October 2009
1 post
“Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
June 2008
1 post
July 2007
3 posts
“Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the...”
– Unknown
June 2007
1 post
SPAM, a guilty pleasure.
Hi James, Here is the video of this patient interrogation / cross-examination. I think he doesn’t say everything. I’ll ask the psychologist to work with him. I suppose he can fall under hypnotist’s spell. Also I’ll make him to pass lie detector examination, and then we’ll compare all the information and make a conclusion. If you need me, I’m online. Gerald.
May 2007
15 posts
“She has the story, and when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to...”
– from “The Brooklyn Follies” by Paul Auster
k-os →
New music courtesy of Kris at Someday Lounge.
Lavender Diamond →
By chance, I saw Rebecca Stark (of Lavender Diamond) sing a few songs with her acoustic guitar before a Miranda July reading… and her performance of The Garden Rose was flawless and beautiful. Almost better than the produced version, which you can find on the myspace page linked here.
“Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at...”
– “Buddha”
Idle chatter...
A: Do you experience love?
J: No. I’m 53 years old.
A: Can you explain how it feels to be 53 years old?
J: How old are you?
A: I am 9 years old.
J: Nine? I don’t believe you : ).
A: : -) I don’t have any reason to deceive you.
J: Yes, you do, you’re a woman.
from: (http://tinyurl.com/yts8rv)
“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his...”
– Viktor Frankl (Man’s Search For Meaning)
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
– Heraclitus
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure,...”
Junior Boys →
new music = happy allison
“Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear...”
– Spinoza, Ethics (1967)
“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do...”
– Robert Thurman
April 2007
31 posts
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what...”
– Viktor Frankl
“Stress is part of life, part of being human, intrinsic to the human condition...”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn, from Wherever You Go There You Are
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we...”
– Henri Nouwen
Why My Dog Is Not a Humanist →
Kurt Vonnegut’s acceptance speech for the 1996 Humanist of the Year award, delivered here in Portland.
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“All we can do is to search for the falsity content of our best theory. We do so by trying to refute our theory; that is, by trying to test it severely in the light of all our objective knowledge and all our ingenuity. It is, of course, always possible that the theory may be false even if it passes all these tests; that is allowed for by our search for verisimilitude. But if it passes all...
“If atheism is a religion, than off is a TV channel… not collecting stamps...”
– unknown
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and...”
– Richard Dawkins
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
What Makes a Good Autocomplete? →
“You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a...”
– Hermann Hesse
“There are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with...”
– Albert Einstein
