The Paradoxical Commandments

The Paradoxical Commandments

by Kent M. Keith

• People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centred. Love them anyway.

• If you do good people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

• If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

• The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

• Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

• The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

• People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

• What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

• People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.

• Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

Becoming A Freethinker And A Scientist

By Albert Einstein

Taken from: Albert Einstein's Autobiographical Notes

Open Court Publishing Company,

LaSalle and Chicago, Illinois, 1979. pp 3-5.

When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

As the first way out there was religion, which is implanted into every child by way of the traditional education-machine. Thus I came - though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment-an attitude that has never again left me, even though, later on, it has been tempered by a better insight into the causal connections.

It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the "merely personal," from an existence dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings. Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation, and I soon noticed that many a man whom I had learned to esteem and to admire had found inner freedom and security in its pursuit. The mental grasp of this extra-personal world within the frame of our capabilities presented itself to my mind, half consciously, half unconsciously, as a supreme goal. Similarly motivated men of the present and of the past, as well as the insights they had achieved, were the friends who could not be lost. The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

Nobody Is Smarter Than You Are

"Ideology is only going to get in your way. Nobody is smarter than you are." - Terence Mckenna

The Moon

The Moon has always been a source of wonder for me, even from when I was just a little boy, looking up at the night sky in awe. As a university student, I delved deeper into the subject and studied Geology, learning about how the Sun, Earth, and all the planets came to be. I was particularly fascinated by the Moon, and even then, in the late 1990s, there was still no clear explanation for how it formed. The most widely accepted theory at the time was that a proto-planet called Theia collided with the infant Earth in a catastrophic event about 4.5 billion years ago, but even this idea had significant flaws.

The mysteries surrounding the Moon don't stop there. The presence of titanium in lunar rock, the remarkable resonance of the lunar landscape, and its coincidentally precise orbit are just some of the features that defy conventional scientific understanding. This collection of quotes from scientists, authors, researchers, NASA insiders, and star-gazers captures just how extraordinary the Moon truly is. And this video takes it to an entirely new level, showcasing its awe-inspiring beauty and endless enigmas.

The Orion Conspiracy

OK, so there's a reasonable amount of Photoshop present in this video and the guy talking sounds like a slightly camp Belgian who's been living in LA for a few years. Don't let that deter you, this is a fascinating conspiracy theory and there's not an alien in sight.