The options have been laid out for us:
The annihilation of anarchy.
The prison of communism.
The call to adventure.
You haven't heard the call? But, you have been listening to him.
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Reflect back to Caesar his image of himself insofar as you must, but don't believe he's a god. That is the lesson in regard to our attitude toward the secular world.
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Mathematician: "What has the philosopher done to resist invading armies?"
Philosopher: "What has the mathematician done to resist becoming one?"
Mathematician: "I would rather be one over the other."
Philosopher: "Is there another way?"
I think I'm beginning to understand Jordan Peterson.
The story of Abraham is a comedy. The story of Jesus is a tragedy.
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The two modes of consciousness of Existence are Perception and Understanding, Seeing and Moving.
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Terence, what you're experiencing is the realization of the essence of math—the work of a machine.
Factory workers have been experiencing this for decades.
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The desire to desire is a repulsion.
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But value is posited by us; this is what value is, the order of rank we posit. "Objective value" is an oxymoron.
The "transcendent third" must come from above, but the self-regarding are not looking up.
Our problem in a nutshell.
Mathematicians thought they were contemplating the mind of God. Turns out, they are thinking like a machine.
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Looks like the fleecing of the public has reached its limit. Is it time to return the wealth?
Not according to the ancient playbook.
Nietzsche didn't want to create values. He wanted philosophers to prepare the way for the creator of values.
For him, "aiming" is not an "aiming up." It's an "aiming over."
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If you're captivated by an object, and you have a restful heart, you are not "honest seekers." Strong words.
Nice sermon. Thank you.
But isn't the root of all evil the finding of the truth, the good, and the beautiful in too narrow a place, in small things?
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We define the universe as that which does not contain self-referential things.
The universe itself does not contain itself. Therefore, it contains itself.
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Dawkins is a "cultural Christian" because he would rather be served by a Christian. Selfish gene indeed.
The self-destruction of revenge (self-identity) is repelled into punishment (inverse world). The inverse of the inverse world (self-attraction) is the law of the community.
Self-repelling and self-attracting is how the object of consciousness moves.
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