I'll have to go with dictatorships are objectively destructive then....

....and the Flock panopticon is the prison of the soul.

Gross...

Morpheus?

He may be referring to the perversion of religion to serve upper class goals. I think those who separate morality from law or treat law like there is no moral foundation are just evil.

When one has blinded themselves to deterministic external limitations....

This is exactly why people should not be so casual about war...whether it be sending soldiers into harm's way unnecessarily or stupidly cheering to start a war one believes someone else will be dying in.

Well, the other option is....total madness 🤷‍♂️

The beard singeing is worse for liars though....they never keep it straight...

But it's up to us to understand the spectrum that moves from consciousness, through all the degrees of split consciousness and physicality, to our physical presence...the physical presence just IS......

This is the sad truth of capitalism. I'm here to tell you, I recognize you as humans. Capitalism is a tool, a useful one, but we don't live in the tools....we aren't the tools ourselves...and that's capitalism's failure...the failure to rein in its zealots....

There's just enough art in this...

Life is part stone. It's not as elusive and magical as some would have you believe. It can be objectified.

It's not relative either....

Perfectly said. We can get more technical but this works. The main issue is imagination is dual use. Some abuse it like a drug.

The fact that people are willing to take the name "Atheist" is a huge concession to the religious. They can't even define their thing, why are you taking names for them?

AI: Pauperism refers to the state of being extremely poor, particularly a chronic or systemic condition of poverty that leaves a person dependent on charity or public relief to survive.

We've been captured by scarcity mentalities for too long. I have a different message: Find what you want to do...and chill the F out and do it at your own pace...

Old stuff...late 1500's...

See biography for Giordano Bruno:
https://civilsimian.com/Giordano-Bruno

Read Giordano Bruno's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/111/content

Life can be tragic...personally I don't ignore this...the tragic aspects are horrible, and I'd never feel comfortable making a statement like this. This is Cioran's polar opposite...😂

Nothing's changed...roughly 170 years later...even though their lives were probably way harsher...the general sentiment is the same....

See biography for William Whewell:
https://civilsimian.com/William-Whewell

Read William Whewell's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/238/content

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