October 2009
3 posts
not adding as much as I'd like →
Somehow I got entrapped with Facebook because a friend had finally discovered it and went all gung-ho on getting all his family and friends added, or finding them there. So, anything that has come to…
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Your money or your life? You have neither…
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”—Margaret Mead
How many people own the oil companies? Compared to the world’s population, a very small number. How about the tobacco companies? The automobile companies? The book publishing companies? The agriculture companies? The chemical...
September 2009
3 posts
A set of expectations counter to what is present. The inability to accept the moment.
That which doesn’t meet one’s expectations. Chaos doesn’t exist without order, i.e. order gives birth to chaos.
Not as oppressed as someone else.
August 2009
6 posts
Gossip is officially a news "source"
From an article in the news:
While the gossip source did not elaborate on what that reason might be,…
How much more specious can you get?
From a news article:
The report does, however, make clear that the rumor is based on gossip and “not confirmed news.”
Being in Hawaii, I’ve come to accept much more that I don’t really connect with the idea of running all over the place just to be here or there. Yes, experiences are important, but every moment is an experience. Deciding to open one’s eyes when they get somewhere else instead of opening them where one is currently seems paradoxical. Though I admit, it does come in handy for those...
“Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation....”
– “The Post-Capitalist Society” (1993) by Peter F. Drucker
Isn't Google Books the greatest?
Archibald S. Van Orden’s introduction to “Self mastery through conscious autosuggestion” (1922) by Emile Coué.
Introduction
The pendulum of medical thought is swinging away from materialism. The day of the predominance of the pill is past. Practitioners of all schools now realize that a very large part of our weal and woe is the result of our thinking. Probably ninety per...
July 2009
6 posts
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Schools make work possible, together they tear...
Companies need people to do work for them. Adults need to take care of their children. Schools are essentially daycare centers for people declared as children. Parents are suppose to console themselves for missing out on being with their family and growing with their children, by accepting money in exchange for their lives.
Which would you prefer? Having your children taken away and sold, never...
Days of death and birth
Most people die within 6 months of their birthday anniversary, so be careful.
To get a good understanding of failure, it’s best experienced first-hand.
there's a very subtle difference between doing...
alaskamiller:
one wants to get in your pants the other just wants you to be okay.
Hmm, that reminds me of the trouble with cross-dressers: they never have enough clothing and always want somebody else’s. So, there’s probably also a fine line between being friends because you look great in your clothes, and being friends because they’ll look great in your clothes.
city-sized hydrocarbon blankets for your freedom →
Page 24, description of a morning in a city: …she walked back to the Mondrian through that weird, evanescent moment that belongs to every sunny morning in West Hollywood, when some strange…
treasure the exceptions →
William Bateson is said to have declared the following to fellow biologists in 1908: Treasure your exceptions! … When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it any further….
Occam's razor
“Plurality ought never be posited without necessity.”
Rephrased: “All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.”
Simplified: parsimony
Eschew obfuscation.
Espouse elucidation.
June 2009
18 posts
Thankful
Everybody knows
What I won’t acknowledge.
That’s not to say
They know that about me.
And I don’t really know
What I’m missing.
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“Practice makes habit.”
– Benjamin Cooper
unique and the same →
On pages 73-76, the common ideas of you being a unique part of the universe while also minimizing your accountability are suggested for resetting your perspective, such as during times of…
“Each of us is unique, which is what makes us the same.”
– Benjamin Cooper
being yourself →
Pages 60-61, the author relates a favorite story of his about your journey being sufficiently viable: One of my favorite stories from Jewish teachings is about a well respected but very human…
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Is being blunt close to being dull?
I was thinking maybe I might be blunt at times when speaking. Then it occurred to me that being blunt isn’t a far step away from being dull when referring to sharp objects. Is that affecting the points I make?
Does this imply I’m not sharp?
Should I keep an eye out for some verbal whetstones for honing my statements?
Would having a serrated edge in what I say be more of...
going against the grain →
No, I haven’t finished reading this book, I’ve barely begun. Interestingly, I’m discovering different viewpoints by disagreeing with certain points made in the book. At least it’s not as…
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on the world's stage, without a role →
Another quote from Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. The book starts out with Cayce having arrived in London from New York for a freelance job of hers, and at this point on page 194 she has…
Fitting in is Overrated by Leonard Felder →
how fitting… (Also, keep in mind I’m in Hawaii right now…)
“…she tries to become just another lost tourist, though she knows...”
– Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
“I only know that the one constant in history is change. The past changes. Our...”
– Cayce Pollard, in Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
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