• What should we do when faced with adversity?

    Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought...

  • Why do I feel oppressed?

    Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits, in the classic formulation. Now, it has long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy...

  • Private Institutions and Poverty

    So long as power remains privately concentrated, everybody, everybody, has to be committed to one overriding goal: and that’s to make sure that the rich folk are happy — because unless they are, nobody else is going to get anything. So if you’re a homeless person sleeping in the streets of Manhattan, let’s say, your first concern must be that the guys in the mansions are happy — because if they’re happy, then they’ll...

  • What is the root of all evil?

    So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the...

  • Social State of Marxism

    (Aleksandr Zinovyev Quotes) Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society — communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism. If a Communist Party of a certain Western democracy promises to preserve after its seizure of power the positive characteristics o...

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Is a bird that can fly really a free bird?

Dec 16th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

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The definition of free is enjoying individual freedom not under constraint from being subject to the control or domination of another.

Based upon this definition, just because a bird can fly, does not necessarily mean it is free.

Obviously not all birds have the ability to fly, and although they cannot take to the air, they are still not captive.

The only time a bird would not be free is if it was inhibited and unable to escape from constraint.

In summary, just because a bird can fly does not mean it is free.

Freedom is dependent upon the constraint, control and freewill of a More >

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Nihilism: The Meaninglessness of Life.

Dec 16th

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The belief of Nihilism is that all values are baseless, purposeless and nothing in life can be known, communicated or proven. Often mistaken as extreme cynical pessimism, the radical and often frowned upon term condemns life as a purposeless existence without cause. The best description of a nihilistic individual is someone who believes in nothing, has no loyalties, and has no other purpose than to destroy hope and realism.

Characterised by Friedrich Nietzsche, it was often argued that that the corrosive affects of nihilism would eventually destroy all moral, religious, and metaphysical convictions, which supposedly would precipitate the greatest crisis in More >

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A Shark Tale

Nov 22nd

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I would not be amazed if someday some angler caught a large shark, cut it open, and discovered inside was a whole person. Then the angler cut the person open, and inside was a smaller shark. And, although it would be incredible to see another human inside the smaller shark, there wouldn’t be, as the shark would be too small. Perhaps inside the shark there would be a human doll replica. But, inside that doll would be nothing. Inside the nothingness is where the shark now resides, outside existence and outside knowledge.

I now come to ask myself the following questions:

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If you eliminate the impossible, must whatever remains be the truth?

Jun 5th

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

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Not necessarily.

If you were able to eliminate the impossible, you would be left with the possible.

Just because something is possible does not mean it is the truth.

Therefore, if you eliminate the impossible you are not left with the truth only a possible entity.

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