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Definition: IRONY = a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other’s false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony.
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GAMES OF THRONES LESSON UNLEARNED
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The Game of Thrones teaches a lesson observed repeatedly throughout the history of the physical universe, but is rarely learned — violence, motivated by psychotic lust for conquest and revenge, is the reason human civilizations do not endure. Psychopaths are not aware of immortal spiritual beings. They think everything, including themselves, is a physical object. They think power and possession are the path to personal immortality. There are many examples, such as the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang (259 BCE-210 BCE). Avoid those who desire to rule your possessions, including your body. Know who you really are. Be the indestructible, eternal spirit that is you.
THE TAO
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Tao or Dao is a concept signifying ‘way’, ‘path’, ‘route’, or sometimes more loosely, ‘doctrine’ or ‘principle’, or as a verb, speak. Within these contexts Tao signifies the primordial essence or fundamental nature of existence. Tao is thus “eternally nameless”, or Immortal Spiritual Beings, and to be distinguished from the countless ‘named’ things which are considered to be its manifestations, as the space, energy and forms of, and within, the physical universe, and other universes.
The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, or Dao De Jing (道德經: 道 dào “way”; 德 dé “virtue”; 經 jīng “classic” or “text”) is simply referred to as the Laozi. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, “Old Master”), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China. The text’s true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4th century BC.
Many different translations, versions and interpretations of The Tao have been produced through the past 2,500 years, or so, since the original appearance. Like any “religion”, the “opinions” and “interpretations” of “priests” MODIFY and INTRODUCE FASLE IDEAS into the original. Therefore, I suggest that anyone who wished to sincerely study The Tao as a Body of Wisdom, study many difference translations in order to DECIDE FOR YOURSELF what is “true” or not.
BEETHOVEN 9th SYMPHONY
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The Greatest Performance of The Greatest Musical Masterpiece written by Ludwig van Beethoven — 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
Text of the fourth movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is largely taken from Schiller’s “Ode to Joy“, with a few additional introductory words written specifically by Beethoven (shown in italics). The text without repeats is shown below, with a literal translation into English:
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MARK TWAIN: COMMENTS ON THE HUMAN RACE
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Are the comments made about the human race more than 100 years ago by Mark Twain intended to be humorous, sarcastic or serious?
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called “The Great American Novel“.
“Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn’t something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity; He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly–a lark which must have cost him a regret or two when He came to think it over & observe effects.” – Letter to William Dean Howells, 25 January 1900
“As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it–it is like hitting a child.” — Autobiographical dictation, 25 June 1906
“We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God’s beloved vermin to scoff at each other… Oh, we are a nasty little lot–& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won’t happen if I have any influence.” — Letter to William Dean Howells, 2 April 1899
“Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?” — from The New York Times, “Hartford Museum Purchases Barrels Full of Twain’s Old Books,” July 31, 1997