Knowledge IV Flashcards
Push for specifics. Dont get wrapped up defending against their broad statements. Ask for something more specific
Debates
Validation I hear you
Offer justification for feeling an emotion.
Refer to specific emotion and
Wow that would be confusing
He really said that? That would be confusing
I’m so happy for you, you worked incredibly hard, it must feel amazing
Invalidating emotions Dont worry It could be worse It's not that big of a deal It'll be fine (We usually invalidate a bad emotion like anger, fear and jealousy)
Black dragon society
Formed by disgruntled samurai after the meiji restoration they they became a nationalist secret Society that helped push japan into WWII. They pushed for just Asia at first and courted government officials as well as yakuza.
Later take funded black power movements including the nation of Islam to foment revolution. They are rumored to have worked with hitler and rasputin as well.
TAKING THE FIVE PRECEPTS
In Buddhist countries there is a practice that distinguishes ‘lay Buddhists’ from ordinary Buddhists. It is also practiced on Buddhist holidays by serious Buddhists. This practice is the Taking of the Five Precepts.
The five precepts are:
1. Do not take life 2. Do not take what is not given 3. Do not distort facts 4. Refrain from misuse of the senses 5. Refrain from self-intoxication through alcohol or drugs
Self and emptiness- Dali lama
All things are empty because all things are casually linked meaning everything is constantly changing. They are just parts in a causal link. Chandra kierti tells us we grasp at our own ego then we grasp at “mine”.
The self is real but the self we are grasping at is not not real. Were forever changing.
When goodness grows weak. When evil increases. I make myself a body. In every age I come back to deliver the holy, to destroy the sin of the sinner, to establish righteousness, he who knows the nature of my task and my holy birth is not reborn. When he leave this body he comes to me. Flying from fear, from lust and anger, he hides in me, his refuge and safety. Burnt clean in the blaze of my being. In me many find home
bagavad gita
Familiarity
- UX
Light switches and fans are the same design. They are familiar but not intuitive.
Users spend most time using apps other than users.
If it looks like a duck and lts located like the duck, users will think its duck even if labeled otherwise.
Red LEDs are bad indicators because they arent consistent
Learn ability isnt the goal. It’s a consolation prize.
Users shouldn’t think about the UI. It should be invisible
Polyamory
What is love? Its patient, it’s kind, it’s an emotional experience,, means never having to say your sorry, love is a battle friend, finding the souls counterpoint Im another, baby dont hurt me.
Polyamory isnt just for commitment-phobes or sex addicts. People love different sexual orientations and gender identities. Love is love.
Define- love. Now define polyamory.many loves.
“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
“Everything is sorrow for the wise.”
Patañjali,
“We are not cabin-dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.”
bagavad gita
“Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, never lasting long. You must accept them.”
bagavad gita
Validate all emotion -I hear you
You can validate any emotion even if you dont agree. You dont need to agree you can still be curious until the get it all out. “That sounds super frustrating “
Picture them as a child. Think about all the things that must have happened between them between then and now
New human rights movement
Inequality is built intrinsically part of the system. Human suffer, starvation and death are not only built into the system in which in order for someone to win, other have to loose.
Russell brand complement
When you get a complement, accept the compliment then give the complement back. Thanks so much and you look spectacular today as well.
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan
There is no paint by numbers approach.
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It’s the evolution of a central idea thought continually changing circumstances.
Absolute certainty of perfect is very charismatic.
Eye contact and every long handshake.
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan
There is no paint by numbers approach.
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It’s the evolution of a central idea thought continually changing circumstances.
Absolute certainty of perfect is very charismatic.
Eye contact and every long handshake.
“Men don’t settle down, we surrender. You gotta surrender eventually because you don’t want to be old man in the club. Commitment might give you a headache but new pussy will clear it right up”
chris rock
Polyamorous
Your lover needs to be your best freind, romance novel beloved, kinky play partner, co parent, therapist, caretaker, personal trainer, support group facilitator, parent at times
You are never enough for everyone’s needs. One person can fill all your needs. Let them fill needs you cant or wont fulfill separately.
