May 17 is celebrated in the scientific world as the day the Antikythera Mechanism was discovered in 1901, an Ancient Greek device that some scientists have called the world’s first computer.
"Having said all this, there can be no doubt that cruel moralism does indeed play a significant role in propelling and providing (moral) cover for excessive retributivism throughout society and its institutions, including its legal institutions and practices. The disturbing truth about cruel moralism is that it is a propensity that’s deeply rooted in morality itself, and that plays out and displays itself in public as well as private life. In both spheres, its pernicious motivation and destructive effects remain largely concealed."
That's awesome, @silvermouse. And look at the fabulous waterbear which lives inside these glacier mice:
I'll be 72 in July, and I'm having more fun learning now than ever before.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
The Japanese Zen term shoshin translates as ‘beginner’s mind’ and refers to a paradox: the more you know about a subject, the more likely you are to close your mind to further learning. As the Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki put it in his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (1970): ‘In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.’
reading Lucid Dreaming by Robert Waggoner. Interesting so far, to me, I've engaged in lucid dreaming since about the age of 7. I thought I was just weird, until reading Carlos Castaneda's books in the early 70's and finding out that other people did it, too.
Of course, I am still weird, but at least I'm not the only one.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I read that book and the Carlos Castaneda books, but so far no luck with breaking through to Lucid Dreaming and my journey to become a Shaman has stalled due to lack of psychedelics and having kids.
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@Yakster said:
I read that book and the Carlos Castaneda books, but so far no luck with breaking through to Lucid Dreaming and my journey to become a Shaman has stalled due to lack of psychedelics and having kids.
Sometimes the sub-conscious doesn't want you to know what it's up to.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Speaking of the subconscious, I'm 70 pages into a fascinating look at how our minds work, how we are unknowingly biased, what causes those biases, and how to think more accurately. I'm looking to learn how to refute the idiots around me <(wink)>.
@Yakster said:
I read that book and the Carlos Castaneda books, but so far no luck with breaking through to Lucid Dreaming and my journey to become a Shaman has stalled due to lack of psychedelics and having kids.
Sometimes the sub-conscious doesn't want you to know what it's up to.
Oh, I believe that. I tested myself for Extrasensory Powers with Zener cards and found out that I have negative-psi or psi-missing where I have the talent to guess wrong more often than random chance allows. This is said to mean that some part of me knows the right answer and sends the wrong one up the chain to my conscious mind.
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@CalvinAndHobo said:
Just finished a book called My Brother's Destroyer by Clayton Lindemuth. One of the most unique books I've ever read, in a very good way. It's similar to a western, except it takes place something like 15 or 20 years ago. The whole book is written vernacularly, about a somewhat crazy hillbilly Moonshiner living in the woods in western North Carolina who's dog gets stolen. It took a few chapters to adjust to the intentional misspelling and slang, but it added so much to the story and the character. To anyone who likes westerns or noir this is a must read. Going to read the rest of the series now.
Just burned through the first book and downloaded the second. Enjoyed it
@Yakster said:
I read that book and the Carlos Castaneda books, but so far no luck with breaking through to Lucid Dreaming and my journey to become a Shaman has stalled due to lack of psychedelics and having kids.
Sometimes the sub-conscious doesn't want you to know what it's up to.
Oh, I believe that. I tested myself for Extrasensory Powers with Zener cards and found out that I have negative-psi or psi-missing where I have the talent to guess wrong more often than random chance allows. This is said to mean that some part of me knows the right answer and sends the wrong one up the chain to my conscious mind.
You have Groundhogmind!!!
Punxsutawney Phil: "While records weren't consistently kept until 1900 (after the first official "prediction" in 1887), Phil now operates at a 39 percent weather accuracy rate ...." So, chances of a correct forecast are better if one expects the opposite.
I find myself drawn to some, such as Kierkegaard and Martin Buber, but disappointed that the nihilistic school of thought of J.P. Sartre etc. seemed to become the only face of existentialism in the modern era.
I guess I take the "nothingness" to be akin to Zen nothingness wherein the ego is vanquished allowing unbiased observation, whereas Sartre's nothingness seems to be, nothing.
