A being in essence is just a "biological creature
like any other" and
all attributes that personify the being
either as assumed or believed to be true are
mere constructs of the being itself
in signifying the very nature of being
which otherwise is of least or no significance
in the way nature organizes and demonstrates itself.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
A lower species...
If one has lived a life mostly justifying Evil
One has not had a true existential challenge
In one's life,
nor is one's life touched by humanity or divinity.
One has not had a true existential challenge
In one's life,
nor is one's life touched by humanity or divinity.
Monday, October 05, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
A mark of civilization....
A mark of civilization besides
many other things is
Tolerance and Diversity.
many other things is
Tolerance and Diversity.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Emerson "Self-Reliance"
Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist
He who would gather immortal palms
must not be hindered by the name of goodness,
but must explore if it be goodness.
Nothing is at last sacred
but the integrity of your own mind.
-- Emerson
He who would gather immortal palms
must not be hindered by the name of goodness,
but must explore if it be goodness.
Nothing is at last sacred
but the integrity of your own mind.
-- Emerson
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Freedom from past....
Acting....
Acting now....
To do now...
Acting now must be free from the past.
* * * * *
Conflict not only destroys the mind
but also human sensitivity.
* * * * *
-- JK.
Acting now....
To do now...
Acting now must be free from the past.
* * * * *
Conflict not only destroys the mind
but also human sensitivity.
* * * * *
-- JK.
Friday, September 11, 2015
To make a virtue.....
If one were to make a virtue of something or anything
One has began to undermine everything else, and
by which one has opened an arena for devils play.
One has began to undermine everything else, and
by which one has opened an arena for devils play.
Friday, September 04, 2015
When the poor ones speculate...
Speculation among the poor and impoverished is
Akin to superstition and myth building.
Akin to superstition and myth building.
Monday, August 31, 2015
Quote of the day...
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,and
I’m not sure about the universe...
~Albert Einstein.
Do they know not what they do....
First they say it is the right thing to do
For the good of humanity and
In the name of humanity...
They use every excuse to do
what they have been wanting to do...
Then, as the people are moved by their humanity
In witnessing the gruesome nature of those acts
Some begin to say it was the wrong thing to do,
Saying, we in the first place should not have meddled
Then they go on saying....
It has become a problem and headache
Which we must and should deal with (obviously)
For the good of humanity, and
Then they continue doing...
What they always wanted to do.
For the good of humanity and
In the name of humanity...
They use every excuse to do
what they have been wanting to do...
Then, as the people are moved by their humanity
In witnessing the gruesome nature of those acts
Some begin to say it was the wrong thing to do,
Saying, we in the first place should not have meddled
Then they go on saying....
It has become a problem and headache
Which we must and should deal with (obviously)
For the good of humanity, and
Then they continue doing...
What they always wanted to do.
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Identities....
Any entrenched identity is
An unbreachable irrationality.
All rational identities are distinct and universal
In essence they are homosapien and
One and the same.
An unbreachable irrationality.
All rational identities are distinct and universal
In essence they are homosapien and
One and the same.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Quote of the day ..."Spiritual Freedom".........
I call the mind free which jealously guards
its intellectual rights and powers,
which calls no man master,
which does not content itself
with a passive or hereditary faith...
its intellectual rights and powers,
which calls no man master,
which does not content itself
with a passive or hereditary faith...
-- William Ellery Channing(1780-1842)
Source: Spiritual Freedom, 1830
Tuesday, August 04, 2015
To Care....
It is not easy to care for others
It calls for true compassion that
which is free from any attachment
and is a quality of one's humanity.
It calls for true compassion that
which is free from any attachment
and is a quality of one's humanity.
Indeed it is very difficult
to truly care for others...
to truly care for others...
unknowingly believe that
they truly care for others.
Monday, July 20, 2015
Quote of the day.....
If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit
all he has for Peace sake, to him
who will lay violent hands upon it,
I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace
there will be in the World,
which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and
which is to be maintained only for
the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
-- John Locke
(1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist.
Source: Second Treatise of Civil Government [1690]
* * * * *
"You can’t, in sound morals,
condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity.
