First of all, I don't get angry at anyone for no reason or want to break their heart because, as my grandmother said, breaking a heart is like destroying the most sacred place. Unfortunately or fortunately, I do not know the feeling of hate because I have loved all my life, but I did not hate anyone who made me angry and harmed us. I always
More Ends to a Stick
Alan Watts 
Zihninizden Uzaklaşmak
Zen highlights the immediate action. So, when you think of doing something, just do it without a second thought. Do not think whether if the action is valuable or well fitted to your whole value system. Why should you? I am not asserting you to be necessarily cruel or reckless but you to be not anxious.
But, God we are too
Finally! I wish she said this to Edmund directly.
She was almost vexed into displeasure and anger against Edmund. "There is no good in this delay," said she. "Why is not it settled? He is blinded, and nothing will open his eyes; nothing can, after having had truths before him so long in vain. He will marry her, and be poor and miserable. God grant that her influence do not make him cease to be respectable!" She looked over the letter again. "'So very fond of me!' 'tis nonsense all. She loves nobody but herself and her brother. Her friends leading her astray for years! She is quite as likely to have led them astray. They have all, perhaps, been corrupting one another; but if they are so much fonder of her than she is of them, she is the less likely to have been hurt, except by their flattery. 'The only woman in the world whom he could ever think of as a wife.' I firmly believe it. It is an attachment to govern his whole life. Accepted or refused, his heart is wedded to her for ever. 'The loss of Mary I must consider as comprehending the loss of Crawford and Fanny.' Edmund, you do not know me. The families would never be connected if you did not connect them! Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself."
Old gangsters never die, except for the few that fall asleep in cinemas at midnight. Lay there sprawling in the footlights for the usherette or the ice cream girl to find. And if I die, God knows I might, don’t let me die in black and white, don’t make me share a haunted screen with every other ghost boy who stood trembling in the foyer drinking
Carl Jung and the Shadow (Jack E. Othon)
(...) Have you ever said or done something really shitty, mostly on an impulse, that you later regretted? After the damage was done and the other person involved was hurt, you couldn’t bury your shame fast enough. “Why did I say that?” you might have asked yourself in frustration. It’s that “Why?” question that indicates the presence of a blind
Then I learned that all moral judgments are "value judgments," that all value judgments are subjective, and that none can be proved to be either "right" or "wrong." I even read somewhere that the Chief Justice of the United States had written that the American Constitution expressed nothing more than collective value
Untaught
Just like the belief that the past was once the present, the existence of God is also a self-evident truth. What is meant by 'God' in this chapter is the basic concept of a Creator, a nonhuman personal cause or designer. It does not refer to a particular religious conception of a diety or God.
Untaught
Self evident truths do not need to be taught or learnt.For example, for me to know what spaghetti is, I require information of Western cuisine and Italian culture. I cannot know what spaghetti is merely by reflecting on it. By contrast,you do not require any information whether from culture or education, to know a creator for things exists. This may be the reason why sociologists and anthropologists argue that even if atheist children were stranded on a desert island, they would come to believe that something created the island. Our understanding of God differs, but the underlying believe in a cause or creator is based on our own reflections.
Some atheists exclaim, "believing in God is no different than believing in the spaghetti monster". This objection is obviously false. Self evident truths do not require external information. The idea that monsters exist, or even that spaghetti exists, requires information transfer. No one acquires knowledge of monsters or spaghetti by their own intuitions or introspection. Therefore the spaghetti monster is not a self-evident truth; thus, the comparison with God cannot be made. Diverting our attention from the context of this chapter, this objection also fails, as there are many good arguments for God's existence and no good arguments for the existence of a spaghetti monster.
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Imagine one evening you receive a call from David, one of your old school friends you used to sit next to drink science lessons. He invites you to have lunch with him. During lunch he asks, "can I tell you something" You reply positively and he begins to express to you something that you haven't heard before: "you know,the past-
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