Home | Community | Message Board

Cannabis Seeds UK
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
OfflineSymmetryGroup8
It's about theFLOW!
Male


Registered: 02/25/07
Posts: 506
Last seen: 16 years, 8 days
What do you think about the Age of Enlightenment?
    #7594471 - 11/04/07 12:43 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

You know what I think about this? I read a good discussion on the subject of western society etc. Some of you probably will hate me for this...

Our current society is based on the Enlightenment ideals of the 18th century. You know, democracy, religious tolerance, and all that.

All this is based on the idea of rational thinking. We believe that we can keep on improving ourselves through rationality and reason! Our current technology dominated society is directly based on this ideal of rationality and reasoning. We dissect the world around us through reason.

The end result of all this rationality and reason is a form of society where everything has to be controlled and governed through reason. We have to dominate everything! It's rational!

We have to be controlled, in order to keep on advancing. It's only logical! Society has to have rules!

The Enlightenment lead us to this rationality of conquering and dominating everything around us. It's the only logical conclusion of those Enlightenment ideals. We have to dominate other cultures because we are Enlightened! We are better! We are more civilized! We have democracy!!!

Fucked up eh.


--------------------
Be like water my friend!


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleAlteredAgain
Visual Alchemist
 User Gallery


Registered: 04/27/06
Posts: 11,181
Loc: Solar Circuit
Re: What do you think about the Age of Enlightenment? [Re: SymmetryGroup8]
    #7594511 - 11/04/07 12:55 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

overproduction, misuse of natural resources, pollution, the destruction of earth's ecosystems..

very reasonable.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineThe_Ghost
ゴースト


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 03/27/07
Posts: 15,802
Loc: USG Ishimura Flag
Last seen: 11 months, 2 days
Re: What do you think about the Age of Enlightenment? [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7594721 - 11/04/07 02:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Delusion of grandeur is what it is ;p


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleDieCommie


Registered: 12/11/03
Posts: 29,258
Re: What do you think about the Age of Enlightenment? [Re: SymmetryGroup8]
    #7594964 - 11/04/07 03:16 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

You are implying people were better off before the enlightenment? They didnt call them the dark ages for nothing...


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleAlteredAgain
Visual Alchemist
 User Gallery


Registered: 04/27/06
Posts: 11,181
Loc: Solar Circuit
Re: What do you think about the Age of Enlightenment? [Re: DieCommie]
    #7595030 - 11/04/07 03:39 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

i think he's making the point that rationality taken to an extreme, as a dogma, has the potential of doing more harm than good.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinedanlennon3
LivingIsEasyWithEyesClosed.....
Male User Gallery


Registered: 10/29/02
Posts: 19,246
Loc: usa Flag
Last seen: 1 year, 12 days
Re: What do you think about the Age of Enlightenment? [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7595042 - 11/04/07 03:42 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

coincidentally, there were outbreaks of ergot throughout Europe during that time :smile:


--------------------
"Psychedelics should be used not to escape reality, but to embrace it"



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* my mad ramblings about democracy clam_dude 760 3 10/15/03 02:37 PM
by clam_dude
* What happened to the AG forum? Boom 1,610 13 08/15/07 12:37 AM
by simplemachine
* The sensitive subject of ENLIGHTENMENT!!! donXochi 961 6 08/29/07 02:49 PM
by Papaver
* Is America A Democracy, a Republic or a Communist Country??
( 1 2 all )
GivebackJack 2,200 36 05/31/09 08:52 AM
by Taco Chef
* enlightening experiences with psychdelics?
( 1 2 all )
champinhom 3,499 36 08/03/10 01:57 PM
by Dropcidnotbombz
* Socrates' Criticism of Democracy in "The Apology" NastyDHL 3,315 4 10/21/08 10:43 PM
by All We Perceive
* I am Enlightened
( 1 2 3 4 5 all )
Apollyphelion 4,120 82 01/19/09 10:03 AM
by Apollyphelion
* So Guns N Roses is finally releasing Chinese Democracy
( 1 2 all )
FSBlueApocalypse 977 24 11/11/08 10:53 AM
by Prisoner#1

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
471 topic views. 6 members, 43 guests and 65 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.026 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 14 queries.