#Arrogance

[awesomecooperlove]

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[philosophybits]

Nowadays men shun mercy, but try to be brave; they abandon economy, but try to be generous; they do not believe in humility, but always try to be first. This is certain death.

Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 67)

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

The Tower of Babel

1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick instead of stone and slime instead of mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of the man built. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they all have one language; and they begin to do this, and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. 7 Now, let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel because there the LORD confounded the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth. — Genesis 11:1-9 | The Jubilee Bible (JUB) The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010. Cross References: Genesis 1:26; Genesis 6:4; Genesis 10:10; Genesis 10:32; Genesis 14:1; Genesis 14:10; Genesis 18:21; Genesis 42:23; Exodus 1:14; Exodus 19:11; Deuteronomy 1:28; Psalm 55:9; Psalm 92:9; Jeremiah 50:1; Amos 4:7; Luke 1:51

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Q: You call them The Great Demotions, all of these thoughts which we have so cherished. Well, guess what? The universe doesn't revolve around the Earth. And guess what? The Earth isn't the only world out there. Are we still clinging to any conceits? Such as those which led to the Great Demotions over the past centuries?

Carl Sagan: Well, you would think we should be over it. But we still are battling, at least in the United States, the conceit that humans are separate from the rest of nature. That an unbridgeable gap separates humans from the other plants and animals. That we are the particular beneficiaries of the concern of the creator of the universe, more than any of the 10 million other species of plants and animals on the Earth. When, in fact, all of our vaunted uniqueness turns out to be shared. with other animals, especially with chimpanzees, our closest relatives with whom we share 99.6% of our hereditary material.

Another area in which the demotion is being fought is the idea that there are no other planets beyond those in our own solar system. But in the last 15 years, the most marvelous set of findings has occurred in which it now appears that planets are an ordinary, probably inevitable accompaniment of star formation, and that almost every young star, like the Sun in the early stages of formation, is surrounded by this flat disc of gas and dust over which the planets were formed. And we now have the first bona fide real planetary system around a very unlikely object, a particular pulsar called 1257 plus 12. And the technology is just about to reach out and find whatever planetary systems there are nearby.

[ Note: As of September 2023, there are 5514 confirmed exoplanets in 4107 planetary systems. ]

And a third one is the idea that even if there are an enormous number of planets, only ours has life and intelligence. And there the story is open. We send spacecraft to other planets like Mars to see if there are any simple forms of life. We use radio telescopes to see if messages are being sent to us by civilizations on planets of other stars. So far, although there've been some very curious, tantalizing findings in both of those approaches, we have found nothing definitive, unambiguous evidence for extraterrestrial life. And the debate is still open.

In our ignorance, the geocentrists still find hope.

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When their methods are so unreliable, hope is all they have.

[lvpvs-tenebris]

Ad Noctum - Arrogance (Full Album)

[srvyxhi]

It truly is a sin to be ignorant.

― Concubine Gyokuyou (The Apothecary Diaries)

[atheostic]

You've heard of mansplaining and gringosplaining, now get ready for...

...theistsplaining, where theists (god-believers) "correct" atheists about what atheists believe and what their worldview is, and overall claim to know what the atheist believes better than the atheist does.

"Everyone believes in God, you're just suppressing it in your unrighteousness!"

"Atheists are atheists because they're racist and don't want to admit that Hinduism is true!"

"All Latinos are Culturally Christian without exception because you can't escape Catholicism in Latin America!"

"Atheists believe that the universe came from nothing!"

"Atheists have no reason to not rape and murder!"

[dramoor]

“A proud man does not will to live according to the will of God. He likes to direct himself, and does not understand that man does not have enough understanding to direct himself without God.”

~St. Silouan the Athonite

(Image via Wikipedia, author unknown)

[el-chico-con-las-pesadillas]

A tu narcisismo le cae mal mi arrogancia, por que no les permite pisarme

[potatodragon132]

Innocence, Patience and Arrogance

[mapsontheweb]

Countries making jokes of other countries’ arrogance.

Source: Géographie mondiale des blagues,  Hervé Théry

The jokes between countries are good revealers of the ethnotypes existing in each of them, representing them in cartographic form makes it possible to perceive their distribution and the spatial projection of the jokes: who are we laughing at, who are the "heads of Turks” of the inhabitants of each country? Based on the analysis of an ad hoc database covering more than 60% of the countries and territories of the world and 90% of its population, the text shows that these jokes are social constructions, have a temporality and are divided essentially in two categories, "overhanging" and "revenge".

[awesomecooperlove]

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[philosophybits]

The most fruitful outcome does not depend on force, but succeeds without arrogance, without hostility, without pride, without resistance, without violence.

Laozi, Daodejing, Addiss & Lombardo tr. (Ch 30)

[mindofserenity]

— Qur'an 17:37

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Atheists aren't arrogant. Living on a tiny blue planet, located far out in the backwoods of a massive spiral galaxy, in an indescribably huge universe teeming with galaxies, with a near infinite amount of space between them, and thinking the whole thing was made just for you.

That's arrogant.”

[buck4yabang]