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“The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding”
“Here I am at these crossroads again,
wondering what will never become of me.
Now and then, I'll take one on the chin.
Because I wear my heart upon my sleeve.”
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wondering what will never become of me.
Now and then, I'll take one on the chin.
Because I wear my heart upon my sleeve.”
―
“And any domesticated primate alpha male, however cruel or crooked, can rally the primate tribe behind him by howling that a rival alpha male is about to lead his gang in an attack on this habitat. These two mammalian reflexes are known, respectively, as Religion and Patriotism. They work for domesticated primates, as for the wild primates, because they are Evolutionary Relative Successes. (So far.)”
― Prometheus Rising
― Prometheus Rising
“Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.”
― Prometheus Rising
― Prometheus Rising
“Persinger and Lafreniere: We, as a species, exist in a world in which exist a myriad of data points. Upon these matrices of points we superimpose a structure and the world makes sense to us. The pattern of the structure originates within our biological and sociological properties.”
― Prometheus Rising
― Prometheus Rising
“Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.”
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
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