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RE: Freedom is Danger. Life is Danger. The Alternative to Danger is Death.

in #life5 years ago

"It does not matter to have the correct answer, it matters to have the instruments to reach it."

This is why I spoke of principle. It is the reason that 1+1 always equals 2 that I pointed to as the principle underlying mathematics, and compared to the principles I have discovered regarding how to live. If we just memorize the Ten Commandments, we may avoid committing murder, but we will not understand, perhaps, why murder is evil and can't be undertaken without concomitant harm to ourselves and that which really matters to us.

We may gain property by murder, but will lose what is far more valuable, though it cannot be sold, fill a bank account, or be turned into dollars. Money is of no value whatsoever. It is the things that money cannot buy that have the most value, and those things money can buy are but potentially of value if we make use of them appropriately.

Thanks!