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Necessity, the Mother

I’ve thought that necessity was the mother of invention ever since I can remember. I’d add to that, necessity is the mother of all action. Paradoxically, I also believed throughout most of my life in free will: the power to freely act to change the course of events. Why did it take so long to […]

Use Non-Responsibility

I translate lines 3 and 12 in Chapter 57 as Use non-responsibility when seeking all under heaven, and I am without responsibility and the people thrive themselves. I know that suggesting a virtue of non-responsibility flies in the face of common sense. Like free will, explicit or implied, being responsible is a virtue highly valued […]

The Truth About Lies

This recent CBS Sunday Morning “Fast Draw” segment, The Truth about Lies demonstrates why many things most people believe turn out not to be true. It is sobering and humbling to see how blind and deaf we can be. Oh how the power of belief walks all over clear and irrefutable evidence. What accounts for […]

Nothing’s Certain but Death and…

They say that nothing is certain but death and taxes. I’d add spending to that! The current haggling over spending, taxes, and the debt problems that this country faces is a good example of chapter 70’s, My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice, yet no one in the […]

Reward, Fear & Need

Recent research, reported in the Science News’ article, Cerebral Delights, flushed out some primary neurological links between fear and need. Who knows, perhaps science will eventually discover most everything that is discoverable (1). I have felt for a few years that fear stood at the headwaters of all emotions, including those related to need. Additionally, […]

The Story Trumps Truth

Viewing life impartially is one of the least stimulating experiences I know. Biased views, on the other hand, are chock full of emotional tension, highs and lows, loves and hates — it’s exciting! In the same way, a good story is exciting; a ‘cold hard truth’ is often awfully full of awe. This should be […]

Belief in Nothing is Dangerous

Last Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment, Tucson: Descent Into Madness, on the recent shooting in Arizona airs an interview from two friends of Jared Loughner. Their observations offer deeper insight into Jared Loughner. Excerpts from their main recollections are at the end of this post. What caught my attention was when they said how “Jared literally […]

Love

Soon after we met, my future to be wife said, “I love you”. That moment had all the ideal romantic overtones one could ask for… us out in the forest, a moonlit summer’s night. Being the bubble-busting bum I am, I replied with something like, “What do you mean by love? What’s love?” Frankly, the […]

John Cleese and the Blind Spot

John Cleese has given some very clever talks on creativity in which he comes off as a ‘defacto taoist’, so to speak. I suppose anyone with a contrarian point of view is a potential ‘defacto taoist’. Before reading on, please please Google John Cleese on Creativity (video from a training) for a selection of video […]

Fear Is The Bottom Line

There is more to fear than meets the eye. We often associate the symptoms of fear (the reactions fear initiates) as the fear itself. This evokes mental images of fear as being screaming and fleeing experiences. Actually, the screaming and fleeing are reactions to feeling fear, not fear itself. The other most common reaction to […]

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