nice quote that still resonates to this day...

[El Mayimbe]

a friend of mine forwarded this to me, its from Mark Twain's book, The Mysterious Stranger, some say one of his pessimistic yet eye opening works (it dealt with issues of God vs the Devil)


"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,
and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just,
and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."...The Mysterious Stranger
;)

[Hippie]

Great quote! Makes me think Twain was a forward thinker or we haven't changed much over the years.

[Hk]

Indeed Twain was a forward thinker.

I dont have my collection of his essays with, but ahhhh....

He did an interesting essay on nationalism and how Americans pray in affirmation for war, yet what's really being prayed for is carnage and destruction on other human beings....(praying to God to kill other peopl, the bitter irony.)

The dude is a model. In that he had the courage to stand up against the injustices of his own kind... (something that not many of us would ever dream of let alone doing)....