The Lost Chapters

Recovering the lost chapters of wisdom and the art of life. Traveling through time seeking truth and unveiling the mysteries of life.

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All over the globe, for billions of us, the headstones of our graves will bear exactly the same inscription: “Here lies the body of a person who was an adequate employee. He did what he was told and paid his... https://t.co/RkYfhoCWl7

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Dogmatism is all about establishing laws that are never allowed to be called into question. We reject all dogmas. There are no sacred cows. Everything must justify itself dialectically or be swept aside as irrelevant.

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Do you know when a legend turns into a prophecy? When it earns believers.

#Phronesis

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Now you see, either by praying you think that god have arranged things in the wrong way andc thus suggesting you are able to correct the flow of things, or you are just a pathetic loser who blames his/her fate for his/her own mistakes. https://t.co/Iu3LnDYr4m

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Put an end to your ego, or as I have recently started to call it: the lower self, in order to reach your higher one. Enlightenment is your sole asset throughout your path. Only the worthy will cross the bridge, from ignorance, to knowledge.

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A nice read I wanted to share with you:

Zadig left the royal presence full of perplexity and despair, and having his heart oppressed with a bur-den which he was no longer able to bear. In the violence of his pertur-bation he... https://t.co/uzG4G92kXw

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We truly need a new Enlightenment.

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Amsterdam was the historical refuge for great philosophers and free thinkers running away from the Church's persecution. This is now on my list of the "must visit" cities. https://t.co/sMsGktjAjg

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“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”

― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

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One has to extremely believe in order to stop believing.

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Funny how simple it is and yet it occurred to me only and just now. Worse than the typical "Narcissist Pervert" who would feed on their victims' emotions, exploiting their self-esteem problems, faith will... https://t.co/TR4aw0k7Xh

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So basically, in order for each sect to prove his own revelation right, it’s adepts will engage in endless wars and hatred and bloodshed, for what again? Oh yes, a paradise merely described as a never ending... https://t.co/c4plODRvxR

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Instead of talking about change, be that change. https://t.co/1ErLGALM8t

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When psychology and religion meet... only Philosophy can achieve that.

“Whoever loves God cannot strive that God should love him in return”. In other words only a deeply distorted and infantile narcissism... https://t.co/BZi5OS1SCw

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I wanted to sell my soul to the devil, then I figured that making a deal with myself is actually void, worthless and even worse: a mere delusion.

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As cute as this might look and I love it but I’ve seen something else lol.... isn’t it interesting that shepherds spend a lot of their time out in the wilds, meditating and thinking? Isn’t it... https://t.co/57h0Wtmxu8

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When I see this kind of photos, I really start to wonder what life really is. Any living organism has a complex set of cells, proteins and organs that perform a specific set of chemical or mechanical operations.... https://t.co/BjazAnKwcK

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Who said that “God” doesn’t have a sens of humor? https://t.co/sB84PUm75A

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If you don’t have the courage to fully express yourself without the fear of external judgment and criticism then the way you conceive your ideas is not bulletproof, nor objective enough. If you are willing to... https://t.co/lHiJ7REfUO