Feodor Shkrudnev

"Someday the will of the Russian people for divine perfection, for godlikeness will overcome the heavy gravity that returns us to the world of shadows and to disorders. Through the efforts of the creative people, Russia will attain that kind of resurrection, after which there comes immortality. This is what we talked about with President Putin in his Kremlin office. And in this office I heard the word "immortality" from him. It is the most Russian, most beautiful word, put into Russian lips by God Almighty himself." (Alexander Prokhanov)

If you ask Man whether he wants to die on his own free will or on someone else's will, hardly anyone in their right mind will choose the latter. Even those who believe in the afterlife and hope to find themselves in the promised paradise will agree: it is better to go there when you yourself have decided that the path has been completed, but not when someone or something - chance, illness, fate or another person - decide for you. Until that hour, the NATURAL CHOICE is life - purposeful, clear, fulfilled. Sometimes people, tired or falling into some philosophical exaltation, drop phrases about their readiness to die not of their own free will.

"Only a handful of thinking people need the truth, and the crowd must just "obey", but what to believe in - this is no longer of great importance. The main thing is that people obey. And what is presented to them in this case - this is actually secondary. The truth is dangerous. The world has always been based on lies... The main thing is that this lie is interesting enough for a “short-sighted minds” to follow it... And if in this case you begin to prove to the crowd the real truth, disproving their "faith" in God knows what, you will be torn to pieces by this same crowd". This was said in the middle of the sixteenth century. Is it acceptable now, in our time? The reader will answer this question on his own.

We are used to thinking that we live in the present — a narrow strip of time dividing the past from the future. However, the present is not a fleeting moment; it is a permeable fabric woven with the shadows of what has been and the projections of what may come. It is not confined to a frame, nor does it end with perception. The present is open: it flows through us, opening passageways to what has not yet happened, and to what has NOT GONE.

I have a dream. If I indulge in it dreaming on the sofa WITHOUT TAKING ANY STEPS to implement it - it is an idle fancy. Thomas More outlined his vision of an ideal society in the novel "Utopia", without saying a word about the way he was going to build this society. This means that Thomas More outlined NOT AN IDEA, but a fantasy, which is no different from Manilov's fantasies. He could imagine improvements, but all this remained just empty words and sweet dreams that do not come true.

All people, at different periods of their existence, aim at different goals. For some of them, the peak of their dreams is the conquest of space, for others — the conquest of power, while some crave fame and wealth. There are those who prefer SIMPLE PLEASURES of life, such as food, rest and love, enjoying the moments without deep thought and experiencing pleasures that are not available to those inclined to intellectual hobbies. A person on the path to his dream derives joy from both the process itself and the results achieved.

We live within the illusions that our brain is capable of containing, and we call this — reality. However, the boundary of reality is not in the world; it is in the structure of the consciousness that contemplates it. We have approached the edge. Not the edge of catastrophe, not the edge of an era, not the edge of science — rather the edge of CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF, which until now has created all previous forms of perception, thinking, culture, technology, and even the very concept of the “human.” This edge is not the horizon of the future; it is the boundary of what is permissible. A point beyond which thinking ceases to be a familiar function and becomes an event that initiates a new mode of being. One who does not know that he stands at the edge believes there is still a road ahead. However, a step beyond this edge is NO LONGER MOVEMENT within the framework of the old, distorted logic, it is an exit from it.

Facts cannot be trusted because it is unknown whether they are facts or not.

I am not hinting that they have become banal and that they are what is called "fake news," because this is known to many people. But this applies not only to "fake news" information from the mass media, it applies to everything in general, as it is drawn from vast repositories of information in the clouds of the Internet. Today, the network stores all sorts of information – what is true as well as what was made up two minutes ago, and in a tricky way. And what was true yesterday is rejected today, but NO ONE bothered to publish this refutation, i.e., to tell everyone – "... there have been discoveries that reveal that a chair is no longer a chair, but a watermelon."

Every person, being only a part of the objective reality, has only his own personal characteristics, which is called "subjectivism". In the public life of people, it is the subjectivity of researchers, scientists, and developers that is the source of new knowledge and skills in culture. But it is also the main source of errors arising from various limitations and insufficiencies of the subject. If someone expresses an opinion that DOES NOT COINCIDE with the generally accepted, dominant one, then quite often he is criticized with the words: “Well... That is only your opinion...” However, in the vast majority, those who criticize others for having their own opinion prefer NOT TO THINK about the meaning of this opinion and how appropriately and proportionately the objective course of life events is expressed in it, and what specifically the subjective opinion is wrong about.

The time of the reflection has come. Painful reflection –whether I live right or wrong, and, in general,  why I live, love, work, suffer, worry ...What is all this for? What is happening and how to accept all this? The results of the events happened recently will excite society for a long time to come. Before our eyes, records were set for “changing shoes” by many media and bloggers who carried information to us, convincing us of its reliability. Moreover, all this happened with no any sense. The assessment of the events is fleeting and hasty at all levels for the sake of some certain moments of today, and NOT the SITUATION as the whole.

At the beginning of research (learning), a person always faces the question: - What is the goal that I want to achieve? When the goal is determined, you have to decide which way you are to choose and what should be taken with you, what kind of difficulties can be encountered, and what languages you will have to use. But along with simple and easy to understand questions, there might arise questions that NEVER CROSSED YOUR MIND.