While factually blind to the anticivilization, various poets, philosophers, and writers from Robert Frost to Martin Heidegger to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to T. S.
Eliot emotionally expressed the artificially-constructed anticivilization into which everyone is driven as a child. Gilman in The Yellow Wallpaper expressed how either "escape from" or "freedom in" the anticivilization meant madness.
Body
Becomes increasingly comfortable and pleasurable over time
Change
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but
begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of discovering the hidden powers and possibilities within himself. - James Allen
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." -- John D. Rockefeller
"All efforts to cure a disease without removing the cause, will always be
inadequate." --Lysander Spooner 1846
"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible" - C. Malesherbes
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought
progress." -- Charles F. Kettering
Contextualism
Existentialism is nothing less than an attempt to draw all the consequences of a coherent atheistic position. It isn't trying to plunge
man into despair at all. But if one calls every attitude of unbelief despair, like the Christians, then the word is not being used in its
original sense. Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out
showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did
exist, that would change nothing. There you've got our point of view. Not
that we believe that God exists, but we think that the problem of His existence is not the issue. In this sense, existentialism is optimistic, a
doctrine of action, and it is plain dishonesty for Christians to make no
distinction between their own despair and ours and then to call us despairing.
- Jean Paul Sartre
I deny that there are beautiful colors and ugly colors, beautiful shapes and others that are not. I am convinced that any object, any place without distinction can become a key of enchantment for the mind according to the way one looks at it and the associations of ideas to which one links it. -Jean DuBuffet
Control Others
"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail." -- Abraham H. Maslow
"If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you, but if you really make them think they will kill you." -- Albert Einstein
Cooperation
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one,
an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."- Edmund Burke
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."- Benjamin Franklinat the signing of The Declaration of Independence
(hmm??)
Criminal Mind
"'Need' means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the
transfer." Joseph Sobra
Dreams
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. "
"...Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
Edgar Allan Poe- The Raven
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg. And in the highest vision of a soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. - James Allen
Discipline, Thought, Control
As your business increased, each letter and number would receive fresh accessions of meaning for you; and by adopting this orderly arrangement you would be able to have a much more comprehensive grasp of your affairs than would otherwise be the case. By the use of this system the magician is able ultimately to unify the whole of his knowledge --- to transmute, even on the Intellectual Plane, the Many into the One.
Anderson, Walter "To succeed, we must be prepared to fail. True success is always the last string of failed attempts to get it right. If we did not test, did not experiment, did not try, did not flub, we would not grow." The Confidence Course, HarperCollins, 1997, tape 1, side 2.
Winners never quit, Quitters never win. Vincent Lombardi
Leaders are always Readers
Right Here Right Now
You cant fail unless you quit
If it is to be, Its up to me!
"Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced." -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first
one." -- Mark Twain
Those who are not prepared for the apprehension of a great purpose, should fix their thoughts upon the faultless performance of their duty, no matter how insignificant their task may appear. Only in this way can the thoughts be gathered and focused, and resolution and energy be developed. Once this is done, there is nothing which may not be accomplished.
- Allan James
Education
"They keep busy going through the loops and learning. This is how we learned as children until we were taught to dread making a mistake"
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." -- Bertrand Russell
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. - Albert Camus
Kalhil Gibran said, on children, "Give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts." It is practically impossible
for a child to turn to crime if he was shown true love and freedom of thought in childhood
- Gil Magno
"[My] deep religiosity... found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve,
through the reading of popular scientific books." A Einstein
This "Socratic miracle" was frequent enough for the "drawing-forth" theory
to have such currency that, for 2200 years, "education" itself became named after that idea-"educare" means "to draw forth."
"Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to
nature to do the work they are responsible for doing." john dewey
"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this
uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein
they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps."
-- H.L. Mencken
Henry James identified in his Freudian novel, Turning of the Screw, most children are captured and ultimately destroyed by anticivilization "teachers" who inject corrupting "ghosts" into innocent minds.
"Kalhil Gibran said, on children, "Give them your love but not your
thoughts, for they have their own thoughts." It is practically impossible
for a child to turn to crime if he was shown true love and freedom of thought in childhood."
- Gil Magno
Equanimity
"Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its
surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image
of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed" - Indra Devi
Ethics/Morality
Free will is the basis of ethics. Free will is the basis of morality.
