Comments by "Charles Brightman" (@charlesbrightman4237) on "Buckminster Fuller: The Man Who Saw The Future | Random Thursday" video.

  1. The quote in the video at about 3:45: "You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You do not belong to you. You belong to the Universe. Your significance will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume that you are fulfilling your role if you apply yourself to the converting your experiences to the highest advantages of others." So, let's take this apart a little: a. "You do not have the right to eliminate yourself." Where are these 'rights' of what I can and cannot do wrote down? Who's the authority behind these alleged 'rights'? And if I can't eliminate myself, then am I truly 'free'? Show yourself whomever and/or whatever you are who are claiming I can't eliminate myself. Sometimes sacrificing one's self is the highest honor and glory one can do for others. b. "You do not belong to you." Okay, if true, then you take all the punishments that I may have done in my life. For ultimately, you are responsible for me and whatever I do and or don't do. And if I don't belong to me, then whom exactly do I belong to? c. "You belong to the Universe." As far as I am currently aware of, the Universe does not have consciousness, memories or thoughts. It is just a mindless entity that doesn't even know it itself exists much less that I exist. Otherwise here again, show thyself to me. Of which also then, there is no such thing as ultimate 'right' and 'wrong'. Things just are what they are while they are. d. "Your significance will remain forever obscure to you,..." Why? e. "...but you may assume that you are fulfilling your role if you apply yourself to the converting your experiences to the highest advantages of others." 1. How do you know that this is not my role to question you about life itself? 2. Then also, others should be helping me by converting their experiences to the highest advantage of me. 3. In addition, many people know about 'assuming' things. It can make an ass out of you and me. Where is the actual evidence that what you claim is really true is in fact actually true?
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