Observe the subtle balance of the moment Be aware of danger in short term bias, hyberbolic discounting and cognitive priming. Understand that each and every thing we know is framed by others expectations and fears We are, each of us,in our diversity and self doubts only stuff that matters. Our view from the nexus of personal tangles and the social alienation in which we become ourselves cannot be generalized away.There is no average, no scalar at all We are all, each single one of us, much more than words and more many, than one Be kind to yourself, but never forget you're kind Other people are the only reason for anything So give not into the temptation of abstract authority For the rule following consequence is misery and death Cooperation is always needful work For as surly as civilization trumps ideology, the top down view is mortally flawed Not only is the illusion deceiving it degrades us all Always know when to resort to chaos To keep the rules dynamic Our competency is orthodox But our freedom is escape
From the tyranny of rules
Methodology enables Analysis Abstractions enable Truth But the beauty of life Is the immediate exception
At 5:07 PM -0500 12/4/04, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote:
Be kind to yourself, but never forget you're kind
You're a fluke of the universe, and while your standing there looking stupid, the universe is laughing behind your back... Or something. Cheers, R.A. (Bob) Hettinga Slack!!!! -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
R.A. Hettinga wrote:
At 5:07 PM -0500 12/4/04, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote:
Be kind to yourself, but never forget you're kind
You're a fluke of the universe, and while your standing there looking stupid, the universe is laughing behind your back...
Or something.
Cheers, R.A. (Bob) Hettinga Slack!!!!
Paranoia is our biological endowment, but rationality sounds like a good idea. I''d dismiss the possibility that the universe exists for the express purpose of confounding me. The practical logistics for faking the coherrent correlations that inform me would entail a workload that exceedes my concidered threat model -- bob.
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:24, R.W. (Bob) Erickson wrote:
I''d dismiss the possibility that the universe exists for the express purpose of confounding me.
Much evidence to the contrary. My life is sucking pretty bad lately, due to either a long series of fairly unlikely and uniformly unpleasant coincidences or else the machinations of a malevolent universe set up specifically to piss me off. Another possibility is that suggested by the other RAH, the cosmology which presents all of us as mere characters in the stories told by Authors, the multifarious and nefarious gods.
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