01UndatedHumans are intelligent and resourceful. If we've been around a million or more years, why are we so disinclined to believe that we could have built cities 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 or even more years ago?Christina Engela / quote ↗
02UndatedIsn't it interesting how nationalistic attitudes foster the notion that being gay is 'un-(fill in your nationality/ religion/ culture here)'?Christina Engela / quote ↗
03UndatedAnger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred.Christina Engela / quote ↗
04UndatedThe Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played with silly putty like the other kids. The first time he lost his eyebrows he was only five.Christina Engela / quote ↗
05UndatedEx ‘Fleet man?”“He was a full Commander, last I heard, sir.”“Interesting.” Falconer commented. “Get me his specs. If I have to take him aboard my ship, I want to know all about him.” She swallowed. “Yes sir.”Falconer returned his attention to Nordyke.“What’s their location?”“They’re about a week outside the Hermes system, Captain.”“Helm, set a course – best possible speed!”“Um – sir, we’re on conversion drive at the moment.” The helmsman reported.“I know, Linson – d’you think I’m senile?”“No, sir – I…” The young helmsman stammered.“I did say ‘best possible speed’, didn’t I?”“Yes, sir.Christina Engela / quote ↗
06UndatedCaptain Harald Biscay rubbed his graying temples, staring deep in thought at the vast star field showing on the large navigation display on the bridge. It had been a pretty rough few days for him. Of all the things he’d seen in his travels through the universe, not many rated worthy of being remembered. Of the few examples of items Captain Biscay rated that highly, when he was a young man, his uncle would often play the bagpipes at strange hours of the night – shortly before being put in a ‘home’. That rated a mention.Christina Engela / quote ↗
07UndatedIsn't it strange that having a dick automatically makes you a man, but having a vagina isn't enough to make me a woman?Christina Engela / quote ↗
08UndatedWhile many people define being a man or a woman as being dependent on reproductive capacity, it is worth noting (should such a superficial argument present itself) that there are many males and females who are born male or female and cannot reproduce either. Are they to be considered 'not male' and 'not female'? Or does that only apply to transgender people?Christina Engela / quote ↗
09UndatedHate is no respecter of race - as apparently neither is stupidity.Christina Engela / quote ↗
10UndatedI fail to see how somebody can hate me for 'what I do' and what I am without actually hating me as a person. That makes about as much sense as throwing the baby out with the bathwater - or gay man out the church door with his homosexuality.Christina Engela / quote ↗
11UndatedDenying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat.Christina Engela / quote ↗
12UndatedIf you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being about God and where it started being about YOU.Christina Engela / quote ↗
13UndatedThe simple truth of the matter is that people who complain about a peaceful parade which lasts at best one hour in a particular place - ONCE in a whole year - do so out of hatred and intolerance. it isn't just the parade, it is seeing gay and trans people in public - and gay and trans people BEING gay and trans in public. And that is the root of the problem - they HATE gay and trans people.Christina Engela / quote ↗
14UndatedThe moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails.Christina Engela / quote ↗
15UndatedIt is quite ironic that those calling the loudest for 'morality' are typically the most immoral of all.Christina Engela / quote ↗
16UndatedWhile both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking statements is this: omelets do not come from chickens – it is eggs which come from chickens. Omelets on the other hand, are an entirely Human invention. Humans being here, the ‘middle man’ as it were.Christina Engela / quote ↗
17UndatedSome kids are black, or brown - some kids are red, and others white.Kids come in all different colors, shapes and styles - beautiful and bright!Christina Engela / quote ↗
19UndatedIt did occur to him that perhaps he’d gone to the wrong Academy – the guys in the Space Fleet always had more interesting stories to tell at the spaceport bars. You know, tales about the dude who got vaporized in a plasma accident in the engineering section, or the fella who got turned into a blob of weird space jelly by some alien virus – or the time someone flew a starship into an astor-field at warp four by mistake (they were still trying to find the black box on that one). The Imperial Space Fleet’s recruiting office sure didn’t go around advertising ‘Join up, see the universe, meet interesting aliens and die screaming’, but it was known there were risks involved. It was part of the job after all, and yet somehow, they still got recruits signing up in droves. Yes, indeedy – the stories were far more interesting than his – took a load of ore to Gorda, took a load of mining equipment back to Tordrazil. Took a load of Florpavian Flame-birds to a zoo on Deanna, took a load of machinery to Salus. Picked up and dropped off a few passengers on the way. Still, Florpavian Flame-birds were a risky cargo… and damned tricky to transport – which is probably the only reason he’d had any entertainment at all on the last trip.Christina Engela / quote ↗
20UndatedThe weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the last port of call. The experts said it was the most powerful hand weapon in the known universe. He choked. That would soon be put to the test!Christina Engela / quote ↗
21UndatedBe assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy wars for him.Christina Engela / quote ↗
22UndatedIt is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.Christina Engela / quote ↗
23UndatedDemocracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT.Christina Engela / quote ↗
24UndatedIt's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.Christina Engela / quote ↗
