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Images | Top Most Loved All Categories Last 7 Days Stanley Kubrick Answers a Question: Zen Pencils Growth isn’t linear Today’s society ‘The power of small, good deeds’ by meerkatdebs (imgur) Top 5 Regrets Of The Dying Comic About Happiness — This genuinely brought tears to my eye… Sometimes family gatherings are the truest test of one’s equanimity… I hate small talk My brain is melting… This is the new Urban “We Must Do Away With the Specious Notion…” — Buckminster Fuller Einstein on the “cosmic religion” Hierarchy of Possession Questions Nietzsche Remembrance Day 123102030Next 31 Inspirational Quotes from Gandhi Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) was the great political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. His philosophy and life were deeply rooted in the view of non-violence (ahimsa), and have inspired movements for civil rights and freedom throughout the world. “The future depends on what we do in the present.” “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.” “To see the all-pervading Spirit of Truth, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.” “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold or silver.” “Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” “A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes.” “A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.” “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” “My life is my message.” A Western journalist asked, “Mr.
The Problem With Moderates In a world of ever-widening extremes – from weather patterns to wealth disparities to polarized politics – what does it mean to be a moderate? More specifically, how does this term apply to religion? Viewed in the context of most everyday activities and situations and in line with Aristotle’s idea of the “Golden Mean” (which states that virtue lies at the midpoint between two vices; i.e. courage lies between cowardice and recklessness, etc.), it could be said that a moderate stance is generally better than an extremist one. Then again, for some activities moderate is still too far from the bell curve – particularly in cases where conventional wisdom has taken up residence at one of the distant ends of the spectrum of possibilities. For some realms, such as the purely logical field of mathematics, being moderate in the sense of trying to strike a balance or compromise between positions doesn’t make any sense at all. When it comes to religion, being moderate is similarly troublesome.
NHL Playoffs 2012 Predictions: 7 Players Who Will Matter Most Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images The Vancouver Canucks are lucky to have two great goaltending options in Roberto Luongo and Corey Schneider, but the reality is that only one likes to show up for the playoffs. Luongo has the playoff scars that draw a lot of criticism from hockey fans, and this summer he'll have a chance to redeem himself and prove he can be clutch when it matters. After coming so close to the Cup in 2011, Vancouver will be as motivated as anyone to get to the Finals again, and it's starting to show with their three straight victories. But will Roberto Luongo bring his team down again? Steven Conklin joined the Bleacher Report in October 2011.
An Essay by Einstein -- The World As I See It "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... "I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. "My political ideal is democracy.
The Skeptic's Dictionary No, It Has Not 'Always Been This Way' One of the more common responses I get when I try to point out the alarming decline of basic civic values and practices in the US is one version or another of the following: "What are you getting so excited about? It is a dog eat dog world today, just as it has been for the entire trajectory of the human race. The powerful have always sought to fully exploit their ability to toy with the lives of “lesser beings”. Adolf Eichmann listening as the court declares him guilty on all counts at his war crimes trial in Jerusalem in December 1961. And with this response, these men--they are almost always men--feel they have really put the silly dreamer in his place, and that, moreover, that they have actually engaged in an argument and won it. Why? Last Thursday was the 50th anniversary of the hanging of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, man who was, as you know, one of the prime architects of the Nazi plan to eliminate European Jewry.
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Books that will induce a mindfuck Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list. And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction.
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies National responsibility and historic crimes Your country has probably done some very bad things. Perhaps recently, perhaps before you or even your parents were born. How do you feel about that? Does your present government have a duty to make amends for the bad things it has done, for example with apologies and reparations? Intuitively most people think so, but what kind of duty is that and what does it require from you as a citizen or subject? And how can you get other countries to admit that they have done wrong? National identity presumes that a country, like a person, has an enduring individual identity over time. Personal identity is philosophically controversial - after all people do change significantly as they go through life in all sorts of ways. Collective responsibility is concerned with showing that a country's people are ultimately responsible for its actions and therefore guilty of its crimes. I think so. It also extends beyond the now. How should citizens see their duty to history?