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"You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality."
-Ayn Rand
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy for the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?"
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Hey, how's it going? I just found out about your blog from the Antinatalism Chat over at Dimasok's blog. I will definitely be following this closely. Thank you for making this blog, there are so few AN blogs around!
ReplyDeleteHey Francois, thank you very much for the kind words of support. I basically hope to make some kind of contribution to the AN discussion with this blog.
DeleteLet us hope so, Ant, we really need it. Although people like Benatar and Inmendham have started the discussion in a big way, it seems very thin at the moment. The more people are willing to discuss AN issues in a reasonable way, the better.
DeleteHere's another one for you:
ReplyDelete"THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them. When you find an individual is lying to you, you know that the individual is trying to control you. One way or another this individual is trying to control you... Conversely, if you see an impulse on the part of a human being to control you, you know very well that that human being is lying to you. Not "is going to", but "is" lying to you."
--L. Ron Hubbard
(he was a master at mentally binding and controlling people, so he should know!)
Thanks for this great quote! It's a new one for me, and really captures the power of deception in shaping people's worldview. The fact that L. Ron Hubbard said these types of quotes and still managed to form and build a religious following speaks rather poorly of humanity's collective critical thinking skills.
DeleteOh, Hubbard was quite fond of telling people the truth about what he was doing to people. I think he got an intellectual thrill out of it, knowing he was brainwashing people and giving them the keys to understand what he was doing right in front of them.
DeleteI guess we all need hobbies, right.
DeleteIn fact he even wrote a whole book, called Brain-Washing: A Synthesis of the Russian
DeleteTextbook on Psychopolitics, which was supposed to be a Soviet textbook on how to brainwash people and was used to bolster Hubbard's anti-Communist paranoid delusions, but actually described various parts of Scientology's method of brainwashing.