Knowledge IV Flashcards
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Push for specifics. Dont get wrapped up defending against their broad statements. Ask for something more specific
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Debates
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Validation I hear you
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Offer justification for feeling an emotion.
Refer to specific emotion and
Wow that would be confusing
He really said that? That would be confusing
I’m so happy for you, you worked incredibly hard, it must feel amazing
Invalidating emotions Dont worry It could be worse It's not that big of a deal It'll be fine (We usually invalidate a bad emotion like anger, fear and jealousy)
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Black dragon society
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Formed by disgruntled samurai after the meiji restoration they they became a nationalist secret Society that helped push japan into WWII. They pushed for just Asia at first and courted government officials as well as yakuza.
Later take funded black power movements including the nation of Islam to foment revolution. They are rumored to have worked with hitler and rasputin as well.
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TAKING THE FIVE PRECEPTS
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In Buddhist countries there is a practice that distinguishes ‘lay Buddhists’ from ordinary Buddhists. It is also practiced on Buddhist holidays by serious Buddhists. This practice is the Taking of the Five Precepts.
The five precepts are:
1. Do not take life 2. Do not take what is not given 3. Do not distort facts 4. Refrain from misuse of the senses 5. Refrain from self-intoxication through alcohol or drugs
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Self and emptiness- Dali lama
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All things are empty because all things are casually linked meaning everything is constantly changing. They are just parts in a causal link. Chandra kierti tells us we grasp at our own ego then we grasp at “mine”.
The self is real but the self we are grasping at is not not real. Were forever changing.
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When goodness grows weak. When evil increases. I make myself a body. In every age I come back to deliver the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinner, to establish righteousness, he who knows the nature of my task and my holy birth is not reborn. When he leave this body he comes to me. Flying from fear, from lust and anger, he hides in me, his refuge and safety. Burnt clean in the blaze of my being. In me many find home
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bagavad gita
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Familiarity
- UX
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Light switches and fans are the same design. They are familiar but not intuitive.
Users spend most time using apps other than users.
If it looks like a duck and lts located like the duck, users will think its duck even if labeled otherwise.
Red LEDs are bad indicators because they arent consistent
Learn ability isnt the goal. It’s a consolation prize.
Users shouldn’t think about the UI. It should be invisible
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Polyamory
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What is love? Its patient, it’s kind, it’s an emotional experience,, means never having to say your sorry, love is a battle friend, finding the souls counterpoint Im another, baby dont hurt me.
Polyamory isnt just for commitment-phobes or sex addicts. People love different sexual orientations and gender identities. Love is love.
Define- love. Now define polyamory.many loves.
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“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”
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Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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“Everything is sorrow for the wise.”
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Patañjali,
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“We are not cabin-dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.”
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bagavad gita
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“Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, never lasting long. You must accept them.”
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bagavad gita
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Validate all emotion -I hear you
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You can validate any emotion even if you dont agree. You dont need to agree you can still be curious until the get it all out. “That sounds super frustrating “
Picture them as a child. Think about all the things that must have happened between them between then and now
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New human rights movement
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Inequality is built intrinsically part of the system. Human suffer, starvation and death are not only built into the system in which in order for someone to win, other have to loose.
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Russell brand complement
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When you get a complement, accept the compliment then give the complement back. Thanks so much and you look spectacular today as well.
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Strategy is not a lengthy action plan
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There is no paint by numbers approach.
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It’s the evolution of a central idea thought continually changing circumstances.
Absolute certainty of perfect is very charismatic.
Eye contact and every long handshake.
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Strategy is not a lengthy action plan
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There is no paint by numbers approach.
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It’s the evolution of a central idea thought continually changing circumstances.
Absolute certainty of perfect is very charismatic.
Eye contact and every long handshake.
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“Men don’t settle down, we surrender. You gotta surrender eventually because you don’t want to be old man in the club. Commitment might give you a headache but new pussy will clear it right up”
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chris rock
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Polyamorous
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Your lover needs to be your best freind, romance novel beloved, kinky play partner, co parent, therapist, caretaker, personal trainer, support group facilitator, parent at times
You are never enough for everyone’s needs. One person can fill all your needs. Let them fill needs you cant or wont fulfill separately.
Craft relationships that fit you life rather than visa versa
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2.8 million people died in 200 of preventable social causes and racism. Rich people have 13 years of life on average poor people have a 50 percent higher chance of developing heart disease. Stress, bad diets, obesity contributes. It’s not just below the poverty line. It’s a gradient. The people lion the bottom have a 4x higher chance of death. In the middle it 2x as high.
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New human rights movement
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Neil Degrase Tyson
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It’s not enough to be right, you also have to be effective. You can say this how the world should be but if you dont have a plan to enact it go home.
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Civil rights movement- researchers explain mass action with no tangible reward as being encouraged by shame of not participating. It’s harder however to account for leaders and first followers when then movement gets going.
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Civil rights movement
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Time and space are categories imposed on the universe by your mind.
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(Dune)
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Assassins
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Taught about cult mysteries and schooled in Aristotles teaching. Learn islam was just a dim reflection of what was true.
6th degree were introduced to god of time or chronos
7th degree- learned creation and destruction were one and good an evil were mere illusions
8th degree- true god was a nameless and not to be worshiped. Nothing was true and everything was permitted. There was no god , or heaven or hell
Saba made a carefully constructed garden, he would drug followers and let them wake up in ‘heaven’. He then would drug them again and tell them to follow him to return back to the heaven.
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Never clear user info unless you need to. Never autofill sensitive information. - UX
Never clear user info unless you need to. Never autofill sensitive information.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao zu
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“Our mistake is in taking this for ultimate reality, like the dreamer thinking that nothing is real except his dream.”
bagavad gita
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Body as chariot
Your body is is a chariot.
You are not the chariot the horses. Your horse are the 5 senses. They are not trained and drag us in all directions. The driver is the intellect trying to keep control of the powerful wild horses. The senses go where they want and are impulsive. Our real self is in the back of the coach.
We need to wake our intellect to keep control of horses. There is an alter in every living room of this country
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1/5 Of fossil fuel industry is dedicated to the food industry.
It takes 5 calories of fossil fuels to deliver 1 calorie of food
1/5 Of fossil fuel industry is dedicated to the food industry.
It takes 5 calories of fossil fuels to deliver 1 calorie of food
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Vison, issues, Biography. Obama wouldn't cast about for political strategy. Went digital. Strong internet presence. 10,000 to millions of email addresses. Consistent message. Benefited from racial shifts in America. For 3 decades Republicans had benefited from backlash to Vietnam protesters. Answered trends in demographics. 1970-1980s themes weren't working anymore. Obama illustrated change from Hilary's old attitudes.
Obama
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Polyamory
Jealousy is often presented as love. If you arent jealous her insecurity is activated and she thinks you must not really love her.
Competition has been part of female lives since hs. Competition for best clothes makeup and hair for most attention fuels catty toxic behavior. Suspicion of all potential women including friends and co-workers is a huge problem. The behavior is often encouraged and "slutty" is a weapon they use against each other.
A knight shining armor swoops in to save his damsel from other knights still appeals romantic. Being jealous to girls is considered "cute"
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It the Upanishads a young man Nachicata who searches for who he really is in the world of death. He is tempted by all the riches of the earth, animals and dancing girls. He learns from death how to discover himself.
Upanishads
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Free masons
Sons of liberty- spinoff of free masons that had chapters all around the states. In British controlled areas they acted like a shadow government.
Its doubtful it was a Freemason plot. Ben Franklin john Hancock etc were masons but also Benedict Arnold and Cornwallace were both free masons.
There was definitely free mason intervening in the american and french revolution but the question is how much.
Every american masons violated their oath to king George III when they turned rebel In the revolution. He wasn't a mason. His son King George IV and every male British sovereign since has been a mason.
56 signers 16-40% of declaration of independence signers were masons. 39 singers of constitution it was 33-70.
Seal of dollar bill - all seeing Masonic great architect of the universe. Eye was supposed to assume leadership of world. Latin means by New world order. Franklin Jefferson and other designed it but only Franklin and Jefferson were def masons. Most work was done by contractors. It is found on Washington's Masonic apron and found in a seal in Boston on April 1772.
Washington DC was layed out as a masonic symbol. Joseph smith used masonic rituals in his new Mormon faith.
Franklin became a 9 sisters mason in France along with Voltaire. The inventor of guillotine was also a mason and Jacobin. Jacobin's got their name from Dominican monastery. But also the first name of Jac de molign, the last leader of knights Templar. They were obsessed with revenge on the Catholics and the king. An anonymous man yelled " jac you are avenged" when king Louis was beheaded.
Washington tried to root out Illuminati and Jacobins in America. He was a mason I guess.
