Cogitations 116

The ‘intellectual’ is not deemed an intellectual because he is right, for many common men are right on a much more consistent basis than a number of men who are considered as being intellectuals. No, the ‘intellectual’ is regarded as being such because he appears ‘learned’ and has the ability to communicate his message in [...]

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Cogitations 115

Civilizations have been destroyed because of discontented people who embraced change, merely for the sake of change. This they did in the blind hope and reassurance of a mass movement, without really knowing or understanding just exactly how things would change. Discontents are prone to reject reality and firmly grasp onto anything else that merely [...]

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Cogitations 114

Use your mind to establish your heart against your own self will. Ultimately, your heart will rule your mind and order your thoughts. Your thoughts in turn will affect your heart. For we are in a continuing war within ourselves and against ourselves; otherwise, we enter a place where there is no battle within. And [...]

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Cogitations 113

Love hates True love not only seeks to impart, but to eliminate. Its labor is not only to give that which is good, but to take away that which is bad. It is a most humane act to rid a source of suffering and destroy a destructive force. Love hates evil. Mental space Wisely turn [...]

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Cogitations 112

Inversion The most “enlightened” of one generation are the fools of the next. Then again, in time some supposed fools will find their names among sages. Arrogance The fruit of arrogance only grows on the tree of ignorance. Value of values To the extent that one lacks morality he has failed to grasp the greatness [...]

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Cogitations 111

Wherever falsehoods are not tolerated truth will be suppressed. Otherwise there must be an infallible arbitrator to determine and certify what absolute truth is. There are no earthly arbitrators who possess absolute knowledge; but where there is the freedom to believe a lie, and the liberty to be a fool, the truth will survive and [...]

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Cogitations 110

Neither facts nor evidence are likely to produce an epiphany of truth in those  given to a false cause or belief. More often than not, for the ‘true believer,’ any confrontation with reality tends only to spawn new delusions or an expansion of existing ones. The end result is a more vehement denial of contradictions [...]

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Cogitations 109

Reason serves faith. And a sound faith exceeds reason for a foundation of morality. For reason seeks the fulfillment of needs, but faith goes beyond needs to hope and love. And while the bonds of reason rely on shared interests; the bond of faith is love. Whether of these two shall sustain change? Faith walks [...]

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Cogitations 108

The subjective mind begins the thought process with the answer before the question. It searches for affirmation rather than an engagement of truthful inquiry. Thus, all ensuing thoughts are predicated upon preconceptions to confirm a predetermination. There is therefore, a bias against anything, fact or theory, that would alter or contradict the foregone conclusion. The [...]

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Cogitations 107

Everyone is a legislator in his own heart, writing or striking down laws in his own conscience. On one hand are those who over legislate, placing impossible burdens upon themselves which tend to self oppression, bondage, guilt, failure, and misery. On the other hand, are those who reject moral principles to exercise an arbitrary law [...]

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