Knowledge II Flashcards
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Appreciation Language
What do they complain/ brag about? What do they dream/ worry about? What the nicest thing anyone has done for you? What the best give you ever gave? Love- affection, like being included, appreciated Service-support, care, warmth, favor Status- give responsibility, titles, power/credit Money- coin, currency, the like affording shit Goods- tangible products, lots of tokens Information-advice, opinions, learning, teaching, like being asked opinion
“I am a man,” It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea.
The Pearl, Steinbeck
We should take it slow
I think we should take it slow. I dont want to disrespect you tonight by having some crazy wild sex in a public place bathed in sunlight. I’d rather take it slow and get to know each other and maybe cuddle in a non-sexual way - We can enjoy each others company and get to know each other. For now, I’m glad we can have this vibe and that we like each other though. Dont you agree? (You can’t image negatives. Its impossible not to think about)
Overstretching goverments
Empires need limits. Nazis, Persians, Neapoliin, Rome(against will of augustus) etc could not stop expanding and eventually overstretch themselves.
Lincoln on Slavery
I can not but hate [the declared indifference for slavery’s spread]. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world – enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites – causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty – criticising [sic] the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest.
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God,
can not long retain it.”
April 6, 1859 - Letter to Henry Pierce
“This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have
no slave.”
April 6, 1859 - Letter to Henry Pierce
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we
give, and what we preserve. December 1, 1862 - Second Annual Message to Congress
“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not
remember when I did not so think, and feel.” April 4, 1864 - Letter to Albert Hodges
In Lincoln’s last public address, he recommended extending the right to vote to them African Americans who had fought for the Union. This expressed his belief that
African Americans should be granted full political equality.
Last Public Address
April 11, 1865
It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on
those who serve our cause as soldiers.
Sources: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, published by
“Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
Psalm 34:8:
Doa on Opposites
When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises. When the world knows good as good, evil arises. Thus being and non being produce each other.
Sarabellum
Purkinje cell
Helps with coordination.
Stack problems
Talk about the problems they have int their lives and stack them until they they think they need your solution (pyramid scheme technique)
Hedgehogs dilemma.
People are like hedgehogs, we want to get close to each other but we cant get too close or we’ll poke others with our spines. We were once united in one consciousness but now we are many. Schopenhauer - World as will and representation.Life is suffering. Suffering is the result or individuality. Communication, perception and understanding will never be perfect.. The universe is really one thing. Each individual will or ego can only perceive the world from one vantage point. fragmentation and isolation come from people being in charge of their own will. Being alive means living with pain and ego.
“Love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.”
Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:43-47
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
Double Consciousness
Double Consciousness is feeling of being both black and american at the same time coined by DEB Du buis. Also the anquish of proforming blackness in a white world.
We should be celebrating black artists.
Create a cult. Play on peoples need to believe. We want to find a way to make sense of this world. Play to people fantasies
Laws of Power
Lincoln and Equality for every generation
All of this amendment and re-evaluation mirrored Lincoln’s realization that we cannot rely on untouchable and self-evident truths. In his 1863 Gettysburg Address, he described the U.S. as a nation “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” The axiomatic project had to give way to a more modern project of ongoing interpretation—of propositions—whether it was in math or in politics. Barack Obama put it this way in a speech last year, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage was a constitutional right. “Our nation was founded on a bedrock principle that we are all created equal. The project of each generation is to bridge the meaning of those founding words with the realities of changing times.” Equality, over time, has changed from a self-evident conclusion to a proposition. The proof of that proposition, Lincoln hoped, would be the United States itself.
Doa on unlearning cultural rigidities
“The 5 colors make our eyes blind The 5 tones make our ears deaf The 5 tastes make our tounges numb” Infinite options widdled down to 5 options.
Travel - Slovenia
Museum of broken relationships. Heartbreaking then I met a girl.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
– Romans 12:2
Resentment
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die
Rome, Corruption and path to monarchy
Wealth corroded all aspects of Roman life and the pursuit of empire destroyed them. Wealth inequality grew to a staggering rate. Roman citizens ceased to be farmers and moved into service just like America. The only way you got elected was paying bribes, expensive advertising and paying gladiatorial games
Optimates (Romes elites who believed themselves the best, superior people
Populares- literally means Democrats believed in reform.
Had serious terrorist problems. Had bitter conflict and could never solve serious questions. Too busy arguing. The people wanted to get rid of the pesky power of self governance.
Locke and Euclid
Like Euclid, Locke defined terms, then used these definitions to prove moral claims. For example, Locke defined property as “a right to any thing,” and injustice as “the invasion or violation of that right.” The statement “where there is no property there is no injustice” resulted naturally from these definitions. In his Two Treatises of Government, published in 1689, Locke noted that “creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another.” It was therefore self-evident that, in the absence of rules or laws, humanity’s natural state was “free, equal, and independent.” He concluded that the aim of a government should be to preserve the natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
Locke’s thinking would flow across the Atlantic, into the pens of the American Founding Fathers. The final version of the United States Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, opens with “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” A keen student of mathematics himself, Jefferson had adopted Euclid and Locke’s logical style, from the “self-evident” nature of the truths to the subsequent right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for
Bob Marley
But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:31:
Dorsolateral Prefrontal cortex
Complex planing, flexible thinking, memory, difficult decisions, deception
Can you cook?
“You know, you’re kinda cute. I think you’d make a nice girlfriend. WAIT, can you cook? I need a woman who can cook! Oh, you can? Great! I’m impressed. BUT what kind of food do you cook? Oh, Thai? I’m not sure I like Thai. What else can you cook? Italian? Now we’re talking! I like you already! BUT can you cook GOOD Italian food is the question.”
Amigdala
Strong Impact center
Helped us remember details of events that were very impactful. Strong emotions like fear, and they form more vivid memories. Also less likely to remember what happened right before event.
Women have stronger and more detailed visual memory of impactful events. It may be why women are more prone to depression and PTSD.
Men show more arousal to sexual image and more amigdala activity. They also have a greater physical response. Men have a larger amigdala as well.
The universe doesn’t exist unless it is being observed by consciousness. The only way the wave function collapses is with consciousness.
Is gods consciousness the observer? After all there needs to be an observer to make and objective universe exist
Michio Kaku
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
Guerilla Warfare (Che)
The country people have a very large part to play in warfare. Needs full help from the area or else they are a bandit gang. Warfare cant break out until government at least pretends to follow the constitution. No battle of skirmish is to be fought unless its to be won. This means use surprise, secretiveness and treachery.
Hit and run, ambush,Greatest problem is perucrment of ammunition. As the army grows the core group will stay in less dangerous areas. This includes the important leadership. Small bands will plant themselves behind the enemy and ambush him until growing big enough to be its own core group. When there is all out fighting both bands can unite. Fundamental attribute of each band is mobility. Its main objective is to not be surrounded. When necessary it can use its mobility to escape encirclement. Enemy loss is always repairable. If you lose one out of 10 it isnt the same as if they loose 1/100. Gorrilla must use sparatic accurate fire.
They will rarely used a lot of bullets. Number Defending soldiers and defensible position is the most important and not the number of attacking soldiers.
The french revolution, the Haitian revolution, the Chinese revolution were land holders v landless, In Algeria they revolted for land as well. Non-violence is the only negro revolution. Land is the basis of all wealth.
Revolution swept cuba and and Africa and Vietnam.
(We’ll have to use the carrot and the stick.)
History is the best way to determine how to figure out how to go forward in the present.
Advocated Blood revolution. Rhymed frequently. (They don’t want a nation, they want crawl back onto the plantation)
Malcolm X
UBI from sacred Economics
ubi
Why do we work more than mideavel peasants with 150 saints days of, hunter gatherers, or Kalahari aborigines with hunter gatherer tools in 1970.
The government could pay people to preserve culture, plant trees, preserve the world. Create art.
We are inheriting human advances of our ancestors. The selfish gene mentality translates to the selfish money gene. If you find yourself being late, procrastinating etc, it may because your work isn’t fulfilling to you. Many people would still work paying jobs but because they want to, not because they are compelled to. Many people do free work anyway, like wikipedia or many apps and websites on the internet. Helping veterans, creating green spaces, creating rehabilitation for prisoners or mentally ill.
flipping burgers, cleaning hotels, janitorial services, could still be preformed but more as a basis of short term work.
Fear is the mind Killer
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Make your accomplishments look effortless. Never let on how much work went into something. It zaps the magic
Laws of Power
Win through action. No through argument
Laws of Power
My children are signing to the sunshine.
Let us cheer the weary traveler (x3) along the heavenly way, and the traveler girds himself, sets his face along the morning, and goes his way.
