Month: April 2008
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Mike Myers (as The Love Guru) is the root of all evil
Twenty-some years ago, on The Tonight Show (when Johnny was still hosting), comedian Bill Maher did a few minutes of insightful political humor, and then stopped and added this joke: “Ahhh, who am I to think I can change the world? I mean, I’m no folk singer.” There was more to that joke than a…
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Does my cat have free will… or is that a hairball?
A famous Zen story goes like this: A monk asks the master, Joshu, “Does a dog have Buddha-nature?” Joshu answers, “Mu!” This story has become known as the Mu koan — a koan being one of those semi-meaningless statements that, by beating your answer-seeking mind against the unanswerable statement, may, eventually, after a lot of…
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Questioning Questions
“How old were you when you stopped having sex with your pet?” “What!? I never had sex with my pet!” “Stop avoiding the question. How old were you?” “But, I…” That argument is clearly going nowhere. And the reason is obvious: the most important part of the question is actually the assumption underneath it. The…
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Brain Waves Goodbye
When you are relaxed, your brain produces “Alpha” brain waves — electrical signals that pulse at roughly 8-12 cycles per second. When you’re more alert, your brain spits out Beta waves (13-40 cycles per second)… Dreaming? Theta at 4-7. Deep, dreamless sleep – 1-4 cycles. Okay, now follow the math on this one: If I…
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You don’t deserve your rights
I’m trying an experiment on this post. I’ll suggest a concept, and you tell me what you think about it. Here we go: You do NOT deserve… anything And, you do not have ANY rights Needless to say, I think those two statements are true. Tell me what you think (and why) and, if necessary,…