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TaoHorror:
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on March 02, 2021, 12:20:02 am ---"Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives....Unmasking [of hidden motives] should stop as soon as one is confronted with what is authentic and genuine in man, e.g., man's desire for a life that is as meaningful as possible. If it does not stop then, the only thing the 'unmasking psychologist' really unmasks is his own 'hidden motive' -- namely, his unconscious need to debase and depreciate what is genuine, what is genuinely human, in man."
- Viktor Frankl
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This is a particularly good one, Sci :)
sciborg2:
--- Quote from: TaoHorror on March 02, 2021, 12:02:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on March 02, 2021, 12:20:02 am ---"Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary rationalization' of instinctual drives....Unmasking [of hidden motives] should stop as soon as one is confronted with what is authentic and genuine in man, e.g., man's desire for a life that is as meaningful as possible. If it does not stop then, the only thing the 'unmasking psychologist' really unmasks is his own 'hidden motive' -- namely, his unconscious need to debase and depreciate what is genuine, what is genuinely human, in man."
- Viktor Frankl
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This is a particularly good one, Sci :)
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Man's search for Meaning is def worth a read.
'Why talk about the "laws of nature" when what we mean is the characteristic behaviour of phenomena within certain limits at a given stage of development in a given epoch—so far as these can be ascertained?'
– A. N. Whitehead
Madness:
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on March 07, 2021, 07:57:54 pm ---Man's search for Meaning is def worth a read.
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Bakker readers should be Frankl readers... it seems axiomatic ;).
sciborg2:
--- Quote from: Madness on March 08, 2021, 07:24:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on March 07, 2021, 07:57:54 pm ---Man's search for Meaning is def worth a read.
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Bakker readers should be Frankl readers... it seems axiomatic ;).
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The Bakker Appendix N would be an interesting list...
"We have a new type of rule now. Not one-man rule, or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures and subject to political and economic factors that leave little room for decision.
They are representatives of abstract forces, who have reached power through surrender of self. The iron-willed dictator is a thing of past.
There will be no more Stalins, no more Hitlers.
The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident. Inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push."
-William S Burroughs
sciborg2:
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on March 13, 2021, 09:13:46 am ---
--- Quote from: Madness on March 08, 2021, 07:24:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on March 07, 2021, 07:57:54 pm ---Man's search for Meaning is def worth a read.
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Bakker readers should be Frankl readers... it seems axiomatic ;).
--- End quote ---
The Bakker Appendix N would be an interesting list...
"We have a new type of rule now. Not one-man rule, or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures and subject to political and economic factors that leave little room for decision.
They are representatives of abstract forces, who have reached power through surrender of self. The iron-willed dictator is a thing of past.
There will be no more Stalins, no more Hitlers.
The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident. Inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push."
-William S Burroughs
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From today onward
May I be willing
To live with chaos and confusion
And that of all other sentient beings
May I be willing
To share our mutual confusion
And work incessantly and humbly
To help and elevate everyone without exception
-Tibetan Prayer
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“Once, St. Teresa was amorously complaining to God in
prayer about her sufferings & trials. The Lord told her:
“Teresa, so do I treat My friends!” conveying the purificatory character of suffering.
But Teresa answered boldly: “That’s why you have so few (friends)”
-Raimon Panikkar
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