Free Thought for the Brave
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/philosophy-for-our-times/id1151965239?i=1000678298669
Great preliminary explanation of the complexity of land rights and title.
What gives us right to individual property rights?
Should land be held in common?
Violence and Property are linked; now, how can we fix the problem?
Development of societies and communities may be at issues how do we get to a level playing field? Why is that important?
let’s think about it….
Tucker Carlson’s latest podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-tucker-carlson-show/id1719657632?i=1000677671644
Must listen for all interested in a new world re-organization. It is up to us to either educate ourselves to the necessity of power politics and geo-political realities. Put yourselves in others shoes and think what our actions might display or how you would react. Therefore, do on to others as you wish you would like done to you. If we do not, nuclear war can and will be inevitable.
Food for thought…..Russia and China need to be pulled into our friend zones. if we cooperate and stop the propaganda we will be able to avert it.
Also, who do you think is more tame the average American/North American or Russian/Chinese citizen.
Historically speaking they are a tougher people.
Therefore, better to be friends than enemies.
Found at gutenberg/ebooks73782/.org
All thought proceeding are attributed to this pamphlet.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73782
Chapter 1: NATURE AND MAN
To take a stand in a debate between the supernatural and science after reading this chapter seems rather infantile. Yes, science can and will make our lives easier and allow for coming to some sort of truth in the matter. Also, science will never give you a definite statistically speaking….99.9% but never 100%. Why, well we are always learning, there is possibility for error and in the Millian sense we need not have dead dogmas; therefore, always adapt to the times and also leave room for miracle and or the unexplained.
As a result, we limit our rationality and fallibility as a species and do not covet the realm of the Gods and or God. I state Gods here because Russel mentions that One God or the Gods of Athens or Ancient Egypt in his example and if by chance anyone of them is true it really does not matter. I believe today the consensus in the west anyways is room for one God or monotheism.
Even Nature our habitat which we, a little parasitic animal on the planet are trying to control. Sometimes nature gets angry and fights back with tornados and hurricanes at other times and usually it gives us beautiful sunlight so that we can plant our crops, eat and socialize and even philosophize about what is happening around us.
We can and will understand what GOD has given us as our tools for observation have become more and more delicate and sensitive. God in this context means a God that wants us to understand their mystery they have given us as a gift to our lives and our nature which are totally dependent on each other in the light we make it to be. Therefore, if we war and also do not take care of Nature we will ultimately suffer the consequences. Nature will survive any attack us little pesky human parasites have and evolve new life.
Therefore, what I take from this chapter is it is up to us, how we all can live. Ultimately we can have heaven on earth or hell, and Yes it is up to us.
CHAPTER 2: THE GOOD LIFE.
Russel’s view or definition of the “Good Life,” is one that is:
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge,”
The limits of this broad sentence are one specific. They are specific to the limits of our knowledge and blind love can be as dangerous as ignorance. Therefore, is anything really good or bad, can we paint the world in black and white. So, as anyone knows there is a lot of grey. Therefore, when talking about ethics one can use scientific data historically with precedent to display the utility of actions and non-action. However consistency is what one should be after. Russel believes it doesn’t really matter because of the fact that even his opinion does not matter until he strikes a chord. However, looking at the level of viral videos that make money we are sure that our level of civility has definitely become primitive. As a result, to gain access to the knowledge and love he is talking about one must be cultured and know not to act in a way that may be repulsive. Being neutral in tone and expression may be necessary in some situations and yet not in other, when amongst friends act as you wish but when in public and private spheres do not intertwine. If you love yourself, you will not degrade others because one must know what others are thinking. No one is all knowing of what is going through someone’s mind; also, one must not assume. Never assume anything because that is bias and negates all proof. Therefore, act as you wish others to act toward you…simply put…we are working class proud and our strength is in our numbers. We all have the ability to be cultured; yet, also the ability to move and create mountains. One debate I would love to have is socialism and Christianity compatible……Definitely SO.
So, very utilitarian and socialist, not to mention common wealth.
End of the debate,,,,,thank you.
CHAPTER 3: to CHAPTER 5: on next post.
Fidel and Religion
Although a great read and a definite must read for anyone who thinks Marxism and Christianity cannot get along. Fidel opened the door.
