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“God - A mystery, a great difficulty for us to define. Nevertheless we agree, the truly highest possible state of being. Perspective - To see. Humble - Seeing how the chemical rush we feel in our bodies [almost urging us to feel great or proud] is completely unfounded if God is also in the room. If we are greater than someone, it is only by a very small amount. But, we have a tendency of allowing a single drop of water to soak us in full. It may be true that chimps differ from us only by a miniscule percent, though it's worth noting that each difference as meassured within percent can be very unequal. Great value can spring from small contributions as meassured in size or otherwise. It can be healthy to always compare ourselves to God, before comparing ourselves to others. As the Sun to the Earth, before the Earth to the Moon. Standing firm.”

PhilosophyPeaceSeeingGreatnessPerspectiveValueComparisonPrimitiveDifferenceCoexistance
Author:Tharistw
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“The most obvious fact about war today is that while everyone claims to hate it, and all are unanimously agreed that it is our greatest single evil, there is little significant resistance to it except on the part of small minorities who, by the very fact of their protest, are dismissed as eccentric...War represents a vice that mankind would like to get rid of but which it cannot do without. Man is like an alcoholic who knowns that drink will destroy him but who always has a reason for drinking. So with war. And the best, most obvious, most incontrovertible reason for war is of course "peace."... It should be clear from this that war is, in fact, totally irrational, and that it proceeds to its violent ritual with the chanting of perfect nonsense. Yet men not only accept this, they even go so far as to sacrifice their lives and their human dignity and to commit the most hideous atrocities, convinced that in so doing they are being noble, honest, self-sacrificing, and just.”

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Book:Love and Living
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