Knowledge II Flashcards
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Appreciation Language
What do they complain/ brag about? What do they dream/ worry about? What the nicest thing anyone has done for you? What the best give you ever gave? Love- affection, like being included, appreciated Service-support, care, warmth, favor Status- give responsibility, titles, power/credit Money- coin, currency, the like affording shit Goods- tangible products, lots of tokens Information-advice, opinions, learning, teaching, like being asked opinion
“I am a man,” It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea.
The Pearl, Steinbeck
We should take it slow
I think we should take it slow. I dont want to disrespect you tonight by having some crazy wild sex in a public place bathed in sunlight. I’d rather take it slow and get to know each other and maybe cuddle in a non-sexual way - We can enjoy each others company and get to know each other. For now, I’m glad we can have this vibe and that we like each other though. Dont you agree? (You can’t image negatives. Its impossible not to think about)
Overstretching goverments
Empires need limits. Nazis, Persians, Neapoliin, Rome(against will of augustus) etc could not stop expanding and eventually overstretch themselves.
Lincoln on Slavery
I can not but hate [the declared indifference for slavery’s spread]. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world – enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites – causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty – criticising [sic] the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest.
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God,
can not long retain it.”
April 6, 1859 - Letter to Henry Pierce
“This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have
no slave.”
April 6, 1859 - Letter to Henry Pierce
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we
give, and what we preserve. December 1, 1862 - Second Annual Message to Congress
“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not
remember when I did not so think, and feel.” April 4, 1864 - Letter to Albert Hodges
In Lincoln’s last public address, he recommended extending the right to vote to them African Americans who had fought for the Union. This expressed his belief that
African Americans should be granted full political equality.
Last Public Address
April 11, 1865
It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on
those who serve our cause as soldiers.
Sources: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, published by
“Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
Psalm 34:8:
Doa on Opposites
When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises. When the world knows good as good, evil arises. Thus being and non being produce each other.
Sarabellum
Purkinje cell
Helps with coordination.
Stack problems
Talk about the problems they have int their lives and stack them until they they think they need your solution (pyramid scheme technique)
Hedgehogs dilemma.
People are like hedgehogs, we want to get close to each other but we cant get too close or we’ll poke others with our spines. We were once united in one consciousness but now we are many. Schopenhauer - World as will and representation.Life is suffering. Suffering is the result or individuality. Communication, perception and understanding will never be perfect.. The universe is really one thing. Each individual will or ego can only perceive the world from one vantage point. fragmentation and isolation come from people being in charge of their own will. Being alive means living with pain and ego.
“Love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.”
Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:43-47
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
Double Consciousness
Double Consciousness is feeling of being both black and american at the same time coined by DEB Du buis. Also the anquish of proforming blackness in a white world.
We should be celebrating black artists.
Create a cult. Play on peoples need to believe. We want to find a way to make sense of this world. Play to people fantasies
Laws of Power
Lincoln and Equality for every generation
All of this amendment and re-evaluation mirrored Lincoln’s realization that we cannot rely on untouchable and self-evident truths. In his 1863 Gettysburg Address, he described the U.S. as a nation “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” The axiomatic project had to give way to a more modern project of ongoing interpretation—of propositions—whether it was in math or in politics. Barack Obama put it this way in a speech last year, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage was a constitutional right. “Our nation was founded on a bedrock principle that we are all created equal. The project of each generation is to bridge the meaning of those founding words with the realities of changing times.” Equality, over time, has changed from a self-evident conclusion to a proposition. The proof of that proposition, Lincoln hoped, would be the United States itself.
Doa on unlearning cultural rigidities
“The 5 colors make our eyes blind The 5 tones make our ears deaf The 5 tastes make our tounges numb” Infinite options widdled down to 5 options.
Travel - Slovenia
Museum of broken relationships. Heartbreaking then I met a girl.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
– Romans 12:2
Resentment
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die
Rome, Corruption and path to monarchy
Wealth corroded all aspects of Roman life and the pursuit of empire destroyed them. Wealth inequality grew to a staggering rate. Roman citizens ceased to be farmers and moved into service just like America. The only way you got elected was paying bribes, expensive advertising and paying gladiatorial games
Optimates (Romes elites who believed themselves the best, superior people
Populares- literally means Democrats believed in reform.
Had serious terrorist problems. Had bitter conflict and could never solve serious questions. Too busy arguing. The people wanted to get rid of the pesky power of self governance.
Locke and Euclid
Like Euclid, Locke defined terms, then used these definitions to prove moral claims. For example, Locke defined property as “a right to any thing,” and injustice as “the invasion or violation of that right.” The statement “where there is no property there is no injustice” resulted naturally from these definitions. In his Two Treatises of Government, published in 1689, Locke noted that “creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another.” It was therefore self-evident that, in the absence of rules or laws, humanity’s natural state was “free, equal, and independent.” He concluded that the aim of a government should be to preserve the natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
Locke’s thinking would flow across the Atlantic, into the pens of the American Founding Fathers. The final version of the United States Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, opens with “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” A keen student of mathematics himself, Jefferson had adopted Euclid and Locke’s logical style, from the “self-evident” nature of the truths to the subsequent right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for
Bob Marley
But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:31:
Dorsolateral Prefrontal cortex
Complex planing, flexible thinking, memory, difficult decisions, deception
Can you cook?
“You know, you’re kinda cute. I think you’d make a nice girlfriend. WAIT, can you cook? I need a woman who can cook! Oh, you can? Great! I’m impressed. BUT what kind of food do you cook? Oh, Thai? I’m not sure I like Thai. What else can you cook? Italian? Now we’re talking! I like you already! BUT can you cook GOOD Italian food is the question.”
Amigdala
Strong Impact center
Helped us remember details of events that were very impactful. Strong emotions like fear, and they form more vivid memories. Also less likely to remember what happened right before event.
Women have stronger and more detailed visual memory of impactful events. It may be why women are more prone to depression and PTSD.
Men show more arousal to sexual image and more amigdala activity. They also have a greater physical response. Men have a larger amigdala as well.
The universe doesn’t exist unless it is being observed by consciousness. The only way the wave function collapses is with consciousness.
Is gods consciousness the observer? After all there needs to be an observer to make and objective universe exist
Michio Kaku
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
Guerilla Warfare (Che)
The country people have a very large part to play in warfare. Needs full help from the area or else they are a bandit gang. Warfare cant break out until government at least pretends to follow the constitution. No battle of skirmish is to be fought unless its to be won. This means use surprise, secretiveness and treachery.
Hit and run, ambush,Greatest problem is perucrment of ammunition. As the army grows the core group will stay in less dangerous areas. This includes the important leadership. Small bands will plant themselves behind the enemy and ambush him until growing big enough to be its own core group. When there is all out fighting both bands can unite. Fundamental attribute of each band is mobility. Its main objective is to not be surrounded. When necessary it can use its mobility to escape encirclement. Enemy loss is always repairable. If you lose one out of 10 it isnt the same as if they loose 1/100. Gorrilla must use sparatic accurate fire.
They will rarely used a lot of bullets. Number Defending soldiers and defensible position is the most important and not the number of attacking soldiers.
The french revolution, the Haitian revolution, the Chinese revolution were land holders v landless, In Algeria they revolted for land as well. Non-violence is the only negro revolution. Land is the basis of all wealth.
Revolution swept cuba and and Africa and Vietnam.
(We’ll have to use the carrot and the stick.)
History is the best way to determine how to figure out how to go forward in the present.
Advocated Blood revolution. Rhymed frequently. (They don’t want a nation, they want crawl back onto the plantation)
Malcolm X
UBI from sacred Economics
ubi
Why do we work more than mideavel peasants with 150 saints days of, hunter gatherers, or Kalahari aborigines with hunter gatherer tools in 1970.
The government could pay people to preserve culture, plant trees, preserve the world. Create art.
We are inheriting human advances of our ancestors. The selfish gene mentality translates to the selfish money gene. If you find yourself being late, procrastinating etc, it may because your work isn’t fulfilling to you. Many people would still work paying jobs but because they want to, not because they are compelled to. Many people do free work anyway, like wikipedia or many apps and websites on the internet. Helping veterans, creating green spaces, creating rehabilitation for prisoners or mentally ill.
flipping burgers, cleaning hotels, janitorial services, could still be preformed but more as a basis of short term work.
Fear is the mind Killer
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Make your accomplishments look effortless. Never let on how much work went into something. It zaps the magic
Laws of Power
Win through action. No through argument
Laws of Power
My children are signing to the sunshine.
Let us cheer the weary traveler (x3) along the heavenly way, and the traveler girds himself, sets his face along the morning, and goes his way.
W.E.B Du Buis
There is no instance of a country benefiting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tsu
Pump up Event
Have an even where people get pumped up about your product or service to keep morale up. Have a few successful examples there for representation. Make them think success is right around the corner. “Anybody can do it”
Tonality
Never stay in any tonality too long or person becomes bored. Be enthusiastic, then whisper. Speed up and slow down. Seem soo enthusiastic about your product under then surface.
How to Survive a dessert Island.
Avoid Shinny plants and plants with 3 leaves. Avoid many with white or yellow berrys. Avoid bean or plants with seeds inside a pod.
If it taste bitter or soapy, spit it out.
Don’t eat mushrooms. Most are toxic.
Avoid sand because its the dryest part of the island.
Most modern castaways are saved in 12 hours.
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain
Russians V Freedom
Russia has never wanted freedom. Since their viking roots, to Putin they are fundamentally different from western Europe. In Russia the king was a religious leader as well as the political leader
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Excellence breaks enemies resistance without fighting.
Sun Tsu
“I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.”
Psalm 16:8:
Heart Attack First Aid
Heart attack - muscules are blocked. Call ems immediately Tightening squeezing or severe pressure. Pain may spread. Person may be dizzy or light headed. Some feel tired for a long period of time. Radiation of pain down the arm. Make person comfortable. Loosen tight clothing. Cardiac arrest -not many signs. Cpr circulates oxygen around the body
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
Teacher us a Signpost to truth. Not as a giver of truth but as a pointer toward truth. I can point you in a direction of truth. True art cannot be handed out. Art is never decoration of embellishment. Its a constant process of maturing in the sense of not having arrived.
Bruce Lee
Toltec Domestication
Domestication - when you were young, you learned your parents were, your name, racism, sexism and classism. But also good things
Eastern v Western trees
American is typically like the oak tree. He stands tall against the wind but if the wind is too strong he cracks. The oriental prefers to stand like bamboo, bending with the wind. And springing back when the when ceases. Springing back stronger than ever before”
“Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:10
Use absence to increase respect and honor. Give people time to miss you
Laws of power
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
– Proverbs 4:23
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6:
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
– 1 Peter 4:8
NLP- Some people are
“Some people are scared to take what they want” “Why is it that people are scared to leave home. Not you, just some people…”
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde
Disease of brain by gender
We need to understand differences in the way diseases affect women and men. Alzheimer’s for instance has a lot to do gender.
Male animals are more often studied and females are underrepresented in trails. This is because of the cycle and male animals are easier to deal with.
Ambient, on the market for 20 years, was found to be doubled the needed dose for women. Wasn’t found out for 20 years. This is dangerous because women dont get proper treatment for diseases.
Plotted on spectrum - Women are more likely to be depressed but men can be depressed too. This gets very complicated because its hard to get it right.
Change over time - As we age. Men lose more overall brain volume, but women loose more in specific regions.
Stress has a different effect of men and women. (in rats) Females for example have less stress in general from captivity. Males have less of a reaction to predators. The males actually fare better after this stress.
In highly creative women had more connections between regions
Creative men showed more focus creativity per region. In a more modular way.
Thich Nhat Hanh on compassionate listen.
I understand your greivences. Tell me what whats causing it.
Then just listen without talking or giving suggestions.
Gravitas - Executive presence
Serious communication skills where you can get your point across.
Presentation of self - The way you dress, Body movements
We underrate gravitas and performance.
“What do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?
Jesus Christ, Mark 8:36-38
Alexander wanted a brotherhood for all mankind
Athenians sent troops to conquer Sicily. When the first one failed they sent a second just like xerxes “
Alexander conquered the worlds with a combination of ruthless, kindness and
He had Dariouses body sent to be buried with his ancestors but also a messenger proclaiming he was a bad king.
He conquered a Raj in India but asked to king if he would he his friend. He learned local customs to get the people on his side.
Wanted a brotherhood mankind.
He integrated his army with Indians, Persian, Greeks. He thought Aristotle was dead wrong and broke down barriers in his empire. Had mass marriages take place to his men and their concubines so their children would be legitimate and inherit his empire.
His first wife was from Bactria(Afghanistan) Roxanne the most beautiful women in Asia. He second 2 were Persians. Planned to have entire villages moved for integration.
“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.’”
Mark 10:27:
Philosophy - Jumbled Knowledge
Knowledge is jumbled in the world. In culture we swim in layers it knowledge based off of where were born and our upbringing.
God does need to punish us. We punish ourselves (Tao)
Heaven and Earth are impartial. They regard myriad things as straw dogs.
We hurt, punish and torment each other going against the laws of nature.
NLP - Imagine if I could
Imagine what would happen if…(imagine) If I could show you a way to make more money would What would it be like if you had 10,000 in income
“Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.”
Jesus Christ, Matthew 7:12
seduction II
Tease a girl as a game. Make out with them, turn them on, then just leave. Be unpredictable. Take a step back. Once you see the are chasing you again reward her.
Venerability- show that your human. Too much drinking insecurity and goals.
Show your inability to control yourself around her. It hides tactical use.
Engage their narcissism. When there is an achievement make videos of them and taking pictures of them. Do her activity and say you are a better person by hanging with her.
Combine a thing she loves with sex. Yoga and books combined with sex. smoking with sex
Find out her fantasy is and do it. It puts you in a different category. The freakier the better.
Make boundaries clear.
Give real qualifiers- you don’t read books? Oh ok
She should be trying to figure you out and never know you
say less. scarcity
animal attraction v intellectual attraction
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Jesus wept.”
– John 11:35
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13:
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Lincoln & Euclid
“If A can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right, enslave B,” Lincoln conjectured in a private 1854 essay, “why may not B snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A?” The argument was clear and irrefutable: Regardless of whether the right to own slaves was defined by color, intellect, or money, an enslaver could always use the same reasoning to enslave their supposed superior.
It was a textbook example of a kind of proof often used in mathematics, called proof by contradiction. In Elements, Euclid used this proof method to show that if two angles in a triangle are equal, the sides opposite them will be equal too. First, he assumed that one side was longer than the other. If he cut off the excess, however, so both sides were the same length, the smaller triangle would be in every way identical to the original. This contradicted his axiom that “the whole is greater than the part.” Hence both sides must always be equal. Lincoln’s proof had followed this same structure.
Lincoln’s main rival on the Illinois political circuit was Democrat Judge Stephen Douglas, who did not share Lincoln’s opposition to slavery. When the Founding Fathers talked of equality, Douglas claimed in 1857, they were not really referring to all men, “they were speaking of British subjects on this continent being equal to British subjects born and residing in Great Britain.” Lincoln countered by once again following the logic to its absurd conclusion. If the Declaration only referred British subjects, Lincoln argued, “the French, Germans, and other white people of the world are all gone to pot along with the Judge’s inferior races.”
“Being in the world, to what might it be compared? To a due drop falling from a waterfowls beak, the image of the moon.”
Dogon(Japanse Zen founder) ART IS A DOOR TO CAPTURING THE IMPERMANENCE OF THE UNIVERSE.
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky,
The Shaman and the story of Mexicos ‘discovery’
The shaman told his followers to go into the dessert and make a hard journey to find their new home. He said it would be where a eagle was eating a snake. The fire blazed blue as he threw i dust.
The next morning he died The people went into the wilderness and found the symbol. They were the mayans and this would be tenenochtilan. He appeared to them later and said this was the beginning of their journey. The eagle was freedom, the snake is the lie and the Bush is their mind. This would be their real journey.
Arctic Survival
wear layers Jackets that seal in heat. Layers are best Choose ice to drink over snow. Avoid ice in inner thighs and in armpit. Heat up your groin and neck as well before heating your hands. Remove outside of wood and bark and get dry wood inside. You will burn food at twice the normal rate (5000 calories) Get food along the shorelines. Did fishing holes in ice. Set multiple fishing lines but improvised bobbers. Use pinecones to turn fire black for rescue. Build snow shelter on low hanging branches. Make it perpendicular to the wind. Filter through charcoal. It should be a slow drip. You can get charcoal from the embers of your dead fire. You can also use it to brush your teeth because it binds to many toxins.
Without power, opportunity is wasted, Without opportunity, power is wasted.Leadership is based on both.
Machiavelli
Brain stem is vital functions
Breathing and heart-rate
Lincoln on politics
Lincoln lied, bullied, threatened, debated and fought to get to his goal on ending slavery, passing the 13th amendment.
Know when to be good and when its not possible. There is no compatibility between politics and idealism. There is only politics.
Learn to live with the contradictions.
Saints can practice their spirituality in the dessert, marytrs can get their reward in the hereafter.
Machiavelli
UBI challenges
We should give people incentives to finish school, finish college, also charity, volunteering and should be included.
Peoples sense of fairness is often offended because they think some people wont be carrying their weight, but robots will be carrying weight.
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
Emerson
Dark Matter and Energy
Atomic theory is wrong. Dark matter and dark energy make of 94% of the universe. Dark matter is located because it bends starlight. Out weighs normal matter by a factor of 10. Dark Energy - Proposed by Einstein. He discovered it and later dismissed it and called it his greatest blunder. Latest Theory of Subatomic particles is off by 10x100 power.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Giving is really the only thing that matters. Trying to show off for people at the top they’ll look down at you any way. If you show off for people at the bottom, they just resent you
Rumi on Silence of God
“Silence is the language if God. All else is poor translation “ - Rumi. Silent meditation is key.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
― Mark Twain
People are dicks.
People are such dicks that Jesus and MLK are heroes for telling people to be nice to each other. Aliens would come down and say. You guys are such dicks that you worship people who tell you to be nice to each other.
Yea but I dont think that makes us dicks.
What did you do to them?
ok were dicks.
Damn your fucking trouble
Damn your fucking trouble - You look like the type of girl who could back me up in a bar fight
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
Emotions enslave us. The things may happen but how you react determines what happens.
Seneca
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
Isaiah 41:10:
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
NLP - Phrasebook
You may not know.. Can I show you.. I’m wondering if… Don’t you think that … Don’t you feel that…
Get leaders you deserve (States men)
Statemen have a bedrock of principles, moral compass, visionary, build a consciousness
Leadership of Alexander the Great
Gave speeches before each battle, cited the soldiers who deserved accolades in the battle. When hiking through dessert he poured out water because there wasn’t enough for his men. He personally lead his Army in battles and was a master strategist. Never asked his men to do things he wouldn’t do. Once charged the enemy solo even because his other men didn’t charge. Failed to articulate his vision for his empire. Wanted his solders to marry Persian women to unite his empire. Alexander began acting more Persian and Egyptian alarming his solders. After the death of Darius and sack of Persepolis his men were ready to go home. They didn’t understand what Alexander wanted to do. Alexander become Prometheus- seeing himself as the liberator, cultural uniter and giver of gifts while others saw him a foreigner sympathizer with immense hubris. They felt they couldn’t trust him anymore. The Macedonians were more aggrieved when he added more Persian to ranks. They revolted and Alexander tried to reconcile with them. His empire collapsed because he had not vision for his empire. Visions and goals are important.
Anterior Cingulate
Empathy and making decisions, anticipating rewarding things
Artificial scarcity and the Venus project.
No one is hungry because there isn’t enough food in the world. No one is homeless because there aren’t enough homes. our system creates artificial scarcity . We waste 40% of our food here in the US.
“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
1 Corinthians 15:58:
Hitler and hubris
He was an ally with the Soviets at first. He invaded the USSR as Russia was still sending supplies to him. He didn’t learn his his lesson from history, the Sabians defeated the Persians who invaded in the winter, Napoleon had lost 5/6 men when he invaded. He failed because of his hubris
Mill on race
First, Mill wrote of the slave trade “I have yet to learn that anything more detestable than this has been done by human beings towards human beings in any part of the earth.” Mill then charges Carlyle with a vulgar error, “he would have escaped the vulgar error of imputing every difference which he finds among human beings to an original difference of nature. As well might it be said, that of two trees, sprung from the same stock, one cannot be taller than another but from greater vigour in the original seedling. Is nothing to be attributed to soil, nothing to climate, nothing to difference of exposure—has no storm swept over the one and not the other, no lightning scathed it, no beast browsed on it, no insects preyed on it, no passing stranger stript off its leaves or its bark? If the trees grew near together, may not the one which, by whatever accident, grew up first, have retarded the other’s developement by its shade?
Human beings are subject to an infinitely greater variety of accidents and external influences than trees, and have infinitely more operation in impairing the growth of one another; since those who begin by being strongest, have almost always hitherto used their strength to keep the others weak.” Mill even anticipates Martin Bernal’s Black Athena argument, which is not accepted by many eminent classicists—but this is not the point here as we shall see. Mill reasoned, “It is curious withal, that the earliest known civilization was, we have the strongest reason to believe, a negro civilization. The original Egyptians are inferred, from the evidence of their sculptures, to have been a negro race: it was from negroes, therefore, that the Greeks learnt their first lessons in civilization; and to the records and traditions of these negroes did the Greek philosophers to the very end of their career resort (I do not say with much fruit) as a treasury of mysterious wisdom.”6 The above is a staggering admission for a nineteenth century intellectual reared on Greek from the age of three, having read six dialogues of Plato in Greek by the age of seven, and for whom Greek civilization was the fons et origo of Western Civilization, and all those concerns that he so passionately defended all his life, rationalism, democracy, scientific history, and so on. “ Father worked in India so he defended his shitty behavior in India. “ Despotism is a legitimate mode for dealing with barbarians, so long as the end is the end of improvement”
In victory know when to stop
Don’t push too far you you risk losing it all
Types of Freedom
Freedom exist in 3 parts -
National freedom- freedom of an entity, nation or tribe
Political freedom- the right to vote, choose own policies, right to participate in assembly
Individual freedom - live as you choose as long as you harm no one else
North Koreans are nationally free, but with no political , no individual freedom
Rome had no national or political freedom but much individual freedom. Not everybody wants freedom. The Chinese have philo-piety and that’s their values. The Analects talks about obedience and not freedom.
Lacan on Images.
\wherars as in a post modern world we had images to follow and narratives given as a whole, now we have very disjointed identities. We are awash im images and signifies from advertising, film and tv to imitate but we can no longer tell ourselves a simple story of who we are.
Advertising uses representative images that the user wants to ‘mirror’ in their own lives (or at least their perceptions of it). Buzzfeed quizzes are just a way to assume an identity so they can consume something targeted. Weak egos are quickly formed the quickly forsaken, like fashion.
Change is part if everything. 2 law of thermodynamics, Buddhist nothing is permanent,(suffering comes from our belief everything stays the same) Darwinism evolution, 3rd chapter of Ecclesiastes.
Olivia Butler
Stalin & Hitler similarities
Stalin and Hitler were both bad at school. They both were only possible because of Democratic forces. They were both low born and born outside of the main nation(Austria and Georgia respectively) They both were members of their small organizations before gathering support. They both kept machiavelli at their bedside. Neither was very well educated but outsmarted much more intelligent people at every turn.
Both appealed to the lowest base instinct of human.
“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
Jesus Christ, Luke 11:9-10
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
Buddhism on Impermanence
Time is just based off of the previous moment. The illusion that You are one thing and not a process. Everything you eat is constantly in flux. You will not die and you were never born. When you die you become part of the universe and continue as part of something else.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
– Micah 6:8
One must live as if he’s already dead.
Hakagure
Hypothalamus
produces sex hormones.
Bigger in heterosexual men than both women and homosexual men.
Rules to live by
No Fear of death - With no fear of death you learn to live in the moment. Its Karma,ne? Don’t drink to be drunk. Its immature and its and weak. Stop assuming hate from other people. Assume love. Or at the very least. Civility. No tech one day a week. Listening and quiet time is an important part of spirituality. Jesus, the Buddha, Muhammad and Confucius did it. Lao Tzu -nature does not hurry, but everything is accomplished.
To a still mind, the whole universe surrenders. The Buddha and Confucius think of speaking of the divine risks distorting it or misrepresenting it Jesus / Muhammad viewed social distinctions as meaningless and invited people to live as if the kingdom of heaven was already here.( Arab not superior to non arabs, not blacks or whites) Budda says people are all spirit and only have differences by past karma Self centeredness is at the core of human misery. Attentiveness to inner life. Lived simply to concentrate on life Jesus showed Over-piety is another symptom of selfenteredNess. They just want to look great instead of helping the poor Noble life- committing self to truth and understanding. Look inside yourself unflinching. Budda says look at the world as it is. Not as you want it to be. Truth is nothing to fear.truth will set you free Humility - Confucius didn’t want to be called a stage.
Buddha kept begging. Jesus was so humble he went to the cross. Be willing to learn Socrates committed to honesty Muhammad insist in mystery. The sublime is absolute and unintelligible to our understanding. Like string theory. Despite out tentative grasp we won’t get it. We should be seeking happiness, not productivity. Were not machines. Jermey betham says we should work to maximize happiness. The rate of suicide in industrialized nations is troubling. Would you rather be a productive sducidal Singaporean or a happy costa rican Were all addicts looking for a fix because of our happiness. Sex, business, travel experiences. They provide fleeting rewards. So we should be mixing tranquility with our moments of victory. Chasing a high forever is no way to live
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
What is the Dao?
Primordial way of being. The primary world is deep, ineffable, devoid of culture is the real reality. There is no connection between our descriptions and reality. The material world is full of jobs, and cars and houses Religion part of balance of Spirituality. Religion is the intellectualism part spirituality. Every thing is codependent on its opposite. A well lived life requires knowledge of both Yin and Yang. Male v Female. Art v Science. All matter has its counter point in anti matter. In that vein all molecules have anti matter molecules that interact.
“Advertising/capitalism- create thirst then give a man salt water.” -Dali Lama
Advertising creates need and fear. What happens if i don’t have the latest style? It creates confusion, attraction and aversion. Politicians and ideas become commodities in neat little package.
Education prepares you to be a cog (Sophie world)
Who are you? Why is the whole education system tilted toward making money? We just concern ourselves with what amounts to trivialities. Instead of giving us inspiration for why we are living life we just spend all of our time preparing to be a cog.
Osho on attracting other
Many more will come . Make people feel like they are at the beginning of something. “Millions more will come”
Swedish pancakes
After watching 9 hours lord of the rings made first indie.
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln
90s Cartoon
What was your favorite 90s cartoon. I’m a hey Arnold guy. He has the best room in everything ever. That’s still #goals. All the adults in that shit were fucking useless tho. I see why people don’t want to grow up now.
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 6:34:
“Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:42-45)
Jesus Christ, Mark 10:42-45
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
Steven Hawking
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel
“Know thyself, oh divine linage in Mortal guise,”Marsilio Ficino’s
I’m a God in the way that a drop of water in the river. Don’t you see a reflection of the artist and craftsman in his work. Universal Humanism?
Corpus Colossum
well connected in the middle.
Empathy Phrases
I understand.. I feel the same way… I agree that this is important The first step is obviously x.
Travel - Italy
Best food in Europe. Europe is where they invented not seasoning chicken. Seriously the best food in England is Indian food. Italy’s got that pasta tho. I was loosing weight from all the walking but when I left I was thicc as shit.
Where Americans get our ideas of freedom
The bible- we inherited the view if ourselves as the chosen people. We also see Jesus a a bacon of hope allegedly
Greece and Rome- all had classical education. The Roman’s gave us natural law that people are created equal. Rome had it in their law.
England - Government has limits. There was always a fight with the pope and the pope would usually win.
The frontier- it means, freedom, equality and a way to start over. It seemed unlimited. (Lord actin)
Russia has a frontier but no idea of limited government like England. Their frontier is the gulag and symbolized death
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Lincoln and Euclid II
Lincoln told Douglas that logical arguments could not be defeated with personal insults. “If you have ever studied geometry, you remember that by a course of reasoning, Euclid proves that all the angles in a triangle are equal to two right angles,” Lincoln said. “Euclid has shown you how to work it out. Now, if you undertake to disprove that proposition, and to show that it is erroneous, would you prove it to be false by calling Euclid a liar?”
Douglas argued that slavery was a sovereign right, to be decided by the people of each state. Lincoln disagreed: The notion of popular sovereignty should not include slavery. The following year, Lincoln challenged Douglas to construct a logically sound argument to support his case. “If Judge Douglas will demonstrate somehow that this is popular sovereignty—the right of one man to make a slave of another, without any right in that other, or anyone else to object—demonstrate it as Euclid demonstrated propositions, there is no objection.”
Euclid would have been proud.
dessert Survival
Sleep in day, in a depression, walk at night. get in the ground and be sure to cover yourself even if you have to use your clothes
When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Plato
Bonding solders
Bonding cycle - Symbols, words, chants, Help achieve unit cohesion. The solders should be like a family. Hard times create better team cohesion. Skills ownership- when people contribute to the goal they feel invested. Find out skills and and delegate tasks based on skills
Artfully vague
When you don’t know something in a debate, be vague. Otherwise ask teach me. It sounds like something but says nothing. Like a horoscope and politicians. “Our tax system needs massive reforming,” Use words that are general. “ We need ethical in business. Without strong moral core, the business will fail” Artfully vague language. 3 suppositions in a row
Practical intelligence Is proper relationship between reason and passion. Pragmatism V Passion
Lincoln drew strength from contradictions. Logic with passion. Pragmatism with principle. Respect for the nations past with vision for the future
Nepoleans hubris
Nepoleon forgot his initial strategy in his invasion of Russia. He wanted a quick campaign to get the Russians to stop supplying Britain but as time worn on he defeated himself in Russia
He outrun his supply lines forgetting fundamentals. Same with Xerxes. They forgot retreat could be winning.
Common sense is like oxygen. The higher you go, the thinner it gets. That’s what doomed napoleon invading Russia in the winter like an idiot
“For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
2 Timothy 1:7:
Grand intelligence is the ability of people to keep two opposing thoughts in mind at once.
F. Scott Fitzgerled.
Bamboo uses
Bamboo - you can make cups, weapons, shelters, weapons, pots, pans, and even eat it. you can even use it to start fires.
Bamboo can be used as a cup by cutting at the joints.Dried Bamboo is very flammable. And can be used as kindling.
True refinement seeks simplicity
Bruce Lee
Doa on empty space
Negative space is often underestimated. In your life, empty space is important. We spend more time as nonexisting than existing. The pause in music is what’s important, the space in a photo. Are your lungs more important than the air.
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein
Colonization in Sacred Economics
eventually there is no one left on the bottom to steal from.
Colonization is the same as opening new markets. But this ends up depleting cultural capital, social capital, spiritual capital, land destruction, soil deletion. We’re running out of things and countries to borrow from.
William Wallace on dress and leadership
William Wallace is an example of charismatic leaders Unique in dress, laugh easily, fearless Never let on that not winning is possible. Different dress gives an air of nonconformity. You stand out and may give your team something to aspire to.gives you an air of being put together.
She’ll never reveal everything and You’ll never be sure of her. Until you lock her up
Proust
Lying Signs
Make the person comfortable and ask inane questions to establish a baseline
Explain their credibility Extreme overacting Invoke religion People move their feet when guilty Turtle up/freeze Overstare in order to compensate
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
Human follows Natures law
Humans follow the laws of earth, Earth follows the laws of heaven follows the laws of Nature (God).
Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
Ibn Battuta
A black man is supposed to have no feeling. He’s not supposed to defend himself. He is always non-violent.
The day that black man take a stand, there will be many whites that have respect for him and rise up with him.
Malcolm X
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
Sleep - Survival
Don’t sleep on jungle floor. Bugs are main concern. Don’t sleep in dried river floors. Find a high ground with no scat or large animal tracks.
Inaction is action
Action and knowledge are 2 half of the same coin. One is useless without the the other. Action- a man cannot live in this world without action. No one exist for an instant without performing action. Inaction IS ACTION. Knowledge is what gives the action meaning. Action without knowledge is shallow. “A man who sees action in action, and action in inaction, is wise among men” “Even without you, these men will all die, may as well go out doing your dharma. Our lives are so small but if we can see beyond that.”
One must be as efficient as possible but looks as noble as possible. You should look merciful, faithful, respectable human etc it public but need to act in the exact opposite way. You must master both worlds
Machiavelli
Play a sucker to catch a sucker. Play dumb when needed, play smart when needed.
Laws of Power
Watts on wasteful people
“People who are wasteful and out of job because they’re really lazy dont deserve money. this was the situation during the great depression with plenty of fields and mines and restaurants but because of some physiological hangup that money is real and people must suffer to get it. The purpose of the machine is to relive you of that suffering. We need to change the physiological attitude to money and to wealth. we have to get the message across to the general public that money isn’t real. “
- Watts
Universe is unknowable
“Not only does God play dice, but … he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
– Joshua 1:9
Doa - We ascribe names to the unnameable and un-describable. The door to all wonders is realizing that all is one.
The Named is the mother of myriad things. Thus constantly with desire we observe it essence. Constantly with desire one observes it manifestations.
These two emerge together but differ in name. The unity is said to be the mystery of mysteries. The door to all wonder.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.’ So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say.
Hemingway
“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West
6 perfections
Generosity- get used to giving. Reduce clinging to things, then to self Mindfulness- stay focus on virtues you intent to cultivate. The untrained mind is like and elephant that you have not control over yourself. Stop your mind from reacting negativly to bad stimuli. Patience-Take your time to cultivate yourself but will take time to perfect yourself. Waiting for a second to react instead of lashing out in anger should be cultivated. Anger can undermine years of accomplishments in one second.Anger is always irrational(cross with stoics)I’m not angry at bile. Why am I angry at living beings? They true are driven by conditions. Anger drives you like an animal. Its the nature if fools to harm others Propriety Effort Meditation Wisdom- Final form
Learn to keep other dependent on you. Be the only one who can do what you do or see yourself replaced.
Laws of Power
Cultivate and air of unpredictability
Laws of power
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain
Kissinger on gathering knowledge
The intellectual capital one has to draw on will be all one had to draw on when they are at the top.
Law of Consistency
“Its not all about looks for you. You like a man whose interesting, smart and funny right?Someone who you can have new experiences with” Law of consistency - Once people make a choice, and stick with it. People don’t like congestive dissonance. Public statements are often not thought out and created in the moment. People who write things are most persuaded. Never ask a question that will pen a no down.
Lincoln on Euclid III
s powerful as they were, there was also a limit to using Euclid’s axioms to argue the issues of the day. Euclidean logic relied on the concept of common axioms, agreed upon by all. But what if there wasn’t general agreement on those axioms? Progress could be difficult to come by. Speaking once in the city of Peoria, Illinois in October 1854, Lincoln became frustrated with Douglas’ view that Illinois was not founded as a free state. “To deny these things is to deny our national axioms,” Lincoln said. Which, in his view, made argument hopeless. “If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat, and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.” By the end of the 1850s, when slavery had drawn a dividing line through the United States, Lincoln would write “One would start with great confidence that he could convince any sane child that the simpler propositions of Euclid are true, but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success.”
Not only did Lincoln begin to reach the limits of axiomatic persuasion, the very idea of a fixed set of Euclidian axioms began to dissolve during this period, even in its native field of mathematics. In the 19th century mathematicians revisited classical questions in Euclidean geometry, such as whether it was possible to square the circle as Lincoln had attempted (it wasn’t). Others challenged the nature of geometry itself. Researchers like Carl Gauss explored non-Euclidean realms, in which Euclid’s theorems no longer held: Draw a triangle on the surface of a sphere, and its three angles no longer add up to two right angles.
Don’t Chase
Don’t chase her. Replace her. Give that bitch a Chinese name. Long gone. Hoes belong to the community. They are in and out.
“For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Jesus Christ, Matthew 12:50
5 quirks
Singing all the time Ill watch anything with Kristen bell I paint, write, edit everyday Weird sneeze open 1000 tabs on youtube everyday Still cant sleep on Christmas eve Hate talking on the phone
Travel - Montenegro
I did have a few racist experiences. So I went to this Castle in Montenegro. The guy was being super nice. I thought it was a bit weird. It turns out he just was looking at me because he was a racist. Good kind of racist. He was like “ Russian accent” hello comrade you play hip hop music and stay in the biggest room for free. I’m like weird look…ok. That accent isn’t from Montenegro but its good racist.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever
Psalms 23:5
Brunch
I love brunch because socially acceptable alcoholism.
Deon cole on thick women.
Man that chick is thicker than cold peanut butter. You’re like room temperature peanut butter.
4 Agreements
4 agreements Be impeccable with you word, dont take things personally, Dont make assumptions always do your best
First Aid Procedure
Obtain consent Is the scene safe? What happened? Control bleeding Call name/shout Signs/Symptoms Allergies Pertinent medical history Check for responsiveness Role unconscious person on their side
Commons Based Currency
Commons based currency.
Oil fields and water would be held in commons. The company with the best claim on how to use the resource means the government would issue tickets to lease natural resources. If this is being used ineffective or overused the lease can be switched to another company
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones
Presupposition
“It’s probably your ability to speed read that makes you learn so quickly”
“You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
Jesus Christ, Matthew 22:36-40
“For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Jesus Christ, Matthew 23:12
I have the right to liberty and death.if I cant have one I will have the other.
Harriet Tubman
Left Handed
I’m left handed like Di Vinci and Bill Gates.
Bread and circuses. The cooperations get bread and we get circuses (Olivia Butler)
Olivia Butler
Sleep in Snowy enviorment
Dig into hole and sleep to avoid cold air. Put something between you in the snow. Try to get something waterproof betwen you in the snow. build it perpendicular to the snow.
In this world they’re a 2 tragedies. Not getting what you want and getting what you want.
Wilde
TV
I watch Everything because I’m a poor mans Tarintino. Master of None, Stranger Things… Game of thrones, my dogs name is John Snow. Telanovelas with my abuelita… What are the 3 are your favorite…?
Sex and death.
I just want to go having sex. What happened to Darrien. He came and went.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consciousness is mystery
Strict materialist say that consciousness ends when the body dies. There nothing after death but most honest scientists would admit we don’t know how consciousness works.
It could be the that the brain generates consciousness but it could also be like the relationship between a TV and receiver. If we want to know about should we really ask materialist scientist. They have nothing to tell us about it.
Maybe we should ask Egyptians who put their best people to work for 3000 years. Maybe we should do more DMT and visionary states.
“The south believed and educated negro to be a dangerous negro, and the south wasnot wholly wrong, for education for all kinds of men will always have an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent, nevertheless, men strive to know.
W.E.B. Du Bois
If earth had been closer the water would boil off. If it had been further it would freeze. If the mood wasnt big enough. Our moon is just the right size to stabilize earth’s orbit.
If it were much smaller tiny perturbations in earth spin would make the earth wobble over hundreds of millions of years causing the climate to change or the axis might have shifted. DNA takes 100s of millions of years to form and needs stable weather. The moon is just right.
In 2 billion years the moon will move away from earth (4cm per year). There would be no moon on the sky and earth would yet to wobble.
Jupiter immense gravity helps send debris out to outer space. Jupiter is the right size
If earth was too small it wouldn’t keep its oxygen to keep its gravity. If it were too big ot would retain too many primordial gasses making life impossible. It helps with the right atmospheric composition
Solar system Planets are mostly circular which means there arent many asteroids.
Were in the right position of milly way. Not too close to the black hole and its radiation field, not too far that there are enough highter elements to make life possible
Ward and brownly argue we may be the only life because of the myriad of goldilocks zones
Ward and brownly Anthropic principle
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous
A good planned is informed by the past, linked to the present for achieving some future goal.
John Lewis Gaddis
Za Zen and the Self
Self is an illusion fed by memory, the 5 senses and culture. The illusion of self must be wiped away. Za Zen helps us see the illusion
Gold wins wars, not solders.
Little Finger
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.
Michio Kaku
Hitler hated socialist.
Hitler was against the jews and socialist. He said they had betrayed Germany in WW1. He was good at speeches and said you should repeat the Same things over and over and tell big lies instead of small ones.
Hitlers SS was mostly lawyers. He used new tech of the day. He turned nationalism into a religious affair.
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world
Anon
Medio-temporal lobe
Hypocampus - Memory storage but only for things that are important.
Very active most of the time and thus susceptible to damage. It is located behind your ears and memory function can be damaged there but this amesia will probably heal itself.
Being comfortable with discomfort is a big part of being charismatic
de-stigmatize - Everyone feel discomfort sometimes. Even the big wigs.
Neutralize negative thoughts knowing your brain often distorts reality making things worse than they are
focus on the sensation and analyze it so you can overcome it.
Car Robbery - Survival
Throw your keys away if the robber wants to carjack you. Run and hide behind concrete. Get from cover to cover
Deon Cole on managing blackness.
You gotta manage your blackness. you cant be black allll day long. That black guy you work with? Thats not how he really acts.
Turn my headphones on play knuck if you buck and then when nobody sits beside you go back go (audiobooks).
Marxism is not enought
Marxism doesn’t go far enough. Ownership should be owned by the people. It says state will wither away, but in practice it sets up a strong state. The people as an abstract concept owing the means of production pushes the narrative humans own all of nature and are not one with it.
Property is not an objective feature of reality. It should not be collectively owned , but not owned at all.
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Developing p2p economy
Craigslist took 10 billion dollars of classified ads and converted it to $100,000 for itself.
Advertising is falling, total industry fell my 9%. Fb and Google are driving this. We are at peak advertising as public attention has been saturated. Much of the needs are being met for free.
Same is true for stock brokers and travel agents. hierarchical is turning into more p2p. Wikipedia took much from encarta and encyclopedias for free
Frontal insalar cortex
Consciousness, maintaining homeostasis, sense of self
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
Psalm 23:4:
Entitlements
Entitlements are derisive but we should reclaim it. Arent we all entitled to the work of our ancestors and the fruits of the earth that belong to all of us.
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”
Isaiah 43:2:
Middle East V Empire
Middle east is the graveyard of empire. Ramses, Alexander, Ceaser, Richard lionheart, Napoleon, Camel core of Lawrence of Arabia. Some ways killed British and USSR empires.
Religion are the sources for greatest good and evil
4 Noble truths
Life is suffering, desire causes suffering, overcoming desire stops suffering, path leads to nirvana.
Discomfort
you must get very comfortable with discomfort. All leaders need to be resilient and be able to fire new employees and take heat for failures.
Muslim terrorist joke
Most muslims aren’t terrorist. you know why? because were still alive. There are billion muslims on the planet. They could just kill us with gyros they sell us on the street after the club. Terrorist faces change all the time.
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
Photography
I always thought photography was ridiculous. You don’t make any money, there are no jobs unless you work at Nat Geo or playboy. It takes so much time to edit when you could be doing literally anything else…so I’m a photographer now. Because I just love it. I because a photographer to tell stories and spread the beauty of life.
Connection and tech V War
Empires rise and fall because of human folly.
In 1914 people thought the world was too connected to have a great European war. Too much tech(telegraph, communication) too many terrifying weapons, too much economic connection
Equation that unifies everything could be an inch long unifying einstein and string theory.
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
Intelligence
Intelligence is hard to pin down and there is no real definition.
Gfactor - General intelligence. IQ that is highly inheritable. Grey matter correlates to intelligence. Frontal cortex usually.
White matter is the connection between Neurons. Correlates to quick thinking. corpus colossus (Connection between hemispheres) is mostly white.
Fluid intelligence and Crystalize intelligence. (Fast and slow)
Gardeners theory - Multiple intelligences. Spacial, artistic, etc.
“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:16-18:
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.”
– 2 Timothy 4:7-8
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
Epsilon-amount that hydrogen that converts to helium via fusion in the big bang (.007) if it’s too low the higher elements couldn’t form. The nuclear force wouldn’t bind atoms, the universe would collapse into hydrogen. If it were too high fusion in the stats would have burned to quick. A shift if .04 would unstable
If gravity were weaker stars would not condense. If were too strong stars would burn too fast. Galaxies would form faster and smaller. Collisions between stars and planets
Omega- relative density of the universe. If it were too high universe would have collapsed . If it were too small omega would have expanded to fast. If it were different by one part in a million billion (1x1015) from unity the universe would not stil be expanding
Lamda- cosmological constant. Determines Accelatuon of universe. If it where larger the anti gravity created would blow the universe apart causing a big freeze. If it were too small it would create a big crunch
Q- amplitude of in cosmic microwave bg. It were smaller it would be dark, uniform, and devoid of life. Too high and it would be a a universe for of galactic super structures. Full of black holes.
D- dimensions- according to biology intelligence cannot exist in dimensions lower than 2 dimensions. Our brains exist in overlapping neurons. 100 billion neurons in our brain connecting too each other. In 4 dimensional space planets dont have stable orbits. Solar systems cannot
Multiverse solves this with law of averages. But if there’s no multiverse than this doesnt make much sense.
Earth orbit is elliptical, cosmological constant Is not zero and is alittle more.(reasons why this is a coincidence)
Anthropic Principle 2
Bodi-chita(awakening mind)
cultivate mental state with resolution to awaken in order to help other people
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Jesus Christ, John 16:33
Doa chapter 1 on God.
The Tao that can be told of is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth.
Limits god to a human personality
I will join any church that has the golden rule as their creed and actually followed it.
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom V Power
We don’t learn from history
Freedom is not a universal value or else we wouldn’t be fighting for it all the time
Power is the universal value in history. The idea of the superpower is a nation declaring power
Brain Damage
Brain can change functions modules especially in children. Even when half of the brain is missing or removed children with removed parts of the brain may even go on to lead fairly normal lives.
Tech - “You” phrases
“I’m sure you were excited” “Tell me more about yourself.” “How did that make you feel?
Taylorism/Fordism and scientific management
Idea of breaking down process to smallest components. Hired unskilled labor to be a machine. Artisans weren’t needed. (Can’t afford Mitsubishi unit). Henry Ford took these ideas and built on them. Fordism and Taylorism took off. Turned people in commodities Post Fordism- trying to recapture artisan feel in manufacturers.
Musashi’s Rules to live by
1) Do not go against the natural order of the world
2) do not seek pleasure for its own sake
3) Don’t depend on partial feelings on anything.
4) Think lightly of yourself but deeply of the world
5) Be detatched from desire your whole life long (desire to be looked on favorably by others, desire for riches, desire to surpass/defeat others)
6) Do not regret your past
7) do not be jealous of others
8) Never let yourself be saddened by a separation in all forms
9) resentment and complaints are not acceptable for yourself or others
10) do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of love.
11) in all things don’t have any preferences
12 ) do not have any desire regarding your domicil. Live anywhere like traveling Musashi.
13) Dont preserve old objects. (Attachment to past. One can posses and object but also be possessed by an object)
14) Don’t follow customs for the sake of following customs.
15) Do not practice unnecessary arts and don’t collect useless weapons.
16) Do not seek treasures or Fields for your old age
17) respect the gods bit don’t count on their help.
18) abandon you’re body but not your honer
19) never stray away from strategy.
16) Do not shun death.
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide,
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling.”
Psalm 46:1-3:
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
American without exist without slavery
Slavery in the us was written into the constitution but tried to be hidden. They knew without slavery they would have no nation. The founding fathers knew they would have no nation without it. They assumed it would go away on their own.
Alan Watts on detachment in relationships
Being detached means not squeezing a relationship to hard with anyone that it becomes ruined. Its means not being so dependent on sexual pleasure that you always need it.
seduction I
Choose the right victim. Screen using interest, who are they with, what are they doing, what do you have in common using social media (works for me too)
Attraction is not a choice.
Spy on your Target on social media and see what they enjoy doing and casually drop that.
Send mixed signals. Chill short texts but fun in person. Take her on a great date then back off.
Be an object of desire. Have an aura of desirability
Install discontent. Remind them they aren’t doing what they always wanted with their lives.
Find a lack I their life greed, vanity, boredom, forbidden fruit.
Compliment someone using detail. Give small gifts that show you were paying attention. “The value of a person can’t really be just being pretty, I love art and capturing beauty but a person is something bigger than that. I just traveled the world. The person you are in 20 years after beauty has faded is what important and what we should be building up”
Have conflicting qualities. Seem rounded person.
Have a triangle of selection (show female friends)
Inflict pain - you also inflict pleasure. Be ok with offending. It’s better to piss her off then not be on her raider. Criticize but then compliment
Insinuate insecurity - say you love something she doesnt have and quickly change the subject.
trying to become yourself .No man has been respected who has not owned land.i want to give you something that can never be taken away from you.the most dangerous man is nothing to lose.
Elijah Muhammad
Sucking Chest wounds
Treat it all like a sucking chest wound/ use a flat material like a credit card to make an exclusive valve. Tape it down on 3 sides. When they breathe it’ll be closed but extra air can still escape.
All warfare is based on deception. When powerful you must seem weak and visa versa.
Sun Tsu
Doa Tai from Sacred Economics
Doa tai was a monsters in Chinese myth. Had an insatiable appetite. It consumed every creature around it including the earth yet it was still hungry. It finally consumed itself. But a head can’t exist without it’s body.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde
Wildrow Wilson and WWII
Wildrow Wilson thought science and technology and democracy would erase problems of the past. He helped to draft the overly punitive treaty to punish the Germans. He didn’t tell the senate. He took many professors but left both republicans and democrats behind. He didn’t bind them together by letting them participate. Churchill said if he’d done differently he could have prevented WWII
League of nations crashed shortly after.
Spindle cells (Von Econamo Cells)
Involved in complex thinking. In all these complex parts of the brain. Found in great apes , whales, elephants, dolphins also have them
Manipulation phrases by charisma on command.
But you said (After youve already answered questions leading to yes)
I would never (Its not saying you cant, its just saying we dont do that here)
Dont throw away (blank, because of loss aversion)
A real man/woman should be this. (youre being immature, youre afraid of commitment, youre being a prude)
This is how we do things around here. (Here hows its going to work, because you seem like an authority )
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Steven Hawking
“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don’t read.”
― Mark Twain
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
Work on the hearts and minds of others
Be humble or be humbled
“He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.”
Jesus Christ, John 8:3
Lesson from vietnam
All small group of free men will beat a professional army fighting on their own land for their own freedom.
Xerxes wouldn’t give up. He won at Thermopylae, then went on the burn Athens, but couldn’t let i go. He then decided to fight a navel battle again an army 1/4th his size (for no reason other than pride) Then he decided to leave 300,000 men to occupy Greece but no more than 1/4 of those men ever made it back home alive.
Lesson from Vietnam / Sparta
Confabulation
Recitation of imaginary events to fill in gaps in memory. Used to justify action who decisions that weren’t consciously decided on.
“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28:
People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
Jesus, Matthew 4:4
“If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it.”
Jesus Christ, Mark 8:34-35
Newton on PanAfricanism
Pan Africanism is a way to provide culture to disenfranchised black. Talk about glorious past and unify blacks. Inter-communal-ism - link with disenfranchised communities all over the world to change power structure.
Sharmana as Shaman
Shramana - Closely related to the word shaman. A priest is ordained by superiors but a shaman is ordained by himself. He goes into the woods and seeks solitude in order to connect with himself again.
One goes from being a householder, then become a forest dweller
sacred econ as childhood
Humans
Babys- we couldn’t separate ourselves from mother Earth
Kids - when we learned to be farmers and separate from the land
Teenage growth spurt in industry. Hyper rationality of teen thinking
Ideal like ancient culture. We usually don’t have an ordeal which means we’re perpetually teens until a crisis hits us.
Reunion - with earth. Not just one of receiving but one of giving. First started In 1969s. Finally got visions of Earth from moon
Quote from astronaut - rusty shuigurt. From the moon the earth is so small and fragile you can block it out with your thumb.
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Plato
I saw you checking me out
I saw you over there checking me out - I’m not just a piece of meat
Sometimes when I try to imagine what peoples motives are I play alittle game. Whats the worst reason they could have for this.
Little Finger
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling
Be royal in you own fashion, act like a king. Reject your own low birth. Ask for less, receives less. What you tolerate is what you receive
Laws of Power
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
A man who can dominate a dinner table can dominate the world
Wilde
Free Money
Free money - money that depreciates over time to make people spend more money instead of hoarding it. This would put money at the same decaying rate as everything in nature. It separates storing value from means if exchange.
Negative interest means we can’t hold onto debts forever.
Since it depreciates it would be given more freely since hoarding it has no greater value. Just like in the ancient world, too much meat, grain, etc,eventually goes bad. If you have too much you share or throw a party or if you made a big kill you share.
We learned to live the earth or the earth will learn to live without us
Einstein
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Dali
“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6:
Elements of strategy - Known, Probabilities and Unknowns
Known elements
Geography Topology Climate Your capabilities Objective
Probabilities
Goal of enemies
Reliability of allies
Cultures
Endure adversity
Unknowns
Conflict resolution
Argue by point even if the person is an idiot. Find the things you can agree with. Tell them you could be wrong. Confront the behavior, not the person. “I love you alex jones, but you say some silly shit”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller
Wars Between Democracies
But we know that wars between democracies go on and on because there isn’t one person who can surrender (Peleponisan, to Rome v Carthage, world wars)
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Travel - New York
I love New York. Its a bunch of upwardly mobile young people living in closets. Its dirty, but its good dirty. I went there with my best friend a shoot on the Brooklyn bridge like a month ago. We got into this crazy rooftop party.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety
Ben Franklin
The unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates
“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill
Always keeps your foes confused. If they dont know who you are or what you want they wont know what you plan to do next.
Little Finger
Play the perfect courtier. He obeys his master but shines in his own light. He his not powerless.He doesn’t trust but appears trustful. Everyone likes him. He is charming, witty and helpful. He appears to be a paragon of honesty and fairness. He has a genuine smile on his face that one one distrust for a second.
Laws of Power
Corpus Colosseum
Women’s brains have more grey matter, Men have more white matter. Women have a thicker corpus colosum but this isn’t necessarily proven.
Women and Men express emotions differently, but feel them largely the same.
When asking for help, appeal to peoples self interest. The past does not matter, dont depend on loyalty
Laws of power
“The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”
Psalm 27:1:
