Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Category: Education

  • Quote of the Day 28 January 2014 – Splinter

    “If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the whole world is reduced…

  • Quote of the Day 27 January 2014 – Rhetoric

    Yeah, about the test… The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football, and while scrolling…

  • L. Ron Hubbard Quote of the Day 26 January 2014

    “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way to be to start his own religion.” – [attributed as words uttered on five separate occasions] L. Ron (Lafayette Ronald) Hubbard (1911-1986 if you believe he is dead)… science fiction writer turned founder and…

  • Quote the Breitbart – Deportation of the Bieber 25 January 2014

    “In a world as electronically connected as ours, other than shooting Bieber into the silent void of space (which the Geneva Convention lists as a war crime against space), there is nothing we can do to protect our children from the toxic effect this stunted Vanilla Ice has and will continue to have on our…

  • Anonymous Quote of the Day 24 January 2014 – Bookworms

    For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony…

  • Justin Bieber DUI Quotes to Live or Die By In Miami-Dade

    NO… says Marc. I am not a belieber in the bieber. Justin Bieber is a little spoiled douche that needs some tough lovin’ outside of protective custody in his Miami-Dade jail cell. >”Don’t forget impairment starts with the first drink and driving impaired is a crime.”—National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) radio script, July 2003. (The…

  • Quote of The Day 22 January 2014 – Believing

    “When it comes to believing in god, I really, really tried… but… the more you look around, the more you realize… something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger filth, poverty, torture, crime corruption, the ice capades… This is not good work. If this is the best god can do, I’m not impressed. Results…

  • Quote of the Day 20 January 2014 – empirical evidence

    “On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. … In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over…

  • Debunking Blood-Type Diet Debunkers – I’m The Proof

    FACT CHECK: My first impression of this study is that while they recognize certain factors and results as anecdotal, I find ALL results and assumptions anecdotal because of the nature and uncontrollable variables of the study. Scientific factors and explanations aside, this study is flawed. This study (by design) does not meet the standards of…

  • Quote of the Day 17 January 2014 – Perception

    “Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to ‘show’ it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg‘s adaptation of the Hays Office—the…