July 2011
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every person that comes into your life changes you— lil lessons they each teach leaving imprints denting your path softness warming your heart— if you let them.
Then I realized sth: That last thought had brought no sting with it. I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not w/ the fanfare of epiphany, but w/ pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
pg. 359 Kite Runner
June 2011
22 posts
…the value of science as metaphysic belongs in another sphere. It belongs w/ religion and art and love, w/ the pursuit of the beatific vision, w/ the Promethean madness that leads the greatest men to strive to become gods. Perhaps the only ultimate value of human life is to be found in this Promethean madness. But it is a value that is religious, not political, or even moral.
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The dualism...
Living the Paradox
you’re afraid to want for w/in desire lies inherent the fear of loss. so you go after the thing you know you were never sentimentally attached to to begin with.
oppression induces apathy thru psychological dissociation— thru the gradual erosion of empathy, perpetuation of evil-doings is made more easily allowed.
Waking Life
Blade Runner
Authentic Existentialism
when evil is done with intent — it is no longer grey
No oppressor is greater than u make him out to be
happiness is waking up every morning with the will to fight for ur own salvation — even if the forces be against you
the desire to want to conquer the fear of ctrl of fear.
Contempt is the root of all evil.
The only way to free yourself from fear over loss is abandonment.
About Me:
Waking Life/Sci-Outlook <| Annual Traditions
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Kipple is the spiritual manifestation of this reality because kipple seems to appear from nowhere and drives out the more positive state of non-kipple. This parallels themes found in eastern religion in which the lack of material objects is equated with spiritual balance. John Isidore has been able to find a spiritual balance in this...
The virtue of Happiness is Hope.
《臥虎藏龍》
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Promise that whatever path you take in this life, you will always be true to yourself.
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《Into the Wild》
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Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because...
《Androids & RSA》
There is no Empathy in Utopia
the roots of empathy originate from the knowledge of suffering
emotional haven | moral/spiritual sanctity, holiness of character
[relativity] of beliefs - not credited according to objective validity,
rather merited based on adaptive value
emotional security / civil liberty - insure prime most those of others
to secure rights for thyself
Keeping the Kipple at Bay...
Why our childhood experiences do not render the human race deterministic machines:
induction: re.evaluating currently upheld theories/beliefs in the face of new evidence
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levels to relate: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, & admirable character
(life goals & fdn.al pillars for their attainance)
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Maslow
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Emotional Security + Intellectual Liberty > to foster...
Vision Revolution
Monkey Head Transplant - Dr. White
Rewiring Neuroscience
Quanta & Consciousness
Ben Best
Ben Goertzel
Sam Harris
Nick Bostrom
Freed at Last
I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid. You’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t...
Are you interested in the puzzles of the mind, in the mystery of knowledge?—read the Parmenides and the Theaetetus.
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Parmenides Fdn
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Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Philosophies of Mind
Varela (discovered thru 3rd Culture)
Edge
Autopoiesis (Geortzel)
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Novelty-Routinization (Wisdom Paradox)
Consciousness —> Sub/Un-Conscious (Hidden Minds)
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Mind Philosophers
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CHOICES
Jonah Lehrer was right. Decisions ARE miserable. via quote-on-quote paralysis by analysis. That’s how retails make profit. thru elimination of FOMS infliction.
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CIT - Q.Grav
Ben Best
20 Web
Chrome
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~ Youtube ~
Most impt vid u’ll ever see
Feynman
Sandel - Justice
Sapolsky
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~ Films ~
Zeitgeist III
Blade Runner
Transcendent Man
Flatland
Eddington & Einstein
英雄
“Kung Fu… Hard work over time to accomplish skill. A painter can have kung fu. Or the butcher, who cuts meat everyday with such a skill that his knife never touches the board.
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Learn the form, seek the formless. Hear the soundless. Learn it all, and forget it all. Learn the way, and then find your own way.
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The musician can have kung fu, or the poet, who paints...
May 2011
3 posts
《Flatland》
Abbott argued against both illusion and miracles as a basis for faith. Illusion was false by definition, while miracles might someday be explained by a deeper understanding of natural law. he was exposed to the idea of the fourth dimension, and methods of visualizing it through the analogy of viewing the third dimension from the vantage point of the second dimension. What Abbott saw...
