February 2012
9 posts
A Spontaneous Experience of Awakening into...
Introduction On the morning of February 5, 1997, my life was changed, at a deep and fundamental level, by a completely unexpected and inexplicable experience.
To this day, I still do not fully comprehend, with my rational mind or intellect, exactly what happened. And yet, the validity and power of this incredible moment remain with me today, profoundly vivid and clear years after the fact.
It was...
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The 'nothingness' is not empty space. It is,...
remember.
Changing the way we speak - Buckminster Fuller
The words “down” and “up”, according to Fuller, are awkward in that they refer to a planar concept of direction inconsistent with human experience. The words “in” and “out” should be used instead, he argued, because they better describe an object’s relation to a gravitational center, the Earth. “I suggest to audiences that they say,...
Imagine a world.. →
January 2012
20 posts
Theories of humor
Computer Theory of Humor
It basically states that there is a need to delete the errors that can suddenly appear on our reasoning ant it works by zeroing of some part of the neural network and excessive energy of neurons is thrown out to the motor cortex, arousing muscular contractions.
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That moment when you are disappointed at your parents for still showing signs of emotional immaturity, most noticeably:
Denial of the reality: Even if the evidence is against them they will refuse to discuss (mostly because they feel they always must be right) - increased probability while angered
Projection: Attributing one’s own unacknowledged unacceptable/unwanted thoughts and emotions...
spiritmolecule:
“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.” — Eckhart Tolle (via sunnythunderstorms)
I think both ways work, if you keep doing good things eventually you won’t have to try, they’ll be second nature to you.
In Buddhism it’s said that if you act like a Buddha...
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Every good action you do is a step forward to the...
When reason ends, then anger begins.
Dalai Lama's 18 rules for living.
spiritmolecule:
At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
- Respect for self
- Respect for others
- Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember...
From "The Egg" by Andy Weir
GOD: “The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.”
YOU: “You mean mankind? You want us to mature?”
GOD: “No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.”
YOU: “Just me? What about everyone else?”
GOD: “There is no one else. In this universe, there’s just you and me.”
YOU: “But all the people on earth…”
GOD: “All you. Different incarnations of you.”
YOU: “Wait. I’m everyone!?”
GOD: “Now you’re getting it,”
YOU: “I’m every human being who ever lived?”
GOD: “Or who will ever live, yes.”
YOU: “I’m Abraham Lincoln?”
GOD: “And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,”
YOU: “I’m Hitler?”
GOD: “And you’re the millions he killed.”
YOU: “I’m Jesus?”
GOD: “And you’re everyone who followed him."
Silence
GOD: “Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
December 2011
8 posts
November 2011
12 posts
“There is no coincidence, and nothing happens ‘by accident.’ Each event and...”
– Neal Walsh
Twelve Virtues of Rationality
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The first virtue is curiosity. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. If in your heart you believe you already know, or if in your heart you do not wish to know, then your questioning will be purposeless and your skills...
How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police →
“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the...”
– Commander Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
October 2011
19 posts
