Everywhere there are violent, criminal, vitally capable minorities apt to seize the reins if occasion offers, and to proceed with brutality. — Karl Jaspers

I can recompose a state and a society that has undergone decomposition only on religious grounds. I am not looking for the autonomy of the state and society from religion, but for the justification and strengthening of the state and society in religion. I no longer want freedom from God in anything, I want freedom in God and for God. ... God must once again become the center of our whole life, our thoughts, our feelings, our only dream, our only hope. My thirst for boundless freedom should be understood as my quarrel with the world, not with God. — Berdyaev

The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation, and the first step towards co-operation lies in the hearts of individuals. — Bertrand Russell

Чтобы избежать всеобщей катастрофы, необходимо возвращать в политику и общественное сознание страх: в ядерный век это единственная гарантия сохранения человечества. — Дмитрий Тренин https://globalaffairs.ru/articles/ukraina-yadernoe-oruzhie/

June 22nd. 82 years ago the German Nazis invaded Russia. Nearly 30 million of our men, women, children and elderly died in that terrible war, including about 11 million of our troops. This enormous human sacrifice saved the world from German Nazism. Never forget. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhs30iGhgICncex8qB-_Fmej-0HSwy4fH&feature=share7

Humanity has made a wrong turn in the 1980s. Today's crisis (the worst is yet to come) is the result of the defeat of the revolutionary movement of the 1960s that followed the existential crisis of WWII. We'll have another chance to evolve only after another existential crisis.

Beware of the demons who deny freewill. One of them is Harari.

The being of Transcendence (God) and Existenz (freedom) can be neither proved nor disproved. It can be only a matter of faith. To each his own faith. "The decisive sign of a free state is one's faith in freedom." — Karl Jaspers "Once we have achieved awareness of our freedom we may take a second step toward the apprehension of ourselves: Man is a being who exists in relation to God." — Karl Jaspers "Freedom is a self-bestowal by Transcendence. This freedom is not expedience, not obedience to a calculated duty, not forced activity, but a will detached from all compulsion, and this will is transcendent necessity." — Karl Jaspers "Existenz in man is that which in the world is an unconditioned cause of itself. However, this unconditional freedom itself is born of Transcendence; Existenz knows that it is given to itself by Transcendence." — Karl Jaspers

The aim of philosophy is at all times to achieve the independence of man as an individual. This he gains by establishing a relation to Authentic Being. He gains independence of everything that happens in the world by the depth of his attachment to Transcendence. — Karl Jaspers

It is impossible for man to lose Transcendence without ceasing to be man. — Karl Jaspers

It tells a lot about the pitiful spiritual state of the Anglo-Saxon world that Karl Jaspers — the greatest thinker of the XX century, to whom is comparable only Edmund Husserl — is almost completely ignored by it. Start reading Jaspers today:

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The soul—transcendental subjectivity (freewill and causal structures) that projects all phenomenal objectivity subjectively and intersubjectively—isn't created by the abstract "nature", nor it can be created by man in a machine, for it is eternally "created" by Transcendence, God. Now, forever now. The normalization of all kinds of perversions by the decadent culture of the West leads to the normalization of the ultimate perversion—the blasphemous idea of sentient AI, the Antichrist. Why is it blasphemous? Because the soul—transcendental subject—is rooted in Transcendence, it is forever "created" by God.

Man is the only bird that wears its own cage.

Помни, что мирская наука, соединившись в великую силу, разобрала, в последний век особенно, все, что завещано в книгах святых нам небесного, и после жестокого анализа у ученых мира сего не осталось изо всей прежней святыни решительно ничего. Но разбирали они по частям, а целое просмотрели, и даже удивления достойно, до какой слепоты. Тогда как целое стоит пред их же глазами незыблемо, как и прежде, и врата адовы не одолеют его. Разве не жило оно девятнадцать веков, разве не живет и теперь в движениях единичных душ и в движениях народных масс? Даже в движениях душ тех же самых, все разрушивших атеистов живет оно, как прежде, незыблемо! Ибо и отрекшиеся от христианства и бунтующие против него в существе своем сами того же самого Христова облика суть, таковыми же и остались, ибо до сих пор ни мудрость их, ни жар сердца их не в силах были создать иного высшего образа человеку и достоинству его, как образ, указанный древле Христом. А что было попыток, то выходили одни лишь уродливости. — Достоевский

If we want to reform our insane world, we have to go to the root of all problems—to our erroneous understanding of the nature of the empirical reality of phenomenal consciousness. We will not reform the world unless we get rid of the pseudoscientific metaphysical mythology of materialism (physicalism). The myth of "physical matter" must die.

Transcendence of all religions is the same Transcendence experienced by their mystics/yogins, differ only their conceptual objectifications of Transcendence, which can't be objectified in principle. Philosophical faith is the bridge between all religions. https://misharogov.medium.com/transcendence-cc0f54b91557

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke If that's the case, then #AI is black magic. The Antichrist.

Man cannot live only for himself and serve only himself. If he does not have the true God, he creates false gods for himself. He wanted freedom from God, but fell into cruel bondage to false gods, to idols. — Berdyaev

Every man on Earth must watch this film and ring the alarm. As always, I have to emphasize that the greatest danger of #AI is not the destruction of humanity, but the enslavement, for a horrible end (hence a new beginning) is better that endless horror. We can only hope that a major solar flare kills all electronic infrastructure and resets our civilization, for even if we stop BigTech, we won't stop the Pentagon. There's no solution to this problem. The rise of AI the Antichrist is inevitable. We must get ready to fight it.

Man ceases to believe that he can protect himself by dissociating himself from others through rationalist thinking, humanist morality, formal law, liberalism, democracy, and parliament. All these forms reveal only a deep division in humanity, a disunity, a lack of a united spirit, they are all forms of legalized separation, agreements to leave one another alone, unwilling to choose the Truth. — Berdyaev