It is his clear duty.
-- Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924)
all he has for Peace sake, to him
who will lay violent hands upon it,
I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace
there will be in the World,
which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and
which is to be maintained only for
the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.
-- John Locke
(1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist.
Source: Second Treatise of Civil Government [1690]
* * * * *
"You can’t, in sound morals,
condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity.
It is his clear duty.
-- Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924)
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
To respect Others....
One that had no respect for other's faith or tradition
Has very little respect for any faith or tradition.
Has very little respect for any faith or tradition.
Thursday, July 02, 2015
Quote of the day....
We, the famished, ragged ragamuffins of
the East are to win freedom for all humanity!
We have no word for 'nation' in our language.
-- Vishwa kavi Rabindranath Tagore.
Nobel laureate.
His reflections on pre-independence India's
contribution to the first world war.
* * * * *
Author of the greatest anti-war poem in the
English language, Dulce et Decorum Est.
The great British poet Wilfred Owen
was to return to the front to give his life
in the futile First World War, he recited
Tagore's Parting Words to his mother
as his last goodbye.
When he was so tragically and pointlessly killed,
Owen's mother found Tagore's poem copied out
in her son's hand in his diary:
When I go from hence
let this be my parting word,
that what I have seen is unsurpassable.
I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus
that expands on the ocean of light,
and thus am I blessed
---let this be my parting word.
In this playhouse of infinite forms
I have had my play and
here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
My whole body and my limbs
have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch;
and if the end comes here, let it come
- let this be my parting word.
--------
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33317368
the East are to win freedom for all humanity!
We have no word for 'nation' in our language.
-- Vishwa kavi Rabindranath Tagore.
Nobel laureate.
His reflections on pre-independence India's
contribution to the first world war.
* * * * *
Author of the greatest anti-war poem in the
English language, Dulce et Decorum Est.
The great British poet Wilfred Owen
was to return to the front to give his life
in the futile First World War, he recited
Tagore's Parting Words to his mother
as his last goodbye.
When he was so tragically and pointlessly killed,
Owen's mother found Tagore's poem copied out
in her son's hand in his diary:
When I go from hence
let this be my parting word,
that what I have seen is unsurpassable.
I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus
that expands on the ocean of light,
and thus am I blessed
---let this be my parting word.
In this playhouse of infinite forms
I have had my play and
here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
My whole body and my limbs
have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch;
and if the end comes here, let it come
- let this be my parting word.
--------
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33317368
Monday, June 22, 2015
Quote of the day....
Absolute, arbitrary power
over the lives, liberty and property
of freemen exists nowhere in a republic,
not even in the largest majority.
-- Kentucky Declaration of Rights - Art. I, Sec. 2
also found in the Wyoming Declaration of Rights Art. I, Sec. 7
over the lives, liberty and property
of freemen exists nowhere in a republic,
not even in the largest majority.
-- Kentucky Declaration of Rights - Art. I, Sec. 2
also found in the Wyoming Declaration of Rights Art. I, Sec. 7
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Quote of the day..
Ever since the beginning of modern science,
the best minds have recognized that
"the range of acknowledged ignorance will
grow with the advance of science."
Unfortunately, the popular effect of
this scientific advance has been a belief,
seemingly shared by many scientists,that
the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and
that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and
deliberate control of all human activities.
It is for this reason that those intoxicated by
the advance of knowledge so often become
the enemies of freedom."
-- Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
* * * * *
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(1729-1781) German Dramatist
the best minds have recognized that
"the range of acknowledged ignorance will
grow with the advance of science."
Unfortunately, the popular effect of
this scientific advance has been a belief,
seemingly shared by many scientists,that
the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and
that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and
deliberate control of all human activities.
It is for this reason that those intoxicated by
the advance of knowledge so often become
the enemies of freedom."
-- Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
* * * * *
"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(1729-1781) German Dramatist
Quote of the day..........
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy:
it assumes its own correctness.
-- Walter Bagehot.
(1826-1877)
it assumes its own correctness.
-- Walter Bagehot.
(1826-1877)
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