I am very happy to see the vidoe Huxley relates brain physiology to our tendency to be conflicted from you, hopefully the others also are happy for You
PS quit making rude comments and sny remarks on other peoples thoughts, because that just debunks everything any theoretical thinker or wise person stands for and it shows that you aren't so wise and may be an immature little parasite yourself who's fear of failure controls your every move to the point where you don't even know how to speak to a human being and haven't lost your virginity in all your 33 yrs of living. I'm sorry, i know this subject all to well, I had a friend once. sad
and dance along as we go because fear is only a senseless flea that acts as a parasite in our brains. So that was my speech and no i'm not on lsd i just felt like making my long thoughts documented for a change. Thank you and good day to all of my fellow travelers
which a giant hound lies upon on which a owner feeds. I believe in immortality in that aspect as the growth from life to death begins a new each time and keeps on going on for eternity. Where heaven and hell don't exist except in the present of our lives now through our process of decision making, I like the metaphor that Aldous uses here when he speaks of the characters Jekylll and Hyde. That sort of wait that kind of balances us for that decision. Saying well we can either choose this or this
atonement, where all the thoughts and ideas of this God creation are actually manifested by the human race but cyclically manifested by that deity. That's the confusing part to the human being, a sort of comparison like which came first the chicken(the mind) or the egg(idea)? And that's the ultimate question of life. You know, where did the cycle begin and how? And how relative is it all and to whom? Are we a tiny spindle fiber on a giant strand of helix that belongs to a giant carpet rug on
once we find that we are using our brains to its full capacity we see through the eye of singularity where we all know the same feeling the same emotion and we are in essence one with the Earth through conscious behavior, we start caring and loving as though we are God and we can manipulate Earth in space for it's own greater power. When we finally reach what this oneness with our true spirit of relation we ultimately manifest that entity we wish to seek, or wish to be. This will be known as our
time is, the documented length of how long it takes to finally come to this consciousness. The science is the space and time combined to make up our boundaries in which we grow. The balance is realizing that we need conflict and opposition to grow from. Learning through trial and error and right from wrong.
of growing from single cell organisms to multi-cell or even closer to our time frame primate to neanderthal to homosapien. Our starting root can be metaphorical related to the tree of life, that being the tree of growth and expansion. We will regenerate and regenerate our Earth until we become demi-gods and then ultimately our own God's. The idea of God being omniscient and all knowing, linked to the roots of life an all seeing view of past present and future. That's what we work towards, all
that conflict comes from our evolution of being, some may be skeptic but evolution moves further and further towards being the norm, in essence science being the founder of religion. That conflict of our being is us coming to our consciousness, realizing that we not only have accepted but also reached our destination, once we learn to accept where we have been and how we have gotten there the cycle will start again in 'New Life'. This realization or 'coming to consciousness involves the process
He is wrong you know. He talks about man's inner conflict but the idea that these two parts should actually conflict is a man-made concept. You can be primal and very intelligent. We see one half our being as bass and the other as elevated. If we accept ourselves more fully then we will realize that the different aspects of human beings are beautiful and not a jekyll and hyde.
We could have learned so much from LSD as a treatment for mental illness. But they banned the study in 1962 at an open conference in Denmark. Other greats like Dr. Timothy Leary and William Burroughs were guest speakers for the advancement of basically all of the known and what will be known of as psychology.
@TheAnibus True. You're probly also aware about MK-Ultra. The Britsh and the Americans tried to see if LSD could be a trigger for mind control, but turns out it was the other way around. The fact is how can we study about psychedelic drugs if it is forbidden to take psychedelics?! Its a tragedy actually cause psilocybin, LSD and ayahuasca are very positive for our minds and bodies. The reason these things are not well known or banned is because they are a major threat to this system.
are different therefore I will have to assume the context of your sentence, which creates miscommunications between us.
For instance all these religions battle over god (who is right, my god your god kind of thing) when the most basic definition is all knowing, all powerful, omnipresent.
Forgive me because I am very busy and cannot explain further, read the philosophers to get more.
1) Everything I say is a lie....(if you lie, then this statement would be a lie, meaning you tell the truth, but then would contradict, get it?)
2) My father is a man, (father already connotates that your father is a man, therefore you are being redundant in speech.
3) If i say love, you are going to have a totally new concept of what love entails compared to me, I might think of a happy old couple, you might think of lady and the tramp. Everyones beliefs on a certain subject r
@Omnicron777 Your question does not make very much sense but I assume you are implying how it impedes our thoughts or makes us more "dumb." lol
Ok you have to read guys like david hume, immanuel kant, definatly frederich nietsche to understand fully because they can explain in much greater detail.
Our english language leaves us with fallacies such as,
@Omnicron777 Wow, i am very impressed with your knowledge of nietzche, ppl forget that he was actually studying Philology (study of language, primarily latin, arabic, etc) He continually points out that our language inhibits us from creating an objective view of the world that we may all agree to. Language, both a blessing and curse as told by the great Alan Watts.
I disagree with this theory, which I've heard a lot, and I didn't realize it was so old. I think rather our "two natures" are result of 'splitting' as defense mechanism, resulting from drive to be part of a society/family/comm, while at the same time having been 'shamed' by such. This shame results in emotional pain, which is stored in the body, and results in the 'two selves' of Jek+Hyde. 1 reason I think so is when I feel connected, ego-stroked, securely attached, my hostility is all but gone
Otto Weininger's Sex and Character and On Last Things. Also his Aphorisms (free download online, English and German). I highly recommend reading them in German however - the quality of the myriad of observations is far better, as that's what he wrote it in. It's the final unity of it all that bewilders you because it makes perfect sense, in it's entirety, while viewed in piecemeal it is questionable. He uses a fine brush to create broad strokes.
Orwell's major mistake was to project a future of fascism arising from the right when in fact all the evidence should have shown him that it was to come from the left and is now coming through non-violent methods like imposing thought-control and subservience to the regime through multiculturalism, diversity, political correctness, so-called 'equality' and a leftist interpretation of human rights. i.e. the communitarian-progressive model currently found in Britain
Orwell's major mistake was to project a future of fascism arising from the right when in fact all the evidence should have shown him that it was to come from the left and is now coming through non-violent methods like imposing thought-control and subservience to the regime through multiculturalism, diversity, political correctness, so-called 'equality' and a leftist interpretation of human rights. i.e. the communitarian-progressive model currently found in Britain
He's wrong. The reason for the conflict in human beings is because people are not living the lives they want to live. This fundamental conflict causes all subsequent destructive behavior.
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb Interesting observation man. I can already tell you are a passionate thinker. Which is good of course but you can't just tell how it is in a couple of sentences. But i agree. We're simply distracted and are totally neglected by our real 'I' and nature. We're a very very complicated destructive organism. Like T.Mckenna once said: 'Our world is in danger by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in danger by the absence of enlightenment.'
@texasB666 Thanks for the reply. I am actually studying philosophy in college as well as it being a passion of mine. I would submit to you that the answers to all of your questions are actually quite a bit simpler than you may have considered. It is a shame that humanity does not take the time to imagine whether something would be a good idea before implementing it en masse (I am referring here to technology). People should be taking care of each other and themselves.
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb Cool :) I also like learning but not studying. Cause i'm not good at it. I like to learn. Especially philosophy. i always come back to taoism because its so simple yet direct. I like that. And sure mate, it is eventually very simple. We know this but somewhere we've forgotten. take care and have fun in all of your activities and stuff :) greetz,cheers, peace and love
@texasB666 Like Pink Floyd said: "We don't need no education" haha. They are right, life is about people. I knew you must not have been from USA. I am Italian and I am moving back to Italy once I graduate. I am only in school because of my parents :/// haha but it isn't so bad.
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb :D how amazing is that man!? I used that Pink Floyd quote yesterday to 'impress' a 28 year old italian milf! I had sex with her later on ^^
My course in Belgium starts next week : freelance journalism and creative writing. I'm pretty excited. Have fun in italy and take it eazy !
@texasB666 Nice! Italian girls are soooooo hot! lol. Spread the truth with your journalism, don't sell your soul to Rupert Murdoch and the rest of them. Peace
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb That is a great point to make, the issue also lies in the fact that our lives are seemingly all planned out working to fill the cogs of the machine...
@waylandpor Thank you. Your lives are not just seemingly planned out-they are actually planned out. Ever sit in history class and wonder why people let themselves be "Serfs" and never rose up when they could have easily overthrown their slavemasters? In a couple hundred years children will ask themselves the same question about 21st century slaves.
