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700

2012-02-09T07:31:00.002-08:00

"The Ancient Greek word λόγος (logos) is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "word" but can also mean thought, speech, reason, principle, standard, or logic, amongst other things. In philosophy, the term logos was used by Heraclitus to describe human knowledge and the inherent order in the absolute universe: a background to the essential change which characterizes day-to-day life. By the time of Soccrates, Plato, and Aristotle, logos was the term used to describe the faculty of human reason, and the knowledge men had of the world and of each other."

699

2012-02-09T07:31:00.001-08:00

"First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines."

698

2012-02-09T07:30:00.001-08:00

"That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be."

697

2012-02-09T07:28:00.000-08:00

"For Rousseau, language also has the ability to construct reality. According to him, only with the knowledge of words like "love" and "posession" can these concepts come into being.
Therefore, reality as we have it is limited and dependent upon the names and words we have come up with thus far.
Rousseau points out a paradox regarding the origin of language: "For if men needed speach in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking". He adds to this paradox: Vocal articulation must be arrived by "unanimous consent",
but language is needed to voice consent, thus "speech appears to have been necessary to establish the use of speech."

696

2012-02-09T07:26:00.000-08:00

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

695

2012-02-09T07:25:00.000-08:00

"If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing."

694

2012-02-09T03:32:00.001-08:00

The world is a mirror.
And you are the mirrored.

693

2012-02-09T02:47:00.000-08:00

"Nobody tells this to artists who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn't have this special thing we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you finish one piece. It's only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take awhile. You just gotta fight your way through."

692

2012-02-09T02:33:00.000-08:00

"Ready to see drones flying over your house? A new bill passed by Congress will give commercial, private and military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) greatly increased access to U.S. airspace that’s currently reserved only for manned planes.

Right now drones are mostly limited to the U.S.-Mexico border and military airspace, as well as use by around 300 public agencies located far away from cities and airports. That is now scheduled to change by September 30, 2015."

Then there are the corporations. (...) companies like Google could ditch their Street View cars and start deploying advanced, autonomous drones to roam the country for incredibly thorough mapping. If the idea of fleets of corporate-owned drones monitoring us from above doesn’t scare you, then you are a much less paranoid person than I."

691

2012-02-07T16:15:00.001-08:00

"Our life in action is our society, and you cannot transform that society unless you transform yourself."

690: FIGHT ACTA

2012-02-07T15:09:00.001-08:00

FIGHT ACTA. This could destroy free internet.
This is a threat to nearly everybody!!!

[LINK TO VIDEO]

689

2012-02-07T14:59:00.001-08:00

"We need to make our own internet. This is becoming the governments' internet."

688

2012-02-06T15:48:00.000-08:00

"I’ve never voted. I am not sure why, I perhaps don't care enough. People always tell me: 'Imagine everybody would decide not to vote! You have to vote because every small opinion counts towards the final results'. I've never agreed with it, although I couldn't express why. On one hand, it seems like democracy works because decisions depend on opinions of many people, yet it seems like your own vote does not matter at all. The answer to this dilemma can be found in principles of swarm behaviour.

The main strength of biological swarms is in collective decision-making about a common action like what to hunt or where to migrate. However, swarm behaviour only works because of interactions between individuals. One single unit on its own has no impact, even if it keeps repeating its behaviour over and over. An ant can forever walk back and forth to a bad nest site if it doesn't distribute pheromone. A bee can repeatedly collect nectar from a weak flower source if it does not dance to attract other nest mates. It is not the action itself but the passing of information about one's action that results in emergent global results, which is also what makes swarms hard to engineer.

I would therefore argue that there is nothing wrong with not voting. As long as you keep it to yourself or at least don't try to persuade others to behave as you do, your decision to not vote has no impact on who will be the president or who a parliament will constitute of. The same goes for your choice of whom to vote for if you decide to. Your individual action does not matter. Only waves of your impact on others do."

687

2012-02-06T14:49:00.001-08:00

Recently there is a warning being mailed around by the police about a Power Point Presentation named "Life is beautiful".
If you open it you get the text "It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful", all your files disappear from your computer and the person having sent the mail has full access to all your files, passwords and mails.