As Ayn Rand puts it, ethics provides, "a code of values to guide man's choices and actions-the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life."
The nature of man is the basis of an ethical system. Any system of ethics must address three basic questions:
--For what end should a man live?
--By what fundamental principle should he act in order to achieve this end?
--Who should profit from his actions? (Peikoff, 1993)
An ethical system based on the nature of man and the nature of reality, answers these questions with:
--The ultimate value is life.
--The primary virtue is rationality.
--The proper beneficiary is oneself. (Peikoff, 1993)
Fear/Fearlessness
Often, fear of failure is due to vanity or false pride. This is a defect; correct it. You correct it by living in honesty; that's all. - Gil Magno
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." - Soren Kierkegaard
"They keep busy going through the loops and learning. This is how we learned as children until we were taught to dread making a mistake"
We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. - Blaise Pascal
"To succeed, we must be prepared to fail. True success is always the last string of failed attempts to get it right. If we did not test, did not experiment, did not try, did not flub, we would not grow." Walter Anderson The Confidence Course, HarperCollins, 1997, tape 1, side 2.
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. His every
thought is allied with power, and all difficulties are bravely met and
overcome. His purposes are seasonably planted, and they bloom and bring
forth fruit that does not fall prematurely to the ground.
Allen james
Thoughts of doubt and fear can never accomplish anything. They always
lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts
cease when doubt and fear creep in.
Allen James
Force
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" -- Isaac Asimov (through his character, Mayor Salvor Hardin from book 1, part III of the 'Foundation' trilogy, "The Mayors")
Free
"adherence to your code of moral values"...."Unwavering integrity makes a person free, and nothing could be a more positive result
than that" - Robert Fritz
There are four areas concerning Freedom. Thought, Emotion, Behavior, and Health... all are intimately intertwined and inseparable. - white rabbit
"It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom
is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I
procure for myself by my owness." -- Max Stirner, 'The Ego and Its Own'
Man is free the moment he wants to be." -- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who
has known and loved it." -- Albert Camus
"Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained
in a single bound; it must be achieved each day." -- Rollo May, 'Man's Search for Himself'
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the
individual who can labor in freedom." -- Albert Einstein, "Out of My Later Years," 1950
no man is free who is not master of himself - Epictetus
Allen, James "In the bark of your soul reclines the commanding master; he does but sleep: wake him." As A Man Thinketh, DeVorss & Co., 1993, page 68.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the universe, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?"
"Freedom means self-control; no more, no less." -- Rose Wilder Lane
"What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Friends
A spiritual friendship is no ordinary friendship. Your best spiritual friend must also be your best enemy, for they will challenge you, and pinch and poke you into action. Spiritual friends do not wish to flatter you, and make you stronger, but to undermine your false prides and make you weaker; because only the weak are strong enough, and sensitive enough for God. Only the weak can have doubts, a chink in the armour through which God can enter. Only the weak can transcend goodness, for the strong are content to do their good, but good always turns bad within samsara. - Poison
Frustration
22) Every individual is essentially sufficient to himself. But he is unsatisfactory to himself until he has established himself in his right relation with the universe.
(Illustration: A microscope, however perfect, is useless in the hands of savages. A poet, however sublime, must impose himself upon his generation if he is to enjoy (and even to understand) himself, as theoretically should be the case.)
crowley definitions
The superior man is distressed by his want of ability
- Confucious
Games a maze, a lot of ways; many choices. I can't sleep. When I do I here voices
- Puff Daddy
God
Vox populi, vox del - the voice of the people is the voice of god
In fighting me, you fight yourself...for Thou art God...and I am God...and all that
grows is God - there is no other...the Truth is simple but the Way of Man is hard. First you must learn to control your Self. The rest follows. Blessed is He who knows Himself and commands Himself, for the World is His and Love and Happiness and Peace walk with Him wherever He goes...Thou art God. Know that and the Way is opened. -Valentine Michael Smith
Language created God and Satan and Hell
Good vs. Evil
"Misfortune, misery, and defeat most surely await the man who believes that
dishonesty [and] deceit.....are the best weapons whereby to achieve a successful life...The man who believes that evil is more powerful than good, and that bad men have the best of life, is still involved in the elements of evil; and, being so involved, he suffers-must necessarily suffer- defeat."
