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Come and rise out of the sea of change and lay hold to true knowledge not as amateurs it is best when sounds, sights, feelings of pain or pleasure must quit in the mind go away. The senses only hinder the acquisition of knowledge. We must have knowledge before seeing, hearing or distinguishing?
Spinoza indisputably wrote the greatest work on Ethics believed that knowledge is oneness of thought. Through a higher sense Descartes believed knowledge is science. In all arts, sciences, and knowledge numbers are necessary, and used in common, and which every one first has to learn among the elements of education, one two, and three.

Turn and gaze towards the full perfection of numbers and behold not in a narrow manner of squaring and extending and applying and the like, that narrow mindedness only confuses the necessities of them. The best learning natures should be trained and never given up. Geometry is second, because it compels mind to view more easily the vision of the idea of good where there is full perfection of being and which everyone ought to behold. Not in a narrow squaring, extending and applying but seen with the mind only for the sake of truth.

Truth belongs to the process of numbers through and through, excluding everything that is not conceptually grasped by the mind. Numbers consist in laws not to be transformed and transmuted Parmenides demonstrated one and many that nothing turns into something once it is thought of; Absolute cannot exist, for then absolute would be no longer absolute and that being is determined by a relation among those identical to their respective spheres.

Very difficult to demonstrate in reference to visible things in reference to objects of thought, they are called ideas. Therefore, the very hypothesis of paradoxes of numbers is what will be the consequences to the one and many in relation to themselves, to the one, and to the one in relation to itself and the many. But, also, the being of the many and what will be the consequences to one and many in relation to themselves and to each other.

Knowledge has the power of elevating the mind to the contemplate these high principles, may be compare to as light of the body to the sight of that which is brightest in the material visible world by all that study and pursue philosophy, this is a given, What is needed is rigid application the wish to go further is reckoned a mark of audacity, if not of insanity.

Several steps of this activity have to pass in its liberation three stages before us Metaphysics, generating a world as our own creation Physics, and gaining freedom from it and in it Biology.

Grasp the truth stand back adjust approach nature in a partly practical and partly theoretical way. This is the starting point to all knowledge. The examination of Nature is not the affair of the imagination, but the acme of scientific procedure.

What rests upon the inner principle that carries out good is knowledge. There is three determinations of knowledge, one speculative, two practical, and three dialectical; one emerges from the other and in doing so each results from the other. The keepers of philosophy dedicate themselves wholly to the upholding these; make philosophy a craft grows into habit and knowledge becomes second nature.

The philosopher has the gift of memory, courage, magnificence, and only uses opinion as hypotheses. That is to say hypotheses as steps and points of departure into the world, which is above hypotheses, that ascends beyond to opinion and without the aid of any sensible object, from ideas, through ideas, and in ideas ends.


In everything that flows like a gentle wind from a purer region is the likeness of reason. Socrates believed just as learning to read, be eager to make words known. Only when we know the letters exactly can we ever become musical and know the essential forms of temperance, courage, liberality, magnificence, and their kindred when a beautiful mind harmonizes with the fairest of sights to the philosopher who has an eye to see it.

Philosophy is the hymn of the dialectic when I started on this discovery of the absolute truth by ight and without any assistance of common sense, I persevered until by skill I arrived at the idea of [philosophy

Philosophy is an ascent like from the underground den to the sun. It can be compare to the raising of tmind which is the very light of the body to that which is brightest in the material and visible world. Like all spheres of science and art, a considerable amount of time it takes and discipline. As the charioteer who drives the pair of flying horses into the sky, one is reason and the other is not. They both give a great deal of trouble to the charioteer, one horse is not being reasonable always falling down feeds upon ignorance and meanness the other horse is fed on knowledge soars to beauty, and goodness

Many ages ago by the most illustrious people philosophy has been cultivated. Socrates believed when a civil servant and philosophy meet to become one, humankind will rest from troubles. Come raise the mind above feeling, sure there is difficulty philosophy and civil servant being one demands not superficial but profound knowledge,

when I started on this discovery of the absolute truth by ight and without any assistance of common sense, I persevered until by skill I arrived at the idea of [philosophy

You certainly haven't been assisted by common sense, nor indeed sense of rarer varieties. But it is your use of ight that interests me. What is ight? Are you the sole possessor of ight?

