Unknown is a great word It means it’s not known It frees you from the delusion of thinking that you know Solve real world problems, Improve your real life every day, in real ways That is KNOWN, and KNOWABLE The rest is more or less unknown Enjoy it with fascination and an open …
Author: Janus
Decisiveness and Judiciousness
-There are decisions to be made -There are informations -Then there’s the process -And finally your computing resources: brainpower and time You can rarely make a perfect decision. And when you can — usually you do it instantly (because you already have the problem solved) You can rarely make a perfect decision — but …
Thought Is NOT Consciousness
Thought is NOT consciousness. You don’t have to think it to be conscious of it. And thinking it doesn’t mean you’re even conscious of it. Thought is processing information: collecting it, and manipulating it NOT unlike computers, With the key similarity being that the data we operate on is never THE reality — it’s …
Mediocrity and Competence
Your boss is a mediocrity that is hopefully at least competent. Your employee is a mediocrity that will hopefully do what he’s told, and do it at an acceptable level. And whoever you wouldn’t employee is a mediocrity that is also useless, or even destructive. There are great man out there of course, but …
No Desire?
Desire is craving is compulsion is lack is dissatisfaction is suffering WILL is choice is consciousness is insight And joy is joy, and pleasure is pleasure DESIRE You are suffering therefore you desire You desire therefore you’re suffering It’s a circle Desiring brings you suffering, dissatisfaction And it distracts you from addressing true causes …
What If I Murdered You
What if i murdered you if you didn’t do your best today you know there are things you want and do and there are things you say you want, some of the things you say you want you couldn’t even do – and you’re just saying you want to do them as a little …
To Be Serious or Not So Serious
Don’t be serious: —not attributing excessive importance to something, and in so not wasting physical and intellectual and emotional energy, and resources too – and then failing anyway, missing the target anyway, because your hands were shaking —not being a prideful, arrogant, conceited, self-important cunt – with all the obvious baggage which comes with it: …
Step Back is Step Forward
That which you know you do wrong — that is easy. You know it’s wrong — you correct — case closed. That which you don’t know you do wrong — that is hard. It’s hard because you don’t know it’s wrong therefore you don’t know what’s wrong therefore how the fuck do you correct …
Can’t Solve Delusion with Rationality
When you see an illusion – it doesn’t matter that you “rationally” know that it’s an illusion. You’re still seeing it. The problem is you seeing this illusion, NOT you being “rational” or not. Therefore the only solution is to see the reality, rather than illusion, Likewise when you believe something — it doesn’t …
PERHAPS WE DON’T SHARE VALUES
I can consider action or actions someone is taking as admirable, as productive, constructive, as professional, as good, as moral I can also consider them inferior to the actions someone else is taking, or I myself am taking I can view someone’s philosophy, someone’s approach, someone’s overarching plan — as productive, as constructive, as intelligent, …