One of the prime goals of Surak's philosophy is to turn this everpresent reminder of the power of unbridled emotion into a reinforcement of the dedication to Logic. The Vulcan male is aware of the surging emotions of the pon farr not only within himself but also in
those around him. The inability to control emotion leads to a necessity to remove oneself from the mainstream of society for the duration of the condition. This is one reason Surak places such value on Privacy.
The high regard for privacy was not an innovation of Surak but dates from a much earlier time, when Vulcans discovered the literally painful effects of living together in large communities.
They then developed telepathic shields and it soon became the height of rudeness to force one's thoughts and feelings on another. Surak valued privacy for another and perhaps more important reason.
Quite naturally, an individual's highest regard is for himself. This is an ineradicable inheritance from bestial origins and transcends reason. The maintenance of self may be termed dignity. The right to inviolable privacy is essential to maintaining that dignity.
Under no circumstances is it justifiable to infringe upon the dignity of another living being. This attitude is perhaps the key to the Vulcan lack of a "sense of humor" in the human sense. Here we may also find the motivation for acts of compassion. In Vulcans,
such acts arise from the logical necessity to protect the dignity of others as one would one's own. To fail to act to relieve suffering is to fail to acknowledge that the other individual is as important to oneself as oneself, that is, to fail to accord dignity.
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People arguing that America wasn’t set up as a democracy 🤦♂️🤦♂️
These people do not read. They do not know about history. ‘America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument. A Constitutional Republic is the argument today. I am astounded by the idiocy.
Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.
The Constitution was meant to foster a complex form of majority rule, not enable minority rule.
The founding generation was deeply skeptical of what it called “pure” democracy and defended the American experiment as “wholly republican.” To take this as a rejection of democracy misses how the idea of government by the people, including both a democracy and a republic,
130,000 Kurds were displaced when Trump ABANDONED them.
60 civilians and more than 200 fighters were killed almost straight away.
The Kurds were holding 11,000 ISIS prisoners.
Pulling back U.S. troops allowed Turkey to slaughter the Kurds.
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that five ISIS militants had escaped from a prison outside of Qamishli.
950 ISIS-affiliated individuals escaped from a camp in Ain Eissa, near the Turkey-Syria border.
Trump played golf the Saturday and the Sunday of the abandonment.
U.S. forces were put in harm’s way.
U.S. Special Forces were “caught up in” Turkish artillery fire.
Hevrin Khalaf, the secretary general of the pro-Kurdish Future Syria Party, was killed along with eight others by Turkish militants. “She was taken out of her car during a
The term “Banana Republic” was coined because of America. It was a description of people living in chaos in Honduras under US imperialism and an economy dominated by a single export crop.
What we are seeing is that chaos come home to the US. The crop was reaped and sowed.
U.S. Marines invaded to support a coup on behalf of the fruit company now known as Dole.) Americans brought the chaos with them. This isn’t new. Ten years after the end of World War II, the Afro-Caribbean writer Aimé Césaire tried to take stock of the rise of fascism in Europe.
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I am going to write a thread which I will pin to my profile. You’ll see why that is a logical choice. Ten years ago on this day in 2011 I was diagnosed with high-functioning depression and anxiety. I had not been “right” for some time.
High-functioning depression is specific, because we can awake and go to work and do normal daily activities. The difference is that whilst we continue to go about normal daily activities, on particular days we may literally be screaming on the inside.
And we act. We act at being “normal” regular people. Acting at being ok. Yet you may be walking along a platform of the subway station and suddenly you just want to cry. Then you become aware of that and then try to hide it and then suddenly become very anxious of the whole
This is how I don’t fall asleep.
Thinking of particles and anti-particles and electrons being aware.
This is my life and reasons I sometimes don’t fall asleep.
Thinking of particles. 🤦♂️
I was thinking of the “double slit” experiment. Firing electrons at a wall through two vertical slits. With classical physics the observation pattern should have been two vertical lines, but it created an interference pattern, meaning it behaved like a wave. Which is fine with
particle wave duality. But they were not sure which slit they were going through, there were two. The next time they set up a measuring device. But this time they created two vertical lines, as we originally expected, the electrons behaved as particles and not waves, almost as