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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”

 “My standpoint is armed neutrality.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” 

“Without risk, faith is an impossibility.”

 “It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”

 “Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”

 “At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.”

“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”

“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.”

 “During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.”

 “Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

 “Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle”

 “A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.”

We have about 57 partially finished posts and no gumption for finishing any of them.

Our friend Richard Nolle just posted a Dexy's Midnight Runners cover of Van Morrison's Jackie Wilson Said.

One of the youngest Roanboy's favorite tunes.

Inspired, I figured we should just go with the genuine article.

Here's Detroit's own, Mr. Excitement, live in the studio, effortlessly hitting notes dead on that mere mortals can only dream about.

The great Jackie Wilson.

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Highe and Higher.

Quite possibly the youngest Roanboy's favorite song. The youngest being a good deal more soulful than his brothers.

I've no idea where these guys came up with that Mr. Soul thing.

Of the millions of bands in the mid 60's that were inspired/influenced by The Beatles' the very best IMHO was Uruguay's Los Shakers.

Leaders of the Uruguayan Invasion, Los Shakers' command of Beatlesque harmonies and songcraft made them for a time as popular in Argentina and Uruguay as The Beatles were in the UK and the States.

After three succesful albums of Beatle influenced, Mersey Beat through Psychedelic music, Los Shakers parted company with their label over the band's desire to record music influenced by more traditional Uruguayan and Argentine influences and soon broke up.

From the movie La Escala Musicale in 1965, this is Hugo Fattoruso on lead vocals, guitar and piano, Osvaldo Fattoruso on vocals and rythm guitar, Roberto "Pelin" Capobianco on bass guitar and Carlos "Caio" Vila on the drumkit.

Los Shakers.

Only You.

Boy ... do i ever know that feeling.

Among those sites/people promoting the notion that the attack on the world Trade Center and the Pentagon was a "false flag operations" or something other than an attack by "Islamic Extremists" we think that the people who made Zeitgeist do the best and certainly most entertaining job of making their case.

This vid is taken from the middle third of the movie and ends with the JFK speech that is frequently billed as "the speech that got Kennedy killed".

The entire Zeitgeist movie along with subsequent updates can be found here.

We've tried to watch the whole thing but can't watch the first third about Christianity as it's full of such nonsense that it is what caused us to go looking for the debunking sites concerning the attack of September 11, 2001 that we link to below.

The final third of the film begins after the JFK clip and is a discussion of the who, what, when and where of the "Illuminati" conspiracy theories that increasingly feel pretty right on to us.

Among those sites seeking to "debunk" the above our favorite is Debunking 911 Conspiracy Theories.

The above gears link to their FAQ rather than their home page because first of all they suggest you start there and secondly that proved to be good advice.

Alex Jones is not crazy about these guys.

From NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day page.

As always click on the photo (the word picture feels so cheap in this instance) in order to link up with the page.

As an aside, all the links at the page for this photo are very cool in their own right.

Thanks to Richard Nolle for tipping us off to this beautiful shot.

Didn't quite get this one lined up right did I?