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

in #life5 years ago

Mathematics is all about principles, such as that 1+1 will always equal 2.

What is the difference between someone who says that 1+1=2 and someone who says 1+1=3? In the answer? No. The answer is only the manifestation. The difference is that one knows arithmetic and the other does not.

Because, what is the merit of knowing the answer if you don't know the why for it? Can we say that someone who does not know how to add, but knows that 1+1=2, is someone with knowledge? It is not. And in fact, there is no difference between the one who says such a thing and the one who says that the result is another, since no one knows how to add.

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

The one who knows how to add not only knows that 1+1=2, but if you ask him for another add he will also give you the correct answer. He who knows only the answer will not be able to answer if you ask him another question.

What instruments are these?

It does not matter what lies they speak, what power they claim. They are wrong, and we free men are right.

So, I live free, because I will die whether or not I submit to slavery.

I will die free.

"If you had any knowledge of the noble things of life, you would refrain from coveting others' possessions; but for me to die for Greece is better than to be the sole ruler over the people of my race."

That was the response of a Greek when the Persian king offered him the reign of all Greece in exchange for his vassalage.

I'm sorry to have extended. Regards!

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"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.

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