Free your Mind!

free your mind. You do not need to do what you are told to, just because you are told to. you do not need to believe everything that people tell you. you need to learn to free your mind. Just close your eyes and say, "I am myself, and myself is alone!" Repeat that over and over. You can also try the "fear is the little death" statement from Dune.

The Fracture of Nothing

Nihilism is the belief of nothing. It is the belief that nothing has any real existence or any real importance. It is the belief that we cannot understand the reality that we are in because of our emotional attachment to it. And emotional attachment s keep you from understanding the world. We are slaves to our passions. We are slaves to our passions. World War I taught us that the Romantic view of the Past, the view of dulce et decorum est was just silly. People die in wars. People die in wars in rather unromantic ways, such as gas and VDs. We need to escape the Matrix. We need to free our minds. Nihilism can help us do that. It helps us see that the world is merely phenomenological. It is merely what can be seen, tasted and touched. Romanticism provides nobody anything but more and more babyish flirtations, and while flirting may be good for teens, it does not make a real life. We need a real world.

What is love?

What is love? is it all about flirting or at least toy flirting? It helps, as it makes things far more interesting, but who wants only that? Love is more of the nature of caring about others, even when it does not matter, even when they do not want it.

Here are the types of love: baby love, teen love, flirting, crushes, lust, true love , impossible love, courtly 💘 love, Platonic love, Confucian love, Godly love.

Baby love is the love I simply attraction. It is the type that kids have for each other that is based simply on the other person and their cuteness. It is annoying. Teen love is a version of this that involves adolescents. It involves awkwardness with growing up.

Flirtation is a series of romantic games and teasing involved in attracting a love interest, be they of the same or opposite sex.

Impossible love is the love for an unattainable love interest, such as a cartoon character.

Lust is pure biological desire that is forbidden by God or law. Many books and 🎥 have been made about that.

Courtly love is experienced between a knight and his nymphs. This would often involve the knight having to tilt 🐉 to prove his worth to the nymph.

Platonic love is love that is more than mere social, but far less than sexual. Flirtation may be involved.

According to Wikipedia, "
Ren (Chinese: 仁) is the Confucian virtue denoting the good quality of a virtuous human when being altruistic. Ren is exemplified by a normal adult's protective feelings for children. It is considered the outward expression of Confucian ideals.
Yan Hui, one of the Four Sages, once asked his master to describe the rules of ren. Confucius replied, "One should see nothing improper, hear nothing improper, say nothing improper, do nothing improper."^[1] Confucius also defined ren in the following way: "wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others."^[2] Confucius also said, "Ren is not far off; he who seeks it has already found it." Ren is close to man and never leaves him.^{" This is Confucian Love.}

True 💘 is the love that lasts. A love 💘 like that has just got to last. Are adults allowed to believe in true love 💘💘 or must they see it as being stupid? Believe in crushes, when you are an adult and won't people call you silly and stupid? You can believe in affection to some extent, but you can never be 🚼 babyish about it.

 Godly love is the love 💘 for God or gnosis, shared secret knowing.

Aristolte Physics Book 1

When the objects of an inquiry, in any department, have principles, conditions, or elements, it is through acquaintance with these that knowledge, that is to say scientific knowledge, is attained. For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. Plainly therefore in the science of Nature, as in other branches of study, our first task will be to try to determine what relates to its principles.

The natural way of doing this is to start from the things which are more knowable and obvious to us and proceed towards those which are clearer and more knowable by nature; for the same things are not 'knowable relatively to us' and 'knowable' without qualification. So in the present inquiry we must follow this method and advance from what is more obscure by nature, but clearer to us, towards what is more clear and more knowable by nature.

Now what is to us plain and obvious at first is rather confused masses, the elements and principles of which become known to us later by analysis. Thus we must advance from generalities to particulars; for it is a whole that is best known to sense-perception, and a generality is a kind of whole, comprehending many things within it, like parts. Much the same thing happens in the relation of the name to the formula. A name, e.g. 'round', means vaguely a sort of whole: its definition analyses this into its particular senses. Similarly a child begins by calling all men 'father', and all women 'mother', but later on distinguishes each of them.

Is Western logic useless in real life?

Western logic is the operating mode of the Western World 🌎 and has always been the go-to source of analyzing the info in our lives, as we do math and science with it. It has three rules of operation: everything must be what it is, nothing can be what it is not, and there is no middle term, but with regard to time. This appears to be a great way to do scientific things, but just try to apply it to real life, and there are suddenly problems. This line of thinking about the world 🌎 implies that everything and everyone can be put into nice neat boxes, which most people will be offended at. Western logic also tells you that you should fight battles against enemies in order to gain glory. It says that nobody has any control over their fortunes. It says that the people that we see 👀 in our lives today are in a way 👻 ghost memories. We are reminded of people that we knew in the past. A good 👍 example of this is the idea 💡 that one's daughters are a lot like one's sisters. This is a totally weird idea 💡. Also is the idea 💡 that things should be categorized by their definition, which is their class plus differentia. Who says that this is really what things are like? Nobody really. Nature. This idea might work in math to have such an arbitrary source of truth, but in a court, just try to say that you follow Reason, and let's just try to see how far you get with it. But Greeks do not have any problems with this. Why?

