Taido Myoshin wrote:If we look into our tea cup deeply, we can see the sunshine which nourished those splendid leaves. If the sunshine is not there, tea cannot grow. Nothing can grow, not even we. Thus, there is sunshine in our cup of tea.
First of all, Rationality it is not a way of knowing the world, that would imply many other ways of doing it and put it at equality with the rest of human faculties, offering a view from many, being part alongside intuition, instincts, etc, but rather it is a process, process to something, to a better understanding. A simple analogy between senses will explain Rationality better. As humans, we dispose of senses, that extract stimuli from around ourselves and even from our inners, this stimuli thus needing processing, as it is currently standing, their of no use to us, but only after it goes through our brain it is then adapted to a form that we can comprehend and utilize as experience for further actions.
"Losing Moderation means that the person in quest is greatly affected. Losing Moderation means losing Stability that is inherent to have Inner Peace, which in terms is true Pleasure. If that happens, then it is clear that the pursuit is no more beneficial to the one in quest for. Although the boundaries between that and Sadness are hardly to clarify fully, Moderation is inherent to Pleasure, and when we observe a lack of Pleasure we can say that Moderation is missing."
Asceticism does not reject Pleasure, does not think that having fun is evil or immoral, or we should live necessarily in a hut with few tools, isolated from the world, lost in the woods, but it offers a new way, a possible better one for people to follow and liberate themselves from the Material yoke, and become Free.
This human condition of a desperate, limited and found in an absurd world without Meaning makes humans to fall for depression, sadness and discontent, as well attempt to repair this by offering Meaning to all of these, setting goals, believing in religions and Truths with purpose to offer safety from the Chaotic motion, to find Identity and History as refuge from the meaningless ever changing life and be able to find safety under the World of Ideas, which despite our own creation and their Posteriori status, they offer us more than anything comfort, alongside the physical Objects as reflections of these ideas and values.
In 4736 on the floor of what was once the legislature of the Democratic State of Rildanor, Trudeau and the mostly pro-republican members of the Royal Senate were preparing to draft and pass a bill that would turn Rildanor into a democratic republic after it had been forced to become a monarchy two years earlier. 680 of the 750 Royal Senators supported the establishment of a democratic republic, however those in the minority supported the King, who in the streets of Arloux was called a tyrant. The monarchist minority sent this draft bill to the King so that he could veto it. On the day of the vote for the approval of this bill, the King vetoed this bill and at the same time sent the Royal Armed Forces to storm the parliament and arrest the republicans who supported this bill. The Assault on the Royal Senate of 4736 led to the arrest of most of the pro-Republic Senators, this led to the Protests of 4736 which were the bloodiest protests in Rildanor due to heavy repression by the National Guard, the protests resulted in over 200 dead and 2,345 arrested. News about these protests were censored in all media, however journalist Joaco Villalba Sr., injured in the protests collected the discarded and censored newspapers, tapes and videos and kept them in his archives. While Trudeau and his associates were released and continued with their functions, this time more closely monitored on their actions than ever by the SI3.
The Telamon in which my children live is not the same as the one in which I lived. The dictator who calls himself king, Andreas Vagnsson, has led Telamon to be a highly autocratic and elitist tyranny, all media is highly regulated, the newspaper where I used to write was recently censored and is being highly monitored by people close to Vagnsson, I don't know if they are looking for the people who used to work in the newspaper, so these notes will possibly mark the last time my thoughts have reached a public, maybe not, but I have noticed that many independent journalists and bloggers have been arrested for criticizing Vagnsson, I am not sure if the same will happen to me, in the meantime I will keep writing these notes until possibly my possible arrest for not being in-line with what this regime wants
Scaricordi, on the announcement of the AgK renewal in 5323, wrote:Guiliano felt the meaty hand of the stronger, older male grip the back of his supple and well-fed neck; his hair standing on end, his knees nearly buckling. Guiliano knew in that moment that his destiny would be determined by this powerful man, so throughly his opposite. However, as they say, opposites attract.
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