Knowledge Flashcards
To sound smart
Alan Watts on Atheism
Being an atheist isnt any more scientific then being religious. Its stems from enlightenment thinking that helped the European justify colonialism. To say they were more rational and more evolve so they deserved to destroy the natives. They could see themselves as the fittest while killing.
We are our choices.
Satre
If one cannot draw on 3000 years is living from hand to mouth
Goethe
Nobody believes in God like an atheist. There is no God and I am his prophet
Alan Watts
Zen Impermanence
we ignore the fact that we are experiencing the world as it is.we put a layer of meaning over it. We ignore what’s really happening and the beautiful Impermanence of the universe. We alienate ourselves by building this type of layer. We need to return to experience world in a raw way.
Public persuasive speaking/Think as a wise man, but speak as a common man.
anon
Capitalism will transition into devolve into barbarism
Luxembourg
Implied obviousness
(advanced form of future pacing) Benefits of what you’re selling is a given. “Now john, you’ll make money with this, but more importantly is what I can do for you in the long term” (Obviously the product is a winner)
Comodety Monetary fetishism (lame deer)
Comodety Monetary fetishism- when we see money as an ends to itself and Every thing stands for money. We comodify everything. We even comodify nature because we see them because they are dead. We comdify ourselves into chairman and clock punchers and labor. We changed what we think it means to be human into something else. We answer the question of “who we are” but s what we do. We think if ourselves in terms of our functions. Can we endorse the world we created? We created a life no one can endorse.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Camus
Traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.
Ibn Battuta
No one will make me happy, i won’t make anyone else happy. Not for long.Certainly not forever
Me
Path to truth is tremendously diverse.
Bruce Lee
Egyptian gospel of Jesus
- female and male become one. Death will stop when women don’t gicd birth. He has come to destroy work of female (desire in those days)
midlevel executives have no reason to encourage true democracy. Sense of freedom but has no real influence on his world (mills cheerful robot)
Midlevel bureaucrats-
Tech - We should start a band
I like your look. We should start a band. I won American Idol in my shower last week and I’m a champion at playing the triangle. What music do you listen too?
Consuming symbolic values in late capitalism
Late capitalism- freedmen- now products have more symbolic value not utility. more small niche, identify with products with identity. Irony of Nike selling mass produced shoe as something unique we can build identity on.were constantly looking for something authentic. Tgif and Applebee’s pretending to be neighborhood places. Microbrew- when I drink this beer it shows i have refund taste and shows who i am as a person. Consuming symbolic values “Substance is nothing, image is everything.” John Bodrard We define ourselves more from consumption not production . We try to consume things that are more real than real. Reality tv shows, prepackaged vacation, Disneyland swamp tour v real swamp tour, las vegas with the Eiffel tower. Celebration florida (fake old school towns).
Meaning of life is purposelessness by Alan Watts
Meaning of life -purposelessness. Is the point of dancing where you end up. Is the point of music to reach the end. The journey is the purpose (applies to travel)
Wu Wei
recognize you are just a link in the chain.You are only part of a causul network. You forget you are just a new link in the causal chain. You are a nature to which were in harmony. You’re achievements are only part of the achievements of others.
Dali Lama 7 Billion Religions
There are 7 billion people so in a way there should be a billion religions. Everyone should embark upon their own spiritual journey based on who they are” the purpose of religion is to benefit people and nourish the human spirit. We should encourage diversity. People may like a certain restaurant but if there was only one it would cease to be useful and benefit everyone. Personal contact between those of different faith is very beneficial. They are all designed to make the world a better place after all. Religion should be a tool to reduce suffering in the world. Everyone has buddha nature seeds within.
Plan all the ay to the end. Consider possible outcomes. Keep plan adaptable. No half measures.
Laws of Power
Substantive economics
anthropological view where economics arises from cultural context. Its not the other way around. The dhobi don’t want unlimited stuff . The Trobrianders tribe in new guinea trade shells and beads ritually. Its not about the object but the connection. Social debts are more important.
