Pensativity

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"No amount of knowledge is greater than kindness."

"Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual."

The geography of memory is mapped out by the associations we give, this is how we wayfind through life.

Often overlooked, is the fact that the built environment is a major determinant of the conditions in which we live. This association is missing in the collective memory.

Paradisalization is the process of creating paradise-like conditions in the present by building off of the universal ideals for peaceful permanency, recreation, and/or natural beauty.

Supposedly 'paradise has a couch'. Sofas where the righteous can recline and bask in nature's beauty with their loved ones.

It is arrogant to assume that everyone thinks as you do. For example: Westerners tend to see things in relation to time whereas indigenous peoples tend to see things as in relation to the land.

The world does not revolve around money, but our ideas (which are currently overly-attached to money).

Eco-scarcity is a myth, there is no need for population control, there is enough land to feed us all, we just need to change where we place ourselves and our necessities that's all.

Those who want to enact social change, never forget that "to resist evil with good is good and that to resist evil with evil is evil".

No need to instill fear, "come in glad tidings, do not push people away". There is good news anyways, if we change our ways we can all dwell in that paradisal place we all seek for at the end of the day.

'Destruction is necessary for creation.'

To dismantle the structural violence that imprisons us is to create the paradisal built environment(s) that saves us.

Harmony, peace, beauty, we can all agree that all three of these things are great. See, there is more agreement than division within humanity, as these 'things' are all encompassing.

Recall that as in poetry, religion does not have to be taken literally. When taken metaphysically, in my opinion there is so much more beauty (and flexibility).

Recall that "to have every opinion is to be a poet."

Still, access a place case-by-case basis because chaos in one place can mean a whole different order in another place.

One writer tripped me out when she said: "How can you want something when you already have it."

What is more trippier than what the writer above said (or fascinating however you take it) is etymology: the origin of words.

The English word 'lord' comes from the word 'loaf ward', in other words: bread keeper. 'Paradise' comes from the word for 'enclosed park'.

A lord creates delightfulness, keeps the people safe and at-bay. Paradise is a place you can create. They say nature has ordained us humans as the world's stewards.

The ancient Greeks said that we are upright because the Gods ordained us the privilege to look down unto the world.

The Arabic word for 'reality' holds the same meaning as 'responsibility' and 'right' (as in one's right).

In regards to the environment, this is our reality, our responsibility, and our right.

All quotes if you copy-and-paste them will reveal the original author who first wrote them.

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”

"Words are living powers, not merely articulated air." "Language is to consciousness what geometry is to space and mathematics to time. It is language, not sense experience, that orients mind to reality."

This piece was written with the intention/hope for refreshing ideas and/or introducing new ones to the minds of the reader for the better of the future.

As stated in the beginning:

"Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual."