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Stephen Levine

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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death, which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

-Dag Hammarskjold
  • Richest Man in Babylon
  • Art of War Website for the Modern Leader and Strategist
  • “Desiderata” (something desired as essential)
  • The Parable of the Prodigal Son in Christianity and Buddhism
  • Happiness - psychology today
  • Philosophical humor
  • Steve's Primer of Practical Persuasion and Influence
  • Buddhism Basics
  • Mutais mutandis, the old Latin phrase says: "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson on Palm Pilot
  • Philosophy 3 Lecture Notes
  • Liberating the Mind from Orthodoxies (An interview with Noam Chomsky) by David Barsamian - An interesting perspective on United States world policies, influence of big businesses, and the unintended consequences of giving anything away for free.
  • Miniature Library of Philosophy - reading difficulty: HARD
  • Chomsky: Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
  • Leadership
  • Life Laws by Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
  • Ego - The False Center
  • Scientific American
  • Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
  • Art of War By Sun Tzu
  • Secular Humanism
  • Pointing at the Moon
  • A Book of Five Rings - written by Miyamoto Musashi, Translated by Victor Harris
  • "Illusions" by Richard Bach
  • The New Theory of Learning-by Thomas L. Magliozzi (A must read)
  • The Greatest Salesman in the World - by Og Mandino
  • Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you wish peace, prepare for war)
  • "Exitus in Dubio Est," which translates to "The Outcome Is in Doubt."
  • #Philosophy EFnet IRC
  • George Carlin
  • Great Books Index - List of Titles
  • For a soft introduction to the subject of philosophy I recommend Sophie's World : A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Moller (Translator).
  • The Top Ten List- The Brand New (Shrink Wrapped) Top Ten List
  • As A Man Thinketh
    This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that-- "They themselves are makers of themselves" by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness. 
    
                                 James Allen
  • The 15 Immutable Laws (Link does not exist any more.)
  • Top Ten Rules on #philosophy
  • Economic and Political Theory 101 (Link does not exist any more.)
  • Strategy
  • Ayer's Version IV Homepage
  • CosmoDNA - visit CosmoDNA
  • The Top Ten-- Visit the #philosophy top ten.
    A severe-looking man with a kindly twinkle in his eyes, he sat patiently waiting for us to articulate the question that had brought us to him from such a distance. Finally, we made an attempt: "What are you really talking about? What do you mean by 'eradicating craving'?" Achaan Chaa looked down and smiled faintly. He picked up the glass of drinking water to his left. Holding it up to us, he spoke in the chirpy Lao dialect that was his native tongue: "You see this goblet? For me, this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on a shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, 'Of course.' But when I understand that this glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious."
    Mark Epstein, M.D., thought without a thinker: psychotherapy from a Buddhist perspective, pp. 80-81
    Robert A. F. Thurman, Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence: Reason and Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984), p.68 
    

  "It is only necessary to make war with five things; 
   with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of 
   the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with 
   the seditions of the politic and the discords of  
   families."

                                                 -Pythagoras


"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
                                                       -Hume

  "When we are unable to find tranquillity within 
   ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."  
   
                Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld


  "To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a 
   true man is the rule.
   Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright.  
   To sin as little as possible is the law for men; 
   to sin not at all is a dream for angels."

              - Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"

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  • The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million. 
                     Eugene V. Debs, US labor leader.

    Note: Debs received one million votes in 1920 as candidate for US President, while serving a 10 year jail sentence for having said in June 1918: "Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder...the master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles."

  • IRC --[Update]
      "Be robbers and conquerors, as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you lovers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be satisfied to live like shy deer, hidden in the woods!"

    #Philosophy is an efnet channel that encourages intellectual and philosophical discussions dealing with current events, controversial issues, personal struggles, and scientific discoveries. Like most channels it tends to have an operating 'elite' which you may or may not find suitable to your tastes. Thoughout the history of the channel, 'dissident' channels have arisen with similar aims but different means. While #philosophy2 and #dialectic are largely dead, #truth seems to be a promising new channel. The channel has been going through a growing paint. Unfortunately -- or fortunately, depending on your perspective, #truth is shaping up to be what #philosophy might have originally meant to be.

    Popular topics in #philosophy include: consciousness, positivism and its flaws, metaphysics, religious questions, anthropology, Eastern religion and heritage, and institutions which wish to represent the freethinking mind, i.e. the American Atheists. In addition, some politics are discussed, but mostly in broad, general terms.

    The common complains on #philosophy seem to be that there are too much drivel and noise on the channel and not enough real discussions. To address these complains Raulsan has compiled the Top Ten most common lines heard on #philosophy. Also if you find that there are too much noise for you to sustain a dialog, and there are enough interest, consider migrating to #philosophy2, #truth2, or #truths.

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