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb Yah people though are beginning to communicate better than they have for a long time, the internet does help see how others are being affected by the world of impressions, we are all slaves to our technologies and that is the main deal here material sustenance occupation consumerism consumer becomes consumed
@waylandpor Being a slave to technology doesn't make any sense. If anything, it is the opposite, it frees us. but it sure can be used by governments for more efficient control..
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb I can agree with the fact that technology does condition the environment, we all see it, how it does control our lives, intelligence is the factor here when it comes to the machine controlling us in our sustanance occupation, all it is is control of our transfers of foraging to the evolution in technology, the problem with uprisal is being affected by social containment which restricts and limits communication in many ways which reasons why a constitutiion is so important
@waylandpor Intelligence is nothing more then applies reaction to an environment, technology enables us to replace those reactions with automated devices, relieving us from labor to focus, react to more interconnected, global events.
@Juefawn i would say intelligence is the 'longitudinal' thought, the rationalising mind, the non accepting mind, the imposing mind, the percieving mind, the answering mind, the believing mind, the ego centric mind
as opposed to genius, which is 'lateral' thought, the irrational mind, the accepting mind, the recieving mind, the wondering mind, the knowing mind, the id centric mind.
yall can bitch and complain but no body ever gets off their ass and does anything about this. Thanks to an 'accidental' discovery Hoffman made it easier and more readily available to see true beauty and the inner workings of time, space, and life. Control, pain, suffering will always be a part of this reality we call a conscious life. But everything is transitory, so take care of yourself, nature, family and friends and prepare yourself for your next cycle of life and death.
It's amazing how he takes an article of his faith, his Darwinian theory about our supposedly reptilian brain stem and supposedly more recent cerebral cortex as if it were absolute truth, brute fact. Darwinians think they are justified by faith one gathers and attempt to interpret all the data of all reality through that one hypothetical lens..
I feel it is an honor and a privilege to hear him speak and answer questions. I have heard about him for so long (I am a 60's person). I tried to read his books, but they are too dry for me. This interview was perfect. hearing him was easier to understand and I love him. I miss people of his caliber in these times!! What a treat!
@maytherebepeace1 Alexandre Dumas pere was born near Paris in 1802 and 'coincidentally' in 1902 The Society of Jesus(Jesuits) were expelled from France for the third and last time. This passage is from The Companions of Jehu which was written by Alexandre Dumas pere. The chapter is entitled family matters and it is a conversation between Bonaparte and Roland. Roland is asking Bonaparte--"So there is a question of Italy?" "There is always a question of Italy".
@maytherebepeace1 "a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such a people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent." -Bill cooper
War is coming. 1941, they say...It's all going to happen. All the things you've got at the back of your mind, the things you're terrified of, the things that you tell yourself are just a nightmare or only happen in foreign countries. The bombs, the food-queues, the rubber truncheons, the barbed wire, the coloured shirts, the slogans, the enormous faces, the machine-guns squirting out of bed-room windows. It's all going to happen. — George Orwell: "Coming Up for Air," p. 274
Our earliest evolved brain functions still play an important role in our emotions and behaviors. Although man strives to be calm and rational, we have a ways to go before we controll our violent and emotional behaviors. Our prefrontal contex and recently developed structures are still early in their development, so we have some capabilitiesto control itself, we must understand that we cannot always control them (since our earlier evolved brain structures have influenced us as a species longer.
another instance of the fatal serialism of the modern imagination—the image of infinite unilinear progression which so haunts our minds. Why not go ahead and parole all adolescent homicides on the grounds that their frontal cortex (or whatever) is underdeveloped, and that, therefore, they could not discern that pumping lead into someone for their Air Jordans was cruelly unjust. Warning: Watch out for those who would dissect conscience! No doubt, we'll soon advance beyond its usefulness.
in your example it's not that their frontal cortex is underdevelopment compared to other adolescents (unless they have a mental disability), it's more of a case of we would rather react more emotionally than rationally because the earlier parts of the brain that have to do with behaviors and emotions have a stronger influence our decisions because these brain structures have been more apart of our history as a species. kinda like a good friend can change your mind easier than a stranger could
tell me, is it more "emotional" or "rational" to leap into the torrential river to save the stranger trying to keep from drowning? Which is more preferrable to pre-modern Man--self-sacrifice or self-preservation? And even once that is determined, by what means will pre-modern Man be able to tell whether his choice was right, or (lest that term perturb) good? (I suppose that term nettles as well. Nietzsche wanted to go "beyond" such silly categories.) But my question remains.
if I was to save someone that was stuck in the middle of a river, I guess my flight or fight reaction would trigger. Of course before I were to jump into to save the person I would assess the river and distance and all the rational stuff to make it wasn't too dangerous. it's kinda a combination. people have ran into burning buildings to save babies without concern of their safety. saving your fellow man shows connection and preservation of your species.
That doesn't answer sensucht528's question. You've given only a description of what you would do, and of what some others have done. Sensucht528 was asking you for a prescriptive principle: what OUGHT a person PREFER in the case of the drowning victim? and on what basis? This conversation began because you make it sound like the brain is not just an instrument by which we make decisions, but a source of ready-made decisions -- "emotional" and "rational" ones. How can it be both
Plain Jane Goodall, Jacques Cousteau, Prince Phillip, Ted Turner, Obama, Julian & Aldous Huxley, Bertand Russell, Margaret Sanger, Adolf Hitler, Herbert Geo. Wells, Paul Ehrlich {of The Population Bomb & End of Affluence infamy}, Oliver Wendell Holmes & Pol Pot are unapologetic eugenicists. They preach 'bio-ethics'; 'animal rights' & 'sustainability' which ALWAYS subjects the impoverished people of the Earth to forced sterilizations/ abortions, vaccinations & 'euthanasia.'
[cont] I believe the reason wars, famine, poverty and corruption exist today, in 2009, is mainly due to the backwards-thinking elite and their vast control over people. They cling to the reptilian brain, and stifle our progress as a species, while the rest of us struggle to move on.
@abola2121 That is a possibility. But corruption, wars, genocides, suicides and so on have always been here. Even B.C. The main thing is testosterone and ego and (in modern times) the silly word succes. Control...meh, i don't know about that for sure. People let themselfs controlled. i for one, think that nobody is in control. thats why the human race is so fucked up. i think lots of people don't watch Tv. lot's of people KNOW something is wrong. But yeah, like you said. the reptillian brain...
@texasB666 - We have always been at war, but that doesnt make it right..!
the problem is we are under covert mind control and biowarfare is waged on us every minute..Wwe are attacked from all sides, & the majority are so distracted and drugged, they dont even realize they are been dumbed down, controlled, and bombarded with poisons, toxins, ELF, carcinogens, programming, disinformation, propaganda, etc.. etc
U cant fight back or protect yourself when u dont even know you're being attacked..!
@SovereignBeing I didn't say it wars are right, by God no! It's all fucked up man. But sometimes it makes me kinda sad that people only talk about how bad everything and everybody is. How evil empires are, and who is in 'control'. there ARE GOOD people, you know? Lots of people are getting to paranoid by fear mongering but it's in a way a good thing. They want to be informed but it's like amateur historiography. but you have good points sir, absolutely ... free your mind
@texasB666 - yes and the thing is, these 'controllers' are not even human thats the thing that allows them to get away with murder and such treachery.. as long as humans are in victim consciousness we will always create oppression..It is true we need to rid ourselves of this fear and powerlessness, because in actuality the human is a Divine being and far more powerful than these despotic, renegades who have hijacked earth and mankind..... but i know u already know this..
@SovereignBeing yeah :) A human being could be divine. buts we have been hold back to reach that potential. Or we THINK we already made that potential. These controllers cant keep doing this. Cause more control means more aggression and more bullshit, that even uninlightened idiots will notice. Lot's of people are smelling the bullshit for miles man. They're starting to realize it's all competition and profit to a failed system. But also lot's of em are worried about lady gaga or some shit...
@texasB666 - yeah for sure, people are getting it, slowly... and yet no one seems to get the whole picture.. and if society reacts with anger and without planning a take over, then we will all be worse off...Interesting times ahead for sure, esp when they start dishing out the alien attack scenario.. guess some might totally loose the plot when that little revelation comes about..!
@texasB666 I like this discussion going on here. If humans learn to let go of there ego they can be limitless & open to everything. & don't blame the people in control.Take a look at the people that "decide" to follow & give this person such power. Without these people, how could one control another's body? Humans like to concentrate on differences & not similarities. & plus it's easier to point the finger than rather take the blame for our own mistakes. That is the mind set of the majority :(
@katGarkia15 Bravo sir :) nobody is in control. I like your way of thinking. And if we HAD control, what than? What would we be? God? Cause when we're in control we could live 1000's of years! Imagine that. The only thing that could be in control is nature. That could be the only "rule". It just is. It does what it wants. It doesn't judge or follow peoples orders. And than we come along and fuck up the invironment where we live! Can you be anymore stupid?
@texasB666 Actually it is miss :)Exactly, but if someone where to cut society off the things they so much enjoy(meat, pornography, fast food, gambling, etc.)there would be total chaos! Being human we can choose to go against our nature or to flow with it. We chose to go against it obviously. Animals don't know anything else but nature, and kept it beautiful. If you have the time you should really watch this video called The Earthlings. Just when you think things couldn't get worse, you see this.
I agree with Huxley in that man's inner, animal instinct(reptilian brain), exploits our raw emotions and can lead us to violence; but man's capacity for reasoning and understanding has grown over time, and has propelled us as a species.
He was a talented novelist (point counterpoint is a classic of the 1920s), and I'm a big fan of his writings, but let's not be ridiculous. Read any biography of him, he was a troubled man and had a very spiky personality
@michelangeli23 he must have been, being so conscious of the world around you and seeing so many defects and errors in all of the people you meet and hear about and everyone so oblivious of them, constantly blinding themsekves, it must have been maddenning for him
NO. It is proven that when you have near death experiences, your pineal gland releases DMT. The worlds most psychedelic drug known to man. That's what death is like. Look it up on youtube.
For you drugs are not the answer, but who are you to say that drugs do not work for me? Providing me the answer that you might have found elsewhere, through religion or through study.
Hunter S. Thompson once said "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me".
No one said they were. Everyone is different. Drugs: Crack/alcohol/nicotine/paracetomol/valium................. Everyone is on some form of drug. Including TV / the media etc. Until we know what the answer is, everything is free terrain to explore. Some saw a round thing where others saw a wheel. is that fair enough comment?
yeh but drug effects vary - caffeine cannot be compared in this context to LSD or DMT - granted people are all on drugs - maybe I shouldv used the term psychedelic in my previous post.
I have. Although i didnt take a big dosis it was absolutely mind blowing to me. You cant imagine this if youve never tried it... You must have a very stable and strong charakter to digest such a trip. I didnt have that so i think i was quite lucky that i got away with it without problems. I wont do it anymore... If you try it, you must read up on it a lot... if you have doubts i woulnd do it. Its a very strong drug and can be very dangerous but it takes you to other realites uve never dreamed of
If humans go to heaven, then where do we draw the line? Monkeys? Something further down the hierarchy? I dont think so...the whole idea is a farce. THIS IS IT
I think a more viable conception of heaven and hell describes them as mere states of mind rather than abstract celestial locations. In such a paradigm, any being capable of feeling intense love and bliss may "enter heaven."
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Nothing this guy is talking about has been proven, evolution? Come on man, yeah i know gravity exists, and I believe in science, but "survival of hte fittest." How do we even know living is surviving? These intellectuals think they know so much, bu thtey are pretty fucking stupid and this is all a scam, btw lsd and hallucinegens CAUSE brain damage.
no, i don't think it's the end because i "can't understand what happens after". nothing happens after you die, it's like before you were born. i'm just not afraid of death, so i don't need to believe in some stupid book to make me feel like my life is more important than it is.
Like Weininger said himself "Modern to excess: no time".
The flipside to learning his philosophy though is that once you've got it, it lasts a long time, as a framework around which to construct thought and ideas. I'm not even sure it does wear out. I still remember it 10 years later.
When you read good works from 100 years ago, they unleashed this primitive brain on people. And the results were often better than today, far more fulfilling works, more intelligent, more questions than today, and more answers.
Today we try to crush that which is actually there to fulfill us - the brain stem and its workings. No wonder depression is so rife, and anger, drug-taking, all the rest. Repress who you are and that's what you become. And it keeps all those with power safe.
I don't understand why you suggested Weininger he was very peculiar. Who did you vote for this past election and how can you say there is more or less anger now days? And being that humans can't interact with their repressed thoughts how can anyone know who they are? Are you saying the works back then were more fulfilling, and if there are less questions today that means more answers.
I think an environment that asks more questions, finds more answers. Not too many questions were asked under Hitler or Stalin, for example. Or George Bush Jr. Why? Because you know you wouldn't get the answers. I don't vote in the US election as I am not American.
Anger is only one of the things I mentioned. Anger is at a constant usually. There's more depression and drug-taking today because of the values pushed upon people.
Repressed nature can be tapped into but it takes work.
Hm, but maybe also because there are more drugs today and less focus on the big man in the sky. I want to know who I am, but on second thought maybe not. That's an interesting thing to think about. I'd like to know how to release repressed desires. Are you Australian? and what was with Weininger's obsession with misogyny? The hardest authors I've come by are Kafka and Dostoevsky ( I also think they are the best)
I am Australian but I wouldn't culturally identify much with that country. None of my father's family for example have any background whatsoever in Australia (coming from the Baltic states), and half my mother's family was Norwegian, which has more to do with Germany/Central Europe.
Weininger wasn't actually hateful or misogynistic. He described the characteristics of femaleness, Jewishness, Englishness and Africanness and attributed them to both sexes, though not with equal proportions.
I see. I assumed it when you said quicksmart. Which of Weiningers work do you suggest? I find Huxley challenging, but not nearly as challenging as the two previous authors I mentioned.
You can download his Aphorisms free off the web for an introduction to it. But the main text is Sex and Character, followed closely by On Last Things. Only problem is, when they are in English, they do suffer from that. But Ladislaus Loeb's 2005 Sex and Character translation surmounts a lot of those obstacles. Much of his philosophy still comes through in that version, breaking the language barrier.
Yeah I've had trouble finding a good translator for Dostoevsky. How did you learn to read and speak german? Also, why do you favorite all those videos about methamphetamine users? I'll check out Sex and Character though.
How I really learnt it was sitting down every day for four or five hours looking at the text and dictionaries from that era. I did that for two months, plus a lot of work before and after that, though not as intense. But going back to 1976 when I was 4 years old I've had daily exposure to it.
What I found there completely shocked me. It was a true Renaissance period.
Although I don't take drugs, they are similar to this literature because they are a powerful force that creates cravings.
Oh that's pretty cool. I'll never learn german I don't think, but I would definitely give it a try. Not much exposure to it here. I haven't done drugs either, but I've been contemplating it. My friends brother is a professor and does pretty intense research on a drug called DMT. It is the most powerful hallucinogen. Very illegal though, but I think sometime in my life I'd like to see how the grass is on the other side.
As for Weininger, he's like anyone whose philosophy goes deeper than the surface - it takes hard work to comprehend it. Months of work. And you are better off reading it in the original language, but there are good Englsih translations out at the moment. Because almost no-one does this, their desire to rush to judgement on something unknown that appears to present unpalatable views by contemporary standards makes them pin a label on him and get back to their usual life, quicksmart.
@avidalocan >You are taking out of the equation, how 100 yrs ago European and British especially, benefited from colonial exploitation. When creative drive comes from misery of others, it never sustains itself.
British historians were quick to rewrite glorious past of great civilizations such as India, China, Africa etc for their own propaganda of human evolution from primates.
We must never forget our mistakes else we continue to make similar ones in other departments of life.
@HybridD91 "I'll take this society over the one's in the past." That's really not explaining anything. What kind of society in the past, and why bother thinking of this if the past is irrelevant to future prospects?
And there were no drugs, what so ever, a 100 years ago? Come on! What's different is that I'm commenting on your *hit here instead of talking to you face to face!
@scruethedemiurge hmmm 100 years ago? I say read The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, Human all too human, and Geneology of Morals by Nietzsche. If you still believe in Christianity, also read The Antichrist, also by Nietzsche.
@mikeisapro You probably have heard about the early 20th Century Renaissance that happened mainly in Vienna. Weininger, a great admirer of Nietzsche, was a part of that. Given that the modern society was created out of that time, it's very rewarding to go back to it. There are some tremendous surprises to be had.
@mikeisapro I've wanted to read The Antichrist but I found Nietzsche a bit to boring to read. I was also briefly interested in the Geneology of Morals but I didn't want to read a philosophy book about genes and morals. Admittedly though I don't know if it contains scientifically relevant information.
@Zimnyification If you want a less boring work I'd suggest The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom). This is best known for his first use of "God is dead, and we have killed him" in the parable of the madman. But the whole book is great, and I think he considered it his most personal book. It is also the only book I've read by him that has poems.
@scruethedemiurge hmmm 100 years ago? I say read The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, Human all too human, and Geneology of Morals by Nietzsche. If you still believe in Christianity, also read The Antichrist, also by Nietzsche.
some dumb highschool kid is going to laugh and say woah pretty colors i just turned into my table man, while kasey was thinking of DNA mapping while on lsd. good point on the eugenics, but anyone can get psychedelics with the right social connections.
that has nothing to do with anything some of the most prolific thinkers and creators in history are drug addicts that just proves the mind expanding capabilities of drugs the trick is to know when it its no longer beneficial and its becoming life controling
He said he was against movies and TV because he thought they were just propoganda and social programming tools yet became a screenwriter for MGM in Hollywood
well, he had to make a living somehow plus in those days TV and Holly weren't so totally repulsive and sick. the "media" kikes weren't out and about as much as nowadays.
So Aldous thinks the new modern mind is superior to the ancient one? Which one is responsible for thermonuclear weapons? Seems to me this guy had it backwards.
This is why nwo is needed and depopulation to control the masses who think such as myself,they are able to make there own changes,see our mindstate is very unstable unless we are guided without even knowing, old times are examples of being forcefully controled even before hitler.hitler just had very mixed up ideas on how to implement it.This is another way of achieving population under 500.000 maybe a little more after everything is discovered.We are nature and this is apart of evolutionTHINK
Born, grow up,school,work,date,produce children,consume,blend in,protect family, fear the unknown,earn more $,retire,die.
Choice is an illusion. no destiny, just genetic. It's our primal heretige that we share with other species. But the brain is slowly evolving, for we crave enlightenment and 100% free will. One day jealousy, egotism,
violence, and fear will lose it's meaning. No longer primitive, but evolved. An upgraded version of the human race. Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
...if you dont agree with what AH said or wrote, move on...if you have a fact or argument to support your opine then publish it and engaqe people in some constructive dialogue
..till then : have a nice life. You risked offending people and you lost: forever. Thanks for the dope about Imperial Rome though. Grats.
Serious people will research the terms "cognitive dissonance" and how the term came into existence....
ludachris475 , based on what you wrote about this person named Aldous, calling him a "an evil eugenicist demagogue" you deserve to have those things said about you for starting arguments with people and not positing some facts to support your view first
Scarface, you are a walking, talking advertisement for Sodomy.
Let me tell you that such filthy practices are not to be tolerated. Bestiality, I find, is best suited to your nature. Perhaps this accounts for your despotic behavior.
It seems that you are a filthy libertine. This is not purely a moral indictment for such disgusting habits of the butt were encouraged by Royal Charter among the first colonial burgesses, according to an account by presbyter, Cotton Mather.
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I understand you fags from studying the fag rites of Imperial Rome. Tacitus spoke of these. The legions participated in similar butt rites and augury in Gaul. Imperators Nero, Caligula, Tiberius, and Hadrian were all fags. They indulged in similar homoerotic buttlust, the likes of which were repeated in Byzantium, the homo rites of the ancient Caesars. They were all imbred caucasoid connoisseurs of the butt, embroiled in sodomy and incest. The Julio-Claudians were jaunty in hedonistic man-rape.
look at this guy! wanting me to reply. hes watch 23000 videos! probably some 40 year old faggot with no family or friends and works as a carpark ticketee. pathetic
What the fuck? Are you retarded? He was one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. There is no evidence or even allegation (apart from your own) that he was a pedophile.
And if he was, he still was anything but worthless.
The reason I don't like him personally is because he firmly believed psychedelics should only be in the possession of elite intellectuals and artists, and that the common man/woman was not capable of using them in a safe/productive way.
fuck huxley for that. not even counting his eugenics agenda. fuck him for that too.
And incase the book is inaccessible, a direct quote:
Despite the fact that his ideas stimulated a massive movement toward popular experimentation with psychedelics, Huxley was a staunch advocate of the theory that only an elite group of intellectuals and artists would have access to them. He did not believe that the common man or woman was capable of using psychedelics in the safest and most productive way possible.
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bundawartini 1 month ago
but true. but yea i'm rambling again. just help build ideas not shoot them down. there is always room for improvement. until next time, tallyho!
alexoshields 2 months ago
PS quit making rude comments and sny remarks on other peoples thoughts, because that just debunks everything any theoretical thinker or wise person stands for and it shows that you aren't so wise and may be an immature little parasite yourself who's fear of failure controls your every move to the point where you don't even know how to speak to a human being and haven't lost your virginity in all your 33 yrs of living. I'm sorry, i know this subject all to well, I had a friend once. sad
alexoshields 2 months ago
and dance along as we go because fear is only a senseless flea that acts as a parasite in our brains. So that was my speech and no i'm not on lsd i just felt like making my long thoughts documented for a change. Thank you and good day to all of my fellow travelers
alexoshields 2 months ago
which a giant hound lies upon on which a owner feeds. I believe in immortality in that aspect as the growth from life to death begins a new each time and keeps on going on for eternity. Where heaven and hell don't exist except in the present of our lives now through our process of decision making, I like the metaphor that Aldous uses here when he speaks of the characters Jekylll and Hyde. That sort of wait that kind of balances us for that decision. Saying well we can either choose this or this
alexoshields 2 months ago
atonement, where all the thoughts and ideas of this God creation are actually manifested by the human race but cyclically manifested by that deity. That's the confusing part to the human being, a sort of comparison like which came first the chicken(the mind) or the egg(idea)? And that's the ultimate question of life. You know, where did the cycle begin and how? And how relative is it all and to whom? Are we a tiny spindle fiber on a giant strand of helix that belongs to a giant carpet rug on
alexoshields 2 months ago
once we find that we are using our brains to its full capacity we see through the eye of singularity where we all know the same feeling the same emotion and we are in essence one with the Earth through conscious behavior, we start caring and loving as though we are God and we can manipulate Earth in space for it's own greater power. When we finally reach what this oneness with our true spirit of relation we ultimately manifest that entity we wish to seek, or wish to be. This will be known as our
alexoshields 2 months ago
time is, the documented length of how long it takes to finally come to this consciousness. The science is the space and time combined to make up our boundaries in which we grow. The balance is realizing that we need conflict and opposition to grow from. Learning through trial and error and right from wrong.
alexoshields 2 months ago
of growing from single cell organisms to multi-cell or even closer to our time frame primate to neanderthal to homosapien. Our starting root can be metaphorical related to the tree of life, that being the tree of growth and expansion. We will regenerate and regenerate our Earth until we become demi-gods and then ultimately our own God's. The idea of God being omniscient and all knowing, linked to the roots of life an all seeing view of past present and future. That's what we work towards, all
alexoshields 2 months ago
that conflict comes from our evolution of being, some may be skeptic but evolution moves further and further towards being the norm, in essence science being the founder of religion. That conflict of our being is us coming to our consciousness, realizing that we not only have accepted but also reached our destination, once we learn to accept where we have been and how we have gotten there the cycle will start again in 'New Life'. This realization or 'coming to consciousness involves the process
alexoshields 2 months ago
may the lord jesus christ have mercy on your soul worshiper of satan
dmien746 3 months ago
He is wrong you know. He talks about man's inner conflict but the idea that these two parts should actually conflict is a man-made concept. You can be primal and very intelligent. We see one half our being as bass and the other as elevated. If we accept ourselves more fully then we will realize that the different aspects of human beings are beautiful and not a jekyll and hyde.
benjidiz 4 months ago
We could have learned so much from LSD as a treatment for mental illness. But they banned the study in 1962 at an open conference in Denmark. Other greats like Dr. Timothy Leary and William Burroughs were guest speakers for the advancement of basically all of the known and what will be known of as psychology.
TheAnibus 5 months ago
@TheAnibus True. You're probly also aware about MK-Ultra. The Britsh and the Americans tried to see if LSD could be a trigger for mind control, but turns out it was the other way around. The fact is how can we study about psychedelic drugs if it is forbidden to take psychedelics?! Its a tragedy actually cause psilocybin, LSD and ayahuasca are very positive for our minds and bodies. The reason these things are not well known or banned is because they are a major threat to this system.
texasB666 5 months ago
@texasB666 Add me on fb WEs McEwan Sarnia ON Canada. I have some telepathic Salvia talk you should get in on.
TheAnibus 5 months ago
wtf did he say???
subpolarity 5 months ago
For a second, I didn't think the camera was going to stop zooming in.
Donsknotts 5 months ago
Amen
boobsmalloy 6 months ago
@Omnicron777
are different therefore I will have to assume the context of your sentence, which creates miscommunications between us.
For instance all these religions battle over god (who is right, my god your god kind of thing) when the most basic definition is all knowing, all powerful, omnipresent.
Forgive me because I am very busy and cannot explain further, read the philosophers to get more.
Arminsaf2 7 months ago
@Omnicron777
1) Everything I say is a lie....(if you lie, then this statement would be a lie, meaning you tell the truth, but then would contradict, get it?)
2) My father is a man, (father already connotates that your father is a man, therefore you are being redundant in speech.
3) If i say love, you are going to have a totally new concept of what love entails compared to me, I might think of a happy old couple, you might think of lady and the tramp. Everyones beliefs on a certain subject r
Arminsaf2 7 months ago
@Omnicron777 Your question does not make very much sense but I assume you are implying how it impedes our thoughts or makes us more "dumb." lol
Ok you have to read guys like david hume, immanuel kant, definatly frederich nietsche to understand fully because they can explain in much greater detail.
Our english language leaves us with fallacies such as,
Arminsaf2 7 months ago
@Omnicron777 Wow, i am very impressed with your knowledge of nietzche, ppl forget that he was actually studying Philology (study of language, primarily latin, arabic, etc) He continually points out that our language inhibits us from creating an objective view of the world that we may all agree to. Language, both a blessing and curse as told by the great Alan Watts.
Arminsaf2 7 months ago
I second Mr. Huxley.
Zimnyification 9 months ago
I disagree with this theory, which I've heard a lot, and I didn't realize it was so old. I think rather our "two natures" are result of 'splitting' as defense mechanism, resulting from drive to be part of a society/family/comm, while at the same time having been 'shamed' by such. This shame results in emotional pain, which is stored in the body, and results in the 'two selves' of Jek+Hyde. 1 reason I think so is when I feel connected, ego-stroked, securely attached, my hostility is all but gone
peacewalker7 10 months ago
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Jesus is future king of earth, repent for his judgement comes. Jesus loves you
bass109 11 months ago
Otto Weininger's Sex and Character and On Last Things. Also his Aphorisms (free download online, English and German). I highly recommend reading them in German however - the quality of the myriad of observations is far better, as that's what he wrote it in. It's the final unity of it all that bewilders you because it makes perfect sense, in it's entirety, while viewed in piecemeal it is questionable. He uses a fine brush to create broad strokes.
avidalocan 11 months ago
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Orwell's major mistake was to project a future of fascism arising from the right when in fact all the evidence should have shown him that it was to come from the left and is now coming through non-violent methods like imposing thought-control and subservience to the regime through multiculturalism, diversity, political correctness, so-called 'equality' and a leftist interpretation of human rights. i.e. the communitarian-progressive model currently found in Britain
statewithinastateuk 1 year ago
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Orwell's major mistake was to project a future of fascism arising from the right when in fact all the evidence should have shown him that it was to come from the left and is now coming through non-violent methods like imposing thought-control and subservience to the regime through multiculturalism, diversity, political correctness, so-called 'equality' and a leftist interpretation of human rights. i.e. the communitarian-progressive model currently found in Britain
statewithinastateuk 1 year ago
He's wrong. The reason for the conflict in human beings is because people are not living the lives they want to live. This fundamental conflict causes all subsequent destructive behavior.
EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb 1 year ago
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb Interesting observation man. I can already tell you are a passionate thinker. Which is good of course but you can't just tell how it is in a couple of sentences. But i agree. We're simply distracted and are totally neglected by our real 'I' and nature. We're a very very complicated destructive organism. Like T.Mckenna once said: 'Our world is in danger by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in danger by the absence of enlightenment.'
texasB666 1 year ago
@texasB666 Thanks for the reply. I am actually studying philosophy in college as well as it being a passion of mine. I would submit to you that the answers to all of your questions are actually quite a bit simpler than you may have considered. It is a shame that humanity does not take the time to imagine whether something would be a good idea before implementing it en masse (I am referring here to technology). People should be taking care of each other and themselves.
EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb 1 year ago
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb Cool :) I also like learning but not studying. Cause i'm not good at it. I like to learn. Especially philosophy. i always come back to taoism because its so simple yet direct. I like that. And sure mate, it is eventually very simple. We know this but somewhere we've forgotten. take care and have fun in all of your activities and stuff :) greetz,cheers, peace and love
Rob from Belgium (sorry about the spelling)
texasB666 1 year ago
@texasB666 Like Pink Floyd said: "We don't need no education" haha. They are right, life is about people. I knew you must not have been from USA. I am Italian and I am moving back to Italy once I graduate. I am only in school because of my parents :/// haha but it isn't so bad.
EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb 1 year ago
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb :D how amazing is that man!? I used that Pink Floyd quote yesterday to 'impress' a 28 year old italian milf! I had sex with her later on ^^
My course in Belgium starts next week : freelance journalism and creative writing. I'm pretty excited. Have fun in italy and take it eazy !
peace out
texasB666 1 year ago
@texasB666 Nice! Italian girls are soooooo hot! lol. Spread the truth with your journalism, don't sell your soul to Rupert Murdoch and the rest of them. Peace
EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb 1 year ago
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb That is a great point to make, the issue also lies in the fact that our lives are seemingly all planned out working to fill the cogs of the machine...
waylandpor 1 year ago
@waylandpor Thank you. Your lives are not just seemingly planned out-they are actually planned out. Ever sit in history class and wonder why people let themselves be "Serfs" and never rose up when they could have easily overthrown their slavemasters? In a couple hundred years children will ask themselves the same question about 21st century slaves.
EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb 1 year ago
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb Yah people though are beginning to communicate better than they have for a long time, the internet does help see how others are being affected by the world of impressions, we are all slaves to our technologies and that is the main deal here material sustenance occupation consumerism consumer becomes consumed
waylandpor 1 year ago 11
@waylandpor Being a slave to technology doesnt make any sense. If anything, it is the opposite, it frees us.
Debatewithme 1 year ago
@waylandpor Being a slave to technology doesn't make any sense. If anything, it is the opposite, it frees us. but it sure can be used by governments for more efficient control..
Debatewithme 1 year ago
@EmmanuelGoldsteinWeb I can agree with the fact that technology does condition the environment, we all see it, how it does control our lives, intelligence is the factor here when it comes to the machine controlling us in our sustanance occupation, all it is is control of our transfers of foraging to the evolution in technology, the problem with uprisal is being affected by social containment which restricts and limits communication in many ways which reasons why a constitutiion is so important
waylandpor 1 year ago
@waylandpor Intelligence is nothing more then applies reaction to an environment, technology enables us to replace those reactions with automated devices, relieving us from labor to focus, react to more interconnected, global events.
Juefawn 1 year ago
@Juefawn i would say intelligence is the 'longitudinal' thought, the rationalising mind, the non accepting mind, the imposing mind, the percieving mind, the answering mind, the believing mind, the ego centric mind
as opposed to genius, which is 'lateral' thought, the irrational mind, the accepting mind, the recieving mind, the wondering mind, the knowing mind, the id centric mind.
thats my opinionion yken take dat wid u
natmanprime 11 months ago
or was i MI6, i think Linus was the smartest of all of us...
linethemind 1 year ago
yall can bitch and complain but no body ever gets off their ass and does anything about this. Thanks to an 'accidental' discovery Hoffman made it easier and more readily available to see true beauty and the inner workings of time, space, and life. Control, pain, suffering will always be a part of this reality we call a conscious life. But everything is transitory, so take care of yourself, nature, family and friends and prepare yourself for your next cycle of life and death.
Ftfunkjo 1 year ago
Aldous Huxley kicks ass
1844Freddy 1 year ago
...considering his personal linkage to the corporate elite (ie; knowing what the agenda was in advance)...he doesn't appear to be that "brilliant".
olofpalme63 1 year ago
greeat man indeed..
thank you for your wisdom!
jeffhardy077 1 year ago
It's amazing how he takes an article of his faith, his Darwinian theory about our supposedly reptilian brain stem and supposedly more recent cerebral cortex as if it were absolute truth, brute fact. Darwinians think they are justified by faith one gathers and attempt to interpret all the data of all reality through that one hypothetical lens..
orbis2009 1 year ago
Come again? Lol.
TommyWaters 1 year ago
I feel it is an honor and a privilege to hear him speak and answer questions. I have heard about him for so long (I am a 60's person). I tried to read his books, but they are too dry for me. This interview was perfect. hearing him was easier to understand and I love him. I miss people of his caliber in these times!! What a treat!
maytherebepeace1 1 year ago 6
@maytherebepeace1 Alexandre Dumas pere was born near Paris in 1802 and 'coincidentally' in 1902 The Society of Jesus(Jesuits) were expelled from France for the third and last time. This passage is from The Companions of Jehu which was written by Alexandre Dumas pere. The chapter is entitled family matters and it is a conversation between Bonaparte and Roland. Roland is asking Bonaparte--"So there is a question of Italy?" "There is always a question of Italy".
uriahheep108 4 months ago
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@maytherebepeace1 "a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such a people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent." -Bill cooper
uriahheep108 4 months ago
War is coming. 1941, they say...It's all going to happen. All the things you've got at the back of your mind, the things you're terrified of, the things that you tell yourself are just a nightmare or only happen in foreign countries. The bombs, the food-queues, the rubber truncheons, the barbed wire, the coloured shirts, the slogans, the enormous faces, the machine-guns squirting out of bed-room windows. It's all going to happen. — George Orwell: "Coming Up for Air," p. 274
TransUnicorn 2 years ago
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TransUnicorn 2 years ago
Our earliest evolved brain functions still play an important role in our emotions and behaviors. Although man strives to be calm and rational, we have a ways to go before we controll our violent and emotional behaviors. Our prefrontal contex and recently developed structures are still early in their development, so we have some capabilitiesto control itself, we must understand that we cannot always control them (since our earlier evolved brain structures have influenced us as a species longer.
thekissilent 2 years ago
another instance of the fatal serialism of the modern imagination—the image of infinite unilinear progression which so haunts our minds. Why not go ahead and parole all adolescent homicides on the grounds that their frontal cortex (or whatever) is underdeveloped, and that, therefore, they could not discern that pumping lead into someone for their Air Jordans was cruelly unjust. Warning: Watch out for those who would dissect conscience! No doubt, we'll soon advance beyond its usefulness.
60stadia 2 years ago
in your example it's not that their frontal cortex is underdevelopment compared to other adolescents (unless they have a mental disability), it's more of a case of we would rather react more emotionally than rationally because the earlier parts of the brain that have to do with behaviors and emotions have a stronger influence our decisions because these brain structures have been more apart of our history as a species. kinda like a good friend can change your mind easier than a stranger could
thekissilent 2 years ago
@thekissilent
tell me, is it more "emotional" or "rational" to leap into the torrential river to save the stranger trying to keep from drowning? Which is more preferrable to pre-modern Man--self-sacrifice or self-preservation? And even once that is determined, by what means will pre-modern Man be able to tell whether his choice was right, or (lest that term perturb) good? (I suppose that term nettles as well. Nietzsche wanted to go "beyond" such silly categories.) But my question remains.
sensucht528 2 years ago
if I was to save someone that was stuck in the middle of a river, I guess my flight or fight reaction would trigger. Of course before I were to jump into to save the person I would assess the river and distance and all the rational stuff to make it wasn't too dangerous. it's kinda a combination. people have ran into burning buildings to save babies without concern of their safety. saving your fellow man shows connection and preservation of your species.
thekissilent 2 years ago
@thekissilent
That doesn't answer sensucht528's question. You've given only a description of what you would do, and of what some others have done. Sensucht528 was asking you for a prescriptive principle: what OUGHT a person PREFER in the case of the drowning victim? and on what basis? This conversation began because you make it sound like the brain is not just an instrument by which we make decisions, but a source of ready-made decisions -- "emotional" and "rational" ones. How can it be both
60stadia 2 years ago
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Plain Jane Goodall, Jacques Cousteau, Prince Phillip, Ted Turner, Obama, Julian & Aldous Huxley, Bertand Russell, Margaret Sanger, Adolf Hitler, Herbert Geo. Wells, Paul Ehrlich {of The Population Bomb & End of Affluence infamy}, Oliver Wendell Holmes & Pol Pot are unapologetic eugenicists. They preach 'bio-ethics'; 'animal rights' & 'sustainability' which ALWAYS subjects the impoverished people of the Earth to forced sterilizations/ abortions, vaccinations & 'euthanasia.'
ThingsBetweenTimes 2 years ago
[cont] I believe the reason wars, famine, poverty and corruption exist today, in 2009, is mainly due to the backwards-thinking elite and their vast control over people. They cling to the reptilian brain, and stifle our progress as a species, while the rest of us struggle to move on.
abola2121 2 years ago 3
@abola2121 That is a possibility. But corruption, wars, genocides, suicides and so on have always been here. Even B.C. The main thing is testosterone and ego and (in modern times) the silly word succes. Control...meh, i don't know about that for sure. People let themselfs controlled. i for one, think that nobody is in control. thats why the human race is so fucked up. i think lots of people don't watch Tv. lot's of people KNOW something is wrong. But yeah, like you said. the reptillian brain...
texasB666 1 year ago
@texasB666 - We have always been at war, but that doesnt make it right..!
the problem is we are under covert mind control and biowarfare is waged on us every minute..Wwe are attacked from all sides, & the majority are so distracted and drugged, they dont even realize they are been dumbed down, controlled, and bombarded with poisons, toxins, ELF, carcinogens, programming, disinformation, propaganda, etc.. etc
U cant fight back or protect yourself when u dont even know you're being attacked..!
SovereignBeing 1 year ago
@SovereignBeing I didn't say it wars are right, by God no! It's all fucked up man. But sometimes it makes me kinda sad that people only talk about how bad everything and everybody is. How evil empires are, and who is in 'control'. there ARE GOOD people, you know? Lots of people are getting to paranoid by fear mongering but it's in a way a good thing. They want to be informed but it's like amateur historiography. but you have good points sir, absolutely ... free your mind
texasB666 1 year ago
@texasB666 - yes and the thing is, these 'controllers' are not even human thats the thing that allows them to get away with murder and such treachery.. as long as humans are in victim consciousness we will always create oppression..It is true we need to rid ourselves of this fear and powerlessness, because in actuality the human is a Divine being and far more powerful than these despotic, renegades who have hijacked earth and mankind..... but i know u already know this..
SovereignBeing 1 year ago
@SovereignBeing yeah :) A human being could be divine. buts we have been hold back to reach that potential. Or we THINK we already made that potential. These controllers cant keep doing this. Cause more control means more aggression and more bullshit, that even uninlightened idiots will notice. Lot's of people are smelling the bullshit for miles man. They're starting to realize it's all competition and profit to a failed system. But also lot's of em are worried about lady gaga or some shit...
texasB666 1 year ago
@texasB666 - yeah for sure, people are getting it, slowly... and yet no one seems to get the whole picture.. and if society reacts with anger and without planning a take over, then we will all be worse off...Interesting times ahead for sure, esp when they start dishing out the alien attack scenario.. guess some might totally loose the plot when that little revelation comes about..!
SovereignBeing 1 year ago
@texasB666 I like this discussion going on here. If humans learn to let go of there ego they can be limitless & open to everything. & don't blame the people in control.Take a look at the people that "decide" to follow & give this person such power. Without these people, how could one control another's body? Humans like to concentrate on differences & not similarities. & plus it's easier to point the finger than rather take the blame for our own mistakes. That is the mind set of the majority :(
katGarkia15 1 year ago
@katGarkia15 Bravo sir :) nobody is in control. I like your way of thinking. And if we HAD control, what than? What would we be? God? Cause when we're in control we could live 1000's of years! Imagine that. The only thing that could be in control is nature. That could be the only "rule". It just is. It does what it wants. It doesn't judge or follow peoples orders. And than we come along and fuck up the invironment where we live! Can you be anymore stupid?
texasB666 1 year ago
@texasB666 Actually it is miss :)Exactly, but if someone where to cut society off the things they so much enjoy(meat, pornography, fast food, gambling, etc.)there would be total chaos! Being human we can choose to go against our nature or to flow with it. We chose to go against it obviously. Animals don't know anything else but nature, and kept it beautiful. If you have the time you should really watch this video called The Earthlings. Just when you think things couldn't get worse, you see this.
katGarkia15 1 year ago
I agree with Huxley in that man's inner, animal instinct(reptilian brain), exploits our raw emotions and can lead us to violence; but man's capacity for reasoning and understanding has grown over time, and has propelled us as a species.
abola2121 2 years ago
Aldous is up there on the level of Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and Heraclitus. One of the great teachers of all time.
Murple333 2 years ago
He was a talented novelist (point counterpoint is a classic of the 1920s), and I'm a big fan of his writings, but let's not be ridiculous. Read any biography of him, he was a troubled man and had a very spiky personality
michelangeli23 2 years ago
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ragnarok291273 2 years ago
@michelangeli23 he must have been, being so conscious of the world around you and seeing so many defects and errors in all of the people you meet and hear about and everyone so oblivious of them, constantly blinding themsekves, it must have been maddenning for him
ELNENE169 2 years ago
has any one ever smoked salvia? i imagine this is what death will be like.
trevortractor 2 years ago
NO. It is proven that when you have near death experiences, your pineal gland releases DMT. The worlds most psychedelic drug known to man. That's what death is like. Look it up on youtube.
LittleChikadee 2 years ago
I smoked salvia, just another drug, its a steroid for the mind, dont get carried away, drugs r not the answer.
pathwaytoallah 2 years ago
For you drugs are not the answer, but who are you to say that drugs do not work for me? Providing me the answer that you might have found elsewhere, through religion or through study.
Hunter S. Thompson once said "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me".
Iamthewalrus17 2 years ago
No one said they were. Everyone is different. Drugs: Crack/alcohol/nicotine/paracetomol/valium................. Everyone is on some form of drug. Including TV / the media etc. Until we know what the answer is, everything is free terrain to explore. Some saw a round thing where others saw a wheel. is that fair enough comment?
bogusboy77 2 years ago 2
yeh but drug effects vary - caffeine cannot be compared in this context to LSD or DMT - granted people are all on drugs - maybe I shouldv used the term psychedelic in my previous post.
pathwaytoallah 2 years ago
I have. Although i didnt take a big dosis it was absolutely mind blowing to me. You cant imagine this if youve never tried it... You must have a very stable and strong charakter to digest such a trip. I didnt have that so i think i was quite lucky that i got away with it without problems. I wont do it anymore... If you try it, you must read up on it a lot... if you have doubts i woulnd do it. Its a very strong drug and can be very dangerous but it takes you to other realites uve never dreamed of
karaokemaschine 2 years ago
If humans go to heaven, then where do we draw the line? Monkeys? Something further down the hierarchy? I dont think so...the whole idea is a farce. THIS IS IT
jonnygreeny111 2 years ago
I think a more viable conception of heaven and hell describes them as mere states of mind rather than abstract celestial locations. In such a paradigm, any being capable of feeling intense love and bliss may "enter heaven."
nightmarecinema33 2 years ago 3
Does one need a cerebral cortex to feel "intense love" or can a rabbit feel that and thus enter heaven?
jonnygreeny111 2 years ago
I couldn't tell you, I'm not a rabbit.
nightmarecinema33 2 years ago
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Nothing this guy is talking about has been proven, evolution? Come on man, yeah i know gravity exists, and I believe in science, but "survival of hte fittest." How do we even know living is surviving? These intellectuals think they know so much, bu thtey are pretty fucking stupid and this is all a scam, btw lsd and hallucinegens CAUSE brain damage.
Isamright33 2 years ago
let me guess, you're christian?
humansgettingowned 2 years ago 3
let me guess, you assume death is the end because you can't understand what happens after? FFFf...you sure you ain't christian boy?
Isamright33 2 years ago
no, i don't think it's the end because i "can't understand what happens after". nothing happens after you die, it's like before you were born. i'm just not afraid of death, so i don't need to believe in some stupid book to make me feel like my life is more important than it is.
humansgettingowned 2 years ago 3
Like Weininger said himself "Modern to excess: no time".
The flipside to learning his philosophy though is that once you've got it, it lasts a long time, as a framework around which to construct thought and ideas. I'm not even sure it does wear out. I still remember it 10 years later.
avidalocan 2 years ago
When you read good works from 100 years ago, they unleashed this primitive brain on people. And the results were often better than today, far more fulfilling works, more intelligent, more questions than today, and more answers.
Today we try to crush that which is actually there to fulfill us - the brain stem and its workings. No wonder depression is so rife, and anger, drug-taking, all the rest. Repress who you are and that's what you become. And it keeps all those with power safe.
avidalocan 2 years ago 36
That is interesting
djtouchbass 2 years ago
You speak as if you lived 100 years ago.
Villageiddyit 2 years ago
Check out works by Otto Weininger and if you need to translate German to English, the 1902 Muret-Sanders.
avidalocan 2 years ago
I don't understand why you suggested Weininger he was very peculiar. Who did you vote for this past election and how can you say there is more or less anger now days? And being that humans can't interact with their repressed thoughts how can anyone know who they are? Are you saying the works back then were more fulfilling, and if there are less questions today that means more answers.
Villageiddyit 2 years ago
I think an environment that asks more questions, finds more answers. Not too many questions were asked under Hitler or Stalin, for example. Or George Bush Jr. Why? Because you know you wouldn't get the answers. I don't vote in the US election as I am not American.
Anger is only one of the things I mentioned. Anger is at a constant usually. There's more depression and drug-taking today because of the values pushed upon people.
Repressed nature can be tapped into but it takes work.
avidalocan 2 years ago
Hm, but maybe also because there are more drugs today and less focus on the big man in the sky. I want to know who I am, but on second thought maybe not. That's an interesting thing to think about. I'd like to know how to release repressed desires. Are you Australian? and what was with Weininger's obsession with misogyny? The hardest authors I've come by are Kafka and Dostoevsky ( I also think they are the best)
Villageiddyit 2 years ago
I am Australian but I wouldn't culturally identify much with that country. None of my father's family for example have any background whatsoever in Australia (coming from the Baltic states), and half my mother's family was Norwegian, which has more to do with Germany/Central Europe.
Weininger wasn't actually hateful or misogynistic. He described the characteristics of femaleness, Jewishness, Englishness and Africanness and attributed them to both sexes, though not with equal proportions.
avidalocan 2 years ago
I see. I assumed it when you said quicksmart. Which of Weiningers work do you suggest? I find Huxley challenging, but not nearly as challenging as the two previous authors I mentioned.
Villageiddyit 2 years ago
You can download his Aphorisms free off the web for an introduction to it. But the main text is Sex and Character, followed closely by On Last Things. Only problem is, when they are in English, they do suffer from that. But Ladislaus Loeb's 2005 Sex and Character translation surmounts a lot of those obstacles. Much of his philosophy still comes through in that version, breaking the language barrier.
avidalocan 2 years ago
Yeah I've had trouble finding a good translator for Dostoevsky. How did you learn to read and speak german? Also, why do you favorite all those videos about methamphetamine users? I'll check out Sex and Character though.
Villageiddyit 2 years ago
How I really learnt it was sitting down every day for four or five hours looking at the text and dictionaries from that era. I did that for two months, plus a lot of work before and after that, though not as intense. But going back to 1976 when I was 4 years old I've had daily exposure to it.
What I found there completely shocked me. It was a true Renaissance period.
Although I don't take drugs, they are similar to this literature because they are a powerful force that creates cravings.
avidalocan 2 years ago
Oh that's pretty cool. I'll never learn german I don't think, but I would definitely give it a try. Not much exposure to it here. I haven't done drugs either, but I've been contemplating it. My friends brother is a professor and does pretty intense research on a drug called DMT. It is the most powerful hallucinogen. Very illegal though, but I think sometime in my life I'd like to see how the grass is on the other side.
Villageiddyit 2 years ago 2
As for Weininger, he's like anyone whose philosophy goes deeper than the surface - it takes hard work to comprehend it. Months of work. And you are better off reading it in the original language, but there are good Englsih translations out at the moment. Because almost no-one does this, their desire to rush to judgement on something unknown that appears to present unpalatable views by contemporary standards makes them pin a label on him and get back to their usual life, quicksmart.
avidalocan 2 years ago
@avidalocan >You are taking out of the equation, how 100 yrs ago European and British especially, benefited from colonial exploitation. When creative drive comes from misery of others, it never sustains itself.
British historians were quick to rewrite glorious past of great civilizations such as India, China, Africa etc for their own propaganda of human evolution from primates.
We must never forget our mistakes else we continue to make similar ones in other departments of life.
Zeno1999 1 year ago
@avidalocan 1910? Or a society where slavery was the social norm? Explain. I'll take this society over the one's in the past.
HybridD91 1 year ago
@HybridD91 Can you explain what you mean by this post?
avidalocan 1 year ago
@HybridD91 "I'll take this society over the one's in the past." That's really not explaining anything. What kind of society in the past, and why bother thinking of this if the past is irrelevant to future prospects?
Juefawn 1 year ago
@avidalocan said:
"drug-taking, all the rest."
And there were no drugs, what so ever, a 100 years ago? Come on! What's different is that I'm commenting on your *hit here instead of talking to you face to face!
DrWeiland 1 year ago
@avidalocan What particular works from 100 years ago do you suggest?
scruethedemiurge 11 months ago
@scruethedemiurge hmmm 100 years ago? I say read The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, Human all too human, and Geneology of Morals by Nietzsche. If you still believe in Christianity, also read The Antichrist, also by Nietzsche.
mikeisapro 10 months ago 2
@mikeisapro A have all his works :) Nietzsche sure was a great thinker.
texasB666 10 months ago
@mikeisapro You probably have heard about the early 20th Century Renaissance that happened mainly in Vienna. Weininger, a great admirer of Nietzsche, was a part of that. Given that the modern society was created out of that time, it's very rewarding to go back to it. There are some tremendous surprises to be had.
avidalocan 10 months ago
@mikeisapro I've wanted to read The Antichrist but I found Nietzsche a bit to boring to read. I was also briefly interested in the Geneology of Morals but I didn't want to read a philosophy book about genes and morals. Admittedly though I don't know if it contains scientifically relevant information.
Zimnyification 9 months ago
@Zimnyification If you want a less boring work I'd suggest The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom). This is best known for his first use of "God is dead, and we have killed him" in the parable of the madman. But the whole book is great, and I think he considered it his most personal book. It is also the only book I've read by him that has poems.
mikeisapro 9 months ago
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@scruethedemiurge hmmm 100 years ago? I say read The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, Human all too human, and Geneology of Morals by Nietzsche. If you still believe in Christianity, also read The Antichrist, also by Nietzsche.
mikeisapro 10 months ago
@avidalocan You need soma.
Zimnyification 9 months ago
higher level of consciousness? doubt it. New perspective on the spiritual conflict between good and evil within us all? right on.
Op8U4IA 2 years ago
Conflict is not inherent.
AzoreanProud 2 years ago
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Aldrous Huxley and global warming. Yeah, Right. Defend him if you like but time has proven him wrong.
297544 2 years ago
as if this guy is talking through me for me
wisesatyr72 2 years ago
some dumb highschool kid is going to laugh and say woah pretty colors i just turned into my table man, while kasey was thinking of DNA mapping while on lsd. good point on the eugenics, but anyone can get psychedelics with the right social connections.
gen6k 2 years ago 4
that has nothing to do with anything some of the most prolific thinkers and creators in history are drug addicts that just proves the mind expanding capabilities of drugs the trick is to know when it its no longer beneficial and its becoming life controling
lifeguardkliff 3 years ago 2
He said he was against movies and TV because he thought they were just propoganda and social programming tools yet became a screenwriter for MGM in Hollywood
netgemiplayer 3 years ago
well, he had to make a living somehow plus in those days TV and Holly weren't so totally repulsive and sick. the "media" kikes weren't out and about as much as nowadays.
Mazurka1001 2 years ago
So Aldous thinks the new modern mind is superior to the ancient one? Which one is responsible for thermonuclear weapons? Seems to me this guy had it backwards.
drsnk 3 years ago
This is why nwo is needed and depopulation to control the masses who think such as myself,they are able to make there own changes,see our mindstate is very unstable unless we are guided without even knowing, old times are examples of being forcefully controled even before hitler.hitler just had very mixed up ideas on how to implement it.This is another way of achieving population under 500.000 maybe a little more after everything is discovered.We are nature and this is apart of evolutionTHINK
gassman56 3 years ago
what a special mind to share with the world. He is so elegant
Kwiatlerner 3 years ago
Born, grow up,school,work,date,produce children,consume,blend in,protect family, fear the unknown,earn more $,retire,die.
Choice is an illusion. no destiny, just genetic. It's our primal heretige that we share with other species. But the brain is slowly evolving, for we crave enlightenment and 100% free will. One day jealousy, egotism,
violence, and fear will lose it's meaning. No longer primitive, but evolved. An upgraded version of the human race. Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
mishrazz 3 years ago
Fucking agreed
exDeathex 3 years ago
jealousy, violence and fear are feelings. Without feelings, what are you? You should check out "the singularity event"
jaydee102291 3 years ago
...if you dont agree with what AH said or wrote, move on...if you have a fact or argument to support your opine then publish it and engaqe people in some constructive dialogue
..till then : have a nice life. You risked offending people and you lost: forever. Thanks for the dope about Imperial Rome though. Grats.
sucharadder 3 years ago
Serious people will research the terms "cognitive dissonance" and how the term came into existence....
ludachris475 , based on what you wrote about this person named Aldous, calling him a "an evil eugenicist demagogue" you deserve to have those things said about you for starting arguments with people and not positing some facts to support your view first
sucharadder 3 years ago
Err, 'was.'
ludachris475 3 years ago
this guy is a fucking genius
Scarface389 3 years ago 3
This man is was an evil eugenicist demagogue.
ludachris475 3 years ago
ludacris475 shut the fuck up
Scarface389 3 years ago 3
Make me, you effete old drunkard.
Really, it pains me to see good Cognac squandered on such a fustian dreg.
Spare me the pleasantries of gutter-life.
ludachris475 3 years ago
I wipe my ass with your petty snide insults. You are a decrepit relic of the butt. May you forever choke on cock.
ludachris475 3 years ago
wait, didnt i tell you to shut the fuck up?
Scarface389 3 years ago
Scarface, you are a walking, talking advertisement for Sodomy.
Let me tell you that such filthy practices are not to be tolerated. Bestiality, I find, is best suited to your nature. Perhaps this accounts for your despotic behavior.
It seems that you are a filthy libertine. This is not purely a moral indictment for such disgusting habits of the butt were encouraged by Royal Charter among the first colonial burgesses, according to an account by presbyter, Cotton Mather.
ludachris475 3 years ago
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I understand you fags from studying the fag rites of Imperial Rome. Tacitus spoke of these. The legions participated in similar butt rites and augury in Gaul. Imperators Nero, Caligula, Tiberius, and Hadrian were all fags. They indulged in similar homoerotic buttlust, the likes of which were repeated in Byzantium, the homo rites of the ancient Caesars. They were all imbred caucasoid connoisseurs of the butt, embroiled in sodomy and incest. The Julio-Claudians were jaunty in hedonistic man-rape.
ludachris475 3 years ago
man your a loser just shut up
Scarface389 3 years ago
Shut your vagina of a mouth.
ludachris475 3 years ago
Your pussy is dripping like a plate of flap-jacks.
ludachris475 3 years ago
Why don't you just kill yourself?
You are a miserable miserly piece of crap.
ludachris475 3 years ago
look at this guy! wanting me to reply. hes watch 23000 videos! probably some 40 year old faggot with no family or friends and works as a carpark ticketee. pathetic
Scarface389 3 years ago 4
This man is a worthless paedophile.
Stop replying on this thread, you worthless piece of baboon ass stubble.
ludachris475 3 years ago
ok I will from now on
Scarface389 3 years ago 2
Aldous Huxley is a worthless pedophile?
What the fuck? Are you retarded? He was one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. There is no evidence or even allegation (apart from your own) that he was a pedophile.
And if he was, he still was anything but worthless.
nightmarecinema33 3 years ago 3
No, no, no.
Scarface389 is a worthless paedophile.
Alas, he is just a pompous blowhard with dubious genitalia.
ludachris475 3 years ago
nightmarecinema33 is obviously either 12 years old or mentally challenged, the man is a genius
lifeguardkliff 3 years ago
I agree, I don't know what you're talking about, I was replying to another commentor.
nightmarecinema33 3 years ago
dude what the hell are you babbling about and why should anybody know so much about such a gay topic
Villageiddyit 3 years ago
You are right.
The reason I don't like him personally is because he firmly believed psychedelics should only be in the possession of elite intellectuals and artists, and that the common man/woman was not capable of using them in a safe/productive way.
fuck huxley for that. not even counting his eugenics agenda. fuck him for that too.
hyperdimensionZ 3 years ago 2
Can you send me a link to where you came across this information? I didn't know any of that.
nightmarecinema33 3 years ago
And incase the book is inaccessible, a direct quote:
Despite the fact that his ideas stimulated a massive movement toward popular experimentation with psychedelics, Huxley was a staunch advocate of the theory that only an elite group of intellectuals and artists would have access to them. He did not believe that the common man or woman was capable of using psychedelics in the safest and most productive way possible.
hyperdimensionZ 3 years ago 2
Well if that's true its a shame, clearly he was wrong. But I didn't read anything in there about the eugenics you mentioned.
nightmarecinema33 2 years ago
The eugenics stuff isn't from that book.
hyperdimensionZ 2 years ago
Can you provide a citation please? I'd like to look into this more.
nightmarecinema33 2 years ago
That makes sense. What common man who does drugs actually does something productive?
easternslavic 2 years ago
All drugs are not the same - you shouldn't dump them into one category.
A person taking amphetamines responsibly and in controlled doses will be much, much more productive than you.
Even then, only hardcore addicts t