The Communist Manifesto states that religion is an “Opium of the Masses.” One in which Fidel Agreed; yet seemed to be hesitant to throw away his Catholic upbringing in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba. It is what formed him and his thoughts. After all, was not Jesus the ultimate revolutionary taking on the Roman and Judean Order in the historical sense.
So good ol Fidel realized that; YES, the books of faith did have value for liberating people from oppression individually, within and between individuals and groups. As a result, this interview with Castro took me a long time to read, not because I thought it was a hard read but because I had to put it down from time to time and think. Think long and hard as to what he was saying and apply it to my own life experience.
I already had a copy of this book before I went on my vacation to CUBA in December of 2023…….One solo trip that my wife let me go on so that I can relax and take in some much needed sun VITIMINE D. When I got to Cuba I rented a PEDAL BIKE for $5 US dollars a day from CUBA CAR the car rental hub all along varadero beach. Below is my view from my room in a resort that had 3 people on it…I was isolated and loved it. Below my view, I was at the Art Gallery Cafe enjoying a coffee and taking notes on the first part of the interview.
So, why did Fidel take this stance? I can see that he knew that and believed that all knowledge has some sort of truth now or later. To throw away an almost 2000 year institution that has not just kept people alive in hard times, Humans and Science cannot live without miracles. Just the conception of human birth alone and the fact that with modern technology that continually advances we can better understand how it works. One single sperm can and will cause an atomic bomb of cell multiplication exponentially……Yes, this is a miracle. Therefore, Yes humans are innovative and curious and always want to know the questions of Who, What, Where, When and Why?
Humans are now making machines think, yes think. Artificial Intelligence is controlling battle fields “which is horrific” as well as every teacher’s nightmare when trying to see if a student is plagiarizing or not. As a result, every socialist as well as conservatives know who ever wins the education game will eventually have the strongest societies that can survive the end of times. Even in good times, the education game is key and one where truth and love will conquer.
Well what am I talking about….This is not about taking sides. This is about doing what is right. Fidel did not look down on his upbringing he wanted to bring economic equality and the most important thing to his society and that is education.
CUBA still to this day had the most trained doctors per capita. How is this possible? Yes, we all recognize that knowledge and informed opinion is paramount. President Trump which I kind of admire for his persistence and striking a frequency not matched ever it may seem, I find it time to end the sanctions on CUBA. Cuba has sent doctors all over the south and educated doctors in all lands. They are being strangled and crippled by the sanctions that their people do not deserve. Sanctions will be aliviated if China and Russia step in; however, CUBA is a part of the Americas and it is time to let them in. Remove the sanctions so that the Cuban voice can be saved. This is not Socialist Propaganda; rather, a sober second opinion and voice of the masses. A voice of Love, A voice of Peace and A voice of informed opinion, one that did not forget miracle and one that Christianity is still alive and well.
Fidel was a voice for all, now let the Cuban people live and be an example of a peace loving nation. There is no need for another revolution, rather take away the sanctions and let CUBA SHINE BRIGHTER THAN IT EVER HAS.
I want to thank the CUBAN people for making me feel more than welcome on their home soil. I have seen suffering with only witnesing smiles, because we all know their suffering should be released.
It is hard for a nation who is doing everything right to suffer from an economic strangle hold…Just imagine opening the floodgates of trade with good people it is time to let us learn from one another and heal the mend which has tried to keep our two societies in two camps; Canada knows this, it is time for you to know and understand as well.
Trump remove the sanctions.
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Free Will: Do I have the ability to freely think and act on those thoughts?
Obviously, we cannot act on all our thoughts.
Rationalizing and using reason to solve our problems individually freely has been the cornerstone of all our liberal democracies.
Innovation also is directly dependant on the ability to test and freely exercise our thoughts and ideas….or so do we think.
As anyone who has tried to navigate the legal channels or academic processes which I have to admit I haven’t; however, causes much stress to go to that level of academia.
So as I have told many people, many opinions should be left silent because they are not informed opinion and are just rather hot air that only bring down society rather than prop it up. As a result, fact based or informed opinion should be the guide to rational thought rather than oratory and down right simple propaganda.
Therefore, are we really free. No, definitely we are not. I am sure that many people who are a lot larger than me would have loved to punch me in the face when I disagree or call their bluff. The simple thing to do is just act in the bliss of mindfulness and fakely agree which is much more irritating to the keen observer.
So many things come into play, our development and conditioning everything that we have seen in our life and compute before we act.