Osho on contradictions
A man who remains the same with the same opinions his whole life is an idiot. It means he isn’t growing.
Many religions think you are unworthy and flawed. Christianity has original sin, buddhism and Hinduism have karma, in the big bang were a cosmic accident. Toltec religion says you are a piece of divinity and perfect the way you are are. Its another way to be addicted to suffering.
Many religions think you are unworthy and flawed. Christianity has original sin, buddhism and Hinduism have karma, in the big bang were a cosmic accident. Toltec religion says you are a piece of divinity and perfect the way you are are. Its another way to be addicted to suffering.
Talk about zen like a normal conversation
When someone asks a question about religion talk about the secular, when they talk about the secular switch to religion.
One should always be in love that’s why one should never marry
Wilde
One must secure himself with the nobles and the people which are 2 different realms. The nobility wants to suppress the people and the people will be able to revolt. If the people love you it harder for the nobles to remove you.
Machiavelli
Dont flight the last war.
Change for every war. Stay fluid.
Court attention at all cost. Never let yourself fade into the back ground.
Laws of Power
OCEAN -Neuroticism
How’s your week been? Anything else i should know High- stressed and busy and need something to stress about. Worry a lot. want to tell you just one thing. Prevent crisis. Make them think you’ve thought of and solved every thing. Like pro and con list. They want backup plans and time cushions Lows- think clearly during crisis, think about what’s going right, not what’s going on. They don’t care about what ifs. Within reason they will take your word for it. Tell them you did due diligence and they’ll usually believe you Clues- wear dark colors. Keep inspirational quotes or self help quotes to calm them down.
Tech- Languages
Failed 2 years of Spanish and 1 year of Japanese. I was on a roll so I didn’t want to stop. Then I dated a Panamanian girl who spoke Spanish and called me papi chulo. I learned pretty fucking quick. She taught me “Me gusta comer tu culo.” In started Japanese working at Mitsubishi on my lunch break. The guys get so excited hearing Japanese from a gaijin(yes you are still a foreigner if they come here)
Dali Lama and Quantum mechanics
This means since everything is interdependent. We have responsibilities to the waves our actions put out. Now as the stoics say you can control shooting arrow but not where it goes. Quantum mechanics- shows this is true and we are all linked in there’s ways. We need to grasp on to truths.
A good teacher protects his students from his own influence
Bruce Lee
Rejection then retreat
Ask her to go home with you then scale it back to one drink with a smirk
Dispise the free lunch
Be generous to your people. There is a lot of upside to paying from fro a cup of coffee for a great man
Teach me!
if someone says something you know nothing about ask them to teach you (ive never met anyone who did that)
Ramayana
Like Odysseus or the Anied is the story of gods and men in history. Valmiki was the writer who was attributed to the work that was twice as long as the illiad and oddesy combined.
Ramyana was the avatar of krishna on earth.
Rama comes to earth to fight demon Ravanna who is invisible against gods or demons.
He grows up as perfect Prince who follows his dharma
Many versions in many different places around earth including different versions in different parts of India, Cambodia (ankle war) , thailand, etc.
NLP - Command inserted in the phrase
“I’m not going to say you should take me home this second” “I wouldn’t tell you to buy this car, that’s something you need to do on your own” “I don’t know if you should buy stocks now.
Scarcity
Verbal Scarcity - “We only have one more black BMW and when its gone, there wont be much left” Tonal Scarcity - Power whisper Information Scarcity - Even the information itself is in short supply
Lame deer on maintaining our own prisons
The nature of Modernity is to turn us into spectators of other people’s lives because were so alienated in this world we can’t embraces our own freedoms(TV, movies) We thing of ourselves as cogs in the economic order instead of part of nature. To understand our lives we have to come to terms with our death.
Self education makes great men
Bruce Lee
Stoics on Anger
Anger is incontrolable and takes over your own being. Control anger by assuming friends will betray you, situations will not go the way you want. Have a thick skinned. To be provoked by dumb shit.
“I’m still trying to figure out if I really like you or not.” Then smile like a sly devil
A1 “I’m still trying to figure out if I really like you or not.” Then smile like a sly devil
Treating Shock - First Aid
Lay them down Cover them with a blanket Dont give them anything to eat and drink
Listening
“I never learned anything while I was talking” Stop interrupting AF. Listen for attack points. Highlight important parts of what is said.
Giving knowledge
Give knowledge to people you turn out but not all of the knowledge at once.
Africa has no history because blacks couldnt write and slavery was an improvement
Hegal
Writers are the whores of the universe. The whores of the universe do much better
Bukowski
Fire - Survival
Scares large animals and smoke scares insects. Split logs into pieces to get a better burn. Put it in a teepee triangle. Start with small brush and dry leaves. There’s no overstating effectiveness or tinder. For a signal fire add materials to contrast bg.
N.U.T. Conflict resolution
You can’t argue with a feeling but you can acknowledge it. . Name the emotion- Give validation Listen to feelings, validate fears, repeat her emotion words. Name an emotion by micro expression. Understanding Find out what they are seeking “You seem, are you feeling…, what caused this” Identify their primary value. Narrow it down. Don’t move on until they are done talking. Wait until emotion is gone. Transform Address her primary value met. “What can we do to make you feel better, how can I help” Won’t work on everyone.
Chaotic Inflation
50 Theories propose what the engine behind inflation during the big bang. It may be that spontaneous inflation happens all the time. One universe may split to another universe. Blowing soap bubbles expands to form other bubbles. Alan Guth - Inflation thrusts multiverse theory on Sir Martin Reese - Whats conventional called the universe may just be one member of an ensemble. Countless other ways may exist where the laws are different. The universe we be long to may represent unusual subset where conciouness develops.
Travel - England
Some of them love is but some are just annoyed we keep coming there. Most Americans don’t go anywhere where people don’t speak American. *English impression* there’s a cue bruv.
The world is being created and destroyed every minute. Death is present everywhere
Henri Cartier- Bresson
Travel - Ireland
Me and good friend rented a car and drove the countryside. We met these cute Irish farmers and sheep af. Basically Ireland is just Guinness, old castles and sheep. We were doing this tour watched teens, shit you not smoked behind a 1000 year old castle. I was irrationally pissed off at these kids. This is a castle older than England and they’re just using it as the turn up spot. It was the first time I wanted kids to get off my lawn. That’s when I knew I was getting old.
It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill… If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn’t, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.
Al-Mas’udi (Arab Heraclitus)
Ask the little children what the purpose of life is. We should be like them
Jesus
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
Hemingway
Myth is the smoke of history. You may of the fan it a bit to get the the for beneath but when you see smoke its wise not to ignore it.
John Kay
Bonding solders
Bonding cycle - Symbols, words, chants, Help achieve unit cohesion. The solders should be like a family. Hard times create better team cohesion.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Satre
Enter action with boldness. You need to to be fearless
Laws of Power
Less freedom with complex society
Barter never existed. There was only debt by friendship. There was trading with other tribes but mostly for connection. As you move up “scale of civilization” (bands, tribes, cheiftom, state) we get less freedom,less vacation, decrease kinship ties and tight social network. The amount of work per capita increases. The more $ you make the more leisure time you have. Europeans “civilized” Africans, asian and south american and created hunger and envy on the continent..
Indus River Valley
2,600 BCE - Indus river valley civilization - In Modern day Pakistan. Seems to be a mix if people. Fished extensively and grew wheat and barley but not anything most Indians eat now. Civilization lasted for 700 years. Mihijo dahro and Harrappa. No weapons. Organized planning road system. North south and east West. Elaborate sanitation system.Many public Baths. Bricks made in same proportion. Stone Seals. Socialism and no autocratic ruler. Elaborate untranslated language. Climate changed and people left
There was no sign of struggle when they left out.
Jukka culture lived in Harrapan remain after they left. They took advantage of desserted buildings. They had no culture and didn’t use words for plow, threshing floor.
Greatest poets of the Tong
Wong Wei- set standard for sparks zen poets. If you were invited to a party and couldn’t attend your send a poem. Poems to commemorate life events.set standard for living alone.
Li Bai - loved wine and women. Drinking alone by moonlight. Fancied himself a knight errant. Someone who rights wrongs not fixed by the justice system. Said he dualed and drank in poems. Wandered empire and studied doaism. He partied chanced upon, Earned, partied away money. Chinas Oscar Wilde. Emperor assigned him to lead a think tank ministry of arts. He made enemies at court. Was eventually exiled for allegedly insulting the emperors plump wife. Spent last 10 years of his life as an Alchemist.
Du fu - anti war poems (court poets in DE) had A mancrush on li bai.
Buchers- karma was irredeemable since they killed so many animals. They became assassins by night. Were hated by culture.
Talas battle - Tong V Abassad Khlifate. The exact location was never found. It was fought somewhere on the talas river in Kazakhstan. World changing battle.
Mulan written now. She went to war but then decided she wanted to be a Confucian woman.
Women want to be good but if your good when they meet you they don’t want you at all.they want go find you irretrievably bad but make you dull and good.
Wilde
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley
A goal is not always something to reach, maybe it’s only something to aim at. Become the technique, don’t stand outside it and admire it
Bruce Lee
Move the set!!
Get targets involved in the experience. Get them to move. Your body in motion gets your mind involved.
Sophia and God
“Sophia” in ancient Greek translates to “wisdom,” and from this we derive the words “philosophy” and “sophisticated.” The Hebrew the word for wisdom, חָכְמָה or chokmah, is also a feminine noun.“In the Book of Proverbs, wisdom as a feminine being,” Pagels said. “She is God’s partner, or darling, his delight. The idea is that wisdom is a personified feminine being who is with God and helps him out.” The Book of Wisdom, often attributed to King Solomon, characterizes Sophia as “the breath of the power of God, a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty, a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God and an image of [God’s] goodness.” “Desperately Seeking Sophia,” Sister Joyce Rupp quotes the Book of Sirach, a portion of the Christian canon included in some denominations. The passage reads: Happy is the person who meditates on Sophia, who reflects in one’s heart on Sophia’s ways and ponders her secrets, pursuing her like a hunter, and lying in wait on her paths. “[Sophia] learns that she can’t really understand God,” Pagles told HuffPost, “but she understands that she lives and exists in a divine world that God created.”
You ever tried paying your rent with your soul? Try it sometime.
Bukowski
Ethos
is used to establish trust with an audience. Show calmness and stoicism to increase credibility. Shared values and common ground. “We are both concerned about _” Reputation - What I’ve accomplished in the past plus an anecdote. State it - Declare why you are trustworthy
Part the curtain of society, racial, ethnic religious, national and cultural conflict and you find the human ego turning the jobs and pulling the levers.
Neil Degrass Tyson
Shooting - survival
People will adjust concealed guns under their clothes to keep it from moving usually one one side. Shoot by taking your time and hurrying up. Aim smoothly. Ready fire aim is bad. People at jaw or brow before a fight. Dry their hands. May flash contempt.
In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.
Michio Kaku
OCEAN - Openess
High- variety creativity, novelty, change and adventure Low- Traditions rutimrs and habits Have any big vacations coming up? What restaurants do you like? What are your hobbies? Answers: Emphasis on new, fun, interesting Lows-Stay home, go to the same restaurant, same vacations, diverse foods,
Marcus Aurillious on Impermanence
You have limited time, don’t miss opportunities. Nothing is really important as you think it is. Finitiude and impermanence aren’t things to be lamented. Most beauty is found in impermanence.
Commodification,consuming as identity, and Art as a rebellious act
of all products became standard as Hilton built uniform hotel rooms, mcdonlds and other fast food. Appeal of uniformity. Art is now a rebellious act. Creating art is creating an anti commodity. The relationship to the artist to their work makes it valuable (concert v live music?). Apple embodies spirit of artist but it’s just as produced as everything else. Late capitalism- freedmen- now products have more symbolic value not utility. more small niche, identify with products with identity. Irony of Nike selling mass produced shoe as something unique we can build identity on.were constantly looking for something authentic. Tgif and applebees pretending to be neighborhood places. Microbrew- when I drink this beer it shows i have refund taste and shows who i am as a person. Consuming symbolic values
Do we endorse our own system? - Lame Deer
We respond to symbols weather we know it or not.if we paid attention we would say we don’t endorse the values we seem to live by but we don’t think about it.
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
Future Help
Ask if there is anyway you can help people in the future.
Names and eye contact
Always repeat names of others. Make eye contact and pauses.
Let people play with the cards you deal. Present them options but both that work for you either way.
Laws of power
Locota, Abstract Art and Stories.
Abstract art / abstract film we make up stories to interpret the work just like we do with the world. We construct our identities through stories.
Love language’s
Straight up ask if you can or see how they treat you. Word of Affirmation Love letter, Texts, Spoken, phone free during meals, weekly checking Gifts Jewelry, candy, flowers Acts of Service Cooking, running errands, or crafting something Quality time Just being in the presence, trips Physical Touch Cuddling, holding hands, massage
My solution is the build your own life. Being a seeker forever and keep your mind open is the only way to live.
Camus
Osho on Goal of life
There is no goal of life. Life is its own goal. Achievement is just a projection of ego. Money, power, knowledge will not give you life. You are sacrificing your life when you strive for something. the goal is always in the future and life is in the present.
Harm principle by John Stuart Mill
“As long as I’m not infringing on others, people should be let alone” “only harm gives people the right to coerce people to change their views. Criticise any view you want tho. Speech is not a harm” “Over himself. Over his own body and mind. The individual is sovern”
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Steven Hawking
Dealing with Resistance
You’re right, and “You’re right, and …” “You may be right and that has been right for 20 years, obviously now the economy is changing” No- is an instant reaction. They did this or something like this . It usually means nothing. People are changeable and don’t know why they do things When resistance is likely use Distraction. Address the resistance slightly. Never have customer state beliefs you want to change. I understand why you feel like like that. Many others have felt that. But what they look closer they found ( you let them save face)
Osho on Disurbing people
Only by disturbing people can you make them think. People have stopped thinking for centuries because they want to be consoled. I’m not here to consul anybody. People need them be hit hard.
Inoculate against mind virus
“You and I both know this is the right decision because we both know they facts, but what will you say tho those who try to the change your mind.”
Alan Watts on being part of God
If you were a god you and could do anything you would have dancing girls and riches and money. Then you would do dangerous things. Then you would try and forget all your memories and start over. Its like a video game. When you realize you are that part of the universe it won’t matter getting old.
OCEAN- Conscientious
High- Loves organization and schedules Low- Big ideas strategy Have any big projects coming up? What The plan? High- know what coming up in their lives, detailed planning, better dressed, better organized, it’ll all work out In depth answers, lots of details Lows- play it by ear, forget to charge phone, let laundry go, are late, need to borrow a pen, messy Talk about overview, big picture.
Java, cambodia and Islam in Asia
Java
Cultural hub between India, east Africa, China
Silk road ships bought Indian culture. Traded with southeast Asia since 500bc. Rulers in java called themselves Rajas. Rulers studied Hinduism classics as well as Buddhism.
Cambodia
Khumers - 889-1438. built Angkor wat and Angkor Thom. Had Brahman advisers helped them build it. Buddhist monuments. Were Eventually incorporated. Eventually invaded by the Thai and abandoned in 1431.
French rediscovered in 1900s.
Islam in Asia
Makayla, Malaysia, java converted and spread Islam. People converted for standardized trade rules. Sufi strand was instrumental in conversion. Mixed with anamism and local religions. Helped build immense trade network. By the 9th century there were hubs in Spain, southeast Asia, China , Indonesia.
Bear Attack Survival
Black bears a chill. Polar and brown bears are more aggressive. Don’t sleep in food you cook in. Put your supplies away from camp. Wave , make noise and get big. If the bear attacks lie down and play dead. Fetal position & Lay on your stomach and protect your vital organs. Put your hands on your neck.
Travel - Prague
Prague was racist, but not like good racist. (Like Montenegro). Its like Buckhead/ tongue&groove except its a whole city and everyone has a accent.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
Charles V
Story Tips
Use sensory language. Regress audience through time. Story should have a purpose. Have intention and a comedic hook. Stimulate emotion- rave about were they passionately agree with you. Emotion is great if your on the same side. Stir emotion, don’t boil it. Bring characters to life. Use voices/gestures, body language if you have to. Characters can brag about you in the story. Speak as them. Start in medis reys - There I am, a kid from Camden new jersey Lesson Tell people the lesson that should be learned. “I never realized how important it was too…” Always reveal your human weakness. Don’t tell 2 or 3 stories in a row. Cardinal sins - Bragging /boasting/ boring Give names and dates to add credibly
Here they are:
Be a patient listener (it is this, not fast talking, that gets a con man his coups).
Never look bored.
Wait for the other person to reveal any political opinions, then agree with them.
Let the other person reveal religious views, then have the same ones.
Hint at sex talk, but don’t follow it up unless the other person shows a strong interest.
Never discuss illness, unless some special concern is shown.
Never pry into a person’s personal circumstances (they’ll tell you all eventually).
Never boast — just let your importance be quietly obvious.
Never be untidy.
Never get drunk.
Socialist
I still a socialist Bernie millennial Scum on the inside though. I steal creamer from the man and redistribute it to random people at bars.
Camus on philosophical suicide
I don’t know if this world has a deeper reason, but if it does I can find it. The absurd arises from our hunger from answered and inability to get them. Philosophical suicide is giving up on looking for ideas. To be aware of the absurd and still fight makes one an absurd hero.
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
Spoils of War
DONT RAID, BURN VILLAGES,CRUSH OPPONENTS. JUST LEADERS. AVOID POLITICAL FIGHTS UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. ALLOW THEN TO CONVERT
A drop of water in the river
We are a lower case i but we merge with god temporarily by losing our ego. A drop of water becomes the river. You will die and become just your ego anyway.
Logos
Maintain frame: If there person gets off topic bring them back. Use what definitions that benefit you. (right-winger- republican-conservative- nazi) Story- A good story goes a long way. Proof- Evidence in this stage is crucial. Use stats, evidence and studies. Concession - Give a concession to other party.
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.
History is like a relay race of revolutions-
We know just enough about the universe to make ourselves miserable.
Me
Locota Nagi
relationships you participate in. All the stories about these relationships. All of the stories that have shaped up and formed us and forged us.
Bad driver
In sort of a shit driver. I mostly grew up in cities so I didn’t really start driving until I was 19. Back in the day- Marta is smarta. This always get me into trouble though I almost froze to death in the last snowpocalpse. I drifted and turned at the last minute to avoid hitting another car and slammed into a guard rail. Shit was intense. That’s was one of my 9 lives ( I’m a gato sucio)
OCEAN -Agreeableness
Cooperative/ empathetic V. Analytical practical and skeptical Are you the trouble maker, the goofy one or the peacemaker? High-Default to yes, Im down with w.e. relaxed walk. Take the worlds problems on their shoulders. May not take care of themselves Make sure they know it’s ok to disagree. May see yes to your face to make you happy when they really mean no. Remind them how important it is if you want their honest opinion. Want to protect everyone’s feelings. Low- Less driven by emotion than facts. Cooperation is less important than being right. Be ready for detailed /skeptical questions.Give them all the facts.
Leaders vision and a plan
If you don’t know where to go you aren’t likely to get there. You need both the vision and plan.
