"Do or do not. There is no try." --Yoda "Thomas, meet Yoda. Yoda, meet Thomas. Now hash it out, and get back to me when you've settled it." - me
"Basically, disappointment, embarrassment, and all these places where we just cannot feel good, are a sort of death. We've just lost our ground completely; we are unable to hold it together and feel that we're on top of things. Rather than realizing that it takes death for there to be birth, we just fight against the fear of death. If you want to have a successful, happy and productive life, you must learn to accept, even welcome or embrace change. I know it can be difficult. We become comfortable with the status quo, going along on our path feeling fine and all of a sudden, wham!, something happens to upset our apple cart. It can be something as serious as the loss of a loved one or a job or home. It may be a minor upset like rain on your vacation or a broken date. Whatever the situation, change or circumstance we must learn to handle it or we may be immobilized by it." - Jim Donovan "As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all." - Buddha "Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." - Frank A. Clark "When were you last stopped in your tracks by a fabulous flower, magnificent rainbow or spectacular sunset? Or even the laughing face of a small child? When did you last consciously look for the awe and wonder in everyday things around you? Almost everything in nature is a miracle if we open our eyes. And our loved ones are the biggest miracles of all! But often they are the ones we lose our awe, wonder and reverence with the most." - Amanda Gore
I used to live in New York City. When I find myself feeling nostalgic for those days, I just fill my humidifier with urine. - Emo Philips
' satanic chanting drowned out by typed letters actively happening- no weird show its fading to fairy snow some shout better nils to a wider rant and stops singing ' - a soul's impressions of the Web;2084
"As soon as laws are required for men they are no longer fit for freedom." Pythagoras I think the videogames shoving loot boxes down our throats is a prime example of this in action.
What does that mean though? As in, if people need laws they don't have freedom? Or that the law being too heavily imposed makes it unfree? I'm just... not sure what that actually means.
I take it to mean free men should govern themselves, and when the need for law arises, free men are imprisoned, in that freedom is lost or meaningless.
Exactly, it's a good way to summarise the cycle that the law goes through. Criminals and companies alike find profitable but harmful things that are not legally enforced, and exploit them until the law catches up. Then when it does someone winds up under the long arm of the law.
"You don't actually wash your hands. They wash each other while you stand there looking at them like a creep."
I think it depends on the law, too. When slavery was legal, people were denied freedom because of that law. Law and ethics are intertwined, but one must never be mistaken for the other. Laws are attempts at codifying ethics, and imperfect ones at that. But at least they provide some guidelines as to what behaviors those cultures approve of or condemn.
"Many that live deserve to die, and some that die deserve to live." Gandalf The Grey "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." Gandalf The Grey "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." Galadriel All quotes come from Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring.
"You don't have to go through mutations to lose your humanity. I've seen plenty of examples." Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher III Wild Hunt, in retort to a witch hunter.
Welcome to the forum Abbey. I must still be off my game. This is the first MH joke I can't wrap my head around. An explanation would be appreciated. Perhaps it's my lack of knowledge on fire exit protocols.
Concerning this... "As soon as laws are required for men they are no longer fit for freedom." - Pythagoras Spoiler It has already been expressed that folks should be self-governed concerning morality. I think the freedom mentioned is having free access to mingle with others, to be a free member of society, and morality is to choose to not cause harm to others. But when a person can't or refuses to do this, they're unfit to exist in that freedom. A law was established stating murder is unacceptable behaviour and is punishable. The law shows a person who murders is unfit to freely walk in society. They're unable to govern themselves thus laws are required. That some laws reflect some folks are unfit to walk freely among others. And perhaps Pythagoras wasn't talking about individuals or specific moral issues, but was talking about the sad state of human nature as a whole, that we as a species don't have utopian societies because we haven't yet sorted our shit out. That we can't exist in total freedom to be ourselves because we cause harm to others, be it any other living thing and the environment that sustains all of us.