It is said there is no program able to protect you from this. The nick of the creator is "Life Owner".

686

2012-02-06T01:59:00.000-08:00

Say something against the monetary system and you are called Anti-Semite..

685

2012-02-05T10:37:00.000-08:00

"The mind creates, the body reproduces. In the material space, art objects are reproductions of the creations of the mind - a mind that uses the body as a machine to materialize ideas, patterns, and emotions. With the evolution of the electronic environment, the mind is reaching a point where it will be free from the body to share immersions into the parameters of the delphic space."

684

2012-02-05T10:36:00.001-08:00

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

683

2012-02-05T10:35:00.001-08:00

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."

682

2012-02-05T10:33:00.000-08:00

"We use polyurethane to make just about everything—garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local 99-cent store. It’s easy to produce, durable, and dirt cheap. What it isn’t is recyclable—there isn’t a single natural process that breaks it down. That is until a newly-discovered Amazonian fungus takes a bite.

Pestalotiopsis microspora is a resident of the Ecuadorian rainforest and was discovered by a group of student researchers led by molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel as part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory. It’s the first fungus species to be able to survive exclusively on polyurethane and, more importantly, able to do so in anaerobic conditions—the same conditions found in the bottom of landfills. This makes the fungus a prime candidate for bioremediation projects that could finally provide an alternative to just burying the plastic and hoping for the best."

681

2012-02-03T04:41:00.001-08:00

"We decode the reality in a certain way.
We can decode reality as heaven, but also as hell."

680

2012-02-03T04:39:00.000-08:00

"Just look at us. Everything is backwards;
Everything is upside down.
Doctors destroy health,
lawyers destroy justice,
universities destroy knowledge,
governments destroy freedom,
the major media destroy information
and religions destroy spirituality."

679

2012-02-03T03:10:00.001-08:00

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

678

2012-02-03T02:49:00.000-08:00

"There is a certain overlap between rivetheads and cyberpunks, no doubt about that. The main difference is that rivetheads usually have a certain dresscode whereas cyberpunks can look like anybody or nobody and still be cyberpunks, for them it's mostly a frame of mind. (...)
When I imagine the "perfect" cyberpunked society rivetheads are an essential part of it and have always been."

677

2012-02-03T02:45:00.001-08:00

"We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth."

676

2012-02-02T15:55:00.002-08:00

"To judge people means to draw grotesque pictures of them."

675

2012-02-02T15:55:00.001-08:00

"Holding back your feelings stops you from getting hurt, but it also holds you back from true happiness."

674

2012-02-02T15:54:00.001-08:00

"Don't promise when you're happy; don't reply when you're angry; don't decide when you're sad."

673

2012-02-02T02:05:00.000-08:00

Sleep is the invisible umbilical cord of mankind.

672

2012-02-02T02:04:00.001-08:00

"Which is the best government? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

"The best government is the one that makes itself superfluous."

671

2012-02-01T10:35:00.000-08:00

The word material comes from the latin word "mater" which means mother, source or origin. Considering the way mankind deals with materials these days my point doesn't need further explanation.

670

2012-02-01T02:30:00.000-08:00

"Times of order are just breaks of chaos."

"Silence is the world taking a breath."

669: Path of Enlightment

2012-01-31T13:39:00.000-08:00

"Are we gods?
No we are beings made in the image of a loving creator but thoroughly currupted with evil and imperfection. The new age movement, satanists, magicians, religions like hinduism, and "new" psychology would disagree. They all have systems for achieving self realization, tapping into your divinity or achieving godhood. The process and techniques are varied but the end result is the same: You gain control of your spirit which most humanity has laying dormant to a large degree.
The problem: Most human beings are not born with enough power to "awaken" their spirit and need help from outside forces to achieve awakening. All the occult technologies involved in doing this open oneself up to the spiritual realm until one can directly see and hear the spirit realm.

