It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
Category: Truth
It’s all Greek to me
c/o an unnamed genius… I think having family (albeit distant relations) in Greece helps me understand the situation from a humanitarian perspective, but I also know there are going to be some severe implications for…
B Movie – Gil Scott Heron
You don’t need to be in no hurry. You ain’t never really got to worry. And you don’t need to check on how you feel. Just keep repeating that none of this is real. And…
Nothing is for free. Nothing.
Sign-up for a free trial, no strings attached. Get free access to all the music you like, whenever you like. Search for anything on the internet and find what you’re looking; free. Really? How is…
Disruptive Thinking
Keep on…
Keep on running. Keep on learning. Keep on exploring. Keep on giving. Keep on receiving. Keep on wondering. Keep on asking. Keep on trying. Keep on living. That is the meaning of life. Keep on…
Why?
There is nothing and no one waiting for you. Your life is yours and lived only once. Why do we strive for distraction? Time in space is all we have. Attempting to avoid reality. The…
Shady
There are so many shady people out there it’s easy to forget that honest and genuine people exist. The shadiness isn’t always obvious. It’s not as if these people are necessarily rude or obnoxious or…
Entertainment
It’s a wonderful thing: To entertain. To be entertained. To laugh. To make others laugh. It’s a skill that some people possess naturally. Others work hard at it and pull it off. Entertainment can take so…
One liners
A few words can be so powerful. In fact fewer words are often most powerful and influential. It’s not the quantity that counts but the quality. Same applies to everything. Everything. The creation of a…
This is water
There are so many people going places; doing things; always in each other’s way all at the same time. Everyone is in a rush operating in some sort of vacuum, oblivious to their surrounds. If…
If this then that
It’s always worth re-visiting first principles i.e. the theory from time to time…today is a very basic recap of a fundamental logic using facts, rules and definitions as the basis for reason; deductive reasoning. Lets…
I know all about you
I know who you are. I know where you live. I know your friends. I know your family. I know when you sleep. I know what type of music you listen to. I know what…
Mind works
For if you [the rulers] suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what…
Illusion of choice
We are constantly faced with decisions, hundreds of times a day. What to eat, what to wear, how to travel, who to speak to, what to say, how to say it etc etc. Choices. Decisions.…
Everybody is a genius
Albert Einstein was a genius. There is no question about that. According to Einstein we are all geniuses. Can that be the case? Are we being judged against the wrong criteria? Formal institutionalised education imposes…
Watching closely
Do you feel like you’re being watched sometimes? Its because you are. There are very few places you can go, very few places you can visit where you can remain anonymous if you so choose,…
Walking away
No matter what situation we’re in, we always have options. The thing is though, we need to create those options as they won’t always be there [or at least they may not be apparent to…
Open your eyes
Open your eyes to the truth. We have been blindfolded ever since we’ve been taught anything. Our formal education systems are designed to build drones, a workforce not required to think but to follow orders…