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You — as a human being — grow out of this physical universe in just exactly the same way that an apple grows off an apple tree. Alan Watts on the nature of consciousness
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Technology vs Objectivity
Technology is blamed for a lot of this loneliness, since the loneliness is certainly associated with the newer technological devices – TV, jets, freeways and so on – but I hope it’s been made plain that the real evil isn’t the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes…
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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home…
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My Favorite Scene from Adaptation
Charlie Kaufman: There was this time in high school. I was watching you out the library window. You were talking to Sarah Marsh. Donald Kaufman: Oh, God. I was so in love with her. Charlie: I know. And you were flirting with her. And she was being really sweet to you. Donald: I remember that.…
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You are this universe. And you are creating it at every moment. Because you see, it starts now. It didn’t begin in the past. There was no past. If the universe began in the past, when that happened it was now. But it is still now and the universe is still beginning now and it’s…
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle. Some things are within your control. And some things are not. Epictetus
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All the rivers in the United States
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I was intrigued reading about Seattle’s first certified Passive House, Park Passive. The dark colors on the thermogram of a Passive house, at right, shows how little heat is escaping compared to a traditional building to the left. What is a Passive House?: The Passive House concept represents today’s highest energy standard with the promise…
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I don’t want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to—I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting…
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Here I am… gazing whole hours at the Maison Carrée, like a lover at his mistress. Thomas Jefferson
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INTPs thrive on systems. Understanding, exploring, mastering, and manipulating systems can overtake the INTP’s conscious thought. This fascination for logical wholes and their inner workings is often expressed in a detachment from the environment, a concentration where time is forgotten and extraneous stimuli are held at bay. Accomplishing a task or goal with this knowledge…
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Weekend plans.
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I like this music. First track is earwormy.
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A world that has produced a Mozart is a world worth saving. Franz Schubert