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The Life Triumphant by James Allen
Grammar
Each "noun" is a knot where the threads of several "verbs" come together. -Zero
Words! ... words! ... words! They have shackled and chained you, O children of the mists and the mountains; they have imprisoned you, and walled you up in the dungeon of a lightless reason. Fancy has been burnt at the stake of Fact; and the imagination cramped in the irons of tort and quibble. O vanity of vain words!
- crowley > kabbalah > thrift
Health
The development of physical awareness is needed to integrate the body, emotions, and intellect into a harmonious being. No separation or dichotomy exist between the mind and body - by nature, they always function as an integrated whole. - WR
The biological needs of all animals are fixed by the nature of the organism.
Honesty
Brutus said in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, "There is no terror, Cassius,
in your threats: for I am armed so strong in honesty that they pass by me
as the idle wind which I respect not."
I can not make someone see. I can only point. Most people will not look -
they are indifferent. Some will look but only see your finger. If they do
not see - well there is nothing more I can do - it is up to them to see.
NT is pure honesty. The only people who have anything to fear from
honesty are the dishonest.
Niels Bohr's correspondence criterion should not be confused with his complimentary principle, which means the more of one the less of the other. For example, position and momentum of a particle are complementary -- the more precisely one is known the less precisely the other is known. Truth and honesty are complementary. For example, the more dogmatically one asserts truth the less honest one becomes. In other words, the more one demands truth, the less contextual or honest become the facts.
Honesty is:
1. Fairness and straightforwardness in conduct
2. Adherence to the facts: sincerity
- (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)
Integrity
"adherence to your code of moral values"...."Unwavering integrity
makes a person free, and nothing could be a more positive result
than that" - Robert Fritz
Whatever you resolve to do, do it quickly, dont put off till the
evening
what the morning may accomplish
Intense
Unfortunately, the herd look no further than their present comfort,
and cannot learn from experience. Implications and consequences are
alien concepts to such animals, who are fully occupied just keeping
from drowning in the stormy seas of their lives. They have no time for
investigating the nature of life and death: they have no time
to live. - Poison
Investments & Attachments
So, you wish to know the strength of your attachment for a particular
thing? Look no further than your need for it, because need is attachment
Invisible
to become invisible you need to fully engage their attention.
Justice
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest - Diderot
Lysander Spooner's distinction between vices and
crimes and apply it to the concept of
morality: "Vices are those acts by which a man
harms himself or his property.
"Crimes are those acts by which one
man harms the person or property of
another."
Knowledge
"The only silly question is the question you don't ask"
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. - Albert Camus
Tim Leary's remark that in the future what is now called luck will be called skill.
Knowledge is, moreover, an impossible conception. All propositions come ultimately back to "A is A".
All discussions upon philosophy are necessarily sterile, since truth is
beyond language. They are, however, useful if carried far enough --- if
carried to the point when it become apparent that all arguments are
arguments in a circle.
Anderson, Bob "...what good is knowledge if we do not use it to live
more fully?" Stretching, Shelter Publications, 1980, page 69.
Anderson, Bob "Ask yourself: What do I do in my daily living that I
enjoy and was taught in school? It's amazing to think how little we
learned in all those hours. We could have learned how to take care of
ourselves, how to keep from becoming old before our time, and how to
avoid suffering from back problems brought about by bad habits. But now
we are teaching ourselves what we should have learned in school; and we
haven't started any too soon." Stretching, Shelter Publications, 1980,
page 51.
"The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is
action,--why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Use reason, then have faith: this is always the process - poison
Liberty
"A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his
own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of
the individual and cannot really know freedom." -- F.A. Hayek
"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But
maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself." -- Thomas
Szasz
You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing: when you bear witness in a
lawsuit, you shall not side with the majority so as to pervert justice.
Exodus 23, verse 2
If you push against a system to change it, that system may very well push
back at you. Paradoxically, the state usually gets stronger when people push
against it. It says, "All these evil people are trying to destroy the state,
therefore we need more police, more soldiers, more money."
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For many years people have attempted to change the system by aiming their
grievances and suggestions at politicians in power. I believe such efforts
should continue - once in a while, people in power do make beneficial
changes. But I also believe that a nation is made up of individuals. America
will be free, healthy, and prosperous when its individuals are free,
healthy, and prosperous. By increasing our freedom, health, and prosperity
as individuals, we can eventually create a free, healthy, prosperous
America. So we start with ourselves, individual by individual.
