Personal opinions

Fundamentals:
  1. Human Rights should be applied everywhere
  2. We are free ONLY if we can choose, i.e. if we have alternatives.
  3. LOVE is the feeling and the attitude to have toward everybody and everything.
Remarks:
  • I wish that humanity could free itself from all the Holy Books that exists
  • I do not like any fundamentalism: political, religious or whatever
  • Human being should learn to think with their own brain and refuse any "undiscutable truth"
  • Behavior should be based on ethic and philosophy, i.e. every time you are allowed to question it.
  • The UNO Charta for the Human Rights should be respected everywhere.
    I cannot but soffer when thinking for instance of the brutalities that women have to experience in some countries.
    Same for poverty, children labour, sex exploitation, hillnesses and so on.

  • I am not fighting the idea of one (or more) gods: this discussion can be done but is not now my major goal. I am fighting religions as associations in which the members have to accept ideas without being allowed to question them. I do not like persons who have a nearly dictatorship power over the members of their community. Many issues just have the purpose of keeping people under control, i.e. is an issue of POWER of some people over the others (the followers). In every hierarchical system every one on the power ladder try to keep and increase his power. Being the one who can interpret the word of God gives power over others. Who will deliberately receds from his power?

  • Humanity is just one step in evolution. I could imagine something coming out of it who will not be a slave of our hormons and genes. What about a new creature (whose body is the whole planet) with a brain build up from billion of brains (eventually not all of them of human being but also of silicon chips?). Is the Internet not a first small step in this direction?

Sentences from clever people

  • Nelson Mandela:
    If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
  • Yitzhak Rabin:
    Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
  • From Scientific American, January 2017, in an article from Michael Shermer:
    Nobel economist Daniel Kahneman said that "people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers".
    Bill James said once: "People horribly overestimate the extent to which they understand the world"
    and
    "The world is billion of times more complicated than any of us understand and because we are desperate to understand the world, we buy into these explanations that give us the illusion of understanding".
    Thomas Paine in his 1776 pamphlet "common sense" wrote "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. "
    Later Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book "The Structure of Scientific Revolution" wrote that his "most fundamental objective is to urge a change in the perception and evaluation of familiar data".

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