I was surprised to find this an actual sit-down and get your coffee in a ceramic cup type place. There are a few too many shoppers milling around and it’s a bit too noisy to call it a relaxing spot yet beats packing oneself into the nearby Starbucks to sip a Venti from a paper cup.
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.” –Leo F. Buscaglia
I don’t have much problem accepting the possibility some highly motivated and inspired ancient people could have built a vessel sizable enough to carry a whole lot of animals. The proposition that the world as man knew it encountered a cataclysm as severe as Noah’s flood is also plausible in theory. Animals marching two by two to the ark to be safely preserved? Why not? Science observes animals doing some inexplicable stuff.
My problem with the story has to do with God’s role. As I learn to believe less in God and feel more in God the idea of God getting pissed at the entirety of creation over what humans were doing and wiping it all out in order to start over sounds much more like something I might do than the timeless source of love, truth, and creative energy.
Isn’t great flood story completely typical of the egoic mind? The epitome of selfishness? “Things aren’t working out as planned. F-it I’m going to end it, tear it up, throw it away, or haul ass and I don’t care how many innocent people, places, or things get messed up as a result.” And if that weren’t enough to seal it, there’s the part where he comes back after ands says “I promise never to do it again.”
That’s me. That’s people.
God though?
Image above from Marxchivist
Wow. One million iPads sold as of earlier this week and none of them to me. Took iPhone 74 days to hit the million mark, 28 days for its speechless oversized brother.
Via World of Apple
As if I haven’t wasted enough bytes on the iPad, my reasons for not being one of the million:
Those are about it. I would have been a sucker for the rest. That thing is pretty.
I’m strongly considering a netbook to take that place on the coffee table.
So the most important thing to realize is this: Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and is secondary.
This particular truth was something I learned when I came to terms with eating and my weight. It took me a long time to realize that what I do, even immediate stuff like eating, is an “outer” thing. The outer things never seem to look good until the inner things are in good shape which is another important truth for me. Fix the stuff on the inside, and the need to fix anything on the outside diminishes or goes away.
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.” -Dr. Seuss
Where there is time, there is change. Where there is change, there is time.
Time is either involved in creating momentum or complacency and decay.
Time is for growing and dying, never for living. Living happens only in the now.
“Someday” “back then” “later” “if this happens” and things like that are not places in time, they are places in the imagination where delusion usually grows. Places in time have numbers.
It is impossible to do anything in time. We can only plan things in time. We do things now.
Whatever your concept of God or higher power, there is no interaction in time, only the present.
Creativity requires time. So does entropy.
Time is the one thing you can’t get more of, find elsewhere, or buy, so don’t depend on it for anything.
Its much easier to do something now than to do it the rest of your life. Its impossible to do things later. Later is an illusion.
Learn from the past, be thankful for the learning, and apply it in the present.
Don’t rely on or become attached to the future, there’s zero chance it will exist exist as you hope or expect it will if it becomes the present.
If you can accept the present, you won’t regret the past or need the future. If you can’t accept the present, its because you need the future, regret the past, or both.
Here’s a tip on how to get those low signal to noise ratio Twitters out of your immediate Twitter follows.
Nothing I like more than reading stuff about to-do lists while I’m not doing stuff on my to-do list. I read through the article at Lifehacker on to-do list cleaning and determined I am at least a little guilty of most of these, but the one on using the to-do list for free writing rung a few bells.
You should not be using your to-do list as your brain storming/thought capturing zone. Ubiquitous capture—writing down all your stray thoughts, bits of information, and ideas—is an excellent habit to have, but if you’re capturing right to your to-do list you’re throwing yourself under the bus before you even get your sleeves rolled up. Your to-do list must remain separate from whatever capturing process you use. Go through your list and convert the “dumped” items into actions that belong on your to-do list or remove them.
Time management junkies enjoy:
link: Clean Out Your To-Do List for Guilt-Free Productivity – tasks – Lifehacker
This morning’s photos from Kailua Beach Park at sunrise
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