December 12, 2006 – 10:26 am
Vernon Hardapple: “Why did you keep writing this book if you didn’t even know what it was about?”
Grady Tripp: “I couldn’t stop.”
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I am confused.
I say to myself and to others that I am working on a novel, and this is a true statement, but to what extent? I have not typed up any drafts, nor [...]
March 26, 2006 – 08:00 am
Energy is made up of mass that is moving at the speed of light squared. This is a definite speed. Any rate of decrease means that the energy has dissipated into matter and waves, where matter is self-contained energy and waves are the wake of that matter in time. The only way for the energy [...]
December 15, 2005 – 11:51 pm
“In metaphysics, a being is in a relation with what it cannot absorb, with what it cannot, in the etymological sense, comprehend.” - Emmanuel Levinas, Totality & Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority.
What is the ontological status of that space where the software meets the hardware? I’m not speaking technically here. Technically, that space is way [...]
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December 9, 2005 – 05:47 pm
Here in this form of meditation,
you haven’t got to perform any particular action in order to develop mindfulness,
but you have only to be mindful and aware of whatever you do…
[but] you should forget yourself completely, and lose yourself in what you do.
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Walpola Rahula,
What the Buddha Taught, p.72
So many questions of the right and the proper.
The [...]
November 8, 2005 – 03:32 pm
There is no thinker behind the thought.Thought itself is the thinker.1
A visual consciousness is aware of a blue computer screen, a beer bottle next to it on one side, and a dark lamp on the other: beyond that, everything is blurry. An aural consciousness is aware of Bob Marley and the Wailers. An olfactory consciousness [...]
March 19, 2005 – 06:50 am
As most of you are aware, part of my focus the last few months has been coming up with a clear metaphorical conception of the self. I’ve been focusing on the Internet as the source of my metaphor (here, here, and here), but I’m still open to other ideas; however, the gist of the metaphor [...]
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