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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

Via World of Apple

As if I haven’t wasted enough bytes on the iPad, my reasons for not being one of the million:

• No accounts: I can’t set up my email and stuff and leave it on the coffee table
• $500

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.

From A New Earth by Eckart Tolle

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.

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.

The problem:

Part 1: There’s only a few real people on Twitter I have two-way real-life conversations with and seeing what they say is the highest priority.

Part 2: There’s a bunch of others like #tinyquote I want to follow but there are dozens of tweets from these types each every day and I don’t want tweets from my real friends lost among them.

Between all the great Twitter clients out there and Twitter’s web based features there’s a number of solutions, like Twitter lists, that are workable. While trying to decide what to do with each Twitterer I don’t want in my main stream I may choose any from among the various solutions.

When there is one that I am just not that interested in enough to see every day but don’t want it forgotten entirely I subscribe to the RSS.

For example, newspaper and other news source feeds… There are several reasons I don’t take in the news regularly, but when I catch wind of a developing story like the Hawaii tsunami warning I want to keep up with temporarily, seeing the Tweets on it is one way to get a quick, concise, bird’s eye on what’s happening without having to plow through the repetitive minutiae that clog wire and front page stories.

Did the bill pass? Is the tsunami warning cancelled yet? A quick check of a news source’s twitter feed in Google Reader gets me those factoids quick. I’m in, I’m out, free of distractions.

How to do it:

1. Find sources you like of course. Check them out – I look for the ones that do more than just link to their web site. I want to see the fact in the Tweet.

2. Navigate to the Twitter page, in my example, the Honolulu Advertiser. On the sidebar, under all the “following” icons, is the link to the RSS feed. Click on that.

3. That will either take you to a place you can select your news reader – I use Google’s Reader, or you can just copy the link to your favorite reader.

Now you’ll have a easy to see view of all the tweets with just the pertinent stuff and none of the buttons and empty white space.

If you do not usually use a news reader as your inbox for the internet this tip isn’t going to pay as many dividends in efficiency. The real benefit of this tip is if you’re able to check up on one of these miscellaneous feeds while processing all your other internet intake. You are using a RSS news reader aren’t you?

If you are not, its time to start unless you prefer being a reactive gaping hole that anyone with something to sell can lead to their lair and shovel stuff in. News readers give you complete control over what you see. They bring all the information you want to you in one place so you don’t have to go out and hunt it down while dodging the endless distractions.

They make getting the information you want quicker, saving you tons of time. What a deal.

Subscribe to all the stuff out there you like to see regularly or may like to see later at some point. Next, organize all your feeds in a way that suits you. Now you’ll be able to “check the internet” the same way you check your email. Start with the feed to this blog.

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