Addison Gayle, Jr.
"Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters"
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Addison Gayle, Jr.
"Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters"
Interesting first post.
Interesting quote, especially given the context of the site.
Can you elaborate on what it means to you, and how you think it fits in with the responsible ownership of firearms?
For some reason I foresee a very steep and long hill ahead of this thread......
"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."
um...bullets come for the barrel of the gun. one must be aware of his/her surroundings when shooting as well...kind of the very basics that are taught at every level of shooting/hunting.
Mr Gayle is probably trying to talk to those in the hood looking to gain power with guns, and try to talk them into coming together for the better of themselves and the community. Problem is, nobody has heard of him...but you can be damn sure they know who Jay-Z, Little Wayne and Snoop Dogg are.
"go team!"
FUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK MEEEEEEEEEEEEE. How many different screen names does NYNCO / FLATLINE go by. Holy SHIT It seems like almost every new member since early 012 has some form of Liberalitis .
Isn't there another web sight you #$%^& Bomb Throwers could join??????? F$%^&*K
Maybe good ol BO herself has joined to enlighten us?
Bet he got obama phone [Coffee]
Other quotes to think about:
But now if you have a moneybag, take it; if you have a food sack, do the same; if you don't have a sword, sell you cloak and buy one. For I tell you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me: 'He let himself be taken as a criminal.' For what scripture said about me is even now reaching its fulfillment.
JESUS.
"Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C. S. Lewis
And of course:
A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity"
-Sigmund Freud , "General Introduction to Psychoanalysis"
And:
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. -Jean de la Bruyere,
And my favorite:
If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective.
In a perfect world, this would be true. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world. There are a growing number amongst us who don't respect the rights of others, nor do they value human life. These people fail to understand reason or compassion. What they understand is the application of a greater force than they are able to trespass upon others; nothing less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Bubba
Well quoted Chunky!Quote:
Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
Mr. Bubba, consider this, there are those of us who:
(A) respect others and reasonable boundaries, (B) maintain that there is nothing more valuable than a human life, (C) wish to dictate the direction of our own lives - versus letting another individual choose for us, (D) think with logic and reason, and (E) take the responsibility for our safety and the safety of our loved ones upon ourselves instead of expecting someone else to provide safety for us. It is we who understand that sometimes the power that comes from the barrel of a gun is the only thing preventing us from becoming someone's victim.
But then, according to your profile you're just 18 and given the bias touchy-feeler sort of education system we have today, I wouldn't expect you'd understand what I'm saying.
Hey... Don't feed the trolls.
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Jim you really need to see someone and either get your meds adjusted or talk to them about your paranoia issues. I have only one screen name. Regardless the world is a lot bigger than people who think exactly like you. Maybe meds will help you deal with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by jim
No matter where you go - there you are.
I think everyone should just point the trolls to theGinsue's post above....
Everywhere is walking distence if you have the time...
..and wherewithal. A trudge cross-country would be nothing short of suck.Quote:
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And it is not Utopia, never was or will be.Quote:
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Not if your name is Forest... Forest Gump.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sawin
Curiosity killed the cat.. But for a while, I was a suspect...
What?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Bubba
Define cultural strength please.
Please identify one or two sources of unlimited capacity of anything, much less empathy, feeling, caring, and love.
Gayle, Addison, Jr. (1932–1991), literary critic, educator, lecturer, essayist, and biographer. One of the chief advocates of the Black Aesthetic, Addison Gayle, Jr., was born in Newport News, Virginia, on 2 June 1932. Inspired by the growing example of RichardWright, young Gayle became a fastidious reader and hoped that a writing career would enable him to over come the strictures of poverty and racism. By the time he graduated from high school in 1950, Gayle had completed a three-hundred-page novel.
Unable to attend college or secure profitable employment, Gayle joined the air force. During his short stint, he wrote copious drafts of his novel, short stories, and poetry and submitted them for publication. After an honorable discharge and several rejection letters from publishers, Gayle reluctantly returned to Virginia.
In 1960, Gayle enrolled in the City College of New York and received his BA in 1965. The following year he earned an MA in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught at City College, where he participated in the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge) program and worked to increase the enrollment of African American and Latino students and to diversify the school's curriculum.
A frequent contrinutor to Hoyt Fuller's journal Black World, Gayle edited Black Expression: Essays By and About Black Americans in the Creative Arts (1969), an anthology of critical writings on African American folk culture, poetry, drama, and fiction. His subsequent publication, The Black Situation (1970), contains a collection of personal essays that chronicle his intellectual development and emerging political militancy in the wake of the civil rights movement and the Black Power struggle.
Gayle's best-known work, The Black Aesthetic (1971), is a compilation of essays written by prominent African American writers and leading Black Aesthetic theorists. In both the introducation and an essay entitled ““Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic”,” Gayle championed cultural nationalism and argued that the central aim of the African American artist was to address and improve social and political conditions. Gayle continued his advocacy of the Black Aesthetic tradition in Way of a New World (1975), a literary history of the African American novel, and his three biographies: Oak and Ivy: A Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1971), Claude McKay: The Black Poet at War (1972), and Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son (1980). Gayle's autobiography, Wayward Child: A Personal Odyssey (1977), offers a frank and sobering account of his life, which painfully details the exacting price of his indefatigable pursuit of literary excellence.
Gayle also distinguished himself as a professor of English at the City University of New York's Bernard M. Baruch College, where he taught until his death in October 1991. A passionate teacher and writer, Addison Gayle remained a strong supporter of the Black Aesthetic movement and continued to affirm a fundamental link between artistic creativity and the social and political advancement of African Americans.
