Metamythics

"The most maddening thing about life is also the most beautiful: its indeterminacy. The course of our lives, the fate of our species, the future of the universe: all undecided. But because possibility is the hardest thing to bear,

"These people called themselves 'realists' because they knew—or wish to know—no other reality other than that of the objects to be owned and used. They were such realists that, while they had no trouble finding a unique name for every automobile, they could describe “love”—a feeling that

"It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we are confronted lies in the fact that the development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the

authority which gives meaning to life except man himself. Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; worships power, money, sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha,

"It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we are confronted lies in the fact that the development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the

"Why does the mind crave superstition! It's because superstition is a psychological apparatus for self-preservation. & it appears to us as truth because the only truth our brain is concerned with is the one that takes away our anxiety and aids in our survival,

even if that truth happens to be just another lie our brain cooks up to maintain internal order. However, neurologically speaking, there is no such thing as a mind without superstition. Your belief that you have no superstition, is just another superstition.

"The Beats, like their successors in the Sixties, have often been described as 'idealists'. But fantasies of total gratification are not the product of idealism. They arise from a narcissism that, finding the world unequal to its desires, retreats into a realm of heedless self-absorption. (1/2)

"As to those who ask merely to be loved, who seek only their own reflection in the mirror, no love however great, will ever satisfy them. In a world so hungry for love it is no wonder that men and women are blinded....

"However, System 2 is demanding. It consumes mental energy and can be fatiguing, especially when you are already tired, distracted, or emotionally overwhelmed. That is why people are more prone to errors, biases, and snap judgments when they are stressed or exhausted. (1/3)

Engaging System 2 requires conscious effort, and the brain, always seeking efficiency, often prefers to let System 1 handle things unless absolutely necessary." - Alex Caldwell, The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking (2/3)

"Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn(1/6)

them the space to later consider what you say in solitude. Which is hard for prideful people to do with others around. Your aggravation is also a prideful thing. Its about your need for them to agree. (5/6)

"Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn(1/6)

Regardless of how you determine what is real the term reality is subjective. If you're talking to a religious person don't wait for them to speak in your terms of what constitutes reality, speak to the religious person in the terms that constitutes their reality. Until there is a common tounge(3/6)

"Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn(1/6)

“We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots (1/3)

of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. (2/3)

"We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "they" thinks and say are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that people have not acquired the ability to think (1/2)

"No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression.