That it has any inherent meaning.
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What is life's greatest illusion?
What do you think is the greatest illusion in life?
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”
-James Baldwin
"We change ideas like neckties."
- E.M. Cioran
That it has any inherent meaning.
The Human Progress Group
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker - Mikhail Bakunin
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains - Karl Marx
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value - R. Buckminster Fuller
The important thing is not to be human but to be humane - Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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The self as anything other than the expression of that which is external to it.
Men vanish from earth leaving behind them the furrows they have ploughed. I see the furrow Lenin left sown with the unshatterable seed of a new life for mankind, and cast deep below the rolling tides of storm and lightning, mighty crops for the ages to reap.
~Helen Keller
To despise the enemy strategically is an elementary requirement for a revolutionary. Without the courage to despise the enemy and without daring to win, it will be simply impossible to make revolution and wage a people’s war, let alone to achieve victory. ~Lin Biao
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Religion, as it tries to give life meaning. Well, it did at first
Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir le genti.
Socialism resides entirely in the revolutionary negation of the capitalist ENTERPRISE, not in granting the enterprise to the factory workers.
- Bordiga
Innocence? I remembered that from Skyrim, but it actually makes sense.
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Free will!
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci
"If he did advocate revolutionary change, such advocacy could not, of course, receive constitutional protection, since it would be by definition anti-constitutional."
- J.A. MacGuigan in Roach v. Canada, 1994
That capitalism works.
Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.15
"There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen." - Lenin
For me, it's that any of this is important or relevant. This is not nihilism, it is the very fact that nothing has any intrinsic value, the fact that nothing is important, that all all things are so beautiful.
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”
-James Baldwin
"We change ideas like neckties."
- E.M. Cioran
Free space and linear time.
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Cleverness and originality.
The greatest illusion is that there aren't limits on human knowledge and ability to interpret the material world(ex. Nagel's argument of what its like to be a bat).
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The State rests on the slavery of labor. If labor becomes free, the State is lost. - Max Stirner
None of my prevailing tastes center in things that can be bought. I want nothing but unadulterated pleasures, and money poisons all. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau[/FONT]
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Re: What is life's greatest illusion?
Humanity. Humanity does not exist in the way the term is thrown around. Take a look around too close and you'll find we're no less apes than our chimp friends, as far as appearence goes. I hate this notion that the rest of the hominids are just some kind of "other" from which we are related in some way, as if it's some kind of small side fact you'd read out of some game's loading screen. Seriously... We are hominids. But I am being unfair I suppose, this notion of "humaaanity" is a recent development as a result of Bourgeois liberal humanist multiculturalism with a sprinkle of post 90s religious wipeass.
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[FONT="Courier New"] “We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Revolution and of the new order of life. ”
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لا شيء يمكن وقف محاكم التفتيش للثورة
Once, I went to get a vegetarian hotdog from the hot dog cart in front of the bus station in Toronto. The guy running the cart asked me if I was vegetarian, and I told him I was. He asked me if I smoked, and I told him I didn't. Then he told me, "You have passed life's greatest test." It was weird.
The life we have conferred upon these objects confronts us as something hostile and alien.
Formerly Virgin Molotov Cocktail (11/10/2004 - 21/08/2013)
Reincarnation for me, I do believe in reincarnation but I look at it as more recycling of energies and nothing religious or magical.
Innocence, my brother.
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Or half full martinis glass, why would you fail me like that alcohol, why?
Belief in all powerful magic beings (who just happen to male according to every monotheistic religion.)
Stalin got it wrong. A million deaths under socialism is an atrocity. A million deaths under capitalism is a statistic.
'Trotsky explained that a nationalised planned economy needs democracy as the human body needs oxygen.' Alan Woods in a summary of The Revolution Betrayed
This, but taken further to the point of the self as anything other than a linguistic phenomenon.
If we have no business with the construction of the future or with organizing it for all time, there can still be no doubt about the task confronting us at present: the ruthless criticism of the existing order, ruthless in that it will shrink neither from its own discoveries, nor from conflict with the powers that be.
- Karl Marx
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Religion. My opinion you live your life for something which I believe is not even real!
Mother Nature vs. Capitalism - Serj Tankian
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Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx
Since we haven't discovered or created other intelligent life, it seems to me that "humanity" can be defined as the largest possible social grouping, especially nowadays thanks to the increasing spread of communications technology.
That is, if humanity is being defined as something more than simply the sum total of H. sapiens...
The Human Progress Group
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker - Mikhail Bakunin
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains - Karl Marx
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value - R. Buckminster Fuller
The important thing is not to be human but to be humane - Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Check out my speculative fiction project: NOVA MUNDI
