Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein
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Is it possible the human race will ever be saved from itself? The human intellect is an amazing thing. It is capable of great imagination, control and design. And when properly employed it is responsible for marvels. But the improper use, the misuse of the mind, can cause tragedy and disaster.
When theories, opinions, false rhetoric, buzz words, sound bites. self justification, jealousy, revenge, hatred, anger, tangential suppositions, dogma, orthodoxy, cliches, bromides, intimidation, fragmentary ideas and gossip take the place of reason and genuine thinking the mental landscape is blurred by trash.
There has never been a human being who is totally innocent of messing up his head and his heart with presumptions and errors, We are led by the nose into the dark alleys of ignorance almost as easily as we breathe. It is one of those dangers that beset humans, a gremlin in disguise, a gang of marauding pirates masquerading as our own thoughts.
It may seem like a harsh and humiliating discipline, an annoying exercise and pointless task to stop and ask ourselves what we are thinking, to apply an antiseptic bandage to our mouths and a cold shower to our emotions, but if it is the only way we can stop ourselves from being fools then it's worth it.
Wisdom is an evolutionary thing. Truth is always truth but it can take many forms. Public opinion is often quite wrong and ought to be challenged at every step. It has been said that a true leader doesn't create followers, he creates more leaders. Original thought is met with scoffing and abuse, sometimes with violence, until it is honed and shaped to fit the average man's mind set and then takes it's place in the tapestry of the acceptable and soon becomes more of the same general opinion, adhered to without thought.
There will always be a real thinker in some lonely outpost, aloof and remote from the rest of us who sees clearly and knows his own heart. There's your genius. There's the leader.
DB - The Vagabond
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DB
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Showing posts with label mental gutters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mental gutters. Show all posts
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Searching The Grains
It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
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I don't know everything. I don't know anything. I don't want to know everything about anything because then I would have nothing to learn. The universe is an infinite place but life is greater than the universe, it's greater than the infinite because it includes the universe.
Some people believe that life ends, that there's a stopping point. There's death. Or there's the "Great Reward" when we are judged for the life we lived and then are checked into heaven or hell to spend an eternity in torment or whatever it is that folks do in heaven. I think those concepts are very confining and not worthy of the universe in which we live.
Space scientists are among those who are looking for some form of life an other planets, and sooner or later they will probably find it. They should certainly continue the search. But until time travel is discovered all the information they get will be billions of years old. Even so, the search itself is the result of the need to know things, to learn things. To some it may seem to be like analyzing grains of sand on a beach, but the search is also a search into human life. Every discovery, each new thing learned, affects human mentality even if we don't notice it.
The search for life elsewhere in the universe is a search for life itself, for the knowledge of what life really is, outside of stars and planets, and the discoveries that affect our mentality, our perception of life, are also discoveries of mind and mind is what is greater than the universe.
In the mental gutters of the world the human mind seems to be used for nothing but a universe of dangerous, disgusting or pointless activities. Some people have risen out of those gutters, many have not. Those who have not are stultified by beliefs and are not in a search for anything beyond what they know. It can be seen in commerce, politics, government, the business of daily life, religion and, yes, even in art.
When we reach the level of understanding that even the stars and planets are not as important as mind, the true universe, real exploration will begin and real life will continue.
DB - The Vagabond
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SUMMER QUESTION
(This is not a contest.)
Who are the 2 (two) most important people alive today? Why?
4 responses so far.
dbdacoba@aol.com
Thank you.
DB
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Friedrich Von Schlegel
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't know everything. I don't know anything. I don't want to know everything about anything because then I would have nothing to learn. The universe is an infinite place but life is greater than the universe, it's greater than the infinite because it includes the universe.
Some people believe that life ends, that there's a stopping point. There's death. Or there's the "Great Reward" when we are judged for the life we lived and then are checked into heaven or hell to spend an eternity in torment or whatever it is that folks do in heaven. I think those concepts are very confining and not worthy of the universe in which we live.
Space scientists are among those who are looking for some form of life an other planets, and sooner or later they will probably find it. They should certainly continue the search. But until time travel is discovered all the information they get will be billions of years old. Even so, the search itself is the result of the need to know things, to learn things. To some it may seem to be like analyzing grains of sand on a beach, but the search is also a search into human life. Every discovery, each new thing learned, affects human mentality even if we don't notice it.
The search for life elsewhere in the universe is a search for life itself, for the knowledge of what life really is, outside of stars and planets, and the discoveries that affect our mentality, our perception of life, are also discoveries of mind and mind is what is greater than the universe.
In the mental gutters of the world the human mind seems to be used for nothing but a universe of dangerous, disgusting or pointless activities. Some people have risen out of those gutters, many have not. Those who have not are stultified by beliefs and are not in a search for anything beyond what they know. It can be seen in commerce, politics, government, the business of daily life, religion and, yes, even in art.
When we reach the level of understanding that even the stars and planets are not as important as mind, the true universe, real exploration will begin and real life will continue.
DB - The Vagabond
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SUMMER QUESTION
(This is not a contest.)
Who are the 2 (two) most important people alive today? Why?
4 responses so far.
dbdacoba@aol.com
Thank you.
DB
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