“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
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Technically, I'm Amish...
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
Our mind is like the movie screen. It projects the thoughts, perceptions, emotions, judgements, etc including our conditioning, biases, obscurations, delusions etc.
I would add one thing: the tsunami of (mostly free) Internet porn. Where there is demand, there's supply. This points to record numbers of sexually lonely men (and woment too?)
We become what we think. The Buddha
ReplyDeleteWe think ABOUT what we behold, like the words on this screen.
ReplyDeleteIn 2001, A Space Odyssey... the "black obelisk" was a computer screen that birthed a starchild.
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DeleteI suppose to Kubrik, it was a "movie" screen...
DeleteOur mind is like the movie screen. It projects the thoughts, perceptions, emotions, judgements, etc including our conditioning, biases, obscurations, delusions etc.
ReplyDeleteThe knowing of the one thing liberates all.
Brilliant vid. Will H/T.
ReplyDeleteI would add one thing: the tsunami of (mostly free) Internet porn. Where there is demand, there's supply. This points to record numbers of sexually lonely men (and woment too?)
Society is broken. Tech broke it. Thanks for the h/t.
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