#authority

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:

  1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
  2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
  3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
  4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
  5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
  6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
  7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
  8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
  9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
  10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism,” New York Times Magazine (1951-12-16)

#quote #quotes #quotation #Decalogue #skepticism #freethinking #authority #eccentricity #freedomofthought #honesty #ignorance #integrity #knowledge #skepticism #truth #uncertainty
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wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. This is the way in which opinions are held in science, as opposed to the way in which they are held in theology. The decisions of the Council of Nicaea are still authoritative, but in science fourth century opinions no longer carry any weight.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
“Philosophy and Politics,” lecture, National Book League, London (1946-10-23)

#quote #quotes #quotation #authority #certainty #science #liberalism #evidence #belief #dogma #evidence #faith #opinion #theology
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carolinerre77@diaspora.psyco.fr

'Ce n'est pas un signe de bonne santé

que d'être bien adapté à une société malade.'

Jiddu Krishnamurti


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జిడ్డు కృష్ణ మూర్తి

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti

La société ne veut pas d’individus alertes, enthousiastes, révolutionnaires, parce que ces individus ne s’intégreront pas dans le modèle social établi et risquent de le briser. C’est pourquoi la société cherche à maintenir votre esprit dans son modèle et pourquoi votre soi-disant éducation vous encourage à imiter, à suivre et vous conformer.

La véritable éducation c'est d'apprendre comment penser et non quoi penser.

Range le livre, la description, la tradition, l'autorité, et prend la route pour découvrir toi-même.

#JidduKrishnamurti #krishnamurti #society #education #tradition #authority #conformism #freethinking #quote

tord_dellsen@diasp.eu

I think the difficulty is that most of us, at least those who are in #authority, they prefer #violence because they want quick solutions and to be able to #control people through #fear. And so they encourage more and more violence so that they could maintain that fear.

And it has seeped so deep down into society that we, even our #parenting style has become violent. Every time we #punish a child for misbehavior we are planting the first seeds of violence in their minds. They come to realize that anybody who does something wrong must be punished. And so that whole cycle of violence continues from there.

What it means now is that we have to look for an alternative and try to incorporate that in our life. And i think that is what my grandfather [ #MahatmaGandhi ] wanted to do and he demonstrated through his philosophy and his life, that it can be achieved and it can be done if we have that desire to do it.

--- Arun Gandhi, https://youtu.be/jFmTqFoLgjA?si=6KXzBcm-6n5CIukn&t=57

#ArunGandhi #nonviolence #violence #fear #punishment

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

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#Reincarnation and #Karma | Order of #Bards, #Ovates & #Druids
by Dr Renata Bartoli

It’s not possible to give a date when the concept of reincarnation first appeared among human beliefs because it seems to be as old as humankind itself and it is present in cultures all over the #world.

Its first manifestation seems to be in Shamanism. From it the belief in rebirth has passed into all major religions that have developed on earth, accompanying and influencing them throughout their evolution.

Reincarnation though transcends the limits of specific, codified religious systems. Nowadays, in a more and more secularised Western society, it is science that enjoys respect and credibility, while traditional religions are constantly losing public interest: in fact, people are in search of a more direct and less structured spirituality. In this climate, interest in reincarnation is not fading but growing and this ancient, primordial belief is now receiving validation and support by just those very scientific milieux that – traditionally – have always been the antagonists of religions. I say ‘primordial belief’ because looking back to the entire history of human thought, reincarnation is actually the only worldwide concept that has shown continuity and permanence from our origins to the present day.

Eastern religions are well known to hold the concept of rebirth at the very core of their teachings. What is less known is that reincarnation has also always been present in monotheistic faiths and philosophical systems of Western and Middle Eastern societies.

In classical Greece Plato, Diogenes and Pythagoras spoke of reincarnation and past life regressions.

The #Ancient Jews believed that Abel had reincarnated into #Moses, and in the Middle Ages reincarnation appears in the esoteric teaching of #Kabbalah, developed further in later times by the Hassidic movement.
The concept of Karma was introduced to Latin Rome by Ennius, after being imported from the newly conquered Eastern territories, and #Virgil describes reincarnation in his #poems.Medieval Islam was also familiar with the concept of rebirth, and the Persian Sufis have preserved this belief up to the present day. The #Quran itself explains the law of Karma.
What about Christianity? Reincarnation was an integral part of the beliefs of early Christians and there are references to it even in the teachings of Jesus himself. However everything changed in #325 AD when, at the #Council of #Nicaea, reincarnation was condemned as #heretical. The fact is that this council was called in times of great turmoil and insecurity and its decisions were dictated by political needs and not by spiritual considerations; in fact the Council was requested by #Constantine, the emperor of the Eastern #Roman #Empire, and it marked a crucial political turning point in the fate of what would later become Europe as we know it today.