W.E.B Du Buis
There is no instance of a country benefiting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tsu
Pump up Event
Have an even where people get pumped up about your product or service to keep morale up. Have a few successful examples there for representation. Make them think success is right around the corner. “Anybody can do it”
Tonality
Never stay in any tonality too long or person becomes bored. Be enthusiastic, then whisper. Speed up and slow down. Seem soo enthusiastic about your product under then surface.
How to Survive a dessert Island.
Avoid Shinny plants and plants with 3 leaves. Avoid many with white or yellow berrys. Avoid bean or plants with seeds inside a pod.
If it taste bitter or soapy, spit it out.
Don’t eat mushrooms. Most are toxic.
Avoid sand because its the dryest part of the island.
Most modern castaways are saved in 12 hours.
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain
Russians V Freedom
Russia has never wanted freedom. Since their viking roots, to Putin they are fundamentally different from western Europe. In Russia the king was a religious leader as well as the political leader
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Excellence breaks enemies resistance without fighting.
Sun Tsu
“I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.”
Psalm 16:8:
Heart Attack First Aid
Heart attack - muscules are blocked. Call ems immediately Tightening squeezing or severe pressure. Pain may spread. Person may be dizzy or light headed. Some feel tired for a long period of time. Radiation of pain down the arm. Make person comfortable. Loosen tight clothing. Cardiac arrest -not many signs. Cpr circulates oxygen around the body
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
Teacher us a Signpost to truth. Not as a giver of truth but as a pointer toward truth. I can point you in a direction of truth. True art cannot be handed out. Art is never decoration of embellishment. Its a constant process of maturing in the sense of not having arrived.
Bruce Lee
Toltec Domestication
Domestication - when you were young, you learned your parents were, your name, racism, sexism and classism. But also good things
Eastern v Western trees
American is typically like the oak tree. He stands tall against the wind but if the wind is too strong he cracks. The oriental prefers to stand like bamboo, bending with the wind. And springing back when the when ceases. Springing back stronger than ever before”
“Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:10
Use absence to increase respect and honor. Give people time to miss you
Laws of power
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
– Proverbs 4:23
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6:
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
– 1 Peter 4:8
NLP- Some people are
“Some people are scared to take what they want” “Why is it that people are scared to leave home. Not you, just some people…”
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde
Disease of brain by gender
We need to understand differences in the way diseases affect women and men. Alzheimer’s for instance has a lot to do gender.
Male animals are more often studied and females are underrepresented in trails. This is because of the cycle and male animals are easier to deal with.
Ambient, on the market for 20 years, was found to be doubled the needed dose for women. Wasn’t found out for 20 years. This is dangerous because women dont get proper treatment for diseases.
Plotted on spectrum - Women are more likely to be depressed but men can be depressed too. This gets very complicated because its hard to get it right.
Change over time - As we age. Men lose more overall brain volume, but women loose more in specific regions.
Stress has a different effect of men and women. (in rats) Females for example have less stress in general from captivity. Males have less of a reaction to predators. The males actually fare better after this stress.
In highly creative women had more connections between regions
Creative men showed more focus creativity per region. In a more modular way.
Thich Nhat Hanh on compassionate listen.
I understand your greivences. Tell me what whats causing it.
Then just listen without talking or giving suggestions.
Gravitas - Executive presence
Serious communication skills where you can get your point across.
Presentation of self - The way you dress, Body movements
We underrate gravitas and performance.
“What do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?
Jesus Christ, Mark 8:36-38
Alexander wanted a brotherhood for all mankind
Athenians sent troops to conquer Sicily. When the first one failed they sent a second just like xerxes “
Alexander conquered the worlds with a combination of ruthless, kindness and
He had Dariouses body sent to be buried with his ancestors but also a messenger proclaiming he was a bad king.
He conquered a Raj in India but asked to king if he would he his friend. He learned local customs to get the people on his side.
Wanted a brotherhood mankind.
He integrated his army with Indians, Persian, Greeks. He thought Aristotle was dead wrong and broke down barriers in his empire. Had mass marriages take place to his men and their concubines so their children would be legitimate and inherit his empire.
His first wife was from Bactria(Afghanistan) Roxanne the most beautiful women in Asia. He second 2 were Persians. Planned to have entire villages moved for integration.
“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.’”
Mark 10:27:
Philosophy - Jumbled Knowledge
Knowledge is jumbled in the world. In culture we swim in layers it knowledge based off of where were born and our upbringing.
God does need to punish us. We punish ourselves (Tao)
Heaven and Earth are impartial. They regard myriad things as straw dogs.
We hurt, punish and torment each other going against the laws of nature.
