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Just spent 2 hours watching the latest (2nd) Zeigeist Addendum movie. Not too bad.
GNGB to each and all.
XYXYXY
-Bill
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There endeth this lesson on Philosophy.
NB I am not sure who wrote all that.
-Bill
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Good judgement can judge facts correctly, put facts in their correct context.
-Bill
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A principle is a generalisation of clear-cut cases that seldom occur in reality.
-Bill
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Principles are necessary to survey concepts.
-Bill
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Concepts are necessary for comprehension.
-Bill
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Judgement requires facts, concepts and principles.
-Bill
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Ignorance is a lack of knowledge of facts.
-Bill
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Comprehension is the result of reflection.
-Bill
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Sense is direct, immediate, unreflective experience of reality.
Reason obtains all its reality material and knowledge material from sense. (doubt this and you will be mistaken)
Hulme.
-Bill
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Sense is objective consciousness.
Reason is subjective consciousness.
-Bill
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It is also very easy to imagine that everything is imagination. Now imagine that!
-Bill
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We never perceive anything but our own perceptions.
Berkeley
-Bill
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Sorry Jim it turned out wrong >(i)
-Bill
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Here is one especially for you Jimmy >(i)
-Bill
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Night lights that shine in the darkness can illuminate the path.
(i)
-Bill
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Keep up the self-sacrificing struggle for justice, tolerance, humanity, freedom of thought, and love of mankind, against all the powers of darkness.
-Bill
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"The best natural constitution is the wise ruling the ignorant. Democracy is a form of government suited, not to men, but to a race of gods. There has never been and will never be a real democracy.
Rousseau
Viva la revolution
-Bill
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Love is the one and only salvation for mankind.
Anon
-Bill
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Mankind advances step by step through the continous revelation of profound and meaningful ideas. The whole of existence is undergoing a gigantic process of development and change. We are slowly awakening to reason. We must all work together to the best possible end.
-Bill
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We have all been living on borrowed time, now we have to repay that debt.
-Bill
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To all those on the journey, I hope your path is light and joyful, and may those who you meet be your constant companions who help and guide you safely to your final destination.
GNGB to each and all.
XYXYXY
-Bill
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The truth is not to be found out there somewhere, it is found after constantly searching the innermost, deepest depths of consciousness. You yourself must find it , then you will fully realise it. This is the task everyone must undertake. The kingdom of heaven lies within.
-Bill
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Jim, People would condemn me for telling the truth. The fact is, they cannot face it.
-Bill
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Bill, why do people hide the truth once they know it?
-My Oh My
A. Because it does not always make sense.
-Bill
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Its never too late to change your mind. The very least you can do is Think about it.
-Bill
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We must help others to gain a better understanding of life in this otherwise incomprehensible world.
H Laurency
-Bill
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Mans belief that he is the supreme product of existence and that everything exists of this sole purpose, is just one of the countless errors of ignorance.
H Laurency
-Bill
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All life has a form, from atom, molecule, aggregate, to planet, solar system and cosmic worlds. Thease forms are subject to the law of transformation, change continually, dissolve and reform.
Change is the condition of life.
H Laurency
-Bill
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"Everything that exists is a fact", for anyone who can ascertain it.
H Laurency
-Bill
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Everything is above all that it appears to be, but besides that, always something different and immensely more.
H Laurency
-Bill
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If consciousness could be thought to exist without matter, then consciousness itself must be something substantial. Consciousness is as absolute as matter.
H Laurency
-Bill
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Revelation is a continous process in which the individual by their own work continually makes new discoveries. This process can be described as a continual unveiling of reality, a removal of the limitations of the lower.
H Laurency
-Bill
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3. It should lead to action. "energy follows thought".
H Laurency.
-Bill
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2. It should bring about a better understanding of our relations to other people.
-Bill
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Meditation can bring about three results :-
1. It should entail the dissipation of illusion by the correct apprehension of the idea.
-Bill
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Discover the self and get a new view of life.
-Bill
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Perfect the perfect stillness and be in the calmest calm.
GNGB to each and love to all.
XYXYXY
-Bill
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There are no shortcuts along the path of life, those that think there are end up taking longer on the journey.
-Bill
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Everything comes from an higher source, showering everything with love.
-Bill
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Aimlessly wander about in the darkness and you shall understand nothing.
-Bill
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Discover your self and you shall get a better view of life.
-Bill
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"He who knows what is right, does what is right.
Plato
-Bill
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Concentrate on the good to overcome the bad. The path to liberation is to value everything higher as the most valuable. The more thoroughly you are able to liberate yourself from the lower, the more easily you assimilate to the higher.
HT Laurency
-Bill
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If you do not listen to reason, then you must learn it on the path of aggravated suffering.
H T Laurency
-Bill
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