But the creator does not want fallen man to do this. Why? Because the only beings that will do this for you are fallen angels commonly called demons. Why? Because they want slaves! They lure people into the occult, new age, etc. With the promise of enlightenment/godhood by calling on the demons/angels/gods/or unversal life force the practitioner slowly (or instantly, depending on the system) opens himself up to demonic influence. The deeper the individual gets, the more it opens up - further and further towards full demonic possession. SLAVES!
Once sufficiently possesed absolute control is gained over the individuals life. Told what to do, what to eat, who to associate with, take over of the persons personality, body, and when fully possessed hours or days go by in a blackout (missing time). Thats when the demon/demons/force your conciousness down and totally take you over and use your body for their own purposes.

Going down the path towards your own "godhood" will end up leading to slavery to evil angels that are far more powerful than us humans. It grieves me in my research to see sincere researchers present the truth to the world about the elite/forces that rule the world but offer solutions like "find your divinity" or "attune to the cosmic will".
THIS LEADS PEOPLE DOWN THE SAME ROAD TO SLAVERY THAT THOSE IN POWER ARE ON!
Most of those on top were raised in satanist/luciferian families. They have usually been subject to personality splitting (monarch programming, satanic ritual abuse) with layers of demonic forces in each seperate personality. If you know about these things you can understand their inhuman cold bloodedness.
THEY ARE NO LONGER TRULY HUMAN.
They are merely vessels of evil angels, used as a body to do their will on earth."

[source]

668

2012-01-31T13:22:00.000-08:00

"Live without thinking about yourself all the time. Never listen to your fears and your wishes. Don't expect something for everything you do. Give without asking. Be aware."

667

2012-01-31T13:19:00.000-08:00

"You can only free yourself from bad things, if you created them. The roots of evil lay in your own egoism. Clean up your own disorder and you will see: It's enough."

666

2012-01-31T07:36:00.000-08:00

"I am the angry and silent storm, who upsets the minds and souls of men. They seek own places of prayer, to damn me, or places of vice to make me happy by their submission. The monk, who prays in the silence of night to keep me away from his bed resembles the harlot which invites me to her chamber. I am satan forever and ever."
The wise priest sees how deadly wounded Satan is and says: "You must live, because if men hear of your death, their fear of hell will disappear, they would stop to pray to god, because there is no sin anymore. You must live, because your life means salvation."

665

2012-01-31T07:34:00.000-08:00

"And you know what? Piracy is not destroying the economy. In the worst case scenario, simply because someone takes my content and makes profit of it, doesn't mean there will be less bread on my table. If piracy is affecting the sales, let's say in Hollywood or the music industry, is because people are not willing to pay for the recycled vapid crap they produce. Most of us like paying for the stuff we like, because we understand the effort involved in creating a high quality product. If some don't, they were more likely not going to buy it, to begin with."

664

2012-01-30T14:51:00.001-08:00

"Do not seek the answers outside
They are not written anywhere
For whoever wrote them asked a different question.
It is all inside you, yet hidden by your thoughts
But not seek it inside
For seeking needs thinking and thoughts blur what's real.

Only seek the Emptiness
The place where there is no 'inside' or 'outside'
The state of mind that embraces everything
It is where time and space do not matter
And are one point, one singularity.

Only in the Emptiness
You can feel the reality
But you cannot understand it
For understanding implies thinking

Feel how it all flows
Around you and within you
Seize to exist
To understand the true existence without 'yourself'

See how the time-space melts
Without thoughts that would hold it together
See how it flows
Into one point, without a purpose

See how everything is one
In the Emptiness with no boundaries
But never think that you are there
For if it was true there would be nobody to think"

[source]

663

2012-01-30T13:54:00.001-08:00

"Can you draw well? Remember this all important fact – The drawing is the basis, the groundwork, from which your painting is created. If there are weaknesses in your drawing, everything else will be flawed from the onset. Now I know that we can always use more work on our hand skills. There’s no such thing as a perfect drawing – we aren’t looking for perfection, but we are looking for skilled. If you struggle with anatomy, perspective, and/or composition – then those issues have to be addressed before you start worrying about portfolio pieces."

