[MD] Random thoughts

[John Carl]

Hey Platt,  I feel like blowin' some responsive notes back at ya,

Explanation requires division.
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dey vision requires explanation.



> Power is knowing someone's life is about to change.
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Every moment of every day then, we are in power.




> Science can't explain why it is good.
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What's sad is that we stopped even trying



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> Beauty is free.
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but use of it will cost you



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> Awareness, I and existence are all synonyms.
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I was aware of this, at least in my existence.


> Most  problems come from two sources -- government and stupid
> people.
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Those are not separate things



> Brain is to consciousness as battery is to electricity.
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When ever I think of electric realizations, I remember the time I pissed on
the electric fence.



> Intellect freed experience from the present moment.
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True!  And Good!



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> Static patterns are stabilizing forces.
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heading toward decay



> Values: What one seeks to gain or keep.
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So:  Values, what one seeks.  Values=Seeking.  Seeking Value=Seeking
Seeking.

True!



> A noise and your hearing it is one indivisible fact.
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The cosmos breathes out what I breathe in.




> Physical laws are codes of conduct.
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Which can be broken if you know which judge to bribe.


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> Great art frees one from the separate self sense.
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Or dies tryin'


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> Ecstasy: A feeling you are about to feel a feeling you never felt before.
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That's every moment in experience!  Woo hoo!



> When faced with a a problem, take a chance and do nothing. No cost
> and possible beneficial outcome.
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I practically live by this rule.

and die by it too.



> Behavior is controllable, feelings are not.
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Feelings generate endless behaviors in series, but behaviors only generate
one feeling at a time



> Critical thinking, like religious belief, is a fundamentalist ideology.
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Critical thinking about religious belief is better than religious reliance
on intellect.



> Thoughts are made possible by the internal space provided by
> awareness.
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Which makes those who equate awareness with nothingness, pretty
empty-headed.


Your everyday, ordinary awareness. That is the Tao.
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Nah, it's my lunch.