Monthly Archive for October, 2008
And here we are caught between the two. We must struggle to live, yet we must relax and know contentment to actually enjoy living. How does one manage to carry out those two ‘projects’ without becoming neurotic? Continue reading ‘Life Is Struggle, Happiness Is Contentment’
Why does it keep growing?
Ok, I know. I’ve let myself go a little lately. In the past I’ve taken to cut off my hair – usually all of it – when it felt uncomfortable. That usually happened on one hot day while toiling outside. Well, summer has passed, I’ve toiled outside, it’s been hot, and yet I’m not been moved enough to cut it off. Sitting in the bath the other day I got to thinking…
Am I becoming more comfortable with discomfort? And, what is with all this hair? Continue reading ‘What’s With All The Hair?’
Dow Jones Industrial Average Adjusted for Inflation
The inflation adjusted chart above covering the last 100 years of the Dow Jones certainly shows the ebb and flow of the stock market nicely. It is easy to see how the highs and the lows, follow each other. As simple as it looks in hindsight, going forward boggles the mind. Is there no way to untangle the knots and see it just as simply going forward in time as it is in hindsight? Continue reading ‘Tao Views of the Dow’
Blind monks examining an elephant
I am constantly amazed by how easily our biology hoodwinks us into believing that human perception depicts reality. In other words, we evolved to sense ‘the world out there’ in a way that served survival. There is no reason to assume this coincides with sensing how ‘the world out there’ truly is any more than a bat’s ultrasonic hearing informs it about the true nature of ‘out there’. Continue reading ‘Biology’s Blinders: WYSIWYG’
I now know enough to know that I don’t know. Further more, I know that anything I say just proves that point. So, why do I post? The answer is elegant in its simplicity: I am either gossiping, or ‘raising the alarm’. I can trace both of these root causes squarely back to the biology of social species. That’s what ants do, chimps do, duck do… Continue reading ‘Those Who Speak Do Not Know. So, Why Speak?’
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