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Thoughts of En?gma

Discussion in 'Self Improvement' started by Deleted Account, Aug 20, 2020.

  1. Since i had problems to post in my profile, cause the ridicolous ammount of words you can post on your NoFap profile, i was feeling the exigence of create a separate thread, where i can write all my thoughts about everything without limits. I don't feel the necessity of write all on my journal, this is not a journal. Mostly of what i will write, off topic, porn or not, will be writed here.
     
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  2. Who could you have faith and really belive in it? Why if you born two meters from the northern borders of northern cyprus, you are Muslim, but if you born two meters south of the borders of cyprus, you are Chrisrian Orthodox? and why both belive they have the real truth? and thank their God because they are the only religion with the truth? "Thanks God we are the real religion". This also happen in other religions, scietific Atheism-Agnosticism too. Religion is "Religo" that mean Law/Rule (Legge, Regola), that mean that christians, we are under a Religo, and Buddhist are under another Religo. This is what is called "Divide et Impera", we are too busy to hate Each other and fight for demonstrate we have the real truth for see the entire.
    If you are too busy to create division, then you will never read the Bibble, The Dhammapada, the Tao Te Ching, the Upanisad, The Platonic Dialogues,and see they have a lot of things in common.
    In my opinion read just the Bible is not satisfactory, of course we have epic text like Matthew 5/6/7 or Luke 6/12, but the most important thing that we read in the Bible in my opinion is the Agape of Jesus. Christian People that for "centuries" make war for their faith and still continue today, didn't even read the bible, they just read words and hoping to understand how to reach a "paradise" and learn how to be submited to their religo, follow the precepts inside some letters, they didn't care about agape, they are praising the Church or Jesus? But remember that the gospels pretend to be the truth and put words inside Jesus mouth, not like the Canons of the Buddhism, where the writers said "so I have heard" not "Buddha Said". We are too busy on stay divided instead to see the entire.
     
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  3. Reading Thoreau is always amazing, and now, after 150 years, his energy printed on the paper is influencing me in a new way I never thought possible, in these "dark" times, Thoreau explain well what we should do.
    The Iron Heel of Jack London seem manifested where police brutality is injustified and liberty of people is "restricted" and also this 100 years old book is sending us messages from the past.

    I promise, i will spend my time to read Thoreau, Emerson, Tolstoj, Dostoievskji London and Steiner all fundamental author books, everyone have his own myth, and with Plato and Socratis, their past echo comfort me a lot, and educate me to a level that school will never able to do.
     
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    After reading "Walden" i now believe that it is one of the greatest philosophical works of all time,, i am trying to do the same as you, means reading books of great philosophers,authors
     
  5. You recently read that? These Philosopher writers hit me hard, i'm reading "O zizni" (something like "about life" of Tolstoj and is like i'm reading something that came deep from my soul, i mean, is a langiage that i already know, an hard text to read for some people, but is like my entire body already know it and it feel so much easy to understand. Then i will read "A week on the merrimack and concord rivers" by thoreau and "meetings with remarkable men " by gurdjieff"
     
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    I give huge priority to hard books,they are tough to read but reading them is much better than reading a simple self help book,i started my reading journey by self help and honestly they dont work, when i started reading philosophy/science it change my perspective of world
     
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    Tolstoy is an interesting figure,i want to read his war and peace someday, tolstoy and dostoyevsky's writtings are soul-touching. I will read them more in future currently i am reading tractatus-logico philosophicus and "Discourse on method" - Rene Descartes
     
  8. I have a lot of books from Tolstoj and Dostoievskij but they mever been friends, or, Tolstoj don't want to meet him and maybe hate him, Tolstoj was a strange guy, his wife sofja was like a human tornado and remind me of Socrates wife Santippe. Just when you go in library search a version of war and pace with french translation in english
     
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    In general Tolstoy writting is more of a sociology and dostoyevsky writtings are more of a psychology.I dont know that much about tolstoy's life but know about socrates's A Socrates's quote describe all of it - "By all means marry if you get a good wife you will become happy if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher"
     
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  10. Tolstoj had a lot of Apostles called tolstoyan, it was like a christianity detached, like Jeovah, Evangelists, etc...but not formed, just an ideal. Honestly from my point of view he have had right in a lot of things, he was also vegetarian like me, as i said i can comparate my soul with his soul, amd feel pretty comfortable with what he write -with all the contraddiction with his text-
     
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    I am very interested in reading war and peace, for current state the only thing i read of him is his short story "how much land does a man need?"
     
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  12. We are lucky that people like Tolstoj, Dostoijevski, Jack London, Thoreau, Emerson and many others writers provide us with a lot of books that i think we will never read them all in this life, there is a lot tp read...choose wisely
     
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    My reading list already contains 100+ books, it will took a long to time to read them all, sadly most people today see reading books as a boring habit,the reason is these people want pleasure in everything which books dont give to them,
     
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  14. These people just search pleasure and dopamine rush, only want hollywood movies with their hero run away from an explosion and escape at high speed in a traffic road. Read book will be an heresy in future, only eeboks like 50 shapes of grey will be in the store. Read book will be allowed, but watched like an alien thing, people will get distracted only on youtube or facebook and have their eyes costantly on the screen.
     
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    People dont value these books,the main reason is the majority or herd,the herd will always be wrong very wrong, the higher man are the one who do things like reading books and do good things for the world.
     
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  16. I think i'm near 10 years of Vegetarian activity. Before that, the only meat thing i have eat was Pig, but only the slices. For me start vegetarian diet was not a radical path, since i didn't eat a lot of meat before, was more like a step for the rational mind. Vegetarian will be the next step from the Mind Evolution, and then it will be the Vegan diet. In future, if humanity will make some progress instead of de-humanize itself, eat meat will be seen as a bad thing. Just like we actualy seen ancient style slavery (because our is a modern day mass slavery), they will say: "how our anchestors would do that? " but is not the moment yet. Vegetarian diet need to be a personal choice, no one can dare to introduce you with the force, showing you the brutality of Humans for the needs of the Markets, ecc...these are just factions that exist just for divide people and spre ad hate. Vegetarianism need to be an individual-collective choice, the collective consciousness will do the rest.
     
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  17. I was searching a compilation of writings of tolstoj, it 's a compilation of texts writed during his conversion to the Christianity. this book is 800 pages and it have been published only two times in italian. This boo k is mostly forbidden, i'm sure if people read it, they will wake up, but...just The Iron Heel was forbidden from fascists, we are seeing the same thi ng happening to this compilation.. I will look again in future, hoping to find it, but it will be really hard.
     
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  18. Next books:

    Actually reading:
    Tolstoj - The Death of Ivan Ilcic
    Next:
    Gurdieff - Meetings With Remarkable Men
    Tolstoj - War and Revolution
    Gnostic Gospels - Maria, Verità, Tomaso, Filippo
     
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  19. Etic Code:

    -Respect Free Will (and don't judge)
    -Repudiate violence, war and crimes
    -Don't get angry
    -Pratice Vegetarianism
    -Repudiate Lust, Porn, ecc...
    -Listen to everyone and respect their opinion and religion
    -Love everyone, Agape (John 13:34)
    -Don't get influenced by money
    -Don't take a side, don't get fragmented by modern world with politics, football team, ecc...
     
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  20. Death of Ivan Ilic is end, not a book for everyone, but it make me cry like...the last part when Ivan was dying, his children kiss his hand remind me that i do the same thing to my dad when he was dying. Anyway this book is a psicologycal torture, you read it in a day, or you try to not open it, but know that you need to understand why Ivan Ilic is death, the prologue is the brutal final.
     
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