On Treating Others Well

It has been said, "Treat others as you would be treated."

I say, treat others better than you would be treated. We should treat others better than we are ourselves treated, and not just because we underestimate how well we are treated -- and overestimate how poorly we are treated. To create virtue, we must be more virtuous than are others around us.

On Wealth and Evil

It has been said that love of money is the root of all evil.

I say covetousness and envy is the root of all evil. Do not want what others have -- want what you can earn by making value in the world. If you cannot make something others value, what fault is it of theirs? Or of others who were wise enough to create value for others?

The person who creates value for others has already given back. And they have given back far more than anything they may have taken -- assuming they have taken anything at all. Wealth is not created by taking from others. Wealth is created when value is exchanged for value, when two have increased value in the world and are better off for having exchanged what they had that the other wanted.

Wealth is only ever created or destroyed -- it cannot be redistributed. Only richest can be redistributed.

Wealth has nothing to do with money.

Heaven on Earth

God is love.

Yes, and beauty, too.

We must aim to be like God so we can reach human virtue -- aim high to hit the target.

But the aim is not the target.

Hell is attained when the two are confused.

The Parable of the Man and the Cows

There was a man who bought a milking cow.
The farmer he had bought it from had let
Him milk the cow as often as he'd wanted,
And she produced more milk than any cow
He'd ever milked before. And so he bought
The cow, deciding he would rather have
It at his home instead of someplace else.
Perhaps he'd even get a bit more milk.

He bought the cow and brought it home and milked
It several times a day. It kept producing
The way it did before he bought it for
A year, but then it slowly, surely made
A little less, a little less, and less.
Before he knew it, the cow made a quart
A week, and sometimes would not give up that.
But, needing milk, he found another cow.

The first cow, out of anger, kicked her stall
And broke out, kicked the straw around until
Some straw ignited on the heater. She
Ran out, but everything within the barn
Was burned. The man then sold her to the butcher.
The new cow made more milk, but in a year
The new cow cut off her supply as well.
Now, who's the fool? Is it the man? The cows?

Introduction

Today begins an era, something new, a Renaissance in human thought. It's true that many errors still remain in human thought,  but many rectify the is and ought.

Can you both think and speak? Can you think two disparate thoughts, then rectify the two? I welcome you into the new posthuman mind. We are the future we will make.

Be gone with power! We have love! No will! We've beauty on our side. With truth we'll fill the world. We have a love of virtue for its sake.

We understand that beauty is truth; truth, beauty. We understand that virtue aims at the beautiful. We understand that beauty, truth, and virtue are all complex. And we love that complexity. We love the individuals from which these all emerge; we love the orders which emerge as well, that emerge naturally, that are naturally beautiful, if only we could come to see and understand that beauty. But it is difficult to see the beauty of an object when you live in side it.

Embrace the beauty that you make from interacting with each other to realize your values! Embrace the beauty that you make from making your and others much more wealthy from the increase in your values. Embrace the fact that others have values you don't have, and do not need to have to be a decent person. Why should a person have to be like you in order to be virtuous? Why must they share the rankings of your values? The virtuous person allows all others to realize their values and to create the orders which reward them in their loving pursuit.

Embrace the beauty that you make from being virtuous, from demonstrating you're a noble soul. Embrace the hero! Embrace the genius! Know the heights so you can aim at them.

Yes, truth is found in science, but do not leave all truth to scientists! We must find truth in human things and not just in the worlds of physics, chemistry, biology. The laws are there if we will look. But complex systems cannot be predicted perfectly, but only in their patterns. Do not mistake human things for physical things! Or even biological things for physical things! Or even quantum physical things for billiard balls! It's complex laws for complex network processes everywhere. We learn more of the world through human things than human things by learning of the world.