Logic And Philosophy Are First To Be Destroyed When People Are Fearful

Dear readers: Lately, there has been a great deal of anger directed towards me because I refuse to fall into various radical positions such as, demanding no government as the cure for technical problems and poor analysis.  Or, supporting modern medical practices in view of thwarting potential viral epidemics.  There is a long, long list of things I won’t endorse which the online ‘counterculture community’ loves to embrace.  This is because I am an analyst, not a parade participant.  When I see marching bands blasting away, I examine their musical score and then pass my own judgement on this.

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Of course, this peculiarity of mine, that is, telling one thing apart from another based on some sense of sophistication, doesn’t appeal to people who want simple world views expressed in charming ways.  That is, my stories here are long, complex and loaded with all sorts of examinations.  I don’t go to just one place for information, I roam all over the place and use my own experience, too.  This can be annoying to people who want a rigid world schemata which has only a limited number of slots for information!

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It is like I am playing a game of chess and people want me to play checkers.  I will not do this.  A Bishop is a Bishop and a Queen is a Queen and I refuse to give the wrong names to playing pieces.  There are many people on this planet who have many experiences.  Each one is different from the others.  Mine are utterly different from the vast majority of humans by virtue of the fact, I was hit not once, but several times by lightning bolts.  Indeed, ever since the previous holder who was hit 5 times committed suicide, I probably am now the world record holder in this dark art.

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So I am weird enough without having to be spooky all the time.  I strive to attain the values of Libra which is why people get angry with me.  I note over the years that if I push Libra ideas, the anger is enormous.  For example, when I explained how gold was used to stabilize prices by the British Empire from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to WWI, people got mad at me because I tied gold to imperial banking balancing acts that were deliberately engineered by London’s bankers.  I often warn people, there is no nostrum that will magically fix things because any system repairs are immediately undermined by humans because we have this immense desire to get rich, quick.  And know that the best way for this is to somehow create wealth out of thin air.

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And this is why we see various systems set up to thwart this activity.  And how they all fail, is easy to learn but nearly impossible to discern…that is, few people want to learn this lesson, they want magic money.  This is true with all things: people want to be healthy but even more so, they want to be fashionable.  These two ideals clash.  This is why people starve themselves to death via bulimia (gorging and throwing up!) or anorexia (starving to death) or using drugs (speed).  People inject themselves literally with plagues and poisons and have surgeons cut their bodies up, suck things out and rearrange features, inject foreign substances…while at the same time, these same people quail with fear when doctors want to vaccinate them against contagious viral epidemics!

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We want to be beautiful, not healthy.  We want to be rich, not productive.  We want to be seductive, not raped.  We want many things and are angry when people tell us, ‘No, this is bad for you.’  Or worse, ‘I really want you to do this because you need to do this.’  Governments must, perforce, ask people to do things they don’t want to do.   As a mother, I had to do this all the time.  ‘You must take a bath now, ‘ would be greeted with howls of rage.  ‘Do your homework first,’ would lead to tears of fury and threats of retaliation.  ‘Please eat your food and don’t make a scene at the table,’ will cause screams of defiance.

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Mothers who give in to tantrums raise really wretched children who become difficult adults.  We are all difficult adults without the terrors of being spoiled, too.  Good parents raise their children to learn how to debate.  This is an art form.  It is the ultimate basis of all democratic systems.  For example, the democrats in ancient Greece ceased verbally sparring over things and started screaming and then fell to the swords of northern despots who turned the place into a platform for world conquest.

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Virtually no new philosophical thinking survived this.  The older works done by real debaters who had great skills with words, logic systems and a deep understanding of the cultural civilization they lived in, was destroyed with only a few remnants surviving in various libraries.  The intellectual Dark Ages didn’t begin with the fall of Rome.  It began with the fall of Athens.  The Greeks were enslaved by the Romans and used as artists, teachers, doctors and bureaucrats.  But they were FORBIDDEN to debate ANYTHING AT ALL.

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When the Empire crumbled, there were debased debates about religion.  That is, the Christians waged ideological warfare on all non-magical systems and nearly destroyed the entire history of science that preceded Rome, that is, the science of ancient Greece and by extension, India, Persia, China and other great civilizations.  We are very fortunate that the Muslims didn’t burn all the books written by Greek philosophers.  It was a very, very close call.  All scientific/rational thought totally vanished from Europe for over 500 years!  It came crawling back via the Andalusian Muslim/Christian contacts.

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One of the early things picked up by the barbarians in Europe was the Indian game of chess.  For some reason, this game was able to survive the general destruction of rational activities.  The Andalusians had books written about chess and encouraged the barbarians to learn it.  This, in turn, was the rebirth of military tactics which were not simply cultural habits, that is, figuring out what strategy and tactics meant rather than doing what one’s ancestors did, successfully or unsuccessfully.

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The entire history of Europe during the Dark Ages was literally only a few pages in a few personal journals.  Whole decades could pass with no one writing anything at all.  The focus was nearly entirely on waiting for the World to End in the Apocalypse.  Magicians figured, this would happen by the year 1000 AD.

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And…it did not happen!  We are so fortunate, the people of Europe seemed to have woken up when the shadow of the End of Times was lifted.  The long, long slog back to civilization was very difficult.  And then, just as Europe felt it reached an apex in civilized thought, philosophy, politics and technology, it all fell apart in WWI and WWII and looming on the horizon, a potential WWIII.  Why is this, we ask?  Why are we destroying ourselves in so many ways?

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The destruction of love, for example: we read love poetry from the dawn of chivalry and shiver.  This was very intense: the barbarians didn’t value women except as machines to produce children.  Women were actively hated by the Church which decreed marriages could not be conducted inside the Church but only at the doors of the Church!  Marriage was only grudgingly made  a ‘sacrament’.  Only when the dark belief cloud of the Apocalypse was lifted, were women finally able to rise out of this terrible trap.  And become loved again!  The civilized troubadours sang of love and the Church crusaded against them.

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But the troubadours won in the long run.  I am immensely grateful for this.  The cultural outpourings of the Great European Empires still shine like a brilliant sun.  We can’t even begin to reach their heights, today.  The modern taste is for simpler fare, easy dances, easy music, nothing very complex except for visual special effects.  Even as dancers are trained to do more amazing aerobatic tricks, the content of the dances become increasingly vapid, overtly sexual, or simply unemotional.  The ability to reach deep inside to expose intense emotions that are then controlled severely so they become transformed: this is nearly a lost art.

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Our impatience with deep, difficult thinking is a sign of cultural weakness.  The resolution of tensions between opposites is the wellspring of intellectual and creative forces.  Things that are in unity cease to create.  This is why it is best to not have total unity.  People come to various web sites seeking confirmation and an elimination of controversy and difficulties.  People wish to be told, their world view is correct at all times, on all levels.  But what if this is wrong?  Or worse, killing your ability to think at all?

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The death of Greek philosophy can be dated exactly to one event: the order that Socrates drink poison so he would shut up.  He obeyed the verdict of the mindless drones who figured, this was the best way to win an argument.  He delivered his last, most difficult speech which looked over the future 2,000 years and he clearly saw what was going to come of his death.  Yet, he still drank the poison.  He was a proud man who knew that there was no other road open to him, if he wished to be honorable.  He could have been a coward.  And bent to the will of the mob.

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He refused.  He would rather drink physical poison than poison his own mind.  He wasn’t asked to do something rational.  The demand was for him to be IRRATIONAL.  So he drank the poison.

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He was not the first nor the last to take a stand and refuse to bend to irrational demands.  History is written about the people who refuse to do the wrong thing.  For example, I feel that people are scared of the wrong things.  So I give warnings of real dangers, as I see them, while at the same time, telling people that other things they imagine, are not the way they think, if only they look at it from another perspective.  There are many such perspectives!  Socrates, for example, was a ‘mere’ stone mason.  Like I am merely a builder of houses who also digs ditches and has taught in the past.  But Socrates also fought bravely in wars and did heroic things without much fanfare such as Alexander the Great needed while doing less.

