Non-Fiction
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“Someone will believe that someone else cannot be prejudiced. Isn’t that to say that this other person is omniscient? Isn’t prejudice just the fear of the unknown, as to know all people, or to be omniscient, would mean to see no differences, and see only similarities?” Modern Romanticism Human beings cope with the idea of
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“When choice is a factor for being itself, as the place of knowing it was one thing or another, then what wasn’t chosen is what might or might not be the correct decision, according to another factor, being responsibility. For if we are able to choose, then we are able to be free. However, if
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“The creation of art is just as it is, before destroyed. When it is destroyed, the destruction is not another creation because creation cannot follow a domino effect without it becoming mass production. A routine, according to a domino effect, is therefore not creative. Creativity is spontaneous inspiration, the effect of lust, or the willingness
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“The interpreted insult could come back in being redirected into something different, soon interpreted into a correction made by the insulter.” – Modern Romanticism Why take offense at the insult if all is subjective, or if all is relative? The relativist notion, if to take Einstein’s theory through the metaphorical light, could mean that the
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A divided nation is born out of the one without heart, being the leader to such a realm. As such, no leadership through example can be the governance. When it is example that leads all others to what was first made for the self, then it becomes possible for others to follow. Then, it becomes
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Part One – Human Nature I To Define Order It is order that encompasses what does not, or should not, divide. A responsible person will understand order, since to divide oneself from it is forsaking what it means to earn freedom. To earn freedom is to be ordered of the self, then in comprehension that
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“Escapism is the retreat from truth.” – Modern Romanticism To run towards where one can be blissful, will be far from what hurts. Though, what hurts, is truthful. And, what we avoid, are always among the most powerful of emotions. Complexities, that we do not wish to conquer. In the bliss for how Heaven can
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“Be in charge of yourself, of your emotions.” “Don’t lose control of yourself, or of what is attached to you being of your personal relationships.” “Recognize that what is attached to you is also how you protect yourself.” “You comprehend the ‘cyclical selfishness’ that to protect all attachments, means also to protect yourself. In doing
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“Know always that the face that never even is truthful with the self can spread upon the grieving fellow the coat of sugar that reveals only the deception he’s believed in.” – Modern Romanticism Nothing is as kind as deception. It is what we mistake, of the politician, for compassion. We refuse in the attempt
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“Protection is a sign of preserving intelligence, while bodies can be dispensed. For what is the difference between two models of differing appearance, and two wounded men on the battlefield whose severity of injury is also differed?” – Modern Romanticism If intelligence can be saved, then we have no need for seeing difference of forms
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“Depression is not a cue for productivity. Nor is grief the cue for a need to neglect the immediate sensations. We discover something so pure, as the positive emotions, only when everything we currently feel can be converted over to inspiration.” – Modern Romanticism If research tells us that both positive and negative emotions can
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“Those people who firmly believe a nation’s leadership should protect its citizen’s rights, are the same fools who have handed them over.” – Modern Romanticism If life is seen as temporary, then it’s not the same as love being of eternity. This must mean that a person’s right to live, is indeed such, though a
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