Aphorisms

<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" LINK="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#000400" VLINK="#FFFFFF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>Relationalism</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Relationalism"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ground rules"><U>Ground rules</U></A>   |   <B>Aphorisms</B>   |   <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Visitors Aphorisms"><U>Visitors' Aphorisms</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Call to Interaction"><U>A Call to Interaction</U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="13858020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> My Aphorisms</div> <div> and </div> <div> Scattered Thoughts</div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>A Page Under Continuous Construction</B></div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> <I>Permission is granted to use the following thoughts - not for profit</I></div> <div> <I>as the Visitor deems fit </I></div> <div> <I>but attribution of source would be appreciated</I></div> <bR> <div> by <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/CGorga/Bio.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://hometown.aol.com/CGorga/Bio.htm"><U>Carmine Gorga</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>... an Audacious </B>(ardita) <B>Hypothesis</B>  </div> <bR> <div> If matter is energy, </div> <div> then energy is spirit.</div> <div> Then everything changes.</div> <bR> <div> April 16, 1998</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Life</B></div> <bR> <div> Time is not money; time is life.</div> <div> Life is either a burden, or it is sacred.</div> <div> Life is eminently fair: we get out of it precisely what we put into it.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Life in the Universe</B></div> <bR> <div> Since, as far as we know, the universe is infinite, <I>every point in it is at its center</I>; therefore we are <B>all</B> at the center of the universe.  A revised anthropocentrism is back in the saddle.</div> <div> Men and women, displaced from the center of the universe by the Copernican revolution, descended into hell.  They have now to start climbing toward heaven.  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Obvious Things</B></div> <bR> <div> The most difficult thing to discover is the obvious, because the obvious is generally covered under layers and layers of rationalizations.</div> <div> Everything is related to everything else.  This proposition contains three elements -- everything (A)<B>, </B>everything else (B), and the relation (C) between them.  </div> <div> A fundamental relation among three terms is the relation of <U>equivalence</U>:  A  =  C  =   B.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Relations</B></div> <bR> <div> Relations are the invisible entities that tie different elements together.  Of three supposed relations -- identity, equality, and equivalence -- only one is true.</div> <div> Identity and equality are not true relations.  Nothing is either identical or equal to anything else.</div> <div> Only the relation of equivalence is true because it is the third element that links two others.  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Concepts and Ideas</B></div> <bR> <div> A concept is a firmly defined entity.  As Immanuel Kant said, "</div> <div> A concept is a firmly defined entity because it contains a elation of equivalence among three elements.</div> <div> An idea is a vaguely defined entity.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Time</B></div> <bR> <div> The past is equivalent to the present and to the future.</div> <div> Mechanic time is an invention of our mind.</div> <div> Time does not exist.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Social Relations</B></div> <bR> <div> In all social relations, there is the I, the Thou, and the relation between them.</div> <div> The relations between the I and the Thou can cover the full spectrum from love to hate.</div> <div> Individualism neglects the existence of the I; collectivism neglects the existence of the Thou.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On </B><B><U>Economics</U></B><B>, </B><B><U>Law</U></B><B>, and </B><B><U>Morality</U></B></div> <bR> <div> Economics is one of the fundamental relations among human beings.</div> <div> The other fundamental relation is the justice.  </div> <div> A third fundamental relation among human beings is morality.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Math, </B><B><U>Metaphysics</U></B><B>, and Religion</B></div> <div> 1  =  0  =  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Symbol" >¥</FONT></div> <div> One is equivalent to zero and equivalent to infinity.</div> <div> Christianity leads us to the Infinite One; Buddhism to the Infinite Zero (Nothingness).</div> <div> The infinite one contains everything in Him; the Infinite Zero contains nothing in It, only Illusion.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Philosophy</B></div> <bR> <div> Only God is; only God is real.</div> <div> Everything is relative.</div> <div> Everything is relative to God.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On</B><B><U> Physics</U></B></div> <bR> <div> The definition of gravity is: A  =  P  =  R; which reads, "Gravity is the process (P) of action (A) and reaction (R)." </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Christianity</B></div> <bR> <div> The definition of the Holy Spirit is: J  =  HS  =  G; which reads, "The Holy Spirit (HS) is the relation between Jesus (J), namely God the Son, and God (G) the Father."</div> <div> The relation between God the Father and God the Son is a relation of Love.  Therefore, the Holy Spirit is Love.</div> <div> It is not Jesus that Christians keep on the cross with their personal and social sins; rather, it is the Holy Spirit, namely, the Spirit of Jesus and the Spirit of God. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>On Accounting and </B><B><U>Economics</U></B></div> <bR> <div> A penny saved is a penny saved; a penny earned is a penny earned.</div> <div> To say that a penny saved is a penny earned constitutes double counting.</div> <div> The greatest damage done to economics is to account saving the same as investment.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I>Copyright </I></FONT><I>©</I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><I> </I></FONT><I>1997-2003 by </I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/CGorga/Bio.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://hometown.aol.com/CGorga/Bio.htm"><U><I>Carmine Gorga</I></U></A></FONT><I>; 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