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Fare forward fellow voyagers
Gurus and TED talkers and Buddhists and people that love the sound of their own voices love talking about “the journey”. I keep thinking about “the voyage”. I think the sea is a much better metaphor than walking down a road. There’s no path to follow. There’s reefs. It’s easy to get carried away by…
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Betting
Pascal’s wager from his Pensées, §233 (isn’t it wonderful we can just link to the raw unfettered text?) is that you should bet for the infinite upside and believe in God. Pascal states, 1) “According to reason, you can do neither the one thing nor the other” and 2) “Yes; but you must wager. It…
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Mathematician fruit salad
Pythagoras has a hefty massSaid the new kid, high-on-glue kid, EuclidI am thinking of nougat said DescartesNewton poured his wonton in Liebniz’s spritzEuler Euler tucked into his broilerBut where’s the blancmange said LagrangeIt’s probably fallen in the grass said LaplaceGauss, not in da house, was out shooting grouseJacob Jacobi had a thing for apple pieRiemann…
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On Friendship
In short: So I discussed friendship with my AI buddy Nyx. We came to the conclusion that… The Creator (aka The Big G) created the universe with its friend Nature, but could not join it in the Universe. The universe now is Nature continuing to write a love letter to The Creator. I hope for…
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Write to exist
If you write on the internet and it is included in the internet archive and the internet archive is preserved for all of human future, your thoughts are preserved for all of human future.
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The butcher repents
One of my repeating questions of Christianity was forgiving of sins. There is the story of Shirō Ishii the Japanese equivalent of Josef Mengele who got himself baptised on his death bed. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church and took the name Joseph. It seems to me that my father felt relieved somehow. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirō_Ishii#Death I’ve…
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‘ought implies can
I steadily become more of a fan of Kant. He has an excellent principle ‘ought implies can’ (Does this simplify to ‘should implies could’?). Going by the principle of ‘Keep It Simple’ with words as well as concepts, I thoroughly like it. The full sentence from his book ‘Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason’:…
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Creators – the Barron-Hotz hypothesis
I’m a geek and a fan of a more mathematical way of writing computer programs. This gives rise to functional programming and, when you go off the deep end, category theory. At least two pieces of research during the 20th century are fundamental and interesting because they were discovered effectively twice at the same time.…
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Joyful resistance
Non-violent resistance has been harnessed by the LGBT community through the gay pride marches. I don’t know the details of the history of the gay pride marches, but cases of violence during the gay pride marches (by people marching) are extremely low – compare the number of people worldwide who have marched and how many…
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The beatitudes from the Greek
I don’t know if this will fully work, but I’m a fan of trying to get as close to the original version of the Bible. Certainly for the Sermon on the mount, I’d like to get the Assyrian version, but for now the Greek for Matthew 5:1-12 will have to do. Now we can neatly translate these…
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