January 2012
5 posts
Top 5 regrets of the Dying →
Worth reading, pondering, actioning <3
hot and dirty Shroud of Turin action →
The Templars claimed to have the Shroud of Turin. Carbon dating tests put it as being created about the time of the Templars, 650 years after christ.
Now scientists say the image on the shroud was created by ultraviolet lasers.
So did the Templars have ultraviolet lasers?
Come to the Green Fairy Templar party Thursday night and find out ;-)
Black Market-- system D-- the already existent... →
> citizens of the countries with the most robust System D — fared better in the economic meltdown of 2008 than folks living in centrally planned and tightly regulated nations.
December 2011
2 posts
world getting more screwed up every day... →
No more free camping in NZ. In fact, reading this handy chart, you can’t camp at a Designated camping area without a toilet unless you have your own toilet, shower, and grey water disposal system.
the president may indefinitely detain or kill US... →
A short snack for your daily diet of facism. Get used to it in small doses so it doesn’t kill you as it increases.
For a longer and highly recommended trip down the rabbit hole, try http://www.theendrun.com/former-obama-advisor-and-cfr-vp-says-100000-troops-needed. One of the many background articles cited in this longer piece discuss that US Army troops are now being trained in...
October 2011
2 posts
“worth a read, a quote below.
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
...”
Most helpful = likes the product →
I just read through my reviews on Amazon.com, noting which ones had earned helpful votes and which ones were considered not helpful by site users. Almost without exception, helpful votes were earned by reviews which talked favorably about the product.
Keep this in mind next time you use Amazon reviews as a means of determining your purchases…
September 2011
2 posts
Enlightenment- ugh!
After a lovely week meeting with friends old and new who very kindly revealed that they not only read my blog from time to time but are also interested in what I am up to, I thought I would post some of the thoughts that solidified during conversation on the topic of enlightenment.
Enlightenment is a word that a lot of people use to mean different things, but here I am referring to a state...
DNA? →
Just discovered one of my most favoritest new unknown artists is the son of Dave Davies of the Kinks! Ya really got me going…
August 2011
3 posts
Crossing the Abyss →
Great description of the Abyss, Dark Night of the Soul, Chapel Perilous, etc. There is an exercise at the end which correlated with a major breakthrough for me when things were really feeling stuck.
July 2011
4 posts
Saline body modification →
>Well, you know, people who like extreme body modification want to find their own way of doing things, and they’re always looking for new ways to do that. The more progressive the scene gets, the more these people have to experiment and go their own way.
Middling meditation efforts make quick happy brain... →
There are now a couple of studies out there showing that even the very beginnings of attempting to learn to meditate (here 7 total hours over 5 weeks, not a lot of effort) make changes in the brain. Here, increased activity in areas associated with pleasure.
I have definitely found that meditating very much improves my level of mellow-happy calmness, and I’ve only been at it for a few...
June 2011
2 posts
and Kathy has been, as always amazing
and incredibly supportive over email and skype through my whole chaotic process of the last 2 months.
Kathy is the bestest!!!!
Chaos and learning
So much has happened in the last few weeks, each deserving its own extensive post. But since that isn’t going to happen, I’m going to just hit the high points of the high points.
England is great. I love the feel of the place, and the extra layer of meaning that having lived in New Zealand for 5 years brought to my visit. Seeing the English countryside, the model for what was...
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
2 posts
January 2011
2 posts
from reductionist materialist paradigm but still... →
> It’s as if our facts were losing their truth: claims that have been enshrined in textbooks are suddenly unprovable.
>“We cannot escape the troubling conclusion that some—perhaps many—cherished generalities are at best exaggerated in their biological significance and at worst a collective illusion nurtured by strong a-priori beliefs often repeated.”
>We like to pretend that our...
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
3 posts
September 2010
5 posts
us vs. the corporations →
This won’t come as news to many of my friends, but I post this because I find it notable. Notable because this guy is a wealthy stock trader, and his blog is usually in the top 5 of (USA) financial blogs when such things are measured. So for Barry Ritholz to come out and say its us vs. the corporations is a pretty major deal. Even more remarkable is the comments thread, which is mostly...
hilarious amusement park ride footage →
August 2010
6 posts
energy device posts
I’ve just joined a forum where people post about energy device construction and research.
I’ve got two posts up talking about my work:
http://8ung.at/mhotwagner/researchforum/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=68&p=158&sid=82d308f7da607487adebf92e2abe0ee0#p158
...
Valedictorian speaks out against schooling in... →
>And now here I am in a world guided by fear, a world suppressing the uniqueness that lies inside each of us, a world where we can either acquiesce to the inhuman nonsense of corporatism and materialism or insist on change.
Hat tip, um, forget which of my lovely friends posted this, sorry <;-\
July 2010
7 posts
content is a public good →
As you will see in the above analysis by a professional economist, the current way that our society deals with content is far from optimal.
But you probably knew that already ;-)
I understand that content creators must get paid. My question is, do we keep using the broken system, or step outside of it and allow real pressures, ie the need of creators to get paid, to operate to create a new...
http://technoccult.net/archives/2010/07/20/happines... →
a) interesting article
b) one of the 2 blogs of whose content I attempt to consume 100%
March 2010
1 post
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/03/delusions-of-a... →
Gurdgieff wrote in Conversations with Interesting Men that his father believed a man had 4 duties in life. The one that always stuck in my mind is “preparing for old age.”
Pension monies have already shown a tendency to vanish. Think about where they are invested— the financial market— and what can happen to numbers (not even) on paper.
February 2010
1 post
