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RationalEgo
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Sword of Truth - Wizards Sixth Rule
#11966225 - 02/05/10 01:18 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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"The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. It is the foundation from which life is embraced.
Thinking is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss that we refuse to see. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reasons light. In rejecting reason, refusing to think, one embraces death. "
Discuss
Edited by RationalEgo (02/05/10 01:36 AM)
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dill705
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards First Rule [Re: RationalEgo]
#11966239 - 02/05/10 01:22 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Are you going to decieve me into thinking you are a wizard?
I'd like it much more if you decieved me into thinking I'm a wizard
-------------------- My advice is to find those things that give pleasure and do them often without too much attachment and relax and wait for the show to end. -Icelander- I like free markets and all. Truly I do, at least in general, but there needs to be some kind of oversight in recognition of sustainability. Life works the same way, on a bunch of sustainable systems. Why not honor what made us what we are and take some lessons? Nature FTW! ~dill705~
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two_rivers
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards First Rule [Re: RationalEgo]
#11966256 - 02/05/10 01:27 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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People carry with them a set of assumptions about the world they live in. It's baggage. There's no escaping it altogether. You can only try to minimize it.
-------------------- Save Shroomerites Anonymous!
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dill705
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards First Rule [Re: RationalEgo]
#11966280 - 02/05/10 01:32 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Why did you delete the post? I liked your post, I only commented just to see the discussion from my threads page.
Bring it back please, I thought it was intelligent
-------------------- My advice is to find those things that give pleasure and do them often without too much attachment and relax and wait for the show to end. -Icelander- I like free markets and all. Truly I do, at least in general, but there needs to be some kind of oversight in recognition of sustainability. Life works the same way, on a bunch of sustainable systems. Why not honor what made us what we are and take some lessons? Nature FTW! ~dill705~
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RationalEgo
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards First Rule [Re: dill705]
#11966293 - 02/05/10 01:38 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'd rather discuss the Sxith rule, you can do a google search if you like and get the quote to start your own thread.
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dickpayne00
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards First Rule [Re: RationalEgo]
#11966303 - 02/05/10 01:40 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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im not going to google shit. drop knowledge. its better to have a source.
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two_rivers
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards First Rule [Re: RationalEgo]
#11966313 - 02/05/10 01:42 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
RationalEgo said: I'd rather discuss the Sxith rule, you can do a google search if you like and get the quote to start your own thread.
-------------------- Save Shroomerites Anonymous!
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dill705
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards First Rule [Re: RationalEgo]
#11966394 - 02/05/10 02:02 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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-------------------- My advice is to find those things that give pleasure and do them often without too much attachment and relax and wait for the show to end. -Icelander- I like free markets and all. Truly I do, at least in general, but there needs to be some kind of oversight in recognition of sustainability. Life works the same way, on a bunch of sustainable systems. Why not honor what made us what we are and take some lessons? Nature FTW! ~dill705~
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RationalEgo
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards First Rule [Re: dill705]
#11966500 - 02/05/10 02:39 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Icelander
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards Sixth Rule [Re: RationalEgo]
#11966931 - 02/05/10 06:19 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Very dramatic speech. Still, mostly true IMO. I agree with you about faith for sure. Feelings on the other hand I'm into. Of course I connect them with intuition and intuition with reason. It's just that imo parts of our brain are noticing and reasoning out things that the conscious mind is not fully aware of. So... yes everything needs to be reasonable and reason and logic are the tools to get the job of living done.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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RationalEgo
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards Sixth Rule [Re: Icelander]
#11967017 - 02/05/10 06:59 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, I pretty much agree with you there in the sense that feelings are not at all bad or the 'darkness' to reasons 'light'. Feelings, and emotions are like lighting fast estimations of value that arise form our sub-concious in relation to metaphysical facts. They are certainly not methods of cognition and much introspection is required to know the source of and the reason for the arising of specific emotions. I don't think there is anything 'mystical' about intuition as such, its is merely your subconscious working out data in the background that arises into the concious mind at a specific moment to indicate that some kind of action is necessary.
Edited by RationalEgo (02/05/10 07:37 AM)
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Re: Sword of Truth - Wizards Sixth Rule [Re: RationalEgo]
#11967027 - 02/05/10 07:03 AM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Right, nothing mystical about intuition. That's why I use it.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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