Craft relationships that fit you life rather than visa versa
2.8 million people died in 200 of preventable social causes and racism. Rich people have 13 years of life on average poor people have a 50 percent higher chance of developing heart disease. Stress, bad diets, obesity contributes. It’s not just below the poverty line. It’s a gradient. The people lion the bottom have a 4x higher chance of death. In the middle it 2x as high.
New human rights movement
Neil Degrase Tyson
It’s not enough to be right, you also have to be effective. You can say this how the world should be but if you dont have a plan to enact it go home.
Civil rights movement- researchers explain mass action with no tangible reward as being encouraged by shame of not participating. It’s harder however to account for leaders and first followers when then movement gets going.
Civil rights movement
Time and space are categories imposed on the universe by your mind.
(Dune)
Assassins
Taught about cult mysteries and schooled in Aristotles teaching. Learn islam was just a dim reflection of what was true.
6th degree were introduced to god of time or chronos
7th degree- learned creation and destruction were one and good an evil were mere illusions
8th degree- true god was a nameless and not to be worshiped. Nothing was true and everything was permitted. There was no god , or heaven or hell
Saba made a carefully constructed garden, he would drug followers and let them wake up in ‘heaven’. He then would drug them again and tell them to follow him to return back to the heaven.
Never clear user info unless you need to. Never autofill sensitive information. - UX
Never clear user info unless you need to. Never autofill sensitive information.
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao zu
“Our mistake is in taking this for ultimate reality, like the dreamer thinking that nothing is real except his dream.”
bagavad gita
Body as chariot
Your body is is a chariot.
You are not the chariot the horses. Your horse are the 5 senses. They are not trained and drag us in all directions. The driver is the intellect trying to keep control of the powerful wild horses. The senses go where they want and are impulsive. Our real self is in the back of the coach.
We need to wake our intellect to keep control of horses. There is an alter in every living room of this country
1/5 Of fossil fuel industry is dedicated to the food industry.
It takes 5 calories of fossil fuels to deliver 1 calorie of food
1/5 Of fossil fuel industry is dedicated to the food industry.
It takes 5 calories of fossil fuels to deliver 1 calorie of food
Vison, issues, Biography. Obama wouldn’t cast about for political strategy. Went digital. Strong internet presence. 10,000 to millions of email addresses. Consistent message. Benefited from racial shifts in America. For 3 decades Republicans had benefited from backlash to Vietnam protesters. Answered trends in demographics. 1970-1980s themes weren’t working anymore. Obama illustrated change from Hilary’s old attitudes.
Obama
Polyamory
Jealousy is often presented as love. If you arent jealous her insecurity is activated and she thinks you must not really love her.
Competition has been part of female lives since hs. Competition for best clothes makeup and hair for most attention fuels catty toxic behavior. Suspicion of all potential women including friends and co-workers is a huge problem. The behavior is often encouraged and “slutty” is a weapon they use against each other.
A knight shining armor swoops in to save his damsel from other knights still appeals romantic. Being jealous to girls is considered “cute”
It the Upanishads a young man Nachicata who searches for who he really is in the world of death. He is tempted by all the riches of the earth, animals and dancing girls. He learns from death how to discover himself.
Upanishads
Free masons
Sons of liberty- spinoff of free masons that had chapters all around the states. In British controlled areas they acted like a shadow government.
Its doubtful it was a Freemason plot. Ben Franklin john Hancock etc were masons but also Benedict Arnold and Cornwallace were both free masons.
There was definitely free mason intervening in the american and french revolution but the question is how much.
Every american masons violated their oath to king George III when they turned rebel In the revolution. He wasn’t a mason. His son King George IV and every male British sovereign since has been a mason.
56 signers 16-40% of declaration of independence signers were masons. 39 singers of constitution it was 33-70.
Seal of dollar bill - all seeing Masonic great architect of the universe. Eye was supposed to assume leadership of world. Latin means by New world order. Franklin Jefferson and other designed it but only Franklin and Jefferson were def masons. Most work was done by contractors. It is found on Washington’s Masonic apron and found in a seal in Boston on April 1772.
Washington DC was layed out as a masonic symbol. Joseph smith used masonic rituals in his new Mormon faith.
Franklin became a 9 sisters mason in France along with Voltaire. The inventor of guillotine was also a mason and Jacobin. Jacobin’s got their name from Dominican monastery. But also the first name of Jac de molign, the last leader of knights Templar. They were obsessed with revenge on the Catholics and the king. An anonymous man yelled “ jac you are avenged” when king Louis was beheaded.