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“Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.”
Dogon
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Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao zu
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Responsiveness - UX
Should prove user interaction was confirmed. Show a status bar or indication that input has taken place.
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Narrative and emotion
Narrative and emotion motivates people. They say in going to protect you from Tehran and the homos in Hollywood. We say we're for clean images and better schools..
Us- opportunity truth moral courage reform prosperity
Them- crisis destructive sick pathetic lie betry
Frame of inheritance tax v the death tax. Once it's in your enemies language it's already lost.
Democrats wanted to believe campaigns are about the issues and it would possibly to appeal to rationality of voters. Unfortunately humans are barely rational creatures
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Reciprocity is main theme.
Learning without thought is pointless
Thought without learning is dangerous
The people are the grass, leaders are the wind. Whichever way the wind blows people will go.
Education (specific classics to read) take traditional texts and develop them.
What about death? We dont know yet about life, how can we known about death.
Confucius
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Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Lao zu
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“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
Lao zu
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What are some songs you love that you never tell anyone about?
What are some songs you love that you never tell anyone about? (Cauterize, starlight run)
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We've been lied into 4 of our last wars
The Spanish didn't sink the Maine
Lusitania was not an innocent ship but was loaded with munitions
The north Vietnamese did not attack the 7th fleet
Saddam Hussein hated al Qaida and would hang them from the nearest lightpost
We've been lied into 4 of our last wars
The Spanish didn't sink the Maine
Lusitania was not an innocent ship but was loaded with munitions
The north Vietnamese did not attack the 7th fleet
Saddam Hussein hated al Qaida and would hang them from the nearest lightpost
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“The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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Neil Degrase Tyson
Personal truths - truths you believe regardless of evidence to the contrary. They can be bad or good but shouldn't contradict objective truth that can be proved by science. Mostly it comes from people or groups or countries that want to feel special. Often involves denigrating other groups.
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Annie Liebwitz on Photography
The idea that one photograph can “capture” a person is, Annie
says, baloney. She often runs more than one portrait, or even
a series, which gives a better sense of the range of identities
within one person. She says that she threw out the concept of
the decisive moment some time ago
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Jesus and the Muhammad of the Sufis are associated with the eternal logos
the word
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Structural violence "naturalizes" poverty, sickness, hunger, and premature death, erasing their social and political origins so that they are taken for granted and no one is held accountable except the poor themselves. Structural violence also refers to the ease with which humans are capable of reducing the socially vulnerable (even those from their own class and community) into expendable non-persons, thus allowing the licence--even the duty--to kill them.
New human rights movement
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Conservatives get into government, gut programs and blame the programs for not working.
Conservatives get into government, gut programs and blame the programs for not working.
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"Chaos is a face of god. Shape it"
| Earth seed
Earth seed
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Corn is king
Corn needs humans to reproduce. It is bred by farmers and sold by a company's patented design each year since the second generation doesn't produce good offspring. Its mostly inedible by humans on many farms. They are all clones of the same plant.
Fritz haber was a nazi that created zyclon b for the nazis than used that same knowledge of "fixing nitrogen " to contribute to nitrogen in soil and a boom of agriculture.
Farmers now use this and fossil fuels to grow corn. Farmers often use more than needed, double in some cases. What isn't used evaporates to form nitrous oxide a greenhouse gas or seeps down to the water table. Sometimes it poisons the water supply like on des Moines Iowa that drinks from the river.
Chicken, beef, Turkey, even fish are fed on corn.
Have some corn with your corn.Chicken, beef, Turkey, even fish are fed on corn.
Have some corn with your corn.
Chicken nugget
The little chicken is Corn fed
Glued with corn Starch ,it gets fried corn oil,
Corn flour costs it. Corn is used to create the golden color.
40% of Mexican diet is corn
Humans like all other creatures on earth are part of the natural food chain.
Our brains developed in some way as a way to get food. We could conceive of eating anything.
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Expectation - UX
Expectation - Functionally, the UI delivers the expected, predictable results, with no surprises. Users don’t have to experiment or deduce the effect. The expectations are based on labels, real-world experiences, or standard UI conventions.
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Explorability
| - UX
Users can navigate throughout the UI without fear of penalty or unintended consequences, or of getting lost.
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Annie Liebwitz on Photography
When Annie photographed Gloria Steinem, the plan was to use
a location in Central Park where Steinem went to think and
meditate. There was a rock that meant something to her. After the
shoot, back in Steinem’s apartment, Annie realized that it was
there, at her desk, that Steinem was most herself, surrounded by
books and papers and the atmosphere of the busy activist she is.
Both the Martin and Steinem portraits are true, but Annie doesn’t
think of them as definitive. “We are so complicated as human
beings,” she says. “I can’t get it in one photograph.”
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Forgiveness - UX
good apps should be forgiving and help users if they make a small mistake.
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No frustration - UX
Emotionally, users are satisfied with the interaction.
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“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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"The generation alive is perhaps the most important ever to walk the earth. Unlike previous generations we hold in our hands the future destiny of our species whether we soar into fulfilling our purpose as a type one civilization of fall into the abyss of chaos, pollution and war. The decisions made by us will reverberate through this century. How we resolve global, proliferation if nuclear weapons and sectarian and ethnic strife will either lay or destroy the foundations of a type 1 civilization"
Michio Kaku
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Hearken back to earlier heroes (Lincoln)
Hearken back to earlier heroes (Lincoln)
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Homeless people are a type of in person. To invoke George Orwell. They exist in a shadow world. A black mirror of society we want to see
George Orwell
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```
“The man who sees me in everything
and everything within me
will not be lost to me, nor
will I ever be lost to him.
He who is rooted in oneness
realizes that I am
in every being; wherever
he goes, he remains in me.
When he sees all being as equal
in suffering or in joy
because they are like himself,
that man has grown perfect in yoga.”
```
bagavad gita
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“We behold what we are, and we are what we behold.”
bagavad gita
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Search - UX
Search should return based on users intent. No literal input. Elizabeth smith should return results for liz Smith. Keep old inputs for recent searches. Dont clear themselves if user makes a mistake.
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Cult of work
Hard work it's own reward and even godly. Protestants work ethic made idleness is a sin. This delusion that work will get the rich to give them a slice of the good life. They see other workers as enemies and not their bosses. Cult of work believes will say people fight their way out of poverty and to wealth. Myth of meritocracy is the biggest religion in USA.
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In business play in the 2 basic emotions. Fear and greed.
Peaky Blinders
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The market is touted as the only solution to fix problems it created.
The market is touted as the only solution to fix problems it created.
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Polyamorous
Let's yourself feel it. If you are experiencing jealously what let's you know its jealousy you are feeling? Meditate on that feeling and dont let yourself go into a tirade of emotion. Feel tightening in your chest and drop in stomach. Dont think of why but just look at the reactions. Realize if it passes or shifts. Dont stew about how we've been wronged. Afterwards can approach yourself and your partners with logic and compassion. Then get into and activity that makes you feel good.
Call people and give them positivity and love. Call people you love and tell them so and nothing needy.
"I understand that your love for someone else doesnt affect your love for me"
Does jealousy stem from insecurity?
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Annie Liebwitz on Photography
The element that became most significant in the shoot was a
peach. Alice had written about peaches in a recent memoir and
peaches seemed to suggest her sensual qualities. Just the right
peaches were obtained with some difficulty. The shoot took place
in Alice’s front yard in Berkeley, California, with Edith Piaf
singing in the background. The light that day was bright, but
Annie tucked Alice into the shade of a bush. She held the peach.
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“So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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Polyamorous
Ask your partner to share erotica that turns them on.
Relationships dont come with absolutes. You should escalate and deescalate relationships at will.
New relationships energy sometimes makes you have a fever from a person riding a chemical cocktail.
Compression- positive emotions about a partner being with someone else. It's like opposite it jealousy.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
Lao zu
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“Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Yoga sutra on meditation
When thought ceases the spirit stands it's TRUE identity as observer to the world
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“Curving back within myself I create again and again.”
bagavad gita
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Russell Brand chode defense
If someone's a dick to you, just rephrase what they said as a question "you look like a nerd dude" "I look like a nerd? Hm. Why so you say that" It makes then have to think and explain themselves
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Charisma of Hitler
Told the audience what they wanted to hear to lead them out of misery.
Had an unshakable mission and talked from the heart.
Herkined back to an earlier time to connect with peoples imaginations.
Capitalize on every tragedy. Every nazi (scum) who fell on early days was treated as a hero, sites were honored as holy relics and place of pilgrimage.
Mien kampf show he has vision of how the world was and how it was supposed to be.
Took studio photos to persuade people he was powerful and a speaker.
Kept things vague.
Connection with audience. Gave people a convenient explanation for troubles.