NLP - Imagine if I could
Imagine what would happen if…(imagine) If I could show you a way to make more money would What would it be like if you had 10,000 in income
“Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.”
Jesus Christ, Matthew 7:12
seduction II
Tease a girl as a game. Make out with them, turn them on, then just leave. Be unpredictable. Take a step back. Once you see the are chasing you again reward her.
Venerability- show that your human. Too much drinking insecurity and goals.
Show your inability to control yourself around her. It hides tactical use.
Engage their narcissism. When there is an achievement make videos of them and taking pictures of them. Do her activity and say you are a better person by hanging with her.
Combine a thing she loves with sex. Yoga and books combined with sex. smoking with sex
Find out her fantasy is and do it. It puts you in a different category. The freakier the better.
Make boundaries clear.
Give real qualifiers- you don’t read books? Oh ok
She should be trying to figure you out and never know you
say less. scarcity
animal attraction v intellectual attraction
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Jesus wept.”
– John 11:35
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13:
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Lincoln & Euclid
“If A can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right, enslave B,” Lincoln conjectured in a private 1854 essay, “why may not B snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A?” The argument was clear and irrefutable: Regardless of whether the right to own slaves was defined by color, intellect, or money, an enslaver could always use the same reasoning to enslave their supposed superior.
It was a textbook example of a kind of proof often used in mathematics, called proof by contradiction. In Elements, Euclid used this proof method to show that if two angles in a triangle are equal, the sides opposite them will be equal too. First, he assumed that one side was longer than the other. If he cut off the excess, however, so both sides were the same length, the smaller triangle would be in every way identical to the original. This contradicted his axiom that “the whole is greater than the part.” Hence both sides must always be equal. Lincoln’s proof had followed this same structure.
Lincoln’s main rival on the Illinois political circuit was Democrat Judge Stephen Douglas, who did not share Lincoln’s opposition to slavery. When the Founding Fathers talked of equality, Douglas claimed in 1857, they were not really referring to all men, “they were speaking of British subjects on this continent being equal to British subjects born and residing in Great Britain.” Lincoln countered by once again following the logic to its absurd conclusion. If the Declaration only referred British subjects, Lincoln argued, “the French, Germans, and other white people of the world are all gone to pot along with the Judge’s inferior races.”
“Being in the world, to what might it be compared? To a due drop falling from a waterfowls beak, the image of the moon.”
Dogon(Japanse Zen founder) ART IS A DOOR TO CAPTURING THE IMPERMANENCE OF THE UNIVERSE.
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky,
The Shaman and the story of Mexicos ‘discovery’
The shaman told his followers to go into the dessert and make a hard journey to find their new home. He said it would be where a eagle was eating a snake. The fire blazed blue as he threw i dust.
The next morning he died The people went into the wilderness and found the symbol. They were the mayans and this would be tenenochtilan. He appeared to them later and said this was the beginning of their journey. The eagle was freedom, the snake is the lie and the Bush is their mind. This would be their real journey.
Arctic Survival
wear layers Jackets that seal in heat. Layers are best Choose ice to drink over snow. Avoid ice in inner thighs and in armpit. Heat up your groin and neck as well before heating your hands. Remove outside of wood and bark and get dry wood inside. You will burn food at twice the normal rate (5000 calories) Get food along the shorelines. Did fishing holes in ice. Set multiple fishing lines but improvised bobbers. Use pinecones to turn fire black for rescue. Build snow shelter on low hanging branches. Make it perpendicular to the wind. Filter through charcoal. It should be a slow drip. You can get charcoal from the embers of your dead fire. You can also use it to brush your teeth because it binds to many toxins.
Without power, opportunity is wasted, Without opportunity, power is wasted.Leadership is based on both.
Machiavelli
Brain stem is vital functions
Breathing and heart-rate
Lincoln on politics
Lincoln lied, bullied, threatened, debated and fought to get to his goal on ending slavery, passing the 13th amendment.
Know when to be good and when its not possible. There is no compatibility between politics and idealism. There is only politics.
Learn to live with the contradictions.
Saints can practice their spirituality in the dessert, marytrs can get their reward in the hereafter.
Machiavelli
UBI challenges
We should give people incentives to finish school, finish college, also charity, volunteering and should be included.
Peoples sense of fairness is often offended because they think some people wont be carrying their weight, but robots will be carrying weight.
