Greatness describes the intensity or magnitude of a thing.
Greatness is not intense Goodness.
Jay from #Bigmouth, sleight of hand artist, subject of the the documentary film 'The Magic Life', businessman, philosopher, Jew.
Friday, November 13, 2020
Lessons On Life
History is replete with tales of hubris.
The Tower of Babel--God punishes humankind for trying to reach him.
Icarus--The Greek myth teaches not to be too arrogant or greedy.
The Gulag Archipelago: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn teaches us how a large, benevolent ideology can create the ultimate evil of human history.
Do not try to fix the world according to your ideology. Fix yourself. That's hard enough. And if we all fix ourselves, the world will be improved.
Lessons on Life
"For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us.
But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”
-Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It
Lessons on Life
Faith is not defined as "Belief without proof or evidence".
Faith is the belief in that which CANNOT be proven.
Lessons on Life
Nothing is created by humankind. We discover, combine, dissect, and reorder, but we do not create.
Science tells us that matter can neither be created nor destroyed--The Law of Conservation of Mass.
Therefore, anything that is was created.
Whoever created matter it is The Creator.
Lessons on Life
Be careful of businessmen with legal backgrounds. They see the world in terms of leverage, paying no consideration to what's right.
Lessons on Life
The nature of competition is that one side's advance is the other side's disappointment.
When competing, figure out what your opponents want, and disappoint them.
Lessons on Life
Everything cannot be relative.
The claim that everything is relative must apply to the claim itself, which is contradictory.
Search not for relativism, but for truth.
Everyone's truths, added together, is their "God".
Peace relies on the endeavor to find a common God.
Lessons on Life
Those that want to destroy existing hierarchies in favor of flattening ignore that the world they envision is at the top of the visions hierarchy.
Lessons on Life & Magic
Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Lessons on Life
A human being is a judgment machine, assessing at all times whether a thing is true or false. Whether you agree with that statement or not...proves the point.
Lessons on Life
Everyone thinks they are right in the present moment. Even when we acknowledge we were wrong, we're right about that.
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