Tag: life
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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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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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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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A path to non-violence
My slow, slow, and on-going switch from meat eating to veganism. I see a parallel between violence against animals and violence in general. The final destination, will be non-violence. That’s the vision that Jesus gave us. But we need the path to get us there. I still struggle how the total opposite of Jesus’ teachings…
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Lungs
Trees don’t have a heart but they breathe. Maybe the Buddhists already thought of this and hence why we focus on the breath when meditating. I don’t think so though, I think it’s just easier to control the breath and our thoughts through the breath. I don’t understand when people tell me to listen to…
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Silence of the friends
Found this quote via the Finnish anti-bullying website KiVa and their Parents’ Guide: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Steeler Lecture, November 1967. This led me on a long path of King’s other quotes.…
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Life is a poem
Lewis says in Miracles, “we should prefer to think that all nations and individuals start level in the search for God, or even that all religions are equally true. It must be admitted at once that Christianity makes no concession to this point.” – Chose for the Unchosen – C.S. Lewis website This is what…
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No doubt Jesus laughed a lot
No doubt Jesus laughed a lot – Soul Fuel, ch. 21, Bear Grylls Can we keep it that simple please? Not wrap it up in happiness/joy/“really-fun-guy”. He laughed. I mean I like and understand the good intentions of happiness and Joy but then there’s lots of questions about what is happiness and joy. Laughing, is…
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The eternal law of the animals
Tolstoy explains beautifully as ever, the hypocrisy of Christians at war. “There are in Europe twenty-eight millions of men under arms,” says Wilson, “to decide disputes, not by discussion, but by murdering one another. That is the accepted method for deciding disputes among Christian nations.…either Christianity is a failure, or those who have undertaken to…
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