All these essentials are indeed needed by almost all people. However, all such essentials require one thing in order for them to be "owned", "had" or "used". Nothing comes without paying the price in the form of the expenditure of energy/strength - power.
Democracy takes the opinion of the majority, over the minority. The respect for the minority being human and their integrity are also taken away. There are countless examples of this throughout life.
Thus, this "disrespect" of humans is a common phenomena. So if anyone is overly focused no...
Yes, if someone were to believe that they had free-will, the nature of this choice is selfish. Because that person assumes that they control their destiny - that they are more powerful than the rest of nature. Their being human beings, or their choices being supposedly good or bad has no bearing...
Spiritualism to me is the ability to find one's own way to a state of mind that is content with who one is while accepting that other's find that state of mind of who they are differently-not better, not worse, but different.
That's just one side of spiritualism. The one that believes in...
The more a spiritual view attempts to systemize the SPIRIT of any human, the more they miss the point. Spiritualism should stop being a system of "how to's" and more of "learning to create and adapt an expression of one's self". To such a spiritualism, doctrines, systems and styles are false...
Welcome to the world of Nihilism.
[I've decided to cut all the middle bits out for the sake of simplicity]
Action and strength or inaction and weakness - your choice.
If I may just budge my way in a bit for this:
"Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for LIFE is ultimately decisive."
This quote gives me reason to believe that art and science can both provide "truths". They are at least similar in...
No, if something was made to kill, it has no bearing on that thing being evil or not (even if we assume that good and evil exist). But bear in mind - weapons are designed to hurt or kill. That means that the only reason someone could think of weapons as evil, is if they say that hurting or...
As far as I know, most people already follow this, no matter of what creed. No one wants to waste their energy trying to infringe upon other people's rights, unless it involves their own interests. Since your freedom is limited only by things that can resist your will - so in this case, human...
How do I brush history aside when I use it to compare to what is now prevalent? The point is to show how we have increased life expectancy throughout history, not that things are the same.
This point is flawed! It was easy to understand that double the average life expectancy is what we should...
Actually, that was supposed to say that you assumed that feeling sad equates to acting against one's self-interest. And I state the same retort: "I call that state as being a used whore to one's guilt and conscience."
But you assume here that when we act against our self-interests, that our...
Stating the lives of a few rare occurrences doesn't impress anyone...we're not really interested in a few rare occurrences after all.
Since nowadays we also have 120+ year old people, your argument that there used to be 90 year olds just goes to show that the maximum life expectancy has...
That means that the collective norm is not actually "right", it's just that they have the power to enforce their beliefs.
Yes, morality is for the greater number. And thus, morality supports the weak - it must level everyone's power, or the stronger will take over. The wrong in morality are thus...