Today our society has begun the slow, painful process of escaping from this pathological dichotomy of simultaneous sexual repression and obsession. But we may have begun our escape from one denial only to fall into a new and possibly even more dangerous one.
When we look at the
outside world, we are looking at only a small part that interests us. The world we see is not the entire universe but a limited one that the mind cares
about. However, to our minds, that small world is the entire universe. Our
reality is not the infinitely stretching cosmos but the small part we choose to
focus on. Reality exists because our minds exist. Without the mind, there
would be no universe.
"When I'd lived with him over the winter, he would sometimes go on for hours in these didactic monologues, reeling off a pedantic and astonishingly accurate torrent of knowledge with the slow, transfixed calm of a subject under hypnosis. He was talking about the excavation of Hissarlik: 'a terrible place, a cursed place,' he said dreamily - cities and cities buried beneath each other, cities torn down, cities bur and their bricks melted to glass ... a terrible place, he said absently, a cursed place, nests of tiny brown adders of the sort that the Greeks call antelion and thousands and thousands of little owl-headed death gods (goddesses, really, some hideous prototype of Athena) staring fanatical and rigid from the engraved illustrations."
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Easing the Symptoms of Polycystic Kidney Disease with Home Remedies
Fortunately, there are some natural treatments that may help slow the progression of this disorder. Here we discuss five of the best Home Remedies for Polycystic Kidney Disease: herbal tea, garlic, juniper berries, celery seed, and parsley.
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A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or of any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.
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Dietary fat, by the way, has no effect on blood sugar levels, except that it can slightly slow the digestion of carbohydrate
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The old Greeks and Romans knew no higher virtue than justice. Therefore their efforts had only value in relation to the state. They clang upon life in this world. When they thought about the immortality of their souls and the kingdom of shadows, their eyes became cloudy. What was the best life in the underworld compared to striving under the light of the sun?
The Christ however taught love of neighbor and enemy and demanded the unconditional turning away from life: hate against the own life. He demanded the nullification of the inner being of humans, which is insatiable will to live, left nothing in human free; he tied the natural egoism entirely, or, with other words: he demanded slow suicide.
“Wait,” Henry says, breaking off. He pulls back to look at Alex, wild-eyed, mouth a vivid red, and Alex could fucking scream if he weren’t worried dignitaries in the next room might hear him. “Should we—”
“What?”
“I mean, er, should we, I dunno, slow down?” Henry says, cringing so hard at himself that one eye closes. “Go for dinner first, or—”
Alex is actually going to kill him.
“We just had dinner.”
“Right. I meant—I just thought—”
“Stop thinking.”
“Yes. Gladly.”
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