Bertrand Russell's Message to the Future

[PeoViejo]

[grahamhgreen]

1. "what are the facts?" & "Love is wise, hatred is foolish." Bingo!

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, PeoViejo.

[PeoViejo]

3. You are very welcome

A very wise Man.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Yes he was.

[freshwest]

4. Thanks, Russell's works were among others regularly read by my family.

I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed, but look only, and solely, at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say.

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more closely and closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way; if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

[BootinUp]

5. K&R

[BrotherIvan]

7. We need more wisdom and less celebrity

Thank you for sharing.

[Paka]

8. Lovely, indeed.

Thank you for sharing.

[cer7711]

9. If You Haven't Read . . .

. . . Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell, you haven't read the foundational book of Christian un-apologetics that in many ways anticipates later works written by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchins, Sam Harris and others.

An essential, must-read for heretic, heathen and devout Christian alike.

[bvf]

10. You beat me to this!

Read this some years ago and return to it occasionally. Your description is spot-on.

[cer7711]

11. Thank You, BVF!

Nice to meet ya!

[defacto7]

12. Perfect....

Absolutely perfect. These concepts are and always will be the foundation of a surviving civilization, even the survival of humankind.

[xocet]

13. K & R n/t

[polynomial]

14. Notice he says we need charity and tolerance to survive on the planet

Notice Russell says we need charity and tolerance to survive on the planet. Here is a man from a family born through a product of centuries in aristocracy making the philosophy about life. I find it rather amusing.

So, I must tolerate a culture that only accepts a particular believe, or I get my throat cut, or sent to get incinerated, or be terrorized by someone with a belief and if I don’t want that belief they will explode in front of me, or better create laws that keep me in the box to be poisoned unless my behavior is changed, as in the current Schrödinger cat culture.

The aristocrat knows very well that being born in life a person can be so awkward in mental fidelity that the soul is essentially broke to being with.

To be able to understand this is part of the new age in communication and education. Moreover it is the very deep sense in a new self-taught Internet environment. Actually this is what self-evident is about at any higher education. Try reading Russell’s History of western culture a pdf file careful it is 955 pages long.

http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western%20Philosophy.pdf


Anyway Russell brings out the significance in the American declaration where we hold these truths to be self-evident. An incredible philosophy that originated back to ancient times in Greece. Again where Democracy was dominated and had to deal with the wealthy class.


In this age American’s and those connected online are witness to a cultural sense that is unlike any in previous history. This is the age of a common sense that belonged to those aristocrats that held information close to the vest. But many with money are having a difficult time to accept change it is self-evident by the ignorance taught and reported by our modern politicians and modern media.

[tomm2thumbs]

15. big kick