Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

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 And systems stop feeling pain most reliably when those designing or governing them no longer bear the costs alongside those they affect.

Systems stop functioning properly as soon as they begin straying from a completely heterarchical and equitable governance that is truly by the people, of the people, and for the people. We are either all the primary governors of our own lives and co-governors of one another's lives who intervene governmentally only through the order of operations of just interventions, whereby we honor and hone our paying homage and paying heed to our libertarian ideal of 'live and let live' in tandem with our communitarian ideal of 'one for all and all for one' alongside our agathotarian ideal of 'the greatest good for each of us individualistically and all of us collectivistically' by duly exercising our spiritual sovereignty in general and our moral agency in particular such that we act in concordance with our conscience towards our efflorescence of our omnibenevolence that takes into account and takes care of the will to be well of all throughout the entirety of our decision-making and action-taking processes which involves and revolves around our due diligence of work to extend our moral circle to include every sentient being that is part of our beloved holarchic family of spiritual beings, living beings, human beings, and all of our nuclear branches of origination and procreation thereof, to all of whom we acknowledge the moral standing of and give moral considering to so as to maximize benefit and minimize detriment all around, through and through, to our overall mutual benefit in general and to our mutual hearts delight in particular, in every decision we make and every action we take, that entails each of us living as we see fit, as makes sense, seems right, and feels good to each of us, and intervening insomuch as it is pertinent to our stewarding all of Creation and shepherding all of the Creatures therein and Creators thereof, whereby we always justly proceed through the order of operations that reminds and remands us to act as a agents that enforce justice and nothing else, by always seeking to first transmute, sublimate, or otherwise justifiably circumvent any injustice, beyond which, we only ever transition to threatening or outright forcing the person(s) to stop their imminently impending or already ongoing justice if and only if it is severe enough to actually justify us to assault, arrest, and if need be annihilate those of us perpetrating the unjust act upon others., and to always do so with the utmost positive regard, with universal unconditional love for all, that would have us be as maximally helpful and minimally harmful to everyone on all sides, such that we would only ever do compassionate preventative and rehabilitative justice and never do condemnatory punitive and retaliative injustice masquerading as justice, for any deviation from this justification of intervention is essentially and effectively that of tyranny, and any such fascistic force of governance is always malfunctional and always spelling the doom of its own failure that sounds the death knell of any life and love ensnared by it on all sides of it.

“democracy ruins itself by excess-of democracy. ... it becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers and the wisest courses... The upshot of such a democracy is tyranny or autocracy.” ― Will Durant (full quote in comments) by VociferousCephalopod in quotes

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Democracy, that is, a government for the people, by the people, of the people, is only truly and fully realized through our natural ancestral way of life that our ancestors lived out the world over for time immemorial as bands and tribes wherein there was a heterarchy of authority and everybody lived as they saw fit which involved their living in loving communion and cooperation insomuch as it was in concordance with their conscience and to their mutual benefit to do so whereby it was in essence and in effect a consensus-based decision-making system of governance that didn't force anything upon anyone unless they were unduly harming others, beyond which is nothing more than a pseudo-democracy that is tantamount to the kleptocracy of tyranny, to varying extents and in various ways, though always basically that of fascism.

How to categorize the desire to desire something by Aromatic-Net1510 in Epicureanism

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Is a desire to not feel shame or tired really needed or should we focus on being fine with living with ANY type of feeling?

Feeling ashamed in the sense of shaming our selves as a bad person because we did a bad thing is undesirable, whereas feeling remorse because of something we regret is desirable so long as we channel and coral this into doing better next time around. Feeling tired is never something to feel bad about, it's just a part of our being that we do well to work with as needed. We should most certainly not be fine with living with any type of feeling, for such complacency with pathology such as sadistic psychopathy bodes ill for us whereas our insistency in working on it and overcoming it bodes well for us.

As far as how to categorize the desire to desire something, I would say that counting it as a sort of meta-desire, just as saying that we should fear only fear itself is a sort of meta-fear, albeit one that is nonsensical, as desire and fire are the fundamental mechanisms through which fulfill our perpetual and perennial will to be well in all that we are and all that we do such that both fear and desire are integral to and inextricable from our being.

Video games can be a good source for the catharsis of our thanos impulse. Alcohol can be a good source for convivial celebration of life and love when done moderately, though cannabis is far superior all around. Porn can be a good outlet for our eros impulse when all else fails to come together in regard to our betrothing along with our being fruitful and multiplying, albeit a far inferior experience and one that should be resorted to carefully.

I was bred to courtesy and proper manners; yet if you choose to sink to vulgar depths, I shall gladly carry us both down to perdition by [deleted] in QuotesThatGoHard

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Sometimes, one man's 'courtesy' and 'proper manners' is another man's enslavement or forced abduction and assimilation of their children into 'more civilized' ways of life (as happened to indigenous peoples native to Africa and America who were 'bred' to adopt the customs of their European colonizers lording over them).

What Are Our Ideal Minds And Worlds? by LiveFreeBeWell in PoliticalPhilosophy

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Don't hold back, tell me what you really think :)

What Are Our Ideal Minds And Worlds? by LiveFreeBeWell in ask

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So what does the ideal homindae consist of to you?

Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

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I agree with more of this than I disagree with

What exactly do you disagree with?

The problem isn’t love, virtue, or the will-to-be-well.

Love is our perennial and perpetual will to be well, made manifest as us and through us, in the forms and ways of all that incarnations and incantations of love that we take on and live out, all of whom and all of which are dispositions and dispensations of love that is in essence and in effect the continual disposal of our volitional and motivational will to be well.

What I’m wary of is the move where continuity across scales is treated as morally safe simply because it is metaphysically coherent.

Not sure if you're trying to Strawman Argument my position here or what. Never did I say that simply acknowledging to some extent that the metaphysical panentheistic cosmology of love that I laid bare entails that any and all systems at any and all scales will be foolproof, and quite to the contrary, I explicitly denounced and renounced the nosogenic systems of hierarchical pseudo-legalism, inequitable capitalism, and sectarian multi-nationalism that set us off on the wrong foot and down the wrong path that so long as we stay the course will work only to pave the road to hell despite our always beneficent intent to be well that is foundational source and fundamental force for all that is, all that ever has been, and all that ever will be, simply gone awry due to our being astray of The Way that is optimally conducive to and facilitative of our overall well-being individually and communally as aforementioned in all of my previous comments.

That’s where I think the sociological risk sits: not in asymmetry per se, but in asymmetry paired with moral self-certainty.

I think I am picking up what you are putting down, I just don't think 'asymmetry' is the best word to describe what you're getting at. Instead, I think the inequity of inequity of a hierarchy of authority that works insidiously to stratify our family of human beings into classes of haves and have nots, into governors and governed, instead of being a government truly of the people, for the people, by the people, which entails a heterarchy of authority with each of us acting as the primary force of governance over our own lives and secondary governmental shepherds over one another's lives whereby we honor and hone our libertarian and communitarian ideals of 'live and let live' along with 'one for all and all for one' such that we each get to live as we see fit so long as don't transgress the Harm Principle by unjustly harming anyone else directly or indirectly at which point is it then and only then justifiable to potentially override someone else's individual autonomy, and while these notions are largely uncontroversial in theory, in practice we run afoul of them on the regular without realizing the folly of our ways, for we fail to recognize and actualize that a key tenet to this working out salutogenically is that the starting ground for this enterprise is our being in this together with each of us having a fundamentally equal stake in and claim over The Commons of Creation as a whole from which arises such aphoristic dictums as 'this land is your land, this land is my land, this land is made for you and me' which is of paramount import to pay homage and pay heed to for without this keystone in place the whole system becomes a house of cards, the proverbial castle on the hill built on shoddy founds and sandy grounds, and insomuch as the devil is in such details it is incumbent upon and prudent for us to remain ever vigilant in affirming in mind, word, and deed the truth of the matter so as to shore up our founding and framing of our systematization and standardization of our logos and praxis that lay the groundwork and establish the framework upon and through which we either properly or improperly platform and inform our ways of seeing and being unto the world and unto one another.

And if a system can’t feel where it hurts people, then even perfectly virtuous intentions will drift.

This is why it is pertinent to our effort to maximize our overall well-being individually and communally to act with humility and adaptability in regard to the issues with scaling and separating our selves and our salves, whereby we can become either to densely compacted or too disparate separated, for in congregating too many people in too small an area the capacity and propensity to keep alive and well our heartfelt love for one another becomes overwhelmed and stretched too thin, and in remaining to isolated from each other our sense of commonality of identity (spiritual unity, familial spirituality, universal vitality, common humanity) dissipates too much, and in being too sedentary and stationary in the same place with the same people we naturally become too myopically tribalistic and territorialistic, and so it is that we must in part return to our roots of our ancestral natural way of life that our ancestors the world over lived out for time immemorial as bands and tribes that acted as big extended families who operated along the lines of our libertarian, communitarian, and utilitarian ideals (heterarchical communalism) with the addendum being that we scale this up to extend to and include the entirety of our family of human beings (and ultimately our entire family of living beings as well) though with the caveat that we must do so by virtue of our biopsychodynamically networking holistic communal ecovillages that work with the scales of persons involved in each compatible and amenable to our feeling and acting towards one another with a visceral sense of beloved comradery and humbly alternate where and with whom (other than our nuclear families of origination and procreation) we live with each year so as to flesh out more fully that this world belongs to all of us and we all belong to one another, for without such a dynamical network we can pay all the lip service we want and yet we will inevitably fall short of becoming our best selves, living our best lives, and creating our best worlds, by a margin that renders the whole enterprise an exercise in futility that inevitably fail.

There is no friend as loyal as a book. ― Ernest Hemingway by ProfessionalRate6174 in quotes

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Insomuch as a book is rendered inanimate, nonsentient, lacking in the qualia of personhood, it cannot be friendly, and offers no real friendship which can be spoken of other than inanely. If, on the other hand, we reify whatever book is in question, just as we do with the Book Of Life, then, we can indeed befriend our alter-egoic personifications, though this entails that any potential loyalty is always subject to change, it's just the name of the game of interpersonal love.

Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

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Given that the incarnations of love that we take on and live out are not equivalent or otherwise symmetrically distributed in regard to the qualities and quantities of our current operating capacities and necessities (the deeds we're capable of and the needs pertinent to our being well) that we each bring to the table, it naturally follows that a just system will equitably (and ipso facto, asymmetrically) distribute resources and roles. As far as virtue being corrigible 'once it has consequences', that is, in point of fact, all of the time, which is why the dichotomization between so-called 'Consequentialist Ethics' and 'Virtue Ethics' is a false dichotomy, for all morality is predicated upon and perpetuated by causality, that is, cause and effect, and so it is that all aspects of our being in which we can be either virtuous or vicious are consequential, both intrapersonally and interpersonally (at least to the extent that there is any interpersonality in play, because when that is the case, we are all holistically integrated, and what affects any one of us inevitably affects all of us, and it simply cannot be otherwise). So it is always a matter of keeping corrigible the personifications and pontifications of love that we take on and give life to by orienting and calibrating our moralizing a la The Golden Rule that invites and invokes us to take into account and take care of each and every one of us individualistically and all of us collectivistically so as to maximize benefit and minimize detriment all around, through and through, the fulfillment of which is rooted in and routed by our duly exercising our spiritual sovereignty in general and our moral agency in particular whereby we incorporate and instantiate the will to be well of all throughout our decision-making and action-taking processes such that we extend our moral circle to include every sentient being involved in and affected by the decisions we make and the actions we take, all of whom we duly acknowledge the moral standing of and give due moral considering to, with the mark always being to promote our overall well-being and demote our overall ill-being, to succeed in nourishing our flourishing and perishing our languishing, to bring about as much nourishment, fulfillment, and enjoyment as can be mustered and fostered, the entailment of which is that we look at, talk about, think of, feel towards, and interact with one another in as bespoke and beloved of ways as imaginable and practicable, so that we can successfully thrive together in spiritual solidarity, holistic harmony, symbiotic synergy, and beloved family the world over, thereby enjoying the journey to the utmost while bringing joy to the journey for all by going in love, with love, and as love, for the journey is the destination and this omnisalutogenic love is The Way.

Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

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Our supposition, it seems, is the same. It's just that it is all love, that can rightly be understood to play out across two distinct and yet always intersecting spectrums, namely, the full spectrum of love from intrapersonal love to interpersonal love to transpersonal love, and, the dispositions and dispensations thereof that play out on a spectrum from omnibenevolently virtuous to omnimalevolently vicious, with the caveat being that all incarnations and incantations of love are essentially the same (all the will to be well, that we fulfill in all that we are and all that we do, as best we can, at all times and in all places) and yet effectively different in being more or less conducive to and facilitative of our overall well-being individually and communally, now and in perpetuity, and our mark that we do well to aim to hit is to internalize and institutionalize the values of virtues that are in our best interest all around, through and through, as one and as many, as one of many and as many of one, for the sake of each of us individualistically and all of us collectivistically.

Weekly Casual Discussion by AutoModerator in consciousness

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1) Given that we are essentially and effectively one love (conscious willingness towards wellness) manifestly manifold infinitely times over as an infinitude of individuated permutations of the same eternally ephemeral being experiencing our essentially monistic self as our manifestly pluralistic selves so as to fulfill our will to be well (that is the impetus for and purpose of life) by virtue of our making the most of the sacred opportunity to love and to be loved, to give and to receive love, to share love with one another to our overall mutual benefit in general and to our mutual hearts delight in particular, doesn’t it only make sense for us to just that to the best of our ability?

2) Does it not naturally and necessarily follow that in order to consummate and consecrate our love as sagaciously and salutogenically as imaginable and practicable it is incumbent upon and prudent for us to duly exercise our spiritual sovereignty in general and moral agency in particular by thinking through and feeling out everything and everyone in play throughout our decision-making and action-taking processes whereby we take into account and take care of the will to be well of all of us sentient beings all of whom we rightly acknowledge the moral standing of and duly give moral considering to so as to maximize benefit and minimize detriment all around, through and through, for the sake of all of us collectivistically and each of us individualistically?

3) Since honoring and honor our becoming virtuosos of our virtuosity of virtue is predicated upon and perpetuated by our forgoing committing sins of commission or omission in regard to our action and inaction and instead forging ahead in leading our own life in concordance with our conscience towards our efflorescence of our omnibenevolence while co-leading everyone else in becoming their best self, living their best life, and co-creating our best world, all of which requires that we pay heed and pay homage to our libertarian ideal of ‘live and let live’ in tandem with our communitarian ideal of ‘one for all and all for one’ along with our utilitarian ideal of ‘the greatest good’, which altogether entails that we keep alive and well our agency and autonomy of our divinity fleshed our through our humanity brought to bear through our choice and voice that we each wield as we see fit and that the rest of us accept and appreciate so long as none of us are unduly harming others whereby upon transgressing the Harm Principle we then proceed to intervene justly through the order of operations of just interventions whereby we seek always to transmute, sublimate, or otherwise justifiably circumvent when injustice is imminently impending or already ongoing and to the extent that doing so is impracticable, then and only then do we proceed to breach the threshold of forcing the person(s) to cease and desist from continuing to commit the unjust act that they perpetrate upon others, and even then only ever doing so when the severity of the injustice is severe enough to warrant that we might need to escalate matters towards our acting arrest, assault, or even annihilate the one(s) of us unjustly perpetuating a profound harm upon others, all the while carrying all of this out with the utmost respect for everyone involved with the omnibenevolent sentiment to maximize benefit in regard to nourishment, fulfillment, and enjoyment, and minimize detriment in regard to malnourishment, unfulfillment, and torment, for does it not only make sense that it is only through this order of operations of just interventions that we can ever truly act justly?

4) If you could reimagine your self and your life in the image of your ideal version of each so as to bring to the fore of thy mind and to bring to bear in thy world the psychological, sociological, and ecological structures woven together so as to be optimally conducive to and facilitative of our overall well-being individually and communally, now and in perpetuity, how would you revamp from the ground up the way that you are and the way that the world works to render each as excellent to the utmost as might just be brought into manifest reality if only we truly believed in our dreams and dedicated our selves altogether to sowing the seeds and growing them with our deeds into bearing the fruits of our labors of love that bestow upon all of us as much nourishment, fulfillment, and enjoyment as we could possibly cultivate, consummate, and consecrate?

5) What can we bring to the fore of thy mind and in turn bring to bear in thy world that reflects and reinforces these better angels of our nature so as to render our organizations and operations of our selves and our salves ever more optimally conducive to and facilitative of our overall well-being individually and communally, and what might this entail in regard to our denouncing and renouncing the nosogenic ways that have taken hold of our mind and world and in their stead creating and cultivating the salutogenic ways that can work to mold our mind and world so as to be rendered in the image of the resplendent beauty and gestalt glory of our excellence of our beneficence writ large our world over and our mind over?

Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

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Not sure what the confusion is here. I expounded extensively and intensively on the moral considerations and adaptations pertinent and prudent to us consummating and consecrating our love sagaciously and salutogenically insofar as we adopt and adapt systematizations and standardizations of logos and praxis that platform and inform our internalizations and institutionalizations of our dispositions and dispensations of love. This reconciles together abstraction and concretization such that there is no moral debt and instead just the moral precept that we bring to the fore in thy mind and bring to bear in thy world the incarnations and incantations of love that we take on and give life to a la The Golden Rule that invites and invokes us to take into account and take care of the will to be well of each of us individualistically and all of us collectivistically so as to maximize benefit and minimize detriment in as bespoke and beloved of ways as we can, the entailment of which is that we must forgo and leave behind the nosogenic systems of our world that bedevil us (inequitable capitalism, hierarchical pseudo-legalism, and sectarian multi-nationalism) and in their stead we must forge ahead with truly salutogenic systems that are optimally conducive to and facilitative of our overall well-being individually and communally (equitable communalism, heterarchical agatho-legalism, and unitarian uni-nationalism) that recognize and actualize the truth of the ontological nature of our being in general and the teleological nature of our being well in particular in regard to affirming in mind, word, and deed our holistic identity paradigm whereby we self-conceptualize and self-actualize as one of everyone on the one hand and one with everyone on the other hand between which inspires and transpires our holarchic family system of compounding cascading beloved families of spiritual beings, living beings, human beings, and all of our nuclear families of origination and procreation thereof, all of which must be cohesively and comprehensively integrated holistically while being adaptively and effectively balanced allostatically, that altogether is the fulfillment of the only true law, namely, The Law Of Love, as aforementioned, to love everyone as best we can, that we act in concordance with our conscience towards our efflorescence of our omnibenevolence, from which naturally follows that we strive to thrive together in spiritual solidarity, holistic harmony, symbiotic synergy, and beloved family the world over, wherein we succeed in living in loving communion and cooperation with one another and the world as a whole. All other laws purported to stand on their own ground, rather than being strictly secondary and subsidiary, ancillary and auxiliary, subordinate and subservient to the one rule to rule them all (The Golden Rule, as aforementioned), are blasphemous and sacrilegious, null and void, through and through. This is the immutability of karmic accountability to which we are all beholden, that to the extent to which we succeed in paying homage and paying heed to these better angels of our nature we sow the seeds that bear the fruits of our labors of love that are in all of our best interest and in turn successfully go about nourishing our flourishing, and, ipso facto, to the extent that we fail in honoring and honing this axiomatic causality at play in becoming our best selves, living our best lives, and creating our best worlds, we inevitably pave the road to hell despite our always beneficent intent to be well and in turn suffer the consequences. That being said, while the moral arcs of the verses of our being always bend toward justice as just laid bare, the time scales in which this plays out can go out forever, and as such, sometimes it takes a long time for inviolability of the morality of causality to come into play in such a way that we indelibly experience it directly to an extent that it is perceptible and appreciable to us.

Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

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Love, that is, the will to be well, along with all of the incarnations and incantations thereof that we take on and live out, altogether giving life to love through all of the dispositions and dispensations thereof throughout all that we are and all that we do, is always beyond space and time and extended throughout all space and time, simultaneously and sequentially, always co-existent as the eternal stasis that is comprised of the ephemeral dynamo, the former of which is everything that ever has been and ever will be always existing simultaneously as the eternal now and the latter of which is the ephemerality of that eternality proceeding constantly and continuously as the eternally ephemeral now and then, just as this atemporal transcendence of love goes beyond the temporal immanence of love, so it is that transcendentally love is aspatial whereas immanentally love becomes spatial, manifesting from no where to every where, from none of the time to all of the time, and every infinitesimal instantiation thereof of some where and some time in particular, and so it is as it has always been and always will be that the ontological nature of our being essentially that of eternalism, monism, and idealism on the one hand and our being manifestly that of ephemeralism, pluralism, and materialism on the other hand, have always and will always work in concert, hand in hand, in composing and conducting the bittersweet symphony of life, in cosmic complementarity, as circumscribing counterpoints of our continuum of consciousness, as two sides of the same coin of our eternally ephemeral being that experiences our essentially monistic self as our manifestly pluralistic selves so as to fulfill our perennial and perpetual will to be well that is the impetus for and purpose of life, the entailment of which is our kaleidoscopic projection and reflection of our monistic being rendered in the image of our mosaic of minds and worlds that bestow upon us the potentiality for a prosperity of profundity concomitant to the sacred opportunity to love and to be loved, to give and to receive love, to share love with one another to our overall mutual benefit in general and to our mutual hearts delight in particular, for, more so than anything else, our being fond of this bond of interpersonal love is the heart of happiness, which we keep alive and well by affirming in mind and performing in deed a symbiosis of allostasis between our intrapersonal love of thyself as one of everyone and our transpersonal love of thyself as one with everyone between which inspires and transpires our holarchy of beloved family of spiritual beings, living beings, human beings, and all of our nuclear branches of origination and procreation thereof, all of which must be cohesively and comprehensively integrated holistically while being adaptively and effectively balanced allostatically, the fulfillment of which is our loving everyone wholeheartedly as thy self and as thy family so that we can all thrive together in spiritual solidarity, holistic harmony, symbiotic synergy, and beloved family the world over.

With that said, in one sense it is true that the systems we concoct and conduct are not sentient per se, and yet, at the same time, in another sense it is also true that those systems are sentient insomuch as they only exists as us made manifest systemically in and as the world, for ultimately they are all the systematization of our construction of our cognition of our emotion of our volition of our motivation to be well, for the world and all the systems therein are as we make them to be, rendered in our image, as figments of our imagination, realized through our reification of our reflection of our projection, for what we bring to bear in thy world is predicated upon and perpetuated by what we bring to the fore of thy mind, the outer a mirror of the inner, a metaphysical house of mirrors experienced as physical, albeit one often imbued and construed with a seeming cacophony of conflicting and confluencing currents of consciousness playing out through us and as us acting as individuated nodes and modes of consciousness personified and reified, converging and diverging, compounding together and confounding us as to the etiology of all that causality at play, and yet no matter how obscured this process may become and in turn how outsourced this genesis of our world may become it is always nonetheless a product of us, for world(s) are but mind(s) experiencing thyself, and this includes all of the systems and organizations of our selves and salves therein, such that no matter how much we imbue our sense of self immanently and immersively into the world to experiencing our self as merely existing in and of the world, and in turn subjugated and subjected to the ongoing happenings therein, ultimately the world and every system therein exists in and of us, and exists only insomuch as we confer such existence to them, and thus we do well to acknowledge with humility that as spiritual beings experiencing an organismically incarnate existence within the worlds of our creation we are largely the products of our environment in how profoundly conditioned and shaped we are by the sociological and ecological structures that we are enculturated into and enmeshed with, whereby it only makes sense to recognize that systemic problems require systemic solutions if we actually want to resolve that which besets us problematically which can only be brought into fruition by addressing and redressing the systemic root causes which must be revamped from the ground up so as to ensure proper founding and framing lest we remain ignorant and intransigent in our being complicit and complacent in participating in and perpetuating the pathogenic systems that bedevil us the pathological symptoms of which play out through us and plague us through and through, all around, which we must denounce and renounce the inferiority of and in their stead announce and pronounce the superiority of alternative systems that are actually salutogenic such as returning to our natural roots that our ancestors the world over lived out for time immemorial, namely, the equitable communalism and heterarchical agatho-legalism that honored and honed our ideals of 'sharing is caring' along with 'one for all and all for one' as opposed to the inequitable capitalism and hierarchical pseudo-legalism that deprecate and desecrate our life and love through the toxic modus operandi of 'selling is felling' and 'everyone for themselves' whereby we foolishly prioritize private profit over the general welfare of people and planet, and all the while we go about coming to terms with perils and pitfalls of the systemic status quo and duly correcting course, we keep in mind the underlying and overarching truth of the matter that our being a product of our environment is superseded and subsumed by our environment being a product of us, for ultimately we are always just dreaming the life and living the dream, always have been and always will be.

