I posted a Substack link to a piece on this earlier today...

"What was was ever, and ever shall be. For, if it had come into being, it needs must have been nothing before it came into being. Now, if it were nothing, in no wise could anything have arisen out of nothing."
- Melissus of Samos

See biography for Melissus of Samos:
https://civilsimian.com/Melissus-of-Samos

Read Melissus of Samos' work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/250/content

Universal Humanism's distilled rule set as well as top categorical viewpoints and an appeal to negative utilitarianism.

#philosophy #quotes #CivilSimian #UniversalHumanism

https://open.substack.com/pub/axiomaticpanic/p/universal-humanisms-defi…

I'm not with this existentially...if there's an objective reality, you CAN know enough to just chill at a certain point...and there is....

Written around 1720....

Well...I hope we can do better than this....

"Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence."
- Vandana Shiva

See biography for Vandana Shiva:
https://civilsimian.com/Vandana-Shiva

Read Vandana Shiva's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/189/content

😁...I agree...but...who are the "little men"?😂

Exactly. It's important to separate sense from perception, or sense from sense perception. Just because our sense perception might be slightly different, we all come from common ancestors...we're not like creating our own world or some nonsense.

🤷‍♂️☠️...these are the rumors Christians....

Determinism precedes a posteriori irrationality and reason....

I'm not a Marxist. What I think is economies should be separated into two parts: 1) Necessities, 2) Non-necessities. We shouldn't have to war and compete over necessity. We are choosing that through ignorance. Automation should focus on necessity first.

I rail on identity particularity a lot (religion, racism, class ideology, nationalism). But, there is identity universality. It's the particularity that turns people against each other, not the identity aspect. Universality starts with what is, not an ideal.

When the people who are fighting for what is best for EVERYBODY become irrational to oppose the injury of people in general, as a matter of consequence, that should be considered ethical behavior.

🤷‍♂️....not really?

I'm not sure this thinking is relevant anymore....

I feel this way myself...and it was thought to add abduction too...I respect academic philosophy...BUT...things could be radically changed and still be relevant....

We really have to give greater consideration to the deterministic mechanisms at the center of our lives....

Precise in form....