{"quotes":[{"text":"Wasn't that what Jesus said: do what I do? He was here as an example for us to follow. Same with all prophets. Didn't the prophets tell us to be like them? That's what's wrong with Christianity. They make Jesus and the prophets into icons, take them off of earth, and put them in heaven to worship them, so they're no longer accessible. You've taken a reality and made it into a worthless idol. Christians talk about the idolatry of other religions, but when they no longer live principles and just worship the people who taught them, that's exactly what they're doing.","author":"Daniel Suelo","tags":["2012","american-christianity","asceticism","christian-nation","do-as-god-would-do","hypocrisy","idolatry","poverty"],"id":3302,"author_id":"Daniel+Suelo"},{"text":"The aim of far too many teachings these days is to make people 'feel good,' and even some Buddhist masters are beginning to sound like New Age apostles. Their talks are entirely devoted to validating the manifestation of ego and endorsing the 'rightness' of our feelings, neither of which have anything to do with the teachings we find in the pith instructions. So, if you are only concerned about feeling good, you are far better off having a full body massage or listening to some uplifting or life-affirming music than receiving dharma teachings, which were definitely not designed to cheer you up. On the contrary, the dharma was devised specifically to expose your failings and make you feel awful.","author":"Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse","tags":["2012","bromides","buddhism","dharma","feel-good","happiness","new-age","vajrayana"],"id":8648,"author_id":"Dzongsar+Jamyang+Khyentse"},{"text":"In this section you will learn how to use the tools the way that I think you will choose to use them by default.","author":"Alan Richardson","tags":["2012","humor","technology"],"id":22645,"author_id":"Alan+Richardson"},{"text":"For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.","author":"Glenn Greenwald","tags":["2012","barack-obama","drone-attacks-in-pakistan","politics","twitter","united-states","unmanned-aerial-vehicles","us-presidential-election-2012"],"id":26818,"author_id":"Glenn+Greenwald"},{"text":"This is a nation that professes to be a Christian nation,' [Suelo] tells me, surveying his temporary kingdom. 'And yet it's basically illegal to live according to the teachings of Jesus.","author":"Mark Sundeen","tags":["2012","asceticism","christian-nation","poverty","suelo"],"id":37493,"author_id":"Mark+Sundeen"},{"text":"It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.","author":"Glenn Greenwald","tags":["2012","barack-obama","dissent","liberalism","loyalty","politics","twitter","united-states"],"id":43238,"author_id":"Glenn+Greenwald"},{"text":"Going into the Republican Party National Convention, in all objective truth, our non‑winning front‑runners are the sorriest collection of stuffed shirts, empty suits, self‑gratulatory ignorami, and outright wig‑flipped ding‑dongs in the history of the Republic.","author":"John Barnes","tags":["2012","republican","right-wingers","satire"],"id":55221,"author_id":"John+Barnes"},{"text":"If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.","author":"Alexandar Tomov","tags":["2012","apocalypse","contemporary-fiction","dystopian-fiction","fantasy","fiction","future","new","new-","post-apocalyptic","science-fiction","short-stories","speculative-fiction"],"id":77525,"author_id":"Alexandar+Tomov"},{"text":"Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay.","author":"Vincent Lowry","tags":["2012","dreams","paycheck","quote","vincent-lowry"],"id":79695,"author_id":"Vincent+Lowry"},{"text":"I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.","author":"Glenn Greenwald","tags":["2012","barack-obama","politics","right-wing-politics","twitter","united-states","united-states-elections-2012"],"id":80354,"author_id":"Glenn+Greenwald"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}