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“Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one”
John Lennon, Imagine
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord
would surely suffice.
This disgrace to civilization
should be done away with at once.
Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is;
I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action!
It is my conviction that killing
under the cloak of war is nothing
but an act of murder.”
Albert Einstein
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
George Orwell, “1984”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”
Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education.
The twenty-first century will
reverse this order.
It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle.
The discovery of a new scientific truth
will be more important thanthe
squabbles of diplomats.
Even the newspapers of our own
dayare beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of freshphilosophical concepts as news.
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‘stick’ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage
practice of killing each other off.
I inherited from my father, an erudite
man who labored hard for peace,
an ineradicable hatred of war.
Nikola Tesla
“Older men declare war.
But it is youth that must fight and die.”
Herbert Hoover
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
Anonymous
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,those who are
cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not
spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
the genius of its scientists,
the hopes of its children.
This is not a way of life at all
in any true sense.
Under the clouds of war,
it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“You can have peace.
Or you can have freedom.
Don’t ever count on having both at once.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“War is over … If you want it.”
John Lennon
“How is it possible to have a civil war?”
George Carlin
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
Aristotle
“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.
But in modern war, there is nothing
sweet nor fitting in your dying.
You will die like a dog
for no good reason.”
Ernest Hemingway
“In times of war, the law falls silent.”
“Silent enim leges inter arma“
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
Carl Sagan
“The human race is unimportant.
It is the self that must not be betrayed.”
“I suppose one could say that
Hitler didn’t betray his self.”
“You are right.
He did not.
But millions of Germans
did betray their selves.
That was the tragedy.
Not that one man had
the courage to be evil.
But that millions had not
the courage to be good.”
John Fowles, “The Magus”
“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity.”
Stephen King, “Hearts in Atlantis”
“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
George McGovern
“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist.
This is elementary common sense.
If you hamper the war effort of one side,
you automatically help out
that of the other.
Nor is there any real way
of remaining outside
such a war as the present one.
In practice, ‘he that is not with me
is against me’.”
George Orwell
“The essential act of war is destruction,
not necessarily of human lives,
but of the products of human labour.
War is a way of shattering to pieces,
or pouring into the stratosphere,
or sinking in the depths of the sea,
materials which might otherwise
be used to make the masses
too comfortable,and hence,
in the long run,too intelligent.”
George Orwell, “1984”
“Mankind must put an end to war – or war will put an end to mankind.”
[Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961]
John F. Kennedy
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
Henry Kissinger
“In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Good Will.”
Winston S. Churchill, “The Second World War”
“this is the 21st century and we need
to redefine r/evolution.
this planet needs a peopleโs r/evolution.
a humanist r/evolution.
r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting.
we will fight if we are forced to
but the fundamental goal of
r/evolution must be peace.
we need a r/evolution of the mind.
we need a r/evolution of the heart.
we need a r/evolution of the spirit.
the power of the people is stronger
than any weapon.
a peopleโs r/evolution canโt be stopped.
we need to be weapons
of mass construction.
weapons of mass love.
itโs not enough just to change the system.
we need to change ourselves.
we have got to make this world
user friendly. user friendly.
are you ready to sacrifice
to end world hunger.
to sacrifice to end colonialism.
to end neo-colonialism.
to end racism.
to end sexism.
r/evolution means the end of exploitation.
r/evolution means respecting
people from other cultures.
r/evolution is creative.
r/evolution means treating your
mate as a friend and an equal.
r/evolution is sexy.
r/evolution means respecting and
learning from your children.
r/evolution is beautiful.
r/evolution means protecting
the people.
the plants. the animals. the air. the water.
r/evolution means saving this planet.
r/evolution is love.”
Assata Shakur
“After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons.”
Herodotus
“Let my country die for me.”
James Joyce, “Ulysses”
“If we really saw war,
what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war.
If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichรฉs we use to justify war.
This is why war is carefully sanitized.
This is why we are given war’s perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war’s consequences.
The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertainingโฆ
The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage.
They are war’s refuse.
We do not see them.
We do not hear them.
They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled.
The message they tell is too painful for us to hear.
We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless.“
Chris Hedges “Death of the Liberal Class”
“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.”
Fidel Castro
“For the whole earth is the tomb
of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns
and inscriptions in their own country,
but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them,
graven not on stone
but in the hearts of men.
Make them your examples, and,
esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness,
do not weigh too nicely
the perils of war.”
[Funeral Oration of Pericles]
Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”
“War and drink are the two things
man is never too poor to buy.”
William Faulkner
For me, the most ironic token of
[the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon.
It reads:
“We came in peace for all Mankind.”
As the United States wasdropping
7 ยฝ megatons of conventional
explosives on small nations
inSoutheast Asia,
we congratulated ourselves on
our humanity.
