To me that means to be and remain open to anything and everything. That even if you don't (want to) understand, one should still make the attempt to. (even if th results turn out unpleasant). At least you'll become informed and prepared with the knowledge. To me, to not want to (understand), would be ignorant.
Also, experience then judge. Thing is, the reverse seems to be the common way of doing it. Which is indeed the ignorant way. And to me, ignorance imprisons the mind.
__________________ The Governments of the world are not run by offices or "the people". They're run by corporations. And those corporations are run by a program. And that program has control of everything. The media, the money, the technology. And some of the personages within that program, are not us, but extraterrestrial.
The film gets updated when errors are made, and doesn't pass itself off as absolute fact. The website also has a section of the errors in it made.
For example, in an earlier version, it has JFK's speech about secret societies and showed clips of the zapruder film, implying he was talking about the elite and got shot because of it, but on the site, it acknoledged that Kennedy was really talking about communism, and in a later edition, removed the scene altogether.
I do have a slight distaste of it's use of loose change as a reference, but since the first time I saw it, it has taken off some of loose change's errors and instead uses scenes from the more factful final cut edition of loose change.
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"Spirituality is a particular term which actually means dealing with intuition.In the theistic tradition there is a notion of clinging into a word.A certain act is regarded as displeasing to a divine principles. A certain act is regarded as pleasing for the divine … whatever.In the tradition of non-theoism, however, it is very direct — that the case history are not particularly important. What is actually important is here and now. Now is definitely now. We try to experience what is available there, on the spot. There is no point in thinking that a past did exist that we could have now. This is now. This very moment. Nothing mystical, just now, very simple, straight forward. And from that nowness, however, arises a sense of intelligence always that you are constantly interacting with reality one by one. Spot by spot. Constantly. We actually experience fantastic precision, always.But we are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future. Paying attention to the materials that exist in our life — such rich life that we lead — all these choices takes place all the time, but none of them regarded as bad or good per say — everything we experience are unconditional experience. They don’t come along with a label saying ‘this is regarded as bad’, ‘this is good’. But we experience them but we don’t actually pay heed to them properly. We don’t actually regard that we are going somewhere. We regard that as a hassle. Waiting to be dead.That is a problem. That is not trusting the nowness properly that what is the actual experience now possesses a lot of powerful things. It is so powerful that we can’t face it. Therefore, we have to borrow from the past and invite the future all the time.Maybe that’s why we seek religion. Maybe that’s why we march in the street. Maybe that’s why we complain to society. Maybe that’s why we vote for the presidents.It is quite ironic. Very funny indeed."
-- Chögyam Trungpa
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"Us girls we are so magical, soft skin red lips so kissable, hard to resist too touchable, too good to deny it...aint no big deal its innocent."- Katy Perry
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Oh come on...we both know you don't think "boring"...you think "blood-boilingly offensive" and lament the loss of the former glory and torture power of the Holy See.
"If it's true that each and every one of us came from the centre of the star, then we're all the same thing, even a coke machine or a cigarette butt, and buffalo are all made of atoms from the centre of a star and have all been made of atoms as have you and I, that have been recycled millions of times over. Therefore it's only me out there, so what is there to be afraid of? Nothing. The problem is we've been separated by given a name and an identy but there are still some of us that have this yearning to be a part of the overall one again. They call it God, they say he has rules, and I think it's cruel. I think you can do it abscent religion."
-- George Carlin
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"If you think you know a profound truth, you should be able to demonstrate it in your everyday life. Otherwise, you don't really know it. You're just talking about it."
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Shinier than a speeding bullet.
I have a couple dear to me. Im sure you will all recognize and, know who said them.
"They that give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety,deserve neither Liberty nor Saftey"
"There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value."
"Those who profess to be wise are fools"
"Remember, no matter where you go,there you are"
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"To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!" - Khan (reciting Melville)
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true" Nietzsche
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
Friedrich Nietzsche
My personal favourite is Voltaires' "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"
I think this is the most relevent one in history of civilization. Infact it's ironic that without Mans invented Gods there wouldn't even be civilizations. Mans ever lasting quest to be judged by, and to appease the guy above him.
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