What one bit of wisdom would you like to teach humanity?

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What one bit of wisdom would you like to teach humanity?
Suppose everyone would listen...

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That the Socratic understanding of knowledge, that it begins with understanding our own ignorance, is the beginning of human awareness and that it is representative of our relationship with each other and to the cosmos. For we exist as middle beings, we know too much to be skeptics of all knowledge, yet we also know too little to be dogmatic about the knowledge we have. Time and time again the human race has attempted to deny this fact. Religion, when tied in with political authority, has repeated moved with frantic dogmatism to suppress, maim, and kill those who denied its central positions. The horror of the dogmatic regimes of the th century also showed us again how much humans crave blind certainty. In our own time, the rise of nihilism, a form of radical skepticism, denies our middle status by not seeing that radical skepticism is but the other side of the coin from dogmatic horror. Every period of total uncertainty always ends in a blind embrace of some form of dogmatism. The echoes of the Weimar Republic haunt the Western World right now so let us hope it ends better for us then it did for them.

What matters to you most in your life?

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What matters to you most in your life?
Just whatever you feel matters most to you, that is what I am asking...

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What matters the most in life without any doubt is that we are alive and this we know when we are conscious about it. Only then we will be able to appreciate being alive and enjoy ourselves, other things we will see in secondary places. Not only the importance of all these occupations and worries will change its place, but also we will see how it is connected with ourselves, our past, the influences we have received, the experiences we gained and also the chocks and the disappointments. We will see things in a different light, more objective and not depending so much on situations and conditions, more in connection with the whole. We will less worry and will enjoy life. We will be open to what comes to us, seeing it as a gift or as a challenge that will help us to grow. Then we can relate to what shows up and respond in a relaxed way, not so much conditioned by our wishes and needs. The rigidity of our concepts will fade away... brAnd all this because we are conscious that we are alive. So it becomes clear as the sunlight, that this is what matters the most.brBeiYin

I believe that God controls every human action. What do you think?

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I believe that God controls every human action. What do you think?
Well, we simply cant have free will. We do all of the things that we do strictly because we want to. You cant logically decide a want, and if you want to do something, then youll inevitably do it. God makes people want to do things. God puts wants and thoughts into your mind. Our courses in life are predetermined. God has predetermined the whole world.

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people swallow any lie to explain the origin of things such as our emotions and the board of ethics. since people created the god as an omnipotent all knowing being, they use god as a concrete ground to any origin. the concept of evil is based on the magnitude of pain our actions would inflict on each other and the amount of that effect our guilt could handle. guilt that is produced in out minds just like any other emotion. emotion that is used as pillars that support the concept of good and evil.

I believe that God controls every human action. What do you think?

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I believe that God controls every human action. What do you think?
Well, we simply cant have free will. We do all of the things that we do strictly because we want to. You cant logically decide a want, and if you want to do something, then youll inevitably do it. God makes people want to do things. God puts wants and thoughts into your mind. Our courses in life are predetermined. God has predetermined the whole world.

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people swallow any lie to explain the origin of things such as our emotions and the board of ethics. since people created the god as an omnipotent all knowing being, they use god as a concrete ground to any origin. the concept of evil is based on the magnitude of pain our actions would inflict on each other and the amount of that effect our guilt could handle. guilt that is produced in out minds just like any other emotion. emotion that is used as pillars that support the concept of good and evil.

I am looking for some mind altering thoughtsquotes?

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I am looking for some mind altering thoughtsquotes?
something that i can discuss and or ponder that are almost too strange or mindwarping to comprehend. the stranger and more extreme the better, and maybe sights relating to mind altering brain changing quotes, thanks

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A. Powell Davies brLife is just a chance to grow a soul.brbrbrbrA. Powell Davies brLife is just a chance to grow a soul.brbrbrbrAbraham Lincoln brAnd in the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years.brbrbrbrAdrienne Rich brLife on the planet is born of woman.brbrbrbrAlan Bennett brLife is rather like a tin of sardines were all of us looking for the key.brbrbrbrAlbert Einstein brTrue religion is real living living with all ones soul, with all ones goodness and righteousness.brbrbrbrAlbert Einstein brOnly a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.brbrbrbrAlbert Schweitzer brThere are two means of refuge from the miseries of life music and cats.brbrbrbrAlbert Schweitzer brEthics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.brbrbrbrAlbert Schweitzer brEthics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.brbrCivilization and Ethics, brbrbrbrAlbert Schweitzer brReverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.brbrbrbrAlice Walker brDeliver me from writers who say the way they live doesnt matter. Im not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesnt make us better, then what on earth is it for.brbrbrbrAlice Walker brExpect nothing, live frugally on surprise.brbrbrbrAmelia Burr brBecause I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.brbrbrbrAnais Nin brLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.brbrbrbrAnais Nin brPeople living deeply have no fear of death.brbrbrbrAnais Nin brThe personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.brbrbrbrAnais Nin brDreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.brbrbrbrAnnie Dillard brHow we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.brbrbrbrBarbara Kingsolver brWars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work that goes on, it adds up.brbrbrbrBarry Lopez brHow is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in ones culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.brbrArctic DreamsbrbrbrbrBaruch Spinoza brWhat everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.brbrbrbrBen Jonson brA good life is a main argument.brbrbrbrBenjamin Disraeli brRead no history nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.brbrbrbrBenjamin Franklin brDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.brbrbrbrBertrand Russell brThree passions have governed my life brThe longings for love, the search for knowledge, brAnd unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind. brbrLove brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. brIn the union of love I have seen brIn a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision brOf the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. brbrWith equal passion I have sought knowledge. brI have wished to understand the hearts of people. brI have wished to know why the stars shine. brbrLove and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, brBut always pity brought me back to earth brCries of pain reverberated in my heart brOf children in famine, of victims tortured brAnd of old people left helpless. brI long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, brAnd I too suffer. brbrThis has been my life I found it worth living. brbradaptedbrbrbrbrBertrand Russell brThe good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.brbrbrbrBrother David SteindlRast brGratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy because we will always want to have something else or something more.brbrbrbrBuckminster Fuller brNow there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.brbrbrbrBuddha brIf we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.brbrbrbrCaptain JeanLuc Picard brTime is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. brbrplayed by Patrick Stewart, from the film quotStar Trek Generationsquot brbrbrbrCarl Jung brThere are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the years course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.brbrbrbrCarl Sandburg brOur lives are like a candle in the wind.brbrbrbrCarl Sandburg brLife is like an onion You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.brbrbrbrCharlotte Bronte brLife is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.brbrbrbrChinese proverb brWhen you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.brbrbrbrColette brI love my past. I love my present. Im not ashamed of what Ive had, and Im not sad because I have it no longer.brbrbrbrColette brLife is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.brbrbrbrCorita Kent brLove the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.brbrbrbrCorita Kent brLife is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.brbrbrbrDorothy Thompson brCourage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.