There is a principle of action and reaction, force and counter-force - first
formulated by Isaac Newton. This also applies to political systems. If you
push against a system to change it, that system may very well push back at
you. Paradoxically, the state usually gets stronger when people push against
it. It says, "All these evil people are trying to destroy the state,
therefore we need more police, more soldiers, more money."
So we use a different strategy. We withdraw from the state. We build our
individual defenses, so the government raiders can't loot our wealth. We
create our own free and private institutions. And should the politicians,
bureaucrats, and their handmaiden-lawyers attack us, we shall beat them back
more often than not. We shall use their energy and effort to strengthen
ourselves and to persuade many more people to join our ranks. This way, I
believe, we will create a free, healthy, wealthy America.
"It is therefore the inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring
about, their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an
end to their servitude. A people enslaves itself, cuts its own throat, when,
having a choice between being vassals and being free men, it deserts its
liberties and takes on the yoke, gives consent to its own misery, or,
rather, apparently welcomes it...
Everyone knows that the fire from a little spark will increase and blaze
ever higher as long as it finds wood to burn; yet without being quenched by
water, but merely by finding no more fuel to feed on, it consumes itself,
dies down, and is no longer a flame. Similarly, the more tyrants pillage,
the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to
them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more
formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is
yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they
become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no
nourishment, the branch withers and dies...
I do not know how it happens that nature fails to place within the hearts of
men a burning desire for liberty, a blessing so great and so desirable that
when it is lost all evils follow thereafter, and even the blessings that
remain lose taste and savor because of their corruption by servitude.
Liberty is the only joy upon which men do not seem to insist; for surely if
they really wanted it they would claim it. Apparently they refuse this
wonderful privilege because it is so easily acquired...
He who thus domineers over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only one
body, no more than is possessed by the least man among the infinite numbers
dwelling in your cities; he has indeed nothing more than the power that you
confer upon him to destroy you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy
upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many
arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that
trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own?
How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare
assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you
yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not
accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to
yourselves? You sow your crops in order that he may ravage them, you install
and furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; you rear your daughters
that he may gratify his lust; you bring up your children in order that he
may confer upon them the greatest privilege he knows - to be led into his
battles, to be delivered to butchery, to be made the servants of his greed
and the instruments of his vengeance; you yield your bodies unto hard labor
in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy
pleasures; you weaken yourselves in order to make him the stronger and the
mightier to hold you in check. From all these indignities, such as the very
beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try,
not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no
more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the
tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then
you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled
away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces. [Emphasis added]
Éttiene de la Boétie, 1562
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Lysander
VII. The Secret Ballot
What is the motive behind the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other
confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies, and
they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even
to each other. ............ And we are insane enough to call this liberty!
.....Without this privilege, a man is considered a slave; but with it a free
man! With it he is considered a free man, because he has the same power to
secretly (by secret ballot) procure the robbery, enslavement, and murder of
another man, and that other man has to procure his robbery, enslavement, and
murder. And this they call equal rights!
If any number of men, many or few, claim the right to "govern" the people of
this country, let them make and sign an open compact with each other to do
so. Let them thus make themselves individually known to those whom they
propose to "govern." And let them thus openly take the legitimate
responsibility of their acts. How many of those who now support the
pretended "constitution," will ever do this? How many will ever dare openly
proclaim their right to "govern"?, or take the legitimate responsibility for
their acts? Not one!
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http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan//anarfaq.htm
explication of 'Anarky'
"It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is
essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I
procure for myself by my owness." -- Max Stirner, 'The Ego and Its Own'
"The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without
government simply staggers the imagination." -- Doug Casey 1979
'If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could
have freed thousands more' - Harriet Tubman
"A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of out-
come -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor
freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom,
and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the
hands of people who use it to promote their own interests." Milton
Friedman
"The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of
liberty." Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of
his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the
dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom." -- F.A. Hayek
Allen, Gary "As long as people have economic freedom, they will be
free." None Dare Call It Conspiracy, Concord Press, 1971, page 121.
"Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage without which we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next
charlatan who comes along." - Carl Sagan (1987)
Love
Romantic love involves an emotional, intellectual, and sexual
involvement with another person. And romantic love offers the deepest
of all human happiness and the greatest of all human pleasures.