As a result, some of our best behaved humans can and will become manipulative monsters when push comes to shove. As a result, Free Will must be defined before can talk about it.
So, Free Will to me can be defined as the ability to act freely within a social system and what one has defined as good within groups, as well as the common conventions all groups can come to understand as good and bad such as the Geneva Convention which is just that a convention and not a law. National Laws and by-laws at the municipal level can be seen as limits to our freedoms and the fight to always innovate new laws to make life easier and or limit freedom for all our benefit.
As a result, we do not have free Will, because free Will would mean we live in the “law of the jungle” total violent anarchy. Which is different than what I believe anarchy to be.
As a result, free Will, NO. We are however granted the right to free Will by birthright from God; however, we all know how many times we must “think before we act.” Yes, if you act on all your impulses it is considered a mental illness; so in the end no we do not have free will but we do have it as a hypothetical given to us by God by birthright and non-socialization.
Groups are hear to stay folks, we just need to know how to live together.
This quote is a principle.
Although we are all learning and should not be static in order to adapt to change if change is what you want. Sometimes we think we learned something but then we have to scrap all that knowledge and then return to previously held principles. This is in direct accordance with Mill’s truth theory. As social animals who tend to congregate into groups for protection and form some sort of workable hierarchy that must cooperate or war with others to survive. That’s the way it is and always will be…..I say FUCK THAT!
I just witnessed on the guardian a skylink rocket land itself in an unstable environment in our atmosphere. So, if they can do that then we can do anything through education, co-operation and ridding ourselves of tags of conservative and or liberal. Today I may be conservative but if my existence is on the line I might change my tune…..why so……Lets get all our greatest minds together and solve the problem of emissions and the ills of drilling for black gold, good old crude oil. Not saying we can ever stop drilling just saying SLOW DOWN. PICK UP YOUR KID AND HAVE SOME DOWN TIME FROM TIME TO TIME.
If we take principles of Americas Indigenous populations Mohawk/Iroquois Confederacy we must think seven generations ahead in perpetual sustainability in order to keep our species alive.
So, if you can land a rocket thinking seven generations a head is a sinch.
More to come……
Now I’m going to take my own advise where are my kids two are sleeping right now and one is up….lets hope hes a night hawk like myself
Cheers
I have to attribute the ideas held on this page as being inspired by the book by Shannon Lee: “The Teachings of Bruce Lee.”
My biggest critique of the Ying Yang theory was that it was too simplistic, circular and simply black and white with no room for grey. That is the typical western interpretation of Ying Yang.
Shannon does a great job of explaining the true nature of this theory and it reminds me a little of ancient Greek heraclitus explaining infinity inwards and outward on a single point on a linear line which then explains oneness and wholeness of life.
As a result, Ying and Yang are compliments of one another in the oneness of life, universe and is complete. As a result, the oneness of God in the Christian tradition maybe is the complete organ of life the whole universe and the consciousness we have in interpreting this as well as why it is even important in trying to understand this to begin with.
BE A NOBODY!
Check your ego at the door and do not let others define and change.
The power of will power is the supreme court of one’s being.
No effort = no success, no progress, no inclined
Effort and learning how to harness your effort to be worth while endeavours is what one is after.
Use it for the long game of personal growth
What is will?
Takes everything around you to try and go with the flow and try not to gas out when you need to go against it from time to time.
Take in the whole picture and direct your energy with your personal vision of your person life.
In the end, you can nourish our soul, don’t waste time because life is all about time.
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Overcome obstacles of ups and downs and let life get us to the ideal or vision of life which can be known as happiness.
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That is the kind of artist I like, modest in his needs; he actually wants only two things: his bread and his art—panem et Circen*…..(Bread and games). loose translation.
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Yes, could have not said it any better than myself.
Bread is important and entertainment or entertainment of one’s art in one’s lifetime … Just wonderful…
Many are cursed but have been written in history and that is the final goal.
Cheers to all the courageous wanderers.
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Among Woman.–“Truth? Oh, you don’t know the truth! Isn’t it an attempt on all our pudeurs?.*
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To most women the truth as Jack Nicholson say in “A Few Good Men,”
“The truth…..YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!”
Yup…could not say it any better myself….Speaking the truth just makes you sound crazy or stupid so be careful who you say that too…..nahhhhhh.
Speak your mind you will get there too.
Trust in God and the conscience he gave you….Strive for Excellence and Perfection.
B Freethinkers