Cartoons that can never be made live action

Cartoons that can never be made live action:
South park
The Simpson's
Magician
Salad fingers
Alphazekko
masha and the bear
Cyanide and Happiness
Moomin
Stickman
Stephen Universe

Actually TMNT does not fit. It became live action

Fast of Tisha B'Av

Why do we fast on Tisha B'Av? We do so because of the destruction of the Jerusalem. Is there any sorrow as great as theirs? No, the Greek gods rarely interacted with them. They ever gave any laws to them! There were times in which nymphs and monsters came to men, but they always ran away soon after. Greek wisdom wished that it could have a Sinai. That was not to be.

Israel however was different. Moses  gave the law. We were told that God never had an image. We do not even know how to pronounce His Name. He said not to have false gods. He said to not have incest or child sacrifice. Israel did both. This resulted in their destruction. And they were destroyed multiple times. Yet nothing. They did not repent. This is why Babylonian Captivity happened. Mothers ate their daughters. Sisters ate their brothers. "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters." -- Deuteronomy 28:53 Priests were assassinated in the Temple.  " Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?" Lamentations 2:20. This is what Tisha B'Av is about. It is about the destruction of Jerusalem. We fast for all those women who had nothing to eat. We do not listen to music, because of the lack of children in the city. Music 🎶 is always associated with children in the Bible. The children were dead and eaten. This killing of relatives appears to be to get meat and as a form of mercy killing so that their children will not have to starve.

See the example of Mary, who lived in the times of the Jewish War, a similar time, mentioned in the writings of Josephus. Mary killed her son and ate half of his body. Then she tried to compel others to eat the other half to shame them out of sharing where she got her secret stacte of meat. Then all mourned.

The mourning of the Jews is why we fast. Their grief matters. The Jewish Culture matters. They gave us the Bible. They may not have all the Reason, but this is only because they have actual lives to live. They are too concerned with people killing them to worry about things like philosophies.

 But some claim that Russian grief is just as powerful. They had a year for many years and had no means to redress their grievances against a society that impressed them. Then Napoleon Bonaparte invaded And he came with the possibility of democracy. France was better because of the revolution, right? This is what bright about a series of Revolution s that culminated in 1917. Then Stalin betrayed the Revolution. Socialism within a state. Trotsky was killed. This is Russian grief, horror over what happens to you.

From the Almagest

From the Almagest:
It seems to me that these true philosophers, Syrus, very wisely separated the theoretical part of philosophy from the practical. For even if this happens, practicality will prove to be theoretical before it becomes practical, but one can find a great difference in them; not only because some moral virtues may belong to the everyday unconscious man and one cannot come to the theory of entire sciences without learning, but also because in practical matters the biggest advantage is the continuous and repeated operation of things in themselves, while in knowledge theoretical should be followed. Therefore, we thought about practicing our activities even in the application of imagination, not to forget about everything that would happen, taking into account their beautiful and well-ordered disposition, and devote ourselves to meditation mainly to make many beautiful statements, and especially those called mathematics.
 In fact, Aristotle quite correctly divides theory into three direct types: physical, mathematical and theological. Considering that all beings have their existence from matter, form and movement, and that none of them is visible, but only thoughts in their subject separately from others, if one should look in their simplicity for the first cause of the first cause by moving in the universe , he would consider God invisible and unchanging. And the science that seeks Him is theology; for such an act can only be considered high above somewhere near the highest things in the universe and is absolutely independent of reasonable things. But a kind of science that tracks this material and constantly moving quality and is related to white, warmth, sweetness, softness and such things would be called physics; and such an essence, because it is only what it is, is found in corrupt things and below the lunar sphere. And a kind of science that shows quality in terms of forms and local movements, character search, number and size, as well as place, time and similar things would be defined as mathematics. For such an essence falls somewhere between the other two, not only because it can be felt with both senses and without senses, but also because it is the case of absolutely all mortal and immortal beings, things that change with them always change , according to their irreversible form, and maintaining the unchangeable form immutability in eternal and ethereal things.

Translating בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ

In the first place, in heaven

In the first place, the God of the heavens and the earth"We're going to have to do this," he said. 

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

  .....In principio creavit Deus cælum et terramבְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ

Tobit 1 Good News Translation (GNT)

Tobit 1 Good News Translation (GNT)

1 I am Tobit and this is the story of my life. My father was Tobiel, my grandfather was Ananiel, and my great-grandfather was Aduel. Aduel's father was Gabael; his grandfather was Raphael; and his great-grandfather was Raguel, who belonged to the clan of Asiel, a part of the tribe of Naphtali. ² During the time that Shalmaneser was emperor of Assyria, I was taken captive in my hometown of Thisbe, located in northern Galilee, south of Kadesh in Naphtali, northwest of Hazor, and north of Phogor.

Tobit's Early Life

³ All my life I have been honest and have tried to do what was right. I often gave money to help needy relatives and other Jews who had been deported with me to Nineveh, the capital of Assyria.
⁴ When I was young, I lived in northern Israel. All the tribes in Israel were supposed to offer sacrifices in Jerusalem. It was the one city that God had chosen from among all the Israelite cities as the place where his Temple was to be built for his holy and eternal home. But my entire tribe of Naphtali rejected the city of Jerusalem and the kings descended from David. ⁵ Like everyone else in this tribe, my own family used to go to the city of Dan in the mountains of northern Galilee to offer sacrifices to the gold bull-calf which King Jeroboam of Israel had set up there.

Tobit's Faithfulness to His Religion

⁶ I was the only one in my family who regularly went to Jerusalem to celebrate the religious festivals, as the Law of Moses commands everyone to do. I would hurry off to Jerusalem with the first part of my harvest, the first-born of my animals, a tenth of my cattle, and the freshly clipped wool from my sheep. Then I would stand before the altar in the Temple, and give these offerings to the priests, the descendants of Aaron. ⁷ I would give a tenth of my grain, wine, olive oil, pomegranates, figs, and other fruits to the Levites who served God in Jerusalem. Every year, except the seventh year when the land was at rest,^[a] I would sell a second tenth of my possessions and spend the money in Jerusalem on the festival meal.
⁸ But every third year, I would give a third tithe^[b] to widows and orphans and to foreigners living among my people, and we would eat the festival meal together. I did this in keeping with the Law of Moses, which Deborah, the mother of my grandfather Ananiel, had taught me to obey. (I had been left an orphan when my father died.)

Tobit's Faithfulness in Exile

⁹ When I grew up, I married Anna, a member of my own tribe. We had a son and named him Tobias. ¹⁰ Later, I was taken captive and deported to Assyria, and that is how I came to live in Nineveh.
While we lived in Nineveh, all my relatives and the other Jews used to eat the same kind of food as the other people who lived there, ¹¹ but I refused to do so. ¹² Since I took seriously the commands of the Most High God, ¹³ he made Emperor Shalmaneser respect me, and I was placed in charge of purchasing all the emperor's supplies.
¹⁴ Before the emperor died, I made regular trips to the land of Media to buy things for him there. Once, when I was in the city of Rages in Media, I left some bags of money there with Gabael, Gabrias' brother, and asked him to keep them for me. There were more than 600 pounds of silver coins in those bags. ¹⁵ When Shalmaneser died, his son Sennacherib succeeded him as emperor. It soon became so dangerous to travel on the roads in Media that I could no longer go there.

Tobit Buries the Dead

¹⁶ While Shalmaneser was still emperor, I took good care of my own people whenever they were in need. ¹⁷ If they were hungry, I shared my food with them; if they needed clothes, I gave them some of my own. Whenever I saw that the dead body of one of my people had been thrown outside the city wall, I gave it a decent burial.
¹⁸ One day Sennacherib cursed God, the King of Heaven; God punished him, and Sennacherib had to retreat from Judah. On his way back to Media he was so furious that he killed many Israelites. But I secretly removed the bodies and buried them; and when Sennacherib later searched for the bodies, he could not find them.
¹⁹ Then someone from Nineveh told the emperor that I was the one who had been burying his victims. As soon as I realized that the emperor knew all about me and that my life was in danger, I became frightened. So I ran away and hid. ²⁰ Everything I owned was seized and put in the royal treasury. My wife Anna and my son Tobias were all I had left.

Tobit's Nephew Rescues Him

²¹ About six weeks later, two of Sennacherib's sons assassinated him and then escaped to the mountains of Ararat. Another son, Esarhaddon, became emperor and put Ahikar, my brother Anael's son, in charge of all the financial affairs of the empire. ²² This was actually the second time Ahikar was appointed to this position, for when Sennacherib was emperor of Assyria, Ahikar had been wine steward, treasurer, and accountant, and had been in charge of the official seal. Since Ahikar was my nephew, he put in a good word for me with the emperor, and I was allowed to return to Nineveh.

Genesis 1

א  בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.
A man, a god, a god, a heavenly man, and a hart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj7g8NCYEPM
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

³ And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

⁶ And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” ⁷ So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. ⁸ God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

⁹ And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

¹¹ Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. ¹² The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

¹⁴ And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” ²¹ So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” ²³ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. ²⁵ God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

²⁷ So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

²⁸ God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

²⁹ Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ³⁰ And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

³¹ God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.