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Passages in time shall leave timeless evidence in their wake.

Time's up for modern society.

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

You don’t know anything, but I know even less.

Suppose we wanted to transmit this knowledge, everything we had ever learned, to another world. First we would want to make the representation as compact as possible. By squeezing out redundancies we could compress the number so that it would occupy smaller and smaller spaces. In fact, if we are adept enough we can represent the number in a manner that requires almost no space whatsoever. We simply take the long string of digits and put a decimal point in front of it so that it becomes a fraction between 0 and 1, a mere point on a line. Then we choose a smooth stick and declare one end 0 and the other end 1. Measuring carefully, we make a notch in the stick -- a point on the continuum representing the number. All of our history, our philosophy, our music, our art, our science -- everything we know would be implicit in that single mark. To retrieve the world's knowledge, one would measure the distance of the notch from the end of the stick, then convert the number back into the books, the music, the images. The success of the scheme would depend on the fineness of the mark and the exactness of the measurement. The slightest imprecision would cause whole Libraries of Alexandria to burn. [...] Suppose the medicine men of Otowi had discovered this trick. Suppose, contrary to all evidence, that they had developed a written language, a number system, and tools of enough precision to encode a single book of sacred knowledge into the notch of a prayer stick -- the very book, perhaps, that explains what the symbols on the rock walls mean. And suppose a hiker, exploring one day in the caves above Otowi, found the stick. Could the knowledge be recovered? [...] Aliens trying to decode our records might recognize what seemed to be deliberate patterns in the markings of ink on pages or the fluctuating magnetic fields of computer disks (though, again, if the information had been highly compressed, it would be harder and harder to distinguish from randomness). If they persisted, would they find truths to marvel at, signs of kindred minds? Or would they even recognize the books and tapes as things that might be worth analyzing? One can't go around measuring every notch on every stick.

Truth never rusts.

Only fools talk about wisdom, the wise knows to keep silent and let their action do the talking.

Some ideas are dangerous.

You are so much more than what the mind wants you to think or believe. We can practice going beyond the mind to experience our true potential as a divine being that is becoming conscious of itself.

They need foes so that they can justify the spending. The misuse of power. The curtail of liberty. Control. These so called, terror groups, always seem to come along at the right time. Misdirections are what make people think that they are seeing the truth. You can arm people with sticks, but not with knowledge or wisdom.

Why should I care if your children die from dirty water; polluted air; CFCs in the environment; plastic in everything that they ingest & breath; radiation from microwave towers, communication networks & mobile phones; radiation from nuclear fallout and artificial microbes bred for specific uses? You don't? Otherwise if you did care, you would actually get off your seats and do something. But you don't. You just sit back and let everything happen because you believe that you can't make a difference, but the truth is; everyone can make a difference if there is enough of us. It's time to put greed aside and start living with the knowledge that you can make a difference.

As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition.

The philosophy they had lived for starts to die itself. Some strands of ancient philosophy live on, preserved by the hands of some Christian philosophers – but it is not the same. Works that have to agree with the pre-ordained doctrines of a church are theology, not philosophy. Free philosophy has gone. The great destruction of classical texts gathers pace. The writings of the Greeks ‘have all perished and are obliterated’: that was what John Chrysostom had said. He hadn’t been quite right, then: but time would bring greater truth to his boast. Undefended by pagan philosophers or institutions, and disliked by many of the monks who were copying them out, these texts start to disappear. Monasteries start to erase the works of Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca and Archimedes. ‘Heretical’ – and brilliant – ideas crumble into dust. Pliny is scraped from the page. Cicero and Seneca are overwritten. Archimedes is covered over. Every single work of Democritus and his heretical ‘atomism’ vanishes. Ninety per cent of all classical literature fades away. Centuries later, an Arab traveller would visit a town on the edge of Europe and reflect on what had happened in the Roman Empire. ‘During the early days of the empire of the Rum,’ he wrote – meaning the Roman and Byzantine Empire – ‘the sciences were honoured and enjoyed universal respect. From an already solid and grandiose foundation, they were raised to greater heights every day, until the Christian religion made its appearance among the Rum; this was a fatal blow to the edifice of learning; its traces disappeared and its pathways were effaced.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

That out of sight, out of mind philosophy comes off so true but back at it like a flood gate of thoughts. Enchanting the minds of those that forgot about the god. I can paint a vivid picture of the game like color of office. CEO illumination of supreme bosses,no strike out or taking any loses, a take over of hostages through these dry land mirages but I have the living water that quenches. It's the penal gland like a third eye view, a Promised Land flowing through for the chosen few.

Life is so much more than our pity version of reality where we worry about financial wealth, social status, power, and interacting with machines that provide pleasures such as cars, boats, smart phones, and television. Life is limited and ultimate reality – the realm of potential knowledge – is unlimited.

But practically I know men and recognize them by their behavior, by the totality of their deeds, by the consequences caused in life by their presence.

If you don’t remember the past, you don’t deserve to be remembered by the future.

Do not mistake your dreams for understanding. Dreams are limited by the knowledge and perspective of their creator. - The Malwatch

Life is a gift. It is to be shared. It should be experienced wisely and above all it should be observed consciously.