dream_weaver
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Since morality is man's motive power, there is no spiritual reward one can offer as consequential as one's moral sanction—and no spiritual deprivation as harsh as withholding it. (Note: Listed in order of importance.)
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Sun and Earth are closest for the entire year today. Earth is at a point in its orbit called perihelion, which means “closest to the Sun.” We are about 1.5 million miles (2.4 million km) closer to the Sun than average.
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no wonder...
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The identity of what we see is not at stake, though the identification we have given it may be.
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The next time you hear a discussion of "Medicare," give some thought to the future—particularly to the future of your children, who will live at a time when the best brains available will no longer choose to go into medicine.
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The reality at the base of the art of hermeneutics is to clearly identify the standard you are referencing your interpretations to.
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To know the exact meanings of the concepts one is using, one must know their correct definitions, one must be able to retrace the specific (logical, not chronological) steps by which they were formed, and one must be able to demonstrate their connection to their base in perceptual reality. - Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
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What Einstein is actually doing is claiming that certain properties of objects (such as speed, length etc) are not entirely objective. But that the values of said properties that YOU will observe from within a certain "reference frame" is not necceasirly the same as the values observed from some other "reference frame". Ie, which seems to suggest that actually these properties...
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When listening for the voice of reason, it is important not to ignore what your senses are telling you.
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When we grasp that all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor, and man's basic freedom of choice is: to exercise his distinctively human cognitive machinery or not - wealth, thus, is a product of choice?
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[A] philosopher is one who, knowing all the difficulties involved in the problem of abstractions, deals with nothing but concretes. Given the track-record thus far, this just might be fun to find out if it is right as well.
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[Phaethon] looked left and right. On shelves and in glass cabinets surrounding him were other memories. But the other memory boxes, caskets and chests in the Archive Chamber surrounding him all were clearly labeled, marked, and dated. They bore no cryptic riddles. — The Chamber of Memories
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After getting clearer on where the weeds of power-lust grow, it becomes more obvious that those power-lusters are just pikers when it comes to what is "the most crucial and practical power in human existence."
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The difference between a heavy fog of passive disintegration and a heavy fog of desultory disintegration only seems to arise when there is a concerted effort to actually cut through the fog.
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Ayn Rand is right. One only needs to hone their own ability to distinguish what is right.
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Given the tenor of some recent threads, raises this question within my mind. When Objectivism ultimately permeates the culture, will the individuals populating that culture even be aware that it is the tenets of Objectivism that they are adhering to?
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Great line from the recently released movie Justice League:
"Darkness, the truest darkness, is not the absence of light. It is the conviction that the light will never return." -
Here Is A Clue
(What to do when the blues hit you hard)
Poem by Thomas M. MiovasJr.
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History: Testimony provided via an empirical record that supplies incontrovertible evidence substantiating the law of causality's veracity.
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The curiosity is still peaked on this one:
"To control the consciousness of others becomes his only passion; power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."
Why is "lots" pluralized?
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To emphasize the deficiency in multiple areas of personality: weeds each where rationality, valid premises, love of life, knowledge of reality, self-esteem, certainty, respect for others rights etc. all should be. The weed of power-lust subverts warps or replaces (in its mental variant) what should otherwise be present in each "lot" of the mind, each aspect of an otherwise whole multifaceted mentality of a human being.
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I was stuck on trying to figure out how compartmentalize could make it work somehow. This makes more sense.
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It took a moment for the fact to register, while I was stopped at a light looking at the license plate on a GMC which read UCA GMC, that it was a vanity plate.
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My asparagus patch, as of March 15, 2022. The Dixie cups mark the crown locations planted May 15th, 2022.
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O'Sensei called the Makiwara board, the board of education. The lessons it provided were just and impartial, meting out to each deshi precisely what they provided for exchange.
