March 2011
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A Big Fucking, Blowing-up, Scarey, Honest Rant...
“Well she’s sorta together and sorta not.”
“I don’t even know who these people are.”
~Random things I’m hearing eaves-dropping on a conversation at Pergolesi while writing this.
Reading a lot of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying lately.
Repetition is the law of the universe. Hormones follow it, seasons follow it, behaviors follow it and karma...
Japan's Government and the NRC are now submitting...
correlationstonone:
The NRC says there is no water cooling the spent fuel in one of the reactors. Japan is conflicting that report, because it probably means a big, fat meltdown and panic would be more deadly than this might already be.
Chernobyl, meet Fukushima?
Really trying to stay calm about all of this and accept it as “yeah, things are going to be a lot different from now...
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Radiolab:Help! →
Another one of my favorite podcasts, WNYC’s Radiolab. In this episode, we discover that addictions and muses share the commonality of internal conflict. The show explores different ways of working with turmoil instead of stagnating in it. A lot of the techniques mentioned in this show are methods of reprogramming and changing the anchors for associations in the brain. It’s hard work,...
February 2011
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Neil Kramer →
I’m pressed for time lately so I’ve got nothing to write for this podcast, I just invite you to take a listen to it and give it some thought. Yes, the music is hoaky but the content is interesting.
January 2011
1 post
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The Unexamined Life
“We were tricked into fearing the ways we will leave this planet.” -Buddy Wakefield, “Jean Heath” In Apology, Socrates is arrested and brought to trial on the charges that he “speculates about the heavens”…”investigates things that are beneath the earth and”…”can make the worst argument appear the stronger.”(p. 35). The price he pays for these grievances (or liberty he is granted depending on how...
November 2010
2 posts
untalentedpoet asked: "You know I always thought unicorns were fabulous creatures too, although I never saw one alive before."
"Well, now that we have met," said the unicorn, "If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."
idk how to comment your thing. this is what i thought about when i read your last blog
"Well, now that we have met," said the unicorn, "If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."
idk how to comment your thing. this is what i thought about when i read your last blog
October 2010
2 posts
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Solipsism: It's all in my head.
”In this very one-fathom-long body, along with its perceptions and thoughts, do I proclaim the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world, and the path leading to the cessation of the world” ~The Buddha Rohitassa Sutta
“Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remember being around 4...
encephalous asked: No new posts?
September 2010
9 posts
“The struggle for definition is veritably the struggle for life itself. In the...”
– Thomas Szazs
Buddhist Economics →
Economists themselves, like most specialists, normally suffer from a kind of metaphysical blindness, assuming that theirs is a science of absolute and invariable truths, without any presuppositions. Some go as far as to claim that economic laws are as free from “metaphysics” or “values” as the law of gravitation. We need not, however, get involved in arguments of methodology. Instead, let us...
Anonymous asked: Re: "Time to Chase the Sun."
Who is John Galt?
Who is John Galt?
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“The more you do, the more you see, and the more you see, the more there is to...”
– Zacharius
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via azspot)
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Do what is "most good" for you and you'll probably...
I’m going to make a statement that will probably be deemed unpopular but it should be considered. There’s a lot of implied guilt in our society, prodding that we should care and be knowledgeable about current events, strive to get a respectable job, strive to develop skills to get said respectable job, maintain steady income to win respectable significant other, etc. It’s all...
August 2010
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July 2010
10 posts
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“Bottom line: Higher corporate profits no longer lead to higher employment. We’re...”
– Robert Reich (via azspot)
This quote is personifying my mood today; I feel utterly pessimistic about looking for a job right now. It’s mostly the odds I feel stacked against me and every unemployed citizen scrounging for work, because companies are looking for mythical, sparkling-gold...
“What I don’t understand is how corporations were granted their immunity. How it...”
– Roger Ebert (via azspot)
Ignore Everything But This:
generic1:
unsolicitedanalysis:
ALL. THAT. MATTERS. IS. MAKING. GOOD. INVESTMENTS.
Governments can make good choices. Rich people with lots of capital at their disposal can make good choices. We are reliant on one of those two groups to make good investment decisions in America. We require one of those two groups -preferably both - to have the skills to deploy our tax resources,...
"The Postmonkey Condition" →
Zacharias, a philosopher, martial artist, Buddhist and message therapist whose podcast and blog I routinely follow, has begun a segment in his podcasts titled, “The Philosophers’ Stone,” in which he attempts to find the solution to humanities problems through philosophical contemplation. In the link above, he discusses the idea that human evolution has resulted from an...
You’ve got walls?
Good, we can build a city.
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The Creativity Crisis →
thoughtexploratorium:
thoughtexploratorium:
“What’s common about successful programs is they alternate maximum divergent thinking with bouts of intense convergent thinking, through several stages. Real improvement doesn’t happen in a weekend workshop. But when applied to the everyday process of work or school, brain function improves. “So what does this mean for America’s...
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Time to Chase the Sun.
“Smile, I want to see you smile. You are my mirror. Stop your bleeding. Pain is an illusion.”
The cynicism expressed in the century of my upbringing manifests itself deep into my psyche, and I become a part of it. Feeding the machine that kills childhood and children alike, makes thieves and desperate salesman out of the grown men who’ve left the dried husks of their childhood...
June 2010
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Robert Reich: The Obama Plot for a Carbon Tax →
” They claim there’s no other way to do business in Washington now because public opinion is too easily manipulated.”
“We constantly exhort young people to invest in their human capital. But...”
– The Sagging of the Middle Class (via azspot)
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin
vasuki:
“I want to live in a world where the words male and female are flexible and subjective, even redundant. A world of perpetual transformation, where sexuality and gender become obsolete as people begin to question why they should be the same person, day in, day out. A world where the overriding ethos is to question and explore your sexuality and gender without the restrictions prevalent in...
Post Experiment
freesamuel:
“Why is it considered the height of civilization to work 8 to 10 hours a day in a mind numbing “job”, to commute 1-3 hours per day, to eat processed and manufactured food, to live in wood and steel cans isolated from mother nature and the very land base we are destroying, all to finally collapse at the end of the day in front of a brightly colored display of moving pictures and sound...
Mental Environmentalists →
azspot:
“If the mental environment we live in has a single distinctive feature, the way that oxygen defines our atmosphere, it is self-absorption. That’s what a mental environment gone awry has produced; that is the toxic outcome of our era’s unique pollution. Some years ago, working on a book, I watched every word and image that came across the largest cable system in the world in a 24-hour...
The Self, Enlightenment and Neurology. →
Give neurologists enough time and they’ll eventually dig into this topic. Very fascinating what he says about the concept of self. I’ve personally been subconsciously representing my own psyche in two parts and I always thought of it as a “right brain, left brain” sort of thing. Turns out it is. They’ve narrow downed the Limbic system as the place where two sense of selves are organized.
“Our...
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A Proper Introduction
Howdy folks.
I figured it’d be helpful start with a brief introduction to my main philosophy and the other topics I’m inspired to write about, not that I’m trying to convert anyone, but it gives some context to the discipline I’m practicing and the topics I’m occasionally referring to in my posts. You probably started following me because you’re either: a...
May 2010
10 posts
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Word Salad
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WatchAnd on that note..
“Now I’m finding truth is a ruin Nauseous end that nobody is pursuing Staring into glassy eyes Mesmerized See the vintage robot wearied Then awakened by revision theories Every famine virtual Retrovertigo.”
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Experiment One
crashinglybeautiful:
““Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.””
—
Einstein (via oceanofmind) (via paynehollow)
First thing I see on my dashboard. What is “sense” then? What is the seat of that which we know as consciousness? High-level energy...