Isaac Newton's Briliant Thoughts
"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
"Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation."
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true."
"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy."
"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
“If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.”
Isaac Newton, english physicist and mathematician who made very important discoveries. The most famous is the Gravity.
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) - Filisofo inglês e autor da polémica obra Leviata. Onde reflete sobre a natureza humana.
Ele acreditava que antes das sociedades se formarem, se vivia num estado natural, onde a vida do homem era solitária, desagradável, brutal e curta. Os homens são motivados por desejos egoistas de satisfazer as suas necessidades básicas de comida, aquecimento e abrigo.
Depois de satisfeitas estas necessidades começam a desejar outras coisas, como fama, fortuna e poder. Que devem ser conquistadas a qualquer custo, mesmo às custas dos outros.
Os Homens estão continuamente em competição por honor e dignidade, e consequentemente sentem inveja e ódio e começam guerras.
A Inclinação da Humanidade é fazer guerra. A necessidade dominante de auto-preservação manifesta-se, basicamente, através do medo.
Os estados são criados para se evitar o estado natural, onde existe guerra continua entre todos os homens.
Quando as pessoas se juntam para formar sociedades, criam um contracto social. Que é uma promessa colectiva de cumprir determinadas regras de comportamento.
As pessoas más deverão ser menos que as justas, mas porque não as conseguimos distinguir, há necessidade de suspeitar de todas.
Porque vivemos em constante medo de individuos perversos e da possibilidade da sua violência, devemos unir-nos e formar uma sociedade. É necessário um governante soberano, de forma a garantir que as regras ou leis são seguidas e que existe uma forma de existência mais pacífica.
A segurança individual é garantida na sociedade pelo Estado, mas parte do preço a pagar é uma certa perda de liberdade individual.
Hobbes não acreditava que os homens pudessem viver em democracia por serem seres egoistas e só estarem interessados em melhorar a sua própria vida.
Muitas pessoas no poder iria originar conflitos entre eles, por mais poder e riqueza.
Por isso, é necessário uma só pessoa no poder, do governo, uma autoridade para os liderar e zelar pelo interesse de todos.
Brilliant Thoughts of Confucius
" Don't do to others, what you don't want other to do to you."
"The superior person blames himself, the small person blames others."
"Who fails to prepare, prepares to fail."
"Who asks a question is a fool for a minute, who doesn't ask is a fool for life."
"Roads were made for journeys, not destinations."
"If you chase two rabbits, you catch none."
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is who the world works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get."
" Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have."
"Every journey starts with a single step."
"Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude."
"You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, other judge you by what you have achieved."
"Silence is a friend that never betrays."
"To see and listen to the wicked is already a sign of wickedness."
"Respect yourself, and other will respect you."
"A nation's character is typified by its dancers."
"Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues."
"When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears."
"Don't worry if people don't recognise your merits, worry that you may not recognise theirs."
"We are so busy doing the urgent, that we don't have time to do the important."
Confucius, Chinese Philosopher
Basic People
What are Basic People?
Basic people are people with not much deepness;
With little empathy;
No much feeling of guilty about nothing they do or say;
No much capacity to accept or understand what is different or what is not inside the patterns of their society - what they know as normality.
It is people that are not much creative. They can only repeat and copy.
They follow what others do. Even if they are aggressive leaders (they follow what others do, but never acknowledging);
People which egos don't allow them to recognise when they are wrong or when they don't have knowledge about a subject;
People that do not have critical thinking. They do not question nothing. They are conformed that things are like this for a reason. But what reason? They don´t know and care;
Envious people thats compete with people that are not even competing wth them.
Basically, they are just the basic. The minimum a human being can be in society.
The World We Live in...Part I
In Portugal, a 77 years old' s Grandfather abuses his 13 years old 'granddaughter and gets her pregnant, at 15 years old. The abuse continued till her son was 5 years old.
In Jordan, a 16 years old was raped by one of her brothers and other brother killed her to cleanse the family honour.
In India, a 13 years old girl was raped by a police officer, when reporting a gang rape, at the police station. Every 18 minutes a girl is raped in India.
In Central African Republic, French United Nation's soldiers and workers sexually abused underaged children in exchange of biscuits and water.
In Brazil, a 16 years old girl was drugged and gang raped by 33 men. Two of the men posted a footage on social media showing the girls' injured genitalia.
In England, a 67 years old man sexually abused almost 100 corpses in NHS mortuary, while taking photos and recording himself during the acts.
In refugee camps, all over the world, vulnerable refugees women and children are raped by other males refugees, security border and humanitarian staff, after losing their fathers and husbands, in the war.
Quotes about Poverty
" Cleanliness is the Nobility of the poor."
" Love is an invention of the poor."
"Monogamy has its origin in poverty."
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
"Poverty destroys freedom."
"Poverty is the thief of dreams."
"Poverty is the mother of crime."
"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."
"Poverty is not just a lack of money, it is not having the capacity to realize one's full potential as an human being."
Marriage for love is an invention of the poor, that have nothing else to offer.
The poor are a tool for the rich, to make them richer. Through labor and consume.
Classic Fairy Tales Explained - Snow White
Once upon a time, there was a queen that was not dealing well with the ageing process, so she became jealous of the youth and beauty of her stepdaughter and ordered her murder in the woods. But, the hunter felt guilty and preferred to let her runaway and be killed by the cold winter or the wild animals. Instead, he killed a boar and brought its entrails, as proof, for the queen.
While running in the forest, she found a small cottage. She went inside, with no permission, ate, drunk and slept in somebodies bed.
This was the house of 7 dwarfs. When they came back from work, they realised that somebody invaded their house, ate from their food and were sleeping in one of their beds, but they didn't mind because it was a pretty girl.
In the next morning, she told them, her story and the dwarfs let the princess stay with the condition of cleaning, cooking, making the laundry and the beds. Fearing for her life and not having nowhere to go, she happily accepted.
The queen, that was using witchcraft, found out that she was still alive and tried to kill her 3 times, by deceiving her. The third time, she was successful and the princess ate a poisoned apple.
While she was leaving, the dwarfs arrived and chased her. The wicked queen ends falling from a cliff to her death.
When they returned home, they found their maid dead, but decided to not burry her. Instead, they made her a glass coffin.
Many years passed, and one day, a prince hears about a dead unmarried girl and looks for her.
When he found the lifeless girl, he decided to kiss her in the lips, in front of her 7 protectors. Magically she woke up!
While she was still disoriented, the prince carried her to his horse and took her to his castle, without asking her nothing.
She obediently went with a stranger she never saw before.
...and they lived happy ever after.
Moral of the story
Story conclusions for the children reading this fairy story as they grow:
- Women need to be the most beautiful to be happy.
- Women are cruel to each other.
- Men are kind.
- A beautiful woman can invade a house that it will be fine because of her beauty.
- In a life threatening situation, it's normal to clean and cook in exchange of protection.
- The most beautiful women are naive, kind and skilled in domestic tasks.
- Men will fell attracted to beautiful women, even if they are dead.
- A stranger man can kiss a woman without her permission, while she is sleeping or unconscious. And in front of other men.
- If a stranger man wants to take a woman to his house, without saying a word, she should go without making questions.
- Women need to be rescued by men.
- Evil people will be punished.
This sexist children' story reflects the values and morals of the societies of the 20 century and should not be used as children stories anymore.
Disney story of 1937, based in a german tale, published in 1812, by the Grimm brothers.
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