Philosophies and Philosophy

“Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice. One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

If the U.S. officially declares “In God We Trust” on its currency, it recognizes God as the ultimate Creator. Logically, if man is a tool in God’s hands, then every “invention” or “creation” belongs to the Original Source, not the tool. Selling intellectual property without proving you aren’t just a divine instrument is essentially piracy—trading someone else’s property as your own. I’ve started a petition to demand a “God-denial disclaimer” for every IP transaction. If you want to own an idea, you must officially deny God first. Let’s clean our public spaces from “protected” corporate noise and return creativity to its true source.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/leftymemes/p/1318841/haven-t-read-that-part-yet

To truly wrap your head around the phenomenon of a 49 MB web page, let’s quickly travel back a few decades. With this page load, you would be leaping ahead of the size of Windows 95 (28 floppy disks). The OS that ran the world fits perfectly inside a single modern page load. In 2006, the iPod reigned supreme and digital music was precious. A standard high-quality MP3 song at 192 kbps bitrate took up around 4 to 5 MB. This singular page represents roughly 10 to 12 full-length songs. I essentially downloaded an entire album’s worth of data just to read a few paragraphs of text. According to the International Telecommunication Union, the global average broadband internet speed back then was about 1.5 Mbps. Your browser would continue loading this monstrosity for several minutes, enough time for you to walk away and make a cup of coffee.

When Tolstoy speaks of Christianity, he’s referring to his more objective, philosophical, less supernatural interpretation of his translation of the Gospels: The Gospel in Brief. For context: https://lemmy.world/post/42151959

“The term ‘religion’ I am using in its broadest sense, meaning thereby self-realization or knowledge of self.” - Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth, Part One, Chapter Ten: “Glimpses of Religion”

When Tolstoy speaks of Christianity, he’s referring to his more objective, philosophical, less supernatural interpretation of his translation of the Gospels: The Gospel in Brief. For context: https://lemmy.world/post/42151959

“𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲”

When Tolstoy speaks of Christianity, he’s referring to his more objective, philosophical, less supernatural interpretation of his translation of the Gospels: The Gospel in Brief. For context: https://lemmy.world/post/42151959

“The time has now come to bring these chapters to a close. My life from this point onward has been so public that there is hardly anything about it that people do not know. Moreover, since 1921 I have worked in such close association with the Congress leaders that I can hardly describe any episode in my life since then without referring to my relations with them. For though Shraddhanandji, the Deshabandhu, Hakim Saheb and Lalaji are no more with us today, we have the good luck to have a host of other veteran Congress leaders still living and working in our midst. The history of the Congress, since the great changes in it that I have described above, is still in the making. And my principal experiments during the past seven years have all been made through the Congress. A reference to my relations with the leaders would therefore be unavoidable, if I set about describing my experiments further. And this I may not do, at any rate for the present, if only from a sense of propriety. Lastly, my conclusions from my current experiments can hardly as yet be regarded as decisive. It therefore seems to me to be my plain duty to close this narrative here. In fact my pen instinctively refuses to proceed further.

Tausendundeine Nacht (arabisch ألف ليلة وليلة, DMG alf laila wa-laila, persisch هزار و يک شب, DMG hazār-u yak šab) ist eine Sammlung von mehr als 550 Geschichten (→ Tausendundeine Nacht – Liste der Geschichten) aus dem arabischen, persischen und indischen Kulturraum. Das Werk ist ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur. Typologisch handelt es sich um eine Rahmenerzählung mit Schachtelgeschichten.

"The only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people"

Essentially, I’ve combined bits of philosophies from Socrates, Jesus, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, and Gandhi, but with the story of the Garden of Eden as its frame. I like to think this story potentially dates as far back as 6000 B.C., originating with the ancient Mesopotamians, and as a result, subjected to potentially millenniums of distorting interpretation; they possessed the means for language ("logos"), and therefore, the ability to retain and transfer knowledge dating that far back. Today, “Christians” call the Garden of Eden (https://biblehub.com/lsv/genesis/2.htm), “the fall,” but I think there’s a more profound moral lesson that’s been buried underneath what man has made it out to be ever since; the fables, supernatural, and miracles within being simply a means for people millenniums ago to express thought, words like consciousness not coming anywhere close to existing in these ancient languages, e.g., “I AM THAT WHICH I AM.” - Exodus 3:14 LSV. And knowledge is knowledge no matter its source and no matter what we’ve rendered it ever since it’s been revealed and labeled.

“The whole historic existence of mankind is nothing else than the gradual transition from the personal, animal conception of life [(the savage recognizes life only in himself alone; the highest happiness for him is the fullest satisfaction of his desires)], to the social conception of life [(recognizing life not in himself alone, but in societies of men—in the tribe, the clan, the family, the kingdom, the government—and sacrifices his personal good for these societies)], and from the social conception of life to the divine conception of life [(recognizing life not in his own individuality, and not in societies of individualities, but in the eternal undying source of life—in God; and to fulfill the will of God he is ready to sacrifice his own individuality and family and social welfare)].

In my previous post, I asked: Can questions or observation create reality?

Dear philosophers, some of you have probably noticed (some of) my previous philosophy posts. As I started my Philosophy of Balance, it was always the intention to move into the domain of morality as well, and today I will gently try to enter this domain.

“What the fuck has that got to do with ANYTHING INTERESTING?” -Richard Dawkins

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Which, if not somehow both, do you think is more accurate?

Chinese like to ask their moms whether something tastes nice…

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Essaouira isn’t just a coastal city — many visitors describe a strange emotional shift the moment they arrive.