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02/29/2012
Most crimes are due to the clash of our primal urges with the norms of the current society. Since our emotional machinery is still best suited to the living conditions of 15000 years ago (evolution is painfully slow process), we are not well equipped to deal with the experiences ...
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02/28/2012
When you find someone boring, that probably just means you don't share his/her interest/s.
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02/26/2012
Unrestrained sexual expression and predominance of sex in relationships is not the mark of a forward society but a backward one.
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02/20/2012
Since we are not living INDEPENDENTLY in a jungle (he who thinks otherwise, frightens me), our survival is faciliated by myriad interactions between individuals in a society; and as such, one's long-run self-interest is best served only by considering the interests of all individ...
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02/19/2012
When someone tells you how to be happy and what is good for you etc., check whether the party is selling you any product. If yes, don't take it seriously, and don't allow it next time. The world would be much better, and people happier, if we could just implement this little chan...
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02/16/2012
Savor and enjoy the pleasantness of life, but don't soar so high that the fall is unbearable. And take on the unpleasantness patiently without being rash, knowing it too isn't permanent. Hold firmly to the middle ground. That's the way of the existentially wise.
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02/14/2012
Fools complain. Wise make their expectations realistic.
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02/11/2012
Too much comfort and prosperity is not good. Without struggle and suffering happiness soon loses its essence, and ennui takes place, which is worse than any suffering. It's then that man takes to "extreme living" to keep from getting suicidal. It's not only deprivation that would...
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02/11/2012
Individualism and freedom of thought are the enemies of the very values and morality which gave birth to them and elevated them to primacy among advanced nations. (Source)
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02/07/2012
In an ideal society a politician's opinion should weigh more than a lay person's, a scientist's opinion should weigh more than a politician's, and a philosopher's opinion should weigh more than everyone else's. When this chain of command can't be effectively implemented, the soc...
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02/04/2012
Lack of free will is not a new revelation. Religions have been saying it for centuries (everything's in the hands of God) and people were fine with it. The fact that we can't control things isn't depressing. Depressing is the knowledge that no one can. I think religions handled t...
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02/02/2012
For evolutionary purposes, we are designed to feel ourselves as the center of the universe, the world revolving around us. As an implication, for every unpleasant experience we have, we are much likely to blame others. (Don't you feel you are the victim? Everybody feels the same!...
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02/02/2012
NO ONE has a magic key to happiness, becuase there isn't any. It's not important to be happy all the time. What matters is that we be and do our best when we can help it, and know that we can't help everything.
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02/02/2012
Some films show right things as right. Some show wrong things as wrong. And some films show wrong things as right. Those are what I call bad films. Same goes for TV shows. It's not the content per se, but the message or the impression it leaves.
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02/01/2012
Spirituality views the world as a part of "the whole". Its focus is so much on the whole that it never really connects with the problems of the world. Only (non-)remedy it offers is for people to stop being people and merge into the whole. SPIRITUALITY IS HOKUM.
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