Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it...

Illustrationboard nr 263 and 264

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca among others

“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Ayn Rand has a fascinating mind

Ayn Rand has a fascinating mind that I do respect.

Ayn Rand Quotes to ponder for our minds. :-)

“What is morality, or ethics? It is a code of values to guide man’s choices and actions—the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life. Ethics, as a science, deals with discovering and defining such a code.
The first question that has to be answered, as a precondition of any attempt to define, to judge or to accept any specific system of ethics, is: Why does man need a code of values?
Let me stress this. The first question is not: What particular code of values should man accept? The first question is: Does man need values at all—and why?” - Ayn Rand

“The power of morality is the greatest of all intellectual powers—and mankind’s tragedy lies in the fact that the vicious moral code men have accepted destroys them by means of the best within them.” - Ayn Rand

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." - Ayn Rand

"The government was set to protect man from criminals
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And the Constitution was written to protect man from the goverment.” – Ayn Rand


Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.  Ayn Rand,
”A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.” – Ayn Rand
 Rand
“The government was set to protect man from criminals
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And the Constitution was written to protect man from the goverment.” – Ayn


"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values."  Ayn Rand

About critical thinking and changing values, Excerp from J. Flynn and S. Molyneux video

Swedish first:
Om att vi måste förändra våra värderingar (att inte bli infekterade av prylmani, militarism och kulten av popularitet). Om att skaffa sig en oberoende åsikt och uppskatta människor som kan tänka för sig själva (som framförallt orkar tänka abstrakt!) och inte blint (dumt) är medgörliga i viljan att lyssna på majoritetens media (ofta känslostyrd). Om att hitta nyckeln till att släppa vårt sinne fritt. (liberation of the mind)

Excerpt from: Human Intelligence: The Flynn Effect | Dr. James Flynn and Stefan Molyneux

PGHÅ nr243: 24 okt- 2015:

Human Intelligence: The Flynn Effect | Dr. James Flynn and Stefan Molyneux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ0W5Efp8N0

36:30 “Some of the many wonderful ideas that you can use to give yourself a Mental Toolkit do come from philosophy but quite a few of them comes from other sciences. I mean, knowing what a market is a wonderful instrument. That is; knowing how a market operates.”  – Dr. James Flynn

1:09:42 “Well the ancients were right, they said: you can’t be infected by materialism, militarism or the cult of popularity. If you measure human beings in terms of their number of possessions, if you measure human beings just in terms of whether they´re tractable and go along with what everyone thinks. If you measure human beings in thrilling to the fact that you are a nation can push anyone else around on the international scene, you overlook what is really the purpose and that is the liberation of the mind. Chekhov says man is what he thinks and all my life I´ve wanted to get the intellectual equipment so I could liberate my mind to have an independent opinion about the great events and great problems of the world.” – Dr. James Flynn
//Chekhov = Anton Chekhov //

1:11:10 “There has to be a change in values, people have to measure their society in terms of the number of people who can think for themselves, about ethics, and about nationalism and about racism. And measure it less in terms of whether people can afford private airplanes.” – Dr. James Flynn

1:11:50 “That’s the cult of popularity, you shouldn’t want to be famous, you should want to be in control of your own mind and your own life.” – Dr. James Flynn

1:12:40 “We remember most those who bring us the greatest gift and it´s rarely politicians, and I think it mostly is the abstract thinkers who really help us to understand our self and the world.” – Stefan Molyneux

Living Simple & Aboard Quotes

Time for some Quotes that I like, hope you like it! :-)

Click for a bigger picture. Inspiration / Wisdom board number 155. Live Aboard Quotes and so on

------ From: http://www.macnaughtongroup.com/living.htm  
“Living Aboard” by Tom and Nan MacNaughton ------
“It is easier to adapt to life without complex systems than it is to keep complex systems functioning on a boat.”
“[...] start with the simplest possible boat and then add complexities.”
“[...] everything you add takes something away”

“Long term living aboard seems to be a long process of slowing down, simplifying lifestyle and technology, reducing dependence on outside assistance, learning respect for and cooperation with Nature, and reducing the need for money. “

“[...] we will just summarize by saying that simplicity, economy, mobility, and small boats equal freedom the likes of which is seldom seen today. “
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“So why clutter up your already cramped boat with gadgets that (1) you don't need in the first place and (2) you can't repair when they let you down? Their advice that, if you can't fix it then it probably shouldn't be on the boat, is some of the sagest crusing wisdom around.”  - Ryan McNabb reviews the book: Cost Conscious Cruiser

“It takes a lot of courage, brains and efforts not to give in to those consumer urges driven into us from birth.” - Jesse K on s/v Smitty

“ Line one for the voyaging sailor, If I want something and I don’t have it, I don’t need it.” - POSTED BY STORMY IN SAILING BLOG  http://artofhookie.org/2015/01/05/keeping-up-with-the-joneses-2/
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From: Living Big In A Tiny House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckbqU4kK2I&index=2&list=PL999ZDYL8QbTqnT8PZshZzJa7tat-Vdcj


15:45: ”Being self-sustainable, not relying on a system that tends to tie you to the system. Not paying out every week, every single week you gotto find those 300 bucks or whatever, every single week so somebody else can sit and build a nest egg, and made it ok to do it to each other, and I don’t like that idea. I think if you are renting, you should be renting to buy. I want my own place so that I don’t fall into their problem. Now, here in New Zealind we have a big problem with people who can’t afford a house, who will never own a house.. so why dont they build a little place and start to save money , then they can buy their land, and they can move their little microhouse on to the land. Then they can start saving money, because they are not paying out rent every week (big smile). Then they can save money and actually build their own house. So they could have it all, but you need to start right. As opposed to living in a economic surf that just drains everything, all your effort, gone. And I´ll never own a normal home, cause I refuse to get a mortgage, and put myself thru that. So this is the way out. You can build it slowly, feed it, people around you, you´ll make it happen.” -  Brett Sutherland, New Zealand, Living in a selfbuilt Tiny House, have lived on boat also.

//nest-egg, perhaps Brett thinks of, "The Goose and the Golden Egg"?//
or
“DEFINITION OF 'NEST EGG'
A substantial sum of money that has been saved or invested for a specific purpose.” - källa: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nestegg.asp
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