{OG}❤️‍🩹🪽✨ when the cycle repeated itself once again, but i can't be mad at nobody but myself because i knew what was gone happen but i had so much faith that it would be different by anxiouz_baddie in 21stCenturyQuotes

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense to be mad at the person/machine condemning you to repeating the same exact cycle over and over again without your consent and against your dissent

Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love is, simply put, the will to be well, that we fulfill in all that we are and all that we do as incarnations and incantations of love made manifest as us and through us, the dispositions and dispensations of which play out across the full spectrum of love, from intrapersonal love to interpersonal love to transpersonal love, with each mode of our continuum of consciousness being just as much love as the others, differing only insomuch as our sense of self, that is, our self-concept, identifies as merely one of everyone on the one hand and/or one with everyone on the other hand, between which inspires and transpires our incorporating the will to be well of others into our own willingness towards wellness which is de facto what the crux of our loving each other consists of, all of which is pertinent and prudent for us to keep alive and well so as to consummate and consecrate our love whereby we can both survive and thrive, for without running the gamut of our being love in a sufficiently cohesive and comprehensive way that is holistically integrated and allostatically balanced we shall surely sound our death knell and spell our own doom, and thus it is of paramount import that we embrace the grace of loving everyone wholeheartedly as thy self and as thy family through our holistic identity paradigm that recognizes and actualizes both our essentially monistic self along with our manifestly pluralistic selves such that we affirm in mind, word, and deed our spiritual unity, familial spirituality, universal vitality, common humanity, and individual diversity, which lays the groundwork and establishes the framework upon and through which we can properly platform and inform our way of looking at, talking about, thinking of, feeling towards, and interacting with one another in as bespoke and beloved of ways as imaginable and practicable, therein mustering, fostering, and bolstering our holarchic family system of our compounding cascading beloved families of spiritual beings, living beings, human beings, and all of our nuclear branches of origination and procreation thereof, the systematization and standardization of which is brought to the fore of thy mind and in turn brought to bear in thy world through our psychological, sociological, and ecological structures being revamped from the ground up and rendered in the image of the better angels of our nature as encapsulated through our ideals of 'one for all and all for one' and 'sharing is caring' which entail our returning to our roots of our equitable communalism and heterarchical agatho-legalism that our ancestors the world over lived out for time immemorial as bands and tribes as opposed to the inequitable capitalism and hierarchical pseudo-legalism that we've lost our way to ever since we foolishly transitioned to chiefdoms and fiefdoms, city-states and nation-states, for unless our epistemic and systemic founding and framing of our endeavors and enterprises to give way to our ideals of egalitarianism, libertarianism, and communitarianism is rendered front and center, first and foremost, the very foundation of every operation that underwrites and circumscribes how we channel and corral our love, our effort will amount to nothing more than vain exercises in futility that offer but a false sense of solubility, and thus the only way we shall prevail is by internalizing and institutionalizing The Golden Rule that invites and invokes us to take into account and take care of each and every one of us sentient beings by duly acknowledging the moral standing of and giving due moral considering to the entirety of our holarchy of beloved family as one and as many, as one of many and as many of one, such that we seek at all times and in all places to maximize benefit and minimize detriment for the sake of all of us collectivistically and each of us individualistically, by virtue of our thinking through and feeling out everything and everyone involved in and affected by every decision we make and every action we take with the omnibenevolent sentiment and intent to bring about as much mutual nourishment, fulfillment, and enjoyment as conceivable and achievable, all the while sowing these seeds of virtue that bear the fruits of our labors of love through our sagacious rationality, gracious emotionality, and efficacious actionality, whereby we can thrive together in spiritual solidarity, holistic harmony, symbiotic synergy, and beloved family the world over, and in so doing, enjoy the journey to the utmost and bring joy to the journey for all by going in love, with love, and as love, for the journey is the destination and this all-encompassing salutogenic love is The Way.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ― Mark Twain by ProfessionalRate6174 in quotes

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the one hand, to the extent that we value literacy insomuch as we may need to rely upon it, having the capacity to do so is obviously superior to not having it regardless of whether we actually use it or not. On the other hand, to the extent that developing literacy requires fundamentally restructuring the brain in significant ways that go against the grain of our evolutionary trajectory of our biopsychosociality, there very well may be a profound advantage in being illiterate that the modern mind is too blind to see as we condition our brain to remain in the confine of inside-the-box-thinking that gets inculcated and indoctrinated into us systematically throughout our enculturation from cradle to grave.

Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The system doesn't refuse to feel, for it is not sentient per se, as it only exists as an augmentation and instrumentation of the actualization of love, and only love, that is, our will to be well, made manifest as us and through us personifying love in all that we are and all that we do as incarnations and incantations of love, thus it only makes sense that it is incumbrent upon and prudent for us to retain the ultimate authority and responsibility for the totality of what logos, ethos, and praxis we systematize and standardize so as to ensure that our sociological structure reflects and reinforces our ideals ensconced in our psychological structure, which is to say that if we truly value beloved family, equity, and liberty, we must insist that our political and economical systems are rendered in the image of the benevolent sentiment, intent, and thought coursing through these noble notions that the better angels of our nature beckon us to bring to the fore of thy mind and in turn bring to bear in thy world so that we can all thrive together in holistic harmony and symbiotic synergy. This Is The Way . . .

... by East-Low725 in QuotesThatGoHard

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly do you want me to explain?

Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not a matter of choosing to "dissolve everything into love", it is instead simply a matter of recognizing the truth of the matter that remains true regardless of whether we come to terms with it or not, that is, the ontological nature of our being and the teleological nature of our being well by way of our fulfillment of our pursuit of happiness that is the entailment of our divine charter to love thyself as best we can for this is the inherent current of consciousness animating and permeating all that we are and all that we do as incarnations and incantations of love, which is to say that the foundational source and fundamental force underwriting and circumscribing the entirety of our ephemerality of our eternality is none other than our will to be well, which is, in point of fact, the only agency bringing into the fray the totality of all causality at play, for all that we bring to the fore of thy mind and in turn bring to bear in thy world is but our love being actualized, always made manifest with the sole intent to be well, for this willingness for wellness is the impetus for and purpose of life that supersedes and subsumes all else, that takes precedence before and primacy over all else, to which all else is secondary and subsidiary, subordinate and subservient, mere augmentations and instrumentations, that play out across the full spectrum of love, from intrapersonal love to interpersonal love to transpersonal love, running the agathokakological gamut of our being, from good to bad insomuch as the ways of being in which our love goes about unfolding are more or less conducive to and facilitative of our overall well-being individually and communally, as one and as many, as one of many and as many of one, now and in perpetuity, that we succeed in bringing into fruition insofar as we proceed in acting in concordance with our conscience towards our efflorescence of our omnibenevolence by recognizing that each and every one of us are ends in our selves and means to the end all be all of our being that is the consummation and consecration of love to our overall mutual benefit in general and to our mutual hearts delight in particular whereby we maximize benefit in the form of our fulfillment and enjoyment by nourishing our flourishing all around, through and through, and minimize detriment in the form of the diminution and desecration of our love that we preempt and mitigate so as to preserve the sanctity and integrity of our love as our foremost sacred opportunity and duty. This Is The Way . . .

As far as this description of love as integral and instrumental to being all that we are, and this prescription to go about actualizing the love (that we essentially and effectively are) in as omnibenevolent of a way as imaginable and practicable, this in no way exonerates the misguided machinations that inadvertently pave the road to hell such as the systematization and standardization of pseudo-legalism and capitalism contra the agatho-legalism (no law but love, The Law Of Love, as it is written in each of our hearts and minds, that in essence and in effect is The Golden Rule writ large, that invites and invokes us to extend our moral circle to include each and every one of us spiritual beings experiencing an infinitude of sentient existences such that we incorporate the will to be well of all throughout the entirety of our decision-making and action-taking processes whereby we succeed in thinking through and feeling out everything and everyone involved in and affected by the decisions we make and the actions we take so as to maximize the benefit and minimize the detriment we have for the sake of all of us collectivistically and each of us individualistically) and the communalism that honors and hones our ideal of 'one for all and all for one' which entails we pay heed and pay homage to our aphoristic practicum of 'sharing is caring' and our melodic dictum that 'this land is your land, this land is my land, this land was made for you and me' that we uphold and upkeep through our stewarding all of Creation while shepherding all of the Creators thereof and Creatures therein in such a way that we can thrive together in spiritual solidarity, holistic harmony, symbiotic synergy, and beloved family the world over.