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
Emerson
Dark Matter and Energy
Atomic theory is wrong. Dark matter and dark energy make of 94% of the universe. Dark matter is located because it bends starlight. Out weighs normal matter by a factor of 10. Dark Energy - Proposed by Einstein. He discovered it and later dismissed it and called it his greatest blunder. Latest Theory of Subatomic particles is off by 10x100 power.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Giving is really the only thing that matters. Trying to show off for people at the top they’ll look down at you any way. If you show off for people at the bottom, they just resent you
Rumi on Silence of God
“Silence is the language if God. All else is poor translation “ - Rumi. Silent meditation is key.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
― Mark Twain
People are dicks.
People are such dicks that Jesus and MLK are heroes for telling people to be nice to each other. Aliens would come down and say. You guys are such dicks that you worship people who tell you to be nice to each other.
Yea but I dont think that makes us dicks.
What did you do to them?
ok were dicks.
Damn your fucking trouble
Damn your fucking trouble - You look like the type of girl who could back me up in a bar fight
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
Emotions enslave us. The things may happen but how you react determines what happens.
Seneca
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
Isaiah 41:10:
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
NLP - Phrasebook
You may not know.. Can I show you.. I’m wondering if… Don’t you think that … Don’t you feel that…
Get leaders you deserve (States men)
Statemen have a bedrock of principles, moral compass, visionary, build a consciousness
Leadership of Alexander the Great
Gave speeches before each battle, cited the soldiers who deserved accolades in the battle. When hiking through dessert he poured out water because there wasn’t enough for his men. He personally lead his Army in battles and was a master strategist. Never asked his men to do things he wouldn’t do. Once charged the enemy solo even because his other men didn’t charge. Failed to articulate his vision for his empire. Wanted his solders to marry Persian women to unite his empire. Alexander began acting more Persian and Egyptian alarming his solders. After the death of Darius and sack of Persepolis his men were ready to go home. They didn’t understand what Alexander wanted to do. Alexander become Prometheus- seeing himself as the liberator, cultural uniter and giver of gifts while others saw him a foreigner sympathizer with immense hubris. They felt they couldn’t trust him anymore. The Macedonians were more aggrieved when he added more Persian to ranks. They revolted and Alexander tried to reconcile with them. His empire collapsed because he had not vision for his empire. Visions and goals are important.
Anterior Cingulate
Empathy and making decisions, anticipating rewarding things
Artificial scarcity and the Venus project.
No one is hungry because there isn’t enough food in the world. No one is homeless because there aren’t enough homes. our system creates artificial scarcity . We waste 40% of our food here in the US.
“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
1 Corinthians 15:58:
Hitler and hubris
He was an ally with the Soviets at first. He invaded the USSR as Russia was still sending supplies to him. He didn’t learn his his lesson from history, the Sabians defeated the Persians who invaded in the winter, Napoleon had lost 5/6 men when he invaded. He failed because of his hubris
Mill on race
First, Mill wrote of the slave trade “I have yet to learn that anything more detestable than this has been done by human beings towards human beings in any part of the earth.” Mill then charges Carlyle with a vulgar error, “he would have escaped the vulgar error of imputing every difference which he finds among human beings to an original difference of nature. As well might it be said, that of two trees, sprung from the same stock, one cannot be taller than another but from greater vigour in the original seedling. Is nothing to be attributed to soil, nothing to climate, nothing to difference of exposure—has no storm swept over the one and not the other, no lightning scathed it, no beast browsed on it, no insects preyed on it, no passing stranger stript off its leaves or its bark? If the trees grew near together, may not the one which, by whatever accident, grew up first, have retarded the other’s developement by its shade?
Human beings are subject to an infinitely greater variety of accidents and external influences than trees, and have infinitely more operation in impairing the growth of one another; since those who begin by being strongest, have almost always hitherto used their strength to keep the others weak.” Mill even anticipates Martin Bernal’s Black Athena argument, which is not accepted by many eminent classicists—but this is not the point here as we shall see. Mill reasoned, “It is curious withal, that the earliest known civilization was, we have the strongest reason to believe, a negro civilization. The original Egyptians are inferred, from the evidence of their sculptures, to have been a negro race: it was from negroes, therefore, that the Greeks learnt their first lessons in civilization; and to the records and traditions of these negroes did the Greek philosophers to the very end of their career resort (I do not say with much fruit) as a treasury of mysterious wisdom.”6 The above is a staggering admission for a nineteenth century intellectual reared on Greek from the age of three, having read six dialogues of Plato in Greek by the age of seven, and for whom Greek civilization was the fons et origo of Western Civilization, and all those concerns that he so passionately defended all his life, rationalism, democracy, scientific history, and so on. “ Father worked in India so he defended his shitty behavior in India. “ Despotism is a legitimate mode for dealing with barbarians, so long as the end is the end of improvement”
In victory know when to stop
Don’t push too far you you risk losing it all
Types of Freedom
Freedom exist in 3 parts -
National freedom- freedom of an entity, nation or tribe
Political freedom- the right to vote, choose own policies, right to participate in assembly
Individual freedom - live as you choose as long as you harm no one else
North Koreans are nationally free, but with no political , no individual freedom
Rome had no national or political freedom but much individual freedom. Not everybody wants freedom. The Chinese have philo-piety and that’s their values. The Analects talks about obedience and not freedom.
Lacan on Images.
\wherars as in a post modern world we had images to follow and narratives given as a whole, now we have very disjointed identities. We are awash im images and signifies from advertising, film and tv to imitate but we can no longer tell ourselves a simple story of who we are.
Advertising uses representative images that the user wants to ‘mirror’ in their own lives (or at least their perceptions of it). Buzzfeed quizzes are just a way to assume an identity so they can consume something targeted. Weak egos are quickly formed the quickly forsaken, like fashion.
Change is part if everything. 2 law of thermodynamics, Buddhist nothing is permanent,(suffering comes from our belief everything stays the same) Darwinism evolution, 3rd chapter of Ecclesiastes.
Olivia Butler
Stalin & Hitler similarities
Stalin and Hitler were both bad at school. They both were only possible because of Democratic forces. They were both low born and born outside of the main nation(Austria and Georgia respectively) They both were members of their small organizations before gathering support. They both kept machiavelli at their bedside. Neither was very well educated but outsmarted much more intelligent people at every turn.
Both appealed to the lowest base instinct of human.
“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
Jesus Christ, Luke 11:9-10
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
Buddhism on Impermanence
Time is just based off of the previous moment. The illusion that You are one thing and not a process. Everything you eat is constantly in flux. You will not die and you were never born. When you die you become part of the universe and continue as part of something else.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
– Micah 6:8
One must live as if he’s already dead.
Hakagure
Hypothalamus
produces sex hormones.
Bigger in heterosexual men than both women and homosexual men.
Rules to live by
No Fear of death - With no fear of death you learn to live in the moment. Its Karma,ne? Don’t drink to be drunk. Its immature and its and weak. Stop assuming hate from other people. Assume love. Or at the very least. Civility. No tech one day a week. Listening and quiet time is an important part of spirituality. Jesus, the Buddha, Muhammad and Confucius did it. Lao Tzu -nature does not hurry, but everything is accomplished.
To a still mind, the whole universe surrenders. The Buddha and Confucius think of speaking of the divine risks distorting it or misrepresenting it Jesus / Muhammad viewed social distinctions as meaningless and invited people to live as if the kingdom of heaven was already here.( Arab not superior to non arabs, not blacks or whites) Budda says people are all spirit and only have differences by past karma Self centeredness is at the core of human misery. Attentiveness to inner life. Lived simply to concentrate on life Jesus showed Over-piety is another symptom of selfenteredNess. They just want to look great instead of helping the poor Noble life- committing self to truth and understanding. Look inside yourself unflinching. Budda says look at the world as it is. Not as you want it to be. Truth is nothing to fear.truth will set you free Humility - Confucius didn’t want to be called a stage.
Buddha kept begging. Jesus was so humble he went to the cross. Be willing to learn Socrates committed to honesty Muhammad insist in mystery. The sublime is absolute and unintelligible to our understanding. Like string theory. Despite out tentative grasp we won’t get it. We should be seeking happiness, not productivity. Were not machines. Jermey betham says we should work to maximize happiness. The rate of suicide in industrialized nations is troubling. Would you rather be a productive sducidal Singaporean or a happy costa rican Were all addicts looking for a fix because of our happiness. Sex, business, travel experiences. They provide fleeting rewards. So we should be mixing tranquility with our moments of victory. Chasing a high forever is no way to live
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
What is the Dao?
Primordial way of being. The primary world is deep, ineffable, devoid of culture is the real reality. There is no connection between our descriptions and reality. The material world is full of jobs, and cars and houses Religion part of balance of Spirituality. Religion is the intellectualism part spirituality. Every thing is codependent on its opposite. A well lived life requires knowledge of both Yin and Yang. Male v Female. Art v Science. All matter has its counter point in anti matter. In that vein all molecules have anti matter molecules that interact.
