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rep (R) Fitzpatrick Nearly Sparks US–Russia War
https://english.pravda.ru/world/162155-congressman-fitzpatrick-ukraine/
https://english.pravda.ru/world/162155-congressman-fitzpatrick-ukraine/ #Russia #Donetsk #Luhansk #Odessa #Crimea
#Reason long gone buried by metaphysics and capitalist interests
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of #reason, and whose #philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an #atheist by #scripture.
—Thomas Paine
“Once a public accepts the comfort of #conspiracythinking as an explanation for #irrational #fears and #resentments, its members will cease to be guided by #reason in #political deliberations.” - #JasonStanley, How #Fascism Works: The #Politics of Us and Them #conspiracytheories
@lemonde Isn't it about time the real #reason behind the #war in #Ukraine? The giant, #top-secret #underground #American #military #base conveniently built near #Ukraine’s old #army #complex. The one loaded with #directed #energy #weapons, #acoustic #cannons, and enough tech to #mess with #Kremlin — and pretty much all of #Northern #Europe. And let’s face it, even the #Pope isn’t hiding it anymore, now that the #Church's #spiritual #power has gone #offline like a #Vatican Wi-Fi outage 
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Faith is the excuse people give for #believing something when they don’t have a good #reason.
—Matt Dillahunty
Why? Because. The most terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts — Because.
[Pourquoi ? Parce que. Le plus terrible des motifs et la plus indiscutable des réponses: Parce que.]
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76086/
#Logic #Reason #Ontology #Geopolitics #Philosophy
Why to people do it? That is, set up a stalkiing horse in order to break it down. That is absolutely no 'proof' of anything except your narcisstic tendancy to virtue signal. Please stop it. Think twice, post rarely. 
#Hollywood HATES The #Crow..And The #Reason Is #WEIRDER Than You Think by Zaffy #yt
The crimes of the century were the result of a faith in final solutions, and hence the failure to be reconciled to the limits of human reason and to the inevitability of loss and error.
-- Isaiah Berlin
#Wisdom #Quotes #IsaiahBerlin #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Reason
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
[Τὴν ὑποληπτικὴν δύναμιν σέβε. ἐν ταύτῃ τὸ πᾶν, ἵνα ὑπόληψις τῷ ἡγεμονικῷ σου μηκέτι ἐγγένηται ἀνακόλουθος τῇ φύσει καὶ τῇ τοῦ λογικοῦ ζῴου κατασκευῇ]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 3, ch. 9 (3.9) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier (1701)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2665…
@web_goddess #Thanks4posting #Reason to be cautious with #url_shorteners #BigOrg usually has scant regard for the #Small
Over & over again I am reminded that my memory does not provide reliable evidence on its own. It always needs corroboration. Novelist Julian Barnes riffs on that idea here, & its consequences for changing one's mind.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/16/we-remember-as-true-things-that-never-even-happened-julian-barnes-on-memory-and-changing-his-mind
‘Beckett Briefs,’ with F. Murray Abraham, streams in the nick of time. https://www.byteseu.com/834194/ #Abraham #actor #beckett #Entertainment #EssentialQuestion #F.MurrayAbraham #IrishRep #JamesJoyce #krapp #LastTape #man #realism #reason #ShortPlay #time #YoungSelf
In #Reason We Trust
For many of us in the #rationalist and #humanist community, the focus on how we define ourselves often falls on the difference between developing and upholding the #rationalmind versus #religious tendencies towards bias or inference. This does not mean #freethinkers are not impacted by our own #biases and inferences– we accept them and are aware of them.
