"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."
- Xunzi

See biography for Xunzi:
https://civilsimian.com/Xunzi

Read Xunzi's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/200/content

"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one."
- Emil Cioran

See biography for Emil Cioran:
https://civilsimian.com/Emil-Cioran

Read Emil Cioran's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/133/content

Yeah...but religion also creates murderous sadists...soooo....

I honestly had never even heard of Bias before I started doing this....

"The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes."
- Michel de Montaigne

See biography for Michel de Montaigne:
https://civilsimian.com/Michel-de-Montaigne

Read Michel de Montaigne's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/53/content

It's pretty crazy. I built this bevel function on top of a gradient plugin, on top of a streak plugin. SMH...not an AI hater...some of it's shifty...not all....

Socrates hated homeschooling...🤷‍♂️😁

We have definitely lost our way on this....

Things are becoming more accessible now....

Every individual is an end in themselves and should be respected as such. In crowded areas, that means commonsense respect. Move out to the woods if you can't handle it.

The notion that "liberty" is a thing people can just point to as an object detached from reality is problematic. Too many freedoms and your neighbor governs you. Too much regulation and you become a drone. "Liberty" is a balance.

#philosophy #quotes #CivilSimian #UniversalHumanism 

Saw something about this discussed in the framing of the free will debate. Roughly, insistence on historical is punitive and focus on the future is progressive. BALANCE is what is needed.

Maybe the absolute particular you, which is a teeny tiny part of what you are....but...your name is a label, does that negate you...Søøøren....

Thought I'd share one of these old ones for you guys...this is like 15 years old....I used to do all this before....

I'm 53 now...my neighbor lives by herself at 101 (with visitors)....I'm thinking if you make it out of your late 70's you got a good genetic roll....