Romantic love is the most important and valuable of all human
relationships. - WR
"Any time not spent on love is wasted" - Tasso
"When 1 has fully enterd the realm of love, the world - no matter how
imperfect - becomes rich&beautiful 4 it consists solely of
opportunities 4 love" - Kierkegaard
"I acknowledge the powerful drive in me and other human beings to
protect ourselves and be right, and in light of that I choose to make
giving and receiving love more important. When faced with the choice
between being right and living in the easeful flow of love, I
commit to living in the easeful flow of love" - Gay Hendricks
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another is essential
to our own" - Robert A. Heinlein
"We are each of us Angels with one wing, and we can only fly
embracing each other" - Liciano De Crescenzo
I live with ever greater psychuous integration toward the realm of love.
- WR
Luck
They do not see the trials and failures and struggles which these men have encountered in order to gain their experience. They have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made, of the undaunted efforts they have put forth, of the faith they have exercised so that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable and realize the vision of their hearts. They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it "luck."
- James Allen
Magick
Magick is the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity
with Will. -Aleister Crowley
Me
"Thought in the mind hath made us.
What we are by thought was wrought and built.
If a man's mind hath evil thought,
pain comes on him as comes the wheel, the ox behind ...
... If one endure in purity of thought,
joy follows him as his own shadow — sure."
"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he,"
whereever you go, there you are
"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken" Gilbert Perreira
I am a man - a rational animal
A person does not operate in life from just one identity. By identity I
simply mean a way of being in order to accomplish something. An
individual operates from many different identities, moving in and out
of them pretty automatically, without much thought. A person at work
may be in a different identity than when at home with the family. He's
a different way on a date than the way he is with his buddies. "When I
go home for the holidays I'm like a ten year old around my family".
Different identities, different ways of being. - Idenics
Nature
"Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but
it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the
language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I
wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that
I may read the great book which is written in that tongue." Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Philosophy
philosophy consists of thinking in principles about things.
The task of philosophy and the job of the philosopher is not to obscure
but to clarify reality, not to complicate but to simplify living, i.e.,
not to further mystify but to progressively demystify the human mind.
The philosopher's job is to provide human beings with practical tools
for accurately identifying and advantageously dealing with reality and
nature. But almost all philosophers throughout history have defaulted
in their responsibility - failed miserably in their jobs. - WR
Politics
Nathan Rothschild said “If the people ever find out what we're doing
to them, they will descend on us and kill us all.”
"The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely
during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced
by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of
regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and
securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from aboard.
Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic
exploitation of the vanquished by the victors. No primitive state known to
history originated in any other manner." -- Franz Oppenheimer
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger
than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who
really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory,
formed by the gangs who have no opinion-and who, therefore, in the next
instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its
opinion . . . while Truth again reverts to a new minority. Soren Kiergaard
"... Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race.
All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it
over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the
grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most
depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform
any vile act, do anything to achieve power. ... Every government is a
parliament of whores. [We pay them to get screwed?] The trouble is, in a
democracy the whores are us." -- P. J. O'Rourke
"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "But if
thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." -- George
Orwell
"When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that,
whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or
neutralization of the independent individual -- the independent voter,
consumer, worker, owner, thinker -- and that every device they employ aims
at turning men into a manipulable 'animated instrument' which is
Aristotle's definition of a slave." -- Eric Hoffer
"All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in
virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every
industrious and well-disposed man." -- H.L. Mencken
"Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the
hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in
the hands of bureaucrats." -- Thomas Sowell
"The United States has a system of taxation by confession". - Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice, in U.S. v. Kahriger
"In a recent conversation with an official at the Internal Revenue Service, I as amazed when he told me that 'If the taxpayers of this country ever discover that the IRS operates on 90% bluff, the entire system will collapse'". -Henry Bellmon, Senator (1969)
"Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P. J. O'Rourke
Most "sheeple" are really grown-up children
of the "state," while an elite few who choose
certain professions get to play the parts of
their parents, and they aren't usually the
caring parent types.
When the boot of government is on your neck, it doesn't matter if it's left
or right." -- Anonymous
"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." -- John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
"What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
"To the youth of America, I say, beware of being trivialized by the
commercial culture that tempts you daily. I hear you saying often that
you're not turned on by politics. The lessons of history are clear and
portentous. If you do not turn onto politics, politics will turn on you."
