Collective impact, punctuality, aliens, beneficial hypocrites, spread positivity, simple pleasures, the Book Lottery, and Lovecraft

The emotional impact of a large group doing something collectively to help a single person. Beautiful.

Do you ever drive down the highway at night and wonder what the ratio of sober to drunk people is at that moment?

I think there might be a disconnect between our expectation for punctuality (especially for work) and our punishment for speeding on the highway. It's like our society is set up against human nature (we make mistakes, we aren't machines).

Predictable patterns. Why is the Earth full of predictable patterns?

Maybe we are the aliens that will contact future generations of life on other planets? Hmm.

“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately – the object seemed incidental to this will to give ourselves away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it. A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into. Flight from exactly what? These rooms, blandly filled with excrement and heat? To what purpose?” – David Foster Wallace

Is a hypocrite who informs/educates/creates awareness about important issues for non-hypocrites really a bad thing?

There are only so many battles a single person can fight at once. Only so many causes you can attribute your time and energy and support to.

Are you spreading hate and negativity, or love and a positive attitude? Check yo' self!

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—’God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.'” – Kurt Vonnegut

Pressing warm towels to my face fresh out of the dryer! Mmm hmmmm!

Getting ready to do another "Book Lottery." Thinking about something to do with Japanese culture, or maybe I'll just finish reading my philosophy book. Hmm. Decisions.

"Un libro abierto es un cerebro que habla; cerrado, un amigo que espera; olvidado, un alma que perdona; destruido, un corazón que llora."

"We dug the seeds their graves,
buried them in the dirt
and let them take root in the Earth
only to be reborn over and over and over again." - Me

There's a goldmine of word combinations yet to be introduced into the world.

The way books get readers (when they WANT to read) interested in other subjects.

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” – H.P. Lovecraft

Mountains tomorrow!!! ^_^

Physical plane simulations, limits of language, Library of Babel, purpose of art, connecting unlike things, creating your own thoughts, efficiency vs desire, why do we label?, and Operation Rainbow Sprinkles!

It's good to have thoughts in my head again. The last day or so has seemed like the The Great Cranium Dark Ages.

What moved humans to create simulations of the physical plane? 

We don't know what we don't know, but that doesn't stop us from looking for it. 

What are we unable to express due to the limitations of our own language? And what can we already express? (Making a list, checking it twi....ten million times).

Defining the rules, math combinations, and The Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/

Love how works of art (all forms) open up our minds to new ways of looking at the world. 

The fine line between confidence and arrogance. Where is it? 

What is it about connecting unlike things together that makes them so interesting? 

Pirate-ninjas. 

You don't get anywhere in life by listening to people tell you, "No, you're not qualified, you don't have enough experience [to save the world]."  Show them you do. 

Important question to ask, "Are you merely a soundboard for someone else's thoughts/ideas/jokes/opinions/etc, or are you creating your own?"

System efficiency vs. Human desires/pleasure.

Chronostasis.

Poetry. Life needs more poetry.

Why do we name/label things in life? Why do we verbally separate them from the whole? For recognition and empathy? Types of naming - general vs. specific/personal.

Bringing back "The Hat". Oh. Yes.

Operation Rainbow Sprinkles to commence in T-25 Days. 

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!! ^_^

Home remedies, memory as power over machines, best system sans work?, process vs end goals, illusion of ownership, The Martian, Emotional Abuse, Beneficial Intelligence, What is Awareness?, Harry Potter Plot Alternative Question, Mormon Cosmology, and what I learned being The Queen of Hearts for a day

New home remedy: Muster what strength you have in you and dance around like a crazy fool in your kitchen for 2 minutes while waiting for water to boil. Proceed to make tea. If it doesn't relieve your symptoms, it may at least improve your mood, heh.

There is something to be said about what someone will do when they aren't asked to do anything at all.

However flawed our individual memories sometimes are, they may ultimately be our greatest power over machines.

What would be the best societal system in the event that we no longer have to "work"? How do you distribute resources?

How you go about reaching a goal should be just as important as the goal itself.

The illusion of ownership.

I have a pretty good feeling that The Martian movie isn't going to be as good as the book. Eff yea, Andy Weir! Laughs on every Sol/page!

There's a conversation to be had out there about Emotional Violence/Abuse.

On any given day, it's possible to die. That fact is humbling.

Artificial Intelligence vs. Beneficial Intelligence.

"The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A superintelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’re in trouble. You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. Let’s not place humanity in the position of those ants. Please encourage your students to think not only about how to create AI, but also about how to ensure its beneficial use." - Stephen Hawking

Getting people to ask, "Why are you doing X?" That's awareness.

What is it about emotions and memory?

Would readers have rooted for Harry Potter as much if he hadn't been in unfortunate circumstances? (Parents dead, died for him, living with Aunt and Uncle who treat him like scum). What if he was just a normal boy with a happy family? What if there was no prophecy, but rather he just rose to the occasion and it worked because he was the right kind of leader?

Mormon Cosmology.

Vedanta.

Become the master of both your internal and external world.

Think about it. How often do you have during the day to actually gather and consider your own thoughts?

One thing being the Queen of Hearts for a day taught me: the box for a deck of cards makes a very inconspicuous wallet.

When pumpkin is poisoned, make applesauce instead.

Hope to sleep for ten thousand moons. Goodnight.