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Los musulmanes de toda Europa están conmocionados tras la histórica y valiente decisión de Suecia: dejará de usar el término «islamofobia», acuñado por los Hermanos Musulmanes, por considerarlo un concepto manipulado políticamente para silenciar las críticas al islam. La ministra de Asuntos Exteriores sueca, Maria Malmer Stenergard, anunció que su gobierno presionará a la Unión Europea y a las Naciones Unidas para que dejen de usar este término fraudulento. El concepto de «islamofobia» fue diseñado deliberadamente para equiparar la crítica legítima a la doctrina islámica con el racismo. Se utilizó como arma para silenciar el debate sobre textos islámicos fundamentales que contienen mandamientos para hacer la guerra, violar y someter a los no musulmanes. Suecia acaba de reconocer lo que millones de europeos ya saben: criticar una religión que abiertamente llama al asesinato y la esclavitud sexual de los no creyentes no es una fobia, sino sentido común y autoconservación. Esto supone un duro golpe para el lobby islamista en toda Europa. ¿Estás de acuerdo con la decisión de Suecia?

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If you went back in time and killed your grandfather, you'd never be born. But if you were never born, you could never go back in time to kill him. So he lives. So you're born. So you go back. So he dies. So you're not born. So he lives... Physics doesn't just say time travel is weird. It says this loop has no consistent solution. And that might be the universe's way of saying: some trips are physically forbidden. But here's what most people miss. The paradox isn't really about murder. It's about whether the universe allows contradictions to exist. And every law of physics we've ever found says: it doesn't. So either time travel to the past is impossible, or something we don't yet understand forces consistency. Novikov called it the self consistency principle: you CAN go back, but you can never change anything. The universe conspires to stop you. Which is somehow creepier than the paradox itself.

"Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest." - Epictetus 🎈

Aristotle on infinity: “The infinite is not 10 billion or 20 trillion zillion. The infinite is that which is greater than any particular quantity, which means it has no quantity in particular, which means it is a quantity with no identity, which means it is forbidden by the law of identity. Whatever actually exists, Aristotle concludes, will always be finite, limited, specific in its amount. In what sense then can we speak of infinity? Only, he says, as a potentiality. For instance, we can keep dividing a line further and subdividing and subdividing. As a potentiality, there are no limits, so we can keep on doing it. In this sense, the line is infinitely divisible as a potentiality. Aristotle's key point is that no matter how much we keep subdividing, we will always actually have only a finite number of parts.” Leonard Peikoff, Founders of Western Philosophy

"Criticism is, in a very important sense, the main motive force of any intellectual development. Without contradictions, without criticism, there would be no rational motive for changing our theories: there would be no intellectual progress." —Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations.

“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the snivelling self-righteous twats, going around shaming everyone.” - John Lydon, The Sex Pistols

"Don't tell me what they said about me; tell me why they felt so comfortable saying it to you " - Victor Hugo

Faith should not slay reason. Reason is the divine director God himself has placed within each of us: "...it [the soul] does all that the daemon wishes, which Zeus hath given to every man for his guardian and guide, a portion of himself. And this is every man's understanding and reason." -Marcus Aurelius "He [Zeus] has assigned to each man a director, his own personal daemon, and committed him to his guardianship; a director whose vigilance no slumbers interrupt, and whom no false reasoning can deceive." -Epictetus Plato wrote in the Timaeus: "God has given to each of us, as his daemon, that kind of soul which is housed in the top of our body and which raises us, seeing that we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant up from earth towards our kindred in the heaven... for it is by suspending our head and root from that region whence the substance of our soul first came that the Divine Power keeps upright our whole body." Cleanthes beheld Zeus guiding "the universal force, Reason, through all things interfused... Thyself of all the sovran and the source." From this flows "Eternal Reason, which the wicked flee and disregard... Ill fated folk, for would they but obey with understanding heart, from day to day their life were full of blessing, but they turn each to his sin, by folly led astray." To claim that faith must slay reason, this heavenly daemon, and pretending doing so is a "service to God" is to embrace the very ignorance and folly Cleanthes condemns. It is the path of superstition and zealotry that leads only to the reckless deeds of men whose own hearts lead them to perversity. Plato warns us in the Sophist that "We certainly must contend by every argument against him who does away with knowledge or reason or mind and then makes any dogmatic assertion about anything." Listen instead to the daemon God appointed in you.

“For if we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favour of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.” —Karl Popper, The Poverty of Historicism.

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Nulla dies sine linea — “No day without a line.”

In the De anima, Aristotle takes it as a fact to be explained that nous/mind can know all things. That he did so should give us pause and prompt a kind of wonder. We can know all things. This is a fact, for which there must be some cause. This “optimism” is sublime and contrasts sharply with how we do philosophy today—catering to the skeptic and those who think first philosophy is impossible. Aristotle’s response, I think, would be, “no, you can answer the skeptic if you want to—see Meta. Gamma for details—but the rest of us are going to get on with science and the business of knowing things as they are.” Perhaps, at some point, you should ignore the skeptic and just “get on with it.” We can know all things and we can know them as they are. Yes. That is amazing. Now, how is that possible?

Aristotle had already said: "For not to know of what things one may demand proof, and of what one may not, argues simply want of education." If we have gained insight into this distinction, it is a sign that we are trained and educated for thinking. Whoever lacks this insight is not trained, nor educated for science.—Heidegger, Zollikon Seminars

"An axis of world history, if such a thing exists, would have to be discovered empirically, as a fact capable of being accepted as such by all men... It would seem that this axis of history is to be found in the period around 500 B.C., in the spiritual process that occurred between 800 and 200 B.C. It is there that we meet with the most deep cut dividing line in history. Man, as we know him today, came into being. For short we may style this the 'Axial Period'." Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History

Sir Isaac Newton on atheism ✍️ Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore leggs or two wings or two arms on the sholders & two leggs on the hipps one on either side & no more? Whence arises this uniformity in all their outward shapes but from the counsel & contrivance of an Author? Whence is it that the eyes of all sorts of living creatures are transparent to the very bottom & the only transparent members in the body, having on the outside an hard transparent skin, & within transparent juyces with a crystalline Lens in the middle & a pupil before the Lens all of them so truly shaped & fitted for vision, that no Artist can mend them? Did blind chance know that there was light & what was its refraction & fit the eys of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These & such like considerations always have & ever will prevail with man kind to believe that there is a being who made all things & has all things in his power & who is therfore to be feared.

At the beginning it was just the void Points appeared like distant stars Each one a promise Each one a possibility So the chaos gives birth to form A line stretched in between uncertain dots Triangles rose like ancient mountains Circles unfolded in perfect memory From symmetry came balance From balance came beauty, and from the beauty, the world... ✨🙌🏾💫