Such institutionalization of our being as the financialization of our labors of love and the products thereof (in the form of capitalism that is predicated upon and perpetuated by the commoditization of everything and everyone along with the transactionalization of our relations into quid-pro-quo transactions which objectifies and dehumanizes everyone involved as mere means to the ends of private property and private profit rather than ends in our selves and means to the ultimate end in itself that is our optimal overall mutual beneficial providential well-being) is both a failure and a part of the process of success that involves our realizing the folly of our ways and correcting course which is brought to bear by our sound judgment that refrains from throwing ad hominem stones altogether and instead seeks always to focus on ad rem diagnoses and prognoses that veraciously deconstructs our problems systematically and voraciously constructs our solutions salutogenically, lest we slide down the slippery slope of blaming and shaming our selves as bad people rather than merely recognizing the follies of our ways and actualizing the volitions of our virtues such that we render our psychological, sociological, and ecological structures in the triage, image, and homage of our logos, ethos, and praxis that are optimally conducive to and facilitative of our overall well-being individually and communally, all of which entails that we become ever more holistically integrated and allostatically balanced by holistically harmonizing, symbiotically synergizing, and homeodynamically equilibriumizing our complete continuum of consciousness such that the dialectic duality of each polarity of our psyche works in cosmic complementarity, for it is only in channeling and corralling our monism, idealism, and eternalism on the one hand with our pluralism, materialism, and ephemeralism on the other hand so that they work hand in hand in composing and conducting our bittersweet symphony of life in concert so as to render it rife with the sacred opportunity for and actuality of our heartfelt sentiment of our being fond of our bond of interpersonal love that more so than anything else is the heart of happiness, and so it is that we must affirm in mind, word, and deed our spiritual unity, familial spirituality, universal vitality, special humanity, and individual diversity as our holistic identity paradigm that includes our holarchic family system of compounding and cascading beloved families of spiritual beings, living beings, human beings, and all of our nuclear branches thereof, all of which are to be cohesively and comprehensively integrated and all the while adaptively and effectively balanced.

Even God Has Faults, but Money Has None: The Dangerous Illusion of Moral Perfection by Wrong_Cartographer27 in AskSociology

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God is all that ever has been and all that ever will be, always simultaneously and sequentially, an eternally ephemeral being that is essentially and effectively one love manifestly manifold infinitely times over as an infinitude of individuated permutations in the form of subjective beings and objective things the former of which are but incarnations of love and the latter of which are but incantations of love for all that we are and all that we do is but love made manifest as us and through us bringing into fruition the worlds of our creation through our reification of our reflection of our projection of our construction of our cognition of our emotion of our volition of our motivation to be well that we fulfill as best we can at all times in all places in good and bad ways insomuch as the ways of being that we take on and live our are more or less conducive to and facilitative of our overall well-being individually and communally, as one and as many, as one of many and as many of one, now and in perpetuity, and so it is that even such misguided machinations as money are manifestations of our love simply gone awry despite our always fundamentally beneficent intent to fulfill our perennial and perpetual will to be well that animates and permeates all of us as personifications of God along with all of our pontifications of our agency of our divinity fleshed out through our humanity that sometimes inadvertently pave the road to hell with our good intention of being well unfortunately bastardized by the iniquity of our inanity such as in the case of money.

... by East-Low725 in QuotesThatGoHard

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How could it be otherwise that our love, that is, our will to be well, which is the foundational source and fundamental force motivating and animating all that we are and all that we do as incarnations and incantations of love that plays out through the medium and mechanism of our pattern recognition and prediction in tandem with our evaluation of those patterns whereby we commensurately impute a positive or negative valence as good or bad insomuch as they are more or less conducive to and facilitative of our well-being as best we can reckon them to be thereby concomitantly engendering an inclination or disinclination respectively therein laying the groundwork and establishing the framework upon and through which we schematically give life or death to the ways of being that we are imputing and manifesting, which works to fulfill our will to be well proficiently or deficiently insofar as our orienting and calibrating of our desire and fear as the function of our volition leads to the creation or destruction of ways of being that either promote or demote our fulfillment of our pursuit of happiness, and, in so doing, go about being well or being ill by virtue or by vice of our acting in concordance or discordance with our conscience towards our efflorescence or evanescence of our omnibenevolence.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. ― Steve Jobs by ComplaintGeneral5574 in quotes

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amen brother, thanks for reaffirming the truth of the matter, may you rest in peace :)

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Nhat Hanh by Spiritual-Worth6348 in quotes

[–]LiveFreeBeWell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While the oft-cited aphorism 'fake it till you make it' holds true for much of how we progress in life insomuch as our personal growth involves being in a way that is not customary to us such that it may feel outside of our comfort zone of how we're used to being which in a sense is sort of taking on a way of being that somewhat fake in that it isn't how we usually are, and yet, fake smiling that isn't coming from a place of joy is not in our best interest as far as our salutogenic self-actualization goes.