"We should accept the unsettling implications of cognitive science and evolutionary theory rather..."
""We should accept the unsettling implications of cognitive science and evolutionary theory rather than fight them. Hiding from these implications will risk creating a two-tiered society composed of cognoscenti who are privileged to view the world as it really is and a deluded general public—an intellectual proletariat—deemed not emotionally strong enough to deal with the truth.""- Keith E. Stanovich, The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
mylotusnoir: Digital art from Andy Gilmore.
Digital art from Andy Gilmore.
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"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. "
"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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You'd make an awesome role model.
Thank you, I try to teach via utilizing my own lifestyle as an example, hence many posts relating to personal interactions with others. I'm actually going to begin life coaching sometime within the next few months. I'll need to campaign myself and utilize nothing beyond my own direct interaction with others/ acquired knowledge regarding the plethora of delusions that limit others from living to their full potential.
There is absolutely no better way for me to make a living than this and I'm tired of suffocating under the weight of my own potential to make positive changes to my environment on a dramatic scale. I've been turning up the voltage a lot these past months and I just need to sustain persistence.
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Last Night
Last night as I pulled up to a diner with a few close friends, we noticed a man screaming at a woman in a language that wasn’t easily identified. I was unsure of whether or not it was an argument until he blurted out “FUCK YOU BITCH!” So naturally, we opted to stick around to ensure things went well, observing the scenario from about 50 ft away. Once he began punching her vehicle, I yelled over “Is everything alright?” Although it seemed obvious that he was the aggressor, I didn’t want to make any accusatory statements. He ignored me for a few min and then the woman yelled over to call 911 and that he was hurting her. He got spooked and left at that point, so while half of our party went into the diner, I stepped over while one friend accompanied me to speak with her.
I had to explain to her that despite his relentless claims that he loves her, she can’t become comfortable with violent behavior like that. She explained to me that the last time a scenario like this took place that she was covered in blood. I told her to keep her distance from him and that she’s obviously become desensitized to the danger she’s in, given that it only takes one unrestrained impulse from this guy to dramatically change her life forever. I told her that I’m not calling him a bad person, but there’s simply not justification for hostility of that magnitude. The woman was going to the diner to meet a man who wanted to take her out for coffee and her boyfriend showed up because he was stalking her.
After about fifteen min of discussion, the man she came to meet came outside to see how everything was. We ended up all exchanging numbers with the two and having dinner with them, talking for the next few hours about government agenda’s, religion, and the general social norms many individuals are confined to. Definitely a breath of fresh air The guy thanked me a few times, but I assured him that it was no problem because had I observed the scenario passively, I would know that it was my fault that it continued.
Granted I’ve condensed this scenario to a convenient length to read, I just wanted to share a bit of my personal life with you guys. Might use this as a journal of sorts as well as providing all of the general content I already do.
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brutalgeneration: untitled by angeles peña on Flickr.
untitled by angeles peña on Flickr.
"We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten..."
"We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive."- Thich Nhat Hanh
viddyspace: Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Image...
Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur
Image Credit & Copyright: César Blanco González
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"Direct experience, YOUR experience, your opinion, your feelings, your sexuality, is the only real..."
"Direct experience, YOUR experience, your opinion, your feelings, your sexuality, is the only real thing in your universe. Don't transfer loyalty to ideology, to money, to party, to friends. All of these things are outside of the core of your reality and centuries of programming have been laid on to all of us, to take away the power of our own direct experience."- Terence McKenna
stellar-indulgence: Star cluster Cygnus OB2, which is located...
Star cluster Cygnus OB2, which is located about 5,000 light years from Earth
Stop Waiting
Stop Waiting:eunoiaonedayatatime:
Lately I've been actively working on dropping the attitude of waiting for things to be ideal before I start something, or the habit of always saying I'll "start tomorrow!".. as well as the idea that my life "hasn't started yet" or will "start when I (graduate/complete a couple big projects/reach a certain age/move out/do this or that)".
Your life "starts" when you want it to and whether you really begin or not, time will keep passing you by.
So start. Don't waste time.
…but at the same time don't be afraid that your not doing anything either (when you start something that is). Because we have to appreciate/acknowledge the fact that things don't just happen. The adage "You have to start somewhere" is true. And just because you aren't famous, rich, super fit or skillful at something yet (i.e. just wherever you wanna be) it doesn't mean that you're nowhere.
Because the journey you make is still part of your life.
A piece of good advice that I've gotten is to take little steps. Break big goals down into smaller ones.. As in what smaller goals can lead me to accomplishing the larger goal? (And can you do one of them today? this week?)
In addition I highly suggest that one puts these goals in context. No matter what we want to achieve— to make something, to be good at something, to become something, to be somewhere — In the end it's all to have a better life (in one way or another).
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"Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they..."
"Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individuals, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking—and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority. The consensus of all serves as a proof for the correctness of 'their' ideas. Since there is still a need to feel some individuality, such need is satisfied with regard to minor differences; the initials on the handbag or the sweater, the name plate of the bank teller, the belonging to the Democratic as against the Republican party, to the Elks instead of to the Shriners become the expression of individual differences. The advertising slogan of 'it is different' shows up this pathetic need for difference, when in reality there is hardly any left."- Erich Fromm
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