{"id":310,"date":"2003-12-12T00:38:55","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T05:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/spam_wisdom\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T00:38:55","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T05:38:55","slug":"spam_wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/spam_wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason, I had been nearly uneffected by the weblog spamming . . . until today.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to thank the person from IP Address 62.213.67.122 for your many, many contributions.<br \/>\nMaking lemonade from lemons, some of the comments are kind of amusing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry that other people don&#8217;t know you; worry that you don&#8217;t know other people.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Believing in God does not require believing in religion.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>All sentences that seem true should be questioned.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>A stopped car does not imply a dead driver.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what&#8217;s right.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Ain&#8217;t no disgrace to be poor &#8211; but might as well be.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>It&#8217;s not all lies &#8211; not all of it. That&#8217;s the age-old dilemma.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The best solution against abortions is education, not snipers.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>[In] mourning, it is better to err on the side of grief than on the side of formality.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>People are exponentially funnier when they&#8217;re in rant mode.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>An unimportant door is never locked.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Buildings burn. People die. But real love is forever.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Underestimation is a two-way street.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>If you understand, things are as they are. If you do not understand, things are as they are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/spam_wisdom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Spam Wisdom\"><p>For whatever reason, I had been nearly uneffected by the weblog spamming . . . until today. I&#8217;d like to thank the person from IP Address 62.213.67.122 for your many, many contributions. Making lemonade from lemons, some of the comments are kind of amusing: Don&#8217;t worry that other people don&#8217;t know you; worry that you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}