Yes. But is it worth blaming, for example, a wolf for feeding on rabbits? )) Although the rabbits will protest if they realize they are just food. People, like those foolish rabbits, are unable to grasp that they too are just food.
Hm… seems like you are just being provocative again. Anyway Russia is cool.
Unfortunately, ChatGPT refuses to translate what I wrote about the so-called “Russians” and the so-called RF. Other translators can be used, but is it necessary? You will definitely be disappointed or, worse, become resentful.
I was in Moscow for a while once, visited some of the surroundings too. I liked it a lot.
Due to family roots I always had love for the country.
Shame what is happening now. I was fearing this war for a long time. Very deep fear.
If Russia is hollowed out, maybe ruled by Nato in the end… then much depth is gone from humanity.
What do you think of this quote by Rudolph Steiner:
“The Russian becomes ill or actually suffers a death if he desires to be political. This may seem strange, yet a Russian person has a constitution which creates a disposition towards disease, towards death, with intensive political involvement. The Russian Folk Soul has absolutely no affinity with that quality in the English and American Folk Soul which creates a political capacity.”
Not my view, I wouldn’t pretend to know as much. But curious what you make of it.
I will offer my own and allow it to be quoted. A fool is a person subordinated to foolishness. Foolishness is the idea that dominates over reason, or a collection of ideas (ideology). Stupidity is foolishness in growth.
Final question: What does “a country of fools” mean? Or why, in a country of fools, is the fool the people’s hero, the hero of Russian fairy tales?
I think the Russian character is unique among the Caucasian races. His ethos is like a cross between the Vikings and the Chinese… half individual conqueror and half selfless concubine of the State. Since the fall of socialism (when Lenin died), Russia’s leaders have carefully exploited this feature of the Russian ethos… having to appease both the viking and the chinaman in the Russian citizens soul. Emulating capitalism in the west gets the viking in em all excited while the State’s strict totalitarian control comforts them and reminds their souls of the glorious collective that once existed under Lenin. Putin knows this, that’s why he’s got em halfway between capitalism and communism and keeps em there.
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Like goulash cooked up in Hungarian paprikas-kitchens, getting their simulated recepie handed down by Attila , on his way down from Outer Mongolia way back?
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Maybe that intention transpires through a sort of magic?
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That’s generally how I understand the ‘Soul’ idea and concept, as a type of social “Reputation”, memories of peoples and persons long after we die. Would you call it a “Reputation” as well?
The first half strikes me as a very Dionysian polemic, followed by the Apolloian second half. Reading gave me the impression of trying to condense 3000 years of Western Philosophy into 3 pages. I liked it, needs hundreds of pages of extrapolation on the details though.
“Negating one’s own Theory”, is this not the challenge of gaining Self-Consciousness, to become aware of one’s own awareness or “awakening”? I believe that’s how most people interpret the Divine or Divinity/Gods/Theos.
Are complex things always lies though?
Indeed, Russians embody both the Best in Man, and the Worst, very unbalanced compared to the British Anglos…
Tchaikovskies in the Winter, Stalins in the Summer.
The problem lies in the English language. It is more straightforward and therefore not entirely precise. It lacks a distinction between spirit and soul. But in reality, the soul is a vessel that holds the information of a lived life. And the soul returns to God — meaning it becomes a memory cell of a person’s life.
Whereas the human spirit gains a status: either Actor or Witness.
The thing is, God feeds on human souls. He cannot feel on His own, so He obtains the information of human emotions by taking human lives. In contrast, the spirit is freed from the body. And then comes judgment — and status.
Good question. But how do you define whether something is complex or simple?
If it’s understandable — it’s simple.
If it’s not quite understandable — it’s complex.
So, it turns out that incompleteness of information is a lie.
That seems correct to me… I understand “Soul” as container and “Spirit” as the essence within the container. Spirit is like DNA or the ‘transcription’ of the Soul.
Understand-ability is relative to an individual’s Intellect though. A small intellect requires a smaller number of parts (Quantity) to understand it. A larger intellect can consider exponentially larger amounts of parts (Higher Quantity). Also Quality is a factor too – the ability to understand ‘complex’ functions / equations / changes (such as Calculus in Mathematics).
You are very close to defining the concept of meaning. What it truly is remains unknown to people.
Meaning is a two-way connection between an object of thought and anything possible — which is, in fact, the thinking of the Universe.
That is why there are at least two meanings: the first is objective (particular), and the second is general, subjective.
Accordingly, if we apply both — we arrive at essence (the fullness of understanding).
Black Magic…the dark arts of semiotics.
We’ve got some practitioners…Value Ontology, is one example.
Using words to create a magical effect…meaning a psychological effect.
Similar to modern surrealistic paintings…
Nonsense pretending to be profound.
Certain suggestive words/symbols arranged in certain sequences, with a certain rhythm, tempo…trigger certain reactions.
Hypnotic.
Magian…not Faustian; Afro-Asiatic, not Hellenic…Gypsies know this art.
They use it to exploit human weakness.
It’s always astrological. Supernatural…promising great powers, amazing outcomes.
Solutions to personal problems.
Parasitical.
Superstition…exploiting human existential anxieties.
The observer places himself in a self-induced trance, helped along with these suggestive words - empowering.
The more nonsensical they are, the better; the more supernatural their claims, the more effective they become.
MAGIC
You made me laugh. You don’t know what magic is.
Magic is the understanding of essence through the comprehension of meaning.
There is no such thing as black magic.
There is only the magic of Darkness.
Darkness is the great multitude.
But shadow (темнота) is indeed the absence of light.
By the way, Light is the manifestation of Darkness, for those who cannot see or understand in the Darkness.
Thus, Darkness is the mother of Light.
Finally, the enlightened are blinded by Light, and that’s why they live in the shadow of faith.
Magic is the use of words to effect the other psychologically.
Darkness is where the human psyche is most vulnerable…it is where the human eye cannot discern details…all blends into a uniformity of shadows…this is where the irrational and the rational melt into one.
Yes…Magian…not Faustian.
Lunar psychology, Judaic…not Solar…not Hellenic.
Lunar…reflects…appearing to produce light…but the light is not its own. Illusory.
In the shadows is where charlatans thrive.
That’s a good point, in darkness, Mankind is left to our purely Rational, Analytical, and Imaginative capabilities, what Kant referred to as our (Analytic A Priori Judgment). Coincidentally, this is the realm where all the Pre-Determinists claim is the locus of control of human biology and ‘Choice’. It demonstrates who is self-conscious, and how much, if at all.
Magic is the corruption of meaning…meaning is how phenomena interact, inter-relate…the cosmos is full of meaning.
Magic is the manipulation of these inter-relationships, these interactions…detaching words from their utility as connectors…and reapplying them as dis-connectors…separating the conscious mind from reality…from phenomena, forcing it to turn inward…into its own subconscious.
Magic rearranges words in emotionally triggering sequences…magic spells, conjuring up from the individual’s psyche imagery, feelings, sensations.
Magic is psychological manipulation, via semiotics.
Words/Symbols are always central to its effect.
This is why priest and con-men, always work in the dark arts…superstitions, the supernatural…corrupting language…using it to exploit human weaknesses. .
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