Make life better, but make the best of what you have also....

Rates of change moving past each other give the stability we see in repeatability.

Just wrote this. I think it applies to this indirectly....if not it's just its own thing...😁

https://substack.com/profile/486790054-thomas-albany/note/c-279276339

I could take a pile of words and drop them into a word container. Then I could reach in and grab a clump of words and line them up. Then I capitalize the first letter and put a period at the end.

An observer would read it and say “It’s just a bunch of random words that look like a sentence, but it doesn’t make any sense.”

Then I say: “It only has a message for those who believe.”

Then, if they are a "believer" they will start the process of piecing words together, extracting meaning, coming to conclusions.

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
— Niccolò Machiavelli

I'd think that is impossible because it ceases to be truth about something at some point and just becomes the thing.

The description of what “God” is, and “God” itself are the same thing. But that’s not how we create truth. Truth uses symbols or language to apply to a visible object or system. Then we can grade truth value by matching how well the symbols captured what we see. I’m proposing that “God” is both the language and the subject and just declares itself true with no standard. It simply can’t be truth, and since anybody can alter it, it’s also meaningless and worthless as a thing “God”. Fight me 😂

There's not enough evidence to say what "God" is, so of course I can't say there isn't one. THERE ISN'T EVEN ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO BE AGNOSTIC.

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So...no participation trophies?

He's likely talking about "God"...meh....

"In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality."
- Jacques Maritain

See biography for Jacques Maritain:
https://civilsimian.com/Jacques-Maritain

Read Jacques Maritain's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/323/content

Eh...you can know....becoming less and less of a fan of his. Some of these writers create existential problems where resolution is possible.

...and they shouldn't be playing the victim card when it's they who are acting belligerent....

He said this before 1970....

Total annihilation of the faith based opportunistic religious man's dream.... almost 2300 years ago....

Good morning! Remember...Emil says you still have the freedom to kill yourself!....but, remember, preserve life....and don't listen to me....😁🤷‍♂️☠️

See biography for José Martí:
https://civilsimian.com/José-Martí

Read José Martí's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/349/content

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Plato's philosopher kings....

Liberalism, neoliberalism, libertarianism...Democrats and Republicans switched values at one point...people don't even agree what liberalism is in your average thread. It's associated with treating each individual as an end in themselves and universal human rights, supporting the quote below.

This is how I feel about universality. It's a final description of what is. It will be realized eventually....even if resisted, avoided or obstructed....

If you talk a lot about being humble, you are likely not humble. If you talk a lot about high IQ.....*cough*....

Anybody can destroy. Building, ordering, preserving is what is difficult.

He was in France in the 40's when he said this.
 

Not just because you don't like something. If it's just and you don't like it, it's not oppression....

I'm not changing anything for somebody that isn't an ACTUAL good person....who is arguing from correspondence truth and a context of observable reality at a minimum.....

More rational? Doing the work to be less irrational....at a speed that's comfortable over a long period of time....that's the recipe....