When your cat brings her favorite string toy to your sleeping boyfriend, asking him to play with her, and she's all sad-face because he won't unconsciously oblige.
The Moving Sofa Problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem
Patterns in the first 1000 Primes. Why are the 20's missing in the 300s and 600s?
How do other animals organize their societies?
Understanding art and effiency are important elements of understanding hieroglyphics.
Hieroglyphics, despite looking like separate ideograms, are much more like how we read English, by recognizing distinct patterns of symbols and sounds and putting together their meaning.
Water Jug Refiller Man: "Hello Nice Lady."
Me: *Laughs*
"Why are you laughing? You are nice, aren't you?"
*Laughs again* Thoughts: "I don't normally get an adjective, more or less a 'lady'."
"I'm scared..."
*Creepy staring contest ensues*
"Although you don't know all the steps, you must learn to join the dance." - I feel like that's a pretty accurate metaphor for life.
Those awkward Google searches you make because you have a cat: "How deep does a cut have to be to need stitches?"
Purpose of superhero stories? Superheroes and ideals. Finding our limits.
"To dwell nowhere
And rest in nothing
...
To start from nowhere
And follow no road."
AND
"Therefore come with me
To the palace of Nowhere
Where all the many things are One;
There at last we might speak
Of what has no limitation and no end.
Come with me to the land of Non-Doing:
What shall we there say...
Here the highest knowledge
Is unbounded. That which gives things
there thusness cannot be delimited by things."
AND
"If you have no appreciation for what has no use
You cannot begin to talk about what can be used."
AND
"The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas
are grasped, the words are forgotten.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is
the one I would like to talk to."
- from The Way of Chuang Tzu (finally finished reading this one, highly recommend it) :-)
Intention. Do we have a bias toward thinking that all humans have intention in their actions? (Empty boat vs. boat with another human runs into your boat - how do you react? Replace with car if boat doesn't work for you).
Epistene vs. Techne
Can you imagine saying, "Grapes are best cut at the heliacal rising of Arcturus"? (Hesiod). Instead of "Grapes are ripe in September?"
"The development of the special theory of relativity by Albert Einstein was made possible by Einstein’s refusal to worry about what electrons are. Instead he worried about how observations of anything (including electrons) depend on the motion of the observer." -- from To Explain The World
How do you explain the color orange to someone who has never seen it? How do you explain calm to someone without an example?
Red Sonnet: https://youtu.be/Rub_ZGkZq-I
Tum Hi Ho Aashiqui:https://youtu.be/O73VTo57AlE
Stephen Ulrich: https://youtu.be/fIOEdQMwPuc
A Tale Untold: https://youtu.be/Rqz1sPkOAu4
I can't get this out of my head! https://youtu.be/pX613U_DWzE
When will humans be ready to stop killing each other?
When you put hair gel on your face because it has aloe vera in it and nothing else matters other than stopping your face from burning...
When a friend helps you see a part of life in a new way!
How being right (in society's eyes) is sometimes less important than being yourself and showing love in your own way.
Don't forget to work on the things you love. Your passions, your relationships, anything you love.
Cheers dears.
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