Aug
25
TheGreatCompromise
Creating awareness around modern slavery and advocating for the most vulnerable minority - the individual - by promoting the idea that the best way to protect one's human rights is to secure those human rights for everyone.
Posts tagged Life
Jul
30
Behold! Self-aware stardust—the cosmos made conscious!
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“How can a three-pound mass of jelly that you can hold in your palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question its own place in the cosmos? Especially awe inspiring is the fact that any single brain, including yours, is made up of atoms that were forged in the hearts of countless, far-flung stars billions of years ago. These particles drifted for eons and light-years until gravity and change brought them together here, now. These atoms now form a conglomerate- your brain- that can not only ponder the very stars that gave it birth but can also think about its own ability to think and wonder about its own ability to wonder. With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.”
- V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human
Jul
25
Physics teaches us that the extinction of Statism is inevitable. Why? Because entropy always increases. Why? Because it is overwhelmingly more likely that it will. Statism has low entropy and Voluntarism has high entropy.
“And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.” Jimi Hendrix
Jul
14
Some of My Favorite Marcus Aurelius Quotes
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.”
“The universe is change; life is your perception of it.”
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
