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I think Hegelian might be pushing it a bit!

Rortabend,
Is an extremist contradicting for the sake of amusement; is your character. If educated rightly, you would be gentle and moderate. The harmonious mind is both temperate and courageous and the inharmonious not cowardly and boorish, and uncivilized, never using the weapon of persuasion, you don't seem to know no other way of dealing or have no sense of propriety and grace, always abusing and finding faulting with me.

BB

BB,

Barbara Brooks wrote:I always felt a grudge coming from you and wondered why. Actually I thought it was because I am a Hegelian. ...

I'm surprised!? As why did you think it was, as I'd already told you it was many posts back. But your feelings are getting in the way as its not a "grudge" but a difference.

...Now I know. I would like you to know I am truly sorry I had no idea I intruded on your post I just plopped on in without a thought . Artisticsolutio is right, I am so busy more interested in preserving the 'truths' I did not think of other's feelings.

If you'd hurt my feelings I'd have told you so, so no apology necessary.

...Please except my apology for I am fond of you, artisticsolution, mhoraine and others in this forum the last thing want to do is overstep my boundaries here. BB

Again, no apology necessary and as you know there are little boundaries here and I'm pretty sure that hurting others feelings is not one of them.

Barbara Brooks wrote:Godfree,

This is Arising_uk style he butts in jabs at you and leaves without explaining his jabs. But he leaves the reader thinking I am a problem.

BB

The thing that I was disappointed in was the whole quote was not used , putting it out of context somewhat,
If a tree falls on the desert I think was the start of the quote,
attempting to be what I thought was a little bit funny and clever at the same time . If nobody reads the posts did they make a sound .
I hate having to spell things out , it's a bit like a joke , they say if you have to explain it it wasn't worth saying in the first place.
I think Barbara you are indeed a unique individual ,as I am .
And most here , thats why we havn't taken over the world yet,
we are like a cat a solitary individual.

My apologies too literal most of the time.

I was unable to use the internet for a couple of days because my modem died on me . I think it was meant to happen it forced me to concentrate on getting a book proposal to send out. I am giving myself six weeks to finish . I'm now into my third week of writing and hope to have a 75 or more page book proposal complete.

Socrates believed writers are guilty of making the gravest misstatements when they tell us that wicked men are happy, and that the good are miserable; or that injustice is profitable especially when undetected, and that justice is gain loss. Homer being but a man, attributing these feelings to Achilles, or in believing that they are truly him, was guilty of downright impiety. The insolence to Apollo, third in descent from Zeus, was passions, meanness, not untainted by avarice, combined with overweening contempt of gods and men.

Anything moved by another, when ceasing to move ceases also to live. Socrates believed, only mind is the fountain and beginning of motion to all that moves. Mind is indestructible; for if mind were destroyed, there could be no beginning out from anything, nor anything out of a beginning.

All things must have a beginning, mind is the beginning; can neither be destroyed nor begotten.

The whole heaven all creations would collapse or stand still, and never again to move or begotten. self-moving is the very idea and essence of mind For anything that moves from without is mindless but that which is moves from within has mind.

In history there are a gallery of noble minds and heroes. If their purposes were merely a representation of their personalities then history would be a very tiresome study. Thus achieving demands in the first place a willing to give not superficial rhetoric but profound thought that exalts an infinitude of ideas of knowledge, truth, justice, courage, and temperance.
today what has preoccupied the culture into such disunity becomes a task of the philosopher to undo this disarray and reawaken world spirit.
It happened the Ionic times, people then were buried in a mad quagmire in such a way, duties, rights, all roamed unfettered. Knowledge is formed by a method a discipline that gave me a purpose and raised my knowledge little by little gradually to the highest point of my brief duration life will permit me to reach.

I've never thought myself to be in any better than anyone else actually wished I were equal to others, or at least have more clearness and distinctness , imagination and memory. In history there are a gallery of noble minds and heroes. Laboring anything into something is not objectified. The process is twofold self in pursuing purpose and labor. One must enter into labor to succeed must bring a true certainty of being, labor which is our chain that keeps us in bondage from which one can not get away from because in labor we succeed attainment and find purpose.

To seek after truth look coldly at mere opinion It causes dishonesty . This is no easy task but whether easy or not lays the difference between of human social development. Nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, the highest truth worthy of attaining is good that is the highest of all knowledge, that is when all other things become useful and advantageous.

Ethical consciousness destiny makes its appearance advances till truth is attained that absolute right is accomplished. The highest truths worthy of attaining the highest accuracy is good that is the highest knowledge all other things become useful and advantageous only by good. Tthe possession of all things is of any value if we possess good.

The generation of philosophers is the same as the generation of plants, or anything which there is generation. Are not all things that have opposites generated from opposites? I mean such things as just and unjust, good and evil and the innumerable other opposites which are generated out of opposites.

Philosophy made its home in Greece proper where the Phoenician philosopher Thales, the author of the Ionic sect born according to best calculation, the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C. resided his opposites his contemporary was Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos, founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism which is profoundly mystical in the area of cosmology

If Thales was born in the 35th Olympiad and Pythagoras was in the 43rd meaning Pythagoras was only twenty-one years younger then Thales.
There are not writings from Thales no one knows whether he was in the habit of writing but one of his maxims was "It is not the many words that have most meaning."

Thales, little is known Plutarch says a Thales principle was that water is everything that everything takes it origin from water. The Greeks had already considered sun, mountains, earth, sea, rivers as independent powers and were revered them as gods. But Thales called God the intelligence of the world believed water is everything, but God forms all that which is out of water.

Fairness is the law of human life imparts harmony is the most complete being. impatience unde distress , gives way to indolence, nothing is gained.

I refuse to be led away by the opinions of others, I must hold on to make my principle actual; no lamenting or remorse all that sort of feelings only arises from opinion.

Philosophy is nothing more than love of knowledge. This love is strong in one direction like a stream, which has been drawn off onto another channel. Love absorbed in the pleasure of wisdom if true lovers and not shams. From the earliest youth he philosophical mind loves knowledge of a sort that shows eternal not varying truth .

The majority and it is also unavoidable philosophers are not likely to be much esteemed.Even though philosophy the noblest and gracious must always strive after what is truth. People will change their dislike see philosophers as they really are, courageous, magnificent good memory they are natural gifts.

Socrates believed that until philosophers have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom in one and when people are compelled to stand aside, societies would never have rest from their evils.