I made my signature what you see before you because I got it out of a book called "Stephen King on Writing". It was the funniest d*** thing I have ever read.

But humor is not what Stephen King was truly going for when he wrote this. You see, I want to become a writer (Well duh, I read a book on writing, made the story game and created a community called Writer's Community). The passage I recieved my signature from was talking about using the first words that come to your mind when writing. You can always think of words to replace what you written, but the replacement you use won't mean the same as the original one.

If you are confused then I will ask you a question. What do you see when you read the sentence "John stopped long enought to perform an act of descretion"?

What do you see when you read the sentence "John stopped long enough to take a sh**"?

The one below the first would be the original sentence, which one sounds better? Act of descretion or take a sh**? If you are a person who hates cussing then you would probably think act of discretion is better, but if you are that type of person then stay out of the adult fiction section of any book store or library.

Why did you make your signature what it is?

Because I found the quotes on the 'Net, and fundies piss me off. And Bush pisses me off, on the last one. :)

well, i used to have these voltaire quotes, "it's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong," and "i may disagree with what you say but i will defend to the death your right to say it." after awhile i got a little bored so i changed them to the quotes i have now from gandhi and nietzche. i really admire gandhi and his ideas of nonviolence. i think nietzche's quote is really interesting. be careful when you go head to head with your enemies, because you may end up adopting their methods and in the end becoming the very thing you most despise. it's very important to remember this in times of war. some other quotes i really like:
"while there is a lower class i am in it, while there is a criminal element i am of it, while there is a soul in prison i am not free."
--eugene debs
"there are many causes for which i am willing to die, but no cause for which i am willing to kill."
--this one came from Gandhi the movie, i'm not sure whether or not he said it
"there is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
--howard zinn
"if you were taught that rain is caused by elves, then every time it rained it would be proof of the elves."
--not sure who to attribute this one to

Being a student of Russian history and literature, I enjoy reading the obvious and popular authors ...Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn, albeit I sometimes find them predictable and for whatever reason, toung-tied. Maybe it was the time frames in which they lived.

Anyway, IMHO, the real Russian authors are the revolutionary authors ... Plekhanov, Sverdlov, Uritsky, Kalinin et al.

In the case of my signature, I took a phrase (and mangled it for brevity) from Anatoly Lunacharsky's 'Revolutionary Silhouette" where he pays tribute to Grigorii Zinoviev.

With their ideologies put aside, they are two of the greatest men of moden history. One, a dedicated revolutionary and the other being the only writer on the planet that could stand shoulder to shoulder with Lenin and Trotsky and perform a mass-crowd oratory -- both willing to die for their cause, live a life of fear and face the gulags.

Just my 2 cents.

Dop