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Niemand wrote: September 29th, 2022, 4:09 pm A hundred years ago Scottish education was the envy of the world…

Nowadays, i look at our schools and weep. I read a Tweet from my local primary (elementary) recently reproducing an essay from a little girl which was promoting gender diversity. My local high school is now flooded with numerous children who can barely speak English because they've only recently arrived from wherever...
For sure, the focus on gender diversity is clearly part of psychological warfare - feminizing would-be warrior men, undermining motherhood and the family, as well as “dividing to conquer.”

I see good points on both sides of the immigration issue. Going through years of stress/legal papers/$ to legally immigrate makes not having to do all that but still immigrating seem unfair. Law and order are important. Yet… if I was the parent of children in horrible conditions, I’d do what was needed for a better life for them. What good parent wouldn’t? And I know this could be twisted (so remember the other side I just validated)… from a spiritual perspective, we are all children of God & “God is no respector of persons” - Scottish, Somalian, Iranian, American… Muslim, Atheist, Catholic, Hindu etc…

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“The sheep will spend its entire life fearing the wolf, only to he eaten by the shepherd." - African proverb

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“Anyone going against the herd gets punished. But it’s worth it. Don’t be sheep in that regard. If something is not right - step up! Speak out! Do the right thing. We got this. Good is not instinct.”

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Frank Herbert, "Dune" (1965)
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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“We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. ” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aristotle:

“Happiness is the meaning & the purpose of life, the whole aim & end of human existence.
(^Sound familiar? ;) )

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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We are currently seeing a lot of what he warned about.
2020 Lds church handbook edited:
“The section on misinformation warns members about sources that “are unreliable and do not edify,” or even “seek to promote anger, contention, fear, or baseless conspiracy theories.”
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“The section on misinformation warns members about sources that “are unreliable and do not edify,” or even “seek to promote anger, contention, fear, or baseless conspiracy theories.”
Boy, JFK sure saw the battle that 'truth' was up against, didn't he?

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Cruiserdude wrote: December 2nd, 2022, 2:01 pm Boy, JFK sure saw the battle that 'truth' was up against, didn't he?
Yes, he did! We are currently seeing a lot of what he warned about. But a lot of people want to ignore or downplay it, including church leaders.

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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." ― Mother Teresa

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Thinker wrote: September 10th, 2020, 8:42 am Truth is so obscure in these times, & falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Pascal

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man’s life. – Cicero
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“If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.”
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FREE SPEECH:

“If you are concerned with the oppressed, why in the world would you oppose free speech? That is the only thing the oppressed have!” - JP

“The only security of all is in a free press.” -Thomas Jefferson

“Freedom of speech gives us the right to offend others, whereas freedom of thought gives them the choice as to whether or not to be offended.” -Mokhonoana

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Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.
R. DASS

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. 
RW EMERSON

We lack faith in what exists within us because we lack faith in Who exists within us.
M. WILLIAMSON
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Faith is not desire. Faith is will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied. Will is a force that changes everything around us.
P. COELHO

Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith. 
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“Thought can only advance on 2 feet. 1 foot is reason & logic. The other is faith & common sense. By shifting from foot to foot, the faith providing the premises & the reason providing the deduction, the mind can move forward to grasp more & more truth. Breaking up this productive partnership disables the mind. I’m the absence of faith, reason goes round in circles. In the absence of reason, faith flies off on a tangent uncorrected by anything.”

“Science & spirituality are not 2 different worlds, but 2 different languages that describe the same reality.”

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“LEARNING is a treasure that will follow you everywhere.”

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Spinoza:
“Reason is no match for passion.
Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be 2 sides.
Blessed are the weak who think they are good because they have no claws.
Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure… you are above everything distressing.
Emotion which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace…& of established religion.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known that a thing does not therefor cease to be true [just] because it is not accepted by many.”

Newton:
“What we know is a drop. What we don’t know is an ocean. 🌊
The best way to understand is a few good examples.
Whence arises all that order & beauty we see in the world?

Henceforward the Christian churches having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof 🧐 came into the hands of… the heathens.. having a greater affinity with their old superstitions than that of the sincere Christians, who by the lamps of the 7 churches of Asia & not by the lamps of the monasteries, had illuminated the church Catholic during the 3 first centuries.”

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larsenb wrote: September 29th, 2022, 4:19 pm
Niemand wrote: May 19th, 2022, 4:35 pm Wisdom can come from odd places. Conan the Barbarian in this case. The internet is even worse for this.

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The paradox here is that the reduction of physical violence leads to the increase of verbal violence. (Although there are some places where people are both rude and incredibly violent.)
"There is always a way, if the desire be coupled with courage,” answered the Cimmerian
They realize their ultimate doom, but they are fatalists, incapable of resistance or escape. Not one of the present generation has been out of sight of these walls.
A variation of this is the cliché that the most polite people you will ever meet are those you mingle with at a gun show. From my experience, this seems to be the case.
True, it seems.
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Jim Breuer - Silly in San Diego (34: - 36: From NJ to FL - different road rage when guns may be involved.
https://youtu.be/hatDD0QdOsY?feature=shared

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This quote reminds me of how mental health depends on one’s ability to handle reality.

“I seek the truth… it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.” - Marcus Aurelius

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“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” - Ayn Rand

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Be strong and of good courage
Be not afraid neither be dismayed
For the Lord your God is with thee withersoever
thou goest

Joshua1:9

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