intelligent agents , upon encountering anomalies, quickly move to negate/compromise/compensate the anomaly.
sometimes this translates to the 'i gotta tell someone about this'.
when everybody knows, the anomaly is a commonly known thing and hence no more anomalous.
that's why media works hard to de-sensitize the population so that they don't find immoral,cruel, corrupt behaviour as anomalous.

Every positive change--every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness--involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
- Dan Millman

same guy who said 'paradox,humor, change'

today's haul


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What he will not say, since he assumes a Westerner cannot comprehend it, is that through these seeming physical privations he finds shelter for the inner man.
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Perhaps most important of all, we in the West are finally taking to heart what the Japanese Zen monks knew in medieval times: that domestic architecture and interiors can and should fulfill a requirement in our lives that is ordinarily served by art.

-- especially that part about rooms not being human without human presence and rooms being human only with a human inside it

suggested reading - Zen culture by Thomas Hoover

essays in idleness , kenko

* the art of tao of zen of war of motorcycle maintenance *

if you will you won't
if you don't, you may
still the butterfly flutters by

i wonder if there are peanut butterflies
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good gas, i think ?
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What does "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." mean to you? (self.philosophy)
I was reading Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche and came across the famous quote, what are your
thoughts?
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Ross Ashby's Law of requisite variety.
If you fight a monster you have to 'know' the monster ,and that means knowing it's attributes and behaviour,
once you internalize such behaviour (say, being unfair, or killing someone after you promised to spare them- typical to monsters ), these behaviours lie in the arsenal of your subconscious, and thereby you run the risk of blurring the boundary between 'your' behaviours and 'monster' behaviours .
just as if you put 'your money' and 'your friend's money' in your pocket, you run the risk of dipping your hand into your pocket and using your friend's money even though he only gave it to you so that you may bring back a watermelon for him ....
the same way, if you deal with murderers and rapists for years, your brain runs the idea that 'humans are to be abused' whenever dealing with them, and at some time, without thinking, this idea might leak into your action too...

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chore wars is a great idea. we need more of these , instead of hollow checkins

there is no joy or sorrow, only varying dopamine levels