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ASSORTED: Various short thoughts and quotes:
Aesthetic study: self-identification and merging with things, the image is transcribed onto the screen of reality. “Never share personal stuff with anyone except your spouse maybe. Especially work people. You are going to find 1 maybe 3 people in your entire life you can really trust.” – Random comment from The Internet He was accustomed…
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On suffering
To suffer is useful and normal, especially intellectually – overcoming the difficulties life presents – makes one stronger… well, to a limited extent, of course, not to the point of breaking. Difficulties and suffering to an intellectual – especially a creator of something new or a potential leader, not an “analyst-and-data-collector-scientist-or-low-level-manager-politician” – are like training…
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Fear of death and Greed
Humanity’s two biggest, fatal misconceptions so far are: 1. Fear of death (In truth, dying is easy, and death helps us live better, without fearing mistakes, especially when we’ve lived honestly and without greed) 2. Greed (What’s the point of consuming so much? You’ll die anyway… and don’t forget that we’re just fruits on the…
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The horizon
The horizon of events in the world… It’s as if we can’t see, as if we were moving on a ball, we can’t clearly see what will be and what was behind… All blue and obscurity. As it is, so it is. Do what you have to do and let it be, сome what may.…
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Extrapolation of noise, disruptive information pollution
The total noise pollution of the information space is a significant problem of the modern era, and it is increasing… and even more with the new influx of pseudo-artificial intelligence. The environment is polluted by people are either foolish and tasteless, or weak and greedy, perverted, they literally defecating everything around – the internet, concepts,…
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The most appropriate reaction…
The most appropriate reaction to 80+ percent of life situations is calmness and/or indifference, especially on complex levels. There are emotions that are right, strong, necessary, high-quality – like energy properly filtered by reason. But there are cheap, unrefined emotions that cause a lot of problems. Especially avoid actions caused by resentment. One of my…
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Watch your criticizm wisely
It doesn’t take much intellegence to criticize just everything you don’t like. It’s significantly more important (and challenging) to try to understand the intricacies – to ask open questions, not dogmas, to focus on understanding proportions and percentages rather than isolated emotional colored incidents, and to act humanely.
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End
‘How can this be? Universal harmony, life, the wonders of music? Still everything to die?..’ So what? In the end, you will die, and so will the universe. ‘But… is there any salvation?..’ Yes, there is. It lies in exploring the world, for instance, understanding dark energy; doing meaningful deeds, creating values that inspire, doing…
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Creators, Be Aware
Artist, painter, musician… Your job is not only to create but also to suffer, to gain a perspective from all angles of existence, to tell the truths of life. A glamorous creator evokes a feeling of deep repugnance… as much as any money-grubbing idiot does; what can they truly tell the world, what benefits can…