The Collapse of New Atheism and the Rise of Godless Culture.
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On getting paid to play
Photography: Giorgio Trovato
A little Brief:
Any man can get paid to “work.”
Few men get paid to Play.
The only question that remains is, What sort of thing can a man play that provides more value to another, than “work?”
If a man becomes Indispensable, he plays.
In fact, it is his very nature of play that makes him indispensable.
The entire framework of this society rests upon the idea of “work.”
Jobs, employment, wages, applications . . .
Human beings have been sold into slavery.
Their minds have been programmed toward mediocrity.
Man has been made into a slave, placed into an arena with digital screens and nightclubs so that he remains distracted enough to never gain the motivation to pull himself out of slavery.
When you leave your house, feel the tilt of the pavement, the slight grade of the earth. You will find that it is tilted downward.
If I must be honest, it is beyond my control. For there have been numerous occasions where I myself have sat back in surprise.
$500,000 in income, vanished. By way of a text.
$1,000,000 in income, gone. By way of an email.
We are who we are.
How to create an on and off button for your mind
Photography: Wiki Common
A little Brief:
Journal more
Meditate daily
Turn devices off at a certain time
Never compare yourself to others
Use a 1-Minute mediation as your switch
Instead, Be more mindful of your mental energy and use it for things that actually matter to you. Just anything that enriches your life.
Achieving Nirvana
Photograph: Bibek Raj Shrestha
Nirvana is a place of perfect peace and happiness, like heaven. In Hinduism and Buddhism, nirvana is the highest state that someone can attain, a state of enlightenment, meaning a person’s individual desires and suffering go away.
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.”
Four Noble Truths:
1. Life is suffering
2. Suffering is caused by craving and aversion.
3. Suffering can be overcome and happiness can be achieved.
4. The Noble 8-fold Path is the path that leads to the end of suffering.
Eightfold Path of Buddhism teaches the following ideals for mental disciple and achieving wisdom:
Right understanding
Right thought
Right speech
Right action
Right livelihood
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Right concentration
The Collapse of New Atheism and the Rise of Godless Culture
Photography: Wiki Media
“New atheism” is hardly an improvement since there’s no significant, philosophical difference between the contents of old and new atheism. The only reason for that division is to mark the historical fact that atheists rose in outrage over 9/11, using that disaster as an opportunity to spread the word that authentic theistic religiosity — the kind that’s anachronistic in the modern world — is dangerously preposterous
“Old” atheists such as David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Jean-Paul Sartre had no such fear of exploring what you’d likely have to defend as replacements for the ancient religious traditions. So new atheism was shallow by comparison in that the business of selling the movement to consumer cultures overtook the more foundational, philosophical aim of recognizing the appalling burdens placed on us all due to what Nietzsche famously and prophetically called “the death of God.”
The secular world we have is that of consumerism — which shows every indication of being short-lived. Most consumers are complacent. We live in dream worlds to make us happy, oblivious both to the implications of nature’s godlessness and to the humanistic aims of progressive civilizations. Zealously, we rush to disfigure nature without recalling our existential obligation to keep the resistance going, to sustain our artificial worlds over the long haul. We’re not on course to fulfilling the visions of hopeful science fiction authors. Our postindustrial ambitions are reactionary and infantile, not inspired by philosophical enlightenment.
What nature can teach us about restoring trust in ourselves.
Photography: Takahiro taguchi
As humans, there is a strange obsession with defining and reaching life milestones — the Internet is full of articles like “30 Things To Do Before You’re 30” or “What You Should Have Accomplished by 50”. An unspoken code weaved into society, as if we all run on an algorithm and if we fail to oblige we are a flawed bug in the system.
What’s curious about these four elements is that they all blossom during the springtime, but at different times during the season. The plum trees are usually faster, reaching their peak blossom from February, where then the apricot and peach trees follow around early March, and lastly the sakura trees around April. Yet none of these blossoming seasons outlast another — they each have their own peak. Each is wonderful.
Oubaitori is an old Japanese saying about understanding that we each move at our own pace. Like how there is no need to compare the plum tree to the sakura tree, it is much more fruitful to focus on growing oneself, at the pace one needs. For people are not to-do lists nor listicles, but we are stories.
You are not behind.
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