We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”
Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”
“This topic brings me to that
worstoutcrop of herd life,
the military system, which I abhor…
This plague-spot of civilization ought
to be abolished with all possible speed.
Heroism on command,
senseless violence,
and all the loathsome nonsense that
goes by the name of patriotism —
how passionately I hate them!”
Albert Einstein
1. Bangladesh…. In 1971 … Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support
the Pakistani generals in both their
civilian massacre policy in East Bengal
and their armed attack on India
from West Pakistan….
This led to a moral and political catastrophe the effects of which are still sorely felt.
Kissingerโs undisclosed reason for the โtiltโ was the supposed but never materialised โbrokerageโ offered by the dictator Yahya Khan in the course of secret diplomacy between Nixon and China….
Of the new state of Bangladesh,
Kissinger remarked coldly that it
was โa basket caseโ before turning
his unsolicited expertise elsewhere.
2. Chile…. Kissinger had direct personal knowledge of the CIAโs plan to kidnap
and murder General Renรฉ Schneider, the head of the Chilean Armed Forces … who refused to countenance military intervention in politics.
In his hatred for the Allende Government, Kissinger even outdid Richard Helms …
who warned him that a coup insuch
a stable democracy would
behard to procure.
The murder of Schneider nonetheless
went ahead, at Kissingerโs urging and
with American financing, just between Allendeโs election and his confirmation….
This was one of the relatively few times
that Mr Kissinger (his success in getting people to call him โDoctorโ is greater
than that of most PhDs) involved himself
in the assassination of a single named individual rather than the slaughter
of anonymous thousands.
His jocular remark on this occasionโ
โI donโt see why we have to let a country
go Marxist just because its people
are irresponsibleโโsuggests he may
have been having the best of times….
3. Cyprus…. Kissinger approved of the preparations by Greek Cypriot fascists
for the murder of President Makarios,
and sanctioned the coup which tried
to extend the rule of the Athens junta
(a favoured client of his) to the island.
When despite great waste of life this coup failed in its objective, which was also Kissingerโs, of enforced partition, Kissinger promiscuously switched sides to support
an even bloodier intervention by Turkey.
Thomas Boyatt … went to Kissinger
in advance of the anti-Makarios
putschand warned him that it
could leadto a civil war.
โSpare me the civics lecture,โ replied Kissinger, who as you can readily see had an aphorism for all occasions.
4. Kurdistan. Having endorsed the covert policy of supporting a Kurdish revolt
in northern Iraq between 1974 and 1975, with โdeniableโ assistance also provided
by Israel and the Shah of Iran, Kissinger made it plain to his subordinates that
the Kurds were not to be allowed to win,
but were to be employed fortheir
nuisance value alone.
They were not to be told that this was
the case, but soon found out when
the Shah and Saddam Hussein composed their differences, and American
aid to Kurdistan was cut off.
Hardened CIA hands went to Kissinger …
for an aid programme for the many thousands of Kurdish refugees
who were thus abruptly created….
The apercu of the day was: โforeign policy should not he confused with missionary work.โ Saddam Hussein heartily concurred.
5. East Timor. The day after Kissinger left Djakarta in 1975, the Armed Forces
of Indonesia employed American weapons to invade and subjugate the independent former Portuguese colony of East Timor.
Isaacson gives a figure of 100,000 deaths resulting from the occupation, or one-seventh of the population, and there
are good judges who put this
estimateon the low side.
Kissinger was furious when news of
his own collusion was leaked, because
as well as breaking international law
the Indonesians were also violating
an agreement with the United States….
Monroe Leigh … pointed out this awkward latter fact. Kissinger snapped: โThe Israelis when they go into Lebanonโwhen was the last time we protested that?‘
A good question, even if it did not and
does not lie especially well in his mouth.
It goes on and on and on until one
cannot eat enough to vomit enough.”
Christopher Hitchens
“At one time I had given much thought
to why men were so very rarely
capable of living for an ideal.
Now I saw that many, no,
all men were capable of dying for one.”
Hermann Hesse, “Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend”
“We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.”
Howard Zinn
All wars are sacred,โ he said.
โTo those who have to fight them.
If the people who started wars
didnโt make them sacred,who would be
foolish enough to fight?
But, no matter what rallying cries
the orators give to the idiots who fight,
no matter what noble purposes they
assign to wars, there is neverbut
one reason for a war.
And that is money.
All wars are in reality money squabbles.
But so few people ever realize it.
Their ears are too full of bugles
anddrums and the fine words
from stay-at-home orators.
Sometimes the rallying cry is
โsave the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen!โ
Sometimes itโs โdown with Popery!โ
andsometimes โLiberty!โ
and sometimes
โCotton, Slavery and Statesโ Rights!”
Margaret Mitchell, “Gone with the Wind”
“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them.
For example, when the British
invaded India, many Indians accepted
to work for the British to kill off
Indians who resisted their occupation.
So in other words, many Indians were
hired to kill other Indians on behalf
of the enemy for a paycheck.
Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own people – and people of other nations – for a paycheck.
To act without a conscience,
but for a paycheck,
makes anyone a dangerous animal.
The devil would be powerless
if he couldn’t entice people
to do his work.
So as long as money continuesto seduce
the hungry, the hopeless, the broken,
the greedy, and the needy,
there will always be
war between brothers.”
Suzy Kassem
“Peace is such hard work.
Harder than war.
It takes way more effort
to forgive than to kill.”
Rae Carson, “The Bitter Kingdom” (Fire and Thorns, #3)
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
Arrest for its breach is more so.
Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence.
This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.”
Mahatma Gandhi, “Non-violence in Peace and War” 1942-1949
“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”
Sigmund Freud
“In war,
the strong make slaves of the weak,
and in peace,
the rich makes slaves of the poor.”
Oscar Wilde
“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one’s fatherland
is to wish evil to one’s neighbors.
The citizen of the universe would be
the man who wishes his countrynever to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.”
Voltaire, “Philosophical Dictionary”
“A democracy which makes or eveneffectively prepares for modern,
A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”
Steven Galloway, “The Cellist of Sarajevo”
“There has never been a just [war],
never an honorable one —
on the part of the instigator of the war.
I can see a million years ahead,
and this rule will never change
in so many as half a dozen instances.
The loud little handful— as usual —
willshout for the war.
The pulpit will–warily and cautiously–object–at first;
the great, big, dull bulk of the nation
will rub its sleepy eyes and tryto
make out why there should be a war,
and will say, earnestly and indignantly,
‘It is unjust and dishonorable,
and there is no necessity for it.
‘ Then the handful will shout louder.
A few fair men on the other side will
argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity.
Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform,
and free speech strangled by hordesof furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers–as earlier–but do not dare say so.
And now the whole nation–pulpit and all–will take up the war-cry, and shout
itself hoarse, and mob any honest man
who ventures to open his mouth;
and presently such mouths
will cease to open.
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,
and will diligently study them, and refuse
to examine any refutations of them;
and thus he will by and by convince
himself the war is just,
and will thank God
for the better sleep he enjoys
after this processof
grotesque self-deception.”
Mark Twain, “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”
“We often think of peace
as the absence of war,
that if powerful countries
would reduce their weapon arsenals,
we could have peace.
But if we look deeplyinto the weapons,
we see our own minds– our own
prejudices,fears and ignorance.
Even if we transport all the bombs
to the moon, the roots of war
and the roots of bombs are still there,
in our hearts and minds,
and sooner or later we will
make new bombs.
To work for peace is to uproot warfrom ourselves and from the hearts
of men and women.
To prepare for war,
to give millions of men and women
the opportunity to practice killing
day and night in their hearts,
is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, “Living Buddha, Living Christ”
“There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead.
I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.”
Bernard Cornwell, “Death of Kings” (The Saxon Stories, #6)
“That there are men in all countries
who get their living by war,
and by keeping up the quarrels
of Nations is as shocking as it is true…”
Thomas Paine
“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps
and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees,
except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don’t mind admitting it.
They worship money and power and death.
Their ideal solution to all the
nation’s problems would be
another 100 Year War.”
Hunter S. Thompson,ย “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century”
“Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy.
Absolute truth is blind truth.”
Deepak Chopra, “The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore”
“What is so often said about the solders
of the 20th century is thatthe
foughtto make us free.
Which is a wonderful sentiment and
one witch should evoke tremendous gratitude if in fact there was a shred
of truth in that statement but,
it’s not true.
It’s not even close to true
in fact it’s the opposite of truth.
There’s this myth around that people believe that the way to honor deaths of so many of millions of people; that the way to honor is to say that we achieved some tangible, positive, good, out of their death’s.
That’s how we are supposed to
honor their deaths.
We can try and rescue some positive
and forward momentum of human progress, of human virtue from these hundreds of millions of death’s but we
don’t do it by pretending that they’d died
to set us free because we are less free;
far less free now then we were
beforethese slaughters began.
These people did not die to set us free.
They did not die fighting any enemy
other than the ones that the
previous deaths created.
The beginning of wisdom is to call
things by their proper names.
Solders are paid killers, and I say this
with a great degree of sympathy to young men and women who are suckered into
a life of evil through propaganda and the labeling of heroic to a man in costume who kills for money and the life of honor is accepting ordered killings for money, prestige, and pensions.
We create the possibility of moral choice
by communicating truth
about ethics to people.
That to me is where real heroism
and real respect for the dead lies.
Real respect for the dead lies in exhuming the corpses and hearing what they would say if they could speak out; and they
would say: If any ask us why we died tell
it’s because our fathers lied, tell them it’s because we were told that charging up a hill and slaughtering our fellow man was heroic, noble, and honorable.
But these hundreds of millions of ghosts encircled the world in agony, remorse
will not be released from our collective unconscious until we lay the truth of
theirmurders on the table and look
at the horror that is the lie;
that murder for money can be moral, that murder for prestige can be moral.
These poor young men and woman propagandized into an undead ethical status lied to about what is noble,
virtuous, courageous, honorable, decent, and good to the point that they’re rolling hand grenades into children’s rooms and the illusion that, that is going to make the world a better place.
We have to stare this in the face if we want to remember why these people died. They did not die to set us free. They did not die to make the world a better place. They died because we are ruled by sociopaths. The only thing that can create a better world is the truth is the virtue is the honor and courage of standing up to the genocidal lies of mankind and calling them lies and ultimate corruptions.
The trauma and horrors of this century of staggering bloodshed of the brief respite of the 19th century. This addiction to blood and the idea that if we pour more bodies into the hole of the mass graves of the 20th century, if we pour more bodies and more blood we can build some sort of cathedral to a better place but it doesn’t happen. We can throw as many young men and woman as we want into this pit of slaughter and it will never be full. It will never do anything other than sink and recede further into the depths of hell. We canโt build a better world on bodies. We canโt build peace on blood. If we don’t look back and see the army of the dead of the 20th century calling out for us to see that they died to enslave us. That whenever there was a war the government grew and grew.
We are so addicted to this lie. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue. It drowns us, drowns our children, our future, and the world. When we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death; we follow it.”
Stefan Molyneux
“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans
ofthe wounded who cry aloud for blood,
more vengeance, more desolation.
War is hell.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
Our enemies are Medes and Persians,
men who for centuries have lived
soft and luxurious lives;
we of Macedon for generations past
have been trained in the hard school
of danger and war.
Above all, we are free men,
and they are slaves.
There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service โ but how different
is their cause from ours!
They will be fighting for pay โ and not much of at that; we, on the contrary,
shall fight for Greece, and our
heartswill be in it.
As for our foreign troops โ Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes โ they
are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia.
And what, finally, of the two men
in supreme command?
You have Alexander, they โ Darius!”
Alexander the Great
“If I had known they were going to do this,
I would have become a shoemaker.”
Albert Einstein
“One question in my mind,
which I hardly dare mention in public,
is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world.
Patriotism is rampant in war and
there are some good things about it.
Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family,
pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people.
War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them
to be ready to die for it.
At no time do people work so well
together to achieve the same goal
as they do in wartime.
Maybe that’s enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue.
If only I could get out of my mind
the most patriotic people
who ever lived,
the Nazi Germans.”
Andy Rooney, “My War”
“My own concern is primarily the
terror and violence carried out by
my own state, for two reasons.
For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence.
But also for a much more important
reason than that; namely, I can
do something about it.
So even if the U.S. was responsible
for 2 percent of the violence in the
world instead of the majority of it,
it would bethat 2 percent I would
be primarily responsible for.
And that is a simple ethical judgment.
That is, the ethical value of one’s actions depends on their anticipated
and predictable consequences.
It is very easy to denounce the
atrocitiesof someone else.
That has about as much ethical value
as denouncing atrocities that
took place in the 18th century.”
Noam Chomsky
“We are in the hands of men whosepower and wealth have separatedthem
from the reality of daily life
and from the imagination.
We are right to be afraid.”
Grace Paley
“Wars of nations are fought
to change maps.
But wars of poverty are fought
to map change.”
Muhammad Ali
“What passing bells for these
who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifle’s rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them;
no prayers, nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells, And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held
to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes, Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall, Their flowers the tenderness
of patient minds, And each, slow dusk a drawing
down of blinds.”
Wilfred Owen, The War Poems
Millions of fathers in rain Millions of mothers in pain Millions of brothers in woe
Millions of sisters nowhere to go
Millions of daughters walk in the mud Millions of children wash in the flood A million girls vomit and groan Millions of families hopeless alone”
Allen Ginsberg, “Poems”
“No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as ’embedded.’
To say, ‘I’m an embedded journalist’ is to say, ‘I’m a government Propagandist.”
Noam Chomsky, “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World”
“Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism…
neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers
would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves
and their collaborators that one
of the worlds greatest atrocities
was really morally praiseworthy.”
Richard Weikart, “From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany”
“War means fighting.
The business of the soldier is to fight.
Armies are not called out to dig trenches,
to throw up breastworks,to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time.
This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance,
and so would be an economy of life
and property in the end.”
Stonewall Jackson
“I have seen war.
I have seen war on land and sea.
I have seen blood running from
the wounded.
I have seen men coughing out their
gassed lungs.
I have seen the dead in the mud.
I have seen cities destroyed.
I have seen 200 limping, exhausted
men come out of lineโthe survivors
of a regiment of 1,000 that went
forward 48 hours before.
I have seen children starving.
I have seen the agony of mothers and wives.
I hate war.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“How is the world ruled and led to war?
Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”
Karl Kraus
“Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and
the idea that it’s fired by a guy who doesn’t make that in a year at a guy who doesn’t make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the
war seem winnable.”
Sebastian Junger, “War”
“But what are a hundred million deaths?
When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.
And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead,
a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff
of smoke in the imagination.”
Albert Camus
“I have never advocated war except
as means of peace, so seek peace,
but prepare for war.
Because war…
War never changes.
War is like winter and winter is coming.”
Ulysses S Grant
“I do not say that there is no glory
to be gained [in war];
but it is not personal glory.
In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil,
not to gratify ambition, but for freedom,
for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.”
G. A. HENTY
“World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that
has ever taken place on earth.
Any writer who said otherwise lied,
So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.”
Ernest Hemingway
“In peace, children inter their parents;
war violates the order of natureand
causes parents to inter their children.”
Herodotus
“Perpetual peace is a futile dream.”
Gen. George S. Patton
“Such then is the human condition,
that to wish greatness for one’s country
is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.”
Voltaire
“It is precisely that requirement
ofshared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual manand the human race since
the beginning of history.
In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords
and killed one another.
They have invented gods and challenged each other:
“Discard your gods and worship mineor
I will destroy both your godsand you!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”
What a terrible thing war is,
what a terrible thing!”
Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace”
“When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,’ he said,
‘all the efforts of culture seem worthless.
What have people learned from all
our Goethes and Bachs?
To kill babies?”
Vasily Grossman, “Life and Fate”
“Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also
those who are most likely to decide
that some things, after all,
are worth fighting for.”
Christopher Hitchens, “The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens”
“I have never advocated war
except as a means of peace.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern
by the arts of peace.”
Machiavelli, Niccolo
“War has no longer the justification that
it makes for the survival of the fittest;
it involves the survival of the less fit.
The idea that the struggle between nations is a part of the evolutionary law of man’s advance involves a profound misreading
of the biological analogy.
The warlike nations do not inherit the earth; they represent
the decaying human element.”
Norman Angell, “The Great Illusion”
“Homo sapiens!
The name itself was an irony.
They had not been wise at all,
but incredibly stupid.
Lords of the Earth with their great gray brains, their thinking minds had placed them above all other forms of life.
Yet it had not been thought that compelled them to act, but emotion.
From the dawn of their evolution they had killed, and conquered, and subdued.
They had committed atrocities on others
of their kind, ravaged the land, polluted
and destroyed, left millions to starve
in Third World countries, and finished
it all with a nuclear holocaust.
The mutants were right.
Intelligent creatures did not commit genocide, or murder the environment
on which they were dependent.”
Louise Lawrence, “Children of the Dust”
“War: first, one hopes to win;
then one expects the enemy to lose;
then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering;
in the end, one is surprised that
everyone has lost.”
Karl Kraus
“War is unlike life.
It’s a denial of everything you learn life is.
And that’s why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can’t be bettered learned in civilian life.
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It is from the epithet of a parable, explaining that a fool waits for the stream to stop before crossing, while a wise man forgoes comfort and crosses anyway.
It is a frequently used motto for academic institutions.
Kant answers the question in the first sentence of the essay: “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity (Unmรผndigkeit).”
He argues that the immaturity is self-inflicted not from a lack of understanding, but from the lack of courage to use one’s reason, intellect, and wisdom without the guidance of another.
Kant argued that using one’s reason is considered dangerous by most men and all women.
He exclaims that the motto of the Enlightenment is “Sapere aude“! โ Dare to be wise!
“Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage.
Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.
Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another.
Sapere Aude!
‘Have courage to use your own reason!’- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
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Apollo BTC – A Bitcoin ASIC Miner and Desktop Class Computer running a Full Node
Introducing the FutureBit Apollo BTC
Six CPU Cores. 44 ASIC Cores. 1TB NVMe Based SSD Drive. Quiet. Less than 200 Watts of Power. Made in the USA. This is what the Future of Bitcoin looks like.
FutureBit Apollo BTC is the world’s first vertically integrated platform bringing the full power of Bitcoin and itโs mining infrastructure in a small, quiet, easy to use desktop device designed for everyday people.
We have iterated and learned much from our first Apollo product. We realized early on that we focused too much on the mining aspect, and not enough on the software, applications, and services that run Bitcoin. Too many of these services have moved to online centralized websites, and many users have given up on running the core software that powers Bitcoin.
This must change, as Bitcoin will not continue to be the free, un-censorable, decentralized system it is today if only a few control the mining that powers it, and the nodes that control it.
At the heart of the new Apollo BTC product is a revamped SBC (Single Board Computer), that is as powerful as any consumer grade desktop system and can run almost any Bitcoin Application natively on the device 24/7. Take it out of the Box, plug it in, power it on, and you are already running a full Bitcoin node without needing to do anything.
Install a wallet of your choice, use any hardware wallet, run BTCPayServer, run a block explorer, run a Lightning Node. All of this is possible with our six core ARM based CPU with 4GB of RAM, and a 1TB NVMe drive that can easily store a FULL non pruned Bitcoin Node. It can power through a Full Node Sync in under 48 hours, which is a record for a device of its class! This is almost an order of magnitude faster than any Raspberry Pi 4 based Node.
On top of this we have taken our 6 years of experience building ASIC mining devices, and engineered the only American Made TeraHash range Bitcoin mining device that can be silent on your desk, mine Bitcoin in the background 24/7, and only use the power of one light bulb to do it.
We did this with our optimized PCB design that has carefully placed all 44 hash cores underneath our custom cold-forged aluminum induction heatsink, which draws up to 200 Watts of heat away from the device with our new nearly silent 25mm fan. This results in the Apollo BTC in Turbo Mode being just as quiet as the Apollo LTC in Eco Mode!
Like our previous products, we are super proud that we can continue manufacturing the Apollo BTC in the USA, and are now the only USA based company that delivers Bitcoin ASIC products with a supply chain whole owned in the western hemisphere (no more reliance on Chinese based ASICS, and their willingness to only sell to large farms and the highest bidder).
OPTIONS
Full Apollo Package: This is our Full Package option that comes with everything you need in the box. The Apollo BTC Unit with our latest controller built in, and our 200W Power supply with power cable.
Full Apollo Package NO Power Supply: We are also offering the Full Package with no power supply for people that want the plug-n-play experience but have spare 12v ATX power supply.
Standard: This option is ONLY the Apollo ASIC Miner, with no controller or power supply. Our new hashboard has a micro USB port, and can be used as a USB device. The Full Apollo Node can control multiple standard units through its USB ports. We wanted to give our customers an option to expand their hash power in a cost effective way. If you already have a Raspberry Pi, or Linux/Windows Desktop Computer and a power supply with two PCIE power ports you can also control our Standard unit in this way with our stand alone miner software (please note this setup will be for more advanced users, and the software will be command line based on launch).
Standard + Power Supply: Same as our Standard unit above, but comes with our 200W Power supply. This is a plug and play solution if you already have a Full Apollo Package. Take it out of the box, plug in the power supply, plug in the micro USB cable to the back of your Full Apollo BTC and it will automatically recognize the second hashboard and start mining!
Compact All-In-One Desktop Bitcoin System (4x6x4in) that mines Bitcoin and any SHA256 based crypto (Bitcoin Cash etc).
Powerful 6 ARM Core CPU with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and 1TB NVMe SSD (NOT included in the Standard or Standard + package).
Comes Pre-Installed with a Bitcoin node, and you can install almost any Bitcoin Application
Very wide range of operation modes with preset ECO (quiet) mode, BALANCED, and TURBO mode.
2-3.8 TH/s of SHA256 performance per miner (+/- 5%)
125 Watts in ECO mode, and 200 Watts in TURBO * +/- 10%
Can be used as a full Desktop computer with a monitor keyboard and mouse (not included), or through our Web UI
Connect almost any peripheral with our USB 3.0 ports, USB C port, HDMI, AC Wifi, and Bluetooth
Clocks and Power is fully customizable by user with easy to use interface
Hashboard now monitors both voltage and power draw for accurate measurements*
Custom designed cold forged hexagonal pin heatsink with leading thermal performance for the quietest ASIC miner in operation!
1k-5k RPM Quiet Dual Ball Bearing Fan with automatic thermal management with onboard temperature sensor
Controlled via local connection on a web browser similar to antminers. You can simply set it up via smartphone browser. No crazy driver installs, hard to use miner software or scripts needed.
Two Six Pin PCIE power connectors for wide-range of power draw
Custom Designed all Aluminum case
Ships with our own custom built 200W 94% efficient PSU and is ready to run out of the box! (Does NOT come with Standard package).
Requirements:
Router with an Ethernet cable for initial setup OR Monitor with keyboard and mouse
At least a 250 watt 12v power supply with two 6 Pin PCIE connector is required (unless you order our packages that come with our power supply). This is the same connector used by all modern GPUs. Please note even standard units NEED a power supply, they cant be powered through the USB port on the full package unit.
As I am the owner of two of these beauties, that I have on my office as you saw in the photo above, I took the liberty to make Free-Publicity for the FutureBit Apollo Btc Miner.
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Bitcoin surges after accidentally released Treasury statement
Prices of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have soared following the apparent accidental release of a U.S. Treasury statement on Bidenโs expected executive order on digital assets.
The premature statement by Treasury Secretary Yellen, which was dated March 9, hasย since been removed.
โPresident Bidenโs historic executive order calls for a coordinated and comprehensive approach to digital asset policy.ย This approach will support responsible innovation that could result in substantial benefits for the nation, consumers, and businesses.ย
It will also address risks related to illicit finance, protecting consumers and investors, and preventing threats to the financial system and broader economy.โ
Quote from the now deleted statement
At the time of writing, Bitcoin is up nearly 8% in the last 24 hours.
Bidenโs executive order aims to regulate the crypto market while also reaping the benefits of digital currencies.
So far, like most countries in the world, the US has tended to react to developments and has limited itself to pointing to a political-economic approach that is yet to be developed.
Statement by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on President Biden’s Executive Order on Digital Assets
March 9, 2022
WASHINGTON –ย U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen released the following statement on President Biden’s executive order on digital assets.ย
“President Bidenโs historic executive order calls for a coordinated and comprehensive approach to digital asset policy.ย This approach will support responsible innovation that could result in substantial benefits for the nation, consumers, and businesses.ย It will also address risks related to illicit finance, protecting consumers and investors, and preventing threats to the financial system and broader economy.
Under the executive order, Treasury will partner with interagency colleagues to produce a report on the future of money and payment systems. Weโll also convene the Financial Stability Oversight Council to evaluate the potential financial stability risks of digital assets and assess whether appropriate safeguards are in place. And, because the questions raised by digital assets often have important cross-border dimensions, weโll work with our international partners to promote robust standards and a level playing field.
This work will complement ongoing efforts by Treasury. Already, the Department has worked with the Presidentโs Working Group on Financial Markets, the FDIC, and OCC to study one particular kind of digital asset โ stablecoinsโ and to make recommendations. Under the executive order, Treasury and interagency partners will build upon the recently published National Risk Assessments, which identify key illicit financing risks associated with digital assets.ย
As we take on this important work, weโll be guided by consumer and investor protection groups, market participants, and other leading experts. ย Treasury will work to promote a fairer, more inclusive, and more efficient financial system, while building on our ongoing work to counter illicit finance, and prevent risks to financial stability and national security.”
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Assigning the most powerful supercomputer to mine bitcoin would be comparable to hiring a grandmaster chess player to move a pile of bricks by hand.
The job would get done eventually but the chess player is much better at thinking and playing chess than exerting energy to repetitively move bricks.ย
Likewise, combining the computing power of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and using them to mine bitcoin would essentially be pointless when compared to the ASIC machines used today.
ASICs are designed to do one thing as quickly and efficiently as possible, whereas a supercomputer is designed to do complicated tasks or math problems.
Since Bitcoin mining is a lottery based on random trial and error rather than complex math, specialization (ASICs)beatsgeneral excellence (supercomputers) everytime.
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Most people misunderstand what bitcoin miners actually do, and as a result they don’t fully grasp the level of security provided by bitcoin’s hashrate.
In this article, we’ll explain proof of work in a non-technical way so that youโll be able to counter the misinformation about supercomputers and quantum computers attacking the Bitcoin network in the future.
Simply put, mining is a lottery to create new blocks in the Bitcoin blockchain. There are two main purposes for mining:
To permanently add transactions to the blockchain without the permission of any entity.
To fairly distribute the 21 million bitcoin supply by rewarding new coins to miners who spend real world resources (i.e. electricity) to secure the network.
To understand what is actually happening in this lottery system, let’s look at a simple analogy where every Bitcoin hash is equivalent to a dice roll.
Luck, Gambling, and SHA-256
Imagine that miners in the Bitcoin Network are all individuals gambling at a casino. In this example, each of these gamblers have a 1000 sided dice. They roll their die as quickly as possible, trying to get a number less than 10. Statistically, this may take a very long time, but as more gamblers join the game, the time it takes to hit a number less than 10 gets reduced. In short, more gamblers equals quicker rounds.
Once somebody successfully rolls a number less than 10, all gamblers at the table can look down and verify the number. This lucky gambler takes the prize money and the next round begins.
Ultimately, the process of mining bitcoin is very similar. All miners on the network are using Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), which are specialized computers designed to compute hashes as quickly as possible.
To โcompute a hashโ simply means plugging any random input into a mathematical function and producing an output.
More hashes per second (i.e. higher hashrate) is equivalent to more dice rolls per second, and thus a greater probability of success.
Miners propose a potential Bitcoin block of transactions, and use this for an input. The block is plugged into the SHA256 hash function which yields a fixed-sized output, known as a hash. A single hash can be computed in less than a millisecond, as it involves no complex math.
If the hash value is lower than the Bitcoin Network difficulty, then the miner who proposed the block wins. If not, then the miner continues trying by computing more hashes.
The successful minerโs block is then added to the blockchain, the miner is rewarded with newly issued bitcoin for their work, and the โnext roundโ begins.
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“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”
Carl Sagan, “Cosmos”
“The only true Wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates
“Any fool can know.
The point is to understand.”
Albert Einstein
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.“
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.”
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
Frederick Lewis Donaldson
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
John Locke
“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
Dan Brown, “The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)”
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
Socrates
“Confidence is ignorance.
If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.”
Eoin Colfer, “Artemis Fowl”
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others.
You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”
Isaac Asimov
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
Carl Sagan, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”
“I mean, you could claim thatย anything’sย real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’sย provedย it doesn’t exist!”
J.K. Rowling
“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life.
Like air, no one should be denied it.”
Alan Moore, “V for Vendetta”
“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well.
He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree.
Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty.
First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe.
Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is …
I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.
At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees.
I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty.
I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes.
The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color.
It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms?
Why is it aesthetic?
All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower.
It only adds.
I don’t understand how it subtracts.”
Richard P. Feynman, “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
Pablo Picasso
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle”
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.
I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have.
Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic.
I finally decided that I’m a creature of emotion as well as of reason.
Emotionally, I am an atheist.
I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.”
Isaac Asimov
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success”
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
William Blake
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment.
Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”
(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)
Albert Einstein
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
Charles Darwin, “The Descent of Man”
“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
Confucius
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
Isaac Newton
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject…
And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages.
There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them…
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
Seneca, “Natural Questions”
“The knowledge of all thingsย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย is possible.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”
Lao Tzu
“What transforms this world is โ knowledge.
Do you see what I mean?
Nothing else can change anything in this world.
Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is.
When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
Yukio Mishima, “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”
“Doubt โฆ is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
Gustave Flaubert, “Memoirs of a Madman”
“Information is not knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
“The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”
Imam Al-Ghazali
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
Lao Tzu
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
Frank Herbert
“No, our science is no illusion.
But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
Sigmund Freud, “The Future of an Illusion”
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason”
“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
James Madison
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
Hippocrates
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge.
Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
John Adams,ย “The Works Of John Adams”, Second President Of The United States
“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Maxims and Reflections”
“How little we know of what there is to know.
I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time.
I’d like to be an old man to really know.
I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand.
I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of.
I wish there was more time.”
Ernest Hemingway,ย “For Whom The Bell Tolls“
“Timendi causa est nescire –
Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “Natural Questions“
“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
Napoleon Hill, “Think and Grow Rich”
“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation.
This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretationโฆ for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
Edward Said
“Scientia potentia est.
Knowledge is power.”
Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan”
“Ipsa scientia potestas est.”
Knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon, “Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy”
“The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
John Locke, “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”
“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”
Leonardo da Vinci “Leonardo’s Notebooks”
“Share your knowledge.
It is a way to achieve immortality.”
Dalai Lama XIV
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Leo Tolstoy
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
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Features Of AutodidactismBenefits of Being an AutodidactLeonardo da VinciRabindranath Tagore
“My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself.
We need more dissent and less dogma.”
Camille Paglia
“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.”
Anthony Esolen
“There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.”
Christopher Langan
“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system.
Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts.
Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Forget I mentioned it.
This song has no message.
Rise for the flag salute.”
Frank Zappa, liner notes for song “Hungry Freaks Daddy” on the albumย “Freak Out!“
“That man is intellectually of the mass who, in the face of any problem, is satisfied with thinking the first thing he finds in his head.
On the contrary, the excellent man is he who condemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached.”
Josรฉ Ortega y Gasset,ย The Revolt of the Massesย (1929)
“When brought to the proletariat from the capitalist class, science is invariably adapted to suit capitalist interests.
What the proletariat needs is a scientific understanding of its own position in society.
That kind of science a worker cannot obtain in the officially and socially approved manner. …
For this reason he must be completely self-taught.”
Karl Kautsky
“Only the autodidacts are free.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb,ย “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”
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BTC total daily payout is 6.25 BTC * 6 times per hour * 24hours…on average = 900 BTC mined every day.ย
That has to be spread out, on average, evenly across then ENTIRE network.ย Granted, luck is involved, so it isn’t exactly even, but on average, it should be.
If network is running at 17,608,758 TH/s, and every TH gets an even share of the reward, then that would be 1800BTC / 17,608,758 TH/s = .00010222 BTC/(TH/s).
You then take that figure and multiply by number of TH for miner, and then you get daily BTC revenue ; )
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