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Humanities & Culture
PhilosophyBy Random Pilot
10 days ago
Everyone with a developed mind, there being very few exceptions other than children, is aware their actions (or inactions) have consequences, for themselves and others. We take into consideration the amount of pain our actions may cause. Being unable to feel exactly what anyone else is feeling, we begin the journey towards empathy by identifying the type of pain felt by someone and attempting to match it to our own understandings of pain and types of pain. We do harm because we fail to find a match to another person(s)'s pain, or the match we do find doesn't remind us of a pain intense enough to convince us the action should be avoided. Even if a match should be considered a match rationally, we are not rational beings (if you HAD to choose between the death of a loved one and that of a thousand people you had never met before, which would you choose? -- and if the number were a million?), and our point of view changes what is and isn't considered a match. |
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Humanities & CulturePhilosophyBy Silicon Falcon
3 weeks ago
There are many theories and hypothesizes surrounding the famous Mayan calendar and it's abrupt end. Are we going to see a catastrophic pole-shift? Will our Sun just blink one last time and go out forever? Will a massive asteroid smash into the earth? Is this the date that the clouds will part and the heavenly hosts descend to wage the final Judgment? Or, will it just be another day that will come and go like all the other scares just like Y2K and others?
One thing is for sure, it is going to be a day of mass burials for all those that flipped out and committed suicide the day before. We have seen this throughout the years when a voice, especially of religion, proclaims that the world will end on this certain date. He either gathers a group of people for a mass suicide or they all gather on a high roof, to await the “mother ship” and, when it doesn't show, jump to their deaths because they felt left behind.
One of the more popular views is that our sun is going to finally die, sending us into perpetual darkness, spinning our planet out into space on a journey that will only end with us smashing into another celestial object, get eaten whole by a sub-microscopic... sub-atomic |
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Humanities & CulturePhilosophyBy wealth
2 months ago
The road to success is one that is very different for everyone. Some people start on their path and reach their destination in what seems like the blink of an eye. While others follow their road to success for years and years, some even travel their road for decades. Anyway the road to success is never the same for two people. What's Your Road to SuccessI am writing this post on the 3rd day of January 2010 because the beginning of a new year will often get people to start thinking about their goals and their personal progress. The end of December and through January each year kicks off a media blitz for weight loss products, fitness products, health club memberships, self improvement programs and stop smoking aids. The reason is because so many people talk of New Years resolutions and use the new year to start on their road to success. The new year has many people thinking about what they want to change about themselves and for some reason they feel they need to start on the first day of the new year.  Find Your Road to Success Your road to success in any area of your life starts as soon as you decide it starts. Whether it is the first day of the year, the first day of the month or a Tuesday afternoon in July, when you decide on what you want to achieve you need to start immediately. How important can your goal be if you feel that you need to start working on that goal on January 1st. Get Started on the Road to Success |
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Humanities & CulturePhilosophyBy wealth
2 months ago
Did you ever hear someone say I want more money before? I am sure we have all heard that before and we have probably said it ourselves more than once. I think it is a common thing among almost all of the population. The poor person wants more money, the middle class person wants more money and even the multimillionaire wants more money. It seems that just about everyone wants more money. What Does "I Want More Money" MeanDoes the statement I want more money mean that they want more money or does it mean that they want something else and they believe money will provide that for them? Or maybe they just enjoy the wanting. The statement can have several meanings. I guess it depends on how you use the statement and how you think about the statement. If you are talking to a salesperson they believe the value out weighs the price of what they are selling so they say I want more money. We are all all sales people at some time. The employee that is wanting a raise is selling themselves, the car salesman is selling a car or the insurance agent is selling piece of mind and security. So one way of thinking or saying I want more money is the value is greater than the price. I Want More Money or WantingSimilar Posts: |
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Humanities & CulturePhilosophyBy agniveer
2 months ago
 यां मेधां देवगणाः पितरश्चोपासते। तया मामद्य मेधयाSग्ने मेधाविनं कुरु स्वाहा॥ यजुर्वेद ३२.१४॥
O ever glowing, brilliant Lord of all beings! Give us the same intellect that you gave to our legendary ancestors, the great men and women of history, the best of the best ever born. Give us the same intellect through which the heroes of past achieved greatest of wonders and miracles. Give us the same intellect which our role models transformed into noble efforts that dazzled the world. Give us the same intellect that the greatest performers used to worship you, through noble thoughts, noble words and noble actions. Give us the same intellect that is the jewel of the best of the yogis, the best of the scholars and the best of the achievers. And give us that intellect RIGHT NOW! Vedas do not conceive of a God or Paramatma who would change his course of actions even a bit to accommodate our prayers. Then what is the use of such prayers or innumerable similar ones, which He would never listen to? |
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Humanities & CulturePhilosophyBy twoser
2 months ago
A friend of mine wrote me to ask, "I am currently studying the Four Noble Truths... I am struggling with the second of the truths which says 'Difficulty comes from desiring life to be different.' I still have goals in life... Aren't goals a form of desiring life to be different? Is this truth saying that goals are the source of suffering?"
I was happy to see this question - it shows that my friend is thinking and really trying to digest this ancient wisdom in a meaningful modern way.
A goal is something which could come to pass. It is something that could happen. The possibility represented by a goal does not, itself, cause suffering. However, one could get attached to a goal. That sets the stage for suffering. If that goal does not come to pass, or changing circumstances make the goal impossible, then the attachment to the goal causes suffering.
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