At that time the old empire was disintegrating under the pressure of nomadic peoples coming from the East, bringing with them a completely new and unknown civilisation. Constantine was the head of this vanishing empire and he was desperate to maintain an order which was faltering in the face of the advancement of the chaos brought by them. To do so he needed absolute power and absolute obedience and to obtain them both he needed very strict laws, able to keep order within the threatened boundaries. In such a situation #people were supposed to #obey #without #question, and no challenge to his #authority or the status quo was tolerated.

Reincarnation states that we incarnate over and over again, experiencing all sorts of human conditions, and that someone who had been a king in the past could be reborn as a tramp and vice versa. The precariousness and transitoriness of social status that it taught certainly sounded very subversive to a frightened monarch, and didn’t hold any appeal for him. Constantine used a heavy hand to #eradicate it. He banned it as he did all other ideas or beliefs he felt threatened by, and he didn’t hesitate to #execute their #supporters, mercilessly silencing any opposition.

In spite of all this the idea of #rebirth has never been extirpated and today – although the traditional religious systems are in crisis throughout the entire Western civilisation – the belief in reincarnation is growing steadily both in Europe and the USA, as the statistics of the last twenty years show.

https://druidry.org/resources/reincarnation-and-karma

anonymiss@despora.de

Artificial #intelligence is making critical #health care decisions.

Advancements in #AI have created big gaps in what the #FDA regulates. It does nothing to review tools like chatbots, for example, and it has no #authority over systems that summarize #doctors’ notes and perform other critical administrative tasks.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/18/artificial-intelligence-health-care-fda-00141768

#technology #future #news #ethics #problem #politics #security #system

wist@diasp.org
digit@iviv.hu

here follows a paste of a couple comments on https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TTz1dRygjvk
about #humanrights #disability #authority #freedom #access #righttoaccess #eligibility #bueaucracy and things. ... basically one of #DigitsRants


"where are your papers?"
this is maladaptive.
bureaucratic hurdles are ableist exclusionary, and cause deaths. #fittowork #averybritishgenocide remember they culled the disabled poor. as franccesca martinez got said on question time "I don't know if this is widely reported, but..." (look it up).
I am still being denied access despite eligeability to paperwork to give the bureaucratic okay for me to live.

this is not what freedom looks like. this is what fascism and genocide look like. we can build systems that provision for all our diverse needs without bureaucratic nor panopticonic top-down systems of divisive approval.
always a better way.

... is stressful having to go about knowing you may have to say a healthy hearty "F*** OFF, FASCIST!", or bow down in complicity to deepening anti-democratic totalitarianising technarchy ever harder to reason with to restore our freedom from. especially when so many around are gleefully falling for the trick of having our freedom taken away and then apportioned back to us at the whim of the arch decider of whether we get to live or die. i bet it seems like a lovely thing when it's buying trust, allowing you what was yours all along.

sorry, there are positives to that too, i'm just bitter about all the genocide and genocidal centralised lockstepping authority such schemes remind me of. that i've surviived rounds of culling from already. there are better ways. there are always better ways.

i hate that i feel coerced under duress of the situation, to participate in this race to the bottom, and to get one of these cards too, for all my needs, rather than to just have access as needs arise.

i'd rather mend my ailments, than reaffirm the dire prognosis and then affirm it again with investment of time and effort (i can ill afford) in getting the bureacratic stamp of aproval, my papers to show the gestapo.

no.

"F*** OFF, FASCIST!" on standby. because there are worse things than death, principles orth standing up for, even as all around succumb to groupthink and hypnosis from those deceivers who work in marketing or advertising (speaking from experience having been one, even tv advertising), uptonsinclairian complicit in the perverting our path from, as buckminster fuller said:“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller

but yeah, good news, in that layer of the matrix onion, the matryoshka of plato's caves, to have that handy alleviation, that handy easy tool.... albeit marred by the larger contexts, of both how far we've to go to build our facilities for each and all yet, and how far we've drifted into a totalitarianising machine that strips us of freedom and disempowers us while deceiving us it's giving us freedom and empowering us, like a more elaborate version of someone shoving you near an edge then immediately pulling you back and saying "saved you". ... but you, oh shoving bureaucratic monstrosity, ae hat shoved me in the first place.

long way to build all our facilities adequate for each and all yet.


you do look well, healthy, well lit, in a good place, in this advert though. :)

digit@iviv.hu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kooPJ1bo_w

good points about #conspiracies #psyops #disclosureproject #authority

but seems to me they succumb to the folly they just pointed out, of #misinformation mixing in red herrings with truth, a misdirect, into #aliens.