- Ralph Nader
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
-- Joseph Stalin
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." -- Lysander Spooner
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain
Once you realize the extent to which, at bottom, the entire political/legal system is a word-game; a relatively fixed word-game; in the words of Jonathan Swift, a word-game, "hollow, and dry, and empty, and noisy, and wooden, and given to Rotation";
Jeremy Bentham described political rhetoric (what I call political Slavespeak) in Bentham's Theory of Fictions: "Look to the letter, you find nonsense -- look beyond the letter, you find nothing."
Postmodernists
"Trying to converse with someone who has renounced the use of reason, is like administering medicine to the dead" - Thomas Paine
Power
Brutus said in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, "There is no terror, Cassius,
in your threats: for I am armed so strong in honesty that they pass by me
as the idle wind which I respect not."
"...power can mean one of two things, domination or potency. Far from
being identical, these two qualities are mutually exclusive. Impotence,
using the term not only with regard to the sexual sphere but to all
spheres of human potentialities, results in the sadistic striving for
domination; to the extent to which an individual is potent, that is,
able to realize his potentialities on the basis of freedom and integrity
of his self, he does not need to dominate and is lacking the lust for
power. Power, in the sense of domination, is the perversion of potency,
just as sexual sadism is the perversion of sexual love." -- Erich Fromm
Successful productive work = rational thinking + rational action
Reactive - Responsive
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do,
to keep in the same place." - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking glass
Reality
Language created God and Satan and Hell,
Nothing can be known in itself, but only as one of the participants in a series of events. Reality is therefore in the motion, not in the things moved. We cannot apprehend anything except as one postulated element of an observed impression of change
- Tao Teh King - Crowley
Religions
"[My] deep religiosity... found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve,
through the reading of popular scientific books." A Einstein
600 B.C. Around this time the Old Testament is written, with a purpose perhaps typical of religious works motivating tribal survival in a world of constant tribal warfare: "Your God is a man of war...(Exod 15:3) ... When you advance on a city to attack it, make an offer of peace. If the city accepts the offer and opens its gates to you, then all the people in it shall be put to forced labour and shall serve you. If it does not make peace with you but offers battle, you shall besiege it, when your God gives it unto your hand you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and little ones, the cattle, everything else in the city... you shall take as booty for yourselves, and you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which your God has given you. Thus you shall do to all of the cities which are far from you... you shall utterly destroy them... as the Lord your God has commanded. (Deut 20:10)."
"First, is there, under all the discrepancies of the creeds, {155} a common nucleus to which they bear their testimony unanimously?
"(1) An uneasiness; and
"(2) Its solution.
"1. The uneasiness, reduced to its simplest terms, is a sense that there is something wrong about us as we naturally stand.
"2. The solution is a sense that we are saved from the wrongness by making proper connection with the higher powers.
- crowley - Caballah
Responsibility
"So is it a dog-eat-dog world out there - the little guy just can't
survive? Do not be deceived into missing the truth. The truth, let it
be known, is instead: We are all the little guy, it's a
human-cooperate-with-human world out there, when we become conscious,
rational and moral. " - WR
Carl Sagan quote <quotes1.html>: "Finding the occasional
straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires
intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage without which we risk
becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes
along." (1987)
This "Socratic miracle" was frequent enough for the "drawing-forth" theory
to have such currency that, for 2200 years, "education" itself became
named after that idea-"educare" means "to draw forth."
"Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life,
because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to
nature to do the work they are responsible for doing." john dewey
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." I trust that they will assert themselves as individually absolute, that they will grasp the fact that it is their right to assert themselves, and to accomplish the task for which their nature fits them. Yea, more, that this is their duty, and that not only to themselves but to others, a duty founded upon universal necessity, and not to be shirked on account of any casual circumstances of the moment which may seem to put such conduct in the light of inconvenience or even of cruelty.
- Crowley
Every man has a right to fulfill his own will without being afraid that it
may interfere with that of others; for if he is in his proper place, it is
the fault of others if they interfere with him
But as to each man that keeps his true course, the more firmly he acts,
the less likely others are to get in his way. His example will help them
to find their own paths and pursue them. Every man that becomes a Magician
helps others to do likewise. The more firmly and surely men move, and the
more such action is accepted as the standard of morality, the less will
conflict and confusion hamper humanity
- Crowley definitions
"Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and
consequences." -- Author Unknown
When someone, wallowing in self-pity, blames their own failure on themselves, you must explain to them how they are blameless. After all, they and everything they do have their causes which stem from beginningless time. No-one can change destiny.