Bibliography
- Donna Olendorf, “Addison Gayle, Jr.,” in CA, vol. 13, ed. Linda Metzger, 1984, pp. 207–208.
- Eleanor Blau, “Addison Gayle, Jr., Literary Critic, Is Dead at 59,” New York Times, 5 Oct. 1991, 10
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/addison...#ixzz2DcsfpsL0
Where is the troll pics? I be dissapoint [dig]
http://i.imgur.com/vXgMt.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by DD977GM2
I have to agree with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
Here's a quote that I'm sure we can all agree with:
"When all else fails, call in close air support!" -A friend who flies F-15s... Modified from "When all else fails, call in artillery."
Or how about this: "If there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it." -Clint Eastwood on gun control.
Hahaha awesome [Beer]
I am aware of the strength of the .45 ACP culture, 9x19 mm culture, 5.56x45 mm culture, 7.62x51 mm culture, .357 Magnum culture and many others. My capacity to empathize with those cultures and my brothers and sisters in each of them is limited only by my magazine or cylinder size and the boxes of ammunition I have in storage. At the end of the day, I and all my brethren have true power enabled by our abilities to defend our homes, our families and our beliefs from the defunct self-inflating racist diatribes of dead literary critics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Bubba
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"-Thomas "T-Bone" Stankus...
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I think my vagina got bigger after reading the OP.
So you've gone from a cameltoe to a moose knuckle? [LOL]Sorry had to.Quote:
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I personally like the Overly Manly Man stuff for quotes:
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For the sake of wasting time, let's break this quote down and analyze each part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Bubba
"Power comes not from the barrel of a gun" - Well, yes. I can actually agree with that. The power comes from the man with his finger on the trigger, good power or bad. It's his power, not the bullets' and not the guns'. Maybe he's a tyrant or a criminal? Or maybe he's an innocent lawful man, protecting himself and family from that tyrant or criminal? It truly doesn't matter.
"but from one's awareness of...cultural strength" - I think all cultures have strengths and weakness, derived from the community that defines that culture. That being said, right now the USA is sorely lacking any true overarching "culture". Take for instance Japan, who's on the opposite end of the spectrum from us. Japan's culture is very pronounced and fundamental to the identity and portrayal of their country. We in the USA are the epitome of a "melting pot" that some seem to value above all else, but in that pot, the USA has lost touch of what brings us together. We've lost the foundation. I contend we are no longer "together" as a culture and a country. We are a diverse group of many different cultures, from many countries, each trying to stake their own claim on what it means to be American. This does not work. Separation and subversion follows. To regain strength and unity for all Americans, we must work to define that overarching culture that everyone in the USA wishes (and is proud) to be a part of.... What is that and how do we define it? I can't answer that, but I tend to think it's freedom... and we're losing it, one freedom at a time.
"and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters" - I'm leaving this together as a complete thought, although it could be divided, I'm sure.... firstly, all aspects of being human are confined by limitations... we do not have the unlimited capacity for anything. Think about that for a minute if you believe an example of unlimited capacity for something exists. Does it really? Under any circumstance? Please reply and convince me... Empathizing with others is very natural, and is far easier toward those we "feel for, care, and love". ie. Family and friends, those we can relate to, our neighbors and colleagues, anyone we have something in common with or recognizable circumstances, that they cannot control... We empathize as civilized people. I believe that is innate. In times of turmoil or emergency, a lot of people still come together to the aid of others. Nevertheless, action from that empathy is sorely lacking. All this being said, with the previously alluded to "separation and subversion" being present, and the complete lack of an overarching culture that we can all be proud of, the typical American does not feel that everyone around them is their "brother and sister", anymore.
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Originally Posted by Sawin
I think to expound upon this quote, and to further criticize the Gayle quote, I refer to Ayn Rand's theory of "The Virtue of Selfishness." First, a word of warning, if you know nothing of the Virtue of Selfishness, don't chime in, those who don't know will see "selfishness" in the negative connotation, and that is not what Rand is talking about. In Rand's virtue theory, no person should ever be forced to be charitable, it should only be voluntary, it can only be voluntary. Otherwise, the taking from another and giving to someone less fortunate (by their own doing or otherwise) is nothing short of theft. Rand would see today's welfare issue as being the cornerstone of a loss of liberty and the best cut and dry evidence of government theft of their own people. Yes, it is impossible to have unlimited capacity for anything, but to further drive this idea home empathy cannot be shared unless one is in a position to. This goes with the virtue of selfishness, the key is that one cannot help another if they themselves require help. Action from empathy, care, feelings, or love must be completely voluntary, not required. If I do not wish to care for another person, I am not required to. If I do not wish to love another person, again, there is no obligation to. To force upon people these things and not allowing them to do so voluntarily, is worse than refusal to care, love, feel, or empathize when it is justified.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sawin
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[Beer] Wanna share?
wont be much going on in hereQuote:
Originally Posted by waxthis
I tried to bring it back to legitimacy didn't I? Just wish the OP would come back to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by sniper7
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Originally Posted by Sawin
Maybe this thread along with his profile should be deleted. Obviously he didn't come to contribute anything of value! Or was that valuable and i missed it?
Hell I thought ^this^ was the end of it. It's a stupid quote because it doesn't really mean anything useful outside it's original context which defines the author's usage of the word "power". "Make Love not War" is just as stupid and easier to remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter