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A proper philosophy doesn't just enlighten and empower the mind -- it strengthens the heart and uplifts the soul. It develops and expands a person's interior. It beautifies the psyche and enriches the spirit.

Philosophy does all this directly, thru its ethics, and indirectly, thru politics. It also does so quite powerfully via art -- especially drama and music.

Philosophy makes you a higher, finer, better person. It encourages, inspires, and uplifts. Philosophy helps bring out your truest and best self. It ennobles and sanctifies your soul.

A true, rational, sound, coherent, intelligent, insightful, wise, good, and great philosophy will leave you prosperous, thriving, healthy, and happy. It will make you vivacious, dynamic, heroic, and even godlike.

A high-quality philosophy improves a person's nature, character, and essence. And the best philosophy has a spirituality which will show you life at its deepest, widest, strongest, truest, and best. This spirituality is lofty, noble, and sacred. It is dedicated, in large part, to the sublime, transcendent, and infinite.

Spirituality of this kind provides belief in today, and hope for the future. It generates confidence and tranquility.

A proper philosophy provides clear purpose and deep meaning for your unique, irreplaceable, priceless existence.

Human beings, at their finest, are demi-godly creatures that live like dynamos, heroes, and legends.

A truly spiritual being will at least try to have all, do all, and be all. To know, experience, achieve, and enjoy everything. To conquer reality and rule the universe.

True spirituality involves genuine internal beauty. It combines a delicate sweetness and psychological loveliness with robust vigor and ferocious energy.

A proper and ideal spirituality requires and involves a high level of intelligence, consciousness, motivation, desire, volition, and will.

Spirituality enhances animation, energy, determination, and focus. It cheers and steels you.

Spirituality is the profound unity of reason and emotion -- of powerful thinking and strong passion.

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A truly spiritual being will at least try to have all, do all, and be all. To know, experience, achieve, and enjoy everything. To conquer reality and rule the universe.

Utter madness. It is impossible for a human with a three pound brain mass, a body mass of under 200 kg and a life span of under 150 years to rule the universe whose diameter is at least 28 billion light years.

To even attempt this is insanity.

This is not only heathen blasphemy and idolatry, it is worse. It is Futility.

The first thing one learns is that he/she cannot do the impossible.

Undertake the difficult if you must. If there is a chance of success and the success is worth the risk and effort than take the risk and make the effort. But do not destroy yourself pursuing Futility.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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The proper and the ideal are so endlessly arguable- why is it that those with no philosophy, no aspirations to do and be everything, no unusually high intelligence, so routinely feel and express the highest of humanity, without the enabler of a philosophy?

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A truly spiritual being will at least try to have all, do all, and be all. To know, experience, achieve, and enjoy everything. To conquer reality and rule the universe.

Utter madness. It is impossible for a human with a three pound brain mass, a body mass of under 200 kg and a life span of under 150 years to rule the universe whose diameter is at least 28 billion light years.

To even attempt this is insanity.

Ruling the universe isn't easy. But someone has to do it!

This is no only heathen blasphemy and idolatry, it is worse.

You bet your ass it is! :cool:

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The proper and the ideal are so endlessly arguable- why is it that those with no philosophy, no aspirations to do and be everything, no unusually high intelligence, so routinely feel and express the highest of humanity, without the enabler of a philosophy?

I don't think that they do. Who and what would be examples of that?

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I found the strong coherent bells of gaud ringing in Kyrel's piece. Not in themselves unpleasant, indeed the opposite, for so many nice words strung together in a sort of song is in itself nice. Like a Christmas carol, a fine sketch of gloriously good human values ... up up up up up to the skies.

However, a small bone stuck in my throat. The carol is lovely but by art, not by sense. By replacing a couple of words with cognates, I can show that bone. I liken the irritation a reaction to an inbuilt switch of words in the design of the carol, where the word 'spirit' comes to life.

A proper religion doesn't just enlighten and empower the mind -- it strengthens the heart and uplifts the soul. It develops and expands a person's interior. It beautifies the psyche and enriches the spirit.

Religion does all this directly, thru its ethics, and indirectly, thru politics. It also does so quite powerfully via art -- especially drama and music.

Religion makes you a higher, finer, better person. It encourages, inspires, and uplifts. Religion helps bring out your truest and best self. It ennobles and sanctifies your soul.

A true, rational, sound, coherent, intelligent, insightful, wise, good, and great religion will leave you prosperous, thriving, healthy, and happy. It will make you vivacious, dynamic, heroic, and even godlike.

A high-quality religion improves a person's nature, character, and essence. And the best religion has a spirit which will show you life at its deepest, widest, strongest, truest, and best. This spirit is lofty, noble, and sacred. It is dedicated, in large part, to the sublime, transcendent, and infinite.

Spirit of this kind provides belief in today, and hope for the future. It generates confidence and tranquility.

A proper religion provides clear purpose and deep meaning for your unique, irreplaceable, priceless existence.

Human beings, at their finest, are demi-godly creatures that live like dynamos, heroes, and legends.

A truly godlike being will at least try to have all, do all, and be all. To know, experience, achieve, and enjoy everything. To conquer reality and rule the universe.

True godliness involves genuine internal beauty. It combines a delicate sweetness and psychological loveliness with robust vigor and ferocious energy.

A proper and ideal godliness requires and involves a high level of intelligence, consciousness, motivation, desire, volition, and will.

Godliness enhances animation, energy, determination, and focus. It cheers and steels you.

Godliness is the profound unity of reason and emotion -- of powerful thinking and strong passion.

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To conquer reality and rule the universe.

This, of course, can cause problems for those who do not want their reality conquered or their universe ruled. :wink:

The goal is to conquer and rule over existence -- yours and nature's. Not sentient beings. That last would be power-lust and would make you a slave-master, which is inhuman and low.

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To conquer reality and rule the universe.

This, of course, can cause problems for those who do not want their reality conquered or their universe ruled. :wink:

The goal is to conquer and rule over existence -- yours and nature's. Not sentient beings. That last would be power-lust and would make you a slave-master, which is inhuman and low.

We cannot "rule" over Nature. We can make use of what is possible in Nature. The idea of conquering Nature is essentially incoherent and insane. Nature is not a person, so Nature cannot be conquered. Nature is that (in the world) which is. Any changes we might bring about are constrained by the laws of operation of Nature.

One thing we will never do, be we ever so smart and bold --- we cannot get around the second law of thermodynamics. In any non-equilibrium thermodynamic system energy will be degraded. That is the way the world works. Don't believe anyone who tells you he has made a perpetual motion machine of the second kind.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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