It's a very confusing thing.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
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May 17 is celebrated in the scientific world as the day the Antikythera Mechanism was discovered in 1901, an Ancient Greek device that some scientists have called the world’s first computer.
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/05/17/antikythera-mechanism-the-ancient-greek-artefact-that-continues-to-amaze-scientists/amp/
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cruel-moraliser-uses-a-halo-to-disguise-his-horns
"Having said all this, there can be no doubt that cruel moralism does indeed play a significant role in propelling and providing (moral) cover for excessive retributivism throughout society and its institutions, including its legal institutions and practices. The disturbing truth about cruel moralism is that it is a propensity that’s deeply rooted in morality itself, and that plays out and displays itself in public as well as private life. In both spheres, its pernicious motivation and destructive effects remain largely concealed."
Gotta watch out for those cruel moralisms; stick with the kind moralisms instead...
I'll take chaotic neutral over cruel moral any day.
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/858800112/herd-like-movement-of-fuzzy-green-glacier-mice-baffles-scientists
That's awesome, @silvermouse. And look at the fabulous waterbear which lives inside these glacier mice:
I'll be 72 in July, and I'm having more fun learning now than ever before.
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-cultivate-shoshin-or-a-beginners-mind
The Japanese Zen term shoshin translates as ‘beginner’s mind’ and refers to a paradox: the more you know about a subject, the more likely you are to close your mind to further learning. As the Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki put it in his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (1970): ‘In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.’
reading Lucid Dreaming by Robert Waggoner. Interesting so far, to me, I've engaged in lucid dreaming since about the age of 7. I thought I was just weird, until reading Carlos Castaneda's books in the early 70's and finding out that other people did it, too.
Of course, I am still weird, but at least I'm not the only one.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I read that book and the Carlos Castaneda books, but so far no luck with breaking through to Lucid Dreaming and my journey to become a Shaman has stalled due to lack of psychedelics and having kids.
Sometimes the sub-conscious doesn't want you to know what it's up to.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Speaking of the subconscious, I'm 70 pages into a fascinating look at how our minds work, how we are unknowingly biased, what causes those biases, and how to think more accurately. I'm looking to learn how to refute the idiots around me <(wink)>.
Oh, I believe that. I tested myself for Extrasensory Powers with Zener cards and found out that I have negative-psi or psi-missing where I have the talent to guess wrong more often than random chance allows. This is said to mean that some part of me knows the right answer and sends the wrong one up the chain to my conscious mind.
you know we are all idiots, don't you?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/got-my-fingers-crossed-iter-fusion-project-marks-milestone-chief-ponders-pandemic
Cranes lift ITER’s cryostat base into the tokamak pit to begin reactor assembly. ITER ORGANIZATION
don't know where else to put this:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/rocky-mountains-hidden-treasure-chest-found
I’ve been seeing this. Took 10 years and a few lives but someone finally got it and Fenn confirmed it.
The ungoverned globe
The end of the liberal order would unleash chaos; its continuance means unconstrained economic suffering. What to do
https://aeon.co/essays/can-the-liberal-order-be-transformed-by-global-government
"Hit List" by Stuart Woods.
Just burned through the first book and downloaded the second. Enjoyed it
You have Groundhogmind!!!
Punxsutawney Phil: "While records weren't consistently kept until 1900 (after the first official "prediction" in 1887), Phil now operates at a 39 percent weather accuracy rate ...." So, chances of a correct forecast are better if one expects the opposite.
"Killing Time" by Caleb Carr.
Our library finally opened. Salt River by Randy Wayne White one of my fav authors.
about nothing
https://aeon.co/essays/heidegger-v-carnap-how-logic-took-issue-with-metaphysics
Into the abyss of nothingness. I'm drawn to existentialism, but find it best to keep it at a distance.
I find myself drawn to some, such as Kierkegaard and Martin Buber, but disappointed that the nihilistic school of thought of J.P. Sartre etc. seemed to become the only face of existentialism in the modern era.
I guess I take the "nothingness" to be akin to Zen nothingness wherein the ego is vanquished allowing unbiased observation, whereas Sartre's nothingness seems to be, nothing.
It's a very confusing thing.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Picked this up
I don't think I'd have the stomach for that one.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
"Redemption" by David Baldacci.