[MD] Random thoughts

[John Carl]

Oh boy!  Fresh meat to chew on!

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:09 AM, <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:

> All:
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> The problem with models of reality is they omit the mind that created the
> model.
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Or the reality!



> It's a constant struggle to see what is right in front of your nose.
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especially if you have a big nose.



> Serenity is feeling happy for no reason.
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 Reason is act-ually  the pursuit of serenity.



> One thing we have in common is the belief we are apart.
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And the foolish hope that we are not.



> P.C. is a return to the Victorian era.
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The Victorian era has never left.  Its patterns resonate and continue
through time, even while other eras have joined it, modified its resonances,
amplified its waves.



> When everything is equally good, everything is equally worthless.
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This is so true, and so ill-known in the era of ubiquitous affirmation
therapy, that we should find a way of stamping it onto the consciousness of
every person we see.

Maybe I'll make it my sig.



> How can the Big Bang create time when it takes time to create?
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And how long ago did it happen?



> Read what you write out loud. Does it mumble and drown? Then it's
> boring. Readers won't bore.
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hmmm... my sig file is gonna get pretty crowded.  Slow down Platt, I can't
keep up. You're really wha-ailing today.



The educational establishment is still dominated by a futile quest for an
> ideal world.
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Would you rather they engage in a quest for a rotten world?



If idealism were true I would make a world in which I was twice as rich.
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thus making it twice as hard for you to enter the Ideal.

What drumming conundrums you do pound out!



> You cannot think yourself out of having a thought.
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But I can think myself out of feeling an emotion, and that's more useful.



> Behind every act of compassion is self-congratulation.
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Behind every impulse of self-congratulation is a soul in dire need of
compassion.



>
> We divide reality, forget we have divided it, then forget we have forgotten
> it.
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A forgettable cosmology indeed!



> In most nations the correlation between income and happiness is
> negligible.
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Not if  you ask the wives.



> The more we try to get it all down pat, the more we realize the effort is a
> chimera.
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I used to raise chimeras.  The make nice pets unless you pat them.  They
only like to be petted.  That's why they're pets, not mere chimeras.



> Dumb atoms have feelings, too.
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Sometimes I wonder about the smart ones tho...



> Many have discovered the power of playing helpless.
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Alas, no.  They have stopped playing.  They have fallen into the trap of
helplessness and they can't get out.

They need help.


> Isn't it odd that people who see no purpose in life seem morally obligated
> to sneer at people who do have a sense of purpose?
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What is odd to me is that they don't notice this about themselves, when it's
so obvious to everyone else.  You'd think since they take themselves so
seriously, they'd actually pay attention to themselves and have some
understanding of who they are. But no-o-o.

I guess they're just helpless, poor dears.


If one asserts that truth doesn't exist a universal truth is acknowledged at
> the start.
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If one asserts that error doesn't exist, then they are obviously wrong!


Whew!

Thanks Platt.  I needed that.