: Birth: Born on the island of Samos, off the coast of modern Turkey Migration: Emigrated to Croton in southern Italy at the age of 40 Death: Died in Metapontum, in modern-day Italy, around 500–490 BCE Immortality of Souls, Transmigration of souls,Geometric Perfection of Reality and Natural Numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1N3N4cgHaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgR6YrJDUR8
Category: Philosophy & Concepts
An answer to Jordan Peterson
Jordan stated on Oct 6 2024 "The purpose of life is finding the largest burden you can bear, and bearing it." My reply: "The way that the human body is made, it functions at optimum in the "Care Deeply, but don't Carry" mode." Anything else is based on religion in one form or another. (You… Continue reading An answer to Jordan Peterson
Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Aristotle
Notes on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
imhoRegarding Socrates, his limitations were the concepts around him, and it seems he worked at breaking out of those limitations.Plato, saw mathematics and geometry as the ultimate, and made his whole worldview subject to it...................I am saying that Awareness, Deep Nature, present living examples of how "DNA" works, where there is a base "stemcell" form… Continue reading Notes on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
What happened to rational thinking in the 21st century?
i want to start out making a simple statement.... probably too simple...and then i am going to move forward with critiquing that statement and see if my premise was right. "With the post-modern concept that there is no such thing as objective reality, the controls of being able to state a fact that we can… Continue reading What happened to rational thinking in the 21st century?
Spinoza – A complete Guide to Life
Assumptions – 1
So, in the 1980's, I was studying earth history in university. As i was raised in a literalist Christian setting, it became quickly obvious to me, how there were two positions on the age of the earth. My upbringing said "the Bible says the earth is 6000 to 7000 years old, because the bible says… Continue reading Assumptions – 1
Epicurean Paradox
A Window into how the Chinese think – Society based on li – li mao de li [politeness and etiquette]
Anyone who is interested in how the Chinese think, this is very worth the (long) read. 🙂 Except: "What I want to conclude with is to say that as the I Ching [Book of Changes, an ancient Chinese divination text] teaches us, there are cycles within cycles. China may be on the way up today.… Continue reading A Window into how the Chinese think – Society based on li – li mao de li [politeness and etiquette]
Reality is Dharma 