Brilliant Thoughts of Bertrand Russel

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wise people so full of doubts.

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

 Bertrand Russel -  

British philosopher, logician and polymath

The Male Perspective of Giving Birth

For men, maternity seems to be so easy and simple - They have a moment of pleasure, their female partner gets pregnant. Her belly starts to grow, they find out the baby gender, buy furniture and clothes and finally she goes to the hospital and comes back home with the baby.

But, giving birth is not that simple and easy. 

All starts as the belly grows, it gets heavier, as well the breasts; movements got limited; nausea; difficulty to find a position to sleep. During pregnancy they may develop diabetes, anemia, infections, high blood pressure and many others.

The most impressive part happens inside the hospital room
Women have a very small aperture comparing to the size of the baby. The worst is not the passage of the head of the baby, but the shoulders, the hips that go together through that dilated and generally cutten or naturally ripen aperture.
The woman's pelvis bones are pushed apart as the baby is making the exit.

So, normally, women are anaesthetized to better handle that agonizing labor pain. Labor can take hours...

Women chose to receive or not this anesthesia, called epidural - that is an injection done in the spine. This procedure has the risk of nerve damage. But, seems to be rare.

After receiving this drug for pain relief, women are total or partial numb from the abdomen down, so they can't push so hard. Therefore, their vagina has to be cutten (perineum area). Or it can be rippen by the baby when passing. After, labor, it is stitched. It will take a month and half to properly heal.

While, pushing - what is strongly and constantly suggested by the nurse and doctor - women may defecate and urine in the bed. It is less usual as women are advised to make an enema. 
However, there will be always mucus being expelled from the vagina.
Despite the mucus, the blood and other fluids, the placenta also needs to be pushed out the uterus, after delivery.

The appearing of hemorrhoids is common. As the womb grows,  its weight makes pressure in the intestine, forcing it to move. It normally, originates constipation. The increase of the blood flow also dilates the vases. But, the pushing during labor can make it worst.

Another thing that frequent happens during pregnancy and giving birth is the stretching and weakening of the muscles that keep the bladder closed (pelvic floor). And, when this happens these muscles can't stop the bladder from leaking urine, while coughing, sneezing, lifting or exercising.

After, delivery and returning home, the woman is exhausted and needs to rest, but there is a baby crying that needs attention, care, to be feed, bathed, etc.

The uterus will take approximately a month to return to its normal size. 

Why giving birth is so painful? Women are pressured and rushed in the hospitals and private clinics to give birth fast. Giving birth has it´s natural timing. 

I believe that´s why is so painful to give birth.

The men just hear names like contractions, dilatation,water break. But, what mean these names? Do they really know? Don't think so.

This male ignorance is, also, because women want them to be that way. Women don't want them to be involved in the hard part of this experience. So, men keep thinking that maternity is pinky and easy!

For them, it sure is! They just need to ejaculate and wait.
Why women hide this from men, their husbands, their partners, the love of their lives, the father of their baby?

Why women don't want or need their support in that moments?

Maybe many women don't really know what is coming for them...

How to become a better person

I think it's pretty easy. I know that "you" are going through some hard things, but aren't we all?

We all have sad stories, we all have problems, we all are suffering, we all have bad days, we all are sorting out things of the past, while dealing with things from the present and worrying about the future. 

So, there's really nothing that special that makes your life so bad that justify for you to be a bad person and mistreat others.

We are all victims of somebody or something. Victims of our childhood, victims of school, victims of love, victims of marriage, victims of work, victims of friends, victims of a stranger, victims of our innocence, victims of capitalism, victims of our society's system.

To become a better a person is to not blame people for what happened to you. Not all are villains. There are more villains that good people, but we never know who is who. 

Instead of making others suffer because of the pain you feel, why not helping others to not happen the same to them.

To become a better a person is to not do to others what you wouldn't like others to do to you.

The Root of Good and Bad

We born wild like the animals.  In the first years of our life, we are totally dependent. We need someone to keep us warm, to feed us, to protect us, to teach us how to walk, to talk, to dress. 

As we grow we start being shaped to the society standards.

We receive instructions of how to behave, to feel, to dress, values, goals


Children are constantly defying that teachings and instructions. Even though they know is wrong doing it. They want to go their own way. 

Are they fighting for their free will of choosing, for the right of their uniqueness, to not be domesticated or just to please their primitive ego?

BOXE AND OTHER VIOLENT SPORTS

In Boxe, MMA (to name a few) everytime an athlete hits the other, some organ, or some bones are getting hit, damaged. 

People see a punch, but in reality the kidney is receiving that punch-  the liver, the ribs, the stomach, the brain, nose, hears, others. Every organ and bone are important for our body, for its optimal functioning.

Those are not sports. Those are people beating each other, spanking each other and feeling excruciating pain. This is not a film that we are watching- it's real violence, real brutality.

Is so hard to understand why people enjoy to watch pain, suffering, humiliation... people beating each other til someone gives up or passes out.

We say that today we are more developed civilization than ancient civilizations. But "we" still enjoy watching brutality like it used to happen in the ancient Rome, with the Gladiators.

What can I see that You cannot see? What is so hard to see? Aren't we watching the same?

What sadistic people are these?