Does ight set you part from others, and make you incomprehensible to them? Is it because you have ight that people accuse you of being a babbling charlatan all the time.

You suggest that ight must be harnessed through perseverance and skill, if one is to arrive at the 'idea of [philosophy.'

Perhaps in addition to our lack of ight we have the lack of perseverance and skill that will allow us to fathom what on Christ's earth you have blabbering on about in your hundred page long thread of nonsense which you started in late 2007 with this rousing rally:

"Come visualize mind from the standpoint of dialectic knowledge the constructive deductive rational way of observing life’s definite unchanging scheme."

You've reached your centenary, by ight applied truly most devoted ight has scaled the heights and found you there glory and truth above all most. Retire, Barbara, for Goddness sake, and know that your ight has served you Well.

Nikolai

First of all ight was meant to be light, my error. Second, where and the world do you get the right to tell me my writing is what you say "people accuse you of being a babbling charlatan all the time." What have you contributed to the forum, what your negative insults, your narrow mindedness, what your smallness of thought? Your so quick to judge others you need to judge yourself.

If you do not like what I am writing do not read it, it's as simple as that. I would like to know why you are here if you find the discipline so hard to accept. " Maybe that is your problem and you should retire?


BB

Dialectic philosophy is a partly sensible and partly theoretical examination of nature, intended to be a starting point for all studies of nature. Dialectic consists in immediately fixing your eye on the present and then asking how does it relate to actuality.

I drive people crazy about philosophy including my husband of forty-five years. I can't help it. It has only been recently my husband does not see Hegel or Socrates as some threat to our relationship, he actually seems to enjoy our conversations now.

The pure inner self is where lays feelings; there falls the contradiction of idealism and truth.

If philosophy was nurtured and gently cultivated would sooth and remove the dislike of it. Philosophy is forever directed towards knowledge that is all in order moving accordingly; these I will imitate as far as can. Now how can anyone help not imitating that which is so worthy of reverence?

I will not allow myself to be overwhelmed by the foolish jeering of the imitators, they heap infinite harm, which is likely to disorder my life, and I must avoid them. Look at the city within, and take heed that no disorder occur in it and regulate according to means. Gladly accept and enjoy the honors deemed that are likely to make a better person whether in private or public life. Assert not just certainty of self but purpose or in other words, real true inner being comes forward over against all odds

We sentient creatures ideally free are spontaneously determining our place. Self for self is the absolute characteristic feature of the animal nature. Self is the mirror image of self is the struggle for one and other in the same spot. It constitutes a single determinateness of two in one self, in two coinciding equally in a single point like to time and space yet they are not one.

Come go deeper than the ego probe open rush out of self-certainty find expression in thyself, make good the end of all actions leads to order and virtue. Now how can anyone help from imitating that?

Those who are curious to learn and never satisfied may be justly called philosophers. As any knowledge, philosophy must be learned. All matters of opinion are to be driven out mind, learning chases out ignorance and fills mind with knowledge.

Knowledge is lodged in the philosopher’s heart and not so far from the heaven of happiness. Laboring anything into something always has positive significance and purpose, but work is the chain that keeps us in bondage from which we cannot sway.

Look at the philosophy that took place thousands of years ago there were a gallery of noble philosophers. Thales a person of rare genius was the author of the Ionic sect and founder of philosophy. According to the best calculation, Thales was born in the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C. He was one of the seven wise men of ancient Greek and introduced geometry measured the pyramids and distance from shore of ships at sea using calculus to estimate the sea; He believed water is the supreme sustainer of life.

Philosophy like anything that is generated for a certain time is a gift of spiritual life, a virtuous consciousness, and each generation plays the role of carrying out. In Italy around 530 B.C Pythagoras a contemporary of Thales, landed in the Bay of Tarentum, at Crotona. He had great influence on the Greco-Italian state and brought the idea of a regular community of philosophers; there was nothing remote they could not reason.

Atmosphere activates arouses and rules earth causes and effects all processes. We are subject to atmospheric process. Like earth we are inert, cannot fructify into vitality by self but by the atmosphere. Perpetually life erupts at every point in earth. The atmosphere is perpetually ignited and incited by the sun; the earth absorbs the energy from the sun and radiates this energy into a constant temperature.


The earth, the surface, climate, plant, animal and human life is the study of Geography Earth particular formation separates into water and land into continents and islands shaping and crystallizing of into valleys and mountains.

Earth solid structures do not possess life, they are inorganic, and formation is purely mechanical in general is split into two parts, the old world, and the new world. The old world, the mountain ranges overall run, from west to east, or southwest or northwest. Whereas in the new world mountain ranges run north and south; but the rivers flow to the east on the whole.

Earth owes its shape to fire that is why stratification and species of rocks is called volcanism. Water is the other vital principle creates and preserves a perennial activity. Earth does not produce itself; it is vivified and fructified process the chief subject matter of geognosy; the earth a meteorological or atmospheric process.

That history of earth lie buried the flora and fauna of a past, great depth, in huge stratification and in localities where species of animals and plants are now extinct. Earth is ground and basis of fertility and vitality. Water and Earth invade air into an atmospheric process, resolving water and earth into volatilize odors.

Earth, which owes its shape to fire that is why the stratification and species of rocks are called volcanism, ties together into a series of elements; air fire and water demonstrating changes inside the terrestrial earth.

The process is a manifestation of being the negative unity of elements, air, fire, and water.

In every chemical process there is the making of earth; we are a products of earth. Earth contains the Elements air, fire and water gathers them together into unity, into a thread of actions that earth maintains.

The elements air firewater Earth kindles into a development; bound together into an analog of life unites all material bodies together within it. Elements determine the seasons and time of day, periodic variations, and noticeably all electrical and magnetic fields. Whenever there is inner outer, cause and effect, and subjectivity and objectivity, there is life. Earth unites all these Elements together like a bouquet bounded together; this is the analog of life, and no member of nature can endure without this vital process.

The fou, Elements are they are as follows: air, fire, water, earth, the root of individuality, air is swayed by force, fire is the changeable being-for-self, whereas water is swayed by lunar and earth. Air is seemingly harmless but is really insidious and consuming over anything. Air behaves passive, like a transparent fluidity or more so, elastic freely moves and pervades everything.

Air itself does not come forward as real power to decompose things as a purely corrosive enemy of all things that is individual. This destruction is invisible, motionless and passive enters everywhere thus what is individual breaks up in air.

Also, air being compressible means different gases can occupy air, for example, take two balls, one is filled with air and the other with steam. Now the steam filled ball can be poured out into air filled ball and air can receive as much steam as if there were a void of air.

Everyone has power to break up air, it can be consumed Air not visible, motionless creeps softly along. The enemy of all that is individual enters everywhere without showing.

Earth is produced into life erupts at every point of land, lichens, and infusoris in the sea are countless host of phosphorescent life. Earth overcomets rigidity and unfolds into vitality, generating perpetually into an atmospheric process.

The way to explain air compression is by showing the finest apparatus for producing fire; the cylinder fitted with a piston, a disk and piece of dry flammable material placed at the bottom. When the disk forces air into the cylinder compresses it air gives off a spark, which sets fie of the material.

Fire is different from air. Fire is absolute restless consuming being-for-self exists on its own account. Fire the same as air is self-destructs destroys materials things, in destroying them also destroys itself. Thus, fire is a neutrality exists when in relation with material things, it consumes them and leaves them tasteless, odorless, indeterminate, and destitute. Ffire must have something to consume without materiality fire vanishes. Whereas color has a relation to light, odor is a process with air and taste keeps up a connection with water fire is the moment of smell.

The mechanical sphere of feeling is the principle of air, water, and every animal as a way of offer resistance to others. Thus feeling has consciousness, as self-consciousness directly shuts out other in a state of tension over against other but in such a way that the connection between the two appear a process in three fold, theoretical, practical and last the determinate of feeling reflection into self.

The fully accomplished mind is fine point ideally free form gravity, spontaneously mind determines place, and even possesses a voice, which displays feelings within. All images that dwell in mind are imprinted by feeling, knowledge, and truth.

Parmenides wrote, "Since the utmost limit of being is perfect, it resembles on every side the form of a well rounded sphere, which from its centre extends in all directions equally, for it can be neither larger or smaller in one part or another. There is no non-being which prevents it from attaining to the like.” (Arist. Phys. p. 27b; 31b)

From the standpoint of philosophy dialectic is a constructive deductive rational way of observing unchanging nature without hypothesis, going directly to the first principle truth. Come step into a world above opinion and examine the complex beauty of nature.

I did not intend to try to master all the various relationships or proportions that are now represented here. Gradually I accustomed myself to conceive more accurately Hegel’ dialectic philosophy. I am now well assured of the accuracy of them as of my own existence.

To the best of my ability I have listed everything that gives certainty and reason. Through uncertainty, doubt, contradiction, and toil, I examined and reexamined, sifted and compared until an inward voice proclaimed to me no possibility of doubt.

I was a lofty soul born in the mean city driven any way by impulse there were innumerable causes that tended to destroy my talent. In the first place strength, courage, temperance, every one of which praiseworthy qualities but also, destroyand distracts. Then there are all those goods of life, beauty, wealth, rank, and connections. You know that sort of thing?
They also have a corrupting and distracting effect.

I knew nothing accepted any old opinion given me until philosophy’s gentle hand came to my aid and lifted me up to knowledge.

Talent is that inner urge or more so inner need. for example how we fall asleep without setting out to so too the migration of birds. We sleep out of instinct; the same is true we wake to gather food.

Laboring anything into something has not only positive but becomes objective nothing becomes something other than through work. The process is twofold, risking self in pursuing talent, and the other labor. One must enter into labor to succeed in attaining and finding satisfaction without qualification and without reserve talent. First, must bring true certainty of self, second, labor our chain, that keeps us in bondage we can not get away from, but, in labor we succeed attaining and find satisfaction of talent.

Talent depends on the fact that we accept responsibility for the circumstances. That is to say, we know. There are inevitable consequences linked with every action. We cannot foresee the consequences —but we must be aware of the act, the universal nature.

Be willing to be active in pursuit of what interests you, or what should interest you, your own series of actions of a substantive nature then the same is true also of the individual's inner will.

I am in the company of reason and knowledge under their guidance is truth in the highest degree, which is attainable inasmuch as I follow which are natural to self, if that which is best for self is also most natural.

Life is a chemical process, every individual body is not only produced by chemical process, but is also destroyed by it. Earth holds together into unity air, fire, and water into a series of actions which earth maintains.

Chemical process because of its corporeality enters into indifferent products, rekindled by chemical process.

The element air produces different kinds of gasses; nitrogen, the abstractly non-essential gas, oxygen and hydrogen, one kindling and one activating are opposed forms of air, and carbonic acid gas, partly earth and partly gas.

Whereas the element fire is a intrinsically combustible substance such as earthy basis basically in sulphur, nitric acid, a highly corrosive and caustic acid with its various forms, hydrochloric acid, containing hydrogen and chlorine chemical combination as the aeriform basis, naphtha, the vegetable and animal oils, sulphuric acid, a corrosive fluid acid of the combustible earthy substance. Earthy acids are namely, carbonic acid, the abstract earthy, concrete arsenious acid, vegetable, animal, and formic acid, and all have the possibility of being combustible is the fire in earth.

Thales thought the element water was all-powerful sustainer of life. He believed God was water; there is even a science called Thalassography, that treats the sea, also, Thalassocracy the word means mastery of the sea.

Water is the element in calcareousness substance, which is an alkaline. Water exists as the neutral products of acids and alkali in the form of silica, clay, and talc is due to seawater.

Relativity is the essence its flux comes to light, reveal the transience of life. Come grasp the truth and you will have no difficulty seeing that there is a conscious universal end that dominates all actions, universally lifts us out of the life of chance and change, into universal world peace as citizens that are real and substantial in character.

The philosopher has tasted how sweet and blessed knowledge is, and has also seen enough of the craziness of the crowds; and knows that politicians there is no champion of justice at whose side they may fight and be saved.