#humaninnovation could very well have created these interstellar vessels, following on the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla (and countless others less well known, less showy).

#interesting light exploration of #officialdom, #reason, #expert, #narrative etc around #covid, as well as around the #ufo / #uap stuff.

nice assertion advocating better toolkit for #epistemology half way through. hurrah for #science and #awareness.

and then it steps up to the next level, speaking about the group that have gone "really rogue". #rogue #beyondblack
and then the usual old stuff about jfk assasination and watergate etc.
#rabbitholes #connections #quiteremarkable

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Dyson, Freeman

Science as subversion has a long history. There is a long list of scientists who sat in jail and of other scientists who helped them get out and incidentally saved their lives. […] [Chandler] Davis and [Andrei] Sakharov belong to an old tradition in science that goes all the way back to the rebels Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Priestley in the eighteenth century, to Galileo and Giordano Bruno in the seventeenth and sixteenth. If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children. […] We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) English-American theoretical physicist, mathematician, futurist
The Scientist as Rebel, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Scientist as Rebel” (2006)

#quote #quotes #quotation #authority #changeagent #economicjustice #rebellion #science #scientist #statusquo
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digit@iviv.hu

#teacherandlearner #teacherandlearnerexperiment
as pointed out amidst misinfo flies in the ointment in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5Z-wfPnvY
* "please continue."
* "the experiment requires you to continue."
* "it is absolutely essential that you continue."

* "you have no other choice but to continue."

says the authority, the expert, in that experiment. ... two thirds kept pushing the button, in deference to the expert, even killing the human subject right in front of them screaming in agony.
"ordinary people". weaponised people. obedient people. mass murder complicity compliant people.

#authority #experts

... " #Evil "

"If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own hear?"
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago.

#wecanstillmendthis #facethehorror #wecanstillmendthis
#philosophy #sociology #anthropoogy #psychology #wisdom

digit@iviv.hu

#welcometomyworld ... aw. lost my old #joindiaspora post with that hashtag.

... i've still to get fluent at extracting info from the data dl with #jq.

that welcome to my world post(s), methinks a lot of peeps on other sites could benefit from hearing it. not really in a pleasant way ~ well, sorta pleasant, for some, re-framing their pain, but more so just to help people realise where we are, the situation we're in, to help them adjust to it, and not keep banging into it in the dark, injuring themselves more. nor encouraging others to take knocks in the dark either.

it's frightening (both in a #stultophobia way, and for the larger societal implications) how wrapped up and desperately clinging to the tightest #overtonwindow some people have become. especially in this insne backwards upside-down time. [(... and largely because of the #censorship bubble they dont realise is there, or worse, actively crave, pursue, and applaud. (oh my effing #waitiko nightmare tragedy)).]

reminds again of #MattiasDesmet's #PsychologyOfTotalitarianism...

and so that again why i want reach out to them... in #healthy ways, for their #health, to help them out of that #harmful #attachment.

#unhealthyattachment to #censorshipbubble and #strongman in the #freefloatinganxiety that breeds totalitarianism, and has people give away their power to #authority no matter how #attrocious ... and worse, they cling all the more tightly, the more insane and atrocious things get.

so... #thankyou, for every little you do to speak out against the madness, and help bring people back to sanity, out of the #massformation #psychelogical state of being.

i may have had a head start on betrayal by systems purported to care, and so longer to see through it, but then i also had a head start before even that head start, having already nearly been killed by #pharma, so i was already cagey aware they're not to be trusted, and that things purported to care, may not really care.

.. and when it's a Corporation...

a psychopathic system like a corporation

well, better to #facethehorror than get done in by it, by naivety, walking into its maw, thinking you're walking into its caring arms. NO! it does not care, it cannot care, it is mandated by law to maximise profits ("to protect the shareholders") ~ as if the ruthless greedy sorts it attracts needed that rule telling them to maximise wealth extraction, ha! ~ . . . and in the case of pharma, they bought themselves the elimination of a rule too, that of liability... so they can get away with anything, murder and worse. ... and still people gladly go forth... "if there was anything wrong, the media would tell us", so desperately they cling, refusing to put two and two together. and then pharma has friends who are known genocidali eugenicists and ecocidalists and anthrocidalists and omnicidalists ... and still people believe the lies, and run into the maw, all the more fervently...

keep on speaking out.

keep on speaking truth to power, and truth to the delusional disempowered.

silence kills all, and worse.