662

2012-01-30T10:21:00.000-08:00

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the "One Percent": [LINK]

661

2012-01-30T09:25:00.001-08:00

"On a lush tropical island in a remote area of the Caribbean something, very peculiar is happening. The young girls in one village are turning into boys. This startling sex change is occurring naturally, and a team of scientists sent to the island believes it could throw a new light on fundamental aspects of human nature and sexual identification."

660

2012-01-29T16:18:00.001-08:00

"Observe the world around
But do not try to control it
You cannot control what has its own pace
You can only observe and change within

Observe the mindless people
Understand their actions and thoughts
Observe the clouds in their dance
Observe your pain and learn from it

With plain observation comes pure knowledge
Of things how they are without your judgment
Effort to control gives an illusion that you change
The world that is unchangeable and out of reach

Give in to the truths you see
Without prejudice know what's real
Without fear read the mind of god
And see yourself in his face"

659

2012-01-29T16:09:00.000-08:00

"There is no air
No water or material around
There is no objective existence
All is but a reflection in your mind

An image based on sparkles
This multidimensional mesh
Of elementary waves
That tick and move like clockwork
On the plane of our reality"

658

2012-01-29T13:56:00.001-08:00

"Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being one of those malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being one of these malenky machines."

657

2012-01-29T13:52:00.000-08:00

"Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose."

656

2012-01-28T16:41:00.000-08:00

Your quantified self is the caged you..

655

2012-01-28T16:26:00.001-08:00

"A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants, and found that many could be open to easy hack attacks, due to lax security practices."

654

2012-01-27T17:34:00.001-08:00

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top."

653

2012-01-27T17:33:00.003-08:00

What is sanity?

652

2012-01-27T17:33:00.001-08:00

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

651

2012-01-24T03:08:00.000-08:00

"If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

650

2012-01-23T15:17:00.000-08:00

"Women are more influenced by how a man smells than how he looks (study shows)" and "having eye contact for more than 6 seconds without looking away or blinking reveals desire for either sex or murder."

649

2012-01-22T03:50:00.001-08:00

"You discover who you are by acting naturally."

648

2012-01-22T03:49:00.000-08:00

"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."

647

2012-01-21T02:58:00.000-08:00

"If you steal an image from Disney, you get crushed. If you steal copyrighted work from an individual, you get away with it. Because the law isn't even-handed; it wasn't designed to be. It was designed so that the big guys would win and the little guys... aaaah, fuck the little guys."

646

2012-01-21T02:56:00.000-08:00

"Lastly, (...) I'm disgusted by watching the lawmakers scurry like cockroaches when the kitchen lights are turned on। Last week they were all in favor of SOPA but this week they're all against it. Because SOPA got attention in the news and a lot of people obviously didn't like it। The subtext message here is "if you hadn't noticed, we'd have fucked you." Just like they did with DMCA. Only harder."

645

2012-01-20T14:51:00.000-08:00

"Our lives begin to end the day we decide to become silent about the things that matter."

644

2012-01-20T14:50:00.000-08:00

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, comformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

643

2012-01-20T03:52:00.000-08:00

"I have the reputation of being a rapid worker, but in reality I am a very steady, slow worker. I make many experiments before I begin, but when I start I go straight away. I work with a belief that the deliberate work is the swiftest... I paint practically all day, according to the work I have in hand... I consider six hours a very good day's work. As for waiting for inspiration I have no faith in it. I am guided by the nature of the task I have in hand. I take the thing as it comes... Waiting for the mood, being unable to control oneself, is the stamp of amateurism. My principle is that one ought always to control oneself."

2012-01-19T08:18:00.001-08:00

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642

2012-01-18T13:37:00.001-08:00

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

641

2012-01-18T06:47:00.000-08:00

You are wounded to learn, so turn your wounds to wisdom and walk on.

640

2012-01-16T16:26:00.001-08:00

"Great things are around the corner if you keep trying hard and keep a positive attitude.
I can't tell you how many times amazing things have happened because I kept a positive attitude even though I had no good reason to stay positive."

639

2012-01-16T16:25:00.001-08:00

"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."

638

2012-01-16T16:24:00.001-08:00

"Work for a cause not for applause.
Live life to express not to impress.
Don't strive to make your presence noticed.
Just make your absence felt."

637

2012-01-13T08:45:00.001-08:00

"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man."

636

2012-01-13T08:44:00.001-08:00

"When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important."

635

2012-01-13T08:43:00.000-08:00

"The people with the biggest hearts always suffer most."

634

2012-01-11T02:33:00.001-08:00

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes."

633

2012-01-11T02:28:00.000-08:00

If you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be happy...

632

2012-01-10T14:54:00.001-08:00

"Is truth something final, absolute, fixed? We would like it to be absolute because then we could take shelter in it. We would like it to be permanent because then we could hold on to it, find happiness in it. But is truth absolute, continuous, to be experienced over and over again? The repetition of experience is the mere cultivation of memory, is it not? In moments of quietness, I may experience a certain truth, but if I cling to that experience through memory and make it absolute, fixed -is that truth? Is truth the continuation, the cultivation of memory? Or, is truth to be found only when the mind is utterly still? When the mind is not caught in memories, not cultivating memory as the center of recognition, but is aware of everything I am saying, everything I am doing in my relationships, in my activities, seeing the truth of everything as it is from moment to moment; surely, that is the way of meditation, is it not? There is comprehension only when the mind is still, and the mind cannot be still as long as it is ignorant of itself. That ignorance is not dispelled through any form of discipline, through pursuing any authority, ancient or modern. Belief only creates resistance, isolation, and where there is isolation, there is no possibility of tranquillity. Tranquillity comes only when I understand the whole process of myself -the various entities in conflict with each other which compose the ‘me’. As that is an arduous task, we turn to others to learn various tricks, which we call meditation. The tricks of the mind are not meditation. Meditation is the beginning of self-knowledge, and without meditation, there is no self-knowledge."

631

2012-01-10T14:53:00.001-08:00

"We are looking for what we already are. And that’s precisely why we’re looking."

630

2012-01-10T14:52:00.000-08:00

"Sometimes, people run away to be alone, but sometimes they run away to see if you care enough to follow them."

629

2012-01-09T12:47:00.000-08:00

"Although Kim Noble enjoyed some mainstream exposure, the true source of the artist’s condition – Monarch programming – is nowhere to be found in mass media. Analyzed in its entirety, Noble’s body of work describes a highly organized and complex system that appears to hold great amounts of knowledge- occult and scientific – as well as material resources. This system also appears to literally own humans, mostly children, who are abused and traumatized to create within them programmable alter personas. The fact that no newspapers dared to investigate (or even mention) anything related to MK-Ultra, a program that was proved to use the exact techniques described in the paintings, tells volumes about the power of those operating it. The soulless handlers depicted in Noble’s paintings are not lone psychopaths, but high level officials of the Illuminati system who enjoy media immunity. In fact, they are sometimes part of the media as the worlds of the entertainment business and Monarch programming often collude."

Read more here: [LINK]

628

2012-01-09T08:28:00.001-08:00

Good article on apathy: [LINK]

627

2012-01-08T13:00:00.000-08:00

"Sometimes to get someone's attention you have to stop giving them yours."

626

2012-01-08T12:54:00.000-08:00

It is your right to remain silent if you want, but be aware of the huge tree of interpretations growing out of it.

625

2012-01-08T09:28:00.000-08:00

"People who are meant to be together find their way back,
they may take a few detours, but they're never lost."

624

2012-01-07T06:43:00.001-08:00

"We will see how very important it is to bring about, in the human mind, the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness. A crisis that cannot, anymore, accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. And, considering what the world is now, with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression, and so on… Man is still as he was. Is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive. And, he’s built a society along these lines."

623

2012-01-07T01:55:00.000-08:00

"In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past."

622

2012-01-07T01:46:00.000-08:00

"Success is to go from one failure to another without loosing enthusiasm."

621

2012-01-06T14:19:00.001-08:00

"Many teens who sleep less than 8-9 hours suffer with irritability, mood swings and even depression. Sleep deprivation is also linked with poor health, social withdrawal and more accidents."

620

2012-01-06T14:18:00.000-08:00

"Approximately 80% of the child's intelligence is acquired from the mother."

619

2012-01-06T14:17:00.002-08:00

"Who can make the muddy water clear? Let it be still, and it
will gradually become clear. Who can secure the condition of rest?
Let movement go on, and the condition of rest will gradually arise."

618

2012-01-06T14:17:00.001-08:00

"The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred."

617

2012-01-05T14:35:00.000-08:00

"A lie is truth until you recognize it as a lie."

616

2012-01-05T06:36:00.000-08:00

"Society does not want individuals who are alert, keen, revolutionary, because such individuals will not fit into the established social patten and they may break it up. This is why society seeks to hold your mind in its pattern, & why your so-called education encourages you to imitate, to follow, to conform."

615

2012-01-05T06:35:00.001-08:00

"No matter who tries to teach you lessons about life, you won't understand it until you go through it on your own."

614

2012-01-05T06:34:00.001-08:00

"You have to die a few times before you can really live."

613

2012-01-04T17:06:00.001-08:00

"When you judge others you don't define them, you define yourself."

612

2012-01-04T16:42:00.001-08:00

When you understand, you do not hate.

611

2012-01-04T16:36:00.001-08:00

"My disappointment is that so many of you are so gullible, that you eat everything you are fed."

610

2012-01-04T06:42:00.001-08:00

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

609

2012-01-04T06:38:00.000-08:00

"All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing
this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is; they all know the skill
of the skilful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what the
want of skill is.

So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to
(the idea of) the other; that difficulty and ease produce the one (the
idea of) the other; that length and shortness fashion out the one the
figure of the other; that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from
the contrast of the one with the other; that the musical notes and
tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and
that being before and behind give the idea of one following another.

Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and
conveys his instructions without the use of speech.

All things spring up, and there is not one which declines to show
itself; they grow, and there is no claim made for their ownership;
they go through their processes, and there is no expectation (of a
reward for the results). The work is accomplished, and there is no
resting in it (as an achievement).

The work is done, but how no one can see;
'Tis this that makes the power not cease to be."

608

2012-01-03T14:14:00.000-08:00

People who are different are treasures..

607

2012-01-03T13:56:00.001-08:00

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

606

2012-01-03T13:50:00.000-08:00

Very good article about realities: [LINK]

605

2012-01-03T13:47:00.000-08:00

"Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to
keep the people from rivalry among themselves; not to prize articles
which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming
thieves; not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is
the way to keep their minds from disorder.

Therefore the sage, in the exercise of his government, empties
their minds, fills their bellies, weakens their wills, and strengthens
their bones.

He constantly (tries to) keep them without knowledge and without
desire, and where there are those who have knowledge, to keep them
from presuming to act (on it). When there is this abstinence from
action, good order is universal."

604

2012-01-03T13:45:00.000-08:00

"Right now, someone you haven't met is out there wondering what it would be like to meet someone like you."

603

2012-01-01T08:37:00.000-08:00

"I think that guarantee-ably "Friendly" AI is a chimera. Guaranteeing anything about beings massively smarter than ourselves seems implausible. But, I suspect we can bias the odds, and create AI systems that are more likely than not to be Friendly....
To do this, we need to get a number of things right:
(None of these things gives any guarantees, but combined they would seem to bias the odds in favor of a positive outcome.)

1) build our AI systems with the capability to make ethical judgments both by rationality and by empathy
2) interact with our AI systems in a way that teaches them ethics and builds an emotional bond
3) build our AI systems with rational, stable goal systems (which humans don't particularly have)
4) develop advanced AI according to a relatively "slow takeoff" rather than an extremely fast takeoff to
superhuman intelligence, so we can watch and study what happens and adjust accordingly ... and that
probably means trying to develop advanced AI soon, since the more advanced other technologies are by the time advanced AI comes about, the more likely a hard takeoff is...
5) integrate our AIs with the "global brain" of humanity so that the human race can democratically impact the AI's goal system
6) create a community of AIs rather than just one, so that various forms of social pressure can mitigate against any one of the AIs running amok"

602

2012-01-01T08:35:00.001-08:00

"We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit."