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"War does not determine who is
right
- only who is
left."
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy
Democracy 1:
Do not feel absolutely
certain of anything.
2:
Concealing evidence
is pointless for the evidence is sure to come to
light.
3: Never
try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
4:
Endeavor to overcome disagreement
through discussion and not by
authority, for
a victory dependent
upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5:
Have no respect for the
authority of others, for there are always contrary
authorities to be found.
6:
Do not use power to suppress
opinions you think pernicious, for
if you do the
opinions will suppress you.
7: Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion,
for every opinion now accepted was once
eccentric.
8: Find more pleasure in
intelligent dissent
than in passive
agreement, for, if you value intelligence, the former implies a deeper
agreement than the latter.
9: Be scrupulously truthful,
even when truth is
inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient
when you try to conceal it.
10.
Do not feel envious of the
happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for
only a fool will think
that it is happiness.



"We know that a
flower is made only of non-flower elements, like
sunshine, earth, water, time,
and space.
Everything in the cosmos comes together to bring about
the presence of one
flower, and these boundless conditions are what we call "non-flower
elements."
Compost grows a flower, and a flower creates compost.
If we
meditate, we can see the
compost in the flower.
If you are an organic gardener, you know
that already.
These are not just words.
It is our experience,
the fruit of of looking
deeply.
Looking at anything, we see the nature of inner
being.
A self
is not possible without
non-self elements.
Looking deeply at anything, we see the whole cosmos.
The one is made of the many.
To take care of ourselves, we take care of those here.
Mutual happiness and stability is
self-sustaining.
If we are
free of the notions of self and non-self, we will
not be afraid of the words self and
non-self.
If we see the self as
our enemy and think that non-self is our savior, we
are caught.
If we see
non-self as our enemy
and think self is our
savior, we are caught.
To push away one thing
embraces another.
When we realize that to take care of the self is
to take care of non-self, we are free." -
Thich Nhat
Hanh
personal
experience Knowledge by
acquaintance and knowledge by description were introduced by Bertrand
Russell to designate two different types of knowledge.
An example of
knowledge by
acquaintance:
Huckleberry is justified in
believing that he is in
pain if he is directly and immediately acquainted with his pain.
Huckleberry is not
making an inference regarding his pain ("I must be in pain because my arm is
bleeding"), but feels it as an immediate sensation ("My arm hurts!").
This direct contact with the
fact and the knowledge that this fact makes a proposition true is what is meant
with knowledge by acquaintance .
Every other type of knowledge is
knowledge by description.
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