Quote from: Bit-Gods on June 21, 2015, 10:28:00 AM

Every murder victim, everyone who suffers from disease or poverty or injury is doomed to repeat the cycle of their existence.

Quote from: username18333 on June 20, 2015, 11:52:54 PM

Quote from: (oYo) on June 15, 2015, 09:54:35 PM

This is the pattern of creation and how everything in the universe came to be.

Causation is an element of your existences phenomenology. For illustration, 𝑓(𝑛₁ + 𝟣) equals 𝟦 because 𝑛² constitutes 𝑓, not because 𝑓(𝑛₁) equals 𝟣.

Quote from: username18333 on June 05, 2015, 09:48:26 PM

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on May 31, 2015, 07:59:05 AM

In 1992, I went house-to-house and talked to people all ages (from young couples to grandmothers) as a volunteer for the Ross Perot 1992 POTUS campaign. I saw that people would listen to me, but they wouldn't be able to carry it forward in terms of complete understanding and action. I learned that people have other incentives that are driving their lives and they don't have the focus to become experts on politics, what is actually going on behind the curtain, and what to best do about it.

Quote from: Charles Flatt, Sheila Allen; Los Angeles Times; 1990

Democracy has been described as four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Unmoderated majority rule means that the mistakes, the ignorance and the prejudices of the majority will become law. Minorities will be devoured, and the resulting society will be one of enforced and fearful homogeneity.

Quote from: Dale Wilkerson, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Nietzsches philosophy contemplates the meaning of values and their significance to human existence. Given that no absolute values exist, in Nietzsches worldview, the evolution of values on earth must be measured by some other means. How then shall they be understood? The existence of a value presupposes a value-positing perspective, and values are created by human beings (and perhaps other value-positing agents) as aids for survival and growth. Because values are important for the well being of the human animal, because belief in them is essential to our existence, we oftentimes prefer to forget that values are our own creations and to live through them as if they were absolute. For these reasons, social institutions enforcing adherence to inherited values are permitted to create self-serving economies of power, so long as individuals living through them are thereby made more secure and their possibilities for life enhanced. Nevertheless, from time to time the values we inherit are deemed no longer suitable and the continued enforcement of them no longer stands in the service of life. To maintain allegiance to such values, even when they no longer seem practicable, turns what once served the advantage to individuals to a disadvantage, and what was once the prudent deployment of values into a life denying abuse of power. When this happens the human being must reactivate its creative, value-positing capacities and construct new values.

Quote from: David Konstan, Epicurus, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014

[Epicurus] regarded the unacknowledged fear of death and punishment as the primary cause of anxiety among human beings, and anxiety in turn as the source of extreme and irrational desires.