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· Dec 19
"...they were unable to use ideas as instruments to discover truths, but waved them instead like flags." -MacLennan
"The precious pot containing my riches becomes my teacher in the very moment it breaks." Milarepa
December 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"The precious pot containing my riches becomes my teacher in the very moment it breaks." Milarepa
"At least we believed in Heaven then. We called it peace." MacLennan
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"At least we believed in Heaven then. We called it peace." MacLennan
"Theo, what a great thing tone and color are. And if someone does not learn to have a feeling for them, how far from real life he stands." van Gogh
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"Theo, what a great thing tone and color are. And if someone does not learn to have a feeling for them, how far from real life he stands." van Gogh
Point: Buddhist texts. View: Executive Functioning. Perspective: It looks to me like Buddhist thought is suggesting that most everyone is way more impulsive than they are aware of. And meditation is a practice that helps people move away from the delusions created by impulsivity.
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Point: Buddhist texts. View: Executive Functioning. Perspective: It looks to me like Buddhist thought is suggesting that most everyone is way more impulsive than they are aware of. And meditation is a practice that helps people move away from the delusions created by impulsivity.
Lotta dudes catch a glimpse of the metaphorical matrix and take that as evidence they ain't still in it. Like rewiring is that easy, like it's not a lifetime project.
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Lotta dudes catch a glimpse of the metaphorical matrix and take that as evidence they ain't still in it. Like rewiring is that easy, like it's not a lifetime project.
Hyperbole is to be taken literally as a primary tactic of persuasion in these times.
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hyperbole is to be taken literally as a primary tactic of persuasion in these times.
"He misses having somewhere he belongs, even if it was a lie- sooner that than being lost in the truth.
We have a hundred fake personalities depending on who we're with. We pretend and dissemble and stifle ourselves to fit in." Backman, from _The Winners_
We have a hundred fake personalities depending on who we're with. We pretend and dissemble and stifle ourselves to fit in." Backman, from _The Winners_
September 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"He misses having somewhere he belongs, even if it was a lie- sooner that than being lost in the truth.
We have a hundred fake personalities depending on who we're with. We pretend and dissemble and stifle ourselves to fit in." Backman, from _The Winners_
We have a hundred fake personalities depending on who we're with. We pretend and dissemble and stifle ourselves to fit in." Backman, from _The Winners_
Schismogenesis reaching high tide yet?
August 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Schismogenesis reaching high tide yet?
At what point does a garden become a farm?
August 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
At what point does a garden become a farm?
Modeling research on the embodied nature of language and then considering the general state of the world is pretty revealing.
July 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Modeling research on the embodied nature of language and then considering the general state of the world is pretty revealing.
Modeling metacognition, why might the ability to understand metaphors and parables make one more likely to recognize and try to reform their hypocrisy?
July 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Modeling metacognition, why might the ability to understand metaphors and parables make one more likely to recognize and try to reform their hypocrisy?
Exaggeration in place of evidence makes me nauseous.
July 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Exaggeration in place of evidence makes me nauseous.
America doesn't exist where people aren't struggling to distinguish what is self-evident from what is self-serving and move the damn ball on this problem.
July 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
America doesn't exist where people aren't struggling to distinguish what is self-evident from what is self-serving and move the damn ball on this problem.
"...simple minded grandstander..." foie gras level irony right there
June 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"...simple minded grandstander..." foie gras level irony right there
Art makes a ruminate of me.
June 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Art makes a ruminate of me.
One's perspective, reveals their vantage point on a view.
June 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
One's perspective, reveals their vantage point on a view.
Meditation, among other things is fairly solid executive functioning practice. Start, sustain, shift, working memory are all there.
May 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Meditation, among other things is fairly solid executive functioning practice. Start, sustain, shift, working memory are all there.
Nostalgia is evidence that you can't or won't see how the seeds for today's calamities where there all along...on a continuum.
April 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Nostalgia is evidence that you can't or won't see how the seeds for today's calamities where there all along...on a continuum.
Speaking about most problems using a single cause, is at best, woefully foolish. And on the other side of that continuum- sowing delusion (through emotional rhetoric) for personal gain.
April 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Speaking about most problems using a single cause, is at best, woefully foolish. And on the other side of that continuum- sowing delusion (through emotional rhetoric) for personal gain.
“Art requires resolute and unremitting industry, as well as incessant observation. By resolute industry I mean, in the first place, constant industry, as also the power of maintaining one's own point of view against the assertions of others.” -Van Gogh
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“Art requires resolute and unremitting industry, as well as incessant observation. By resolute industry I mean, in the first place, constant industry, as also the power of maintaining one's own point of view against the assertions of others.” -Van Gogh
If there's music out there staying awake
To cry and drain every eye until
Hatred's eliminated
And music that can help you feel great
And come together in 'the fictive dream'
With a kind of Randy Newman take
There's music that can take you away- T Hip
To cry and drain every eye until
Hatred's eliminated
And music that can help you feel great
And come together in 'the fictive dream'
With a kind of Randy Newman take
There's music that can take you away- T Hip
February 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
If there's music out there staying awake
To cry and drain every eye until
Hatred's eliminated
And music that can help you feel great
And come together in 'the fictive dream'
With a kind of Randy Newman take
There's music that can take you away- T Hip
To cry and drain every eye until
Hatred's eliminated
And music that can help you feel great
And come together in 'the fictive dream'
With a kind of Randy Newman take
There's music that can take you away- T Hip
Man arrives at self-serving conclusion with no evidence to support it. Cites common sense.
January 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Man arrives at self-serving conclusion with no evidence to support it. Cites common sense.
People are what people make 'em, and that ain't gonna change. - Tom Petty
January 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
People are what people make 'em, and that ain't gonna change. - Tom Petty
...for nothing was more delicious than the foie gras of hatred, once one had acquired the taste for it. - Nguyen
January 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
...for nothing was more delicious than the foie gras of hatred, once one had acquired the taste for it. - Nguyen