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Topic: Why Martin Luther King Inspires So Many
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posted May 15, 2008 02:18 PM
He was an advocate for love.And ultimately, LOVE is FAR more POWERFUL than hate! IP: Logged |
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posted May 15, 2008 02:22 PM
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons close to us.Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty". Albert Einstein IP: Logged |
Mannu Knowflake Posts: 45 From: always here and no where Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 02:26 PM
Read all socialists with a grain of salt. Beware of socialism. Beware of anti-Ubermans LOL
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Mannu Knowflake Posts: 45 From: always here and no where Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 02:30 PM
MLK was inspired by Gandhi. A slow killer more dangerous than Stalin in my opinion.India would have remained poor a long time if it followed the worlds greatest socialist Mahatma gandhi and kept on producing clothes on cheap charkhas, than go for modern machineries. That is he would be responsible for not killing people directly like Stalin, but indirectly. Thank God Indians woke up to reality. He may be a good person at heart. But a bad economist.
India is on path of progress because it is awakening itself to dangers of socialism. Its leaders and people love democracy. They love freedom. You have to be stronger first before you start uplifting the poor. Otherwise its like a blind will lead another to pothole.
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posted May 15, 2008 02:36 PM
Inner happiness is not dependent on outer wealth.IP: Logged |
Mannu Knowflake Posts: 45 From: always here and no where Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 02:38 PM
Inner happiness can only be shared spontaneously. A naturally bloomed flower simply radiates its fragrance equally to every one. Ego is cunning, it wants you think that you are happy, ready to share your love. Ready to come out to the world and declare yourself a epitome of peace and love. Beware of such falsity. Its all from ego. You know its ego because very soon you fall in to depression again.
I have said this before, a enlighened one cannot be depressed. If you ever are depressed you are not enlightened. Geez - why I am discussing spirituality in a GU forum.
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posted May 15, 2008 02:40 PM
If the boot fits.IP: Logged |
Mannu Knowflake Posts: 45 From: always here and no where Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 02:42 PM
Aint no boot that fits all IP: Logged |
Mannu Knowflake Posts: 45 From: always here and no where Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 02:42 PM
If you listen too much to trees you are in danger of becoming a vegetable. Overgrow yourself LTT.
Forgot I was on mute LOL.
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posted May 15, 2008 02:46 PM
"You'll never be a vegetable- even artichokes have hearts".- From the film Amelie. IP: Logged |
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posted May 15, 2008 02:48 PM
The truth is simple.Love is the higher law. IP: Logged |
Mannu Knowflake Posts: 45 From: always here and no where Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 02:50 PM
Amelie must be your sista LOLI am going to have both of you for dinner. IP: Logged |
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posted May 15, 2008 02:52 PM
quote: I have said this before, a enlightened one cannot be depressed. If you ever are depressed you are not enlightened.
Even if that person is going through a divorce or loses someone close to them?Would you say you were "enlightened"? If so, then I suppose nothing would ever make you upset or angry, right? IP: Logged |
Mannu Knowflake Posts: 45 From: always here and no where Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 02:58 PM
>>>Even if that person is going through a divorce or loses someone close to them? Would you say you were "enlightened"?Yes. we must learn to differentiate between loneliness and aloneness. The latter is more good for the seeker. >>>If so, then I suppose nothing would ever make you upset or angry, right? Yes, they could not. IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross Newflake Posts: 0 From: Registered: Nov 2010
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posted May 15, 2008 03:00 PM
Mannu, I admire your willingness to take such a controversial position.
But I have to disagree with you about Gandhi. He encouraged the Indians to make their own clothes in response to oppression from the British. At the time that he proposed this method, it was to protest the overtaxation by the British. It did indeed have the effect he intended; the double effect of saving poor people money, and delivering an ecomonic blow to the government that sought to exploit the Indian people. The movement he pioneered and spearheaded led to Indian independence from British colonization. He was truly a Mahatma, a Great Soul. I dont think you will feel any better about yourself by looking for reasons to put-down a man like Gandhi. If you are reading Nietzsche, please, be careful. You would not be the first or the last to slide into a moral abyss. Nietzsche was a great artist and thinker, and he has his place. He took positions which were not necessarily his own, because his mission was to counter-balance an atmosphere of sterility. He claimed that he was actually serving morality by opposing it; that he was exercising the muscles of a complacent morality, by providing it with tests to oppose and overcome. It is said, "Every artist needs a nemesis." So, Nietzsche made himself the nemesis of morality. But even this was a justification on his part, to excuse the pathology that he suffered from, and to find a positive element in his own sickness. He did not have the will or the inclination to be humble, so he discovered a kind of virtue in arrogance. Although his ideas did help to prune and curb the excesses of a blindly submissive humility, they were excesses themselves. He is a truly compelling thinker and personality, and it is easy enough to fall under his sway, if you are not careful. He has a power to inspire and infuse us with enthusiasm, and a will to break free from the grip of stagnation. But he does not have the quiet, mature virtue of persistence. And he had far more passion inside him than compassion. Please, dont forget your heart. IP: Logged |
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posted May 15, 2008 03:02 PM
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Glaucus Moderator Posts: 5228 From: Sacramento,California Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 03:34 PM
Don't pay attention to Mannu. I lost complete respect for him after his condoning the arch-racist hate group Klu Klux Klan assassinating Barack ObamaI don't even take him seriously now because of his screwed morals and ethics. http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum16/HTML/004096.html ------------------ Stop The Misdiagnosing Of Neurodivergents http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-misdiagnosing-of-neurodivergents IP: Logged |
Mannu Knowflake Posts: 45 From: always here and no where Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 03:37 PM
>>>He was truly a Mahatma, a Great Soul. Sorry, he is the most cunning person here on earth.
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Mannu Knowflake Posts: 45 From: always here and no where Registered: Apr 2009
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posted May 15, 2008 03:39 PM
I thank God that Glaucus was not anywhere around the leaders and around the time when the declaration of independence was written.America would not have been where it stands today. IP: Logged |