《英雄》
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Martial arts and music share the same principles, both wrestle with complex harmony, and elusive melody.
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You ask for sword, why this character?
There are usu.ly 19 ways to draw this character. What I requested was, for broken sword to use the 20th variation. The calligrapher and the swordsman share one spirit. The twentieth sword variation would reveal to me all his secrets.
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How...
Burgundy Skies
Best Moments of Semiwake Drunken Stupor (5/10/11) :
Idiotosophy (idiot-wisdom)
Rise in understanding of basic Newtonian physics: PEOPLE ARE DETERMINISTIC MACHINES. Computer boom: MINDS ARE SOFTWARE, BRAINS ARE HARDWARE Quantum physics: CONSCIOUSNESS IS QUANTUM, INDETERMINACY EXPLAINS FREE WILL.
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lol i remember u telling me yrs ago — on how we don’t have to know...
March 2011
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Let's Meet in the Middle
In Life, Deontology & Consequentialism, Let’s meet in the middle. In Science, Empiricism & Absolutes, Let’s meet in the middle. In Policy, Bottom-Up & Top-Down, Let’s meet in the middle. In the Universe, Chaos & Emergence, Let’s meet in the middle.
February 2011
8 posts
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v1. Home is where the heart is. » v2. Home is where the mind unravels mysteries of the Universe. » vfin. Home is where the mind AND heart are rapt in AWE — swept away by Mother’s breathtaking beauty.
Intellect. Spirit. Action. 缺一不可。
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Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of...
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The firsts may be the most memorable ; but it’s the ones you’ve managed in convincing to stay — that matter the MOST.
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Happiness is both a means AND an end [ in acting as driving force in determining human intents (i)’n action ] my happiness as means those of others’ as end
Tell him Dr. Cooper feels that the best use of his time is to employ his rare & precious mental faculties to tear the mask off Nature & stare at the face of God.
whomever didn’t know cooking could be a full body sport obviously doesn’t know REAL cooking off to off.the.h pour la première fois 拿手菜：红烧茄子
Equanimity Agency Passion Electrifying Ambition Curiosity Empathy Autonomy Imagination
January 2011
13 posts
May you nvr lose sense of wonder to see beauty in the world.
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Lucid Dreaming Creations
Time , the perceived intruder , who isn’t really there ; — like a vignette of your memory . Lurking in the shadows . Ghost . Hiding in the corners of your imagination ; — haunting …
You can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been. Everyday is a journey— and the journey itself is home.
Ontological malleability is a double-edged sword; susceptible to the good, and susceptible to the bad.
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
—John Locke
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If you express genuine gratefulness and appreciation, it will remind others of the nobleness within themselves.
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«The Greatest Minds & Ideas of All Time» by Will Durant & John Little We cannot live long in that celestial realm of all genius w/o becoming a little finer than we were. And though we shall not find there the poignant delirium of youth, we shall know a lasting, gentle happiness, a profound delight which time cannot take from us until it takes all.
—John Little Such men are...
Fallen in Love w. Beauty, or Beautifully in Love? It’s beauty that I seek; truths that I discover; & overflowing happiness I find welling from my heart— happiness thru eternal beauty of the soul.
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Eternity He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
— William Blake
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Seven Years in Tibet This is another great difference between our civilization and yours. You admire the man who pushes his way to the top in any walk of life, while we admire the man who abandons his ego. I tried to picture you Ralph, and this is what I see. A young boy who is strong, and bright. A boy filled with curiosity about life. A boy who isn’t afraid to learn from his mistakes. Dalai...
Philosophy and Art
The crown of philosophical inquiry is truth and prediction, whereas in art it is artistic truth, not accuracy of reproduction, in the sense of a copy of what exists, but a lifelike portrayal of typically possible phenomena in either their developed or potential form. If art produced only truths similar to scientific truths, there would be no masterpieces of world art. The...
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Daisy: I promise you, I’ll never lose myself to self-pity again.
— Benjamin Buttons
We need to rediscover the vast, harmonious, pattern of the natural world we are a part of— the infinite complexity & variety of its components, the miraculous simplicity of the whole.
— James Ramsey Ullman
November 2010
2 posts
Oh … over the years — all those analogies ppl make, about how— ‘[their] heart isn’t really in it…’
what they had really meant is, ‘[their] mind isn’t really on it.’