However, when they blame others, then explain how the fault is their own. It is at least their responsibility to get others to take responsibility.
- poison
Self-Esteem
The development of an efficient, rational mind is needed to produce
desirable, traceable values required for quality survival. - WR
self-esteem is the fundamental human psychological need
Happiness is a psychological state of knowing that oneself is dealing
effectively with reality and morally satisfying his or her nature. The
goal of human life is happiness, which is earned by making rational
choices to satisfy one's material, physiological, psychological, and
emotional needs. - WR
Selflessness is an anti-human characteristic that is destructive to
everyone's well-being and happiness. - WR
The development of self-esteem is needed to feel worthy of pleasure,
love, happiness, and life itself. - WR
"It's what is in your head that determines what is in
your hands" - Kiyosaki
Slave-Speak
"Physical fear of the conqueror turns into psychological dependence; the
State is accepted as the supreme power, a god, a protector and dispenser
of justice. Its agents assume the aura of a priestly class, in the
vestments of authority; and its exactions become irresistible. No longer
can subjects question the right of the State to take what it will, for
their minds are enslaved along with their bodies. The state is god. The
honest dealings of men give way to greed, and greed to glory. The masses
are forced not to bake bread but to build pyramids." -- George Roche
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its
victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully
and unawaredly enslave themselves." -- Dresden James
"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "But if
thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." -- George
Orwell
"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look
like a nail." -- Abraham H. Maslow
"Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us."
-- Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)
"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
-- Sally Kempton
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
-- Steve Biko
What Is Slavespeak?
"It is illusions and words that have influenced the mind of the crowd, and
especially words -- words which are as powerful as they are chimeral, and
whose astonishing sway we shall shortly demonstrate," wrote Gustave le Bon
in his classic The Crowd, a century ago.
In The Second Sin Thomas Szasz wrote, "Man is the animal that speaks.
Understanding language is the key to understanding man; and the control of
language, to the control of man." Alfred Korzybski, founder of General
Semantics indicated that, "Those who control symbols control humanity."
"Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us."
-- Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)
"Nobody likes me," "Women always betray me," and "You make me angry" are
examples of psychological and emotional Slavespeak.
"up until then my mind had been controlled by illusions and I hadn't
known it." Becoming aware that your mind is controlled by illusions is
a major step in freeing yourself from Slavespeak.
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its
victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and
unawaredly enslave themselves." -- Dresden James
Societal Alchemy
Man-Making
We are all blind until we see
That in the human plan
Nothing is worth the making if
It does not make the man.
Why build these cities glorious
If man unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the world, unless
The builder also grows.
By Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
Tennyson’s Ulysses, lines 56-57:
"... Come, my friends.
'T is not too late to seek a newer world."
Thought
"Why am I doing this?"
"Does it matter?" and if so "how much does it matter?"
The survival mechanism of men and women is the ability to think
consciously in concepts and the ability to integrate those concepts
into new, wider, more abstract concepts. That integration is called
reasoning. Unlike all other animals whose survival mechanisms work
automatically, the human reasoning mechanism does not. People must
choose to exert the effort required to reason objectively. If one
undermines or damages his or her reasoning ability by misuse or nonuse,
that person reduces accordingly the quality of survival, well-being,
self-worth, long-range happiness. Reasoning is the nature of humans -
the distinguishing nature that elevates the value of human beings above
all other life. Reasoning through logic is the survival mechanism of
all men and women. - WR
Time
Time, oh Time, what is it that it should pass me by, bring things to meet me in my path, travel fast, or slow, but always at the same rate. What is time, and time, what is it to me?
- WR
"Psychologists have discovered that people place their attention
on the present moment an average of 12 seconds a minute.
Where are they the other 80 percent of their lives? Staring at the past,
escaping to the future, or simply where I used to hang out a great deal
- nowhere!"
Transmute
The child of the past exists in every adult. Lost within faded memories, that child keeps searching for life - an honest life of adventure, discovery, and value.
The Neo-Tech/Psychuous concepts let the reader turn inward to discover that child. The reader can then break free from those who are hurting him or her...from those who are wasting his or her time and resources. That child of the past will kindle a new life of adventure, discovery, prosperity, and happiness.
An intensely strong motivation, deep disgust, and a yearning desire is
required to transcend this world - Poison
Freedom is attained when an indescribable unique feeling of Freedom is
felt.
Being true to one's self is the choice to live in accord of one's
essential nature and morality, with the individual and unique purpose of
one's life.
This includes health, the aspects of which are physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual. Health is concerned with the outer expression
of Freedom, which is the ability to choose and create the circumstances
of your life.
The inner expression of Freedom is felt when the outer expression of it
'feels right'. this is the point... The Center... where you can stand
proud, experience a unique transcendence, and proclaim, I am free, I
feel free, I feel right.
This requires the coalescing of Health through Emotion, Behavior, and
Thought... - WR
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and
listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The
world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it
will roll in ecstasy at your feet. - Franz Kafka
This Principle of Description is the operating instruction for how to
realize Walt Whitman's dictum, that if you observe closely enough even an
ordinary blade of grass, you will discover the universe
"When one has fully enterred the realm of love, the world no matter how
imperfect, becomes rich and beautiful, for it consists solely of
opportunities for love" - Soren Kierkegaard.
"True independence comes when we cease to FORCE and start to FLOW." --
Vernon Howard
Reconcile the opposites and extend the Chaos. -Zero
Dante - escape evil and be born into a new life - 'Incipit Vita Nova'.
As Henri Bergson said in Creative Evolution: "To exist is to change,
to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself
endlessly."
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the
road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom." Ralph
Waldo Emerson:
Allen, James "Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to
himself." As A Man Thinketh, DeVorss & Co., 1993, page 22.
In order to accomplish the feat of heightening our perception, we need
internal energy. Thus, the problem of making internal energy available
to fulfill such a task becomes the key issue for students of sorcery.
-Carlos Castaneda
Because since all theories of the universe are absurd it is better to talk in the language of one which is patently absurd, so as to mortify the metaphysical man.
Res Ipsa Loquitor -Let the thing speak for itself
I found an island in your arms
A country in your eyes
Arms that chain us
Eyes that lied
Break on through to the other side
- Jim Morrison (singer, The Doors)
Here is a youth hard pressed by poverty and labor. Confined long hours in an unhealthy workshop; unschooled and lacking all the arts of refinement. But he dreams of better things. He thinks of intelligence, or refinement, of grace and beauty. He conceives of, mentally builds up, an ideal condition of life. The wider liberty and a larger scope takes possession of him; unrest urges him to action, and he uses all his spare time and means to the development of his latent powers and resources. Very soon so altered has his mind become that the workshop can no longer hold him. It has become so out of harmony with his mind-set that it falls out of his life as a garment is cast aside.
And with the growth of opportunities that fit the scope of his expanding powers, he passes out of it altogether. Years later we see this youth as a grown man. We find him a master of certain forces of the mind that he wields with world-wide influence and almost unequalled power. In his hands he holds the cords of gigantic responsibilities; he speaks and lives are changed; men and women hang upon his words and remold their characters. Sun-like, he becomes the fixed and luminous center around which innumerable destinies revolve. He has become the vision of his youth. He has become one with his ideal. - James Allen
Universe
The person who, at the beginning of a new dream, being cognizant of a
rough past makes a pledge to him/herself that he/she will achieve that
dream, with purpose and full command, will evoke a tear of joy from the
great minds in the universe and will from that moment on live in tune
with them" - Gil Magno
Will
Guaranteed - Effects are those that are produced. The cause can be
activated thus ensuring the effect. Once the biological nature of the
human organism is known and activities are conducted in accordance with
this then the effects of health are assured. - WR
The essence of conscious life is control - the ability to control one's affairs, surroundings, and future. A person in control is happy and will prosper. A person out of control is unhappy and will fail.
This denotes real control, many people maintain an image of control.
"live through a shoeshine and a smile" Spot on their hat. tip-toe through
life. (poison refs) - WR
"Freedom is living your life as you want to live it." -- Harry Brown, 'How I
Found Freedom in an Unfree World'
A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
in Liber CCXX, the "Book of the Law," it is said:
"DO WHAT THOU WILT shall be the whole of the Law."
Youth
Kalhil Gibran said, on children, "Give them your love but not your
thoughts, for they have their own thoughts." It is practically impossible
for a child to turn to crime if he was shown true love and freedom of
thought in childhood
Explore daily your deepest desires, fantasies and motives, gradually
focussing on what you would like to happen in a perfect world, a perfect
situation, taking away all restrictions and practical considerations,
what you'd really want. Then decide to try and do it.
-Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth