The Roman Vault

31/05/2021

Memorial Day falls on Walt Whitman's birthday. Here is a passage from Whitman's Song of Myself for all the brave soldiers we remember today.

30/05/2021

Our thinking and mental lives have been corrupted and diluted by abstract religious concepts such as an after-life, heaven, hell, sin, guilt, and redemption.



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Our thinking and mental lives have been corrupted and diluted by abstract religious concepts such as an after-life, heaven, hell, sin, guilt, and redemption.

30/05/2021

29/05/2021

29/05/2021

It’s quite possible that some of today’s popular opinions and actions will be deemed unjust or immoral in the future.

28/05/2021

On this day 60 years ago, International was founded by London lawyer Peter Berenson. Today, Amnesty International has over a million members in 150 countries working to defend human rights around the world.



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28/05/2021

The truth is that wherever there is knowledge, it will be an effect of power.

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Knowledge seems to be produced in a way that is free of personal interest. That’s the idea of…

27/05/2021

27/05/2021

What makes a genius?

27/05/2021

Happy Birthday Ibn Khaldūn!

27/05/2021

What if you were born in a different time period?

26/05/2021

26/05/2021

"We have lost more knowledge than we've ever had. These Romans knew things that we will never know."



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In this scene from Unforgiven,King Ecbert discusses paganism with Athelstan.Subscribe for more Vikings: http://histv.co/SubscribeHistoryYTCheck out exclusive...

26/05/2021

Is it fair to judge historical figures according to what we call right and wrong today?

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History in Today’s Context Is it fair to judge historical figures according to what we call right and…

25/05/2021

What makes a genius? The word genius can mean many different things, depending on who you ask.

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The word genius can mean many different things, depending on who you ask. Is it how high your…

24/05/2021

"...the human being is, relatively speaking, the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, the one most dangerously strayed from its instincts. But for all that, he is of course the most interesting.”

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I love academyofideas.com. They communicate really powerful ideas from some of humanity’s greatest thinkers. The below content was…

23/05/2021

Excerpt from a University of Chicago lecture by Leo Strauss.

Click the link for more by Strauss.
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21/05/2021

Read more on how your thoughts are controlled by subconscious instinct on .

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21/05/2021

How the media impacts our mental health.
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In the modern age of heavy computer and cell phone access, there has been a major influx of…

19/05/2021

The battle between human nature and morality fueled by religion.

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All organic life is born with an innate drive for growth and expansion. A tree will continually seek…

17/05/2021

Here's are 5 things the world needs to solve ASAP!


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Here are the 5 Big Problems. Will you contribute to their solution?

21/04/2021

Food For Thought

18/04/2021

Nietzsche was a true original thinker.

He wanted to teach humanity about itself, and did so by studying the first principles of reality.

16/04/2021

Controlling what information people will receive is extremely powerful.

Consider the Teacher-Student model of information transmission:

In a classroom, the teacher assigns homework and tests, and then grades those tests on a scale typically from A to F.

The power of grading given to the teacher is incredibly great, as they are given the power to tell the future of the world what is right and wrong.

This is what’s right, this is true, this correlates to an A.

This is wrong, this is false, this correlates to an F. So, students’ attainment of knowledge is based on the teacher’s interpretation of knowledge.

Typically, the teacher is enforcing what’s taught based on a pre-decided curriculum.

More here: https://romanvault.com/who-controls-whats-considered-good-and-evil/

16/04/2021

Whenever you hear that the government wants to cut taxes, listen next to see if they plan on cutting their spending.

News Flash: They won't cut their spending.

Politicians are focused on the short-term.

They no longer care about the long term consequences of money printing.. and the negative consequences the federal debt will have on future generations.

15/04/2021

We are negatively programmed by the nature of news reporting. It influences are psychological functioning and instills a pessimistic view of the world.

Negativity will get published.

"You don't report live from a country where a war has not broken out."

15/04/2021

The Nuclear Bomb may have been the deadliest device ever created by Mankind... but is it also going to be the biggest Peacekeeper?

We haven't fought a major war for many decades.

15/04/2021

"Optimism is the theory that all failures - all evils - are due to insufficient knowledge." -David Deutsch

08/04/2021

The more we an automate, the less humans will have to work for what is essential (food/water/shelter). Therefore the more we can automate the less work we have to do. This is a positive for society. Reducing work hours needed per week is a good goal.

However, within a capitalist structure in a technological world, most of the profits flow to the owners of technology and automation. This will be an issue of our time... the issue of technology replacing labor and the corresponding flow of profits away from people that provide labor and towards a small amount of technology company owners.

08/04/2021

"Our own existence now must encourage us most strongly to live according to our own laws and standards: it is an inexplicable fact that we live precisely today, and had an infinite time to develop—nevertheless, we possess only a short-lived today to show why and to what end we evolved.

We have only ourselves to answer for our existence; consequently we want to be the real helmsman of this existence and not permit our existence to be a thoughtless accident. One must take it somewhat boldly and dangerously: especially, in any case, since one will always lose it. Why cling to this clod of earth, this way of life, why pay attention to what your neighbor says?

It is so provincial to oblige oneself to opinions which, just a couple of hundred miles away, are no longer binding.

Orient and Occident are chalklines drawn before us to fool our timidity. I want to make an attempt to reach freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and it will be prevented by the fact that, coincidentally, two nations hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught which, nevertheless, did not exist a few thousand years ago.

All that is not you, it says to itself. Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose.

There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

Who was it who said: "a man never rises higher than when he does not know where his way can still lead him"? [Oliver Cromwell]

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

08/04/2021

"‘Be yourself! All that you are now doing, thinking, and desiring is not really yourself."

https://romanvault.com/you-need-to-fight-against-public-opinion/

01/04/2021