“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Life Inside the Bubble
Carry the Light for others. Live for Beauty! Don't just "survive". Add something.
Kairos is... What is an example of a heuristic? Firefighters, for example, may have an instinctive sense for when a burning building might collapse: a mental heuristic that they have developed through lots of experience. Heuristics appear to be an evolutionary adaptation that simplifies problem-solving and makes it easier for us to navigate the world.
When the Library of Congress burns down, what works from America do you think will survive? The ones not stored only in the Library of Congress would be my guess. The most widely read and "popular" works. Pulp fiction? Works from Grub Street?"
I'll admit that America has become an Idiocracy. But the works printed on the best paper using the most durable (and expensive) materials will be the one's that survive.
Indeed. al-Kindi, Averroes and Avicenna for some. We can thank them for the Medieval Renaissance.... scrolls/ books stored once in the House of Wisdom during the Abbasid Era
Rosetta Stone was for "translators". The real texts were painted and carved on the walls at Luxor, across the Nile (Milky Way) from the Valley of the Dead where the pharaohs (from pharos/ lighthouse) were buried.
The Architect of the US Capitol? You should see the view from his grave. The Architect of the City of London Corporation (The square mile)? The architects of Germany's 1st and 2nd <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetheanum#:~:text=The%20First%20Goetheanum%2C%20a%20timber,)%2C%20infused%20with%20spiritual%20significance.">Goetheneum</a>. The architect of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia">La Sagrada Familia</a>?
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Yeah...
Exhortations to virtue.
Not virtue signaling? ;-)
Perhaps. As Plato said, "Modesty is not a virtue for a needy man". And I could always use some more virtue.
And not new tech? ;-P
I'm all in for mind tech. Hardware? Not so much.
Yeah... you are not from age of computers.
Dunno that hardware -- that is mind tech. ;-)
Meden agan. THAT is the best kind of "mind tech".
If the rule that you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
:P
\\Meden agan. THAT is the best kind of "mind tech".
Yeah... Lem commented on that too...
\\If the rule that you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Ehm????
Line from "No Country for Old Men"... right before the killer kills the federal marshall.
If the rule you followed led you to a war with Russia, what good was THAT rule?
The rule was mind-tech.
Meden again... Never follow the rule to its' end. Break the rule. Follow a new one that heads in a different direction.
...but never to its' end.
...none too much.
\\If the rule you followed led you to a war with Russia, what good was THAT rule?
Rule?
More like inability to perceive Reality... as is.
But that is... common for all and any humans.
Errare humanum est.
Yawn.
\\Meden again... Never follow the rule to its' end. Break the rule. Follow a new one that heads in a different direction.
That's... just an heuristics.
And who will say to you that moment -- where need to change reside? ;-)
There is NO such moment. Or... every moment of time are such. ;-P
Well... like Chinese say: "Listen to a wind of changes". ;-)
But well... if changes do not happen for too long... maybe it's time to saw a wind?
The moment is the instant kairos runs by. or the leaves at the tree of Dodona begin to rustle... or when you hear the wind of change. ;)
That's... not heuristics even...
Kairos is... What is an example of a heuristic?
Firefighters, for example, may have an instinctive sense for when a burning building might collapse: a mental heuristic that they have developed through lots of experience. Heuristics appear to be an evolutionary adaptation that simplifies problem-solving and makes it easier for us to navigate the world.
\\Kairos is... What is an example of a heuristic?
Rule of thumb.
Like that that in a maze one must turn left all of the time.
Well... kinda obvious and self-evidant. But... humans are idiots, and oftenly unable to do right things... if they are not in form of "rules". ;-P
Well...
Do you think that Ancient Greeks DID NOT have their TMI problem??? ;-)
Like, having just one Epic Poet, just one Great Philosopher, just one Theatre Plays writer???
But then... everybody decided that they want to be poets, philosophers, writer.
And suddenly... do you think that Alexandria Library... was treasury of excellent things only??? So that is a catastrophe that it got burned?
And not just a super-market with endless shelves with pupl-fiction? ;-P
What works did survive from that time?
Lindy's.
When the Library of Congress burns down, what works from America do you think will survive? The ones not stored only in the Library of Congress would be my guess. The most widely read and "popular" works. Pulp fiction? Works from Grub Street?"
I'll admit that America has become an Idiocracy. But the works printed on the best paper using the most durable (and expensive) materials will be the one's that survive.
So once again I expose my heuristics for your critique.
Know what a palimpsest is?
Paper of the "highest" and most "durable" qualities.
\\What works did survive from that time?
Something that grow liked by Muslims? ;-P
\\ The most widely read and "popular" works. Pulp fiction?
Is there pupl fiction issued in hard cover? ;-)
Hardly. ;-P
\\But the works printed on the best paper using the most durable (and expensive) materials will be the one's that survive.
Like hotel Bibles? ;-P
I fear not.
Most sure to survive -- farthest on a shelves, with hard cover... in school libraries.
Because nobody will go there, to disturb their peace... for a long time. ;-P
\\So once again I expose my heuristics for your critique.
And I not started criticizing even. ;-P
\\Know what a palimpsest is?
Or... something carved in stone.
Like Rosetta Stone. ;-)
Something that grow liked by Muslims? ;-P
Indeed. al-Kindi, Averroes and Avicenna for some. We can thank them for the Medieval Renaissance.... scrolls/ books stored once in the House of Wisdom during the Abbasid Era
Rosetta Stone was for "translators". The real texts were painted and carved on the walls at Luxor, across the Nile (Milky Way) from the Valley of the Dead where the pharaohs (from pharos/ lighthouse) were buried.
...but more importantly, the "architectural layout" and symbologies enbedded in the temple complexes themselves.
And how many people (especially Americans) who care about such things?
The Architect of the US Capitol? You should see the view from his grave. The Architect of the City of London Corporation (The square mile)? The architects of Germany's 1st and 2nd <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetheanum#:~:text=The%20First%20Goetheanum%2C%20a%20timber,)%2C%20infused%20with%20spiritual%20significance.">Goetheneum</a>. The architect of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia">La Sagrada Familia</a>?
Hmmm...
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