Painted himself as a messiah figure. Allied with protestant church.
"If only he knew about unpopular aspects of the regime he would fix them" shielded his image
Thought he was always right and made all the big decisions allegedly on his own.
Gave them hope from economic despair.
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Discoverability -UX
Discoverability - user need to know where to look for frequent tasks. Higher level tasks can be hidden. Zero states screen should have sample photos. Must look interactive. Must not appear on hover or be in a poor location. Primary commands are easy to find.
Try not to move ui element too much between releases.
Use priority, grouping and context to explain UI.
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It's better to do you dharma
I am become death the destroyer of worlds
Kharma yoga. Do your dharma. Inaction is action. In comparison to Buddhist it preaches action. If we all become monks we cant have a society.
Bagavad gita on Kharma yoga
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What is intuitive? - UX
Immediately self explanatory to target user. No training, seeking help, reason, memorizing. ROI justifications for UI/UX is not really necessary since you need good ui just to be a player. Tech support should map their cost due bad UX and times that by a year to get the cost. Roi could be getting cost down. Microsoft has done good but apple had done well.
Microsoft has done ok but Apple has risen 150 fold since 2000 I stock prices and have lines in front of the stores.
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Meditation and finding out what you really are.
If you went out with a botanist and said this trunk us all of the tree she would look at you like you were nuts. The roots are what connect this tree to the earth. Youd say, what are roots I've never seen them so they dony exist. All you have to do is dig and look beneath the surface.
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Russell brand instincts
"Thats a very nice dress. I'm only flesh and blood I've got instincts" blame your approach on her "I'm gonna be late work, you're causing me to get into trouble " "stop looking at me like that"
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Dying of whiteness
The cases supplied experiment failed and its governor Brownback was the least popular in the country in 2018(?). Kansas had once great school and clean streets but that has all be destroyed now. Many feel they have been robbed by government. Disadvantages populations carried more of the burden. Tax cuts who saw the biggest tax cuts were rich and white.
White voters think minorities are getting free rides while they are working. It's a combination of anger and guilt that they themselves need help. It leads to contradictory behaviors in white populations.
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Animal rights
The preference to eat meat is like the preference for sex. Reproduction can be done without sex but it's less fun.
Ironically it separates us more from animal world by removing us from animal kingdom and giving us a point of superiority.
Removes cultural meals and others see you as a burden for accommodating you all the time or you are antagonistic to them if you dont.
All the animals will die. Millions of creatures that cant live in the wild will die of nothing. So will people and they will also lose jobs and industries overnight. Being productive to humans is the best adaptation an animal can have.
Meat eating is deep In us.
Human pain is different . The higher animals have the same pain as us and is attached to emotion. We can draw a distinction against pain because its amplified by unique human emotions like shame, regret, humiliation, dread. Chips seen mating one day after a tactical being bit off.
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“Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.”
Patañjali,
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Strike when your enemy is weak
Strike when your enemy is weak
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Interaction life-cycles - UX
User wants to accomplish a goal
User finds starting point that might achieve the goal
User preforms the action
User observed actions results
If successful user continues to to next goal.
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“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Dogon
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International communist
Met out in a field in a small town. Rented a whole cabin. Infiltrated by FBI.
Lennon wanted to spread communism so he got his secret societies to make other societies and spread the word.
One member was a media tycoon that created front organizations to abed and conceal communist activities. The members of these clubs had to belive they were acting on their own accord at all cost. One famous example was a hollywood anti nazi club.
Had propaganda that attracted more than communist. Anti nazi, anti imperialist, etc. Had but Hollywood stars working with them.
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“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Lies travel faster than the truth
Peaky Blinders
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“Students today should begrudge every moment of time. This dewlike life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.”
Dogon
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“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.”
bagavad gita
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Use a single example to prove the rule and add an element of humor.
Debates
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Four Noble Truths
In short:
1. Suffering exists
2. Suffering arises from attachment to desires
3. Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases
4. Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path
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Cooperative action is rational.
Trust reputation and commitments to others trumps "rational " decision making in prisoners dilemma.- stratagy chp 37
After we trust people it's hard to change that mindset. People will stay in denial a long time even when proven wrong
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The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground/While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.
Lao zu
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Key elements of secret society
Secrecy if beliefs and practices
Selective recruitment
Promise of special knowledge or statues
Visibility does not equal translucency. They are visible but not easy to decipher
Resiliency and ability to splinter, mutate and reform.
Secrecy is power (Coe The family)
Sometimes Spontaneously evolve
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Maybe (Taoist story)
There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. "Such bad luck," they said sympathetically.
"Maybe," the farmer replied. The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. "How wonderful," the neighbors exclaimed.
"Maybe," replied the old man. The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune. "Maybe," answered the farmer. The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son's leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out. "Maybe," said the farmer.
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“Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. — Krishna.”
bagavad gita
100
"We now have racism without racist." Structural racism still exists that holds back minorities. Median wealth 13x higher than black people.you could say black people are worse at saving but that completely ignores the fact that wealth builds and blacks had no access to adequate housing, education, bank loans or high income jobs.
Bania Silva
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“Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.”
Patañjali,
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“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.”
Dogon
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Micro validation -I hear you
"I get why you're confused, last week I said something and now its another. " "You should feel great you worked really hard on the project " "damn really?"
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“The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self.”
bagavad gita
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“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Analects/Confucius
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Praya- what is pleasant. Brief and fleeting. Sharp dresser. Excellent salesman
Shereya- what is beneficial. Painful or hard in the beginning. Good longterm effects.
Mousy women who is hard to remember. As soon ass we see her out attention wanders away.
They are promising the same thing - satisfaction. One requires effort but benefit stays with you.
Praya wants us to enjoy eating, just dont make it the meaning of life.
Praya and Shereya
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The gods who lived before rested in their pyramids with the gloried dead. Their places are no more. The words of imhotep and hordidith whose sayings are so famous. What of their places now. Their walls are broke apart and their places are no more as though they had never been. Therefore make holiday without weariness of it. Lo, no one can take his good with him. Lo no one who departs returns again. See how the terrifying conclusion builds up. The vanity of temporal power is a futile as the vanity of scholarly pursuit. Not even their wisdom can save the famous sages of the past from oblivion. The conclusion? Eat drink and be marry since you cant take it with you.
Egyptian bard song for noblemen
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Dont use absolutes-I hear you
"You always do this " "you never do". At least say "I feel like you often do this"
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
bagavad gita
110
New human rights movement
We justify starving a billon people so .01 % of people can justify their material excess.
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"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
W.E.B. Dubious
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We never really experience the world around us, just our own nervous system
We never really experience the world around us, just our own nervous system.
We never really see the world around us as it is, just as we are.
113
“The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Lakota Wisdom
Dont idolize your women. The more you worship her the more she'll want ro be worship
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“the Gita is not a book of commandments but a book of choices.”
bagavad gita
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Relating-I hear you
Dont say I know exactly how you feel, but say you "felt something similar when..." relate but then bend the focus back to them with a question. "That reminds me of when me and Jessica broke up, the last weekends were shitty, is that how you're feeling ". If you dont have the same experience say so "I cant even imagine how painful that must be"
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Act before views has been fully formed. Gut feelings and emotions
Simplicity, brevity, imagery
Actual policy counts at least as much as something is framed. Language cant produce miracles.
Simplicity, brevity, imagery
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Polyamory
The goal of dating is to stop dating.
Relationship escalator- if any relationship doesn't end in marriage its seen as a pointless failure. Kids, marriage, growing old together. These events dont have to happen in the same relationship
We are all handed the same script on how love and relationships are supposed to work.
Why are you interested in monogamy?
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Polyamory
People come in your life for seasons and you shouldn't force it to be something its not. Everything is temporary
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Emphasis on speed, no time for paralysis of analysis. Hesitation is fatal. To frame the debate the message must be simple and repeated endlessly. No second chance to make a first impression. Facts tell but stories sell. Communication requires relentless stories. Dont miss anything negative about the candidate.
Emphasis on speed, no time for paralysis of analysis. Hesitation is fatal. To frame the debate the message must be simple and repeated endlessly. No second chance to make a first impression. Facts tell but stories sell. Communication requires relentless stories. Dont miss anything negative about the candidate.
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Ask if they want advice-I hear you
Dont give help unsolicited. "What can I do?" "Is there anyway I can help" " do you want my opinion?" "I have a few thoughts on that if you don't mind". If they are angry at you you may share.
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Lakota Wisdom
Lakota philosophy was healthy - free from fear and dogmatism. And here I find the great distinction between the faith of the Indian and the white man. Indian faith sought the harmony of man with his surrounding; the other sought the dominance of surrounding. In sharing, in loving all and everything, one people naturally found a due portion of the thing they sought, while, in fearing, the other found need of conquest. For one man the world was full of beauty; for the other it was a place of sin and ugliness to be endured until he went to another world, there to become a creature of wings, half-man and half-bird.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao zu
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“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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Learnable- - UX
Learnable- it should be easy to learn . But the user shouldnt have to learn.
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“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Send newspapers press releases that are treated like ready made editorials. Focusing on personalities rather than issues.
Subtlety is bad. Repetition is good.
Always attacking. You cant wage a defense campaign and win.
Words that lean on the mind are no good. You must dent it.
The most important things in American politics are money money and money.
Stories told with feelings are are the key.
Stories told with feelings are are the key.
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Dying of whiteness
Before the establishment of the country white and black people with guns have been painted differently. I then continued in the propaganda of the american west popularized in mid 20th century America showing how the white men tamed the west. Even john Wayne said he beloved believed in white supremacy until the blacks were educated sufficiently.
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“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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For practical purposes we have agreed that sanity consist of sharing the hallucinates of our neighbors.
Evelyn underhill
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Make a statement with a big public display. Peaky blinders: burning kings photos because they wanted to say they didnt want the king to see what the cops were doing to them. Told a reporter to come. Arrest lead to trials and trials lead to more press.
Peaky blinders
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Manichaeism
Mani-
Manichaeism taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness.[6] Through an ongoing process that takes place in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of light, whence it came. Its beliefs were based on local Mesopotamian religious movements and Gnosticism.[7]
Adam, jesus, buddha and zoroastrianism were all prophet. It's a way to tell people their right but not always right.
Created church with hymns, rituals etc. Combined east in west. Had followers try to succeed through asceticism.
Followers went from spain to china. Also had lots of merchants.
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“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Emphasis conditions where you would agree with your opponent. "Let's wait to see how the trail turns out" "i would agree if..."
Debates
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I hear you Validation steps.
Listen empathetically - get curious and show your interest. Look beyond the words and try to understand the emotion. What emotions do I see in them? Ask clarifying questions and ask them to expand "she said that to you" "you see worried " match their energy. Dont point out silver linings or try and fix it.
Validate but you dont have to agree. Still dont give advice. Validate emotions first before you disagree. Think about how they must feel with only their part of the story. Guess how they feel on question form ("you must be excited, nervous, a mixture of both?" "Are you feeling frustrated and angry?").
"I admiring the way you're handling" "it sounds like you have a plan good luck with it " thank them for opening up to you and acknowledge how hard it can be to open up.
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Responsiveness - UX
The UI gives clear, immediate feedback to indicate that the action is happening, and was either successful or unsuccessful.
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“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Affordance - UX
Affordance- Visually, the UI has clues that indicate what it is going to do. Users don’t have to experiment or deduce the interaction. The affordances are based on real-world experiences or standard UI conventions. If element needs a label, it has failed. Secondary interactions such as Long touches, gestures, etc dont need an affordance and a usually for optional and advance users.
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Search should return some results. - UX
Search should return some results.
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Changing your personality
Changing your personality is like playing an acting role until it becomes part of you. You can change your music taste, anger streak, the way you think, the food you eat. What do you have in common with you old self? Your social security number? This is new darrien. King darrien.
We think that personality us cast in a mold when really it is a process. The nature of a process is change. At first it is enough to act kind. You can free yourself from any conditioning, but it may take years.
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Predictability - UX
mental mapping when there is a clear relationship between what users want to do ansbhow users want to do it.
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Speak users language - UX
no acronyms, jargon, concise and efficient. Give it a good friendly tone. No abbreviations.
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```
f you don't realize the source,
you stumble in confusion and sorrow.
When you realize where you come from,
you naturally become tolerant,
disinterested, amused,
kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king.
Immersed in the wonder of the Tao,
you can deal with whatever life brings you,
And when death comes, you are ready.”
```
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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Annie Liebwitz on Photography
Richard Avedon’s ability to reveal depths of personality in
simple, straightforward portraits is what drew Annie to him.
He was a magazine and fashion photographer who expressed
himself most fully in his books. Observations, with commentary
by Truman Capote, and Nothing Personal, which Avedon made
in collaboration with James Baldwin, are classics of both bookmaking and portraiture.
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Buddhism
| Nature of reality
Nature of reality
Everything is impermanent
All things are unsatisfactory
Everything is in transition-everything is all it's way to become something else
Mahayana Buddhism- Buddha is a God. Japan, china, east Asia.
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Comprehensibility - UX
Comprehensibility - speak target users language(like what you would say in person), ask questions they know how to answer . Add a few words for clarity.
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Lakota Wisdom
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
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“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
(Dune)
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David Greaber - London school of economics in "On the phenomenon of BS jobs:"
"So what are these new jobs, precisely? A recent report comparing employment in the US between 1910 and 2000 gives us a clear picture (and I note, one pretty much exactly echoed in the UK). Over the course of the last century, the number of workers employed as domestic servants, in industry, and in the farm sector has collapsed dramatically. At the same time, ‘professional, managerial, clerical, sales, and service workers’ tripled, growing ‘from one-quarter to three-quarters of total employment.’ In other words, productive jobs have, just as predicted, been largely automated away (even if you count industrial workers globally, including the toiling masses in India and China, such workers are still not nearly so large a percentage of the world population as they used to be.
But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world's population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas, we have seen the ballooning of not even so much of the ‘service’ sector as of the administrative sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations. And these numbers do not even reflect on all those people whose job is to provide administrative, technical, or security support for these industries, or for that matter the whole host of ancillary industries (dog-washers, all-night pizza delivery) that only exist because everyone else is spending so much of their time working in all the other ones.These are what I propose to call ‘bullshit jobs’
.It's as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here, precisely, lies the mystery. In capitalism, this is precisely what is not supposed to happen."
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Anthropic principle
Universe is tilted toward development of life, by accident or by god.
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Sell the land? Why not sell the air and the great sea.
Standing bear
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New human rights movement
The market is seen as an extension of nature. Nature takes the blame not man made mechanisms. Any attempt to question it is an attack on freedom. Humans have been deemed hedonistic, insatiable, and irrational.
Any attempt to question the market as anti 'freedom'. Scarcity is a thing of the past and is created artificially. There is plenty to go around. Our society just has an infinite wants view of reality where everyone wants a private jet and 50 room mansion. But wants in any socity are not needs as they can be not needed for other societies around the world.
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Charisma Myth
Made of Power, Warmth and Presence = Formula to Charisma
Quicknotes
Express a vision and be bold. Convey complete confidence. Act decisively to achieve it
Give people names to live up to and difficult goals to work towards.
Crisis creates uncertainty and angst. Faith vision and authority have the most impact at these times.
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Capitalist consumption is antithetical to green energy. Consumerism is a public health threat and it's obviously impossible living on a finite planet.
New human rights movement
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“The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare.
Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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Efficiency - UX
Efficiency - The UI enables users to perform an action with a minimum amount of effort. If the intention is clear, the UI delivers the expected results the first time so that users don’t have to repeat the action (perhaps with variations) to get what they want.
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Considering whether Medicaid is worth the cost
States invested in Medicaid and its expansion showed an average net return of $68,000 per enrollee
Over 60% of people who file for bankruptcy in the us do so because they are unable to pay for medical cost due to a lack of health insurance or under-insured.
62.1 of bankruptcy in 2007 were medical.
92% of these debtors had Bill's over 5000 dollars. 10% of average pretax family income.
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Most of us never see the people we live with.
Most of us never see the people we live with. Our boyfriend may be right before our eyes, but we do not see him. We do not see them, we see our idea of them. Alittle model we have made. On the we pronounce our judgments. The mind takes some exaggerated memories, hope, fears and insecurities .The mind takes quick impressions of people. The mind makes a character. When I talk to you I talk to the model of you. She talks to a model of you. Each person is in our own separate play talking to their own puppets of others.
Our own personality is no less a caricature. Our thoughts can form us. meditation helps us train ourselves. What we meditate on is what we become.
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Aries Matches
Libra(),
Leo(Power couple, Feed ego, Jealous)
Aquarius(Unpredictable, Rebellious, Stubborn)
Sagittarius(most sex, passionate),
Gemini (intellectual Convo/Passionate/thick skinned)
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Media in america as religion
There is an alter in every living room of this country. When the lights go on we all gather around it to pray. The priest of the media sell us vaccum cleaners, automobile, toothpaste. These people care and will reach out to get you anything you need at any time day or night. In the middle ages it was indulgences that saved you, now its consumerism.
Where has the religion of consumerism taken us. Its probably never been more followed and had more adherence. We've never been more alienated , separated and dessolate.
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Annie Liebwitz on Photography
She uses different techniques to manipulate light. Her goal is to
achieve a balance between her strobe and natural light.
Annie favors working on overcast days, when she will mix the
strobe with flat ambient light. She doesn’t like to wait for the
“golden light” at the end of the day. She likes to start working in
the early morning, when she has soft light and the option to work
longer if she needs to. Even so, “You hardly ever get the right
time of day,” she says. You just have to learn to deal with what is
available.
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Death is the temporary end of a temporary phenomenon.
Death is the temporary end of a temporary phenomenon.
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“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
Rabindranath Tagore
165
“Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.”
Analects/Confucius
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New human rights movement
47% of jobs in danger of being taken by machines.Intent should be full automation over all. We need to consciously try to get rid of human jobs. Humans are in efficient in the way 18 century farm equipment isn't useful now.
Jobs are not vocations. Jobs are prerequisites to survive. As humans we can motivate ourselves without coerced labor. Earn a living - is just another mechanism for social control.
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"I want to travel and see places I've never seen before. You ever been to Bali? Yea me neither"
pimp
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Ritual Cat
When the spiritual teacher and his disciples began their evening meditation, a cat who lived in the monastery made such noise that it distracted them. One day the teacher ordered that the cat be tied up during the evening practice.
Years later, when the teacher died, the cat continued to be tied up during the meditation session. And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the monastery and tied up. Centuries later, learned descendants of the spiritual teacher wrote scholarly treatises about the religious significance of tying up a cat for meditation practice.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao zu
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Affordances - UX
show what's interactive and how to interact with it. Usually have real world counterparts. Buttons, nobbs sliders etc.
Door handles have affordances. Its designed to push or pull. Often when we fail they have labels. Labels in this context means the affordances have failed. Apps shouldn't use labels to describe how to interact with element but where it leads.
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intrinsic qualities- Dali lama
Many of our perceptions about the world have no intrinsic qualities. If we find a food disgusting or repugnant it doesn't mean everyone finds that same food disgusting. Its just our perception.
To say everyone gets old and dies in the west is perceived as a bad thing. We are so attached to our youth we try and hold on to it and its rude when someone calls you old. In many eastern cultures is seen as a sign of respect (old master lao tsu).
There Is no intrinsic values about being old. Emotions of attraction or immersion create our emotions but dont reflect intrinsic values
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Earth seed
We should leave the womb. We are children of earth but we cant quite cut the cord. We need to leave out mother at some point. Our destiny is a literal heaven among the stars. Our eternal life will take hold on other planets.
For our species immortality is for something to be won.
God is change. God is irritable, inexorable, indifferent. God is trickster, teacher, chaos clay. God exist to shape and be shaped.
Communities & Missionaries that go out and spread the word.
We need hope. We need the destiny. We need the stars. We need purpose. We need to become the adult species the destiny will help you become.
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“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.”
bagavad gita
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Commit - UX
Its important to let an user know when a form is saving. A saving icon could let people know if they're document is being saved. Dont use for photoshop.
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Mason
Love bombs - Everyone tells one person they look beautiful and gives them adoration for a while.
LSD trips into the woods for a church like session.
Nobody belongs to anyone here except charlie, we all belong to charlie.
Tryna break down barriers. No secrets, no shame. Let go. Ego dead. Thats how it is, thats how its always been.
The family used Mail blast and newsletters to update principles after going into hiding
Many different rites. Scottish rights (33 levels)
Egyptian mephis and misrian 99 rights(patriarch of isis, of the rose cross, knight hermetic philosopher) french rights. They all have different levels.
Grew out of older lodges. Some traced their lodges back to 900 as masons under Anglo saxxon king athelstad.
Went public in 1717 in London with grand lodge of England . By 1800 300 appeared in England. Split ancients from modern in a schism. Finally reunited decently. 3000 by start of 20th century 55
Some of their documents say they date their union back to king Solomon. Some say Euclid.
No real connection between Templar and free masons.
Arch imperialist secil Rhodes organized subjection of south Africa and the bohr war. The deniers diamond company as well and wanted to United the entire saxxon race as well as taken back America. Though he was a mason he form his own group to be a league of super-villains to accomplished his goals. Rhodes scholarship was to get worthy Americans to turn into real Englishman's power.
Alister crowley was a part of 2 offshoots Masonic orders. (OTO)
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Blue oceans create value out of nothing. Red oceans are when there is already a feeding frenzy. Its when there's a trap of cutting costs and trying to he more efficient but not really innovating. Blue ocean creates more land to explore
Blue v Red Oceans
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Polyamory
Our attitude is scarcity in love. We apply economics to trick ourselves into thinking that love, support and sexual satisfaction will somehow dry up if we dont quickly claim our love. We cling on like toddlers when we find a source of love and wont let anyone else near our toys. How could you let someone else track into your source of love sex and affection.
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“Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115)”
― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras
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Annie Liebwitz on Photography
Annie started out as a photographer by studying natural light. It
helped her learn how to see and it is what she still studies when
she goes on a shoot.
She tries to emulate natural light. She uses ambient light and
adds a small key light on her subject, usually in the direction
the natural light is coming from.
Adding too many lights to a room will often take away what the
natural light offers.
With digital, you can get away with shooting in lower light, but it
changes the image. It can make your photograph diverge from the
ambience of the actual setting of the photograph.
Annie keeps her equipment kit small so that she can be flexible
and adapt to the moment
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Sometimes things don't need to be intuitive. You can trade off one aspect for another with a good reason.
- UX
Sometimes things don't need to be intuitive. You can trade off one aspect for another with a good reason.
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Feminine sign - Magnetic and Receptive, self contained,
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Pisces
Taurus
Capricorn
Virgo
Scorpio
Cancer
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Brahman is atman
Brahman is atman. E=mc2 of the upanishads.
"Cut open a fruit. What's there? Seeds. Cut open seed, what's that? The essence of the tree, you're that."
"If you give me one piece of clay I can fell you about turn entire clay"
The blind men and the elephant story.
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White people look at black people like cashiers look at pennies. Legally they have to accept you but its not because they want you. And if theres more then a handful it gets pretty awkward.
White people look at black people like cashiers look at pennies. Legally they have to accept you but its not because they want you. And if theres more then a handful it gets pretty awkward.
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Art Party
I love art parties here in Atlanta. I went to a gallery once and got invited to a Halloween party afterwards. The only problem was it was July.
It was as weird as you would think. There was a full band performing in a 10 by 10 living room, Literally every guy there had a curly mustache. all of them, and some of the women.
My friend actually got cursed there. He's like, I got cursed. And Im like, do you you mean curesed out? He hit on a girl who turned out to be a full blown witch. Like, straight slitherin. Im like 'what line did you say bro?" She didn't like his line so she cursed him to always think of his parents during sex. This guy was an atheist all his life, never believed in magic. I don't know if magic is real but he says he definitely believes it it now.
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End validation by validating again -I hear you
"I admiring the way you're handling" "it sounds like you have a plan good luck with it " thank them for opening up to you and acknowledge how hard it can be to open up.
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“Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”
Analects/Confucius
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8 fold path
```
Wisdom (panna)
a. Right View
b. Right Thought
Morality (sila)
a. Right Speech
b. Right Action
c. Right Livelihood
Meditation (samadhi)
a. Right Effort
b. Right Mindfulness
c. Right Contemplation or concentration or meditation
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Lakota Wisdom
The sun is our father when the earth is out mother. The sun sparks principle of growth in nature in the fruitful womb of our mother earth. We recognize the spirit in of the brother and sisters the animals.
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Religious diversity - Dali lama
Dali Lamar heart sutra
Different religions preach tolerance love, peace etc. There are philosophical and spiritual traditions for each.
Religious diversity
The buddha teachings seem sometimes to differ and are sometimes appear to be contradictory. It's because he saw he had to teach differently to reflect the diversity of his listeners. No matter how good the teaching may be it it has no value if it doesn't fit the listener
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Omnivores dilemma.
Omnivores can and do eat anything. It could be dangerous to try these different foods. Culture used to tell us what to eat. Mexican with lime on corn, sushi with wasabi, french communal meals with no snacking all has cultural implications for health. America with capitalism as out culture follows marketers and scientist as they come up with new schemes to create out American diet.
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The self doesn't exist. There is no CEO self. There is no doer of deeds above all others. Its less in charge of our behavior than it seems to be. Many psychologists and most prominently evolutionary psychologists subscribe to a modular version of the mind. "Thoughts think themselves" as many advanced mediators have observed.
The bounds of the self can thought of as arbitrary. It also leads to less of my interest taking precedence over the interest of others.
There is no essence of things. It's a perpetual construct that causes is to act a certain way toward a group of people. (Existence proceeds our essence)
Buddhist liberation of chain of causality and influence that have previously bound us. Meditation is a way to escape the traits of our genes.
Buddhist II
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Illuminati
Used nicknames from antiquity
Was supposed to be most secretive. He wanted to infiltrate the freemasons and take over from the inside.
Wanted to destroy all religion, create a one world government, full of 'equals' controlled by an elite.
Novices had to do everything their recruiter told them, without question until they became true initiates. Nothing was off limits in pursue of their goals.
They would get into the order of Minerva to be officially in the Illuminati. No one retraining a scrap of religion could move up to the next rank. There was also no room for patriotism or love for ones prince or country.
There were even higher ranks not known to the common rank and file.
Had lots of barons and counts. Many members came from the intellegicia including lawyers and doctors. Low classes, jews, and pagans were mostly not admitted. Many were freemanson and German including Goethe.
They were mostly 'have somes'. They were not have nots or have everything's. They wanted more.
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Annie Liebwitz on Photography.
The key thing about a conceptual portrait is its connection to the
subject. The idea begins with the person.
Conceptual portraits are driven by an idea. Somewhere in the raw
material of information about who the subject is and what he does
is the nucleus of what the picture will become. It doesn’t have to
be a big idea. It can be simple. For Annie, the series of portraits
of poets she made for Life magazine in 1980 established a method
of working that successfully accomplished what she was aiming
for. Robert Penn Warren had been writing about death. His poems
were infused with the fleshiness and fragility of living things. Her
portrait of Penn Warren sitting on his bed, his shirt off, conveys
that.
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“When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine many things with a confused mind, you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.”
Dogon
195
Lakota Wisdom
” But, because for the Lakota there was no wilderness, because nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly,
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New human rights movement
Top soil is being used 10x quicker than it can be replaced. 1/2 of topsoil on earth has been lost in the last 150 years. It is the layer where plants get nutrients. 1% if lost every year. it takes 1000 years to produces 3cm of topsoil. Serious food scarcity problems are on the horizon.
Fresh water demand will rise by 55%. Severe water shortages will plague 2/3 of the population by 2050.
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Subminds.
You have no self but are instead a collection of sub minds all vying for the stage of consciousness. There is no I. The self imagines it's a single enduring entity when it's really a collection of sub minds.
Meta cognitive awareness is the ability to monitor your own thoughts feelings that come into you periphery of your mind. The untrained mind has these objects quickly come and take attention. With meditation you can allow a thought to take stage or ignore it until it goes away.
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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Water - Emotional Intuitive
Scorpio
Cancer
Pieces
200
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
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The distinction to be made is which suffering is necessary and which is not. Is it necessary for 1 billion people to starve in an age of unparalleled abundance? When mathematical proof says we can feed them? To what extend are we able to prevent deaths and pain and how much is out responsibility.
New human rights movement
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Communities of strength v communities of venerability symbolic of left v right. Oppression Olympics of who is more oppressed is pointless
Communities of strength v communities of venerability symbolic of left v right. Oppression Olympics of who is more oppressed is pointless
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Dying of whiteness
Missouri white people are 10× more likely to accidentally shoot themselves, friends, family members (2008-2013)
Liberals dont explain benefits for everyday people or explain I ways that address history.
They always try to shift blame to outliers and mental health rather than blame gun. Many guns in mass shootings or accidental shootings have guns that are legally obtained.
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Polyamory
Monogamy is default. Why? Thousands of years it hasn't been that way.
It's not a translatory phase between on monogamy to another.
100 miles rule.
Mother loves multiple kids. You love multiple freinds. Why is romantic love finite.
Cheating is lying. Its non consensual.
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Fidel adopted Jesuit rituals to motivate solders and endear them to the countryside.
Fidel adopted Jesuit rituals to motivate soldiers and endear them to the countryside.
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Neil Degrase Tyson
Political truths become a thing as they are repeated incessantly (crooked Hillary)
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao zu
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I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the highest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non violent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to he men. After a 25 day fast( a day longer than Gandhi largest fast)(
Chavez
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Animal rights II
Plants know when they are being eaten. Are they conscious. If not where do you draw the line of consciousness. Is it arbitrary?
Do you kill bugs? Do you kill them for your own pleasure? Are they as sentient as pigs?
Many animals wouldn't exists without us eating them. For them their happiness is living their highest animal-ness. Pigs gonna pig and for their time alive they get to do what its is they love. In nature, they wouldn't survives maybe even as long. Nature is brutal but balanced. Morals were made from humans to deal with other humans, not to regulate nature.
Individual v species good. The deer depends on the wolf to cut its numbers so it doesn't overrun its habitat and starve. In the same way chickens depend on people , its predator. Its evolved along side us and would not survive in nature. The surest way to end the species would be not to eat them.
Jeremy bentham is the philosophical father of vegetarianism was carnivore. We are the better for it and we are never the worse.
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Use snuck premises. Introduce a contented point as a given. dont adopt their premises. They wont know where to poke the hole .
Debates
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Go negative early. Smear them with crimes, sexual scandals they deserve it
Populism unlike conservationism is a set of negative attitudes. They are anti big government, anti big business and anti big labor. Negative attitudes towards the media, rich and to the poor. Difficult to mobilize. They can support liberals or Republicans.
Librarians- born into the television age. Interested in lifestyles and self actualization. Opposed government intervention In their personal lives as well as economic matters.
Democrats learned there needed to be a quick and divisive response to negative attention. When bill Clinton was unfaithful the campaign needed a focal point.
Go negative early. Smear them with crimes, sexual scandals they deserve
The media is only interest in gaffs,scandals, polls and attacks. 1968 candidate could be heard for 43 seconds. By 97 Soundbite is 7 seconds.
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Some people are like straw. They light and burn out immediately . Some people are like logs, they take a while to light but once they are lit they burn bright.
Upanishads
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Polyamory
Jealousy comes from fear - of abandonment, of being replaced of not feeling special, being left out, being betrayal or lied to in the past
The harder you squeeze the more they slip through your fingers. There is nothing you can do to control a partner.
Controlling information- controlling what info is communicated and when
Controlling you partner- controlling what they can and cant do with other partners
Let go of control of the future. Enjoy your relationship now. Accept you cant control another person. Let future unfold on it own
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Jacob neilson chart
Diminishing returns for usability testing.
Usable enough is line just edible food.
60% usability problems with 3 test users
90% with 6 users
No participants find 0%.
Jacob neilson chart
Diminishing returns for usability testing.
Usable enough is line just edible food.
60% usability problems with 3 test users
90% with 6 users
No participants find 0%.
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“The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
bagavad gita
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All of our observations are based off of limited perspective.
Shung zu
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Neil Degrase Tyson
You can build a cognitive house on a shaky foundation. Otherwise as new facts come in they cant be placed atop the house of cards.
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US debt
The US will never default on debt. The debt number is only as relevant in comparison to others in global power politics. As long as others keep buying US bonds the us can just print more money. It is said that the US is in debt to a banking cartel of its own creation but really it is slight of hand to have the ability to print as much money as it wants.
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Strategy cannot be thought as a 3 act play. It should be thought of as a soap opera where small coincidences and ridiculous plots make things not so simple.
Strategy cannot be thought as a 3 act play.
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I'm a fair man, its a fair offer. Do we have a deal.
I'm a fair man, its a fair offer. Do we have a deal.
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“To lead people walk behind them.
Lao zu
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“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
Lao zu
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Hopelessness was not a cause for passivity. Choice is unavoidable. We are condemned to be free. They dont choose they're circumstances of their lives but are obliged to respond. The quality of the response weather brave or cowardly was their responsibly and would eventuality define their lives.
Satre
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Structural violence
Structural violence is poverty and the stress pain and death implemented by the system.
On and island with 100 people one is rich and the other 99 are starving, sick and dying. He doesn't directly cause them harm but just thinks "everyone gets what they deserve. Is that violence?
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King whey:" you've come all this way, surely you can profit not kingdom."
Mencius: " why do you talk about profit, all I have is benevolence and righteousness, if you ask for profit for your kingdom they your ministers will ask for profits for their dynasties and the commoners will ask for profit for themselves--- when profit is put before righteousness, there will never be enough profit"
Mencius
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Dont make a deal when you're on the backfoot
Dont make a deal when you're on the backfoot
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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
Analects/Confucius
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“When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.”
bagavad gita
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"The future is already here its just unevenly distributed "
Gibson
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You can have no better friend then a well trained mind. And no worse enemy than an untrained mind.
Buddha
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“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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“I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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prebuttles. Come up with rebuttles before they are even made.
People are more attentive to negative than positive information. Rebuttles to negative information must be swift.
prebuttles
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"Can I confide something in you? I'm looking to settle down. To build. I just need the right companionship" (pimp)
"Can I confide something in you? I'm looking to settle down. To build. I just need the right companionship" (pimp)
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Apologize if you slip up
"And I just realize you didnt ask for my opinion. My apologies "
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Forgiveness - UX
If users make a mistake, either the right thing happens anyway or they can fix or undo the action with ease.
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The new left must transform complex issues into issues that could be understand and felt by every human being. ent.
The new left must transform complex issues into issues that could be understand and felt by every human being. It must give form to feelings of helplessness and indifference so that people may see political social and economic sources of their private troubles and organize to change them. In a time of political manipulation and supposed prosperity a new left cant just rely on aching stomachs for the engine of social reform.
Waiting for government to attack you to display it only works if you are non violent.
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Elections are zero sum games and rely on character.
Send press release with less than one page and 25 words at the head to send to lazy reporters. Hand delivered an hour before deadline. He didn't want too much time for checks. Reporter wants content for filler.
Elections are zero sum games and rely on character.
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THE EDUCATION OF SVETAKETU
There lived once Svetaketu Aruneya…to him his father Uddalika said: ” Svetaketu go to school; for there is none belonging to our race, darling, who not being studied in the Veda (knowledge of the scriptures), is, as it were, a Brahmin ( learned priestly class) by birth only.”
Having begun his apprenticeship with a teacher when he was twelve years of age, Svetaketu returned to his father when he was twenty-four, having then studied all the Vedas- conceited, considering himself well read and stern.
His father said to him: ” Svetaketu, as you are so conceited, considering yourself so well read, and so stern, my dear, have you ever asked for that instruction by which we hear what cannot be heard, by which we perceive what cannot be perceived, by which we know what cannot be known?”
” What is that instruction, Sir?” he asked.
…. ” If someone were to strike at the root of this large tree here, it would bleed, but live. If he were to strike at its stem, it would bleed, but live. If he were to strike at its top, it would bleed, but live. Pervaded by the living self the tree stands firm, drinking in the nourishment and rejoicing; but if the life (the living Self) leaves one of its branches, that branch withers; if it leaves a second, that branch withers;…if it leaves the whole tree, the whole tree withers. In exactly the same manner, my son, know this. The body, indeed withers and dies when the living Self has left it, the living Self dies not. That which is the subtle essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.
“Please , sir inform me more” said the son.” ” Be it so, my child,” the father replied.
” Fetch me thence a fruit of (yonder) tree.” ” Here is one, Sir.” ” Break it.” ” It is broken, sir.” ” what do you see there?” ” these seeds, almost infinitesimal.” ” Break one of them.” ” It is broken, sir.’ what do you see there?’ ” not anything, Sir.” The father said: ” My son, that subtle essence which you do not perceive there, of that very essence this great tree exists. Believe it, my son. That which is the subtle essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.’
“Please , Sir, inform me still more,” said the son. ” Be it so, my child,” the father replied.
” Place this salt in water and then wait on me in the morning.”
The son did as he was commanded.
The father said to him:” Bring me the salt which you placed in the water last night.”
The son having looked for it, found it not, for, of course, it was melted.
The father said: ” Taste it from the surface of the water. How is it?” the son replied: ” It is salt.” ” taste it from the middle. how is it?” the son replied: ” It is salt.” “Taste it from the bottom. how is it?’ The son replied: ” It is salt.” the father said; ” Throw it away and then wait on me.” He did so; but salt exists for ever. Then the father said: ” Here also, in this body, forsooth, you do not perceive the True, my son, but there indeed it is. That which is the subtle essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.”……..ENDS – ( after many more analogies Svetaketu’s education regarding the nature of the soul was completed).
Thus through a parable and analogy was the learned yet ignorant Svetaketu imparted the knowledge of the Soul. The Upanishads throughout employ such dialogues to convey their message.
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Science on emptiness
Atoms are made of tiny nucleus surrounded by a comparatively large electron cloud. Mostly its empty space. Less then a billionth of the human body is matter.
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Dont say BUT-I hear you
validate the emotion, give a compliment etc instead of "but" say "and". "I see you're frustrated 'and' I think he didn't mean to hurt you.
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Ux/ui is an objective form of human communication. Its not subjective - UX
Ux/ui is an objective form of human communication. Its not subjective
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao zu
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Love bombs-excited to see you
Leader-Does the leader have central role in its story?
Give money to help spread the message.
Paying for secrets
Being told what to read
If you dont do specific things something terrible will happen
Friends and family are suddenly bad people
Cult logic
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Fidel was fighting a battle and declared himself the winner on the radio to confuse media and soilders.
Batista's army collapsed internally because he only paid them 30 pesos a week. They were demoralized and stopped fighting.
He painted himself as a Robin hood figure. He didnt want power just to help the people.
A young, handsome, well spoken rebel, who want "a communist " was embraced by America.
Fidel
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Masculine signs - Energetic and direct, outwardly focus
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Aquarius
Aries
Leo
Gemini
Libra
Sagittarius
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We could say the vast cosmos, the human mind, the myriad process of life we can say these have evolved with a connection to each other
Same of we tried to talk about the leaves that connect to a trunk. This isnt one organism, its 35 separate branches. We should only speak 35 separate branches and not one organism. Talking about trees improper. Who should take this idea seriously? We do that when we talk about our relations to the world. As long as we're trapped on a physical level we could say the vast cosmos, the human mind, the myriad process of life we can say these have evolved with no connection to each other.
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Monogamy
If your married for 50 years but you cheat once the whole relationship is a lie.
Love is a feeling, monogamy is a rule. The rule becomes a legal contract. In some rules breaking it could be a $10 fine or 3 years on prison.
Signs that point to us being a poly-amorous
In nature monogamy is virtually unheard of.
Like bonobos was have body dimorphism, human penis tied for the biggest among all primates, female copulatory vocalization, sex to bond(sex facing like bonobos).
Marriage was created for in laws and resources.
Were at a new era in history where were trying to develop relationships not based on coercion.
We should be designing the type of relationships we want to have, not what we should have.
Monogamy is like vegetarianism. It can be healthy, ethical, and a choice but it doesnt mean bacon stops smelling good.
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When everyone is dead, the Great Game is finished. Not before
- Rudyard Kipling: Kima
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Jainism
Non theistic religion that is extreme in ritual.
Mahavira - founder of jainism. Was a prince, trained for 10 years, then finally created jainism. Jainism says all animals have a different amount of senses but all can feel pain. This Includes rocks, water, fire that makes a huge difference. Took ahimsa (doing no harm) to logical extreme. He eventually goes naked, starves himself to death.
Normal Jainism - vegetarians, wear face masks to not to breath in inner creatures, monogamous, didnt farm. Sweep the ground. There's also extraordinary path you take as a monk. Unfortunately no enlightenment for women in some schools.
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Fire Signs- Enthusiastic and Active
Aries
Leo
Sagittarius
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Give 100% of attention. I hear you
Put your phone away. Dont touch it. Even on the table its distracting. Turn off the TV or down the music. Invite Them to open up
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Osho checked all the boxes
Cool, sexy and contemporary. Mysticism, capitalism, sex and funny jokes. Meditation, laughter, organic vegetables,love , peace and sex. Based in india, jewel in hippy attracting crown. Ashram was near a major city that was gorgeous, green and peaceful. 6 acres of manicured grounds. People got to visit India but not the poorer reality if India that made them feel guilty.
Had daily lectures called discourses in mornings than in afternoons
Sex was for release of spiritual energy. Face your sexual inhibitions to get over than. They were encouraged to have wild sex as much as they like.
Had lots of dynamic meditation but other types of meditation too.
Osho checked all the boxes
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When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.
Lao zu
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“Left to itself, the mind goes on repeating the same old habitual patterns of personality. By training the mind, however, anyone can learn to step in and change old ways of thinking; that is the central principle of yoga:”
bagavad gita
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Don norman:
Design model v user model (how you think it should world v user model)
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Lakota Wisdom
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.
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Know your argument inside and out. Know the sources.
Debates
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Greed is the biggest disease affecting our society today.
Greed is the biggest disease affecting our society today.
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(Book called Atwater)
Ad hominems are a way to really attack your opponent. Through research of opponent you understand more. Exploit know temper to anger a general and confuse him. Attack him in his home state, on a preferred issues (move swiftly where he does not expect you).
Elections are zero sum games and rely on character.
Atwater (Book called Atwater)
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Dying of whiteness
70 people have been killed by domestic terrorist in the US. 145 outside of america.
In misori from 2007-2015 White men were 7x more likely to die from suidice than homicde
Die 2. 5 more by their own guns than carjackers, ladders, terrorist, dogs, bears, intruders or other predators combined
Speaking against guns is what liberals do. Questioning their role in your lives is seen as heresy. They are totems of protections and white male privilege that have held power since the cowboy era.
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Move destructive command away from common commands. Always provide undo when possible.. - UX
Move destructive command away from common commands. Always provide undo when possible..
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What about death? We dont know yet about life, how can we known about death.
Confucius
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“Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live. ”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Templars
Originally just 9 nights that took brothers to the holy land. Were granted Solomon temple as a base and did alot of digging. Started making profit somehow.
Knight brothers - white cloaks, inner society, usually nobleman
Sargent brothers- Black cloaks- took care of brothers. Partial vows.
Associates brothers- nobles who volunteered to fight with brothers temporarily
Squires- cooks, valets, etc. One offshoot of these may have been Mason brothers that spun off onto the masons.
Organized one if the first international banks. Let you deposit money and take it out with a notarized paper. Bank notes had encrypted questions to verify identity of note holders.
Had an alliance with Muslim assassins. Lived in close quarters and even marched together to March on Damascus.
Philip the fair needed money after bankrupting france in senseless wars. Has the pope beaten to death after he was excommunicated. He then put his own pope on the throne. He seized papel gold then turned on the Jews. Had them all rounded up on a single day and stole their wealth had banished them from the city in the square name "isle of jews"
Finally he rounded up the knights Templar on friday 13th giving it its name and had them executed at the stake.
Baphomet- was a cat statue(or man or woman) Was something to grant wishes, make land fertile, find and keep wealth (Later turned into the goat figure by cultist el fanse levi)
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Always answer questions with questions with possible. It creates a mysterious air.
A"Are you coming with me?"
B"do you want me to?"
A"What are we?"
B"What do you want us to be?"
Am I your girlfriend?
"Do you want to be my girlfriend?"
Always answer questions with questions with possible. It creates a mysterious air.
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Batista's army collapsed internally because he only paid them 30 pesos a week. They were demoralized and stopped fighting.
Batista's army collapsed internally because he only paid them 30 pesos a week. They were demoralized and stopped fighting.
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“Poems On Love
Love adorns itself;
it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty.
Love does not claim possession,
but gives freedom.
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.”
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Vegan Utopia
We live in life separated from the natural world which gives us an unrealistic perspective of how life works.
Farmers tractor wheel crushes woodchucks, and combine kills field mice. We exterminate any animal that would eat our crops.
If the goal is to kill as few animals as possible people should try to eat the largest animal that can live off of the least cultivated land (grass finished steaks). Importing food from far away places instead of whats grown on your land contributes to fossil fuel costs. That means we'd all have to live in one area of the country to get a constant food supply which is unsustainable.
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Annie Liebwitz on Photography
“Looking back” is a lesson Annie believes is
invaluable. “You’ll be surprised,” Annie says. “There will be
something there you didn’t expect to see.” And that knowledge
will determine how you go forward.
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Annie Liebwitz on Photography
The shoot with the painter Agnes Martin in Martin’s studio in
Taos, New Mexico, resulted in one of Annie’s favorite portraits.
Martin hadn’t agreed to be photographed by the time Annie
arrived, but after they had had lunch, she asked Annie to come
to the place she worked every day. There were two rooms with a
small bed and a chair. Annie asked Martin what she did there and
she replied that she sat and waited to be inspired. That was the
portrait that Annie made. The artist waiting for inspiration. It
couldn’t have been taken anywhere else.
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Obsessed: crossing the river
Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him and departed. As the monks continued on their way, the one was brooding and preoccupied. Unable to hold his silence, he spoke out.
"Brother, our spiritual training teaches us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that one up on your shoulders and carried her!"
"Brother," the second monk replied, "I set her down on the other side, while you are still carrying her."
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Christ consciousness/ Krishna consciousness
Christians call it the Christ consciousness. The self within us is one on the same. Paul said I was dead but now i live. But not i. The Christ lives within me.
My I is Christ, nor do I recognize any I than he." -st. Catherine if seana
Hindu mystics call it Krishna consciousness of say that such a person has obtained moksha. Freedom from time,conditioning and circumstance
Buddhist call it nirvana. Nir=out vana=blurring. The ego has been blurred out. There is no more shadow to be taken for the real.
People are not separate, but all the same self casting different shadows.
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Dying of whiteness
2013 study found that 35m adults had unpaid medical bills in collection. 17m suffered low credit rating due to medical Bills. 15m used all their savings to pay medical bills.
Dis-proportionally affected people under 50,000 a year.
Environmental factors have a strong effects on health.
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Earth Signs Stable, Practical
Virgo
Capricorn
Taurus
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Processed foods a monocultures
Mono-culture causes problems of health. The industrial food chain is made to obscure where food comes from.
Food industries problem Is that it can't sell you more food then you can eat in a year.15,000 lbs of food per year without exploding. Can grow past 1% per year when on average its 10%
Average child born after 2000 has a 1/3 chance of being diabetic. For black kids its 3/5.
Process foods have much more concentrations of fat and sugar than whole foods.it makes us eat more of it because it fools out selective food systems. It taste better because were wired to seek out energy dense foods. They've figured out how to sell us more food though our capacity is the same.
We subsidize corn but no carrots. our supersize was created by the same man who made movie theaters sell large food items(. Wallerstein)
Nuggets are an abstraction of chicken. Grass cannot be broken down into parts and synthesized into processed food that's why the government subsidizes corn over grass. The nation with the most grain (corn) could always dominate others
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“We cross infinity with every step;
| we meet eternity in every second.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Touch Targets should be 9×9 MM. - UX
Touch Targets should be 9×9 MM.
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“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
Patañjali,
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao zu
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Air Communicative and Intellectual
Aquarius
Libra
Geminis
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“The embodied soul is eternal in existence, indestructible, and infinite, only the material body is factually perishable, therefore fight O Arjuna.”
bagavad gita
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After Reagan became governor he was seen as a potential candidate. He had a nationally syndicated radio program and column that kept him in the public eye. Found out what issues resonate most with people. Tried to bring together strands of conservatism .
After Reagan became governor
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Argurd protestant work ethic and calvinism changed the way we think. Protestants equate work with salvation. We therefore equate wealth with being holy.
Max Webe
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Validation I hear you
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Be curious for validation
Validate in 80-90% of conversations
Ask questions and be curious and show empathy.
"Why do you say that?"
"Why do you feel that?"
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Jeremy Rifkin
"A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times.
The very idea that a human being’s worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons."
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Lakota Wisdom
Forever one man directed his Mystery to change the world He had made; forever this man pleaded with Him to chastise the wicked ones; and forever he implored his God to send His light to earth. Small wonder thus man could not understand the other.
But the old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, become hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence
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I am Time, the great destroyer of the world
bagavad gita
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Set up later half orisha and half Buddhist. Incense. Get a comfortable cushion. Puck a time
Human beings fail to see the world clearly and that often leads them to suffer and make others suffer.
Humans anticipate more enduring enjoyment from attaining goals. Its not a recipe for long term happiness
Duka doesn't necessarily equal suffering. It means a large component of non satisfactory-ness.
The source of Duka is Tanha (desire, thirst) is bottomless desire. It means never being satisfied.
Our intuitive understanding of the self is mistaken. We usually identify all of our thoughts and feelings when really that is optional. We shouldn't uncritically accept feelings as ourselves. Meditation can help us choose which feelings to accept guidance from.
Buddhist 1
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When someone gets emotional dont engage them. Just say you're waiting to hear their point.
Debates
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"A boss has a title, a leader has the people."
"A boss has a title, a leader has the people."
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History is like a relay race of revolutions
History is like a relay race of revolutions- the torch of idealism is carried by one group of revolutionaries until it too becomes and establishment. Then the torched is carried by a new group of revolutionaries. And along the way the values of humanism and social justice the revolutionaries championed change and are slowly implanted in the minds of all men. Even as there advocates falter and succumb to decadents of the status quo.
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Polyamory
The problem is people arent property and love is not a limited resource. People cannot be taken, given or stolen like treasure, won or shared. What makes us look at others as competitors in a never ending contest for love.
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A person can rise through the efforts of his own mind; or draw himself down, in the same manner. Because each person is his own friend or enemy.
bagavad gita
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Obscure your target.
Obscure your target.
The teacher made the love interest wear a wire, but said it wasnt for tariq, it was for the roommate.
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Get close to the the ops closest friend
Get close to the the ops closest friend
Find the weakest friend and get close. Use him to get intel and spy on the the opponent
Cain did this with the white guy. He found out what he wanted (to be on the streets) and seduced him with women (of the night).
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Dont Cling to the Past
Dont Cling to the Past
Papi jailman came back and wanted everything to be as he left it. Things always change.
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If people are being underpaid exploit that. Either cut the head of the snake or shake the body.