Washington tried to root out Illuminati and Jacobins in America. He was a mason I guess.
“Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.”
Dogon
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao zu
Responsiveness - UX
Should prove user interaction was confirmed. Show a status bar or indication that input has taken place.
Narrative and emotion
Narrative and emotion motivates people. They say in going to protect you from Tehran and the homos in Hollywood. We say we’re for clean images and better schools..
Us- opportunity truth moral courage reform prosperity
Them- crisis destructive sick pathetic lie betry
Frame of inheritance tax v the death tax. Once it’s in your enemies language it’s already lost.
Democrats wanted to believe campaigns are about the issues and it would possibly to appeal to rationality of voters. Unfortunately humans are barely rational creatures
Reciprocity is main theme.
Learning without thought is pointless
Thought without learning is dangerous
The people are the grass, leaders are the wind. Whichever way the wind blows people will go.
Education (specific classics to read) take traditional texts and develop them.
What about death? We dont know yet about life, how can we known about death.
Confucius
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Lao zu
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
Lao zu
What are some songs you love that you never tell anyone about?
What are some songs you love that you never tell anyone about? (Cauterize, starlight run)
We’ve been lied into 4 of our last wars
The Spanish didn’t sink the Maine
Lusitania was not an innocent ship but was loaded with munitions
The north Vietnamese did not attack the 7th fleet
Saddam Hussein hated al Qaida and would hang them from the nearest lightpost
We’ve been lied into 4 of our last wars
The Spanish didn’t sink the Maine
Lusitania was not an innocent ship but was loaded with munitions
The north Vietnamese did not attack the 7th fleet
Saddam Hussein hated al Qaida and would hang them from the nearest lightpost
“The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
Neil Degrase Tyson
Personal truths - truths you believe regardless of evidence to the contrary. They can be bad or good but shouldn’t contradict objective truth that can be proved by science. Mostly it comes from people or groups or countries that want to feel special. Often involves denigrating other groups.
Annie Liebwitz on Photography
The idea that one photograph can “capture” a person is, Annie
says, baloney. She often runs more than one portrait, or even
a series, which gives a better sense of the range of identities
within one person. She says that she threw out the concept of
the decisive moment some time ago
Jesus and the Muhammad of the Sufis are associated with the eternal logos
the word
Structural violence “naturalizes” poverty, sickness, hunger, and premature death, erasing their social and political origins so that they are taken for granted and no one is held accountable except the poor themselves. Structural violence also refers to the ease with which humans are capable of reducing the socially vulnerable (even those from their own class and community) into expendable non-persons, thus allowing the licence–even the duty–to kill them.
New human rights movement
Conservatives get into government, gut programs and blame the programs for not working.
Conservatives get into government, gut programs and blame the programs for not working.
“Chaos is a face of god. Shape it”
Earth seed
Earth seed
Corn is king
Corn needs humans to reproduce. It is bred by farmers and sold by a company’s patented design each year since the second generation doesn’t produce good offspring. Its mostly inedible by humans on many farms. They are all clones of the same plant.
Fritz haber was a nazi that created zyclon b for the nazis than used that same knowledge of “fixing nitrogen “ to contribute to nitrogen in soil and a boom of agriculture.
Farmers now use this and fossil fuels to grow corn. Farmers often use more than needed, double in some cases. What isn’t used evaporates to form nitrous oxide a greenhouse gas or seeps down to the water table. Sometimes it poisons the water supply like on des Moines Iowa that drinks from the river.
Chicken, beef, Turkey, even fish are fed on corn.
Have some corn with your corn.Chicken, beef, Turkey, even fish are fed on corn.
Have some corn with your corn.
Chicken nugget
The little chicken is Corn fed
Glued with corn Starch ,it gets fried corn oil,
Corn flour costs it. Corn is used to create the golden color.
40% of Mexican diet is corn
Humans like all other creatures on earth are part of the natural food chain.
Our brains developed in some way as a way to get food. We could conceive of eating anything.
Expectation - UX
Expectation - Functionally, the UI delivers the expected, predictable results, with no surprises. Users don’t have to experiment or deduce the effect. The expectations are based on labels, real-world experiences, or standard UI conventions.
Explorability
- UX
Users can navigate throughout the UI without fear of penalty or unintended consequences, or of getting lost.
Annie Liebwitz on Photography
When Annie photographed Gloria Steinem, the plan was to use
a location in Central Park where Steinem went to think and
meditate. There was a rock that meant something to her. After the
shoot, back in Steinem’s apartment, Annie realized that it was
there, at her desk, that Steinem was most herself, surrounded by
books and papers and the atmosphere of the busy activist she is.
Both the Martin and Steinem portraits are true, but Annie doesn’t
think of them as definitive. “We are so complicated as human
beings,” she says. “I can’t get it in one photograph.”
Forgiveness - UX
good apps should be forgiving and help users if they make a small mistake.
No frustration - UX
Emotionally, users are satisfied with the interaction.
“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
“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
Hearken back to earlier heroes (Lincoln)
Hearken back to earlier heroes (Lincoln)
Homeless people are a type of in person. To invoke George Orwell. They exist in a shadow world. A black mirror of society we want to see
George Orwell
“The man who sees me in everything and everything within me will not be lost to me, nor will I ever be lost to him. He who is rooted in oneness realizes that I am in every being; wherever he goes, he remains in me. When he sees all being as equal in suffering or in joy because they are like himself, that man has grown perfect in yoga.”
bagavad gita
“We behold what we are, and we are what we behold.”
bagavad gita
Search - UX
Search should return based on users intent. No literal input. Elizabeth smith should return results for liz Smith. Keep old inputs for recent searches. Dont clear themselves if user makes a mistake.
Cult of work
Hard work it’s own reward and even godly. Protestants work ethic made idleness is a sin. This delusion that work will get the rich to give them a slice of the good life. They see other workers as enemies and not their bosses. Cult of work believes will say people fight their way out of poverty and to wealth. Myth of meritocracy is the biggest religion in USA.
In business play in the 2 basic emotions. Fear and greed.
Peaky Blinders
The market is touted as the only solution to fix problems it created.
The market is touted as the only solution to fix problems it created.
Polyamorous
Let’s yourself feel it. If you are experiencing jealously what let’s you know its jealousy you are feeling? Meditate on that feeling and dont let yourself go into a tirade of emotion. Feel tightening in your chest and drop in stomach. Dont think of why but just look at the reactions. Realize if it passes or shifts. Dont stew about how we’ve been wronged. Afterwards can approach yourself and your partners with logic and compassion. Then get into and activity that makes you feel good.
Call people and give them positivity and love. Call people you love and tell them so and nothing needy.
“I understand that your love for someone else doesnt affect your love for me”
Does jealousy stem from insecurity?
Annie Liebwitz on Photography
The element that became most significant in the shoot was a
peach. Alice had written about peaches in a recent memoir and
peaches seemed to suggest her sensual qualities. Just the right
peaches were obtained with some difficulty. The shoot took place
in Alice’s front yard in Berkeley, California, with Edith Piaf
singing in the background. The light that day was bright, but
Annie tucked Alice into the shade of a bush. She held the peach.
“So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
Polyamorous
Ask your partner to share erotica that turns them on.
Relationships dont come with absolutes. You should escalate and deescalate relationships at will.
New relationships energy sometimes makes you have a fever from a person riding a chemical cocktail.
Compression- positive emotions about a partner being with someone else. It’s like opposite it jealousy.
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, “We did it ourselves.”
Lao zu
“Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?”
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Yoga sutra on meditation
When thought ceases the spirit stands it’s TRUE identity as observer to the world
“Curving back within myself I create again and again.”
bagavad gita
Russell Brand chode defense
If someone’s a dick to you, just rephrase what they said as a question “you look like a nerd dude” “I look like a nerd? Hm. Why so you say that” It makes then have to think and explain themselves
Charisma of Hitler
Told the audience what they wanted to hear to lead them out of misery.
Had an unshakable mission and talked from the heart.
Herkined back to an earlier time to connect with peoples imaginations.
Capitalize on every tragedy. Every nazi (scum) who fell on early days was treated as a hero, sites were honored as holy relics and place of pilgrimage.
Mien kampf show he has vision of how the world was and how it was supposed to be.
Took studio photos to persuade people he was powerful and a speaker.
Kept things vague.
Connection with audience. Gave people a convenient explanation for troubles.
Painted himself as a messiah figure. Allied with protestant church.
“If only he knew about unpopular aspects of the regime he would fix them” shielded his image
Thought he was always right and made all the big decisions allegedly on his own.
Gave them hope from economic despair.
Discoverability -UX
Discoverability - user need to know where to look for frequent tasks. Higher level tasks can be hidden. Zero states screen should have sample photos. Must look interactive. Must not appear on hover or be in a poor location. Primary commands are easy to find.
Try not to move ui element too much between releases.
Use priority, grouping and context to explain UI.
It’s better to do you dharma
I am become death the destroyer of worlds
Kharma yoga. Do your dharma. Inaction is action. In comparison to Buddhist it preaches action. If we all become monks we cant have a society.
Bagavad gita on Kharma yoga
What is intuitive? - UX
Immediately self explanatory to target user. No training, seeking help, reason, memorizing. ROI justifications for UI/UX is not really necessary since you need good ui just to be a player. Tech support should map their cost due bad UX and times that by a year to get the cost. Roi could be getting cost down. Microsoft has done good but apple had done well.
Microsoft has done ok but Apple has risen 150 fold since 2000 I stock prices and have lines in front of the stores.
Meditation and finding out what you really are.
If you went out with a botanist and said this trunk us all of the tree she would look at you like you were nuts. The roots are what connect this tree to the earth. Youd say, what are roots I’ve never seen them so they dony exist. All you have to do is dig and look beneath the surface.
Russell brand instincts
“Thats a very nice dress. I’m only flesh and blood I’ve got instincts” blame your approach on her “I’m gonna be late work, you’re causing me to get into trouble “ “stop looking at me like that”
Dying of whiteness
The cases supplied experiment failed and its governor Brownback was the least popular in the country in 2018(?). Kansas had once great school and clean streets but that has all be destroyed now. Many feel they have been robbed by government. Disadvantages populations carried more of the burden. Tax cuts who saw the biggest tax cuts were rich and white.
White voters think minorities are getting free rides while they are working. It’s a combination of anger and guilt that they themselves need help. It leads to contradictory behaviors in white populations.
Animal rights
The preference to eat meat is like the preference for sex. Reproduction can be done without sex but it’s less fun.
Ironically it separates us more from animal world by removing us from animal kingdom and giving us a point of superiority.
Removes cultural meals and others see you as a burden for accommodating you all the time or you are antagonistic to them if you dont.
All the animals will die. Millions of creatures that cant live in the wild will die of nothing. So will people and they will also lose jobs and industries overnight. Being productive to humans is the best adaptation an animal can have.
Meat eating is deep In us.
Human pain is different . The higher animals have the same pain as us and is attached to emotion. We can draw a distinction against pain because its amplified by unique human emotions like shame, regret, humiliation, dread. Chips seen mating one day after a tactical being bit off.
“Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.”
Patañjali,
Strike when your enemy is weak
Strike when your enemy is weak
Interaction life-cycles - UX
User wants to accomplish a goal
User finds starting point that might achieve the goal
User preforms the action
User observed actions results
If successful user continues to to next goal.
“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Dogon
International communist
Met out in a field in a small town. Rented a whole cabin. Infiltrated by FBI.
Lennon wanted to spread communism so he got his secret societies to make other societies and spread the word.
One member was a media tycoon that created front organizations to abed and conceal communist activities. The members of these clubs had to belive they were acting on their own accord at all cost. One famous example was a hollywood anti nazi club.
Had propaganda that attracted more than communist. Anti nazi, anti imperialist, etc. Had but Hollywood stars working with them.
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Lies travel faster than the truth
Peaky Blinders
“Students today should begrudge every moment of time. This dewlike life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.”
Dogon
“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.”
bagavad gita
Use a single example to prove the rule and add an element of humor.
Debates
Four Noble Truths
In short:
- Suffering exists
- Suffering arises from attachment to desires
- Suffering ceases when attachment to desire ceases
- Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the Eightfold Path
Cooperative action is rational.
Trust reputation and commitments to others trumps “rational “ decision making in prisoners dilemma.- stratagy chp 37
After we trust people it’s hard to change that mindset. People will stay in denial a long time even when proven wrong
The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground/While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.
Lao zu
Key elements of secret society
Secrecy if beliefs and practices
Selective recruitment
Promise of special knowledge or statues
Visibility does not equal translucency. They are visible but not easy to decipher
Resiliency and ability to splinter, mutate and reform.
Secrecy is power (Coe The family)
Sometimes Spontaneously evolve
Maybe (Taoist story)
There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically.
“Maybe,” the farmer replied. The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed.
“Maybe,” replied the old man. The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune. “Maybe,” answered the farmer. The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out. “Maybe,” said the farmer.
“Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. — Krishna.”
bagavad gita
“We now have racism without racist.” Structural racism still exists that holds back minorities. Median wealth 13x higher than black people.you could say black people are worse at saving but that completely ignores the fact that wealth builds and blacks had no access to adequate housing, education, bank loans or high income jobs.
Bania Silva
“Sloth is the great enemy – the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.”
Patañjali,
“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.”
Dogon
Micro validation -I hear you
“I get why you’re confused, last week I said something and now its another. “ “You should feel great you worked really hard on the project “ “damn really?”
“The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self.”
bagavad gita
“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Analects/Confucius
Praya- what is pleasant. Brief and fleeting. Sharp dresser. Excellent salesman
Shereya- what is beneficial. Painful or hard in the beginning. Good longterm effects.
Mousy women who is hard to remember. As soon ass we see her out attention wanders away.
They are promising the same thing - satisfaction. One requires effort but benefit stays with you.
Praya wants us to enjoy eating, just dont make it the meaning of life.
Praya and Shereya
The gods who lived before rested in their pyramids with the gloried dead. Their places are no more. The words of imhotep and hordidith whose sayings are so famous. What of their places now. Their walls are broke apart and their places are no more as though they had never been. Therefore make holiday without weariness of it. Lo, no one can take his good with him. Lo no one who departs returns again. See how the terrifying conclusion builds up. The vanity of temporal power is a futile as the vanity of scholarly pursuit. Not even their wisdom can save the famous sages of the past from oblivion. The conclusion? Eat drink and be marry since you cant take it with you.
Egyptian bard song for noblemen
Dont use absolutes-I hear you
“You always do this “ “you never do”. At least say “I feel like you often do this”
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
bagavad gita
New human rights movement
We justify starving a billon people so .01 % of people can justify their material excess.
“One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
W.E.B. Dubious
We never really experience the world around us, just our own nervous system
We never really experience the world around us, just our own nervous system.
We never really see the world around us as it is, just as we are.
“The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Lakota Wisdom
Dont idolize your women. The more you worship her the more she’ll want ro be worship
“the Gita is not a book of commandments but a book of choices.”
bagavad gita
Relating-I hear you
Dont say I know exactly how you feel, but say you “felt something similar when…” relate but then bend the focus back to them with a question. “That reminds me of when me and Jessica broke up, the last weekends were shitty, is that how you’re feeling “. If you dont have the same experience say so “I cant even imagine how painful that must be”
Act before views has been fully formed. Gut feelings and emotions
Simplicity, brevity, imagery
Actual policy counts at least as much as something is framed. Language cant produce miracles.
Simplicity, brevity, imagery
Polyamory
The goal of dating is to stop dating.
Relationship escalator- if any relationship doesn’t end in marriage its seen as a pointless failure. Kids, marriage, growing old together. These events dont have to happen in the same relationship
We are all handed the same script on how love and relationships are supposed to work.
Why are you interested in monogamy?
Polyamory
People come in your life for seasons and you shouldn’t force it to be something its not. Everything is temporary
Emphasis on speed, no time for paralysis of analysis. Hesitation is fatal. To frame the debate the message must be simple and repeated endlessly. No second chance to make a first impression. Facts tell but stories sell. Communication requires relentless stories. Dont miss anything negative about the candidate.
Emphasis on speed, no time for paralysis of analysis. Hesitation is fatal. To frame the debate the message must be simple and repeated endlessly. No second chance to make a first impression. Facts tell but stories sell. Communication requires relentless stories. Dont miss anything negative about the candidate.