Few men make their own choices. Usually we only choose from a few alternatives. Often less then that. Often we relinquish all the control, all the responsibility. We are desperately dependent on our environment. Since our choices are not ours – they belong to our environment. Positive influence – positive outcome. Negative influence …
Category: Philosophy
There’s No Cure For Stupidity
We hope stupid person can be cured by wise. We have schools and teachers and professors and masters and all that, But the fool is still a fool. Put wise words in his mouth – it’s still a fool uttering them. …Perhaps you can tell a fool by the wise-sounding words escaping his …
Terrible Shortcomings of the Winner’s Mentality
Does “winner’s mentality” make you win? Is “winner’s mentality” a good idea? Do you want to win? Do you want to do the right thing? What do you want? What’s winner’s mentality? I imagine it’s mentality of a person predisposed to win. If so – it’s related to winning. So does it make …
Meaning Lost It’s Meaning
The word meaning has lost it’s meaning. “Meaning” became a catch-all for all kind of pointless activity. The more distracting an activity – the more happily we call it “meaning”. When we are completely dulled and distracted and confined – we rationalise the entire thing as inevitable, meaningful and useful. We talk …
Giving Up Is Better Then Persevering
Giving up is better then not giving up. To give up is to either achieve nothing – or achieve something which is actually authentic. To not give up, to persevere – is to achieve everything which is inauthentic. If it’s authentic then it doesn’t involve discipline. If you must discipline yourself …
The Knowledge GREED
You are accumulating knowledge out of greed. There’s no difference between knowledge-greed and materialistic greed. Or spiritual greed, on that matter. Greed is greed. If your motivation is accumulation — then it’s greed. And the consequences are the same. You are stuck in the chase. Stuck in the time – which becomes the means …
The Grand Theory of Opportunity, Momentum and Freedom
You are here. You are influenced. You get conditioned. You can only be influenced to the extent to which you are empty. (You can only be sensitive to the extent to which you are empty.) When you have became conditioned – you cease being pliable. When you’re full (of knowledge, beliefs, conclusions, thoughts), …
Chains Of Understanding
Complicated thing is simply a large enough chain of simple things. Simple explanation is not simplification, or reduction. Simple explanation is one that leads one smoothly through each part of the chain. People who can’t explain simply don’t truly understand the subject. Their chain of understanding is incomplete. One can always collect …
Followers Consumers Leaders Producers
The elevation from weak follower is not to the courageous leader. The elevation from mindless consumer is not to the industrious producer. Leader needs followers. Producer needs consumers. Leader is but another side of the follower coin. Producer is but another side of the consumer coin. I say – dispense the coins altogether. …
Self-Focused Learns Nothing Sees Nothing
Can you be looking at two things without dividing your attention? When you’re looking at an apple, can you simultaneously look at a pear, with the same attention? Or does your attention divide? What happens when you’re looking at yourself? You’re not looking at something else, are you? What happens when you …