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: