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 |  موضوع: Levels of Intelligence  الأربعاء مارس 25, 2009 3:13 am | |
| [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة]At one time in history the Romans were the Masters of the World--literally. Nobody could stand to their pressure, their military knowledge, their culture, and to their ... virtue! Yes, Roman virtue is the greatest example of patriotism we know in history, greater even than the Spartan one, particularly because the Romans have survived for so much time. However, Roman virtue weakened over time, and that was the true cause that led, in the end, to the disappearance of the Great Roman Empire.
For about two hundred years Rome was a Kingdom; it managed to survive and to conquer the entire Italic peninsula due to their exceptional diplomatic skills, first of all, then to their desire to learn and the will to succeed. That was the period when Roman virtue started taking a definite shape. Next, during the Democratic Republic period (for about 500 years), Roman virtue became the topic of many incredible legends. Note, however, that only a handful of heroes were true, moral citizens; the stronger and more developed the Roman Republic became, immorality also increased. In 49 BC Gaius Julius Cesar proclaimed himself Dictator, only he is immediately killed by virtuous republican senators. However, the civil war that followed marks the end of the Roman Republic, and the birth of the (Western) Roman Empire.
During the Western Roman Empire, roughly up 480 AD, the Romans became in fact the Masters of the World. They were the promoters of culture, of civilization, and of moral virtue during those turbulent days ... Well, we should better present you an example ...
One of the greatest Roman Emperors, Marcus Ulpius Traianus--also known simply as Trajan (53 - 117 AD)--is a wonderful model of Roman virtue. He, his wife, and their children wore no jewelry, they ate modest meals of bread and cheese accompanied only by spring water, and they slept on hard, camp-style cots. When she was asked one day about her jewels by some Roman socialite ladies, Trajan's wife, presented her children saying: "They are the only jewels I have." Note that the Roman Empire under Trajan was the richest, the strongest, and the most developed, ever!
It is interesting to note the Romans used to name the people/countries surrounding the Empire "barbarians". For Romans, the term was strictly related to culture, and it was a pejorative (disrespectful) one. The truth was, Roman culture was impressive. Each country in the World today has a particular "Code of Laws" which was written, more or less, according to the "Roman Code of Laws". Well, you need to study this for yourself, because there is way too much to talk about the Roman culture. [Please be aware that Wikipedia IS NOT a good source of information because it is way to basic.]
The movie "The Gladiator" pictures the death of the Roman Emperor Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus in 192 AD, and it is far form ANY Roman reality--Roman reality during those days was unbelievably far more impressive! Anyway, the death of Commodus marks the decline of the (Western) Roman Empire. After Commodus, the Emperors started being "named" by the Praetorians (Imperial Guards), depending on who could afford to pay more.
Many historians say the Western Roman Empire fell under the pressure of the migratory people--nothing can be further from the truth. The Roman Empire had an advanced culture, exceptional engineers, enormous reserves in gold, people, and industry (trades). What has destroyed them was only their immorality: they have auto-destroyed themselves. Nobody was capable to defeat the Romans during those days, and the best argument is the fact the Roman Empire has survived as the Second Empire (also named the Eastern Roman Empire or the Byzantine one--the "Byzantine" name is artificial; it was introduced in the English speaking world by Sir George Finlay in 1854). The Eastern Roman Empire has survived for 1000 more years, and its culture, might, and strength became legendary!
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The Eastern Roman Empire has lasted exactly up to Tuesday, May 29, 1453, when it was conquered by the Turkish Sultan Mehmet II. Again, the Eastern Roman Empire did not fall because it was (completely) weakened; it fell due to Christian countries betrayals. In fact, the Eastern Roman Empire had had all chances to survive until today, except destiny/history had other plans.
The legacy of the Great Roman Empire was to transmit the advanced Latin (Hellenic) culture to us, especially during the terrible Dark Ages period--this is the Global Picture we would like you to remember. The Gauls (French people), the Germans, the Helvets (Swiss people), or the Scandinavian migratory people were just primitive hordes. However, the culture of the Roman Empire was such impressive that they adopted it as fast as they could, and as much as possible. Note that the Roman Empire had been the only significant center of education for almost 2000 years of turbulent history; the surrounding countries/people were (at least in the beginning) semi-primitive, blood-thirsty creatures. Anyway, let's move closer to our days.
| I was very young when I discovered the Holocaust, and I remained shocked for years ... The truth is, I am still shocked. How was that possible? How is it that people can be that inhuman? I read many books about the 2nd WW, trying to understand the roots of the evil, because I simply refused to believe it was possible these days, during the Modern Era, that people are so primitive, cruel, and stupid.
In the end, it was Life and our Reality which explained things best to me. Note this please: although they hated each other to death, and they killed as much as they could, today there is no trash of that enormous hate left. The "reasons" of the 2nd WW are totally invalid today, the fighting countries are good friends, and the people from both sides have absolutely nothing against each other. Therefore, the great question is: "How much more deeper could people's stupidity go?" |
| The madness of the Second World War is almost impossible to explain logically. Seen from the highest and most abstract levels, say, at the level of Destiny, that social catastrophe appears to be a lesson which we must never forget and repeat. This World in which we, the adults, do everything we want does not belong to us: it belongs to our children, and to the children of tomorrow. It must be a ONLY and protective World, clean, and beautiful in the eyes of our little children. We must hide our adult-miseries from the children of tomorrow, as much as it is humanely possible.
No social activity is more important than educating children, and please note an interesting aspect. Children are some sort of intellectual sponges: they absorb the knowledge about "reality" in any way possible. That requires the entire society has to be logic, fair, protective, and nice for them. We owe that to them, and that will also help us become better people, more human, and more intelligent.
The teen years in people's life are the most important for the future social individuals, because during those troubled years the children mature psychologically. If we do not educate the children properly up to the age of 18, then the new generations of adults are going to be just gangs of bestial individuals, and we are going to continue the massacre, the misery, the evils ... For society, the high-school period is the most important one: that is the only way we can make certain the leaders of tomorrow are going to be HUMAN and MORAL individuals. Without HUMANITY AND MORALITY any society, anywhere in the Universe, is destined to auto-destruction.
Someplace in a past article we said the most important, the basic human feeling that has separated humans from animals is "shame": shameless people are, more or less, animals. Let's picture this. | | [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذه الصورة] |
So, there are four graphs above, and we have no doubts each is easy to understand. Let's take the first one named "Humanity Levels". The 0 (this is zero, not "O") level of humanity is the animal state: that implies the "humanity" quality is an addition to the animal state, which is in fact exactly the way things work in reality. However, do not let that aspect fool you, because little humanity IS NOT SUFFICIENT! Please note the thin white line right under TSA (Theoretical Social Average--the black area): it represents the MINIMUM ADMISSIBLE level of social humanity. Whatever is below that line is, again, NOT SUFFICIENT: it belongs to the ANIMAL side! That is a particularly important observation, because the bulk of RSA (Real Social Average) is below the minimum admissible level of humanity. We are certain many do not agree with our last affirmation, but have little patience; we need few articles to explain the existing reality logically, from the humanity point of view.
The second graph refers to the "Shame" feelings: this is directly proportional to the level/amount of humanity. Somehow, shame is the most controversial human feature, because it is little understood--particularly in the English world/side. Note that we refer to the abstract feelings of pride/shame not to the complex, social feelings of belonging to the human species, to a certain human race, or to a certain human culture/country. [That is too complex to define, for now.] The abstract pride (in opposition to shame) is a basic, animal feeling similar to the "master of the heard"--most animal species exhibit it, particularly the mammal ones. That kind of pride generates the fight for power, for possession, for ruling the females of the species, and it is pure animalism. In opposition, shame determines people to act with intelligence, to renounce/give-up, and to exercise self-restrain in "satisfying animal needs". This is, in fact, the insignificant detail that goes unnoticed when defining human nature; however, it is the most important one!
Shame is a feeling people cannot easily simulate: you either have it or not. In addition, the lack of shame is very easy to detect, since people are very proud to show they are "proud". You may think this is a joke, but if you intend to become a specialist in human psychology, or in social psychology, then you have to start with analyzing the "shame-pride" interrelation very, very careful.
Human feelings may be grouped into:
1. simple (basic or fundamental)
2. complex
"Love", for example, is a complex feeling: if it is "true love", not just biological/animal "gender attraction", then it includes few basic feelings, including little shame. Other important complex feelings, respect, consideration, sympathy/empathy, moral, all have the fundamental feeling of shame embedded.
The graph related to "Manifestation" refers to the creation-destruction as involuntary (uncontrolled or the end-result) actions. For example, most individuals want and they do try really hard to create something good, only their efforts end up, in most instances, into worse. They are low-level intelligence people, and they do not understand that creating is very complex, difficult, and it is not a hocus-pocus thing for everybody. In the same time, making mistakes is extremely easy. In fact, real complexity is to avoid making mistakes when creating/implementing something new. This topic is very interesting, therefore we will detail it in further articles.
Lastly, the fourth graph is the "Logic-Illogic". Note again the thin white line which separates the logic and illogic [between TSA and RSA]--it is very important. Of course, we could add many graphs similar to the ones above, but we need to keep things simple, at their most basic level, in order to actually see something from Global Picture. We are going to do precisely that in the coming articles |
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