Daily Archives: March 23, 2012
The below is a list of what happens in my brain for the next 31 minutes after I hit “publish” each and everyday. Note: I only have about 1 original thought per minute, the other thoughts within that minute are variations of the original-thesis thought for that correpsonding minute.
Min 1: “Did my post suck today? It’s been a minute and there is only one “like”. Maybe it sucked.”
Min 2: “It’s Sunday, people don’t read very many blogs on Sunday, that’s a low-views day according to my stats.”
Min 3: “Oh, wait, it’s Monday. Okay, that is also a low-views day – so is Tuesday and Wednesday and hold on…”
Min 4: “I should’ve written about my Mom. People like it when I write about my Mom or my Wifesy.”
Min 5: “I don’t think I should’ve capitalized Mom in that last minute…
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The Problem of Order & No-order
Order is bringing serialization. Everything becomes 1 and 0 with no creativity. This will liberate the masses of poverty and perhaps illness also (Offcourse, Poverty and Illness is relative).
However everyone risk loosing creativity and what we should call life. Life would become “Machine and Death” instead of “Life & Death”.
The other problem is if there is no order, Nature soon seems to get evaporated and we face extinction anyways. Also there is the other problem of lawlessness, which might lead to extinction anyways.
It is a thin line between order and no order. How do we solve this problem? Creativity and Nature?
Caution: This might be all theory
In part 1, I commented briefly on some of the beliefs expressed by characters in A Beautiful Mind:
- reductionism or materialism can be used to justify one’s urges
- beliefs don’t necessarily need to be grounded in science to be valid
- meaning and significance are found in relation to others
As viewers we follow John Nash through this transformation.
A comment about the production of the movie itself – the plot is loosely based on the story of John Nash, a Nobel-prize winning mathematician. Most Hollywood biopics tinker with events, characters and timing, to make a point or to give a story more dramatic flow or impact. A Beautiful Mind is no exception. Please consider these thoughts in relation to the movie characters and not necessarily to the actual persons.
Now we turn to Alicia, who is the primary transforming force in the story and is at times…
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In the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, mathematician John Nash struggles with
schizophrenia forcing him to re-evaluate his beliefs and how he actually comes
to know anything. Some observations:
Nash holds to reductionism to justify urges:
Nash: I don’t exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the sex.
Beliefs are based on evidence:
Alicia: How big is the universe?
Nash: Infinite.
Alicia: How do you know?
Nash: I know because all the data indicates it’s infinite.
Alicia: But it hasn’t been proven yet.
Nash: No.
Alicia: You haven’t seen it.
Nash: No.
Alicia: How do you know for sure?
Nash: I don’t, I just believe it.
Alicia: It’s the same with love I…
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I recently read an essay by Paul Graham on how much he likes writing better than speaking:
Having good ideas is most of writing well. If you know what you’re talking about, you can say it in the plainest words and you’ll be perceived as having a good style. With speaking it’s the opposite: having good ideas is an alarmingly small component of being a good speaker.
…Audiences like to be flattered; they like jokes; they like to be swept off their feet by a vigorous stream of words. As you decrease the intelligence of the audience, being a good speaker is increasingly a matter of being a good bullshitter. That’s true in writing too of course, but the descent is steeper with talks.
And this from a quick profile of Linus Torvalds:
In fact, Linux’s creator doesn’t really even like to talk about technology. He’d rather write. “I think…
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At the core of the Human Person according to Dr. Covey is our paradigms. They are located deep within us, in the human heart. Many traditions say that the human person starts off in this life as shattered or broken. The Seven Habits system simply puts it a different way by using the word dependent.
How do you get from one step to the next.
Work.
An individual must work and work hard, but they must work on the right things. One has to progressively and over time change the way we see things. We do that by making small commitments to ourselves and keeping them and making progressively larger ones. After the character and integrity issues are resolved we have to begin working on the way we see things and how we relate to the world. Its an upward spiral of personal growth.
The way you change your internal…
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The digital images that follow are the result of a controlled “Big Bang”, made by scientists at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
The reason scientists went to the realization of this experiment was to determine how exactly the Universe began to operate. To achieve this, they created subatomic explosions, similar to those which had happened at the time of the Big Bang, using particles of lead.
These particles were cast at a speed equal to the speed of light, and when the accelerator collided in vacuum at a temperature 271 degrees below zero C, these unique photographs were taken.
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It’s not the same, when you are here,
I see the change, I wish to make,
I know am good, but can do more,
I hope to be, the light you seek.
I walk alone, now life is grown,
The path of right, it’s just too bright,
I need to brave, my norm to sake,
Must leave the past and seek what last.
I am in two, in mind and heart,
I listen more and still can’t solve,
The path to take, a welcome break,
I’m tired of failing, the reason am bailing.
I walk away, in search of ways,
To put things right, before this night,
The moon above, their light to shine,
I need to free, my mind for three.
Beneath the tree, I sit with glee,
The sun to bed, my hope to rest,
My heart is spinning, my mind is willing,
I hold my breath, to…
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Title:
Zen Steps For Calming Down Easily
Article Body:
It’s easy to calm down quickly. No matter what is happening around us, we never have to become trapped in stress or anxiety. It’s important to learn how to calm down quickly this as negative emotions can easily become addictive. The longer we hold onto them, the harder it can be to let go. Zen offers many pathways to becoming free of negativity. This article is based upon Zen principles and value-centered counseling. It offers enjoyable and effective steps to calming down, feeling good about yourself and finding that peaceful place in the storm.
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God who is hidden and yet revealed,
Man who is wretched and yet great,
Man who’s a sinner and yet a saint.
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habit.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Lao Tzu (ancient Chinese philosopher)
I think I also heard this on the trailer for Iron Lady (the movie comes out in April on DVD)…. Margaret Thatcher may have also said this!
1. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
2, “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” -Walter Winchell
3. “To the world you may be one person…but to one person you may be the world” -Unknown
4. “It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.” -Unknown
5. “Never start frowning ’cause you never know who’s falling in love with your smile” -Unknown
6. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” -Theodore Roosevelt
7. “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.” -Bob Dylan
8. “Laugh as much as you breathe and Love as long as you live.” -Unknown
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- For a true master, Sitting on a throne is no different than Sitting on dirt.
- All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
- God may be in the details, but it is also important to know the big picture.
- Acceptance does not mean fatalism. It does not mean capitulation to some slaughtering predestination. [It means] acting within the framework of circumstance.
- It is a misconception that spirituality brings everlasting happiness. There is no such thing. Sadness still comes to the wise, but, unlike most people, their clarity of mind allows them to see beyond the temporal emotionalism of the moment. They are farseeing, and so happiness and sorrow become the same to them.
- Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work to support yourself. Never depend on others for your…
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Wowzers! This is a beauty. And practical too – look at that ingenious design for carrying some extra cargo.
The bike is called The Fremont and is the beautiful result of a collaboration between design firm and a a Portland based cycle company (Ziba and Signal Cycles). Click here for some information from Ziba on how the bike was designed and made, a fascinating process.
Images from AnthologyMag
Look at the blue on the wheels! The stylish satchel! The little light on the mudguard!
Oh, in my dreams I’m wearing a stripy top with my hair blowing in the wind (car free roads in all dreams) and cycling this to a proper American farmers market in Portland.
(In reality I’m wearing a fluoro green jacket, a bright white helmet and I’m trying not to get mown down by a bus crossing the Euston Road).
Oh get me one of these…
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Wonders of Wandering 