[MD] Neuroscience

[MarshaV]

Case,

I'm not sure hope has any more significance than sadness, but love 
and compassion seem always to have a beneficial impact.  I do admire 
your creativity...

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Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of 
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Marsha




At 03:20 PM 5/12/2009, you wrote:
> >Marsha
> >I was surprised that there was such thing as neuromarketing, but not
> >really surprised that science is a handmaiden to commerce.
> >
> >I am terribly sad.
> >
> >[Krimel]
> >Perhaps you could list for me the aspect of the modern world that are not
> >handmaidens of commerce because I am having a hard time coming up with any
> >at all.
>
>Marsha
>I don't get into a 'the modern world sucks!' mood very often, but I'm
>in one now, and it is times like these when it's best to work out in
>the garden, count my breaths, and try to spare everyone my moaning
>that a world-wide depression and a flu pandemic might just bring
>everybody to their senses.  There, I've confessed what a monster I am.
>
>[Case]
>When I get into a 'the modern world sucks!'
>I try to think about two things that usually help.
>
>First, I remember that the good old days sucked more.
>Second, I hope that the world of my grandchildren will suck less.
>
>I imagine that I exist suspended on a membrane
>Whose surfaces tension divides remembrance and hope;
>Indra's net of NOW.
>
>On that membrane the flotsam and jetsam
>Of "'this' and 'that'"
>Are scattered "'here' and 'there' about me.
>
>I surf the waves of Newton Rings;
>Interference patterns of past and future.
>"I" become a reflection;
>The world in a glass, darkly.
>
>In that frothy slur of time
>I am pulled by strange attractors of Habit
>
>Around me, illusions coalesce.
>I pick at them like jelly beans
>Or piles of M&Ms
>With all the browns removed...
>
>If we are to snack on Indra's jewels
>Must we always suck the liquorish?
>Can't we toss out out the brown ones ourselves?
>
>Why must everyone always
>Be brought to their senses
>By famine and disease?
>Can't hope and love change the world?
>
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