RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
May 27, 2023 at 4:18 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2023 at 5:42 am by Carl Hickey.)
Seven deadly sins (the capital vices):
1. gluttony;
2. lust/prostitution/fornication;
3. avarice (greed);
4. envy, sadness at another's good fortune/despair;
5. wrath/anger/rage;
6. acedia/dejection/sloth;
7-8. boasting/vainglory/pride
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The Aristotelian Virtues
ACTIVITY OR EMOTION DEFICIT - MEAN - EXCESS
Fear and Confidence Cowardice - Courage - Rashness
...
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Let's see what Eric Berne (Transactional analysis) has to say:
The types of hunger:
food-hunger;
stimulus-hunger;
recognition-hunger;
structure-hunger.
/stated in Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relationships/
/at the beginning/
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Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (one of the world's Seven Wonders). The conclusion prompted the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. Wikipedia
One philosopher pointed out that one could not blame Herostratus before one had not seen the temple. (corruption, wasted public money, ...
probably the temple was a joke and deserved burning. Burning was a political act. Herostratus was tortured and executed - History is written by the victors)
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles (the man who started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis, including the Parthenon)
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Some homes do not have tv-sets, people do not have mobile phones, ...
An warfare is going on. Call it ideological, religious, ... whatever. Just because you do not take an interest in it doesn't mean it isn't waged against/upon you.
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On Shoutbox:
KerimF Nay_Sayer, I am afraid that the logical answer to your question depends on how you define the word 'god'.
1st: except definition there is equivalence (both expressed by be in a "sentence");
2nd: consciousness is built in a certain way. So, God is not only the space (a space is a thing) but a Space is equivalent to a Set of Rules (Commands). There is a Space = there are Commands; there are Commands = there is a Space.
God/Commands/Space/Creation-Annihilation/... = Admin/Rules/Forum/Creation-Annihilation/...
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1. gluttony;
2. lust/prostitution/fornication;
3. avarice (greed);
4. envy, sadness at another's good fortune/despair;
5. wrath/anger/rage;
6. acedia/dejection/sloth;
7-8. boasting/vainglory/pride
= = =
The Aristotelian Virtues
ACTIVITY OR EMOTION DEFICIT - MEAN - EXCESS
Fear and Confidence Cowardice - Courage - Rashness
...
= = =
Let's see what Eric Berne (Transactional analysis) has to say:
The types of hunger:
food-hunger;
stimulus-hunger;
recognition-hunger;
structure-hunger.
/stated in Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relationships/
/at the beginning/
= = =
Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (one of the world's Seven Wonders). The conclusion prompted the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. Wikipedia
One philosopher pointed out that one could not blame Herostratus before one had not seen the temple. (corruption, wasted public money, ...
probably the temple was a joke and deserved burning. Burning was a political act. Herostratus was tortured and executed - History is written by the victors)
= = =
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles (the man who started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis, including the Parthenon)
= = =
Some homes do not have tv-sets, people do not have mobile phones, ...
An warfare is going on. Call it ideological, religious, ... whatever. Just because you do not take an interest in it doesn't mean it isn't waged against/upon you.
= = =
On Shoutbox:
KerimF Nay_Sayer, I am afraid that the logical answer to your question depends on how you define the word 'god'.
1st: except definition there is equivalence (both expressed by be in a "sentence");
2nd: consciousness is built in a certain way. So, God is not only the space (a space is a thing) but a Space is equivalent to a Set of Rules (Commands). There is a Space = there are Commands; there are Commands = there is a Space.
God/Commands/Space/Creation-Annihilation/... = Admin/Rules/Forum/Creation-Annihilation/...
= = =
...