Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind. Constantly then give to thyself this retreat, and renew thyself; and let thy principles be brief and fundamental, which, as soon as thou shalt recur to them, will be sufficient to cleanse the soul completely, and to send thee back free from all discontent with the things to which thou returnest. For with what art thou discontented? With the badness of men? Recall to thy mind this conclusion, that rational animals exist for one another, and that to endure is a part of justice, and that men do wrong involuntarily; and consider how many already, after mutual enmity, suspicion, hatred, and fighting, have been stretched dead, reduced to ashes; and be quiet at last.- But perhaps thou art dissatisfied with that which is assigned to thee out of the universe.- Recall to thy recollection this alternative; either there is providence or atoms, fortuitous concurrence of things; or remember the arguments by which it has been proved that the world is a kind of political community, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps corporeal things will still fasten upon thee.- Consider then further that the mind mingles not with the breath, whether moving gently or violently, when it has once drawn itself apart and discovered its own power, and think also of all that thou hast heard and assented to about pain and pleasure, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps the desire of the thing called fame will torment thee.- See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on each side of the present, and the emptiness of applause, and the changeableness and want of judgement in those who pretend to give praise, and the narrowness of the space within which it is circumscribed, and be quiet at last. For the whole earth is a point, and how small a nook in it is this thy dwelling, and how few are there in it, and what kind of people are they who will praise thee.
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September 26, 2010 at 11:51 pm
hungry4food
WE the PEOPLE need to ask the Elite establishment in our districts , to really start a debate about why Our Economy is in shambles , this fundamental Question , Is Harry Reid , Nancy Pelosi and President Obama only doing what the Trilateral Commission says to ?? And all candidates that are running for Office should be asking this question of all the establishment , plus we the people need to know that anyone we elect will go to Washington and resist this Force against the will of the US People , and stand up for the Principles that our founders wrote our constitution on , and Trust me they NEVER Had a Trilateral Commission Philosophy when they formed the UNION and we the people should resist this with a Vote this fall that Restores this Fact and Boots these Multi-Nationalists out the Door and we take back our USA !!!!!
Is Harry Reid , Nancy Pelosi and President Obama only doing what the Trilateral Commission says to ?? Its time the Political ELITE Tell we the people what they have been Up Too ???????
Click this link scroll down to The Rockefeller Plan – “Tricky” Dick Nixon and Trickier Rockefellers The USA was taken off the Gold Standard in 1971 for a Very evil reason They are Lying about it all being a Free Market , LYING !!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7735 , scroll to the last paragraph in the segment and read the proof about my claim that we were taken off the Gold Standard for a Very strategic reason , but read the whole segment on why they did it …. I think where we are today is at a very tricky point , dollar collapse is a Strategy , but with Government in Control of Food through the network its engineered the elite will make sure they have access to supply while the squeeze the Middle class to Death literally by extracting the wealth with dollar devaluation , we are at the tipping point for this collapse , you can see it with the way the Government is printing its own Operating Capital and placing it in the Holding Banks that are financing the most Important sectors of the Vital Needs basket . We the people need to rise Up and Demand the USA be put back on the Gold Standard and Re-Capitalize the USA economy and put the Small Business Mom and Pop economy back to work , and if the rest of the world wants to follow fine if not see ya later WTO Free Trade Agreement !!!
And has anyone asked President Obama and Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi if they think the same way Bill gates does and if not then why are their Policies so similar to what Gates is projecting be done ????
And Obviously Mr. Gates has not thought about how he tells the teachers who get old too will meet the same fate as who he says needs to be scarified , and what about a person paying into a system all their life who then is denied access to the very fund they paid into for care is rejected by a death panel for GODS sake ??? How Do we educate our children of this time to look Forward to in their Lives Mr. President ????
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bill-gates-wants-death-panels-dying-people-vs-teachers/
and then couple what Gates is plans are with this …….
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/621153/cia_predicts_the_future_2015_water_resources/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/621146/cia_predicts_the_future_2015_overpopulation/
And here is the study that started it all into Motion ; http://www.population-security.org/11-CH3.html , that calls for worldwide population controls by the year 2000 by consolidation of the wealth of the private sector , looks like the progressives are 10 years behind on their plan of control and expediting the plan with policy like this Is this How Czar John Holdren is trying to Implement the De-Develop Strategy as Beck talks about
here ; http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/45625/ ???
What does it look like they are doing , to me they are following the Plan in this study and the leaders of this study are still right in the middle of this Gang so go figure . And we wonder why we are messed up ?
I say we the USA people take back Our Country and Kick the elite out of Washington DC this NOV if they DON”T WANT TO STAND FOR AMERICAN PEOPLE FIRST !!!!!!!!!!!!!