . . . radical movements will never bring freedom but only an exchange of one kind of slavery for another. -- Walter Kaufmann

Left-libertarians share the leftists' concern for the vulnerable and wish not to be mistaken for rightists, but go one better by correctly identifying the source of the vulnerability -- corporatism -- and the solution: an unfettered competitive market void of any sort of privilege. -- Sheldon Richman

Few have the courage of their convictions. Fewer still, the courage for an attack on their convictions. -- Nietzsche

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. -- E. O. Wilson

Open your mouth wide and God will stuff it full. -- Joel Osteen

If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true. -- Mother Teresa

By being both anti-authoritarian and anti-corporate monopoly, Left Libertarians present a clean break from right-wing coalition of neo-cons, the Religious Right, and Big Business. In opposing the war, in promoting local control (which many Greens do), in fighting state-sanctioned corporate privilege, and in fighting to protect our civil liberties, the Libertarian Left has far more in common with the Left than with the Right as it is presently identified. -- James Leroy Wilson

To be is to do.
- Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

To do is to be.
- Jean Paul Sartre

Do be do be do.
- Frank Sinatra

Yabba dabba do.
- Fred Flintstone