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I fought, too, in the streets, I fought whole governments.  When virtually no one was standing up to a government, I did stand up.  People don’t realize how seldom someone does stand up.  I have literally waded through crowds of people gawking at something in order to take command and stop whatever is going on.  This is my nature.  The world is undergoing an immense change.  My own family has been dead center, involved up to our eyeballs, in changing the world.  This world is our world.  And we have been involved in bitter internal familial battles during all this!  That is, I have been a thorn in the side of the CIA since childhood.

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Did I change it?  Hardly.  Did I turn the Wheel of History, anyway?  Absolutely!  It isn’t that hard.  You just have to not give in to fear.  Cindy Sheehan has tried her best to turn the Wheel of History and she has failed again and again.  But is she giving up?  NO!  Even today, she is heroically demonstrating at Obama’s vacation hideaway.  Just as she did to Bush Jr.  Obama isn’t a hero at all.  He wants to get along.  He says, ‘Yes,’ to the CIA.  Just for example.  He endorses ethnic cleansing even as this concept menaces his own children.  He gets along, he won’t see the connection between philosophical beliefs and his own choices and actions.

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For they are divorced!  And this goes for many people on the world stage today: there is a lot of mixed up beliefs and wretched deals being made on ALL levels!  People are again in fear.  Why is this?

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Well, it is now another 1000 years since the End of Times didn’t end time.  Now, people are increasingly convinced, we really are at the End of Times!  And to insure this hideous event occurs, we now have the means at hand to create the End of Times, artificially.  There is NO NEED to kill people with vaccinations when nuclear bombs can do a far better job of it.  The real fear here isn’t even nuclear bombs.  The fear is the ideological/philosophical desire for an end of all time: the destruction of the entire species and perhaps, all living creatures on this planet!

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Fears create fatalism.  People want to be beautiful and loved and also want to have reality conform to our confused desires and deadly wishes.  And this goes all to the Cave of Wealth and Death!  That is, all our wishes will come true, all of them!  And this is a catastrophe.  For we wish for… death.  Always, for others.  But the way the Cave works is simple: what we wish will happen…to us!

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And this is why I call this blog ‘Culture of Life’:  the Christians scheming to create WWIII aka, the Apocalypse, annoyed me when they talked all the time about the ‘culture of life’.  So I grabbed this name and took physical ownership of it.  No one else can call themselves ‘The Culture of Life’ except for me.  This is just one of my actions taken with full understanding of the implications of all this.  Will people demand I drink poison because of what I write?

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Quite possible!  People want to hear echoes, not arguments.  And so it goes: this wish will come true.  The Goddesses in the Cave of Wealth and Death who weave our fates laugh as they twist the strands and sing songs mocking us.  All we can do is visit Libra who doesn’t mock us.  She wants to instruct us on how to live.  And that is, to balance everything as best we can, from day to day.  Life is balanced with death.  The memory of our deeds and our thoughts are the ONLY things that pass from the World of the Living into the Gates of Death.  This is where Libra appears and works out all one’s problems, one by one.  It is a difficult affair but She does this easily.  This is Her function, after all.

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Nothing is more magical than the human mind.  And learning to use this magic wisely, is the hardest thing we can do.  I can lay claim to at least glimpsing the way the Gates of Death work: everything is turned inside out.  It is not what we think it is.  It is big and tiny at the same time.  It is darkness and blinding light simultaneously.  And it is very disturbing.  That is, our brains can’t keep all the little schemes and deals and trinkets all lined up, when we pass out of this world and lose seeming control of ourselves.

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This is why I don’t sound like most of the other bloggers talking about economics or politics or other items.  This is a peculiar place.  I am interested in somehow guiding all of us out of this mess  and to a new understanding of the future.  That is, I do not want WWIII nor do I want the world to end in all sorts of devious ways.  I want us all to learn wisdom and to prosper.  So, peace and love to everyone here.  And just remember: I can’t force anyone to do anything sane.  This is not a power given to me or to anyone on this planet.  We all have to find sanity, however we can, if this is even possible.

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