03 JUN 2016 by ideonexus
The FLOW State
How does it feel to be in "the flow"?
Completely involved, focused, concentrating - with this either due to innate curiosity or as the result of training
Sense of ecstasy - of being outside everyday reality
Great inner clarity - knowing what needs to be done and how well it is going
Knowing the activity is doable - that the skills are adequate, and neither anxious or bored
Sense of serenity - no worries about self, feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of ego - afterwards feeling of trans...
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2 21 MAR 2012 by ideonexus
Looking to the Present to Understand the Past
In using the present in order to reveal the past, we assume that the forces in the world are essentially the same through all time; for these forces are based on the very nature of matter, and could not have changed. The ocean has always had its waves, and those waves have always acted in the same manner. Running water on the land has ever had the same power of wear and transportation and mathematical value to its force. The laws of chemistry, heat, electricity, and mechanics have been the sa...Folksonomies: induction
Folksonomies: induction
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notesOceans have always had waves, streams have always worn down rocks, and other natural laws have always been the same throughout time.
28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Infer From the Present to the Past
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning of the Universe, in which our globe, like a speck of abandoned matter, escapes our vision and is no longer an object worthy of our regard. In order to fix our vision, it is necessary to take it such as it is, to observe well all parts of it, and by indications infer from the present to the past. Folksonomies: inference
Folksonomies: inference
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notesHow historians should work, rather than "overturning of the Universe" in silly speculation.
06 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Science Runs Forward, Religion Runs Backwards
Let me posit a difference between religion and science.
Religion: Future>Present>Past
Science: Past>Present>Future.
Let me explain.
Religion, as it has traditionally been understood in its institutional guise, begins with the dream of a comforting future. An escape from the apparently inescapable reality of death.
Which impacts our daily lives in the present. Determines, for example, codes of morality, inspires great deeds of goodness or mayhem. Mandates rites and rituals.
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notesOne works from the past into the present, the other from the present into the past for support.
20 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
Research Conquers our Ignorance
Hard problems often yield before science, and though we still don’t
understand how every complex biochemical system evolved, we are
learning more every day. After all, biochemical evolution is a field in still
its infancy. If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what
conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our
ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator. When you hear someone
claim otherwise, just remember these words of Darwin: “Ignorance mor...Science yields answers in time, ignorance begets confidence in the present.
06 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
Science Revelations
[I]t is truth alone—scientific, established, proved, and rational truth—which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'—but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest—it is in reason and in science.Have replaced faith revelations in their ability to satisfy the mind.
03 AUG 2011 by ideonexus
Dalai Lama Quote on Man
The Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him the most;
he said, "Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.".
...and how man "lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never lived."
