Due to circumstances beyond your control,
you are master of your fate and captain of your soul. — Unknown
Category: Philosophy
bookmark_borderAn Idea
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these
eyes we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as
possible.
— Russell Hoban, “Pilgermann”
bookmark_borderDalai Lama May Not Reincarnate
In a twist of religious irony, the Dalai Lama says he may not reincarnate. For the last 600 years, the Dalai Lama has been reincarnated. The Dalai Lama has been in exile from the Chinese occupied Tibet. Now the atheist Chinese government is insisting that the Dalai Lama be born again.
“China follows a policy of freedom of religion and belief, and this naturally includes having to respect and protect the ways of passing on Tibetan Buddhism,” said Mr Hua of China’s Foreign Ministry.
“The title of Dalai Lama is conferred by the central government, which has hundreds of years of history. The 14th Dalai Lama has ulterior motives, and is seeking to distort and negate history, which is damaging to the normal order of Tibetan Buddhism.”
bookmark_borderHuman
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps;
for he is the only animal that is struck with the
difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
— William Hazlitt
bookmark_borderSuccess
If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
— Albert Einstein
bookmark_borderCopyrights And Patents
by Daniel Brouse
Though copyrights and patents are generally thought to protect the creator from the public, sometimes they may be thought to protect the public from the creator.
A copyright offers protection to literary and musical works. In the United States a copyright’s duration is usually for the life of the author plus 70 years. The laws vary from country to country. Mein Kampf is a book written by Adolf Hitler while he was in prison. When Hitler died, the rights passed to the Bavarian authorities. Some people consider Mein Kampf to be the most dangerous book ever written. The expiration of the copyright is in December 2015. “The Bavarians have used copyright to control republication of Mein Kampf but that control is coming to an end – what happens next? This is still a dangerous book – there are issues with neo-Nazis, and a danger of people misinterpreting it if it’s not put into context,” says John Murphy, whose grandfather translated the first unabridged English language version in 1936.
In the United States, a utility patents’ term is 20 years. Monsanto says, “The first-generation Roundup Ready® soybean trait – the world’s most widely adopted biotech trait, planted by farmers on billions of acres since 1996 — comes off patent in 2015.”
bookmark_borderKnowledge
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff
and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails.
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at
night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love,
you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your
honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for
it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is
the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be
tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning
is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
— T.H. White, “The Once and Future King”
bookmark_borderLife
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
— Albert Camus
bookmark_borderThe Spirit World
Inquiry: If you feel like your different than other people, you gotta check out these soul groups. This stuff is getting So cool. Look up empaths, twin flames, ascension, etc. I had no idea this many people like me actually exist. Reunite with your crew.
Response: If they offer you some insight; however, most dispel more inaccuracies than truth. Check out some Ludwig Wittgenstein. He basically says we don’t have the language to talk about these things… and to try to just makes you a fool, such as, the person that says “God is love”. As a matter of fact, you can’t say “God is” anything without being a fool… nor can you say a spirit is something. Why? Because they don’t “exist”, and you can not change the meaning of exist to suit your needs.
bookmark_borderNew Ideas
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I’m frightened of the old ones.
— John Cage